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  1. Cheap Sterilization! on Students Invent Revolutionary Solar Sterilizer · · Score: 0

    It's just that the cost of rocket and fuel to transport the instruments to and from the sun is a bit high :)

  2. Re:902 MHz and counting on Cracker-Size Satellites To Launch With Endeavour · · Score: 2

    '... and tiny things get blown.'

    Er; you may wish to rephrase that.

  3. Re:Friggin' Heck... on Bin Laden's Death Being Used To Spread Malware · · Score: 2

    Bin Laden, the gift that keeps on infecting!

  4. Re:Push-down stack on Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home? · · Score: 1

    Well, what's the statute of limitations of the worst thing you've ever done? :)

  5. Re:We're sorry on Nokia Outsources Symbian OS Work · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When a company starts shedding employees (Our Most Valuable Resource (TM)) like a Labrador Retriever sheds hair, it's pretty well the start of the end.

  6. Half Honest on Computer Opens Unmanned Store For Holiday · · Score: 1

    That's about twice as many as I would expect! Good going.

  7. Re:Can't be on Rumors of Higgs Boson Discovery At LHC · · Score: 2

    It's a miracle!

  8. Re:Oh please! on Michigan Police Could Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops · · Score: 2

    If "ignorance of the law" is no excuse for me, then it should be so for those expected to enforce it.

  9. Not unexpected... on Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores · · Score: 1

    First class people choose first class people; second class people choose fourth class people; third class people choose ninth class people; and so on; and so on.

  10. Re:The OpenOffice name/brand on OpenOffice.org To Be Given Back To the Community · · Score: 2

    Well, I think it should be called "SweetOffice"!

    (because it's an office suite; get it!
      er, never mind, I'll go away now)

  11. Re:Is this really a pot/kettle thing? on China Calls Out US On Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    But which is which?

  12. Re:Agreed on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    ...have cared only about European languages, despite the Po and Ganges questions

    You do realise that the Po River is in Italy?

  13. Re:Halflife? on 30 Years To Clean Up Fukushima Dai-Ichi · · Score: 1

    And they could use it to build very accurate clocks and watches, with natural glow-in-the-dark faces!

  14. Re:Then don't link to movies. Period. on Yahoo! Liable In Italy For Searchable Content · · Score: 1

    Et tu, Brute?

  15. Re:Yeah! on Chinese Scientists Make Cow Producing Human-Like Milk · · Score: 2

    While it may meet the nutritional requirements, I wonder if if it has the antibodies and the like.

  16. Re:tao of physics?? on Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics · · Score: 1

    It's just global warming (for a tiny globe) :)

  17. Re:Semantics, hackers, crackers and coders on Enlisting Game Hackers Instead of Fighting Them · · Score: 0

    Using 'hack' to mean 'crack' is no different from using 'jew' to mean 'con'.

  18. Re:/. News Network on Splinternet, Or How We Broke the Good Old Web · · Score: 1

    Even further back:

    The Empire is still strong and will last forever!
    Do dah, do dah!

    Constantine the Great AD 337

  19. Re:Madman Muntz famous(and rich)for this last cent on 'Pruned' Microchips Twice As Fast and Efficient · · Score: 2

    He was probably responsible for those TVs I had when I was young which would lose sync when conditions weren't perfect, as in: either the Sun or the Moon were up.

  20. Re:why is this unusual on WikiLeaks Cash-For-Votes Exposé Rocks Indian Government · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread." - Anatole France [trans.]

  21. Why? on Twitter Joins the HTTPS By Default Party · · Score: 2

    So you can securely upload your private data for public dissemination?

  22. Re:Erase it. Now! on Should We Have a Right To Be Forgotten Online? · · Score: 1

    Whoever "Poster" is..

    Oh, that's 'Poster Childe'; he works for Sally Struthers.

  23. Re:Not sure this is the time to work on internet on Ask Slashdot: Could We Reconnect Eastern Libya? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that worked really well for the Taliban, big supporters of western democracies and all around great guys!

  24. Of course prior art on Microsoft, Google Sue Troll Who Sued 397 Companies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's called an atlas + gazetteer

  25. Re:speaking as a Canadian to the USTR on 13 Countries On US "Priority Watch List" For Copyright Piracy · · Score: 2

    Note that the Canadian DMCA equivalent was first proposed by the Liberals (Bill C-60); it only failed due to the fall of the (minority) government.

    So, assuming that politicians are people of principle (ha ha), the Grits would support the Tories in this.