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  1. Super old on 3D Printers To Build Houses · · Score: 3, Informative
    119. Need a Home in a Hurry? Press Print
    Jun 29, 2004
    An oversize printer could speed up building construction.
  2. Linus Torvalds says: on Lisp and Ruby · · Score: 1
    I personally believe that "Visual Basic" did more for programming than "Object-Oriented Languages" did. Yet people laugh at VB and say it's a bad language, and they've been talking about OO languages for decades.
  3. Obviously, sir... on Apple/NVidia Driver Bug — Question Deleted · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...you're a liar. Everyone knows that everything Apple makes Just Works®.

    Sincerely,

    Steve Jobs

  4. -er / -re on Undersea Cable Repair Via 19th Century Tech · · Score: 3, Funny

    So then we can assume that:

    Theater == facility for viewing movies, plays, symphonies, etc.
    Theatre == the drama and spectacle on display in a theater

    Pepper == a spice
    Peppre == the hot sensation you get by eating pepper

    Jester == comedic performer in medieval times
    Jestre == the jokes and skits he performs

    Adapter == Device which connects two things which otherwise wouldn't
    Adaptre == The quality of the connection being changed (e.g. gender, voltage, diameter, etc.)

    Diameter == Device for measuring diametre
    Diametre == Distance across something round

    Hm, wait a sec...

  5. Dear Slashdot, on Yahoo Mail Forcing Ads Through Adblock? · · Score: 1

    I have a technical question for the group.
    Could someone please ignore it and give me a sarcastic, pseudo-moralistic entreaty to consumerism instead?
    Thanks.

  6. If they did that... on Enter The 2160p HDTV · · Score: 1

    ...I bet dollars to doughnut holes the damn place would have the aspect ratios screwed up -- the perennial squish-o-vision.

  7. Re:Economics 101 or Why I Love Bounties on VeriSign Puts Flaw Bounty on Vista and IE7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    --------joke------------>

          O
         /|\      <--- you
          |
         / \

  8. Re:Had to be done on Download Only Song to Crack the Top 40 · · Score: 1
    But the Top 40 is not about gauging popularity. It's about gauging sales.
    You misspelled "gouging".
  9. Fark? on Yahoo! Takes Down News Message Boards · · Score: 1

    Or: We can't compete with Fark at its own game, so we're going a whole different direction?

  10. Least useful on 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Occupying Iraq?

  11. Re:The nerdcore genre is going to fizzle... on The Dueling Nerdcore Documentaries · · Score: 2
    G to tha E to tha E to tha K
    Don't you mean: "G to teh 3 to teh 3 to teh | to teh <"?
  12. Salary on Best Buy Institutes Extreme Flex Time · · Score: 1
    judge them based on whether or not the job is done, rather than whether or not they are in the office at a given time.
    This is what "salaried" is supposed to mean. Theory loses out to practice, unfortunately.
  13. Before you go that far... on Reasonable Pre-Paid Cellphones in the US? · · Score: 1

    ...you might want to try just rebooting your phone.

    I had the same kind of experience once, and rebooting the phone (turn off, then on; remove/reinsert battery if necessary) cleared it up. In fact, you may wish to make a practice of rebooting it on some kind of regular basis (say, weekly) just to avoid this kind of thing.

  14. A repressor protein... on Stem Cell Therapy Causes Tumors · · Score: 1

    ...that blocks the operating cells?

    Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication, so that the newly formed DNA strand carries a mutation and you're got a virus again...

  15. 30% on Opening Diebold Source, the Hard Way · · Score: 1
    You will never find a human that will, after a few minutes of persuasion, reliably betray its principles, never tell anyone, never come back to blackmail you, and even completely forget the whole incident even happened should you care to ask him to, let alone thousands of identical humans who will do so in lockstep without giving the slightest indication that anything is amiss.
    Actually, about 30% of Americans seem to fall into this category.
  16. As Peter Gabriel and Metallica, respectively, show on Peter Gabriel Wants You to Re-Shock the Monkey · · Score: 1

    ...some people get it and others don't.

  17. Re:Timothy has low IQ? on French Scientists Link Higher BMI with Lower IQ · · Score: 1
    now I realize that he was dumb. Too dumb to prioritize, to take care of the important things in life. The time he took to learn that one more language or to write that one more book should have been spent taking walks or something.
    Or maybe it's simply that his priorities are not the same as yours. He spent his life as he wanted, and it sounds like he accomplished a great deal. Who are you to say what he did was not as important as taking walks? Not to mention calling him dumb for it? Sounds like the kind of thing not-smart people say to pretend they're "really" smarter than the smart ones.
  18. Re:Mailbox Graveyard? on More E-mail, Fewer Mailboxes · · Score: 1

    I'd like one just to use as my house's mailbox. They're a darn sight more secure than any you can buy normally.

  19. Solution: on More E-mail, Fewer Mailboxes · · Score: 1
    every time I go into a main branch it is a long wait
    Complain. It worked for me.

    At the time, I worked near the Byron Rumford station in Oakland, CA, which has three windows and a long, narrow lobby. Every time I went in there, the line was nearly out the door, and only one window was open, or, rarely, two. So I went outside, called the USPS main number (800-ASK-USPS) on my cell phone and complained that that particular office never had enough windows open, so the wait was interminable.

    I came back a week or two later, and lo and behold, all three windows open and hardly a wait.

    Squeaky wheel and all that...
  20. Re:Monitors? .. What about input? on High Dynamic Range Monitors · · Score: 2, Informative
    Now, with a display that can ACTUALLY display the full spectrum of a HDR image. THAT I'm interested in.
    Me too! And I sure am glad they included some screenshots in TFA; I can see how they're much better-looking than what my regular old CRT can display! I sat there, dumbfounded, thinking how much wider a dynamic range they had than my actual monitor.

    Maybe they can set up a service where you can look at more great HDR photos at home on your regular monitor so you can at least get used to it...
  21. Re:Spelling is HARD on uTube.com Business Stalled by YouTube Purchase Hype · · Score: 2, Funny
    Perhaps we have millions of kids out there who genuinely believe that you is spelled u.
    Could be worse -- we could be reading a story right now about how some site called uT00b.com is getting swamped.
  22. Re:Spelling is HARD on uTube.com Business Stalled by YouTube Purchase Hype · · Score: 1
    Can you tell the difference between uTube and YouTube when pronounced? No?
    Sure, it's easy: YouTube = "YOOtoob"; uTube = "UHtoob" (or possibly "uhTUHbay").
  23. Re:Nuclear Propulsion on Bush Reveals New Space Policy · · Score: 1
    "Can you say, "Nuclear Space Drive"? :D"

    Sure I can, but I'm not sure the President can manage it.
    He might manage "Now watch this nookyooler space drive...".
  24. I was curious... on A Definitive List of Gaming Genres? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...so I looked up their entry for The Sentinel, which I find uncategorizable. They called it "Puzzle". Hm. I don't think it fits.

  25. Solution on Bad Password Allowed Swedish Watergate · · Score: 1
    has to be very diffrent from your last 10 passwords
    1. Set a new password 10 times
    2. Set it back to original value