User: Edie O'Teditor

Re: A "contract binary"?

On: NASA Releases First Clear Images of Distant Kuiper Belt Object (engadget.com)

Hey, leave me out of it!

Re:Infographics needs work

On: Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com)

you at least avoid the chance of a broken UTF-8 vs Latin-1 encoding

It used to break them if you quoted the result without reverting them to "long form".

á = Ã

Still does, apparently.

Re:"How can we adapt it too?"

On: Will Facial Recognition in China Lead To Total Surveillance? (washingtonpost.com)

Adapt it to do what?

Re:It IS informative!

On: KDE Responds To Misconceptions About KDE 4

That should be GNU/heard.

Re:I shall answer the question!

On: Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group

Maybe the prof was making a point about lateral thinking?

Re:147 offences?

On: Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group

it's plagerism

Is it fear of being accused that drives you to invent your own spellings?

Ob

On: SGI Acquires Linux Networx Assets, LNXI Dead?

What does netcraft say?

How do you pronounce OOXML?

On: IBM Slams Microsoft, Calls OOXML "Inferior"

Has anyone else wondered? is it oh-oh-ecks-emm-ell? Or Uxamul (rhymes with "sucks a mule")?

Re:Factual Error!

On: Geekonomics

I prefer Britney's Pears. Well I don't really, she's a fuckin moose.

Re:I agree completely with this idea

On: Cell Phone Sommeliers on the Way?

God forbid Japanese children should ever come into contact with paedophiles.

Well said. It would be just wrong in so many ways if their panties were stolen before they could sell them on the internet for 15 dollars (25 if worn during "yucky week". Euuwwwww!).

Er.... so I'm told.

Re:Unionizing

On: A Proposal For Unionizing Bloggers

Are they going to start with Roland Piquepaille? We can hope...

Re:er...perhaps your not aware of fink

On: Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop?

Fink is a package manger

Unfortunately, it's not compatible with crib-for-a-bed.

Re:Ask slashdot: What's it like to eat pussy?

On: Arguing For Open Electronic Health Records

Hey! Girls read slashdot too - some of them might know.

Re:record industry bullshit again

On: The Death of High Fidelity

*Sigh* It's another minishitty link.

social networking sites

On: New Jersey Bars Sex Offenders From the Internet

While they still can search for jobs, this is a major expansion over the prior legislation which barred them from social networking sites like facebook or myspace.

But it's still OK for us, er, them to post on slashdot, right?

Re:There are side benefits

On: Palau May Get Satellite Power In the Next Decade

with correctly placed mirrors, you can use it to roast enemies at neighboring islands!

And then eat them too.

Re:Fake?

On: No Right to Privacy When Your Computer Is Repaired

As far as I recall Double Jeopardy only says that you can't be convicted of the same crime twice. If he wasn't convicted, it doesn't apply.

You recall wrong.

Re:'Research'

On: Wired's 2007 Vaporware Awards

How about a list of all the academic 'research' that pours more out of press releases than actual real-world implementations?

Ah, i think you mean Roland Piquepaille's technology trends. It's over there somewhere --->

Re:That is no Blackhole

On: Black Hole Blasts Neighbor Galaxy with Deadly Jet

Attempting to compensate.

This is a huge surprise.

On: Record Labels Change Minds About Sharing MP3s

This is a huge surprise. Based on the evidence, I didn't think record labels had minds...

Re:239 years

On: Jimmy Wales Says Students 'Should Use' Wikipedia

smug, inbread

The cake is a lie?

oh noes

On: An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading

Mash-up. For shame. That's the future of reading, right there.

Holy runon, sentence

On: Chimps Outscore College Students on Memory Test

young chimpanzees were better at remembering a series of numbers flashed on a screen, than the Japanese college students used as a control group.

I find Japanese people hard to remember too.

Ob

On: How to Turn Your PC into a Mac

Posted by an anonymous reader. I'm at a total loss to figure out why.

Ob

On: What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?

What if they'd designed slashdot?