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  1. Re:Canada's contribution to the energy crisis... on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    Piqued my interest. However from what little I have done it seems Sortilege is actually Canadian Rye Whiskey BLENDED with Maple Syrup. Hell I can do that! :)

    Might have to find someone with a still for the real thing...

  2. Re:Note to Romney: "Jesus" not acceptable answer on Obama and Romney Respond To ScienceDebate.org Questionnaire · · Score: 1

    What about "Baby Jesus"?

  3. Analog Rights Management? on With 'Access Codes,' Textbook Pricing More Complicated Than Ever · · Score: 1

    ARM!

    So this is DRM for physical paper books... You basically are forced online to register digitally by the sounds of it.

    Calling this a scummy scheme, is an insult to scummy schemes everywhere.

  4. Teachers... on Do We Need a Longer School Year? · · Score: 1

    If Teachers lost their free summer vacations there would be riots in the streets, strikes, and disruiptions (to which the public would not stand).

    I think the appropiate quote would be "You can take my summer vacation from my cold dead hands"...

    It may have started with the intention of letting students go help their family in the fields, however now it is teacher time drinking mojitos in mexico... and they like those mojitos!

    Very much has nothing to do with students and more with teaching benefits.

  5. Hal's Response... on Bruce Willis Considering Legal Action Against Apple Over iTunes Collection · · Score: 1

    "Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that..."

  6. Crap Cleaner! on Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? · · Score: 1

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

    http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

    I have used it on multiple TB machines, both in a home and work settings. I have used it for special projects targeting file repositories.

    It is flexible enough that you can configure it pretty much any way you wish. With a little imigination you should be able to do whatever you need to do with this. I have used in conjunction with SyncToy to backup, move, etc... using contribute (which can generate duplicates).

    It is fast, or at least I never had any problems. Some of the larger seaches I did take awhile, but that is to be expected. It also has a pretty flexible output, you can delete, move, just about anything you want.

    A very useful utility.

  7. Canada's contribution to the energy crisis... on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    Maple Powered Cars...

    Seruoisly though, it obvisouly already has a high sugar content. Though I have never heard of Maple booze (why the hell not!?!), presumably it could be turned into alcohol and burned in a car for fuel. I wonder what it's energy density VS collection would be like. From my knowlege, its a renewable source that lasts pretty much forever, is collected automatedly using a series of tubes...

    Maple Power!

  8. As a lawyer once told me... on Leak Shows What Could Be Nokia's New Windows Phone 8 Devices · · Score: 1

    You don't sue someone with no money.

  9. Odd. on Bethesda: We Can't Make Dawnguard Work On the PS3 · · Score: 1

    I somehow feel smarter after reading a slashdot post, curious.

  10. Re:Conceptual Distinctions on Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather · · Score: 1

    I probably stopped reading after "Private Cloud".

    You gave AN explanation in the third paragraph... One which can be explained a number of ways without mentioning anything about "cloud".

    However what you think, and what a Manager might use as a buzzword are two very different things.

  11. Meh. Decision Tree. on Side-Effect of the Apple v. Samsung Trial: Increased Sales for Samsung · · Score: 0

    I need a new phone.

    A) Wait for new Apple iPhone 5

    Don't want to wait.

    B) Buy next best thing currently available, Samsung Galaxy IIIS

    Done the actual calculation myself. Decided to wait and see. Currently have a iPhone 3GS, which is sometimes painful, but the new Facebook app has helped a bit.

  12. Random meeting on Is Innovation the Most Abused Word In Business? · · Score: 1

    moving forward lets build a straw dog to produce syngistic outcomes using value added productivity using cloud. I murdered myself.

  13. Hate. Synergy. on Is Innovation the Most Abused Word In Business? · · Score: 1

    Abused term. Anytime I hear someone use it in a meeting, I mentally tick off in my mind "yes this guy is an idiot. you don't have to bother paying to him anymore."

  14. Conceptual Distinctions on Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather · · Score: 1

    "Private Cloud"? Wouldn't you just call that your fucking network?

    I mean the whole point of the cloud, is that it is external, it exists, but you don't know what is in there, or how it does it, it just does. That is why you draw a fluffy cloud around that part of the diagram, which is where all this BS came from in the first place.

    The next chart I see that has that, I'm going to fix it and replace "CLOUD" with "There Be Dragons"...

  15. Mushroom Cloud? on Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather · · Score: 1

    Speaking of nuclear clouds!

  16. Always let the wookie win on Russia Wants a Hypersonic Bomber · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Not so sunny on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

  18. Reminds me of Sinefield episode where the finish all the sentances "Yada yada yada..."

    Which makes sense if you think about it. (As someone you know well, doesn't need the details, as they already know)

  19. Lies on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 1

    I thought all car makers pretty much just lied through their teeth when stating what the MPG was for one of their cars...

    They could make the 2025 target tomorrow.

    You may notice just prior to the target the EPA takes a big layoff hit in an effort save money or something. "Well we would go test all those cars, but we have no money, so we just take them at face value"

  20. The good with the bad on Why Juries Have No Place In the Patent System · · Score: 1

    That's what you get when you give "personhood" to a corporation, they can be judged by their peers.

  21. Re: "technology's most troubled company" ? on PC Makers In Desperate Need of a Reboot · · Score: 1

    Well in RIM's case they still have some hope, if only a little. They are still pretty entrenched in the buisness market. They have a new OS coming out using new technology they bought into (most seem to by worthless companies). They also have a few billion in cash reserves. They lost an awful lot of market share to apple, but so did everyone. I am not sure I would bet on them, but they have a better chance than say Nokia. Nokia went from huge to nothing over night, laid off about 5x as many workers, their new software was a totally bust by all accounts...

    Anyway I am hopeful that RIM can turn it around over the next several years, or at the very least stop the hemmoraging. If they are not careful, they are going to start to have the buisness clients start to slide...

  22. Death Panel on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 1

    Until the death panel tells me it is my time to die of course! :)

  23. "technology's most troubled company" ? on PC Makers In Desperate Need of a Reboot · · Score: 1

    Sorry, not even close. most trobled "computer" company perhaps.

    I'm pretty sure Nokia beats both Dell and HP so far as loss of market share and market value over a short period of time by a long shot.

  24. Re:Universal service. on Would You Pay an Internet Broadband Tax? · · Score: 1

    First off, I think recent history has proven rather the oppsite of:
    "We should avoid entangling alliances with european powers that could draw us into bloodshed..."
    It has been the US involvement in wars, drawing everyone else in.

    US forign policy hasn't been all that kind either to US people. Add to that the corporations that run the US government trying to make laws in other sovergin nations, and enforce US law abroad, not a really big winner either. The idea that you elected Bush sort of painted a pretty bad picture also. Twice.

    There there was the whole wall street thing, pretty much ruining everyones day, mostly due to greed and corruption. In case you didn't notice the problems that it casued were not limited to the US. I bet most people would say that is where that whole problem orginated from however.

    Depends how much honesty you really want.

    Personally I have met many americans, both in the US and abroad, and I have never really had a problem with them as individuals, in fact most were nice enough people. However it does often seem that your government is run by a bunch of jerks really. By that logical extention your jerky goverement is democratic so it goes that the people must have elected them, and as such share some blame in its actions. As you might have noticed, it has been a bit of a rough patch for the US the last little while, I don't think it is all that surprising that it make have caused some rancor.

    That said, it is sometimes an unfair assumption, Canada has a similar situation right now. I certainly didn't vote for Harper, and when Canada is getting slagged internationally for my goverenment actions (mostly enviromental), there isn't much I can say, but "Sorry".

  25. Eye Glasses? on New Flat Lens Focuses Without Distortion · · Score: 1

    As someone who wears small telescopes on his face on a daily basis, can we please get this technology into eye glasses?

    Sure I would still have to wear glasses, but at least they might weigh a bit less than my 1kilo "ultrathins" I currently endure.

    20nm sounds great! Though they might have to buffer them up a bit so I don't cut my face or nose off or something by mistake.