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  1. ObKillBill on Thought-Controlled Prosthetics · · Score: 1

    Wiggle... your big... toe...

  2. Re:Well, at least it wasn't... on Babelfish Sparks Minor Diplomatic Row · · Score: 2, Funny

    All your mother are belong to Israel?

  3. Re:maybe it really is the safest toy season on US, Aussie Officials Yank GHB-Producing Toys · · Score: 5, Funny

    It really makes me wonder what all I was exposed to as a kid I can count on one hand the dozen times unsafe toys made me sick. Thinking that it could have been easily prevented really brings tears to most of my eyes.
  4. Ape law! on Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? · · Score: 1

    Since primates were in space before humans, space is obviously under Ape Law.

  5. More data needed. on 38% of Downloaders Paid For Radiohead Album · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We'll only really know the full impact of this if/when other acts start doing it. I don't really like Radiohead, but I threw them $5 just for shaking things up in a good way. Still, it's obvious most people who bought this album were Radiohead fans. The real question is, how much further will this distribution model go if/when other major fanbases are given the same chance?

  6. Paging Dr. Harlow on Robot Becomes One of the Kids · · Score: 1

    I wanted to find out what the kids' mother thought of all this, but she's made of wireframe.

  7. Paging Dr. Joplin... on NASA Performs Zero-G Robot Surgery for Mars, Iraq · · Score: 3, Funny

    I, for one, can't wait to have my life-saving surgery done with a ragtime score.

  8. Re:Magnets BENDING light beam?!?! on Super-Magnet Sheds Light on Semiconductors · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation.

  9. Good enough for government work! on Eleven Finalists in Pentagon's Robotic Rally · · Score: 2, Funny

    After a series of crashes, dangerous turns, and aimless wanderings off of the course I don't understand why the Pentagon didn't hire those robots on the spot.
  10. Re:Steps to get infected on Fake Codec is Mac OS X Trojan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    3) Click "OK" that you are downloading a .DMG file. But I thought Macs had no step 3!!
  11. Re:Public Perfromance on Single Nanotube Becomes World's Smallest Radio · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hear the summons will be written in xenon atoms on nickel.

  12. BBC's charter on BBC "Not In Bed With Bill Gates" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The interesting bit here is the Beeb isn't really a commercial organization. They're a public entity which is strictly required to keep itself free of commercial and political influence.

  13. Re:Last call for NYC schwag on Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Party Grand Prize Winner · · Score: 1

    FYI this Friday is also the 2600 meeting, and we usually end up at Hopscotch at some point late in the evening.

  14. New York City on Last Chance to Enter For Slashdot Anniversary Party Grand Prize · · Score: 1

    Just a quick note to the New York City party attendees - opencity did finally receive the swag meant for us. I imagine plans for the inevitable manhunt are forthcoming.

  15. Re:moving toward subject specific wikis on Wikipedia Begets Veropedia · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Wikipediae?"

  16. Congrats anyway. on Lunar Lander Challenge Ends in Fire, Disappoinment · · Score: 3, Funny

    A fire on the launch pad is still a hell of a lot further than most of us have gone.

  17. Fearsome. on Running the Numbers on a US Pandemic · · Score: 1, Funny

    A U.S. pandemic would exhaust antiviral medications, reduce basic food supplies, put ATMs out of service, shut down call centers, increase gas prices and up health insurance claims by 20% They forgot the bit where it pees in your pool, kicks your dog, and ties your shoelaces together.
  18. Re:What are the non-enforcement uses? on Software To Evaluate Facial Expressions Developed · · Score: 1

    How can this system be used outside of law enforcement? A terrificly modern answer to the old "mood ring" craze?
  19. Immunity on Software To Evaluate Facial Expressions Developed · · Score: 1

    This software is useless against certain subjects..

  20. Re:Bad math on Samsung Unveils 64-Gbit Flash Memory Chip · · Score: 4, Funny

    How much does that work out to in Libraries of Congress?

  21. Finally! on Aussie Claims Copper Broadband now 200x Faster · · Score: 4, Funny

    My dreams of building a top-notch deathmatch LAN using old rolls of 1970s speaker wire from my basement could finally come true.

  22. Note to self: on Crime Reduction Linked To Lead-Free Gasoline · · Score: 1

    Finally, an excuse to start dumping saltpeter into fuel tanks..

  23. Re:Irony... on Apple Says 250,000 iPhones Sold to Unlockers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps karmic payback? That sure is the reason I'm not starting up a telco anytime soon...

  24. Will somebody please on FTC To Take a Second Look at P2P · · Score: 1

    think of the children^H^H^H child-like civil servants?

    On a slightly related and marginally entertaining note, in 2002 I lashed together an experimental poem made up of nothing but bits of personal data people were sharing over Kazaa. It's still available near the bottom of this lovable old zine issue.

  25. oblig. on Make Your Own Sputnik · · Score: 2, Funny

    This reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gegarin...