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  1. Re:New Yorkers... on Space Shuttle Collides With Bridge In New York · · Score: 1

    Damn it!!! I was going to post this!!!

  2. Re:So what was better about Nokia's design? on Smaller SIM Format Standardized · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nokia would hold the patents.

  3. Re:Someone sells a tool to open these things easil on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    I went to Golden Coral

    Well, that's your problem. Coral is known to be hard to cut.

    Seriously, though. That is your problem... Going to Golden Corral.

  4. Microwaves... on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    I want to shoot the idiot that thought a single unlabelled dial was the best interface for a microwave oven.

  5. Re:Wonder what Florian has to say about all of thi on Judge Rules API's Can Not Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    I hope you don't mind, I'm using your sig over on Groklaw.

  6. Re:Wonder what Florian has to say about all of thi on Judge Rules API's Can Not Be Copyrighted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He hasn't yet, and those of us who have been following the case are eagerly awaiting his spin.

  7. Re:Oh sure... on Everything You Need To Know About the June 5/6 Venus Transit · · Score: 1

    And dude, please read the footnote, since it OBVIOUSLY applies to you!!!!!!

  8. Re:Oh sure... on Everything You Need To Know About the June 5/6 Venus Transit · · Score: 1

    LA Proper. West Valley. And I don't want to go downtown, I want to go to the West Side.

  9. Oh sure... on Everything You Need To Know About the June 5/6 Venus Transit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure, they spend money on VENUS transit, but just try to get any sort of transit in LA!!!*

    *Under the ADA, for the humor impaired, I am required to note that humor tags are implied for this post

  10. They seek the GRAIL..... on GRAIL Probes Complete Primary Mission Ahead of Schedule · · Score: 2

    But have they calculated the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

  11. Project Sartre???? on Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test · · Score: 1

    That's ABSURD!!!!

  12. Re:Yeah, okay. on Russia To Establish Bases On the Moon · · Score: 3, Informative

    And they're currently the only country in the world capable of even putting a man in orbit.

    China says "Hello"

  13. Re:For all the 3rd world countries on Russia To Establish Bases On the Moon · · Score: 1

    I know that Alexei Leonov believes this -- he said as much in Two Sides of the Moon.

  14. Re:I never saw one of those on Inventor of the TV Remote Control Dies · · Score: 1

    I used to sync the vertical so the frame was divided with the bottom half of the frame in the top half of the tube. Ticked my sister off no end, because we didn't have a remote on that TV.

  15. Re:Congratulations on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Successfully Reaches Orbit · · Score: 1

    CA also has one advantage. It's the best place in CONUS to launch polar orbits. This is one reason why polar shuttle flights were going to launch from Vandenberg. If you launch due south from there, any and all debris falls into the ocean, rather than on land.

  16. Oh come on... on Falcon 9 Launch Aborted At Last Minute · · Score: 1

    It's not like this is rocket science or anything...

  17. Re:Congratulations, Verizon on Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    You are not on Verizon. Verizon is CDMA. They don't have SIMs.

  18. Re:Yes! on UK To Give Peer-Reviewed Science Libel Protection · · Score: 1

    What do you have against an American Football defense strategy?

  19. ADAMA? on US Metaphor-Recognizing Software System Starts Humming · · Score: 1

    I assume it's used in conjunction with the

    Generic Automatic LAnguage Connector and Translator Improving Context Analysis (otherwise known as GALACTICA)?

  20. Re:Well, isn't that... on US Metaphor-Recognizing Software System Starts Humming · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sokath! His eye open!

  21. Re:monohydro dioxide on The Rise of Chemophobia In the News · · Score: 1

    DHMO also contains Hydrogen Hydroxide!

  22. Re:DHMO on The Rise of Chemophobia In the News · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't it be Oxygen Dihydride?

  23. Already there on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: -1

    It's called either your fuse box or your breaker box.

    The whole point is that the fuse blows or the breaker flips on an overload.

  24. Re:Year of lost revenue on Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof · · Score: 2

    I can believe that, since the RIAA doesn't make movies... They're the music business. The MPAA is the movie studios.

  25. Re:Judge may have confused them on Jury May Be Deadlocked In Oracle-Google Trial · · Score: 2

    And we then have the case where if Judge Alsup's ruling gets overturned, then Google has an appeal based on improper jury instructions.