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  1. Re:Looks cool... on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 5, Funny

    Say what?!? Why on earth would they tell you that?

    This is slashdot, we have articles here, not thinly disguised advertisements.

  2. I'll add one on Obsolete Technical Skills · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's mine: writing decent stories for slashdot.

  3. Re:Professional Tools on Microsoft to Give Away Developer Tools to Students · · Score: 1

    Awwww, bless!

  4. Re:Professional Tools on Microsoft to Give Away Developer Tools to Students · · Score: 1

    Don't ask stupid questions, emacs is like *totally* better.

  5. Re:Don't tell Chef but.. I'm Buddhist... on Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database · · Score: 3, Funny

    Padme yum? I can't disagree.

  6. Re:Room to shape personal brand on Facebook, Google, and Intellectual Property · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I fail to see how targeted ads based on the user's preferences is synergistic when
    it only serves to enrich ONE side of the equation - the seller.
    Maybe that's because you don't know the difference between synergistic and symbiotic?

    The former is about combining inputs, the latter is about dividing the output.
  7. Re:if you can pry it from my cold dead fingers... on Cell Phone Use Study Sees Increased Cancer Risk · · Score: 2, Funny

    I work for a web startup
    Talking of phones, 1997 called...
  8. Re:Contradicting Studies -FTFY on Cell Phone Use Study Sees Increased Cancer Risk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you advocating that people place cellphones farther away from their head only to put them closer to their crotch
    This site is news for nerds; realistically and practically, a cancer in which area would affect us most?
  9. Re:Huh? on Outer Space has a Smell · · Score: 3, Funny

    Experience with evacuating radio and TV tubes says you can get up to 500 cm^3 of gas out of every few square inches of metal.
    Bravo! Not only mixing imperial and metric but areas and volume to boot!

    Sir, I take my hat off to you.
  10. Re:In Soviet Russia.. on Undersea Cable Cut Circumstances Examined · · Score: 1

    But not as old as Korean people who talk to robots.

  11. Ethics on an MBA? on Ethics In IT · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ethics on an MBA - do the marks from this module get subtracted from your overall score?

  12. Re:Every three days? on Undersea Cable Cut Circumstances Examined · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Good thing we have redundancy.
    You mean all the dupes about the cables being cuno carrier...
  13. Re:Missing tag. on Birds Give a Lesson to Plane Designers · · Score: 1

    That's not to say that politics aren't important
    One thing that politics certainly are is singular.
  14. Re:Seriously.. on U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border · · Score: 1

    ... but apparently they let Lore come right on in.

    Don't forget to tip your tuna!!

  15. Re:Sneaky marketing, not a breakthrough? on See-Through Fish Help Cancer Research · · Score: 1

    A careful-thinking person would never say "decide to", because that communicates the idea that the cancer cells are thinking.
    They aren't the kind of thing you want to make an enemy of, and they really hate it when people anthropomorphise them.
  16. Re: as opposed to casual piracy, where no money tr on Taiwan Group Responsible For 90% of MSFT Piracy · · Score: 1

    Copying software results in: - Legitimate copies going up in price, as companies argue that piracy has taken away profits that should have gone to them
    Not so sure about that. If a firm could charge higher prices, surely it would have done so in any case?

    increasingly draconian copy protection that only hurts legitimate users.
    I'm with you 100% on that one.
  17. Obligatory stupid title reference on FBI To Spend $1B Expanding Fingerprint Database · · Score: 1

    This will be of limited usefulness. Most people's fingerprints remain at a roughly constant size.

  18. Re:Look into scanner with remaining eye on FBI To Spend $1B Expanding Fingerprint Database · · Score: 2

    So, why are iris scans needed if you already have fingerprints?
    If someone pokes you in the eye, you could diff them and find out who did it.
  19. Re:quantifying the unquantifable! on Taiwan Group Responsible For 90% of MSFT Piracy · · Score: 1

    to EVERYONE posting the tired "MS and high-quality? HAH!" joke, ugh, it's not that funny. High quality clearly refers to pirated copies that were sold as genuine, bearing holographic marks and whatnot.
    No shit, Bill^H^H^H^H Sherlock!
  20. I have only one thing to say on Top 10 Most Memorable Tech Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 1

    This new layout is atriocious, I can't read a thing. Anything it doesn't overlap it truncates.

    But, I am glad pets.com went bust. With an ad like that, they deserved it.

  21. Re:Sorry guys, can't resist on Could We Find a Door To A Parallel Universe? · · Score: 1

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of universes!

  22. Re:funny video on Two Videos of E-Lead's Noahpad in Action · · Score: 1

    My ears!!!! The earplugs, they do nothing!

  23. Re:Calling all OiNK ex-admins! on Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is an announcement: A long offtopic flamewar about how vinyl is (or isn't) so much better than any form of digital reproduction will be along momentarily. We now return to your scheduled programming.

  24. Re:redundancy on Millions in Middle East Lose Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think it's affected slashdot - so far, the story's only been posted once.

  25. The department of reduncancy department on Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later · · Score: 1

    At 12:01am Tuesday morning
    Thanks for clarifying that it wasn't 12:01am in the afternoon.