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  1. Sri Lanka (Not Ceylon) on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 2

    Sri Lanka was Ceylon
    Now it's Sri Lanka, not Ceylon
    Been a long time gone, Ceylon
    Now it's subcontinental delight on a moonlit night

    Every gal in Ceylon
    Lives in Sri Lanka, not Ceylon
    So if you've a date in Ceylon
    She'll be waiting in Sri Lanka

  2. Re:I am at awed at their low cost ... on India's Mars Mission Back On Track After Brief Hiccup · · Score: 4, Funny

    They didn't do everything. They did only the needful.

  3. Re:I am at awed at their low cost ... on India's Mars Mission Back On Track After Brief Hiccup · · Score: 1

    I don't know what NASA can come up with $ 83 Million

    They will give it to CGI Federal to make nasa.gov web site which crashes & then ask people to call a 800 number where a cal center employee would describe what would have been shown if the site hadn't crashed.

  4. Re:Default ding. on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    That's good for end of day. But a good communicator communicates doesn't wait till the end of the day to communicate. Send out chain emails & jokes to the team every hour on the hour. This even helps with the end of the day email where you summarise what your did through the day.

  5. English on BlackBerry Abandons Sale Plans, Will Replace CEO · · Score: 1

    BlackBerry Abandons Sale Plans Will Replace CEO

    Random capitalization. No punctuation. 10 year olds could do better.

  6. Language & Accent training on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    He is a currently in a language & accent training class learning how to say 'This is Vladmir speaking. How may I help you?' in Russian.

  7. Re:Wearing Glass was the third violation on ticket on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    A comment up says she was doing 80. So even if she thought that she was in a 75 zone, she was still speeding.

  8. The person giving the charity gets to decide how the money is used. There is nothing wrong with this.

  9. Re:Why is anyone surprised? on Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned · · Score: 1

    How do you tell time? By pulling the phone out of your pocket, pressing the screen button on the phone, looking at the time and then putting the phone back in your pocket.

  10. Bing on Microsoft Makes It Harder To Avoid Azure · · Score: 5, Funny
  11. 6 devices on Nokia Introduces Windows Tablet · · Score: 2

    Nokia has actually released 6 new devices. Some phablets and some tablets.

    http://bgr.com/2013/10/22/nokia-lumia-1520-lumia-2520-release-date/

  12. Fruit of the poisonous tree on DOJ: Defendant Has No Standing To Oppose Use of Phone Records · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Still faster / easier to apply than it used to on Obamacare Website Fixes Could Take Two Weeks Or Two Months · · Score: 0

    Good excuse for a billion $ mess. If that excuse isn't good enough, one can always blame it on Bush.

  14. Re:Resentment on Weaponized Robots Could Take Point In Future Military Ops · · Score: 1

    Why do you think this will not be sold to other cultures also?

  15. Re:A GOOD LANDING !! on Passenger Lands Plane After Pilot Collapses and Dies At the Controls · · Score: 1

    Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

  16. Re:Damn on Lockheed To Furlough 3,000 On Monday, Layoffs Also Kicking In · · Score: 1

    May not be the kind of the vacuum tubes you are talking abut. May be it's a vacuum tube like in FoodSaver® The #1 Vacuum Sealing System. People all over the world want their food fresh, don't they?

  17. Microsoft on How BlackBerry Blew It · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has suffered a similar fate with its mobile offerings. Too late to the party, wrongheaded marketing that indicates that not only the engineers and dev teams don't get what customers want, but neither does the marketing team.

    Well, the Windows phone has just gone above 10% sales in UK and France. And 9.2% in Europe overall. The Windows Phone is already popular in India, Brazil, Russia etc.

  18. Re:As Henry Ford said... on How BlackBerry Blew It · · Score: 1

    If I asked my customers what they wanted, they'd say they wanted a faster horse. Innovation comes from thinking out of the box.

    I worked on some mobile e-mail product some 8 years ago.

    That is thinking out of the box. Providing customers with mobile e-mail when they wanted a faster horse.

  19. Re:Real replacement pancras functions in human tes on FDA Approves Wearable "Artificial Pancreas" · · Score: 1

    Dr. Anath Shalev has some research on blocking beta cell atopsis in T2 (a lot of T2s also go on insulin)

    http://www.uab.edu/medicine/diabetes/faculty/faculty-bios/201-anath-shalev

  20. Culture on BBC Thinking of Canceling Sky At Night · · Score: 2

    Sir Humphrey: "Bernard, subsidy is for art...for culture. It is not to be given to what the people want, it is for what the people don't want but ought to have."
    --------------------Courtesy - The BBC.

  21. Beta on GMail Chat/GTalk Sending Chats To Wrong Recipients · · Score: 4, Funny

    Such bugs are usually there in Beta releases. This will be fixed in the Production Release.

  22. Google Play Store on Amazon Launches Kindle Fire HDX Tablets · · Score: 1

    I was recently looking for a tablet and the Kindle 8.9" Fire HD ticked all my requirements. The only reason I didn't buy it was because you cannot access the Google Play Store from it.

  23. Iranian Snowden on Imprisoned Physicist Honored For Refusing To Work On Iran's Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    Kind of like an Iranian Snowden. Snowden was also nominated for the same prize right. Both guys not cooperating with their government evil plans.

  24. Richie Pascal? on Ask Slashdot: Prioritizing Saleable Used Computer Books? · · Score: 1

    C by Kernigan and Richie Pascal

    Never heard of Richie Pascal? Wasn't he the one who sang La Bamba?

  25. Right Cables on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 0

    Are you using Apple blessed cables, connectors, accessories, tables, chairs etc. Using any 3rd party stuff in a vicinity may slow down IOS7.