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  1. Re:Leap seconds fix a diferent problem on US DoD Poll On Leap Seconds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so our clocks are more precise at measuring how fast the earth does a twirl than the earth is at twirling?

    wait, what?

  2. nail in the coffin on Google To Digitize Millions of Old Newspaper Pages · · Score: 3, Funny

    At last, I can finally go back and tell my 3rd grade teacher THIS is why I didn't need to learn how to use a flippin microfiche!!

  3. Re:"Zero dollars in manufacture" on DIY Hybrid Car Kit · · Score: 4, Funny

    wait a second... did you just figure out Step 3)???

  4. Re:These guys are worse then the cellular companie on How Networks Interact — Peering and Transit Explained · · Score: 1

    That really sucks about USA cell phone contracts. Here in Germany we only pay for making the calls. The receiving end doesn't get charged at all.

    If I bought a pre-paid phone with no contract, I could put like 5 on it and keep it that way for around 6 months without putting anymore money on it, and I wouldn't have to pay anything more even though I could be receiving 10 hour-long calls a day and receiving hundreds of SMS messages.

  5. perhaps on Canadian Researchers Say Hard Thinking Leads To Big Meals · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... the body thinks that due to the mental taxation, that the overall body has been taxed in the same way, and therefore is tricked into expecting that the body will require food. maybe when the body exercises or performs physically intensive tasks, it creates the same signals in the brain that thinking hard does. I didn't have time to RTFA so maybe they said that already.

  6. Re:News At 11 on Criminals Remote-Wiping Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Well, it's on a phone. Perhaps the age of phreaking returns?

  7. Re:It's her day so... on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you're marrying a horrible bitch I guess.

    If the wedding is somehow all about her, imagine what a discussion about laundry will be 10 years from now.

    It's a trade off, you short-sighted "idiot". Sometimes things are all about her. Sometimes they are all about you. Not everything in a marriage is about both of you. There will always be a give and take. What you said speaks volumes about your ability to give anyone else the attention they want without them considering what you want for even a day.

  8. Re:Risky... on Wikileaks To Sell Hugo Chavez' Email · · Score: 0, Redundant

    For those wondering, he said "I fixed your post for you."

    Acronyms these days :\

  9. Re:That explains it... on "Shimmer Vision" Scopes See Better Using Heat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    there are many types of post-processing filters that could theoretically be run on a live feed to make it easier to pick details out of it. hell there might even be different filters that would go better for watching birds as opposed to tracking isuzu trucks out in the middle of the desert. Being able to cycle through those would be another useful feature. or being able to digitally zoom an image by studying the image via the natural shaking of your hand and using the slight shifting of the image to determine depth and then push past the focal point of the closer objects. (I feel like I totally just pulled that sentence out of my ass)

  10. Re:Huh? on Google Drops Bluetooth API From Android 1.0 · · Score: 1

    the iphone is a tin foil hat replacement?

  11. Re: "traditional security" vs. I.T. security on Are IT Security Professionals Less Happy? · · Score: 1

    well there's like 15 answers to that, but the first two that spring to mind are:

    1) the IT team at that company might not make the decision to install windows. someone less knowledgeable may have decided that.

    2) finding knowledgeable CHEAP admins is far easier for windows networks than *nix networks.

  12. Two steps forward... on Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...one step back. *sigh*

  13. Re:I knew a guy who always had headaches on Secure File Storage Over Non-Trusted FTP? · · Score: 1

    That was a pretty bad analogy

  14. Re:Cambrian Explosion of alternative energy techni on Mimicking Photosynthesis To Split Water · · Score: 3, Informative

    We still use JP for our mil vehicles, but we use a lot of NTVs (non tactical vehicles) now which are from I have seen over the last few years a fairly even mixture of gas and diesel.

    The stoves, heaters, and yes, we have a/c now in even the training tents, all run off electricity which comes from generators that are fueled by something brought in by contracted companies. Diesel? Gas? I don't know because I haven't seen the paperwork for the contracts. It all depends on who we contract out for the generators and what kind of generators they bring in for us.

    I think that was the biggest change in Army ideology over the last 20 years or so... they've shifted a huge portion of the green suiters' work onto civvie companies and contractors.

  15. profit! on Air Force Suspends Cyber Command Program · · Score: 5, Funny

    Step 1) Release public statement regarding creation of cyber command to all nerd websites
    Step 2) Recruit all the nerds that got interested in step 1
    Step 3) Publicly announce the cancellation of the project
    Step 4) Continu.......

    (Connection Terminated)

  16. Re:Call the FBI? on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    not if you want anyone to actually DO anything about it :P

  17. rickroll on Let Your Theme Song be Your Password · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll just use "Never gonna give you up" by Rick Astley. I'm sure everyone's forgotten that song by now, right?

  18. Re:Colbert wants to know on New Map of Carved Up Arctic · · Score: 1

    So send the management and politicians to the artic circle too then, eh? I like where you're going with this...

  19. Re:Papers, bitte. on Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes · · Score: 1

    really? i guess I'm just too used to polizei. they just look bored to me.

  20. For a system that's math heavy on New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 · · Score: 1

    You would think they could have just increased the floating point size to 10.00 instead!

  21. Re:Ask Slashdot on "Clear" Laptop Found, In the Same Locked Office · · Score: 1

    1) Post your question as Anonymous Coward
    2) If step 1 fails, flee to Canada
    3) ???
    4) Profit!

  22. Re:Channel theory link broken on Theorists Make Quantum Communications Breakthrough · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm going to name my next cat "TFA" and then I can say he "slashdotted the couch"

  23. Re:Backwards and upside-down on Patry Copyright Blog Closed · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's sort of like the drains going the opposite way and Summer being cold, right?

    I just had a mental image of a bunch of republicans holding hands and dancing in circles.

  24. Re:Oh, how user friendly! on iPhone Nano To Be Launched By Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Or they would just pull out their cell phone instead.

    Just sayin...

  25. Re:Contamination? on NASA's Mars News Is Not Life, But Perchlorate · · Score: 1

    They abandoned their homeworld after corporations caused a rampant growth of garbage and left behind little robots to clean up the mess. But those robots then failed to evolve a personality, and therefore after a few hundred thousand years the robots and garbage and any other markings of civilization all withered away into big balls of red sand. The colonists themselves took a short hop to a previously restricted hunting and vacation spot located a few doors down from mars.