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  1. Write your own on Ask Slashdot: Making Side-Money As a Programmer? · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's always room for another bug tracking app.

  2. If only the Watergate Hotel was so protective on Facebook Says It Owns 'Book' · · Score: 1

    we wouldn't have to worry about those mom and pop scandals riding someone else's coattails by just adding -gate to the end of their name.

  3. Re:Invented the pixel? on Pixel Inventor Goes Back To the Drawing Board · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bravo,
    my favorite C&H ever.

  4. "..a billion-to-one scale model of the Matterhorn" on IBM Creates World's Smallest 3-D Map · · Score: 3, Funny

    Professor Slartibartfast is particularly proud of his glacier work with this model.

  5. Just what I needed on Comcast Disables VCR Scheduling In New Guide · · Score: 1

    I already have a hard enough time finding a store that sells those tiny cassettes for my answering machine.
    Next thing you know, they'll stop selling computers with floppy drives. The world's gone mad I tell ya! Mad!

  6. Doodles on What Is Holding Back the Paperless Office? · · Score: 5, Funny

    When Word or Acrobat allows me to draw 3D boxes and other geometric shapes in the margins of docs, then we'll talk.

  7. "making the smartphone one step closer to an ATM" on Coming Soon, Smartphone-Based Banking · · Score: 2, Informative

    "This phone will charge your account a $1.50 fee to make this call. This fee is on top of any other fees that may be charged by the phone to which you are dialing."

  8. Re:Can someone explain this to me? on Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus · · Score: 1

    Or you could just store it on the Amazon cloud. Their 5 gazillabyte plan will run you about $40/month.

  9. Re:Yes, but... on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's just one of many theories. Some say it was done with Pop Rocks and Soda. I happen to believe it was done with Mentos and Diet Coke.

  10. Fire? Gimme a break. on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone knows the CIA hired the mob and anti-Communist Cuban militants to bring it down.

  11. Re:Oxygen Generation on NASA's Mars News Is Not Life, But Perchlorate · · Score: 1

    Very interesting. My Martian anatomy is a little rusty, but I didn't think they even have thyroid glands.

  12. Advert on hacker message board on A Photo That Can Steal Your Online Credentials? · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Upgrade to a hybrid today and get 20% more mileage on your phishing messages"

  13. Re:So are they gonna replace... on GENI To Replace Internet, Gets $12M Funding · · Score: 1

    c'mon. It's all ball bearings these days.

  14. Re:Don't have that problem with my fiberoptic on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 1

    At first it seemed like they were giving me the rate because of a mistake made on the online price quote that I complained about, but I heard from the installer that it was a price offered to early adopters.
    To be honest, I'm not sure which one it is.

  15. Re:Don't have that problem with my fiberoptic on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I pay $55/month for 30 down / 5 up. I think you can get 15 and 2 for about $40. I also get my TV through the fiber now -- $30 cheaper than digital cable through Comcast, more channels, HDTV, yadda, yadda.
    I'm in the northern VA suburbs of DC and I know that Verizon's already in a wide variety of towns in the area.

  16. Re:Don't have that problem with my fiberoptic on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 1

    If you really want me to torture you, I'd tell you that the 5Mbps I get upstream is what's really the bee's knees.

  17. Don't have that problem with my fiberoptic on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I haven't noticed that issue since getting fiber through Verizon. I can see a consistent 30Mbps when I download very large files.
    No real point to that. Just braggin' :-)

  18. Re:Going faster or going smarter? on Japan Plans Test of 'New Concorde' · · Score: 1

    Obligatory...

    1. "free flight"
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

  19. Re:Help me out here on Reintroduce Megafauna to North America? · · Score: 5, Funny

    My vote is for Crawford, Texas.

  20. Re:OOoooh on `Bionic' Arm Brings Back Sense of Touch · · Score: 1

    And did you notice the arm costs $6 million? Coincidence, or is it something more?

  21. Settlers Expansions on Fun Tabletop Games? · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you like Settlers (and who doesn't?), you should pick up the expansions: Seafarers of Catan adds ships, a new resource type and a bunch of different board layout options. Cities & Knights of Catan ads so much it's like a whole different game. Also, check out the game Puerto Rico. Lots of Catan players migrated to it when it was released a few years ago.

  22. PLEASE READ: Your DVDs are not defective! on MGM's DVD Class Action Settlement · · Score: 1

    The problem is not that they chopped the top and bottom of pan and scan movies. The problem is in the deceptive pacagking making it look like every widescreen movie was in a 2.35:1 ratio.
    From: http://www.widescreen.org/commentaries/2005_01_jan .shtml/
    Before any of you start to worry, the realistic side of me says that this was indeed a frivolous lawsuit - to an extent. MGM misrepresented the facts, but no harm was really done, either mentally or physically, to anyone. The whole idea behind widescreen, regardless of how MGM misrepresented the widescreen examples, is the sustaining of artistic integrity for those who spent a great deal of time making that movie - a hell of a lot more time than someone who sits and watches the final results in the form of a $20 DVD. MGM was a tad too over-zealous in representing 1.66:1 and 1.85:1 movies, but the final result was the same - the aspect ratio of what was seen in theatres. Their widescreen DVDs appear on the TV screen exactly as they should. I don't see that a lawsuit in this case was really necessary.