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  1. Star Wars on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery · · Score: 1

    I always feel bad for the 'droids, I really consider R2 and C3 to be the main characters.

  2. Re:sigh on US Climate Report Says Global Warming Impact Already Severe · · Score: 1

    It's been hilarious watching the rank of my comment bounce up and down, from 0 to 3.

    So many mod points burned.

  3. Re:Second Life anyone? on EVE Online's Space Economy Currently Worth $18 Million · · Score: 1

    Redoing your character graphics costs a PLEX.

    I didn't know that I'd be stuck with it, so when I started I modeled my character after a Pakled from ST:TNG ("We look for things, things to make us go.") ...

  4. More or less than bitcoin? on EVE Online's Space Economy Currently Worth $18 Million · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How much Bitcoin is out there?

  5. sigh on US Climate Report Says Global Warming Impact Already Severe · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's Weather, not Climate.

  6. Re:Blank Media on Sony Warns Demand For Blu-Ray Diminishing Faster Than Expected · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have to adjust the motor to spin the opposite direction to play northern hemisphere discs in Australia/New Zealand.

    The default spin is reversed to negate the torque of the corialis effect.

  7. Re:Isolate the Protiens on Elderly Mice Perk Up With Transfused Blood · · Score: 1

    Salty protein injection joke here...

  8. Re:Writing passwords down on Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management · · Score: 1

    Romulus?

  9. Because your phone might be lying. on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    Just ask Wayne Dobson

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

  10. Re:Time to Fill... on SanDisk Announces 4TB SSD, Plans For 8TB Next Year · · Score: 1

    That was one thing I hated when contracting at MS, standard office machines with 70gb drives when the image we need takes 40gb... and no machine upgrades, have to wait for the new hardware cycle.

  11. Re:Old stuff? on Ask Slashdot: Which VHS Player To Buy? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my analogue video capture cards are XP (MCE) only

  12. Time to Fill... on SanDisk Announces 4TB SSD, Plans For 8TB Next Year · · Score: 1

    How fast can data be pumped through the controller interface?

  13. Hitler and Ebola. on Report: Comcast and EA To Stream Games To TVs · · Score: 1

    On a lighter note, CDC labs in Atlanta have successfully injected DNA from Adolf Hilter into an airborne strain of the Ebola virus.

  14. Re:Gun nuts on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    "Today, we have standing armies."

    which is also unconstitutional.

    The founders didn't foresee the US being aggressive policemen (to put it nicely) of the world.

  15. Re:CFAA? on The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating · · Score: 1

    Online cheating is to buying/participating in DDoS attacks as torturing animals is to serial killing.

    Best to stop it early.

  16. Re:To generate the keywords takes knowledge on Grading Software Fooled By Nonsense Essay Generator · · Score: 1

    Both parties fear educated voters.

  17. Try once in 2 weeks. on One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983 · · Score: 1

    When I got banished to summer camp, I was fortunate to have at least a notebook and pencils.

    So I wrote a message board system, for a Commodore 64 dial-up BBS.

    Iterated and debugged over and over, following every code path while tracking variables by hand.

    When I got home, I was able to transcribe it, and it worked great, running the (206) New Hong Kong BBS for a couple years.

  18. Re:Why should we find this surprising? on Decommissioning Nuclear Plants Costing Far More Than Expected · · Score: 2

    How much Asbestos is in an old nuclear plant?

  19. Re:This is our chance... on Microsoft Continues To Lose Money With Each Surface Tablet It Sells · · Score: 2

    ... which is why Sony disabled Linux on PS3s

    People were buying the money losing consoles, but not buying the money making games and accessories.

  20. Re:Maybe blocked a roadside call... on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 1

    pet peeve, 'vandalism' is racist in origin.

  21. Re:Certain Disappointment on Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    Well, it probably won't actually be a film, but pure digital video.

  22. Re:Yet another article about how MIT is wasting on MIT Bitcoin Project To Create Cryptocurrency Ecosystem, Give $100 Per Student · · Score: 2

    I assume 'Gelatinous Cubes' were invented when someone's mom brought down snacks to the basement during a miniatures session.

    Pretzel Golems didn't make the cut.

  23. Re:Does it make me a bad person... on Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage · · Score: 1

    "Reality has a liberal bias" : 373,000 results
    "Reality has a conservative bias" : 171,000 results

  24. Re:Buggy whips? on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    Best Korea is not the Darkest country, but the Greenest.

    They also conquered Obesity. (well, except for that one guy)

  25. Re:Buggy whips? on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    When I play Civ, I let the nukes fly as soon as the spaceship launches.