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  1. Re:Poor Design on Robotic Aircraft To Supply Troops · · Score: 1

    I look forward to DARPA funding robotic civilians too.

  2. Re:Bah! on All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us · · Score: 1

    But your wikipedia link says "Cafestol has also shown anticarcinogenic properties in rats." So I can ward off cancer while I get heart disease.

  3. Re:Duh on IP Traffic To 'Double' Every Two Years · · Score: 1

    Well, you see the internet tubes start to leak after a while so traffic should start to level off due to that.

  4. Re:i've gotten those in the mail on US Court Disconnects Canadian Domain Name Scammers · · Score: 1

    Work for Fox News or talk radio?

  5. That number is... on Microchips With Multiple "Selves" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    after a file has been accessed a certain number of times

    For me and this technology that number would be 0.

  6. Oblig South Park reference on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    Chinpokomon Executive: You are American.

    South Park Toy Store Owner: Yes.

    Chinpokomon Executive: Ohhh, you must have very big penis!

    South Park Toy Store Owner: Excuse me, I was just asking you what your up to with these toys.

    Chinpokomon Executive: Nothing, we are very simple people with very small penis. Mr. Hosik's penis is especially small!

    Mr. Hosik: So small.

    Chinpokomon Executive: We cannot achieve so much with such small penis, but you American wow, penis so big, so big penis!

    South Park Toy Store Owner: Well aah I guess it is pretty good size.

  7. Re:Bad Case on EFF To Fight Border Agent Laptop Searches · · Score: 1

    Just use a cork, then you only have to change them once a week.

  8. Re:Bad Case on EFF To Fight Border Agent Laptop Searches · · Score: 1

    Actually that won't help. A couple a few years back were arrested after they turned in film (pre digital camera days) to a store and the developer called the cops when she saw they had some photos of their kids playing naked in the water.

    Soon they'll arrest parents for bathing their kids with thier clothes off.

  9. Re:How is this news? on Storm and the Future of Social Engineering · · Score: 1

    I hear there is a new business idea where people offer sex for money.

  10. Schroedinger's Vulnerability on Data Breach Study Spanning 500 Break-Ins Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Clearly what they are referring to are quantum vulnerabilities. The exact nature of the vulnerability doesn't become clear until someone observes it.

  11. Re:Good idea on World of Warcraft Achievement System Rumored · · Score: 1

    Eeeeew!

    Too bad you just lost a huge amount of reputation points in all factions.

  12. Re:IP is the most important issue facing us in the on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 1

    Yah, but you have to eat lutefisk.

  13. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Also, if everyone else is driving an SUV/truck then the size vs saftey debate becomes moot. You just make a bigger wreck and have a bigger gas tank to catch on fire.

  14. Re:1 billion colors! on HP Introduces First-Ever 30-bit, 1 Billion Color Display · · Score: 1

    New colors!

    Slightly burnt umber, yellowish-greenlike, yellow ochre with a bit of light brown, sorta blue, rhododendron roseum purple, you know that color you get when you have an old bruise? yah, that color...

  15. Re:This should be the ending on LucasArts Layoffs Spark Many Rumors, Including KOTOR 3 · · Score: 1

    Emperor Palpatine: Ha ha! Just kidding. No, she got drunk at a clone party and slept with a stormtrooper while you were away. Don't ask me which one, they all look alike to me.

    Darth Vader: Ok, NOW I'm going to kill her.

  16. Re:WarGames and Disillusionment on WarGames and the Great Hacking Scare of 1983 · · Score: 1

    Nor did your computer do the following:

    - Print to the screen like a teletype complete with sound effects (Alien)
    - Burst into flames and sparks when stuck in an infinite loop or shaken (every episode of the original Star Trek series)
    - Respond to English colloquialisms (eg "What is the password?")
    - All computers work exactly the same, even ones from alien civilizations (Independence Day)
    - Create pointless complex 3D graphic representations of data, establishing a connection, etc.

    Just scratching the surface here.

  17. Re:old news ... on WarGames and the Great Hacking Scare of 1983 · · Score: 1

    The internet tubes were probably clogged.

  18. Re:Dupe! on Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute, did the story duplicate itself?!

  19. Re:Thanks on Pizza Hut Tempts Gamers With a $10,000 Gaming Setup · · Score: 1

    I look forward to Slashdot alerting me next to a cousin of the deposed president of Nigeria who needs help getting some money out of a bank there.

  20. Aikido on Microsoft Study Says Repetitive Strain Injury Costs $600m · · Score: 1

    Once I started doing Aikido wrist exercises as part of my martials arts warmups I haven't had any problems with my wrists since. I strongly recommend them.

  21. Major Cause? on Microsoft Study Says Repetitive Strain Injury Costs $600m · · Score: 1

    I suspect that one of the major causes of RSI among telecommuters is reputation farming in WoW.

  22. Re:beopen on The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters · · Score: 1

    Maybe what he should have said is to plan for growth over the course of 5-10 years instead of trying to force it to happen in 1 year like these stories show. They tried to become on-line Walmarts overnight.

  23. Re:radical Islamic moderates on McCain Supports Warrantless Domestic Surveillance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about if we don't turn the whole nation upside down over terrorism in the first place? Isn't that the goal of terrorists, to get you to pee your pants? I'd rather not have a government full of power hungry drones watching my every move. I'll take the extremely unlikely risk that some poor slob on the other side of the earth will come after me. Judging from my drive to work every day I'd say my fellow drivers pose a far greater risk to my life than terrorists.

  24. Re:monoculture is a problem on Bye Bye Bananas — the Return of Panama Disease · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. I LOVE fried plantain but I would never want to eat them raw like a Cavendish banana. It is all in the preparation.

  25. Re:monoculture is a problem on Bye Bye Bananas — the Return of Panama Disease · · Score: 1
    Bananas are seedless only because they are bred from cuttings of a single seedless variety. We could have seed bred bananas that would be more resistant but then people would have to deal with seeds in their bananas and they are nasty and hard. Probably have a lot of folks with broken teeth.


    As an interesting note, when bananas became popularized in the early 20th century there were articles written on the proper way a woman could eat one without embarassing herself.

    By the way, I'm glad this article isn't also about Mississippi because I think I'd sprain a finger typing.