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  1. No insult intended.... As you apparently know, Slashdot has been old news for years and years.

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    You must be new here.
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  3. Re: Golden age of remakes maybe on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Actually, Clarke wrote the book and the screenplay simultaneously.

    See The Lost Worlds of 2001.

  4. Re:Alien, Silent Running, Blade Runner, and on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Which version of PotA? Heston or Wahlberg?

  5. Re:Demolition Man on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    How DO you use the shells?

  6. Re:The Queen of Outer Space on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 2

    If you're going with TQOOS, why is there no complementary love for Plan 9 From Outer Space?

  7. Re:The first modular Mac: a Macintosh II on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    I *think* it may have started R2 and then upgraded to R3 halfway through my time there.

  8. Re:The first modular Mac: a Macintosh II on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    We had some 3B2s at CSUN back in the mid to late 80s.

  9. When asked to comment... on Scientists Capture First Image of Dark Matter Web (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    A spokesman for the RIAA said, "This 'Dark Matter Web' is clearly only being used for illegal downloads! We must destroy it!!!"

  10. Re:AKA "Obama favored US!!!!" on Silicon Valley Kicks Off Fight On Net Neutrality (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

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

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)#Plot

  11. +1 for the insensitive clod meme.

    And I bow before your 15-bit-ness.

  12. Re:Let the little guy subsidize the big guy on Silicon Valley Kicks Off Fight On Net Neutrality (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends. Is your house on $TELCO executive's brand new yacht?

  13. No, Hu was ON first.

  14. Re:Because it is profitable to do so on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    By law if United could have gotten passengers to Louisville in 2 hours from their arrival time, they would have only been limited to 200% up to $675, so they might have been offering more than what people were entitled to already.

    It was a Sunday evening, and they were offering a 3PM flight on Monday. That ain't 2 hours.

  15. This is all clearly the fault of.... on TV's Golden Age Is Anything But, Say Writers Preparing To Strike (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The Evil Content Pirates(tm)

  16. The "Thim" on Sleep Is the New Status Symbol (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    How is waking you up every three minutes supposed to help you sleep?

  17. Re:Good thing we have a humble leader now... on If Humble People Make the Best Leaders, Why Do We Fall for Charismatic Narcissists? (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Ford? Remember, he never ran for the office until he already had it.

  18. Re:You can't see a black hole on Earth-Sized Telescope Set To Snap First Picture of a Black Hole (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1
    Sure you can. I have the negatives of the photo right here!

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  19. Re: Excessive collaboration is a good one! on Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    Then your Scrum Master is not doing it right. He should cut off the discussion and say that's for off-line.

  20. Why is Microsoft working on Project Scorpio? on Xbox Project Scorpio's Full Specs Revealed (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't it be GlobEx? They could put Homer Simpson in charge of it, if Hank Scorpio is too busy!

  21. And somewhere, Jack Thompson is crying on Two Studies Suggesting a Link Between Violent Video Games, Real-Life Behavior Have Been Retracted (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Or at least screaming "Fake News"

  22. Re:Testing, Testing on How the IBM 1403 Printer Hammered Out 1,100 Lines Per Minute (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    We had a Dataproducts chain printer. At my first job, my office was directly across the hall from the printer room (which also served as the coffee room, but that's another story).

    That SOB was loud. I got pissed as hell whenever somebody left the cover open!!!

  23. You're supposed to use a squirtgun, not a bucket/cup of water.

  24. You see, there's the beauty of it! The last question is, "Have you truthfully answered all the above?"