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  1. HP-35 on How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? · · Score: 1

    HP-35 in its original plastic box in a cabinet at work.

  2. Re:You need different kinds of people on Have American Businesses Been Stranded By the MBAs? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The quintessential manifestation of this pervasive dysfunction in western management was the US President George W. Bush.

    And at every opportunity, he boasted of being a "C" student, rubbing his "greater position" in the faces of those who'd spent their lives hitting the books.

  3. Re:Build a mouse brain first. on A Million Node Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Cog turned out to be a dead end. It was rather embarrassing to all concerned. As one grad student said, "It just sits there. That's all it does."

    Well, it's just a cog in a big machine.

  4. Re:The down side to nuclear is the waste on Bill Gates On Energy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but coal is dumb and simple. Nukular is scary, and only elitists with thick accents understand it.

  5. In Soviet Japan.. on Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand · · Score: 4, Funny

    Playstation plays YOU.

  6. Re:Bring Back BASIC on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    Ditto -- 1975.

  7. Gov't Loan to Tesla on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 1

    Tesla received $465M in Federal money according to engadget. They couldn't possibly have burned thru it already.

  8. Re:Laser weapons are grossly over-ratted on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    Nope. No mirror is perfectly reflective. The few percent of energy it absorbs is enough to melt, severely warp or shatter a mirror. Or... they can tune it to a frequency where the mirror becomes transparent.

  9. Trust the Cloud? on Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours · · Score: 1

    You can trust the cloud when the servers are overseen by people who never make mistakes, when the hardware runs perfectly all the time, and when all other human beings agree to not screw with the system.

  10. Re:Freeze your head on Terry Pratchett Considers Assisted Suicide · · Score: 2

    They can't freeze a head to last. They don't do it fast enough to preserve the cell walls, and they have a horrible history of being able to maintain the temperature.

    Please keep in mind that thousands of people, once frozen as embryos, are walking around today, quite alive. Though the challenge of restoring the brain after freezing is a big one, it will be overcome.

  11. Re:Verizon does enable tethering on Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban · · Score: 1

    Charging extra for using the same bandwidth for a different application stinks.

  12. Re:Psychological Experiments on Unabomber Property Up For Creepy Online Auction · · Score: 1

    His father's suicide didn't help much, either.

  13. Re:Technicality on Disney Seeks Trademark On 'Seal Team 6' · · Score: 1

    Whether it exists or not is irrelevant. Snow White doesn't exist either. All that matters is whether enough people think they exist under that name, and want merch badly enough to pay Disney a premium price for the illusion.

  14. Confucius Say... on File-hosting Sites Not a Safe Haven For Private Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "He who trusts private data to remote host has head in cloud..."

  15. Re:A better idea on Rep. Bill Posey Introduces 'Back To the Moon' Bill · · Score: 1

    How many years would it take for 5% scattered in a nuclear winter to even have running water again?

    Depends how many of the 5% are plumbers.

  16. Re:who woul have thought... on Japanese Robots Await Call To Action · · Score: 1

    why would a robot need a toilet?

  17. Re:take the battery out on Police Using Apple iOS Tracking Data For Forensics · · Score: 1

    You can't take the iPhone battery out without tools etc.
    I'm curious... if you remote-wiped it, does it clear the location db or does it keep that data?

  18. Thousands of hard-working writers on Google Tweaks Algorithm; EHow Traffic Plummets · · Score: 0

    Demand Studios pays halfway decent money for writing articles. The work is difficult but the money's helped me keep a roof over my family's head during the atrocious economy. In the past few years they've tightened their standards tremendously... it is not easy to write for them.

    If they go under, I'm screwed.

  19. News? on Medicines Lose Effectiveness In Space · · Score: 1

    With 50 years of manned spaceflight, presumably carefully watched-over by physicians, how could this possibly be news?

  20. Chase? on How Attackers Will Use Epsilon Data Against You · · Score: 1

    I was shocked to learn that they'd scooped Chase Bank's email list. Not because of the theft, but I thought, why would Chase need to hire an outside firm to send out emails? Don't they have their own servers? Marketing types??

  21. Completely safe on Ask Slashdot: Advice On a DIY Neutron Beam? · · Score: 1

    Do not worry that a neutron beam is hazardous. Neutrons, being uncharged, pose no danger of electrical shock. Also, they simply pass through most materials.

  22. Oblig Bullwinkle on Gadgets For the Ghosthunter · · Score: 1

    Bullwinkle: "Illee-beenie-chili-beanie. The spirits are about to speak!"
    Rocky: "Are they friendly spirits?"
    Bullwinkle: "Friendly? Just listen!"

  23. Re:Get Lost ! on Surveillance Robot That is Programmed To Hide · · Score: 1
  24. Shaken, not stirred on Surveillance Robot That is Programmed To Hide · · Score: 1

    "The name's Bot. James Bot."

  25. Re:Songs, for $500 on Watch IBM's Watson On Jeopardy Tonight · · Score: 1

    What is "Daisy?'