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  1. Re:Complementarity on How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved · · Score: 0

    OB XKCD!

  2. Party Time! on Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 40th Anniversary · · Score: 5, Funny

    I put on my robe and wizard's hat!

  3. Re:Don't forget privilege, even if not financial.. on What Makes a Genius? · · Score: 1

    I resent the comment above...

  4. Re:Logic Puzzles on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 1

    Start with binary sudokus and work your way up from there!

  5. Re:And that's why they're extinct on Extinct Species of Early Human Survived On Grass Bulbs, Not Meat · · Score: 1

    Well yes, they're extinct because tigers generally don't like it when someone is trying to get their nuts...

  6. Re:Lovecraft country on Lasers Unearth Lost 'Agropolis' of New England · · Score: 1

    Everything changes once you've read Lovecraft, even the kamasutra. In fact, that's how we ended up with tentacle porn!

  7. Re:Summary (and article's first paragraph) mislead on Lasers Unearth Lost 'Agropolis' of New England · · Score: 1

    U.S.A.! Where the demons dwell Where the banshees live and they do live well U.S.A.! Where a man's a man And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan!

  8. Lovecraft country on Lasers Unearth Lost 'Agropolis' of New England · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Long lost civilization" and "New England" have a whole different meaning once you've read Lovecraft :)

  9. Re:Alias in hiding on Australian Teen Reports SQL Injection Vulnerability, Company Calls Police · · Score: 2

    It's pronounced Drop Table All, but it's written as:

    '); DROP TABLE All;--

  10. A few migrant swallows... on First Recorded Observation of Freshwater Fish Preying On Birds In Flight · · Score: 1

    European, I guess, not African... guess those coconuts ARE heavy for a swallow, forcing them to fly close to the water!

  11. Re:Robert Falcon Scott, time traveller on 100-Year-Old Photo Negatives Discovered In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    A great documentary about Scott (of the Antartic) can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qGeapgeDGk!

  12. contact lenses on CSI Style Zoom Sees Faces Reflected In Subjects' Eyes · · Score: 1

    I need to start working on those goatse contact lenses!

  13. Re:No, it would improve Google searches on Could an Erasable Internet Kill Google? · · Score: 2

    OB xkcd!

  14. Re:" ... his otherworldly genius ..." on Reverse Engineering the Technical and Artistic Genius of Painter Jan Vermeer · · Score: 1

    Of course not, the AIVD is here with us! Ik weet dat jullie meeluisteren!

  15. Re:Just another password that's impossible to chan on New Fujitsu Laptop Reads Your Palm, For Security · · Score: 1

    Why do you think you have to use your own hand? Think! Just as criminals can cut of your hand, you can cut of the hand of others whenever you need a new password!

  16. Re:How traditions start on Beer Drinking Networks In Amazon Tribe Help Explain Altruism · · Score: 2

    Oh, it still beats Bud...

  17. Re:CUTE! on New Dinosaur 'Siats Meekerorum' Discovered In Utah · · Score: 2

    The bloody thing did all its programming in COBOL, isn't that sufficient enough to hate IT???

  18. Re:Saw a movie about this. on Tremors Mean Antarctic Volcanism May Be Heating Up · · Score: 1

    No, but Shoggoths will!

  19. Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand calculators, and “user-friendly” software but back in the Good Old Days, when the term “software” sounded funny and Real Computers were made out of drums and vacuum tubes, Real Programmers wrote in machine code. Not FORTRAN. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language. Machine Code. Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers. Directly!

  20. Re:Scientists also killed the oldest living organi on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    I suddenly have to think about rule 34 of the internet!

  21. Re:They should upgrade the warning ... on Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened · · Score: 1

    If it's linux in the internals then the source can be found here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/usb/class/usblp.c#L347

    It's just a small change!

  22. OB: xkcd on GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware · · Score: 1

    So it has come to this...

  23. Re:So what should the family do? on How an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Would Die Part 2 · · Score: 1

    The escape velocity of a neutron star is about 1/3 the speed of light ...

    African or European neutron star?

  24. Re:Personally on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: 1

    It's also the first word uttered in the Monty Python episode!

  25. Re:Estimation on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 2

    Real assembly programmers whould tell you to take your best estimate, shift to the left, add two, and then shift to the left again!