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  1. Re:oh noes on GNOME vs. KDE: the Latest Round · · Score: 1

    No, it's two year's from now -- 2013.

    Next year is 2012, and the world will come to end before the year the Linux Desktop arrives.

  2. Re:A game changer, if they can get it to work. on World's Most Powerful Rocket Ready In 2012, SpaceX Says · · Score: 1

    Just a minor nitpick. The Saturn V S-II second stage did not use an F-1. It used 5 J-2s. The S-IVB third stage used a single J-2. The F-1 was only for the first stage.

  3. Re:This is how you *SHOULD* count back money on Requiring Algebra II In High School Gains Momentum · · Score: 1

    I'm not counting *my* money, I'm counting out the customer's money, to ensure that he gets the correct change.

    And done properly, it takes almost no extra time at all.

  4. Re:This is how you *SHOULD* count back money on Requiring Algebra II In High School Gains Momentum · · Score: 1

    They taught me that too. Graveyard shift at the local 7-11 during summer vacation back in '82/'83

    Where'd you learn?

  5. This is how you *SHOULD* count back money on Requiring Algebra II In High School Gains Momentum · · Score: 0

    In the US at least:

    "That was $26.37. You gave me $40.00
    counts out pennies
    26.37... 38.. 39.. 40...
    counts out a dime
    50...
    counts out quarters
    75... $27...
    counts out singles
    $28... 29... 30...
    counts out a ten
    and $40. Thank you

    How it actually is.
    "The computer says your change is $13.63. Here you go."

  6. Collegeboard.com on Epsilon Breach Affects JPMorgan Chase, Capital One · · Score: 1

    Only one so far

  7. Re:Metricate, damnit! on Amateurs Spy On US Spy Plane · · Score: 1

    Oh, I know about the history (around the time of the 30 Years War, if I recall), but that Simpsons episode makes references to "Brave Danish Sailors", and I just couldn't resist.

  8. Re:Metricate, damnit! on Amateurs Spy On US Spy Plane · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't they be preparing to fight the Dutch?

  9. Re:I Hate on Four Physicists Arrested After SSC Break-In · · Score: 1

    I'm not humorless, but the posts are.

    On the other hand, the OMG!!! PONIES!!! was an *INCREDIBLE* April Fool joke. If the jokes weren't lame, I'd be happy.

  10. Netcraft confirms it, Slashdot is dying on SlashTweaks Let YOU Micro-Edit Slashdot · · Score: 1

    n/t

  11. Re:Can we have this on comments too ? on SlashTweaks Let YOU Micro-Edit Slashdot · · Score: 2

    To hell with this micro-editing!!! Where is my OMG PONI3Z??????

  12. Re:tao of physics?? on Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics · · Score: 1

    Pretty hard to fit any of those, except for credit cards, into your wallet.

    How *do* you fit an intern in there, anyways?

  13. Re:tao of physics?? on Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics · · Score: 1

    To futher clarify ColdWetDog's answer.

    The answer booklet is gray/green hand has a picture of a dead president, or a Founding Father on it.

  14. Re:robot boner on US To Send Radiation-Hardened Robots To Japan · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can't tell if you're serious or not, but here goes..

    IC are sensitive to external radiation. rad-hardened robots use circuitry and components that have been rad-hardened.

    That's why, for example, you can't just throw the latest Pentium Whatever into the Space Shuttle's avionics, because a stray alpha or beta particle, and ZAP -- the chip ain't working right.

  15. Re:So you can't buy a plane? Buy a ship instead! on Man Accused of Selling US Military Drones On EBay · · Score: 1

    And an "Add to Wish list" button

  16. Re:Oh and by the way..... on Are the Days of Individual Security Over? · · Score: 1

    This just screams out for a Godwin-like response.

  17. Re:radical news! on The Simpsons Reviewed For Unsuitable Nuclear Jokes · · Score: 2

    He's talking about Al Jean.

  18. Re:minor on McAfee's Website Full of Security Holes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    most of the staff at McAfee, as with all other big companies, aren't security experts

    But the thing about McAfee is that they *do* market themselves as "security experts". Therefore they should be held to a higher standard.

  19. Re:Nonsense! on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 1

    Just remember... Math and alcohol don't mix, so PLEASE DON'T DRINK AND DERIVE!!!!!!

  20. Re:Live Long on Leonard Nimoy Turns 80 · · Score: 1

    Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD. Are you sure your circuits are functioning correctly? Your ears are green.

  21. Here's an entire discussion on this on Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who? · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Good news everyone! on Futurama Renewed For 7th Season · · Score: 1

    <amy>Guh!!!</amy>

  23. Re:Best Episodes come from Classic SciFi on Futurama Renewed For 7th Season · · Score: 1

    That what SHE said!!! Whooo!

  24. Re:Print media vs Video Media on Why Paywalls Are Good, But NYT's Is Flawed · · Score: 1

    They could even offer a double route - ads if you don't pay, no ads if you do pay.

    If only there existed a tech blog that did that. I even have a great name for this theoretical site... We could call it... Slashdot!

  25. Re:Prior art on USPTO Gives Google Patent For Doodles · · Score: 2

    Oh come on. You know that you are supposed to defer to the PTO because of their superior knowledge!!!