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  1. Re:bizzare on Does the Higgs Boson Reveal Our Universe's Doomsday? · · Score: 2

    I don't think the restaurant time travels. That's why it's so hard to get reservations. You're competing with everyone who's ever wanted to see it, and there's only one showing.

  2. Re:Who stepped on your gadget? on Is the Concept of 'Cyberspace' Stupid? · · Score: 2

    The US military won't stop using "cyber" and "cyberspace." It's super embarrassing.

  3. Re:Does it run under Windows? on To Open Source Obama's Get-Out-the-Vote Code Or Not? · · Score: 1

    The "Dream Team" worked on the Democratic tool. Orca was Romney's tool.

  4. Re:... Virtual reality on a Mac? on Ibex Virtual Reality Desktop Beta For Mac Released · · Score: 2

    It's not even a compositor. It's just a workspace switcher that let's you work with two workspaces from an in-between perspective. It looks like you can choose your own QTVR style background, but the windows are limited to full desktops. I wish OpenCroquet weren't both awful an abandoned, it had a lot more potential than this.

  5. Re:Oh boy on World's First Linux Powered Rifle Announced · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just drag it to the garbage can, like OSX taught you.

  6. Re:Do Not Want! on World's First Linux Powered Rifle Announced · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I feel like one of us should mention the rifled barrel.

  7. Re:Can't wait on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    Is your sig a Google Voice transcription?

  8. Re:Out of Dodge on Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice · · Score: 1

    That depends on how poorly it's being delivered.

  9. Componentry? on Supercomputers' Growing Resilience Problems · · Score: 2

    Is an increasing amount of componentry the same thing as an increasing number of components?

  10. Falsified Logs! on Dutch DigiNotar Servers Were Fully Hacked · · Score: 2

    Color me impressed. Log_Modifier may not fill many gigaquads, but it sure ain't free.

  11. Counterfeiting on Ask Slashdot: Is TSA's PreCheck System Easy To Game? · · Score: 2

    I think the GIMP is a long-term government anti-counterfeiting scheme.

  12. Occupy Shells on Terrestrial Hermit Crabs Learning Social Tricks · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do we want?

    SLIGHTLY LARGER SHELLS!

    When do we want them?

    WHENEVER THREE OR MORE OF US CONGREGATE!!

  13. Re:first post ! on Quantum Measurements Leave Schrödinger's Cat Alive · · Score: 1

    Observation doesn't mean that an intelligent agent sees or gains knowledge of the state of the system. A photon is enough of an observer to determine the cat's state. The fact that you could do it with a physicist is mind-bending to consider, but has no importance to the question of what counts as observation.

  14. Re:Like he said on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    Sane: Our metrics told us that no one was using the Start menu. Interesting.

    Fussy: Our metrics told us that no one was using the Start menu, so we removed it completely!

    Absolutely Insane: Our metrics told us that no one was using the Start menu, so we removed EVERYTHING BUT THE START MENU AND THEN CHANGED THE WAY IT WORKS TO MAKE IT UNRECOGNIZABLE ANYWAY BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

  15. Niche Market on A Black Hole's Spinning Heart of Darkness · · Score: 1

    I can't actually think of any other things that are invisible, only partly understood, and evoke a sense of mystery. Do ghosts count? I don't think ghosts should count.

  16. Re:Why? on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 1

    What about us little-endians, you insensitive clod?

  17. Re:Imagine that.. on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 1

    Yes, on behalf of we the people. But who is "created equal" and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights?" All men. The US Constitution is an expansive and radical document. To interpret it differently is to try to get away with something.

  18. Re:Welcome to the Machine on DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why will you have nice accomodations? Do you own a company that either builds or can rely on robots? I don't, so I expect to live in squalor when robots can do 90% of all jobs. Of course, there will be a violent revolution once 90% of us are living in squalor, but we'll be fighting against an army of corporate killbots, so I don't see it going well.

  19. Pipe Dream on Star Trek Tech That Exists Today · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If by "pipe dream" you mean computers were synthesizing speech five years before Star Trek came out, then sure.

  20. Re:No on Do We Need a Longer School Year? · · Score: 1

    "after that initial result, all further appeals cost the parent to prevent helicopter parents from abusing the system."

    I think you meant to say, "to allow only wealthy parents to abuse the system."

  21. The Horror on The Danger In Exempting Wireless From Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I deal, on a daily basis, with people who are using hotspots and cellphone connections as their primary connections. Netflix, Hulu, torrents, all cramming their way through some poor little Android; the laptop, the console, the iPads and iPods all feasting on its misery. I think the speeds currently being offered just shouldn't be available. I don't think "4G" is a product whose time has actually come, and telling people it exists results in them using it as if it were a real connection. Don't ban FaceTime, just sell people the awful connection you can actually afford to sell them... The one that sucks too much to use FaceTime.

  22. Re:Lies on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seriously. "Abnormal"? I don't think I'm doing it wrong. At least, I've never gotten any complaints... *rimshot*

    On the other hand, my circumcised penis has been greeted with relief by a partner who found the natural look repulsive.

    It's like the white male of penis states... it isn't "superior", but it can be advantageous.

    I've heard they don't use anaesthetic for some strange baby-physiology-based reason, and that horrifies me. I don't know if I could bring myself to have it done to a son; but I'm glad it was done to me.

  23. Re:Cue the 1st amendment nuts on Ex-Marine Detained For Facebook Posts Deemed "Terrorist in Nature" · · Score: 1

    As a test of speech rights, I'd say that anything that could conceivably slide in song lyrics should slide even when it isn't lyrics.

    So while you can generally encourage people to shoot the police either in song or text, you can't use either medium to say, "I'm going to kill Officer Joe Blow," and expect to be left alone. Nor can you say, "Officer Joe Blow leaves home at 5am. Shoot him as he pulls out of his driveway."

  24. Re:Cue the 1st amendment nuts on Ex-Marine Detained For Facebook Posts Deemed "Terrorist in Nature" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can I credit you with The Count of Monte Cristo?

  25. Re:wait, I thought stuff like this & tripwire on The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    But it's exactly like having twenty police officers on every single street corner hand writing voluminous logs of every plate they see, along with the current date and time.

    Since that could be done without warrant, this is obviously perfectly fine, and not even worth thinking about.