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  1. Re:Library Stifles Innovation on Doctorow Says Google & Amazon Stifle Progress · · Score: 1

    Wookies. You missed off the wookies.

  2. lol on Best Handset For Freedom? · · Score: 1

    Of course, some sort of plausible deniability encryption a la Truecrypt would also be good, in case the secret police catch you with your phone.

    I'm sure that will stop them from totally beating the crap out of you.

  3. Re:Yet another IT company gets to live my dream! on Oracle Kills Virtual Iron · · Score: 1

    Typical rule of thumb in tech stock transactions is 5x-12x revenue, depending on a variety of factors.

    Revenue or profit?

    Given that it cost them $17m to make $3.4m - one could see how the multiplier is not gonna be so favorable. Let's make it 6x - that's $20m.

    That's a loss of 13.6 million. Surely they'd have to pay someone around 80 million to take it?

  4. Re:Hmmm.. on Ray Bradbury Loves Libraries, Hates the Internet · · Score: 1

    There aren't that many ISPs, and they control the last mile. Shut them down, job done.

  5. Re:I may be wrong, Im not an astrologer on Ocean Currents Proposed As Cause of Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    Er, you wrote "tenets".

    Not "tenants". Not "tennants". Not "lietenants". We don't take kindly to high-fallutin' speakin-proper book-learnt college boys round these here parts.

  6. Re:twaddle on iPhone Shakes Up the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    many existing iPhone users can't afford to or won't upgrade for novelty reasons

    You owe me a new keyboard.

  7. Re:Slashdot on iPhone Shakes Up the Video Game Industry · · Score: 3, Funny

    Zero is an integer

  8. Re:Random vs Heuristic on Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening · · Score: 1

    I'd liken genetic manipulation to interbreeding. Some people think it should be moral to marry your cousin or even sibling.

    You were doing so well up to that point.

    How hard is it to remember that it's breeding with someone in the family?

  9. Re:Most blogs abandoned? on Most Blogs Now Abandoned · · Score: 1

    Well you stop it first, OK?

  10. I may be wrong, Im not an astrologer on Ocean Currents Proposed As Cause of Magnetic Field · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Aren't there planets that do have magnetic fields, but don't have oceans? And aren't there moons that are the opposite case?

  11. Re:what do you think? on Scientists Wonder What Fingerprints Are For · · Score: 1

    "I don't care wether there are any gods or not, because I don't have a need to believe in a deity"? Isn't this atheism, too?

    No, it's apathyism. DFTTYW!

  12. Re:But seriously on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No elections and no leaders? Then who will tell us how to think???

    Whoever has the biggest stick, or the most buddies/lackeys with big sticks.

    It's left as an exercise for the reader to work out whether that's better, worse, or no different than the system we have now.

  13. Re:What's really going on. on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 1

    Because this wreaks of propaganda.

    I just hope nobody reeks havoc and destruction as a result.

  14. Re:The Ugly Side of Truth on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 1

    After the Kremlin exited Eastern Europe, the peoples of each nation in Eastern Europe rapidly established a genuine democracy and a free market.

    And there I was thinking that various apparatchiks, military governors and bandits took advantage of the power vacuum to set up their own little Warlordistans.

    Lying BBC/CNN bastards!

  15. that was a close shave! on Pleo Robot Dinosaur Back From Extinction · · Score: 4, Funny

    We can all sleep soundly tonight, secure in the knowledge that we can still have toy robotic dinosaurs.

  16. Most blogs abandoned? on Most Blogs Now Abandoned · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only most? Well at least it's a start...

  17. Re:Two Year Associate's Degree of Liberal Arts on 11-Year-Old Graduates With Degree In Astrophysics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since when did a little polite modesty equate to being brainwashed?

  18. Re:Freeze and play dead? on How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Worldwar: in the balance" has alien lizards landing in the middle of WW2. Based on a probe they'd sent 600 years ago they were expecting to find mailed knights on horseback, with hilarious consequences.

  19. Re:Typo in summary on New Display Keeps an Eye On the Viewer · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he's using a virtual keyboard with the eye tracking monitor and he blinked.

  20. Re:Transformers did it first on $10M For Unmanned Aircraft That Can Perch Like a Bird · · Score: 1

    eBay?

  21. Re:ORLY? on CoS Bigwig Likens Wikipedia Ban to Nazis' Yellow Star Decree · · Score: 1

    But, seriously.....what is "work"?

    [integral sign] F .dt

  22. A contender on A Curmudgeonly Look At Google Wave · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This might not be the shittest story on the slashdots evaaaar, but it's certainly a contender.

  23. Re:What about Open Office on Judgement Against Microsoft Declares XML Editing Software To Be Worth $98? · · Score: 2, Informative

    As any lawyer will tell you, don't go after the guilty - go after the ones with the deepest pockets.

  24. multi-story approach on IBM Pushing Water-Cooled Servers, Meeting Resistance · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a tall tale to me.

  25. Re:Fly on Shuttle and Hubble Passing In Front of the Sun · · Score: 2, Interesting

    more to the point: why does the brightest object in the solar system have nice shading effect to make it look spherical?

    It doesn't. Look at the image showing the whole sun - it's dark on all sides.