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  1. In a related story on Cable TV Ruins Bhutan · · Score: 1

    In a related story, it was reported that the productivity of Bhutan's IT professionals has dropped significantly since access to Slashdot was obtained.

  2. WTF was that? on Maine Completes Largest To-Scale Solar System Model · · Score: 0

    I mean, are they going to issue a warning before starting this thing up?

    What a shock it might be to see Uranus flash before your eyes as you drive up I-95.

  3. Nomad 85% larger on 60G Nomad Zen vs. The iPod · · Score: 1

    Not sure I would call the Nomad 'pocket sized':

    Nomad: 112.6 x 75.9 x 24.5 mm = 209 cc
    Ipod: 104.1 x 58.8 x 18.54 mm = 113 cc

    209 / 113 = 1.85

  4. In a related story... on World's Largest Virus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Scientists announced that because the virus is coded for NT4, there will be no efforts create a vaccine and that patients should upgrade their immune systems or turn off their nasal port.

  5. I figured it out - on 56k Times Five: Myth Or Moneymaker? · · Score: 4, Funny

    EarthLink Plus uses a proprietary "Web Accelerator" from Propel Software which reduces the size of Web pages and elements sent to users' browsers.

    Sounds cool, but in reality it's just Lynx for OSX.

  6. Who would have thought... on Dictionary Spammer Fined $55,000 for Spam Attack · · Score: 1

    Lawrence_Bird writes...

    Who would have thought that Larry Bird would be spending his retirement years posting on Slashdot...

  7. Re:Should also mention the Maunder Minimum.... on A Hotter Sun May Be Contributing To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Dr. Fishboy? Mt Wilson Observatory?

    Is Dr. Fishboy by chance Gordon (Caltech '90)?

    Note to mods: no email in Dr. Fish's profile.

  8. In other news... on Design Guru Critiques Apple Retail Store · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gateway contracted the Cow to design their Gateway Country stores.

  9. Re:True with a caveat on A Hydrogen-Based Economy · · Score: 1

    The key to a H based economy is efficient, and hopefully clean, fusion reactor to produce power needed to turn water into O2 and H. Until this happens we'll still have to resort to sticking straws into the ground.

  10. Re:Would you like... on McDonalds to go Wireless? · · Score: 1

    "Would you like WiFi's with that?"

  11. another promotional tie-in on CT Lottery to Offer PC Game · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about bundling an X rated video game with a pack of condoms. Name of the game: 'Plan B'.

  12. Re:Slashdotted on 1.8TB Of Disk Space In A (Semi-)Normal PC · · Score: 4, Funny

    No No - it's not actually slashdotted. He's running Norton Disk Doctor. Check back in August, 2007.

  13. Re:Lets make Google a pejorative instead. on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lets make Google a pejorative instead.

    I need to take a google.
    He's a total google.
    What a google.


    Well, right now I'm about to stop slashdotting and take a massive lawyer.

  14. Lawyer as a verb on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 1

    And with lawyers sending out letters like this, how long before, "I sure lawyered him on that deal."

    Geez - how long before lawyers force us to use Marklar for verbs in addition to definite objects.

  15. Geeks in space on Build Your Own Weather Balloon · · Score: 1

    More importantly, does he have plans to make a few of them and strap them (and himself) to a lawnchair? (seriously - google "lawnchair pilot")

  16. Will they include the sound... on File-sharing and AOL · · Score: 4, Funny

    So in version 11 of AOL's software, after a few downloads can we expect to hear, "You've got busted" ?

  17. Re:Here.. on Dealing with Employers Who Perform Credit Checks? · · Score: 1

    Have you even clue one as to how economics works?
    Apparently you do not...


    Well, I am an economist (eleven years and counting at Kellogg), and Reagan and the family Bush have pushed for tax breaks for the exceptionally wealthy, while Clinton's administration gave the biggest bonus to the middle class. Given an extra dollar, who do you suspect is more likely to spend it - the Volvo driving soccer mom or the billionaire. Every credible economic study in the history of man predicts ________ .

    On the subject of intelligence, Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar, Bush was a B minus student at a business school. In business school there are three grades - A, B and C. A C is essentially an F - I've taught thousands of MBA's and have given less than 20 C's. Every time I see Bush at the podium I can't help but think of the movie ''Being There'.

    Now - Ashcroft. Do you really enjoy having your liberty and freedom eroded in a death from a thousand cuts fashion? While Reno had her flaws, she was the first to admit error (taking full responsibility for Waco) and she didn't push an agenda the encroaches on personal freedoms. Ashcroft scares the crap out of me.

  18. Draw? WTF? on Humans Hold Off the Machines... For Now · · Score: 1

    WTF? How can a championship end in a draw?

    Who was officiating? Bud Selig?

    In NYC. I mean, how un-American is that?

    Oh wait...

  19. Re:Here.. on Dealing with Employers Who Perform Credit Checks? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I want to see mandatory drug testing for congress, with printed pass/fail results, personally.

    Oh! I want mandatory IQ tests for congress, with printed pass/fail results.


    I settle for a mandatory pass / fail IQ test for (Jar Jar) Bush.

    Ans maybe a stress test for Cheney.

  20. What's in a name? on MS SQL Server Worm Wreaking Havoc · · Score: 2, Funny

    SQL Slammer? A worm virus? Sounds more like a shooter at Hooters on geek night.

  21. Now we have confirmation... on UFO Evidence From SOHO Satellite · · Score: 1

    Now we have confirmation that there are in fact Klingons around Uranus.

    Sorry.

  22. Finland Finland Finland..... on SAUNAAB · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahhhhh.... Makes me yearn for the days when I was a professor in Finland.

    I had a sauna in my apartment, and my students taught me an old Finnish custom - turn the sauna up to about 105 (that's C), and stay in until you can't stand it any more. Then run outside and flop in the snow until you can't stand it any more. Then return to the sauna. Repeat as necessary.

  23. Re:Segway modding! on My Segway HT "Month-iversary" · · Score: 2

    Hey! I just saw one of those here in L.A..

    It's called a Segway Type R.

  24. The weakest link in security on Russian Student Arrested For Revealing DirecTV Secrets · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yet anoher example of the weakest link in security being the human link.

    I've followed DirecTv's skirmishes with hackers for a few years and have always believed that Dave's (DirecTV / NDS) house of cards would crumble from the inside. It's simply a matter of how many people have access to the keys.

  25. Open up - it's me Dave. on Russian Student Arrested For Revealing DirecTV Secrets · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dave's not here.