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  1. Is that you on The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix · · Score: 1

    Sandusky?

  2. Re:How many threads like this? on Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, I wasn't buffaloed.
    Forgot about that.
    Nice breakdown here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/13120

  3. Nobody will ever need on Computing Pioneers Share Their First Tech Memories · · Score: 1

    more than 64k marbles.

  4. FTFY on Computing Pioneers Share Their First Tech Memories · · Score: 1

    When the only tool you have is an axe
    Wait for it......
    Every problem looks like the back of someone's head.

    For Balmer substitute chair for axe.

  5. Re:spy satellite calibration targets on Giant Chinese Desert Mystery Structure Solved · · Score: 1

    If you don't believe me, go ask Louis Armstrong (The first man on the moon.)

  6. Re:Better Place on Research Promises Drastically Increased LiOn Capacity · · Score: 2

    But I don't want to drive to Israel.

  7. Re:Increased lion capacity! on Research Promises Drastically Increased LiOn Capacity · · Score: 2

    I used to have a tiger in my tank...

    Reference to a really old gas commercial, now get off my lawn.

  8. There seems to be a pattern here. on US Marshals Ordered To Seize Righthaven Property · · Score: 1

    The pattern is no how criminal these people are.
    The pattern (in my personal opinion) is that these folks caused great embarrassment to the bar.
    It seems to me that being a great big known criminal is okay, just don't make the news.
    --
    Even then, after it all blows over, you can get back in.

  9. Re:A pity... on US Marshals Ordered To Seize Righthaven Property · · Score: 1

    I heard of a lawyer getting disbarred once, back in the 80's.
    He was already in prison for murder and other issues.
    Sometime after the Seattle P.I. ran a series of stories people began wondering about his status and the (I imagine) embarrassment it was causing seemed to be what led to his disbarment.

  10. Re:Obvious really on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 1

    Almost 100% of the population has no idea what the economy is doing or what it is predicted to do.
    The general population reacts to the immediate economy negligently.
    The 'real' players reactions are not interested in what happens to the general population.
    Looking at how people act is a bad way to predict the economy.

  11. Re:limited amount of forks on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 1

    The cake is a lie.

  12. That which doesn't kill you on Can the Hottest Peppers In the World Kill You? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Slowly saps your will to live.
    -
    Or leaves horrible scars that you can pick at later.

  13. And the Black Death says: on Scientists Recover Black Death RNA From Exhumed Victims · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not dead yet!

  14. There are 10 kinds of people. on US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry · · Score: 1

    Those that are fit for employment and those that aren't.
    ---
    In my city you have to pay a head tax if anyone is hired and you have to fill out forms that indicate age/sex/race etc. so they can hang you later for [giving| not giving] somebody a job.

  15. So what you're implying is on Columbus Blamed For Mini Ice Age · · Score: 1

    Avatar had a plot?

  16. This was a Rorschach test. on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 2

    Your response seems odd to me.
    Must have missed it.

    Who watches the Watchmen?

  17. The goggles on Ask Slashdot: How to Exploit Post-Cataract Ultraviolet Vision? · · Score: 1

    They do nothing!

  18. Re:Hunting... on Australian Users Petitioning Against Windows 8 Secure Boot · · Score: 2

    Did you look down under?

  19. It worked. on Does Religion Influence Epidemics? · · Score: 1

    Those doves & pigeons exhibited no signs of lepracy.
    Now, what about those poor people with leprosy?

  20. I hear the penalty for drunken driving there is on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: 0

    Re-election to the senate.

  21. They skipped 99% of the carbon on What's the Carbon Footprint of Bicycling? · · Score: 1

    At 35mph my car gets about 30 MPG.
    At 7mph my car get about 5 MPG.
    The 5 cars ahead of me and the 4 behind me (assuming they all are also only 4 cylinder engines, 1 or more passenger) are doing no better.
    Why aren't we going faster and getting reasonable mileage?
    Why, why, why....
    Could it be the low footprint faery holding everyone up proving how eco it is?
    No footprint for that asphalt it is riding on either.
    I really like how it drives its car 20 miles, parks it in front of my house, then rides the last mile to work.
    Ohhhh so eco friendly.

  22. It won't be a problem in Seattle. on Perseid Meteor Shower To Be Hampered By Full Moon · · Score: 1

    The clouds block the moonlight.

  23. I just put a skylight in my place. on Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 2

    The people upstairs are furious.

  24. Re:Isn't It Obvious? on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 1

    I thought the US won the cold war...
    No?
    This sends a chill up my spine. Brrrrrr.

  25. They did not buy 'the rights' for QDOS. on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    They procured a limited set of rights.
    Hence the eventual success of the lawsuit against microsoft.
    As I recall it Microsoft did not 'own' the code and did not have the right to license it to IBM.
    I am as shocked as you that microsoft seems to have ignored a restricted license and then trampled a company via lawyers.