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  1. Re:Maids... on A Video Guide To Akihabara · · Score: 5, Funny

    Screw the maids. This is nerd porn. Pieces parts. Parts of parts.

    Sigh. And I'm stuck with Radio Shack.

  2. Re:Nevertheless... on Long Island Town Enacts Tough Cell Tower Limits · · Score: 1

    It's Apple's fault. I suppose they can't help it if California is in the US.

  3. Re:Nevertheless... on Long Island Town Enacts Tough Cell Tower Limits · · Score: 2, Funny

    is easy to visualise [sic] a scenario where metropolitan phone users find it difficult to jam so much as a metaphorical toe into the flood of traffic.

    And nothing of value will be lost.

    Maybe, just maybe, the city fathers are crazy like a fox. Eventually, Hempstead (? home of marijuana) will become a bastion of civility and quiet. Drivers will actually pay attention to the road. Teenagers won't have their thumbs in splints.

    And maybe they're just batshit insane. My money is on the latter.

  4. Re:Why? on Martian Meteorite Gets NASA Mars Rover's Attention · · Score: 1

    But naming it? Seriously? If we start naming every rock and boulder and sand dune we run across, we're going to run out of all the cool names

    I suppose we can give them IP6 addresses. Got plenty of those.

  5. Re:I'd shoot the RIAA CEO in the head on Supreme Court May Tune In To Music Download Case · · Score: 1

    Corporations are monstrosities. They've all the privilege of being human, except they keep moving no matter how many times you cut ther head off.

    Zombies, not monstrosities. This is, after all, Slashdot. A certain amount of technical precision is assumed.

  6. Re:The year of... on 2011, Year of the Tablet? · · Score: 1

    I thought the phrase "The year of" belonged to the Linux community for all eternity...

    Well you all had damn well better hurry up. 2012 is coming up fast and it's either going to be the Mayan end-of-days or Sarah Palin.

  7. Re:Interesting, yet pointless on Twitter Closes Hole After Attack Hits Up To 500K Users · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hi Gramps! Shuffleboard on the main patio in 15 minutes. See you there.

    Face the facts. Email is for us old people. Twitter is for, well, twits. But that's OK, the nurses are kinda cute and I like not having to get up early in the morning.

  8. Re:Some people don't care how many others they scr on Stuxnet Worm May Have Targeted Iranian Reactor · · Score: 1

    I was thinking Canada myself.

    Or perhaps New Zealand.

  9. Re:Ugh.. on The A-Team of IT — and How To Assemble One · · Score: 1

    Now, a degausser...THAT'LL get 'em to sit straight and fly right!

    You should ask your employer to wander into the 21st Century. LCDs are the way to go and no degausser PTSD.

    Now, if you really meant an EMP gun ... then I'd agree with you.

  10. Re:Pretty common. on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain this to me? Do insulators have some kind of shape or feature or position that awakens some kind of primal instinct or something?

    Insulators, as a rule, move very, very slowly.

  11. Re:This would scare the hell out of me on Airbus Planning Transparent Planes · · Score: 1

    You're ignoring issues with the weight of glass or the strength of polycarbonate.

    Because, according to TFA, these new planes will be made of a transparent ceramic. Obviously the Airbus designers are high on something more prosaic. Otherwise they would have realized that the obvious next step is transparent aluminum.

  12. Re:do not feel bad for you on Criminal Charges Against Speed Trap Tweeter · · Score: 1

    It's human nature, and it should be catered for, not stamped out.

    This isn't Kindergarten. Lots of things are 'human nature' and should NOT be catered to - murder, rape, larceny, politics. That's why we have a legal framework in the parts of the world that sort of work - we are able to limit some of the less attractive bits of 'human nature'.

    Just because it appeals to our baser nature, you thing we should 'cater' to that action? How much television do you watch?

  13. Re:Criminal vs Civil in Canada on In Canada, Criminal Libel Charges Laid For Criticizing Police · · Score: 1

    People like John Kelly should not have a Yahoo email address. It's just too close.

  14. Re:Where's the FEC to regulate when needed? on iPad Getting a Subscription Infrastructure? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The FEC? Federal Election Commission. No way that Jobs is gonna let anybody vote on this.

    Maybe the FTC (Federal Trade Commission). But I certainly don't want the government meddling into how newspaper subscriptions are paid for. They've got their work cut out for themselves doing important things like not doing anything about chronic Salmonella contamination of egg farms and approving Environmental Impact Statements concerning the potential harming of walruses in the Gulf of Mexico after an oil spill.

  15. Re:Can it meet safety standards? on Meet the Virginia-Built 110MPG X-Prize Car · · Score: 1

    In the Emergency Medical field, we call motorcycle riders 'organ donors'. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.

  16. Re:Enable hardware acceleration on Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux · · Score: 1

    sudo rightclick?

    Is that even legal?

    ??

  17. Re:Is it still using 100% CPU on Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux · · Score: 1

    The moral of the story is that it is 2010, and if you have a single core machine it is old and you should not expect that your antiquated hardware will perform well in a 2010 scenario.

    The counter-moral (immoral?) of the story is that I, for one, don't expect a tiny little low res You-Tube video to take more processing power than found in my watch. It's not like they're computing supernovae simulations.

  18. Re:bah on Boeing Teams To Offer Spaceflight Trips · · Score: 1

    To me, the most promising is ARCA, based out of Romania and launching into the Black Sea.

    Doesn't seem to be very 'payload friendly'. Being dragged behind the exhaust of three booster stages seems, well, just wrong.

    Unless you're the lead dog, the view never changes sort of thing.

  19. Re:Aptitude on Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... he had all the necessary components, he just didn't know enough about what he was doing to get it right.

    You realize, of course, that you just described a basic engineering task.

  20. Re:Out of touch on Intel CTO Says Future Phones Will Sense Your Mood · · Score: 1

    ELIZA: You seem angry iONiUM,
    ELIZA:would you like to talk about it?
    ?

  21. Re:As an American.... on Construction of French Fusion Reactor Underway · · Score: 1

    Wait until we elect Sarah Palin as president. Then you won't have any plans to visit us at all.

    We probably won't even let you come here because you're some kind of foreigner and Lord knows we don't like whoever you are.

  22. Re:really? on Police Publish 'An Introduction To PEDO BEAR' · · Score: 1

    And we all thank you for voluntarily removing yourself from the gene pool.

    And your contribution to the planet is, exactly what?

  23. Re:Problem? on PA's Dept. of Homeland Security Shared Oil-Shale Protester Info With Companies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If someone is shooting at my stuff, especially if it's the large, exploding kinda stuff, like a gas storage tank. I'd expect to be told about it. This doesn't sound so sinister.

    No, you expect the appropriate authorities to be told about it. You might rightfully expect some information on the general nature of the threat (if any) but you should not expect to be told about specific persons which seems to be what is happening here.

    That would be vigilantism.

  24. Re:Bad Slashdot summary on UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email · · Score: 1

    Canada!

  25. Re:You still don't get it !? on Fujitsu Eyes Wireless Gadget Charging For 2012 · · Score: 1

    Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Boy part of magnet meets girl part of magnet (Physicists use "North" and "South" but that's just because they're trying to obfuscate things for the Republicans).

    Then you get this thing called 'magnetic attraction' and they couple together.

    Then, after a while, new magnets!

    And those stupid Chinese. Thinking this was all some high tech thing that they could monopolize. Pah.