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  1. Re:What does the G in GPS stand for on Chimps Have a Built-In GPS · · Score: 1

    Why don't you find someone who understands English and ask them how many ways to interpret "Chimps Have a Built-In GPS" they can think of?

    Me: Could you read this one paragraph (Slashdot title and summary)?

    I rest my case.

  2. Re:"shake like a polaroid" ? on Sun Puts Data Center Through 6.7 Earthquake · · Score: 1

    That simile hurts my teeth like a deep shade of amber.

  3. Re:That makes no sense on Gmail Adds 5 Second Send Rule · · Score: 1

    My personal blind spot is forgetting to attach the attachments.

    If I do remember to attach the attachments, then it's odds on that I won't be able to resist making one last change. So I'll detach it, edit it, and forget to re-attach it again.

  4. I didn't read the article, but... on New Lossless MP3 Format Explained · · Score: 1

    Is it actually FLAC, and do nightingales have it built in?

  5. Re:What does the G in GPS stand for on Chimps Have a Built-In GPS · · Score: 1

    Do you really think anyone meant to imply primates have, in their brains, something commensurate with features found in a Garmin?

    Why don't you find someone who understands English and ask them how many ways to interpret "Chimps Have a Built-In GPS" they can think of?

    Bear in mind that some animals really do have quite advanced navigational organs that we humans have to emulate with technological substitutes.

    Birds had magnetic compasses in their heads way before we had them on ships.

  6. Re:What does the G in GPS stand for on Chimps Have a Built-In GPS · · Score: 1

    Could be. And they'd not be alone

  7. What does the G in GPS stand for on Chimps Have a Built-In GPS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No they don't. Drop them somewhere they've never been before and ask them to go somewhere else they've never been before and they'll either pull funny faces at you or initiate a poo barrage.

    Tell me again, what does the G in GPS stand for? It sure doesn't stand for "having a reasonable memory of your surroundings and a rough sense of direction". And neither do the P or the S.

    Bullshit summary again. Or maybe bullshit article. Who cares? After a while, you don't bother.

  8. REST vs WS-* = WTF on Tim Bray On the Future of the Web · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not knowing what either of these is, I to2ly phear ur 733t no77idg3z of teh codez.

    Not caring what either of these is, I p155 on ur ri10 skillz.

  9. Re:wha? on Princeton Student Finds Bug In LHC Experiment · · Score: 1

    Shoooooow!

  10. Re:wha? on Princeton Student Finds Bug In LHC Experiment · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pity the "anonymous reader" didn't go the extra nine yards and become an invisible writer. Then we'd never have known what a waste of oxygen he was.

  11. Re:technology review completely wrong on The Emerging Science of DNA Cryptography · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you come here often?

  12. Re:And it's a statistics game... on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    And wouldn't the exact percentage change slightly as sea level rises and falls?

    An off topic, ill-informed global warming flamefest will be along momentarily. But now, a short interlude with Tom & Jerry!

  13. Re:And it's a statistics game... on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    how much karma you can horde

    You're sentiments are lordable, but your loosing points for expression.

  14. Re:Aside from that... that isn't scientific litera on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 3, Funny

    You need to a finite verb to that sentence.

  15. Re:47% on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I see way more grammar nitpicking on slashdot than I did on book forums.

    Could that be because here there's more need for it?

  16. Reverse backwards on A High School Programming Curriculum For All Students? · · Score: 1

    This class would follow after a class using Lego MindStorms

    Well that's your problem - it should follow before it.

  17. Re:The algorithms we already have on Packing Algorithms May Save the Planet · · Score: 1

    It's not like I'm buying nitroglycerin, damn it.

    No? I buy tons of i&6@~#no carrier

  18. Re:Saving on delivery or pickup. on Packing Algorithms May Save the Planet · · Score: 0

    Have you smelled those guys?

  19. Re:Are algorithms the issue? on Packing Algorithms May Save the Planet · · Score: 1

    The problem is that "literally" has changed its meaning such that "literally" literally means practically the same as "practically".

  20. Re:OU Student Here on Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution · · Score: 1

    I like sausages, but I don't want to look at pictures of them being made. It's ruins my appetite.

  21. Re:Oklahoma? on Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution · · Score: 1

    You can't prove a negative.

    Prove that!

  22. Re:Cheating yourself on Website Does Homework For Kids · · Score: 1

    It's a system I abused to garbage bin finals and still have an A that one of my schools implemented a policy where your final can override your grade if you don't sit for it.

    What grade did you get in English?

  23. Re:Who Are These People? on "Authors Guild" Skims Half of Google Book-Rights Settlement · · Score: 1

    Go to their web site and look.

    I'm sure it's totally truthful and unbiased.

  24. Re:Can Slashdot, I dunno, Just "Un-Submit" This? on "Authors Guild" Skims Half of Google Book-Rights Settlement · · Score: 2, Funny

    Editing? /.?

  25. Re:trust me....I am a journalist on Hearst To Launch E-Reader For Newspapers · · Score: 1

    Well you sure write like one!