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  1. A Monty Python moment on Women's Institute Consulted on Nuclear Waste · · Score: 3, Funny

    What members of the public would you like to design nuclear waste storage facilities?

    As a senior member of the Lufthansa-pudding party, I advocate putting all matters regarding nuclear waste in the hands of mustachioed women.

  2. Re:It's not that much data. on Terabit Fiber (In 2010) · · Score: 2, Informative

    And it's marked TB, not Tb - the latter is a Terabit.

  3. Bragging? on Sun Claims They Make Worlds Biggest MMO · · Score: 1

    Except we've done it with more redundancy, reliability and scalability than pretty much anyone else.

    Way to brag. Does it have anything to do with the money there being real? I am also swinging higher than the kids in the park.

  4. Re:The clock requires maintenance on A Clock That Runs for 10,000 Years · · Score: 1

    3D Realms are also a part of this, mind you.

  5. Conspiracy on Internet Partitioning - Cogent vs Level 3? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apparently, someone should inform Alex Jones that this problem is not the Illuminati finally coming after him.

  6. agreed... on C|Net Integrates Ontology Viewer Into News Site · · Score: 3, Informative

    ..I came, I saw, I dragged stuff around for a second and then introduced the string "*plasma*swf" to Mr. Adblock.

  7. Fuck you, Slashdot! on Federal Agencies To Collect Genetic Info · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just clicked on this story and got the "Nothing to see here. Move along." comment on the page. Will someone think of the paranoid?

  8. iPod combined with iPods on Music Exec Fires Back At Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    w00t, first time that Beowulf cluster joke is in the article itself.

  9. Re:Linux Vs Windows on Why Vista Had To Be Rebuilt From Scratch · · Score: 1

    Typing "emerge quake3" is all it takes to install under Gentoo. It is somewhat more difficult than Windows, since you have to press "y" to accept EULA, instead of click on yes.

  10. Sure! on Lightning Fusion And Other Hot News · · Score: 0, Redundant

    With all the recent discoveries and developments in fusion research, my question for Slashdotters - are we on the verge of something big that will make fusion a practical reality in a much shorter time frame than the often quoted '30 years away, and always will be'?"

    Sure! Now it's 25 years away, and always will be.

  11. That's not an issue, really on The Digital Dark Age · · Score: 1

    Data that gets left behind on obsolete media is data no one thought should be moved to newer media. CDs are not an ideal archival media as it is really not smart to leave anything on it that you would like your grandchildren to find in more than a decade...

  12. Encouragement on Record Labels Release Software To Combat Piracy · · Score: 1

    So, you encourage your children to behave responsibly by installing a piece of software behind their back to mess up their data. Oh, and I can see numerous uses in business environment for software which deletes shit according to some magic algorithm - sure, what can go wrong? Run it on the company intranet!

  13. Re:Everybody download this. on Record Labels Release Software To Combat Piracy · · Score: 1

    You really think their EULA doesn't cover such a case? After all, the software only (howtoputit)... helps... (yes, that'll do) parents "encourage" children to enjoy music "responsibly".

  14. Re:Konqueror succeeds at ACID2 and gets Adblock! on KDE 3.5 Beta 1 Announced · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I use KDE and would gladly browse using Konqueror, if only Scrapbook (http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/) wasn't da shit.

  15. Communication as therapy on Blogging As A Form Of Therapy · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is well known that keeping a diary to vent your frustrations helps; also, talking to other living people face to face works as well. Essentially, what this article tells us is that people need social interaction and that expressing your emotions helps. Very insightful, never would've thought...

  16. Incredible! on Dell Launches Flash Music Player · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who ever came with that idiotic name? It should have been named Dell P14YZ0R!

  17. Re:Nasa? on Glitch Forces Mars Probe Shut-Off · · Score: 1

    ...the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one found error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 found errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors found."

    There, fixed it for you.

  18. Re:What about cat parasites controlling humans? on Parasites That Can Control Insect Minds · · Score: 1

    Yes, but seeing his research design, there was no way to ascertain that described women simply weren't more inclined to own cats: "Professor Jaroslav Flegr of Charles University in Prague ... subjected more than 300 volunteers to personality profiling while also testing them for toxoplasma. He found the women infected with toxoplasma spent more money on clothes and were consistently rated as more attractive. "We found they were more easy-going, more warm-hearted, had more friends and cared more about how they looked," he said. "However, they were also less trustworthy and had more relationships with men."

  19. Why is prolonging life a scientific goal? on Scientists Discover Possible Anti-Aging Gene · · Score: 1

    Isn't the Earth overpopulated anyway? Isn't the human race running out of room for expansion of energy usage? Hasn't our health care and social structure slowed the evolution of humans enough? We have methods to store knowledge - let the people die. Or, to quote: "evolve, and let the chips fall where they may".

  20. Warring for peace? on Sun Spearheads Open DRM · · Score: 1

    I'm genuinely interested in how an oxymoron such as "open DRM" would work. Download the code, comment out all the nasty parts and use whatever is protected? Also, I checked TFA and no, it didn't mean "direct rendering manager".

  21. Linux version? on Google Releases GDS 2.0 · · Score: 1

    C'mon, how difficult can it be? Use the slocate database, index /home/Chewbacca/Mail et presto - a genuine Linux version!

  22. Re:Overhyped as always on Scientists Speed up Light · · Score: 1

    All 4 basic forces: electromagnatism, gravity, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear (not Nukular; bite me, George) forces propogate at the speed of light in their reference frame.

    It's nice to see people propogate proper spelling.

  23. A Good Thing on Mambo CMS Dev Team Splits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Though this situation will undoubtedly be used by certain pundits and businesses as cannon fodder against OSS, I think it only goes to show how the GPL empowers those who do the work. If the entire team (i.e. "the workers") get up, say "thank you" and fork the code, things like brand name, copyright and such suddenly become completely useless.

    It's knowledgeable people that are the only true resource in the case - let's see Miro just replace all of them overnight and beat the forked version this team will be working on.

  24. Good, good... on Reintroduce Megafauna to North America? · · Score: 1

    Also, make each of those elephants carry some solar panels and affix windmills to lions - bang! - you also solve the energy crisis.

  25. Not so much "deleting"... on Death of Cookies, Spyware Greatly Exaggerated? · · Score: 1

    ...as "not allowing" them to be set in the first place. I allow a handful of sites (10 or so) that I use to put my passwords in the permanent cookies, Google's cookie and a few others as per-session and that's it. Cookies' dirty little secret is, the way they are used in a 99% (subjective assessment) of the sites, they really serve no useful purpose.