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  1. Yes, but... on Nuclear Fusion Discovered · · Score: 1

    can the experiment be duplicated?

  2. Re:attitude of society toward "artists" on Deconstructing Stupidity - Why is IP Policy Bad? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't it true that in times past society held artists, musicians and actors in low esteem unless they were performing?

  3. Obligatory Despair, Inc. quote... on Deconstructing Stupidity - Why is IP Policy Bad? · · Score: 1

    None of us is as dumb as all of us. http://www.despair.com/

  4. Santorum is Latin for... on New Bill Would Ban Public NOAA Weather Data · · Score: 1

    asshole.

  5. WTF? on We're Open enough, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I don't RTFA. I use RTF.

  6. Seriously... on Museum Director Indicted for Stealing NASA Artifacts · · Score: 1

    What's the Matter with Kansas? Fundraising Idea for the Cosmosphere: What would slashdotters pay to see this guy streaking across the sky at terminal velocity after being tarred and feathered.

  7. April 12: Please Send Lawyers, Guns and Money... on Ready or Not, Here Comes Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    The shit has hit the fan.

  8. De-Orbit? on Hubble Verdict: De-Orbit · · Score: 1

    That makes me nervous. I think I need more de-odorant.

  9. Re:Best Buy should change other policies... on Best Buy to Eliminate Rebates · · Score: 1

    Your mother should have read the sign: This way to the Egress.

  10. Not one word in the article about... on EU Sleuths Think Microsoft Sabotaged Windows · · Score: 5, Funny

    how this affects clippy or MS Bob.

  11. Re:Spheres with tentacles are better on OmniTread: A serpentine robot · · Score: 1

    Are you saying we now have proof that Arthur C. Clark is really Dr. Benton Quest?

  12. Danger Will Robinson on The Forgotten Huygens Experiment · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it this mission that carried a nuclear reactor that used plutonium? And to get to Saturn, NASA swung the craft in a near earth slingshot effect? I remember being stunned to learn after the fact that a wrong calculation would have led to a disasterous burn-up in earth's atmosphere. Articles at the time were saying that these guys are good and miscalulations just don't happen at this level of engineering excellence... Yeah, right. I, for one, do not welcome our glow-in-the-dark overlords.

  13. Preem Palver would be proud... on Neuroeconomics: Biotech Meets Economics · · Score: 1

    that the Foundations of this seem so Psychohistoric. Wish this was first speaker, er first post...

  14. Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth... on Oh! Super Toaster! · · Score: 1

    we like this little gem: http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/shopping/produc t/detailmain.jsp?itemID=10558&itemType=PRODUCT&RS= 1&keyword=toaster Got this from my rich sister for Christmas. Woot!

  15. In other news... on Vioxx Replaces Porn as Spam King · · Score: 1

    V0ixx replaces Pr0n as Spam King's majordomo.

  16. Re:Irony? on Following up on Torrent Shutdowns · · Score: 1

    I swear you are spell-bound.

  17. Obligatory Poly Nomial reference... on Mathematics and Sex · · Score: 1

    ... to this classic story: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~pjbk/humour/polynomial.h tml

  18. Here's what I say on Tablet Mac Becomes Reality · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thinking of just sawing the stand off my 17" iMac G5 and making it touch screeny... Voila!

  19. Re:They all look the same on Microsoft Launches Blogging Site · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like *skein* or some such shit.

  20. Re:How about a factory-sized DE-fabricator? on Envisioning the Desktop Fabricator · · Score: 1

    Creeps me out when I think of those charts of what we're made of so I, for one... don't want to get near the mouth of that thing, lest I be worth $2.15 or whatever.

  21. Makes me think of... on Envisioning the Desktop Fabricator · · Score: 1

    Space Family Robinson, Key Comics precursor to the famed (lame of the same name) TV show. Anyway the space station had a replicator made of two identical glass enclosures. Put an object in one enclosure, hit the button, and a dupe appeared in the other enclosure. W007! FREE SPIF!

  22. What's next? on Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO · · Score: 1

    Ballmer telling Clinton what the definition of *is* is.

  23. Scottsdale has many gated communities... on Wardriving Worries Residents · · Score: 1

    so many of these whiners are only war driving amongst themselves. (And yes, I'm old enough to remember party line phones where it was enough just to quietly lift the receiver and you could picture yourself as 133+.) Plenty to see here, but move along anyway.

  24. I don't do much gaming... on Coping with Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    but I could use some help with my slashdot addiction.

  25. In layman's terms... on Overclockers Top 6GHz With A 3.6GHz-Rated P4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    their scroll bar works faster than yours.