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  1. Doctor Who? on Mathematician Claims New Yorker Defamed Him · · Score: 1

    Let the Brit sci-fi Jokes commence.

  2. Re:Javascript: Not a verb on Zero-Day IE Exploit In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Didn't you know? You can verb any noun in English.

  3. Re:I've used them on Will the Solve-the-Riddle Hiring Trend Affect IT? · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes, but can you prove the result? It only took the mathematical world 2000+ years...

  4. Re:Swap in virtual disc drive? on How Much Virtual Memory is Enough? · · Score: 1

    Yes, and while you are it, you might as well eat your own head. The purpose of swap is to give applications the illusion of RAM - in the situation you describe just don't have a swap file. Or is this a troll, sorry it's hard to tell here.

  5. Re:Ten years is nothin.... on 'Stargate: SG-1' Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Out of interest, have you seen the 2005 or 2006 series of Who? True, it's not afraid to mock itself a little from time to time, but I don't see a correlation between self-mockery and longevity.

  6. Ten years is nothin.... on 'Stargate: SG-1' Cancelled · · Score: 1

    compared to THE DOCTOR

  7. Re:American Era artists? on 18th Century Pigment to Revolutionize Chip Design? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moreove, the use of the phrase "American Revolution" somehow reminds me that, in the eyes of the British government of the time, the guys who revolted against the British were terrorists. Yeah, I know, it's not a happy thought, but I'm feeling a bit down this morning. Yes, it is off-topic.

  8. Re:Interesting choice of names on Search 2.0 vs. Traditional Search · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, that fault is rectified in Keyboard 2.0. (codenamed coffee-be-gone).

  9. Interesting choice of names on Search 2.0 vs. Traditional Search · · Score: 5, Funny

    My confident prediction for search 3.0 engines will be TinkyWinky, Dipsi, Lala and Po.

  10. Wait... on Christie's Auction House gets Star Trek Props · · Score: 1

    Are you telling me that German and Klingon are different?

  11. Re:No Easy Answers on How can a Developer Estimate Times? · · Score: 1

    If you have all the "leaf nodes" done to your satisfaction, you can go the boss and say "OK boss, which of these numbers that I have added is wrong?". Make him/her responsible for changing the numbers... not you.

  12. Not at all like wikipedia then on Jimmy Wales Starting Campaign Wikis · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Sounds intriguing, but one has to wonder if it will be plagued by internecine feuding, punditry, and political manipulation" How unlike the home life of our dear Queen.

  13. Re:Yet another unbiased Slashdot posting... on Apache down, IIS up · · Score: 1, Redundant

    You're new here, aren't you?

  14. Which is great because.. on Japanese Lab Creates 'Da Vinci' Voices · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ... we all know that we way we talk is completely determined by skeletal structure. Your native language, culture, education, temperament, mood, and state of health are completely irrelevant.

    Mind you, it would be funny if he sounded like Tom Hanks.

  15. It must be said. My first reaction was... on Bio-diesel Made from Sewage · · Score: 1

    No shit?

  16. Re:Good on ICANN Finally Rejects .xxx Domain · · Score: 1
    Absolutely right. After all, the .xxx domain is all about DNS and IP address lookup, isn't it? There is no mechanism to stop you having pron.com and pron.xxx pointing at the same web server. And, crucially, there's no way of forcing out the pr0n-based services out of the .com or .co.uk domains.

    Why don't we propose a .arg domain for sites depicting violence?

    Or .bom for terrorists?

  17. Re:Most students arent doing computer science on Windows Live Goes to College · · Score: 1
    At the latest, they will do so when they try to read their e-mail in some webcafé or similar place that only has a non-IE browser.

    Of course, most internet cafes have only IE. In my experience anyway. Your mileage may vary.

  18. Re:Does this mean on Fundamental Constant Possibly Inconsistent · · Score: 1

    No. Pi is a mathematical constant. It's not defined by geometry any more, and hasn't been since way before Einstein. True, in Euclidean space it is the ration of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. But it's generally defined as the limit of an infinite series isn't it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Definition

  19. Re:Excellent on The Tenth Planet Shrinks Under Hubble's Gaze · · Score: 1

    I may have known that at some time, but have probably forgotten.

  20. Excellent on The Tenth Planet Shrinks Under Hubble's Gaze · · Score: 2, Informative

    As every Dr. Who fanboy knows, the tenth planet is named Mondas. http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_2d.htm/. What is slashdot coming to?

  21. Re:Crackpot not a "town" on Satellite Navigation a Real Crackpot! · · Score: 1

    Of course, in the USA, that's big enough to qualify as a "City".

  22. Re:Soudan, US on Neutrino Mass Confirmed · · Score: 1
    If France just up and said it wanted out of the EU it would be out of the EU...

    As I understand it, the Treaty of Rome has no such clause.

  23. A possible critical thinking story on Prayer Does Not Help Heart Patients · · Score: 1

    How about Abraham arguing with God over the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? Does that count?

  24. Consequent sartorial change on Iceland To Drill Hole Into Volcano · · Score: 1

    Wear eyepatches! Remember, UNITY is strength!

  25. Re:Path to Warp Drive on First Steps Toward Artificial Gravity · · Score: 1

    Don't forget, we can power our "Mr. Warp" drives with cold fusion reactors.