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  1. Re:Contradiction? on Giraffes May Be Six Separate Species · · Score: 1

    It's clumsily worded, but it's fairly clear that it meant they don't naturally interbreed in the wild.

  2. I for one on Wired's 2007 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 5, Funny

    I nominate slashdot's new discussion system.

  3. Re:Wow! on Your Worst IT Workshop? · · Score: 1

    Sheesh, I'm on job 17 since joining Slashdot.
    Me too. It is correct to count floor mopper, fryer operator and drive thru order taker as separate jobs, even if it's at the same place, right?
  4. Re:Life imitates art on Cloned, Glow in the Dark Cats · · Score: 1

    My GF died her cat purple years ago.
    Did it dye of embarrassment?
  5. Re:Well no shit... on Chimps Outscore College Students on Memory Test · · Score: 1

    We've got triplets, five years lkjlkjfdgkjfdlkgjdlkfj old and you've no ide what it's like hdsffhkjhdkjhkjdshf - they''re in t o everything and NO CARRIER.

  6. Re:If you had read the other article... on Peru Orders 260K OLPCs, Mexico to Get 50K · · Score: 5, Funny

    Incorrect, the submitters always read the articles. If they didn't, then once in a while an accurate summary would arise by pure dumn luck.

  7. Re:About Bloody Time on Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged · · Score: 1

    But I don't really see how moving it to an even smaller and more portable media would make it less likely to get lost.
    I do, at least if it's so samall it's not an encumbrance: you'd be considerably less likely to put it down and then leave it on a train or in a taxi. One of the guys here wears one like a pendant. Unless he intentionally takes it off it stays so long as his head does.
  8. Re:Too expensive on Amazon's Ebook The Future of Reading? · · Score: 1

    an editor - that person that turns a manuscript into a readable document.
    You must be new here.
  9. and not only for the typewriters. on A Giant Step in Cloning · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure there's a patent infringement there.
    ... and not only for the typewriters.

    If you are interested in licensing any of our simian IP, please contact the departmental representative, Mr Anthony Abbot, directly.

    Yours sincerely,

            God.
  10. Re:WOW on New York's Slap to the Facebook · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize that you could have an article that long on /.
    To notice, you'd have to read it.

    P.S. What's it about, anyway?
  11. Re:Awesome. on The Top Ten Off Switches · · Score: 1

    This is one of those articles that you think 'Why isn't there more of these!? It's great!'
    You must be new here.

    but then remember that if there were more, they'd quickly become old-hat.
    We have a name for that season. We call it 'late November till mid December'. Seems late November is early this year. Probably due to sunspots or something.
  12. Re:"predicts"? on IBM Predicts Massive Shifts In Advertising · · Score: 1

    Thomas J. Watson who it is claimed said that the world would never need more than five computers. The best evidence is that he never said it.
    Did he actually say that 640 of them should be enough for everyone?
  13. Re:France's iPhone on Fans Cheer as Apple's iPhone Finally Hits Europe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, that's less than $600. For a phone. What a bargain!
    600? more like 564.
    Is there some particular part of less than you'd like help with?
  14. Re:Well... on NASA Knows How To Party · · Score: 1

    And what would you prefer: 1.3 million dollars as reward money for advancing science, or 1.3 million dollars in the pockets of these individuals if they successfully launch a rocket or not?
    Are there any other options? Some schoolbooks or something?
  15. Re:Think positively on Astronomers Announce 5-Planet System · · Score: 1

    But yeah, flying light years to another planet just to make war is rather impractical.
    Depends how much oil they've got.
  16. Re:reverse psychology on Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    I assume the name "misser of the joke" was already taken?

  17. Re:Its not that hard a problem. on School District Threatens Suit Over Parent's Blog · · Score: 1

    The statement has been made to a third party.
      The statement referred to the plaintiff.
    Neither of these is under dispute. The kid admitted it.

    The statement must be defamatory, which means that it must be a false statement to the plaintiff's discredit.
    That's the burden of proof you were talking about - whether the defendant has to prove it's true, or the plaintiff has to prove it's false. Just admit you got it wrong.

  18. Re:Its not that hard a problem. on School District Threatens Suit Over Parent's Blog · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is my understanding that here in america that the burden of proof rests on the plaintiff.
    Your understanding is flawed. And there's a good reason it works like that for defamation.

    I say: Kryten250 did, at some unspecified time and place, suck a donkey's balls.

    You then sue me. That makes you the plaintiff. Can you prove that you didn't, ever, suck donkey balls?
  19. Re:Sigh on Asus Insider Claims Apple Tablet Is Real · · Score: 1

    By "sticklers" you mean people who are capable of writing correct English?

    If belief that the earth was flat was common, would it cease to be roughly spherical? I don't think so.

  20. Re:Carbon credits = lame on Move to a Mainframe, Earn Carbon Credits · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem is that we see a perpetuation of the myth that everyone's opinion is equally valid on this issue (or any issue, for that matter).
    I blame Wikipedia.
  21. Sigh on Asus Insider Claims Apple Tablet Is Real · · Score: 2, Informative

    All this begs the question
    No it doesn't.
  22. Re:Without Learning? on Linux-Powered Lego-Like Devices Target Developers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bah! Off the shelf standard screws? In my day each one was individually designed to fit. And the apprentices had to cut the threads using their own teeth. If they'd grown any yet, otherwise, better toughen up them gums, kid.

  23. the next step... take down LOLCATs on Genetic Modification Produces Mighty Mouse · · Score: 1

    You're right. I've been a fool. We all have. By appearing cute and harmless, the killer kitties have lulled us into a false sense of security. Lucky we have guys like you who are smart enough to see through their cunning feline ways. God bless you, and mankind too!

  24. Re:matching ids on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't be harsh - have you never written a query in such a way that it didn't use the indexes correctly?

    P.S. Why is /. using the wheelbarrow symbol for database?

  25. Re:Well, you know the next step... on Genetic Modification Produces Mighty Mouse · · Score: 1

    Make them twice the size of humans too and you've got Larry Niven's Kzin.