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  1. Hmm on A Video Guide To Akihabara · · Score: 1

    Is there an American Equivalent to this place? I feel so third-rate here in the USA :-(

  2. Re:Can it answer.... on Don't Cross the LHC Stream! (Maybe) · · Score: 1

    It's working on that.

  3. Re:Or Maybe? on Why Warriors, Not Geeks, Run US Cyber Command Posts · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, it's a new generation. The ModernGeek can do mathematics and engineering while still being able to work on vehicles, be a firefighter, etc.

  4. Re:Year of the X on 2011, Year of the Tablet? · · Score: 1

    I'd rather that it be 2010.

  5. Re:Wrong on 2011, Year of the Tablet? · · Score: 1

    That was 1998.

  6. Re:ISS on You're Never More Than 115 Miles From McDonald's · · Score: 1

    Maybe not, but the space station is awesome and should be mentioned as much as possible. I wish that we would have just kept launching Saturn Vs into orbit and deep space instead of retiring them. Imagine the space station we could have if each module was the size of SkyLab!

  7. I'm lovin' it! on You're Never More Than 115 Miles From McDonald's · · Score: 1

    I might just drive my SUV half a mile and get some McD right now.

  8. Re:taxation without representation on UK ISPs To Pay 25% of Copyright Enforcement Costs · · Score: 1

    This is about the United Kingdom, not the United States; so it does not matter whether or not this is taxation without representation in the context you speak of. To the other poster, Corporations DO have rights in the United States, according to the 14th amendment and the precedent set in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.

  9. Re:Well not sure if this is the right approach but on Preventing Networked Gizmo Use During Exams? · · Score: 1

    A "contract" between a University and a student is not law. The law is all about interpretation, and it is going to take a precedent to be set before one can judge. Right now, it's all up in the air.

  10. Re:Fake windows on Ideas For a Great Control Room? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Be quiet, you're just as bad as I am, if not worse.

  11. Re:Fake windows on Ideas For a Great Control Room? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also, make it so that people have to get up from chairs once in a while.

    AWFUL! What you want are high-back chairs that support the neck so you don't have to support your body the entire time. Also full recline capabilities help, too. Ideally, they'll never have to get up from their chairs. Think fridge under the table with microwave on top, etc. Also, if they do need to move around for who know why, make it so that they can roll over to their destination. I modified my desk so that I can put my legs forward on a padded leather cushion instead of having them dangle, this really added to my quality of life in the office. I have to get up to fetch things from the fridge, but that was a sacrifice I made so that I had room for a spare chair next to me when the occasional friend stops in.

  12. Re:Ever wonder why you work at BK? on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 1

    Was she hot?

  13. Spinning in your grave. Hur hur. on Man Patents Self-Burying Coffin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spinning in your grave. Hur hur.

  14. Re:Shortcut to "success": Monopoly on Hardware Hackers Reveal Apple's Charger Secrets · · Score: 1

    I built an iPhone car charger: All the details.

  15. Re:Russia still can't build anything of quality on Cooling Pump Malfunction On ISS · · Score: 1

    in the words of Hank Hill, "it was before we knew the Russians were incompetent."

  16. Re:Human nature on Mars Rover Spirit May Never Wake From Deep Sleep · · Score: 1

    I'm just glad that I'm not the only person who gets attached to the things I've created. *whew* From the Earth to the Moon Episode 5.

  17. John Titor on The Possibility of Paradox-Free Time Travel · · Score: 3, Funny

    John Titor

  18. Re:So, *will* it be missed? on Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, you'll never get the chance to shoot with Kodachrome. Sometimes it's nice being a geezer; I wonder what my grandfather was able to experience that I'll never get the chance to?

    The touch of a woman.

  19. Re:How to map forests with a laser on NASA Creates First Global Forest Map Using Lasers · · Score: 1

    No, from his methodology, it would be the destruction of the worlds forests by man kind.

  20. Re:How long since you were in school? on TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, Again · · Score: 1

    It would have came naturally without force and torture.

  21. Re:Symbols in the digital age on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    You are thinking of the South Korean Won, which is a W with two slashes through it. Get your vision checked, or if you have a 3GS / iPhone 4, enable system wide zoom.

  22. Re: Use scientific units... on Ikaros Spacecraft Successfully Propelled In Space · · Score: 1

    Same here, I'm pretty sure that slashdot is sending us all to the crazy house. I've also noticed myself repeating words and typing a completely wrong word in the middle of a sentence.

  23. Re:Oh dear on YouTube Adds 'Leanback,' Support For 4K Video · · Score: 1

    a bigger tube

  24. Re:Surveillance on US Plans Cyber Shield For Private Companies and Utilities · · Score: 1

    When I read the headline, I imagined the government being able to protect my business from DDoS attacks.

  25. Re:Hmm... on Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor · · Score: 1

    Israel is a US State, is it not?