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  1. Re:The April Fool on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 0

    And so, after being logged off for months, I log in just so I can post in The April Fool thread.

  2. Re:Mod up on A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009 · · Score: 0

    Actually, 25 years ago would have been 1984. That was during the terrible totalitarian regime, with Big Brother constantly watching you. A dark time to live, at least for the proles. Obviously by 1985 the regime was thrown down and replaced with modern society, and everyone got the Big Macs and porn they deserved.

  3. Yes, it is! on Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube · · Score: 0

    Is this the where I come for an argument?

  4. Re:Nuclear Decay in 1032 to 1041 years? on Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction · · Score: 0

    That's 10 to the 32nd power (100000000000000000000000000000000), not 1032 years

  5. Where is the big arrow? on What a Botnet Looks Like · · Score: 0

    I can't find the big arrow that says "You are here" on the map. How am I supposed to use it without that?

  6. Re:Fascinating on Narwhal Tusks are Sensory Organs · · Score: 0

    There's no reason it can't be a sensory organ and also be used to attract the chicks.

    In fact, I think it's silly to say that they're for one thing. Males with the big "horn" survived better because they found food easier then males without the horn. Females that were attacted to males with big horns survived better and breed more because they were with the males that could find food better. So it acts as both.

  7. Will it chat over AIM? on Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But will it chat over AIM? 'lol no this is not a Nazi'

  8. Traditional radio killing itself on Traditional Radio Endangered By New Tech · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As far as I'm concerned, "traditional" radio is killing itself. I finally switched to satellite when I realized I was hearing maybe one song on FM radio while driving to work. It seems like every station has a morning show that insists on talking inanely half the time, then splitting the rest of the time on commercials, inane joke clips that they replay everyday, then maybe a couple of songs. Of course, then I found that the satellite radio still had some talking, but at least I can avoid most of it and just hear music 95% of the time now, instead of 15% of the time I was getting music on FM radio.

  9. Re:Get me a rewrite... on Bar Coding The World Away · · Score: 1

    Major retailers have been taking EAN-13 for years. Right now the big push is to be able to accept RSS-14 barcodes.

  10. Re:Damn on Bar Coding The World Away · · Score: 2, Funny

    You wouldn't, by chance, have a tattoo on your back that reads "Don't trust the skull", would you?

  11. Re:House rules? on D&D Is 30 · · Score: 1

    The 3rd Edition Harm spell is a perfect example of something that desperately needs it.

    They changed the Harm/Heal spells in 3.5 so they're not as powerful.

  12. Re:So which is it? on The Average PC is Infested with Spyware · · Score: 5, Funny

    19 computers have no spyware, 1 computer has 560.

  13. Temptation on Is the Universe Shaped Like a Funnel? · · Score: 2, Funny

    At an extreme enough point, you would be able to see the back of your own head.


    In this situation, am I the only person that would be tempted to reach out and slap the back of my own head? "You idiot, look where you got us now."

  14. Re:Sapphire: A spill that never gets cleaned up on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 1

    Rats, I spilled some. Well, I'll just use a towel to... Hold on there, this is taking longer than... No matter, I'll just get the mop and... Sponge? No... Paper towels? No... Hazmat pellets? No... I may be here awhile.

    Try a straw.

  15. Reminds me of the Urban Legend - on Smart Cars to Save Stupid Drivers? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think the Urban Legend was: At a recent COMDEX, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1,000 miles per gallon." Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement: "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"

  16. Aiming? on Asteroid Impact Simulator Available · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't find the field to enter in my ex-girlfriends coordinates in.

  17. Re:Speed of Sound in Space on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked the speed of sound in space was essentially zero...

    Well, that would certainly cause a pileup.