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  1. So... on Judge Rules Against RealDVD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its sort of like a lot of drugs - its not illegal to take 'em, but its illegal to buy, sell, possess, or be under their influence. With DVDs, its legal to make a copy for backup, but its illegal to create a means of making that backup.

  2. Re:Major Disapppointment on Google Previews New Search Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    "10 kg of lithium in moles"

    I didn't know moles could be bipolar...

  3. Duct tape? on Sticky Tape Found To Emit Terahertz Radiation · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, does peeling duct tape emit gamma bursts?

  4. Re:yahoo should have accepted the original offer.. on Yahoo Filing Reveals Details of Microsoft Deal · · Score: 1

    If you want to do what's best for them, then the stock price pretty much steers your business decisions, regardless of what you might want for your business to do.

    You're ignoring dividends - that's a way to get a return on your stock investment without constantly "flipping" your stocks. Unfortunately, it seems that most shareholders these days are more interested in short-term results and flipping their stocks, leading too many companies to make decisions based on short-term results and ignoring the issues those decisions create with long-term company stability and results.

  5. Re:Who cares about the humans on Ridley Scott Directing Alien Prequel · · Score: 1

    We need to nuke them from orbit...

  6. Re:Researcher! on Electricity From Salty Water · · Score: 1

    Now that I know what a re-archer is, can you give me the definition of a re-earcher?

    An archer who aims by ear multiple times!

  7. Re:Star wars on Drunk Yoga · · Score: 1

    A drunk Yoda sounds like a non-drunk Miss Piggy!

  8. Re:Metric units? on MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You do if you want to do science, or be part of the global economy, or just not be an ignorant american.

    While using metric units may make it a bit easier to communicate with the non-USA parts of the world, not using them certainly doesn't stop anyone from doing science (lots of science was done prior to the invention of the metric system), or from being part of the global economy (I think the USA is a pretty big player), or from learning...

  9. Metric units? on MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's w/ the metric units? MIT is in the USA and we don't need no stinkin' metric units!

  10. Re:Japan is insane. on Railway Workers Get Daily Smile Scans · · Score: 1

    Smile when you say that!

  11. Re:Live free, die hard on If You Live By Free, You Will Die By Free · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think Jobs must have sold his soul to the devil.

    I think it was his liver...

  12. Re:Artist getting to the bottom of it on Artist Wins £20,000 Grant To Study Women's Butts · · Score: 2, Funny

    She can borrow my sig!

  13. Won't someone... on Beamed Space Solar Power Plant To Open In 2016? · · Score: 1

    ... please think about the poor birds!

  14. Re:Cardboardium. on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 1

    The most useful element.

    Nope - that would be ducttapeium.

  15. Re:like every other sales demo on Allegedly Rigged Product Demo In SAP Suit Goes Missing · · Score: 1

    Buy it, and it's up and running in a few weeks.

    You've obviously never been involved in an SAP implementation. If you have SAP up and running in 18 months, you've done a "quick" SAP implementation!

  16. Re:I for one... on Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's "Ayr".

    When the spiders get there, it'll be "Arghhhh!"

  17. Re:Excuse Me But... on Google Mows With Goats · · Score: 3, Funny

    Milk a male goat and make a friend for life!

  18. Re:And when.. on Cameron's Avatar a 3D Drug Trip? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The bigger question is; When we DO get 3D porn will it make you believe, and create the memory, that you've had actually sex? And if it does; hi to you population decrease.

    And a lot fewer comments posted on Slashdot...

  19. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? on Hundreds of Black Holes Roam Loose In Milky Way · · Score: 2, Funny

    At least you left out all the conspiracy crap, like alien invasions, mind control probes and terrorism.

    That's because the alien conspiracy has already used their mind control probes to make him forget about terrorism.

  20. Re:One set of texts in deep need of help on Ancient Books Go Online · · Score: 1

    perhaps just buried under the mountains and mountains of information with little hope of ever being found again.

    Sort of like the little bit of info I need from the Visual Studio Help files...

  21. Bare Bones Project Managment on Project Management For Beginners? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It sounds like you're primarily looking for advice on managing your application design and development, which isn't quite the same as traditional "project managament" - you're looking for help with part of the application lifecycle. But, just in case I'm mistaken and you are looking for help with project management, I recommend Bob Lewis's "Bare Bones Project Management" (Details here).

    It's pretty cheap ($8.95 + S&H) and bypasses a lot of the fluff that's not needed for anything except huge projects.

  22. Re:The damndest thing with these stories today on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    What if the Singularity went down today?

    It's in process - check out CADIE on google!

  23. Re:Not Opera original on Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability · · Score: 1

    It's an off-shoot of "Facial Auto Recognition Technology"...

  24. Re:No more multiple universes? on Can Fractals Make Sense of the Quantum World? · · Score: 1

    If, as the article suggests, Palmer's theory eventually does away the need for multiple universes, then incalculable damage has been done to the world of science fiction. What fun is it if there isn't a world where the Nazi's won WW2? What's there in that for anyone?

    And The Sarah Conner Chronicles would have to be immediately canceled...

  25. Re:communism on Toward the Open Company · · Score: 1

    It would be like getting paid part of the ad revenue to post insightful comments on Slashdot stories...

    Them most posters would end up owing money...