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  1. Re:an ornament? on Oldest DNA Recovered From 7,000-Year-Old Skeletons In Spain · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah I could not find out what the ornament was.

    It was a medallion that said "Member of the Hunter-Gatherer Club of Braña-Arintero". How much more proof do you need?

  2. Re:Santa is just an anagram on Oldest DNA Recovered From 7,000-Year-Old Skeletons In Spain · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows humans and dinosaurs lived side by side.

    This article proves it. These cavemen were only 6000 years old, not millions of years old. Dinosaurs were also around 6000 years ago, when God created the planet. After these two cavemen died their pet dinosaurs dragged them up on a mountain and ate them, leaving the bones for archaeologists to discover now. Then the dinosaurs died in a flood.

  3. Re:Here's what a business school stats prof did. on Teaching Natural Sciences To Social Science Students? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that professor was me. I am from Trinidad but my parents were from Nigeria where I am living now. I would love to get back in touch and have a beer with you. If you could please send me a small advance for travel along with your SSN and a passport photo I can begin to make arrangements.

  4. Re:Old news on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 1

    Because this is Slashdot.

  5. Re:Has doubts on More Hot Weather For Southern California, Says UCLA Study · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can... it will be 80.2364 degrees in Burbank tomorrow.

  6. Re:the price of gasoline, food, and housing on Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash · · Score: 2

    food is linked to gasoline of course, but it still doesn't explain why flour is fluctuating up and down by 100% every few months.

    So what's your problem? Flour stores well in a sealed plastic container, so just stock up when the price is down 100%... that's an unbeatable price.

  7. FAA+NASA+TSA on NASA and FAA Team To Streamline, Regulate Commercial Space Access · · Score: 5, Funny

    It won't be any fun until the TSA joins the party

  8. And it's not being made from surplus hamburger meat prepared from condemned cattle, as yours probably was.

  9. Re:Maybe not Gypsy or Jew... on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 1

    Being against vampires is racist now?

  10. Re:Vampire on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 2

    Tell that to Bela Lugosi

  11. Maybe not Gypsy or Jew... on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 5, Funny

    But did they scan him for the vampire gene?

  12. Re:Well, it's a beginning on Microsoft Relents On Metro-Only Visual Studio Express · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hierarchical menus.

  13. Re:Interesting on Flame Malware Authors Hit Self-Destruct · · Score: 0

    N Korea being able to create this? Sorry, that one doesn't wash

    Citation needed. Among his many awe-inspiring qualities, Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il was also the most impressive programmer on the planet.

  14. Re:Not like the USA on Chinese Censors Accidentally Block Shanghai Index · · Score: 1

    OK, I'm in China and I just said "Fuck the US, and fuck the US government"... and I'm still alive and unharmed. Maybe I should try saying it in Mandarin next time?

  15. Re:Quota system = degradation of standard on The Shortage of Women In IT · · Score: 0

    Do you have evidence that there is bias and prejudice keeping women out of IT, rather than, for instance women tending not to want to go into IT for other reasons?

    We all know the real reason... math is hard.

  16. Re:Scanning versus storage on DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years · · Score: 1

    You mean they'd have to smoke an entire package of cigarettes at once? How do you smoke a bottle of whisky? And smoking aspirin may not be good for you.

  17. Re:Troubling signal, why? on Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price · · Score: 1

    Check out the prospectus at EDGAR, it qualifies both treasury shares and secondary shares. It's not as uncommon as you think. Some of the big sellers were hedge fund Tiger Global, Goldman Sachs, a Russian billionaire, and two Facebook insiders.

  18. Re:Troubling signal, why? on Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price · · Score: 1

    You don't understand how investment banks make money on an IPO. The overallotment option ("greenshoe") allows them to get up to 15% more shares from the issuer at the IPO price within a set period of time after the financing. In a hot IPO, they sell 15% more shares above the IPO price after the stock starts trading. If the shares continue to rise above this price, they cover their short (remember they sold 15% more shares than they had initially) using the overallotment option and pocket the difference between their selling price and the IPO price. On the other hand, if the shares fall they cover their short in the market and pocket the difference between their selling price and the even-lower market price. It's a win-win for the banks... license to print money.

  19. Client's real problem on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Monitor Traffic? · · Score: 1

    Won't he be surprised when he finds out it's you that's having an affair with his wife!

  20. Re:An example of free market failure on Most Game Console Power Draw Comes From Time Spent Idling · · Score: 0

    This is a classic example of free market failure.

    No, this is a classic example of why Americans have fat asses.

    Almost no consumers own a Kill-a-Watt, and they don't have any options because there are not many competing consoles

    You don't need a Kill-a-Watt to know that a device draws power when its plugged in. There are many options to gaming, such as going outside for a walk which will help solve the fat ass problem.

  21. Re:Great!! on Beneath Africa, Survey Finds 'Huge' Water Reserves · · Score: 1

    Shortly after they discover the oil reservoir that's laying just next to the aquifer.

  22. Re:Oh no on Beneath Africa, Survey Finds 'Huge' Water Reserves · · Score: 1

    Right. Send in the Jews!

  23. Re:What would the Megatron be? on Physicists Detect Elusive Orbiton By "Splitting" Electron · · Score: 1

    And the most 'evil' particle should be the Hitleron, in keeping with Godwin's Rule.

  24. Re:What did we expect? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I've never been able to understand how some people manage to reconcile belief in the Christian God with guns and military.

    When they as WWJD? What Would Jesus Do? Surely they can't believe that he'd carry a firearm and cheer on a strong military. That's just not the man described in the New Testament at all.

    Read the Old Testament... The Christian God kicked lots of ass and would certainly have wanted his only son enlisted in the Marines if he was incarnate today.

  25. Re:What did we expect? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 2

    You should talk to your pastor about these problems. Jesus can help you.