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  1. Depressing on Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery · · Score: 1

    It's really easy to imagine just going to a community box if you are an able bodied person with a vehicle but if you're elderly or otherwise have mobility issues ... well let's just say with the lengthy winters and poor snow clearing I foresee two outcomes:

    -People not picking up mail for months at a time
    -Old people breakin' hips

    Ugh...

  2. Re:Stupid MPAA landing page on Hotfile Settles With MPAA, Drops Countersuit Against Warner Bros · · Score: 4, Funny

    This answer is not available in your Region

  3. Why Upgrade? on IDC: PC Shipments Decline Worse Than Forecasted, No Recovery Expected · · Score: 1

    I have tons of storage, good AV playback, lots of apps that do what I want, games still play pretty well (or are a video card update away)

    I have two machines currently, the newest one is reaching the 4 and half year mark and it's still fast / reliable. The other has been kicking around for 7+ and even that still runs all my productivity software / backup storage.

    I mean a decade ago I was cycling about every 2 years but there were a lot of leaps between those generations usually.

    I mean I've thought about building a whole new machine again but I can't justify it when I have existing stuff doing everything I want right here.

    So...?

  4. Re:really? XBox? we sure about that? on Microsoft Makes an Astonishing $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties · · Score: 3, Funny

    What doesn't? I think my hedge clippers have Netflix..

    Does it work without a Hedge Clippers Live Gold subscription?

  5. QWOP Dinosaur Edition on Scientists Using Supercomputers To Puzzle Out Dinosaur Movement · · Score: 2

    ...which actually sounds pretty good

    *stumbles sideways falls over stegosaurus*

  6. The same thing I do every night on Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Try to take over the world

  7. Re:Insect like? on Insect-Inspired Flying Robot Handles Collisions And Keeps Going · · Score: 2

    I don't know, the monkey-propelled variety is kind of warm...

  8. Re:Insect like? on Insect-Inspired Flying Robot Handles Collisions And Keeps Going · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, I feel a bit swindled

    "Flying Death Sphere" would have gotten me to click just as well

  9. Hah, called it on Samsung Creates Phone With Curved Display · · Score: 1
  10. All about the results on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    Google could find what I was looking for, it could understood context between terms, pages, it just seemed to hit the result bang on every time (compared to other searches where I would go 10 pages before refining search terms again or start playing with arcane operators).

    The fact that it was an ultra-simplistic design with non-invasive (and sometimes actually functional) advertising was GREATLY appreciated, but not necessary.

    The last search engine I used prior to Google was MetaCrawler, mostly because I could get aggregate results from different search engines and pick through that mess to try to find what I was looking for. (But also to snoop on peoples' search terms, which in 1999 were hilarious)

  11. Re:What is the point of this? on LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe the idea is to make fixed but not flat screen.

    Fancy digital watch smartphone hybrid things?

    How long before iBall is what I want to know lol

  12. EVEN WORSE on MIT Researchers Unveil Self-Assembling Robot Swarm · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're talking about a Grey Lego scenario.

    No feet shall be spared in the coming apocalypse

  13. Re:Soo.... Machinima... on LucasFilm Combines Video Games and Movies To Eliminate Post-Production · · Score: 1

    I was about to say

    Apparently they found Source Filmmaker

    I expect to see Stormtroopers rocket jumping around a heavily distorted Han Solo spouting some memetic phrase to warbled stock music

  14. Re:Well then, there's an easy answer. on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 1

    Do you know what this means?

    Communists from the Red Planet!

    TWO INVASION GENRES COMBINED INTO ONE!

  15. Beam me Up on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lately I've been on a Trek retrospective (Trekrospective?) thanks to Netflix and by Evil Spock's beard do I miss Star Trek

    All power to the engines!

  16. Re:Hardly "on their own" on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 1

    Getting the link was the key yes, however this should serve as a model for other towns that want to get connected via Supernet.

  17. City not named in Summary on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Olds, Alberta
    (Population eight thousand)

    Getting high speed internet in Alberta anywhere outside a larger population centre has been virtually impossible, so it's interesting to see rural towns take the problem by the horns on their own with success.

  18. Bars of Mars? on NASA Wants To Bring Back Hunks of Mars In Future Unmanned Mission · · Score: 1

    That sounds like a satisfying project...

  19. Until they run into this guy... on Tech Companies Looking Into Sarcasm Detection · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh! I'm not being sar-cas-tic.

    http://youtu.be/ziH9St7ajuw

  20. Waiting on The Nintendo Sequels We're Still Desperately Missing · · Score: 1

    So there are a slew of fun looking games that are a long way off with nothing really amazing standing out to fill the void in the meantime, this is the same holding position they've been in since launch for the most part.

    Other next gen consoles don't really seem that appealing to me, especially now that there are so many great titles on PC.

    I was playing Mighty Switch Force the other day and thinking what a missed opportunity Nintendo had for creating a real space for indie developers to get into, but from what I understand getting on the Nintendo eShop is not exactly easy or profitable.

    Ah well, at least Steam Summer Sale is just around the corner!

  21. Re:Slippery Slope? on UK Government Backs Three-Person IVF · · Score: 3, Funny

    Science discovered a way to make a three-way boring

  22. Vodka mostly on Ask Slashdot: How Will You Update Your Technical Skills Inventory This Summer? · · Score: 5, Funny

    to kill off the slow brain cells that are holding me back from synergizing my knowledge of vertically integrated mobile platforms in local cloud-based content management system datafication.

  23. Re:TBOTE: The Beginning of the End on Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 · · Score: 1

    We use a recording of Windows RT to lure the tablets into Lake Michigan?

    Seems feasible.

  24. My CarryOn-Jutsu is Stronger than Yours on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Sir please remove your arms and legs, you can't take them on the plane"

  25. I've heard this before on Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've heard this before and every time it was about letting the software bypass some business rule important to an external process.

    Well yeah of course I could let you add a negative Debit for an Asset but your accounting department will come at you with sharpened coffee mug or something.

    Well, I guess the other time I hear "this software is too good" usually comes from sales and it makes my skin crawl every time.