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  1. Plust best of all on Making the Switch To Windows "Workstation" 2008 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can double the cost of your $700 PC.

  2. Re:Well. . . on Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish? · · Score: 1

    Thats where the "worlds biggest frisbee throwing device" would come in handy. Or maybe roll it off a nearby cliff?

  3. Re:Well. . . on Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish? · · Score: 1

    How about turning it into the world's biggest frisbee?

  4. Re:No, Mythbusters! on Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish? · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as all your enemies are less than three feet away, it makes a damn fine death ray. Now you know where the "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" proverb comes from.

  5. Re:Set it to download kiddie porn... on Best Way To Get Back a Stolen Computer? · · Score: 1

    The horrible part happens when they track the laptop back to you and you get visited instead.

  6. Re:Tagged "fuckviacom" on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 1

    Maybe they could save space by putting all the IP numbers on one long line and stripping out all the dots?

  7. Re:Tagged "fuckviacom" on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 1

    Luckily everyone who posts illegal content always puts a "this is copyrighted content; viewing this is against the law" at the beginning of every video.

    Otherwise, how on google earth would I know I was watching copyright infringing video?

  8. Re:law of unintended consequences... on Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant · · Score: 1

    Considering AIDS eventually leads to painful death, what function would this hinder that would make things worse?

  9. Re:Exactly. on Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads · · Score: 5, Funny

    I must admit it will be easier to send a pdf rather than an actual book when I outsource getting my degree overseas.

  10. Re:Oh come on! on New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot really needs a "+1 Bitter" moderation. :-)

  11. Re:That's quick on Rubik's Cube Algorithm Cut Again, Down to 23 Moves · · Score: 1

    If you had the original rubix cube, the white center square would pop off, allowing you to unscrew it and easily take apart/reassemble the cube. Way better than the new cheap ones that you have to pop apart and hope you don't break in the process.

  12. Re:Wee Fit on Consumer Reports Gets Its Game On · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but how many of those exercise machines can you play video games on?

  13. Nice to know on Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, I will have to remember to give four weeks notice next time instead of two.

    Thanks for the heads up!

  14. Re:Hmmm on Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible · · Score: 1

    That would pretty much be the plot for The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

  15. They can pick any career they want on Techies Keen to Keep Jobs In the Family · · Score: 4, Funny

    Though one advantage of IT is they can earn quite a bit of money to help me afford a retirement home, and then when they are a burned out husk of a person after 20 years of stress they will have more time to come take care of me.

  16. Re:Missed half the point! on Free (As In Speech) Beer, V2.0 · · Score: 1

    Though unlike stamp collecting your brewing hobby can get you drunk. But I suppose if you ate enough stamps the glue might cause some kind of hallucinatory experience.

  17. Re:where can i get some on USAF Considers Creation of Military Botnet · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think Comcast had a cow about downloading movies, just wait until they see the traffic our government botnet generates.

  18. Re:I'm Suprised on USAF Considers Creation of Military Botnet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they could outsource it?

  19. Re:How do they know? What about Burma? on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well lets see, bees have been around for 100 million years; fossil evidence for honeybees indicate they were around 35 million years ago. And yet now they are disappearing in large numbers. Read this for a quite plausible guess at the cause.

  20. Re:Poisonous on Platypus Genome Decoded · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except then the male platypi will swarm and kill him.

  21. Re:92x92 square miles? Jeez, lets get on it. on Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Take a trip through New Mexico sometime; 92x92 square miles of empty sunshiney space is not a problem.

  22. Re:Let me be the first... on Laser Triggers Electrical Activity In Thunderstorm · · Score: 1

    Just make sure there aren't any thunderclouds between you and your target.

  23. Re:Is this "in the browser" functionality on Google Scoops Microsoft w/ Mesh Applications · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google Gears installs a browser extension that adds a JavaScript API that enables the browser scripts to access the local datastore. The extension requires Firefox or Internet Explorer and works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.[2] A version for Safari is now available to developers. Currently, Google Reader is the only Google application that is supported, though other web applications such as Remember the Milk have added Google Gears functionality. The transition from online to offline mode and back has to be done manually in Google Reader because of the differences in data being transferred. Other applications, such as Remember the Milk, transition from online to offline mode and back seamlessly.


    From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Gears
  24. Re:The only way this ballot makes sense... on Norway's Yes-To-OOXML Is Formally Protested · · Score: 1

    Well, if they had used Diebold they would have won, but then they would have had to explain why the second place winner was "Democrats".

  25. Re:wrong on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am beginning to think that if men were as ambiguous as women, we would go extinct as a species.