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  1. Re:Possibly.... on BIOS-Approved PCI Cards For Laptops · · Score: 1

    And not every native English speaker is American either.

  2. Re:Nuke Plant is not near London on London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    For very large values of near

  3. Re:Invade England on London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    In other news, the Princess Consort mistaken for Her Majesty the Queen

  4. Re:For any Americans who are reading... on London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium · · Score: 1
    Hmmmm, I'm sure I left it here somewhere....

    Hang on.. where did this big hole in the ground dome from, it wasn't here before

  5. Do you mean... on London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    back in the 80's or do you mean now.... oops... wait, this is slashdot after all

  6. Damn on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 1
    I decrypted your post!

    Where can I find the nearest DCMA enforcement officer?

  7. Re:Nothing like a good controversy... on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 1

    I think you assume too much :)

  8. Re:Nothing like a good controversy... on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The main problem with the plan was that it was doomed to fail in the first place.

    How long before someone lost their tag and then got reported for skipping a class?

    How long before someone realised that by giving everyone's tag to one person, that everyone except that person could skip class?

    There are probably other reasons as well, but those two struck me as the most obvious

  9. Re:Nonbiological methane production on The Indirect Case For Life On Mars · · Score: 1
    That be Northern Ireland, not the Republic of Ireland.

    Not that I would know, I am an Aussie.

    But then again, I was travelling thru Ireland (both of them) a while back, and in a small B&B in Galway where a group of USains were also staying, one of them asked where I was from. When I said "Australia" she replied "Is that around here?"

  10. Re:Why? on Motorola Announces E1060 Phone With iTunes Support · · Score: 1
    you wont be killed on the roads as often.

    You can get killed more than once?

    I for one welcome our zombie overlords

  11. Re:How about castration??? on Pfizer and Microsoft go after Viagra Spammers · · Score: 1

    You have to catch the spammers before you can castrate them

  12. I for one... on Sirius Confirms iPod Satellite Talks · · Score: 0
    welcome our satellite dish toting ipodders

    or something like that

  13. Re:Microwave them on Students and Bodies Tracked Via RFID Tags · · Score: 1
    the kid would be counted absent for every class

    And if^h^hwhen someone finally noticed that each and every child was absent in every single class, they might come to realise how silly the system actually is

  14. Re:In Other News on How GPS Is Killing Lighthouses · · Score: 2, Funny
    but as long as someone on the boat has one good eye

    Arrrrr, ye insensitive clod... Why ye think I am wearing this eyepatch?

    Keelhauling is too good for you

  15. Re:No one cares on iPod Shuffle RAID · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that

  16. Re:What a waste of bandwidth on How to Take Over a Train Station · · Score: 0, Troll
  17. Re:Why HDD? on MXF+JPEG-2000+HDD = Future of Video Preservation? · · Score: 1
    I hear nuclear winters are very long and cold.

    Right after a fairly hot autumn.

  18. Re:Recommended Storage Media on MXF+JPEG-2000+HDD = Future of Video Preservation? · · Score: 1
    Also known as (in the archival community) as LOCKSS

    Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe

  19. Re:The XXth century showed us .... on Is Computer-Created Art, Art? · · Score: 1
    That's why photography can be art

    I thought the rule was "if its a painting, its art, but if its a photograph, its pr0n"

  20. Re:Warranty? on DIY Mac mini Overclocking · · Score: 1
    Anyone know if many other Macs are overclockable this way.

    http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ will tell you what you can and cant do

  21. I for one... on W3C launches Binary XML Packaging · · Score: 1
    welcome our XML wrapped binary overlords

    or is that our XML-binary Optimised Packaged overlords?

  22. Re:Data storage on Volatility of Human Memory · · Score: 1
    I'm sure my boss told me to do something, but I just can't remember what it might've been...

    Might it have been something like "stop stuffing around on /. and get back to work"?

  23. Re:Reading up on depression? Give me a break. on Monday, January 24th to be Worst Day of the Year · · Score: 1
    Do you have ANY idea how cold it is ootside?

    Yep, its about 32 degrees - shorts and t-shirt weather.

    Of course, those degrees are celsius.

  24. Re:My favorite Google image search on Google Trials A9 Style Image Search · · Score: 1
    with counterintuitive results has always been "Hello"

    The second image which turns up after a google search on 'hello' is reminiscent of the goatse man.

  25. Holy COW? on Bollywood New Releases Available via Video-On-Demand · · Score: 2, Funny
    In India, cows are sacred

    On slashdot DRM is the antideity