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  1. Re:Write larger; more engineering, less art on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    And you can still read it when you are a bit older.

    Age (late 60's), corneal damage (surfers eye), and low light make fine print illegible. I just hope YMMV.
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    Thank goodness we have these unfeeling psychopaths to lead us.

  2. OSS and source sharing is a little older on The Past, Present, and Future of OSS · · Score: 1

    People were sharing source before the internet:

    SHARE for IBM mainframe users (1955) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE_(computing)

    DECUS for Digital Equipment users (1961) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECUS

    There was also IBM 'Type III' code developed by IBM employees, but not sold or maintained (1961?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Type-III_Library

    There were probably others.
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    If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on your internet connection forever.

  3. Re:No crime? on Mother Found Guilty After Protesting TSA Pat-down of Daughter · · Score: 1

    Someone could take the video of her abuse and then put an audio track with people who chant TSA, TSA, TSA, during public events. This would be a great election video.

    FTFY

  4. BBC refers to Florian on US Patent Office Invalidates Apple's "Rubber Banding" Patent · · Score: 1

    The BBC News website appears to be basing its report on Florian.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20040549

    Please encourage them to do some fair and balanced reporting.
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    If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on your internet connection forever.

  5. Where does this stuff come from? on The Greatest Battle of the Personal Computing Revolution Lies Ahead · · Score: 1

    Not the most concise posting, and I didn't see any links to external material to critique.

    AskSlash: What percentage of Facebook users can touch type?
    AskTwo: Why would the previous question be significant?
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    Ethanol tonight effective is. I'm seeing little green slugs with glowsticks.

  6. Lessons not learned on Microsoft Surface Review: a Tale of Two Tablets · · Score: 1

    ...likely in need of some bug fixing and optimization. However, that seems like it should have been done prior to the release of the product to the public.

    This is Microsoft, from the land of WAIT FOR SP1.

  7. Re:Do we really need to recycle photons? on New Quantum Computing Record Set By Recycled Photons · · Score: 1

    One with the energy equivalent to a Higgs Boson would be very exciting indeed. Maybe.
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    Strong ethanol force tonight the is..

  8. Selection Bias? on NASA Satellite Sees Black Hole Belching Out Hundred-Million-Degree X-rays · · Score: 1

    Events like this are relatively uncommon, so it's fortunate NuSTAR happened to be observing the black hole when it flared.

    And when nobody is looking, nothing happens?

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    -99 pednatic; -999 spilleng; it's the TYPOs

  9. Re:So what happens... on Huge Geoengineering Project Violates UN Rules · · Score: 1

    you'd be able to get money for firebombing your neighbor's SUV.

    What! Oh Noes! Why do you think I sold it to him?

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    A fun, silly thing, meant to be enjoyed with your brain in the off position.

  10. echelon on Air Force Lab Test Out "Aircraft Surfing" Technique To Save Fuel · · Score: 1

    Isn't this why foursomes of fighter jets (in the movies, at least), and flocks of migrating geese, fly in a V formation?

    Prior art - not patentable.
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    I'm the first one in my family to go to college and walk fully upright.

  11. FTFY on Why Eric Schmidt Is Wrong About Microsoft Not Mattering Anymore · · Score: 1

    At least Google lets you get A COPY OF your data out.

    Can't be bothered to dohtml tags. Live with it.
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    Ahhh, I see the cock-up fairy has visited us again.

  12. Interactions on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    What are the interactions between sub-c and super-c objects?

    Could this be the missing mass/dark matter/dark energy?

    We, the credulous, want to know!
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    Does that make you feel better? No, didn't think so.

  13. In the meme time on Shakedowns To Fix Negative Online Reviews · · Score: 1

    This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations....

    ... and welcome to our new Dicey overlords

  14. LaserJet 4p for the load (LETTER) on Maybe With Help From Google and Adobe, Microsoft Can Kill Windows XP · · Score: 1

    The LaserJet 4p is not usually a Postscript printer, and when you add the PS card, it is dog slow. It a 4 page/minute PERSONAL PCL printer. I got one for my daughter to use at university a long time ago, because it it was comparatively small and light to take on the train.. It rests under my desk, waiting for all the other printers in the house to fail. Which it has never done.
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    Think of the entropy, children!

  15. Re:Using both outdated and HTML5 web apps on Google Kills Apps Support For Internet Explorer 8 · · Score: 1

    Do they also expect to receive digital only channels on an analogue only television?
    YES!

  16. A Thing of Beauty on Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting · · Score: 1

    Maybe the Japanese are worried about a Mt Fuji eruption because they think the mountain is beautiful now, and change might not improve it.

    I believe they think its appearance is important: it is a symbol of the nation.
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    On the other hand there is wabi-sabi.

  17. Re:Unless you can give everyone birth control.... on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 1

    Unless you can give everyone birth control they'll all die of starvation anyway.

    We already have a pretty good idea of how to treat starvation, so it sounds like a step in the right direction.
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    Does that make you feel better? No, didn't think so.

  18. Pork on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    Not cutting this porker in an election year.
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    It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.

  19. Rosel George Brown on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosel_Brown

    Noticed a bit in her time, but long out of print,

    My incomplete pulp paperback collection is bagged up - spine glue was 40 years old and gave out.

  20. Re:Someone explain to me... on This Is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like · · Score: 1

    ... that would seem to mean that the original immigrants came with livestock, and this is not believed to be the case. (Plagues that cross from primates to bovines or elephants are not unheard of, anthrax for example, but they are quite rare.)

    Contamination on improperly cured hides might be a sufficient vector to carry Eurasian plagues to the Americas.

    Just guessing...

  21. It's a Good Life on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 1

    It is only a short story by Jerome Bixby (1953), but
    It's a Good Life portrays a truly hellish psychological environment.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Good_Life

  22. Re:As a father on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    My father was a deputy sheriff. He kept 5 rounds in his single action his Colt .45 Peacemaker. We all knew where it hung in the closet. His words kept hands off it --

    Never draw your weapon if you are not ready to kill someone.

    He had the original 7 inch barrel replaced with a shorter one. That spoiled its value as a collector's item, but kept it in the family.
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    You should join a crusade to stamp out religion and war.

  23. Re:Exit Interviews are always flowery on Being Honest In Exit Interviews Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    ...too lazy to create an account, generate a new password, memorize that password...

    Just use hunter2 every time. As a password, it's known to be secure. And no one ever forgets it.

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    This is our signature, now. There are many like it, but this one has been shared. Thanks, man.

  24. All your information in the box on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: 1

    Put a single sheet of paper in the box with the details of a cloud storage account to which you have uploaded all your digitized memorabilia. Like, say, maybe, Megaupload....
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    If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain

  25. Re:VBA? on JavaScript For the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    Mg, not MG.

    MGA, MGB,or MGBGT?

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    A little prevarication can save lots of explanation.