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  1. Snow?!? on Leapfrog Talking Pen · · Score: 1

    You had snow?!? Back in the day, all we had was oxygen and hydrogen atoms, and we had to count them individually to get two H for every O, and smash them together to get water. We got dinged for every unaccounted-for H or O.

    I won't even get into what it took to make actual snow.

  2. The Beatles will sue you ... on Start Your Own Open Source-Based Telecom · · Score: 1

    ... unless Apple (computers) beats Apple (record company) and ends up owning that song, how's it go ...

    Michelle ....

    Mah belle ...

    sont des .... something or other

  3. A bit tricky ... on More SpaceShipTwo Details · · Score: 1

    ... either in zero gravity or under acceleration or deceleration.

    make absolutely sure what you're about to do will go in the bag and nowhere else

  4. Duhh... on Coast Guard to Track Ships Using Buoys · · Score: 1

    No one is required to report. But if you expect to enter the US territorial waters, ie, a port to unload your cargo, then you have to report. This report includes destination, ship name and registry, cargo, etc, not all of which is known to Navy surveillance planes.

    That's a pretty hard concept to get a pea brain around, especially when it's wrapped in tinfoil.

  5. Riiiight on Universal Software Radio Peripheral From GnuRadio · · Score: 1

    OK... Quote me something about it.

    Show me your quotes on mere threats being considered terrorism.

    Otherwise you're still buried under a rock in a deep dark hole and still not contributing anything.

  6. No, bullshit on Universal Software Radio Peripheral From GnuRadio · · Score: 1

    This kind of threat was never known as terrorism untl the Patriot act gave the police new powers.

    As far as things banned under the flag of terrorism, or not knowing about the nonsense legislation Disney has bought, you must have been hiding under a rock these last several years.

    Why don't you go crawl back under it? You're not contributing anything worthwhile.

  7. I know a terrorist on Universal Software Radio Peripheral From GnuRadio · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He was told by a store to come in and pick up a refund check. WHen he got there, they told him it wouldn't be ready til the next day. He got pissed, ranted and raved, cops showed up, and told him it was a terrorist threat to challenge the manager to meet him outside.

    Anything the Powers That Be want to label as terrorist; that's what is terroristic these days. When Disney sees SDR as a threat to Mickey Mouse, it will be labeled a terrorist tool.

  8. MOD PARENT UP! on NYT: Wal-Mart Slows RFID Plans, Suppliers Resist · · Score: 1

    Grandparent is funny too, but the parent really hit it. Damn I wish I'd thought of that.

  9. Didn't RTFP very well on Comair System Crashes; Passengers Stranded · · Score: 1

    He said he fell back and by accident hit the power switch.

    You said Write-permit rings or write rings are light and don't actually fly well, so I doubt they were playing with that as it is unlikely to mass enough to flip the switch.

    His body certainly had enough mass.

  10. The irony of it all on Updated LOTR Nitpicker's Guide · · Score: 4, Funny

    How wonderful it is to see so many complaints, so many nitpicking complaints, about how horrible nitpicking is ... and I, who enjoys nitpicking, and holds these nitpicking complaints (I refer to TFA nitpicks about the movies) as especially worthwhile, am in fact required by the nitpickers' guild rules to applaud the movie nitpicking while laughing at the /. nitpickers who are quite openly violating their own non-nitpckers' guild rules by nitpicking the movie nitpickers.

    How many nits should a non-nitpicker pick, if a non-nitpicker picked nits?

  11. I call BS on RFID Cards to Include Tin Foil Hats? · · Score: 1

    I am an American, or USAian to those of you so inclined, I work with Brits, and they would NEVER say they speak British English, they are proud of speaking just plain English, they will correct you instantly that everyone in the US speaks American, well, not counting those who don't speak any variant of the mother tongue, you know what I mean.

    This guy is an imposter. He is no more Brit than I am.

  12. Needs better posts... on PostgreSQL Gets New Website, 8.0 Release Candidate · · Score: 1

    Virtuall all"? "Relatively speaking"? I think Postgre is great, but they need to get better stuff than this on thier front page.

    Maybe it's not as easy as you think.

  13. Not up to us ... on Is Apache 2.0 Worth the Switch for PHP? · · Score: 3, Funny

    How much longer can we keep this joke going?

    Talk to Microsoft, it's them what's keeping the joke going.

  14. Re:Bendy on Pliable Solar Cells on a Roll · · Score: 1

    Dubya? Is that you?

  15. The point is ... on Trillian 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    You have no sense of humor and a thin skin to boot. Ditto for at least one moderator.

    *snicker* *snort*

  16. I have the book :-) on HP, Intel Call it Quits on Itanium Partnership · · Score: 1

    I was really disappointed when it didn't come out. Whether or not it would always have been as slow as the first release, it sure would have been an interesting computer to program. I found a book many years ago on it, hard bound. I doubt this hardback is the official manuals. They'd be fun to get. I wonder if Intel still sells them :-)

  17. Let's see ... on Trillian 3.0 Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    He said ... works on Windows and Linux.

    You said ... I (and most of the rest of the world) don't run linux.

    Way to go! The Shrub administration has a job for you.

  18. Hubris? on HP, Intel Call it Quits on Itanium Partnership · · Score: 1

    You may not remember the Intel 432, a truly fascinating chipset which flopped more miserably than the Itanic. Intel had developed the 8086 as a backup interim chip until the 432 smothered the world, and that's why we are stuck with it now. For some similar reason, they came out with the brand spanking new Itanic, and for the life of me, it makes no sense ...

    Intel had lockin with end users who could not migrate from the x86 instruction set as long as it was king of the hill. No SPARC, no PA-RISC, no Alpha, no PPC ... If end users were forced to migrate from x86 to some brand new architecture, why would Intel assume it had to be Intel? Did they think their cavalier treatment of end users created loyalty?

    Seems to me a good argument could be made that AMD saved Intel's bacon, in that respect ... Intel can copy the amd64 instruction set and stay in the game. I wonder what would have happened if the AMD64 had not come along ...

  19. How to get it on China and its Relation With Spam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Post your email address here. Offers will be coming soon.

    You're on slashdot. Why don't you already know this?

  20. Real programmers ... on How to Fix U.S. Patents · · Score: 1

    ... have fractional fingers.

    Double programmers have fractional fingers on both hands.

    Integer programmers have complete fingers.

    Hex programmers have sixteen complete fingers.

    Octal programmers don't use their thumbs, only their (complete) fingers.

  21. RTFC on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 1

    He said a news item in the US till IIRC the late 90s.

    You said you didn't see anything about the Kashmir until the 90's.

    He said "in the US", not "in my eyes". He said exactly what he meant and said it well. You read what you wanted to read and said it silly.

  22. Funny job ad and response on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    I responded to an ad for an "imbedded" engineer, had to demangle the email address to even send in the resume, and was turned down because (a) I did not meet the quals (which had not appeared in the job ad) and (b) my resume had spelling errors. I thought for a few seconds of sending back a corrected copy of their ad, but I figured they must have a quota on spelling errors per month, they had used it up themselves, and it didn't sound like any boss I'd want anyway :-)

  23. How ignorant can people get?!? on History of the First Internet · · Score: 1

    One of the most basic reasons for the rebellion of 1775 was the desire for ruled by law, not ruled by the king.

    You conservatives who desire the tyranny of the majority ought to wonder what things would have been like under FDR, or would be like under Hillary.

  24. No; your sig on Weather Data Available in XML · · Score: 1

    Yes I make mistakes. Don't we all?

    Dubya has said, in press conferences and one of the debates, that he has made no mistakes.

    Doesn't that just make you feel really, pitifully, inadequate?

  25. Cake; having and eating on History of the First Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Judicial activism is such a strawman. Everyone who uses that phrase ignores the actual legal reasoning behind every claim and just repeat the dirty phrase like some parrot whose recording got stuck in the groove.

    They ignore conservative "judicial activism", such as making corporations legal individuals back in the 1880s or so, or the more recent remark by Justice Scalia, in the Texas case which gave homosexuals the right to privacy as regards sex in their own bedrooms; where even he admitted the legal reasoning was valid but he voted against it on the grounds it would upset the current conservative moral agenda.

    Is that not the definition of judidical activism?