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  1. Re:Not Slashdot Next I Hope on Australian Teachers Try To Shut Down Website · · Score: 5, Funny

    >Gulp... Hope they don't ban slashdot too ;-(

    I'm posting from Australia and everything is fi$%*^#$^(H$
    NO CARRIER

  2. Re:I'd like to say... on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    >Give me Web 1.0 any day.

    I'll take Web 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0 thanks.

  3. Re:They'll never do that on UK Voters Want To Vote Online · · Score: 1

    >It would show in the statistics that the majority doesn't think any of the candidates are fit for the office.

    They'll need to include an option to spoil the ballot paper somehow. I'm an ex-pat, still vote via post in UK general elections. Since I think that none of the current are suitable for office, I exercise my democratic right to participate in the system, but I protest by spoiling the ballot.
    Unless a None Of The Above option is included, how will I be able to have the same options with an internet ballot system?

  4. Re:Why I want GM & Cloned foods to be labeled. on Bill Would Require Labels on Cloned Food · · Score: 1

    http://www.geneticsolutions.com.au/
    The GeneStar product tests for marbling, tenderness and feed efficiency. Breeding values are enhanced by the results. The Australian market will pay more for a sire with better results.

  5. Re:Why I want GM & Cloned foods to be labeled. on Bill Would Require Labels on Cloned Food · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slaughtering the cow is no longer necessary to check meat quality. A simple hair sample will do. DNA testing can be done for tenderness, flavour/marbling and feed efficiency.

  6. Re:Required? Why? on Bill Would Require Labels on Cloned Food · · Score: 2, Informative

    >Personally, if I were a dairy farmer, I'd start up a brand with cloning as a gimmick.

    Already being done with beef cattle.
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s18988 13.htm
    In this case it's not a gimmick but a way to retain the same high-quality tenderness and flavour genes in his herd.

  7. Re:they last how long?! on Busy Lives Prompt Speedier Board Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    more serious, lengthy German board games which last a few years First thing that sprung to my mind was Diplomacy. OK, it didn't take years. But it felt like it.
  8. I spent all my mod points... on Microsoft set to Announce Zune 360 and 180 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Moderating people as Insightful. Is it my turn now?

  9. CPR timing. on CPR Not as Effective as Chest Compressions Alone · · Score: 4, Informative

    An easy way to remember the timing was shown to me by a paramedic and diving instructor.
    30 compressions is the chorus of "Nellie The Elephant"

    NELLie the ELephant PACKed her TRUNK and SAID goodBYE to the CIR - CUS,
    OFF she WENT with a TRUMPety TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP TRUMP.
    NELLie the ELephant PACKed her TRUNK and TRUNdled OFF to the JUN - GLE
    OFF she WENT with a TRUMPety TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP TRUMP.

    If you sing the Toy Dolls version
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otBWbVdvxLk
    you'll even get the 100bpm about right.

  10. Re:Dashing good idea! on Disney Takes Aim at Movie Based MMOGs · · Score: 1

    >A pirate MMORPG? Sure. That could work.

    Yarr, me hearty. Sure it could.

    http://www.puzzlepirates.com/

  11. Re:Vlad's old digs, eh? on "Dracula's Castle" For Sale In Romania · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's the ruins of one he got some Turkish landowners to build, too. The remains of it overlook the Arges river and it's a bit of a slog to get to it (1500-odd steps). Legend says that he worked rebellious Boyars to death building it.
    http://www.draculascastle.com/html/poenari.html

  12. Re:Different program? on DieHard, the Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought the random number generator was DieBold?

  13. Re:hehe on The Science Behind the Bubbly · · Score: 1

    It's New Year's Day and I'm hungover, you insensitive clod! Mmm... Champagne with hibiscus flowers floating in it.

  14. Re:Riding too fast? on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    >So, what's the speed limit for a bicycle?

    There isn't one. Well, other than the speed of light.
    What you can be charged with is the delightfully named crime of 'Furious Cycling' plus any number of other catch-all contempt-of-cop offenses (public nuisance, disturbing the peace etc.).

  15. Re:Mozardot on Complete Mozart Works Now Free · · Score: 2, Informative

    Possibly. Apparently, (from the website) "We are overvelmed by the resonance of this website.".

  16. Re:XML Decade? on Celebrate the XML Decade · · Score: 1

    >I give up! Which decade was XML?

    Sixties. Unfortunately, it was the 1060s.

  17. Re:Old story on Icebergs Sailing Past New Zealand · · Score: 3, Funny

    >I read about this years ago, a penguin wanted to travel north, so he used an iceberg as a boat.

    The polar bears heading south will soon sort them out.

  18. Re:Huh? on Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early · · Score: 5, Funny

    OMG!!! Memes!!!!

  19. JStor. on Wikipedia's $100 Million Dream · · Score: 1

    All those lovely historical journals and publications. Probably wouldn't cost too much, either.

  20. Re:And the Ever Popular... on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whilst we're on the subject of /. memes...

  21. The fight is already over. on Pirates Vs. Publishers · · Score: 2, Funny

    When did you last hear about International Talk Like a Publisher Day?

  22. Re:HP 58" or 65" Microdisplay on Recommendations for a 50" (or Larger) Display? · · Score: 1

    I've worked on oscilloscopes that have had internal wobbulators.
    See http://antiqueradio.org//trium01.htm for an elderly one.

  23. Re:I loved my Genesis on Zelda On The DS, Sega on the Revolution · · Score: 1

    w000t! ToeJam & Earl on the Revolution!

  24. Re:apologies, slightly off-topic...[but only a lit on Chemical Words List · · Score: 1

    And so I ask my fellow slasdoters, how does one concisely characterize the experience of say, the multitude of different ways milk can spoil; the various acridness of old unwashed gym cloths; the powerful fetidness of well-used, unwashed trash containers? and be absolutely certain that one is getting one's point across? Is there a practical dictionary or directory for such things?


    How about an aroma wheel? There's a nice round up of them here: http://www.eblong.com/zarf/flavorwheel.html

  25. Re:Here's my idea. on The Year in Ideas · · Score: 5, Funny

    >>Grammer tip: 'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb.

    >Spelling Tip: Its "Grammar"

    Punctuation Tip: It's "It's".