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  1. Re:Wont work around here... on Why ATM Bombs May Be Coming Soon To the United States · · Score: 1

    A Wells Fargo ATM was stolen by forklift in San Jose about ten years ago. Google isn't being helpful in finding the video that showed how easy it was to haul off an ATM with a forklift.

  2. Re:Wont work around here... on Why ATM Bombs May Be Coming Soon To the United States · · Score: 1

    You need a forklift to pull those ATMs out. A number of years ago in Silicon Valley, someone drove up to a Wells Fargo branch office with a forklift, jiggled the ATM out of the brickwork, and took off down the road. Don't think the police ever solved that case or recovered the ATM.

  3. Re:iPad 2 Makes For Great Alarm Clock on The iPad Is 5 Years Old This Week, But You Still Don't Need One · · Score: 1

    Roommate doesn't. :)

  4. Re:emacs on Anonymous No More: Your Coding Style Can Give You Away · · Score: 1

    I had a Java instructor who informed the class that he talked to two students in private because their code was nearly identical except for one small detail: one used the x variable, the other used the y variable. The program was so simple that he couldn't flagged the students for cheating.

  5. iPad 2 Makes For Great Alarm Clock on The iPad Is 5 Years Old This Week, But You Still Don't Need One · · Score: 2

    My iPad 2 makes for a great alarm clock with an air raid siren that's hard to ignore at 4:30AM.

  6. Re:Last Season of Star Trek on Kepler Discovers Solar System's Ancient 'Twin' · · Score: 1

    William Shatner's kidney stone.

  7. Re:How are they rocky? on Kepler Discovers Solar System's Ancient 'Twin' · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This isn't the Fox News comment boards. Take your insults and small mind somewhere else.

  8. Screw the data! on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Personal Archive? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm putting silver bullion into my lockbox.

  9. Re:Not surprising. on FCC Fines Verizon For Failing To Investigate Rural Phone Problems · · Score: 2

    When developers wanted to build $1M+ houses and a golf course in the eastern foothills above Silicon Valley in the 1990's, the short answer should have been no. Alas, the City of San Jose didn't see it that way. Taxpayers paid $200 million to run water and sewer lines out to the new development. The HOA for that development nearly went bankrupt during the Great Recession when people moved out, no one wanted to move in, and everyone else didn't want to pay for keeping the golf course green.

    The bottom line: If you want a phone line extended out into the boonies, maybe you should propose building some $1M homes and give generously to the local politicians. Water and sewer lines are freebies.

  10. Re:copper lines going away like analog TV on FCC Fines Verizon For Failing To Investigate Rural Phone Problems · · Score: 1

    Recycable materials.

  11. Re:Urban legend? on Plan C: The Cold War Plan Which Would Have Brought the US Under Martial Law · · Score: 1

    More like an episode of The X-Files.

  12. Re:They tried this in the early 1980s on Why Coding Is Not the New Literacy · · Score: 2

    The early 1980's was when I discovered in the 7th grade that I came from a "poor" family for not having cable TV to get MTV and an Apple ][ to complete my Logo homework assignments. Worst part, it was the girls who told me.

  13. Uh, really? on Why Coding Is Not the New Literacy · · Score: 1

    I was looking at college catalogs in the early 1990's. Some schools would let you substitute a programming language for a foreign language requirement. I guess Logo would be equivalent of Latin these days.

  14. Re:DirectX is obsolete on DirectX 12 Lies Dormant Within Microsoft's Recent Windows 10 Update · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The developer has to support one or both. Most users don't care as long as everything works.

  15. Re:DirectX is obsolete on DirectX 12 Lies Dormant Within Microsoft's Recent Windows 10 Update · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Last time I heard that statement was during DirectX vs. OpenGL battles in the late 1990's. Any halfway decent video card today can support both with all the bells and whistles. I can't remember the last time I had to pick one over the other.

  16. DirectX 12 cards are here... on DirectX 12 Lies Dormant Within Microsoft's Recent Windows 10 Update · · Score: 2

    Newegg has 120 DirectX video cards available. So what's the hold up on drivers?

  17. Re:How do they taste? on Fish Found Living Half a Mile Under Antarctic Ice · · Score: 2

    Like how to get one of these fishes for my fish tank?

  18. Re: Simple solution on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 1

    The world only needs five computers. - Late 1940's.

  19. Re:So MS do you _finally_ support WebGL now? on In Addition To Project Spartan, Windows 10 Will Include Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    No one gives a crap about IE11.

    My company has a pilot project to upgrade computers from IE9 to IE11. Although the intranet websites run great on IE9, external websites are horribly broken. Corporate IT doesn't allow other browsers on the network.

  20. Re:Internet Explorer on In Addition To Project Spartan, Windows 10 Will Include Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    You mean IE6 haven't died out yet? That was the "standards-compliant" browser for corporate intranet websites during the Win XP era. Good riddance.

  21. Sniffing Battery Acid... on At Oxford, a Battery That's Lasted 175 Years -- So Far · · Score: 0
  22. Re:The old fashioned way... on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 1

    My late father hired a washerwoman to do his laundry after getting out of the hospital, but she used a washer and dryer to get his laundry done.

  23. The serial console is dead! on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 1

    This may be a shock to some folks: the serial console is alive and well!

  24. Re:contradiction on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 1
  25. Re:The old fashioned way... on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 1

    Corporations save money by replacing manual dumbasses with automated dipsticks.