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  1. Re:Worse yet... on Why We're Looking For ET All Wrong · · Score: 2

    It is highly likely that they will need more than one 'greeter'.

    The first one is likely to be outright killed.
    The second will be 'examined' for how it functions why it is alive.
    The third might actually get to meet a military interrogator to try to figure out how it can be exploited.

    Wouldn't surprise me if by the time we get to #3, they decide to either stop trying to interact with us or that it would be better to eradicate the infestation of water-bags.

  2. Re:Same reason we're looking for earth-like life on Why We're Looking For ET All Wrong · · Score: 1

    FM!

  3. Re:Anyone got a source for 'safe' black & colo on Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining · · Score: 2

    They aren't exactly sure how it happens, but they categorically deny hiring the hitmen.

  4. Re:This subject is work. on EU Court: Commuting to Customer Sites Counts as Work · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes. The "everything is legal until the gov't stops me from doing it. Of course, first they have to catch me."

    That worked really well for wall street. We promise to play nice if you deregulate us.

  5. Re:I wait until it quits printing on Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining · · Score: 1

    Dup. His printer has been reporting him for doing this all along. Now it is actively hacking his network on HP's behalf, looking for information to sell to help recoup HP's lost profits.

  6. Re:Anyone got a source for 'safe' black & colo on Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining · · Score: 4, Funny

    The manufacturer assures you that putting any new ink into one of their cartridges is likely to kill you, your children, your parents, probably a few of your neighbours, every single puppy in town, and your printer.

  7. Re: Vint shoves greased up yoda dolls in his gay a on Vint Cerf Wants Help Figuring Out the Future of the Internet and Communications · · Score: 1

    I think he upgraded his auto-generation script to throw in returns finally.

  8. Re:We got it from here on Vint Cerf Wants Help Figuring Out the Future of the Internet and Communications · · Score: 1

    I guess even the NSA posts as AC.

  9. Re:We'll this sucks on White House Green-lights Tech Apprenticeship Program · · Score: 1

    picturing a sea of office cubicles, and in each one, a temporary office work slowly getting more and more obese. Mmmm, these pellets are good.

  10. Re:This subject is work. on EU Court: Commuting to Customer Sites Counts as Work · · Score: 1

    More like:

    Like all other worker rights, it will just mean slightly lower pay rises over the next few years as the employers recover the profits.

    These are not companies just barely making it. They are making a bunch of profits from doing this, and they hold to the idea that "anything we do to increase our profits is fine".

    And yes, I understand that getting an MBA requires that you devote your soul to Satan. And then spend the rest of your life trying to one-up him.

  11. Re:Common carriers on PayPal, Visa, MasterCard Prepare To Block Payments To Pirate Sites In France · · Score: 1

    I believe you just made Rockefeller jizz in his tuxedo.

  12. Re:Money Transfer Laws on PayPal, Visa, MasterCard Prepare To Block Payments To Pirate Sites In France · · Score: 1

    hahaha the last worldwide recession begs to differ. and now they know, if they didn't already, that the penalty for crashing the financial system is...being given more money.

  13. Re:Translated on 10 Major Automakers Agree To Include Automatic Emergency Braking On New Vehicles · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes. And in that exact situation, non-ABS brakes would do exactly the same thing. And there are also situations where ABS activating is worse than if it didn't activate. Just like seatbelts and airbags will kill some people. But for the vast majority of cases where it does activate, it results in the driver having more control and being able to stop faster than if it did not activate.

    Formula 1 didn't ban ABS brakes because they didn't work well. It was because they worked too well.

  14. Re:Translated on 10 Major Automakers Agree To Include Automatic Emergency Braking On New Vehicles · · Score: 3, Informative

    In heavy snow and/or ice, when your wheels are not rotating, your vehicle is going to continue sliding in whatever direction it currently is moving, regardless of which direction you have the front wheels pointed.

    ABS RELEASES your brakes, so the wheels can rotate, both giving you more control over which direction you go AND working to increase the friction between your tires and the surface they are on [as when the tire is sliding, the coefficient of friction between the tire and the surface is LESS than it would be if the tire is rotating.

  15. Re:Newtonian physics on New Tech Puts the Brakes On Bullets Fired From Police Sidearms · · Score: 2

    The power of crazy ideas!

  16. Re:Maybe on MIT Physicists Have Finally Cracked Overhand Knots · · Score: 1

    grr. hook and LOOP fastener.

  17. They aren't secret. You just can't be told what they are because you are a terrorist.

  18. Re:I knew I shoulda learned to speak Mandarin... on Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers · · Score: 1

    Not for....The Decider!

  19. Re:From the halt-and-catch-fire dept. on Xerox PARC Creates Self-Destructing Chip · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is a "your device is now out of warranty. please purchase a new one." thing.

  20. Re:Maybe on MIT Physicists Have Finally Cracked Overhand Knots · · Score: 2

    Did you really use Velcro or just some cheap hook and look fastener?

  21. Re:Reminds me of fossilized mother of pearl on Close-Up Images Show Ceres' Bright Spots In Great Detail · · Score: 1

    Fucking drones always flying over my home. Where's my shotgun?

  22. Awhile ago, slashdot let a bunch of people making web sites create logins here. Sure, they believe they are "developers", but you have to explain stuff real slow to them.

  23. Re:Hate in 3, 2, 1... on Node.js v4.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I thought it was just the written language he uses to command his minions...and one of them just tried to automate his task using his computer...and now he has assigned Google to try to make a better version...

  24. Re:Digitize them so they can be DRMed on Testing Old Tapes To Save Them · · Score: 2

    This one could be read, if we had a working tape deck.
    Next
    This one can't be read anymore. In the trash bin.
    Next.
    This one could be read, if we had a working tape deck.
    Next
    This one can't be read anymore. In the trash bin. ...
    repeat, cycling through all the tapes over and over, until none are left.

  25. Re:Boston is for cows on Boston Tracks Vehicles, Lies About It, Leaves Data Exposed · · Score: 1

    They've got easily tracked RFID chips. They've bionic cows. Robotic? Despotic? Animatronic? something-ic!