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  1. Re:Hmmm.... on Time Travelers' Convention · · Score: 1

    If I was talking about something completely and totally different, that would be right.

  2. Re:Paradoxes on Time Travelers' Convention · · Score: 1

    Well, is that date in the Julian, Gregorian or Clintonion calendar? Have we accounted for time skews and missing seconds? Those kinds of things add up over time.

  3. Re:Hmmm.... on Time Travelers' Convention · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Couldn't get hotel rooms at a decent price on Time Travelers' Convention · · Score: 1
    What's that? Your credit card from the future hasn't been issued yet? That doesn't need to be a problem. Simply use the card to purchase something small and valuable, like gold, plutonium or a box of old pinball machine parts, and bring that with you. Once you are in the past sell it to acquire temporally local currency.

    For bonus points make sure you sell it to the same people you were-going-to / had-already bought it from.

    Worried about how to cover the credit card bill? Don't be. Just invest a small amount of your 2000-era cash in Taco Bell stock so that you will be able to pay off your future credit card balance once you return.

  5. Re:Proof on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 5, Funny

    A programmer, on the other hand, would leave the waste pipe out since nobody checks return values anyway. This proves that not only was humanity designed by coders, but that your butt is a hack that was stuck in after a rather unpleasant code review.

  6. Re:Next by Hemos: Man Travels by Train! on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 2, Funny

    It could be worse. We could be reading "Slashdot: Postmodernism for Derridaists. Neotextual desitutationalism that subcontextualizes"

  7. Re:600.000 times on Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA · · Score: 4, Funny

    He just said that Americans are a joke.

    Go bomb him.

  8. Re:Little by little on Google Search By Number · · Score: 1
    There's also a difference between "Science Fiction" and "sci-fi". In that sense "Star Wars" is sci-fi but not science fiction.

    If you get a large enough group of people interested in the same thing, there are bound to be disagreements on something.

  9. Re:Q & A SCM? on Linus Drops BitKeeper · · Score: 1
    "Are you _the_ Donald Knuth?"

    "No, I'm _a_ Donald Knuth. We come in six packs now."

  10. Re:A simple solution: on IRC On The PSP · · Score: 1

    I heard a rumour that "Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right A B Select Start" would give you +o, but something about it doesn't sound right.

  11. It could be worse on Kid Named After Everquest Character · · Score: 2, Funny

    She could have been named Fiorina instead.

  12. Lets look at this in the wayforwards machine on When Would You Accept DRM? · · Score: 1

    "Following on the heels of Zaibatsucorp closing Johnathan E's end run around its C4-ankle bracelets and a British holo station offering free downloads attached to explosive collars it seems fair to ask, at what point would you accept placing a locked explosive collar around your neck in exchange for listening to a song?"

  13. Re:What kind of idiot wants faster swapfile??? on Advanced System Building Guide · · Score: 1
    *wooooosh*

    Look up. Look way up.

    That was the point.

    I think you may have missed it this time.

  14. Re:Britannica on Wikipedia Reaches Half a Million Articles · · Score: 1

    What's this about the Encyclopedia Britannia?

  15. Re:But... on Wikipedia Reaches Half a Million Articles · · Score: 1
    The rest, of course, were related to his real career as a singer.

    His song "Hot Shot City" is particularly good.

  16. Re:Yeah.... on Solaris 10 Installation and Desktop Walkthrough · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's almost as good as a Debian desktop with the Red Hat logo on it.

  17. It's even easier than that on Paul Graham Explains How to Start a Startup · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All a startup company needs to do is remember one thing: Make lots more money than you spend.

    A startup that always does that will probably succeed. How difficult can that be?

  18. Re:Can't Stop on Interstellar Pioneers Facing Termination · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And I heard that the Russkies are ten years ahead of us on cute bald women.

    I mean, we must be increasingly on the alert to prevent them from taking over more cute bald women, knocking us out in superior numbers when Voyager returns. Mr. President, we must not allow... a cute bald women gap!

  19. Re:Isn't it great... on Galactica Commentary Podcast Available · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yes, it is.

    In any field.

  20. Re:Interesting... on Star Smaller Than Some Planets Found · · Score: 4, Informative
    I think you are confused. The Chandrasekhar limit is the upper mass limit for a stable white dwarf star -- A star whose core exceeds that mass will become degenerate and collapse into a neutron star or "black hole" while one below the limit will be able to support itself and remain a white dwarf until it burns out and dies.

    The Chandrasekhar has to do with the _death_ of stars, not their birth. To be considered a star all you need is sustained hydrogen fusion at the core, not electron degeneracy. While it's interesting that we are seeing a dense low mass star the value of L C is in no danger of being rewritten.

    To learn more, why not search the Internet?

  21. Re:First Amendment? Still mean anything? on FEC Extending Election Regulation to the Internet · · Score: 1
    I think he also used more vowels than I did, but you have still completely missed the point.

    This discussion is pointless, even for Slashdot.

  22. Re:First Amendment? Still mean anything? on FEC Extending Election Regulation to the Internet · · Score: 1

    And yet you somehow missed the fact that we were discussing how US government agencies were regulating speech. Perhaps in the future I will have to include Cliff's Notes with every posting to avoid similar misunderstandings.

  23. Re:What about the other internets? on A Concise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies · · Score: 0

    And don't forget about Poland.

  24. Re:First Amendment? Still mean anything? on FEC Extending Election Regulation to the Internet · · Score: 1

    And here's another one. The article you are thinking about and the post I was replying to are two different things.

    It can help to actually read before posting from time to time.

  25. Re:First Amendment? Still mean anything? on FEC Extending Election Regulation to the Internet · · Score: 1

    I think you're a little bit late. The FCC has been regulating speech since 1934.