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  1. Re:Depends on how long the downturn lasts on How Does a Poor Economy Affect Tech Innovation? · · Score: 1

    Don't they have hygeine laws where you live? That's disgusting, you're spreading shit through the workplace.

  2. Re:Is It Really A Poor Economy? on How Does a Poor Economy Affect Tech Innovation? · · Score: 1

    A recession's when your neighbor loses his job. When you lose yours, it's a depression.

  3. Re:n = 15 on Consumer Reports Gets Its Game On · · Score: 1

    It's also 15 more than the slashdot proofreaders and dupe checkers.

    Put together.

  4. 85% of Chinese likes censorship on 85% of Chinese Citizens Like Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    85% of Chinese likes censorship, the other 15% likes subject-verb agreement.

    Or are we taking about one man from Beijing whose left arm is he only part that's in favour of free speech?

  5. Re:Suggestion on Recruitment Options For a Small-Scale FOSS Project? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps his project is an automatic project obfuscator/genericiser?

  6. Re:National governments on Government Efficiency and Network Theory · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Japanese diet, for instance, is much more powerful than the president and his cabinet.
    I apologise to rice and raw fish. Seems I underestimated them!
  7. News just in on Government Efficiency and Network Theory · · Score: 4, Funny

    News just in - the quality of soup can suffer when an excessive number of culinary technicians are involved in the preparation. Film at 11.

  8. Re:Mod Parent Clueless on Earth May Once Have Had Multiple Moons · · Score: 1

    and mistakenly thought to be very unique.
    In fact, as any fule kno, it is only slightly unique and even then only on odd numbered Thursdays.
  9. Sigh on The Continuing War Against Microsoft's "Facts" Campaign · · Score: 1

    You don't rally against, you rail against. You rally a fleeing regiment or rally people to a cause

    And "spec'd" is just retarded[1]. If you can't be bothered to write "specified" or at least "specced", why not just go the whole OMG-i@m-t3h-733t route and write "spcd"? It saves two more characters, w00t!

    [1] or rt'd, as the scl'd author would probably put it.

  10. A question for anyone who RTFA on 2 Finds Add To Giant Earthworm Science In Northwest · · Score: 1

    What's giant here, the science - giant (earthworm science) or the worms - (giant earthworm) science?

  11. Re:Way to go to make me feel like a goldfish on GPS Used To Find Graves In Eco-Burial Sites · · Score: 1

    I pay money to be buried in a cardboard box?
    It's the second greenest way to go. After Soylent.
  12. Re:GPS Accuracy on GPS Used To Find Graves In Eco-Burial Sites · · Score: 1

    no internments within five meters
    Stupid sarcastic comment: They're going to bury them in a series of tubes?

    Sensible sarcastic comment: It wouldn't exactly be a practical place to build a prison, would it?
  13. Re:Too hard. on Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap · · Score: 1

    I don't know.

    Maybe if we were to gather statistics on which one has managed to survive longest without the other it would give us a clue?

  14. Re:Either you pay the editors, or it's crap on To Search Smarter, Find a Person? · · Score: 1

    Today, you pay the editors, or you get fancruft.
    As if the two are mutually exclusive! Are you new here?
  15. Re:Why did they wait this long? on Gibson Accuses Guitar Hero of Patent Violation · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you were thinking that when you hold a ptent it means you've got dibs on something?

  16. Re:Ventriloquism on Nerve-tapping Neckband Allows 'Telepathic' Chat · · Score: 1

    News just in: some modern English words have a different meaning than a literal translation of their Greek and/or Latin components would imply.

  17. Re:Hmmmm. on The Geometry of Music · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Neanderthals had flutes and discovered the octave.
    If you're referring to the bone fragment (singuilar) with holes in, it's by no means proven that it was a flute, or even that the holes were man made.
  18. Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! on MacBook Air Confuses Airport Security · · Score: 1

    I don't know why they call it DHMO
    I'd guess that the monoxide part sounds dangerous by association with carbon monoxide, at least to the layman.
  19. Re:Mood stabilizers? on Drugs In Our Drinking Water · · Score: 5, Funny

    She's dehydrated.
    I hate being a spelling nazi, but it's "deflated".
  20. Re:VM Craze on Sun Hires Two Key Python Developers · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that Java is the new cobol?

  21. Re:it's mindboggling on Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps Slashdot stories have a similar mathematical structure - even the dupes come in waves...

  22. as ass boobs on Cyber-Goggles Record and Identify Every Object You See · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ass ass boobs ass ass car ass ass boobs OKG PANTIEZZ!!!!! ass ass boobs.

  23. Re:They need to earn foreign exchange... on Comparing the OLPC, Classmate and Eee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they had bulldozers in Julius Caesar's day.
    I've seen the photographs he's talking about and they're obviously fakes. I mean, color, back then?
  24. As a pacifist on DARPA Funds Development on Modular Satellite Network · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a pacifist I object to using military technology (defence? hah!), as it glorifies the purveyors of death and violence and gives a veneer of respectabilty to the military industrial complex.

    So I'll just stick with the plain old internet, thanks.

  25. Re:Hmm... on Microsoft's "Source Fource" Action Figures · · Score: 1

    It's upside down, FFS!