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  1. Skybird this is Dropkick on The Universe Damaged By Observation? · · Score: 0

    All your waves are belong to us

  2. Re:I am torn on Evolution of the 'Captcha' · · Score: 1, Funny

    You are sooooooooooooooooooo grounded. Love Dad

  3. Re:Brining on Schmidt Says YouTube 'Very Close' to Filtering System · · Score: 0

    7. Sergey Brining - The act of being or acting like Sergey Brin.

  4. Re:Security? on Adobe Releases Cross-Operating System Runtime · · Score: 0

    the browser operates the app in a sandbox and controls access to the machine

    This is Internet Explorer we're talking about yeah?

  5. Re:ring ring on Bill Gates Brags About Vista, Reacts to Apple's Latest Ads · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ok i feel pretty stupid. this might take me some time to get over.

  6. Re:ring ring on Bill Gates Brags About Vista, Reacts to Apple's Latest Ads · · Score: -1, Redundant

    No its the RIAA. Hand in your geek pass on the way out please.

  7. Re:Theories on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1

    And String Theory is not really a theory precisely because there is no observational proof. That least some people that that view (see The Elegant Universe). But then again it is only a name and Einstein called his The Theory of Relativity from the outset althought it was a number of years before the first observations (1924?) backed this up.

  8. Re:Theories on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 2, Informative

    Am I the only one that remembers that "a theory" and "hypothesis" are different and that the former is used by laypeople that don't understand the latter?

    N.B. A theory is a more-or-less estabilshed explaination backed with observerational evidence.

  9. High Tech Urinal? on The World's Most-High Tech Urinal · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're taking the piss. Sorry.

  10. Re:So... on Next-Gen Updates From Leipzig · · Score: 1

    This account used to have terrible karma.

    It still has ;-)

  11. Re:Sensationalist Journalism? on A Flu Pandemic? · · Score: 1

    It's probably been fourteen years since I've had the clue.

    Sounds to me like someone is typing with a blocked nose!

  12. Re:Computer games for learning algorithms? on Learning to Code with a Boardgame · · Score: 1

    One of my first computer games (for the ZX Spectrum). You had to fill in breaks in the code using letters/symbols released around the screen whilst avoiding and fighting 'bugs' that would steal your code. Also on the demo tape for the ZX Spectrum were Monti Carlo and Foxes and Rabbits programs.

  13. Re:On first look, quite nice on iPod nano, iTunes 5, iTunes Phone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jobs would have said "insanely slick" I think.

  14. Re:The important thing is ... on Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered · · Score: 1

    Well I was here all day. Like what a shock!

  15. Re:Concept Picture on NASA Discovers Space Spies From the 60's · · Score: 1

    1. The curly lines I guess are showing the re-entry path.

    2. That is a rocket leaving the turbulent earth behind.

    3. Sometimes things are small because they are far away.

    Take some artistic licence.

  16. heh slashdotted? on Kevin Rose Leaving G4 to start Internet Only Show · · Score: 0

    systm overload!

  17. Re:Jokes on Wooden-Cased Computers, Small and Extra-Large · · Score: 2, Funny

    ah, you mean the charcoal grey model.

  18. Simple.. on How Do You Store and Reconcile Email Archives? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I give mine to Microsoft for the safe storage and instant retreval they are renoud for. Oh wait..

  19. Re:No matter what free will always win... on Would You Pay 5 Cents For a Song? · · Score: 1

    microcredits? or any number of other financial systems (minimum buy, pre-pay, vouchers, etc).

  20. Re:What are they going to hear? on Short History of Cellphone Ringtones · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  21. Re:I have met the man in the middle. on Delayed Password Disclosure · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And he is me, appearently

    You take it in both ends then AC? I respect your i/o capabilities ;-)

  22. Re:The real question is... on Microsoft Releases AntiSpyware Program · · Score: 1

    i think you misspelt real

  23. Re:I THOUGHT LINUX WAS FREE on Firefox New York Times Ad, Soon · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  24. I predict... on Windows Incident Forensics with Knoppix Helix · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...they'll be booting the web server off one of these soon.

  25. Cannot find server? on Massive Online ID Fraud Ring Busted · · Score: 1

    Looks like the slashdot crew are performing our own little "makeover"