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  1. Re:Starcraft. on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    As long as you have enough space in your creep colonies...

  2. Re:Contacting Server... on How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code · · Score: 5, Funny

    We read the article, just not before we comment. Usually I middle-click to open the article in a new tab, then read the comments. That way I know which parts of the article to indignant about when I get to them.

  3. Re:They still have the rights... on Instagram: We Won't Sell Your Photos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    any reasonably prudent person

    I believe that set is disjoint with the set of all instagram users.

  4. Re:So... tell me how to be more explicit? on Google's Image Search Now Requires Explicit Queries For Explicit Results · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apparently, you need to put a magic word "porn" in your search query.
    'blowjobs' gives you the results you saw
    'blowjobs porn' gives exclusively the results you were looking for.

  5. Re:Thank Goodness on In the World of Big Stuff, the US Still Rules · · Score: 1

    rise above the low hanging fruit.

    At least the rest of us aren't making inappropriate penis jokes.

  6. Re:Isn't it obvious? on A Brain-Based Explanation For Why Old People Get Scammed · · Score: 1

    Wrinkles, like hair, are a conserved quantity.
    Everybody knows that as you get older, hair travels from the top of your head and starts coming out of your nose and ears.
    In much the same way, wrinkles travel out of your brain and collect on your face and neck. By the time you reach your 80s, your face looks like something out of a movie adaptation of a Stephen King novel, but that brain inside is smooth as a baby's bottom.

  7. Close... on Spaun: a Large-Scale Functional Brain Model · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not purely functional unless it's written in Haskell.

  8. Good question on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would share my method, but it only works for a spherical turkey in a vacuum.

  9. Ooh! on House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA's "Scanner Shuffle" · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want to go through one of the scanners right now. Just to show the TSA how happy I am :)

  10. Re:Enterprise resource planning? on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 1

    When people predicted "The Singularity" I always assumed it would be some sort of emergent intelligence in complex systems. Not a pseudo-sentient bureaucrat that shits TPS reports. May god have mercy on us all...

  11. Hmm... on Physicist Explains Cthulhu's "Non-Euclidean Geometry" · · Score: 2

    As long as the exotic matter isn't made of midichlorians, we can still be friends.

  12. Re:if the algorithms are that fragile on Below-Expected Earnings For Google Posted Early, Trading Halted · · Score: 1

    Can't do that. Corporations are people too. Preventing them from trading would be violating their rights to freedom of speech, assembly, etc. /me removes tongue from cheek.

  13. Re:The summary is incomplete on Boxee TV's Unlimited Cloud-based DVR Holds Users Hostage To Monthly Fees · · Score: 2

    Which, btw, has led to some very odd fetishes. To this day, I can't get off unless my wife reads SCO v. IBM legal briefs to me...

  14. Re:If he succeeds, good news for NASA on Supersonic Skydive Attempt Delayed 24 Hours · · Score: 3, Funny

    Give him a break. You can't go *whoosh* in a vacuum...

  15. Re:Interesting on Boston Airport Replacing X-ray Body Scanners · · Score: 4, Funny

    Touch it and see if it goes off ;)

  16. Interesting on Boston Airport Replacing X-ray Body Scanners · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder if ..um... shall we say "abnormally endowed" men will have their endowments highlighted as a generic outline?
    If not, countdown until we hear about the "dildo-bomber" on the news...

  17. Re:I feel lied to on MIT Researchers Show Dash Font Choice Affects Distraction · · Score: 1

    I was hoping to see a comparative analysis of the em- and en-dashes. Huge letdown.

  18. Question on Steve Jobs Joins House of Wax · · Score: 1

    Does the statue have rounded corners?

  19. Re:Simple answer on Ask Slashdot: Taming a Wild, One-Man Codebase? · · Score: 1

    Pretty much. This is a very hard thing to answer in general terms. With only one developer, over-engineering the system can be very costly. You'll spend more time maintaining the dev/test/release environment than the actual code itself. But at the same time, some tools and scripts can be absolutely critical to the business and a bug could be disastrous enough that it warrants all the overhead of a more formal dev environment.

    What you do is going to depend a lot on the exact details, and may not even be consistent across all the code you support. There's only one of you. Make sure you spend your time on the most critical pieces.

    The only thing that I would consider absolutely mandatory is proper revisioning and branching so that you can recover quickly when something goes wrong.

  20. I feel better on xkcd's 13-Gigapixel Webcomic · · Score: 2

    I, for one, am relieved to know that the bottomless pits in Mario Bros. are not truly bottomless. If any of my Mario's survived the fall, they got to live out their days in comfortable pagodas buried deep within the earth.

  21. Re:"why not love among the code?" on The Perils of Developers Hooking Up · · Score: 1

    Mountain Dew and Cheetos, when properly mixed, make an excellent liquid repellent.

  22. Re:um... on Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland · · Score: 1

    To which there is a simple solution:
    Point the cameras at each other. If one camera sees the other look at anything other than itself, initiate thermonuclear destruction of the city. It's like what would happen if John Woo directed Dr. Strangelove.

  23. Scotch tape! The greatest invention since this inanimate carbon rod!
    *scientist turns off TV in disgust*
    "Aww, Dad! They were going to show some close-ups of the tape!"

  24. Re:Newsworthy? on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 1

    Tags can be user defined, so one could add 'newsworthy' as appropriate. One could argue that the tag 'newsworthy' has been used exactly as often as appropriate.

  25. Re:..ok, how? on LiftPort Wants To Build Space Elevator On the Moon By 2020 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're reading this wrong. 8 years is exactly the right amount of time.
    It's less than 10 years, which is sufficient to attract VC funding
    But it's also greater than 5 years, which is long enough to avoid any expectation of progress or success.