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  1. Re:Run away Whitehouse on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is....

    Black is HOT!

  2. Re:I saw it happen in the early 90's on High-Tech Start-Ups Put Down Roots In New Soil · · Score: 1

    Will I have to surrender my usage and grammar books at the border if I move to Minnesota ?

    No, but you will have to learn how to talk and fish at the same time.

  3. Re:Can we on Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who the hell can replace Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd?

    Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker? Chris tucker distracts Cuthulu with a continuous rant on Cuthulu's personal hygene and Jackie stunt fights thru the reanimated denizens of the Netherworld in a proton accelerated tuxedo.

  4. Re:What's Next? on Cola Consumption Can Lead To Muscle Problems · · Score: 1

    As long as you enjoy every single moment of your agonizing death, who cares?

  5. Re:Not technically necessary, but... on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...auto makers from trying to sue you with their army of lawyers.

    The most accurate statement of the reason American automotive companies are failing -- focusing on developing fine points of law instead of the fine points of automotive engineering.

  6. Re:Good. on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Please read and at least attempt to understand comment before replying...

    Could you repeat that comment one more time so I can be sure I have it right?

  7. Re:Beware on Cory Doctorow Draws the Line On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    This is ploy to sell shovels.

    Sounds to me like a ploy to sell flags, guns, ammo, and billable hours for lawyers.

  8. Re:Not that I'm against net neutrality on Cory Doctorow Draws the Line On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Until they're all special. And then we hug.

    Whoa This is not the place for that protocol, handshake, or port connection. Keep your dirty biological packets to yourself. Open a shortest path first elsewhere.

  9. Re:Resistance on IBM Pushing Water-Cooled Servers, Meeting Resistance · · Score: 1

    rimshot
    Hey, there's a crust on that rim.

  10. Re:What stupidity. on Texas Makes Zombie Fire Ants · · Score: 1

    With the advent of inter-continental shipping comes the risk of introducing new species to foreign lands. The use of pesticides has been shown to have very negative long term effects; so the only method left to address the importation of foreign insects is using biological agents. Should we instead try to create a man-made biological vector to remove the fire-ants? How much less risky is that proposal?

    No risk-free solution exists to stop future infestations except cessation of all inter-continental shipping. The OP raises the possibility of a risk from using this solution. What other alternatives does he suggest?

  11. Re:What stupidity. on Texas Makes Zombie Fire Ants · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...accidentally introduced into the United States due to a South American cargo ship coming to an Alabama port in 1918, but now infests the majority of the Southern and Southwestern United States.

    Then we can stop introducing more foreign species from South America by stopping all shipping of bananas, cocoa, and coffee. Or better yet, stop shipping of any product which crosses any large natural border such as oceans.

  12. Re:csh on Funding For Automotive Fuel Cells Cut · · Score: 2, Funny

    A stuck key on your keyboard?

  13. Re:Time for a terrible British pun... on Funding For Automotive Fuel Cells Cut · · Score: 1

    The Grinch who stole Entmas?

  14. Re:Better for the environment, but on Natural Gas "Cleaning" Extracts Valuable Waste Carbon · · Score: 1

    Any market surplus which decreases the cost of HP printer toner is a win for everyone.

  15. Re:What about Matlabites on The Biggest Cults In Tech · · Score: 1

    You obviously don't manage a SAN with Matlab data:
    -All data must be stored in plain text files to minimize processing time regardless of file size.

  16. Re:You fucking suck... Slashdot on IE8 Update Forces IE As Default Browser · · Score: 1

    This is a discussion site; not a vetted information source. If you want the truth, go find the Dali Lama. If you want to discuss technical stuff, regardless of the veracity and accuracy of the original article, hang around and enjoy yourself.

  17. Re:SOP for all Microsoft products on IE8 Update Forces IE As Default Browser · · Score: 1

    I can't put VS2008 on the student systems. The majority of the textbooks just finished updating from Visual Studio 6 to Visual Studio 2005. We'll see what is available in 2011.

  18. Re:By The Numbers on IE8 Update Forces IE As Default Browser · · Score: 1

    The geeks' stats are not accumulated by Net Applications because we use NoScript addon with Firefox.

  19. SOP for all Microsoft products on IE8 Update Forces IE As Default Browser · · Score: 4, Informative

    Service packs for Visual Studio are no longer available on our WSUS server for this reason [after some hard political battles and beating Security over the head with a clue bat]. Visual Studio service packs change all your file associations from non-VS applications to Visual Studio. The Computer Science 101 students' heads all exploded when foo.java opened in Visual Studio 2005 instead of Notepad++.

    Microsoft has a long history of forcibly breaking your operating environment.

  20. Re:But the real question... on NetBSD 5.0 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...rolled back into the original raw state

    Would that be called the undough or redough function?

  21. Re:Not Cell Phones on Scientists Isolate and Treat Parasite Causing Decline in Honey Bee Population · · Score: 1

    Or, is it possible the bees can't find a pollen which helps them fight off these types of parasites?

  22. Re:Pleo? Ugobe? on Ugobe, Maker of Pleo, Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 2, Funny

    If the pet dispersed a local concentration of nucleus bonded electrons on the synthetic fiber stranded floor covering, would he learn to make his physical presence approach zero?

  23. Re:Protect yourself on The Low-Intensity, Brute-Force Zombies Are Back · · Score: 2, Informative

    Use VPN. Although it may seem redundant, SSH thru a VPN tunnel does provide a secondary access method which is secure.

  24. Re:NEWS: Slashdot gets Federal Content Bailout on Microsoft Asks Fed For Bailout · · Score: 1

    ...and Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden gave a standing ovation...again.

  25. Re:NEWS: Slashdot gets Federal Content Bailout on Microsoft Asks Fed For Bailout · · Score: 1

    And after a plethora of high risk duplicate stories, the Firehose collapsed. The complex transactions of default editor swaps attempting to present themselves as trustworthy news aggregates failed. The resulting chaos has led to hyperinflation of Funny and Insightful moderation points; and deflation of Informative moderation points.

    CmdrTaco has been seen giving Congressional testimony asking for an infusion of Moderator points. Other cowardly anonymous sources have hinted at Chinese infiltration attempts which have deleted posts which do not conform to groupthink -- thus further diluting the value of non-negative Moderation. kdawson has caught negative press for receiving a 15 million Moderation points bonus despite questionable results.