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  1. I'm in the UK [...] Unless you mean something I don't understand by 'be secured'

    He does. Have you considered learning the language of the place you live in? Or failing that, using google?

  2. Re: Why is this not a surprise? on IT Worker Fired After Massive Georgia Data Breach Speaks Out (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. Because Americans are so fucking awesome that all you have to is turn up anywhere else and they grant you instant citizenship.

  3. How it ended up on Slashdot, I have no idea.

    Simple answer: timothy.

  4. Re:He's going about it the wrong way. on Ballmer: Microsoft Mobile Should Focus On Android Apps Not Universal Apps (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Appers! Appers! Appers!

  5. Conspiracy theorists? They're all pissing in the same pot, you know.

  6. Re:The National Enquirer on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 0

    Meh. That's so they don't feel bad for doing deals with him.

    Because oy vey oy vey, you gotta make a living already...

  7. Re:Blow up the world! on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    Anybody can fly.

    So long as it's on a roughly parabolic trajectory.

  8. Re:Speed an issue on Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB (dice.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you want speed, go for MongoDB. It doesn't use joins & it's webscale, plus it can even use /dev/nul as storage for ultra-high throughput.

  9. Re:SQL Server, thanks on Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    Right. Because it's totally impossible that you might be building something that you're intending to sell to more than one customer.

  10. Re:I support the telescope on Giant Telescope Project Stalled By Hawaiian Natives (khon2.com) · · Score: 1

    If you wanted to return them you should have done it within 30 days.

    Signed,
        Britain.

  11. Re:a bit exaggerated on More Than Half of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Were False Positives · · Score: 2

    I thought Uranus was brown?

  12. Re:Giant science lever set to "Republican" no doub on More Than Half of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Were False Positives · · Score: 2

    In Soviet Russia, something about Natalie Portman forgot YOU!

  13. Re:Quite possible on Apple Releases Swift As an Open-Source Project (swift.org) · · Score: 1

    The specification may be open (or not); that does not mean that the code that creates the language interpreter or compiler is open.

    Open source. That implies actual code being available.

    Or it did before the sheep started applying the phrase to everything from fanfiction to cake recipes.

  14. Which is more likely:
      - that there are two separate bits of code for doing more or less the same thing to more or less the same thing, only one of which has the break-removing feature.
    or
      - that most of the editors and/or submitters are utter bubbleheads who don't know how/when to put paragraph breaks?

  15. So... on More Than Half of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Were False Positives · · Score: 0

    A better success rate that your fucking articles, you woad-smeared fixie-riding bald beardy bastard.

  16. This has them. One, anyway.

    http://science.slashdot.org/st...

  17. Re:I'm confident 80% of posters didn't watch video on Skip the Picks; Expert Uses Hammer To Open a Master Lock (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Watch the video? That would be almost as bad as reading the article.

    You've probably forgotten the old TV sets that wouldn't work until you thumped them? Thing was, you had to thump them with just the right amount of force in just the right place.

  18. Re: editing on SSDs Approaching Price Parity With HDDs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If that's what it means, it isn't what it says.

  19. Re:Your speak-n-spell is set to Oirish on Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If there's such a word as unarboreal, elephants are definitely the most. Apart from whales.

  20. Re:yet still no info on Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue isn't that they couldn't fly without the autopilot, it's that they didn't realise they needed to because they thought it was on.

    Well they realised, but too late.

  21. Your speak-n-spell is set to Oirish on Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    because the two of the tree pilots

    As they say, "if you pay peanuts you get monkeys". Or possibly squirrels.

  22. What's the metric equivalent of a short plank? on Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thick people are less intelligent, claims report. Film at 11.

  23. Re:Cynicism on Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% of His Facebook Stock (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I know, right? Has Zuck ever lied to anyone?

    I'm Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, you insensitive clod!

  24. Is "ugly and creepy" a gender?

    I'm not particularly gay but he was much better looking when he was Bruce.

  25. Tuesday is about as far from Friday as you can get.

    Also, first post (normalising for gender, social class and shoe size)