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  1. Re:German version is cheaper?! on XKCD Author's Unpublished Book Remains a Best-Seller For 5 Months · · Score: 1

    That's true. You can only have each translator write one word. Otherwise, you risk killing them all.

    http://youtu.be/8gpjk_MaCGM

  2. "A Balog," muttered Gandalf. "Now I understand." on Slashdot Talks WIth IBM Power Systems GM Doug Balog (Video) · · Score: 1

    It makes sense... we know that the Nazgul come from IBM, why not the Balog?

  3. Turn in your geek card, Rob. on The Grumpy Programmer has Advice for Young Computer Workers (Video) · · Score: 1

    It is, in fact, John Warnock who founded Adobe.

  4. Re:Not so sure it's harmless on TechCentral Scams Call Center Scammers · · Score: 1

    How could you get goatse.cx as the background on a V7/PDP-11?

    I guess you *COULD* use ASCII art...

  5. Re:Ooh I Got One! on NASA's Space Launch System Searches For a Mission · · Score: 1

    Nobody said anything about bringing them back

  6. Re:I have an idea on Microsoft Lobby Denies the State of Chile Access To Free Software · · Score: 1

    Actually, that per-seat license does make it your damn VAULT.

  7. Re:Depleted Uranium? on Modular Hive Homes Win Mars Base Design Competition · · Score: 2

    How much fuel does it take to put a kg of DU on Mars?

    The same amount that it takes to put a KG of any other payload on Mars.

  8. Re:Microsoft naming practices on Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation · · Score: 1

    Insecure Exploder. And its companion mail program, LookOut!

  9. Re:Checked my own state on Two Years of Data On What Military Equipment the Pentagon Gave To Local Police · · Score: 3, Informative

    MULE also stands for Modular Universal Laser Equipment, which is a tripod mounted laser designator. It's essentially the USMC equivalent of the Army's G/VLLD.

    http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/marinefacts/blmule.htm

  10. Re:Get off my email! on Email Is Not Going Anywhere · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Marijuana... on Hemp Fibers Make Better Supercapacitors Than Graphene · · Score: 1

    Marijuana. Is there anything it CAN'T do?

    Make donuts?

  12. Re:That's no asteroid... on Why Hasn't This Asteroid Disintegrated? · · Score: 1

    The correct answer is that Marvin the Martian lost his lludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, and wasn't able to blow it up.

  13. Re:Going to need MUCH better firewalls on Study: Firmware Plagued By Poor Encryption and Backdoors · · Score: 1

    Well, you could, you know, NOT CONNECT the IP enabled water heater to the Internet.

  14. Re:Politicians - Ignorant, Stupid, or Conmen? on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    Shuttle used H2 for the SSMEs. Maneuvering thrusters used Hydrazine.

  15. Re:command-click when submitting on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't work if the "Submit" is a button instead of a link.

  16. Re:Punishes fans? on NFL Fights To Save TV Blackout Rule Despite $9 Billion Revenue · · Score: 1

    You forgot, ESPN also has nonstop 24/7 coverage of LeBron James.

  17. Re:I parted way with Comcast a long time ago. on The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router · · Score: 1

    Spill. Who the hell are you with?

  18. Re:You go girl on California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now go after them for their blatant false advertising:

    "OWN $MOVIE ON BLU-RAY TODAY!!!", when they later actually claim that you don't own the movie.

  19. Re:Limits of Measurement on More Quantum Strangeness: Particles Separated From Their Properties · · Score: 1

    Hasn't Bohm come up with a working HVT? ISTR that his works, provided reality is non-local, and the EPR/Aspect/entanglement experiments have proven that such is actually the case.

  20. Re:Hide behind todays popular hate-topic... on The FBI Is Infecting Tor Users With Malware With Drive-By Downloads · · Score: 1

    That's why most sites also PGP sign their checksums.

  21. Re:Hide behind todays popular hate-topic... on The FBI Is Infecting Tor Users With Malware With Drive-By Downloads · · Score: 1

    Ah, I misunderstood. I thought you were referring to published file checksums, not TCP/IP checksumming.

  22. Re:Hide behind todays popular hate-topic... on The FBI Is Infecting Tor Users With Malware With Drive-By Downloads · · Score: 1

    Download checksum are usually one or more of MD5SUM, SHA1SUM and SHA256SUM.

    A simple transposition of bytes will not generate identical hashes.

  23. If you're in SoCal on Ask Slashdot: Good Technology Conferences To Attend? · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Look to the future on Tesla's Already Shopping For More Office Space · · Score: 2

    This is Tesla we're talking about. Delivery would be by SpaceX.

  25. Re:Vote Selling? on Ask Slashdot: Should I Fight Against Online Voting In Our Municipality? · · Score: 1

    Not so much vote selling as *coerced* vote selling. As in, "Vote for Joe Blow or you will not have a job the day after election day."