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  1. Re:Petabytes on Vatican Chooses Open FITS Image Format · · Score: 1

    If you have to post a redundant obvious reply, that's also not funny. I don't even know why I'm typing this.

  2. Re:He's paying for it? on 3-D Printer Creates Buildings From Dust and Glue · · Score: 1

    You have an extra colon and a misplaced closing parenthesis.

  3. Re:One guys twitter... on Verizon To Allow Skype Calling On Its Network · · Score: 1

    If only there was some sort of computerized networked look-up thing of known information, where you could type in something, and then it would tell you about it, before you made a post.... Hmmmm....

  4. Re:There going to run out of musical notes soon... on An Interview With F# Creator Don Syme · · Score: 1

    It's funny 'cause it's true.

  5. Re:Doctrine of First Sale on DRM and the Destruction of the Book · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

    Humor recognition skills needed.

  6. Re:Odd, then... on A Planet That Orbits Its Star the Wrong Way · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope. It would just take one swift hit normal to the plane of the ecliptic to cause the angle of inclination to steadily change until it was revolving backward. However, the inclination may still be changing for all I know.

    Nope. Each swift hit (delta-momentum) results in a single orbit change. A hit normal to the ecliptic is the most efficient in terms of angle-of-inclination change, but it does not cause a continuing inclination change.

  7. Re:Obvious omission on How Famous OS Logos Got Started · · Score: 1

    Why not discuss the Apple apple logo and how it changed from Newton to rainbow colors to it's current stark white? IMO the most interesting logo story...

    And why not the Chevy logo as well? This is an article about OS logos, not corporations' or car brands' logos.

  8. Re:suicidal. on Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites" · · Score: 1

    That's one way to ensure nobody reads his stuff.

    Yes, I was just thinking what wonderfully good news this is!

    I am interested in purchasing access to the news you are thinking.

  9. Note to all! on IBM Seeks Patent On Digital Witch Hunts · · Score: 1

    Don't do non-work from work, if you work at IBM.

    Crap! I wrote this from work!

  10. Re:Likely cause... on Is Playing a DVD Harder Than Rocket Science? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I know a workaround without sending data to the station, either a codec or third party software that has a built-in decoder.Another day, another victory for DRM!

    The same would be true of any other software that might be required that wasn't preloaded before launch, regardless of whether it was proprietary or open source, DRM'd or DRM-free. You people will mod up anything that has 'DRM' in it. It's pathetic.

    Except that CD-ROM drives were explicitly made to play both data and music disks. That idea was lost, somehow, when making DVD drives for American laptops and American "region" DVDs.

  11. Re:Slashdot is not Facebook! on Data Breach Exposes RAF Staff To Blackmail · · Score: 1

    Great work! It's awesome how you just TOTALLY NAILED that clueless poster like that, with a UID approximately one hundredth of yours.

  12. Re:Best was in Excel 4.0 on Best Easter Eggs and Other Software Surprises · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I many times add easter eggs when I wrote commercial video games.

    I added myself, and my GF (now wife) to Wayne's World (Gameboy.) http://www.cheatscodesguides.com/game-boy-cheats/waynes-world/

    Then I added a complete racing game to Grid Runner (PS1, Saturn, W95.) http://www.cheatbook.de/cfiles/gridrunnerplaystation1.htm

    And some other things, many still secret. Publishers don't like it so much these days.... kind of takes the fun out of writing games....

    yo.

  13. Re:mental imagery in practice on Researchers Identify Phantom Limb Brain Activity · · Score: 1

    Yes, but your dad's itch was in his missing part. If you had read TFS, you would have read she scratched her head with her phantom limb. If where she had perceived an itch was in the missing part... no, you can't perceive with a missing head.

    She was asked to scratch her cheek. It wasn't a physical irritation, so it seems reasonable that the imagined itch could be relieved if the brain believed it was scratched.

    This would also be true for itches caused by nonverbal body language expression. Your brain wants you to scratch your head, to signal puzzlement and thinking to those around you, so it suddenly makes you think that your head itches. See http://www.2knowmyself.com/body_language/body_language_state_of_confusion

  14. When will these companies learn? on Last.fm To Start Charging International Users · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Music wants to be free.

    (Also movies, games, software and books. Porn is already free.)

  15. Re:Only one side... on New Form of "Mobius" Carbon Predicted · · Score: 4, Funny

    A mathematician named Klein
    Thought the Mobius strip was divine.
    Said he, "If you glue
    The edges of two
    You'll get a weird bottle like mine."

  16. Re:Sharks with Lasers? Feh on Good Robot Projects For K-5? · · Score: 2, Funny

    10 year old kids weren't even born when that movie was released. Now, Transformers on the other hand has had a lot of influence.

    Meh. Those kids weren't even remotely planned when the original Transformer cartoons came out. Oh, does that make me sound old?

  17. Re:Say what? on Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows · · Score: 1

    If you don't know what I'm talking about,
    you are young and inexperienced.

    .

    If this sentence spreads onto two lines, you need to get a new computer that can do more than 40 characters across. Or at least an 80 column card for your Apple ][.

    If you don't know what I'm talking about you probably have a Commodore 64.

    yo.

  18. Note to self on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do not go somewhere where I'm wanted. Stay in the countries where there are NO warrants for my arrests.

  19. Re:OCR plugins? on Saving Energy Via Webcam-Based Meter Reading? · · Score: 1

    OK, if you're already doing all this, it will be pretty easy for you from here on in.

    Since you have 7 segment displays, all you need to do is mask off each segment in each digit. Check if the segment is on or off, by adding up all the pixels' brightnesses in the mask, and checking it with a threshold.

    Run through a loop comparing the state of all seven segments against the digits 0 through 9.

    Repeat for each digit.

  20. Slashdot has useful pics instead of weird icons??? on The Walking House · · Score: 4, Funny

    So... the pic shown in the front summary story is actually relevant?

    I don't like it. [shakes fist]

  21. Re:Wow ! on First Photos of the Reentry of the ATV "Jules Verne" · · Score: 1

    The video of the re-entry is just beautiful !

    You can see the autofocus struggling about 2/3rds in.

    Dude, just set it manually to infinity. If you're thinking you might need to focus somewhere closer, you've got more to worry about than getting a sharp picture.

  22. Re:Has to be said on Clarinet Wins Robotic Orchestra Competition · · Score: 1

    Except that 4'33" isn't silence. It's just the nuances outside of the notes.

    It is a live performance of a score that contains no notes.

    Take a live performance of an orchestra, with all the quiet breathing noises, shoe shuffling and so forth, and then remove all the notes of the performance.

  23. How To Spot E-Vote Tampering? on How To Spot E-Vote Tampering? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the machine says Diebold on it, there's a good chance it has been tampered with.

  24. Re:I don't type on Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals? · · Score: 5, Funny
  25. Re:You should not learn it.. on Is Assembly Programming Still Relevant, Today? · · Score: 1

    There has never been a sweeter assembly language than 680X0. I still believe that the entire instruction set can be derived directly from Maxwell's equations. yo.