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  1. Re:Standard Scientology practice on Church of Scientology Enlisting Followers In Censorship · · Score: 0

    Remember when you took your date for dinner ...

    I think you have the wrong forum. This is Slashdot.

  2. Re:you're all worthless and weak on Are We Failing To Prepare Children For Leadership In the US? · · Score: 1

    Finally, I realize why we weren't supposed to cry for Eva Peron. She gets all the hot dogs!

  3. Re:Real plan on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 2

    Now wait. Everybody knows the US Civil War had to do with vampires.

    Right, and we were talking about Larry Ellison, so ...

  4. Re:So Apple on Apple Patents Polluting Facebook, Google Profiles · · Score: 2

    So now can Apple sue every non real online ID?

    APPLE, INC.. Plaintiff,

    v.

    HUGH JAZZ, MIKE HUNT, HOWIE FELTERSNATCH, LOU BITGOOD et al., Defendants.

    Plaintiff Apple Inc., ("Apple") by and through its undersigned counsel, for its Complaint against Defendants Hugh Jazz, Mike Hunt, Howie Feltersnatch, Lou Bitgood et al. ("Ha Ha You're So Funny") alleges as follows:

  5. Re:I wasn't aware it was hard for them getting in on Ask Slashdot: Reasonable Immigration Policy For Highly-Trained Workers? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was with you until your hyperbolic Mayflower comment. Half of them died before the first winter was over ...

    Obviously, they did not have the appropriate skill set. They should have been turned back.

  6. Re:Plot traffic, establish a norm, compare history on Calculating Total Network Capacity · · Score: 1
    You have rather a sick definition of fun.

    I like that.

  7. Re:Plot traffic, establish a norm, compare history on Calculating Total Network Capacity · · Score: 1

    The question isn't "how much data is my network handling now" but" how much data could my network handle at peak"?

    Just insult Anonymous and you should have your answer shortly.

  8. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The fears of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

  9. Re:Body language is an effective tool on How To Sneak In To a Security Conference · · Score: 1

    Actually, they get out of your way because they suspect you'll be annoying.

  10. Re:Wealth is Not Produced by Excess of Charity... on Are Rich People Less Moral? · · Score: 1

    The first of those is misunderstood, the 'eye of the needle' was a term that described that back door to a walled city ...

    No, sorry, that's false. So is a similar version, which claims the "Eye of the Needle" was the name of a narrow mountain pass, where the camels had to be unloaded to pass through. Both of these stories were made up centuries later, in an attempt to assuage the feelings of rich people.

    The saying is a little obscure, but one common theory is that it's supposed to be "rope" rather than "camel" - in both Aramaic and Greek, the words for camel and rope are quite similar (e.g. kamelos and kamilos in Greek), so either it was misrecorded, or it's a bit of wordplay. Either way, the idea is that it's like trying to push a rope through the eye of a needle - essentially impossible.

  11. Re:Small Claims DDOS on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    But aren't most YouTube videos essentially monkeys throwing poo?

  12. Re:Roll Your Own on Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why any company would trust sensitive internal information to Google is beyond me.

    Why not? They already have it, anyway - I just did a search and found it.

    No joke - one place I worked, the best way to find out what was really going on was stick some key executives' names in Google and see what turned up. (No, no criminal records, amazingly enough.)

  13. Re:How about oing the same for snow clearing? on Man Digs Out Basement Using Radio Controlled Toy Tractors · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but if it takes seven years to clear the snow away ...

  14. Re:Blegh on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 1

    Word to the wise, don't let her hear you calling her your first wife!

    Yes, we much prefer the term "starter wife."

  15. Re:so on Gut Bacteria Can Control Diabetes · · Score: 5, Funny

    They would pretty much have to be administered by snaking a tube up there a good 2-3 feet. Which need not be such a horrifying thought..

    I disagree. This needs to remain a horrifying thought.

  16. Re:Westworld? on Newly Digitized Film Shows Ed Catmull's 3D Graphics From 1972 · · Score: 1

    TFA may not mention it, but TFF does - it's in the introduction of the film.

  17. Re:This can't be!! on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 3, Funny

    But the poor Cubs still don't win a World Series.

    Well, yeah, there are only an infinite number of possible universes. This would require infinity plus one.

  18. Re:why modded down. on Technology and Moral Panic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Led by researcher Daniel Favre, the alarming study found that bees reacted significantly to cell phones that were placed near or in hives in call-making mode.

    Does this explain the calls I've gotten lately, where I pick up the phone and just hear buzzing at the other end? Why are the bees calling me? Do they want their honey back? It's too late; I already ate it!

  19. Re:Well, I feel old. on Hewlett Packard's Cult Calculator Turns 30 · · Score: 1
    Yeah, well, mine was an HP-45, which I still have. The batteries are long since dead, but it still runs fine off of wall current.

    Oh, and if you could see your way to getting off my lawn, I'd appreciate it.

  20. Re:Truecrypt on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1
    We learned that we fall for urban myths all the time. That "fiasco" never happened.

    In a separate case, Orrin Hatch inadvertently revealed on September 12,2001 that we had been monitoring the communications of bin Laden's associates, though whether that had any effect on anything isn't clear.

  21. Better than their last idea on Officials Say "Capes For the Unemployed" Plan Not Super · · Score: 4, Informative
    This is not as bad as Workforce Central Florida's previous idea: Careereoki.

    I wish desperately I could say I was making this up, but I am not.

  22. Re:I am pretty sure that I... on Are 625 Pixels Enough To Identify Sex? · · Score: 1

    telnet bbs.buanzo.org i still have my own bbs running developed in linux, using kernels 1.x to 2.x, starting at libc5.

    Those are far more characters than needed to identify you as male.

  23. Re:inevitable on Apple: You Must Be 17+ To Use Opera · · Score: 2

    None of your concern. Now go to bed!

  24. Re:It's not facebook's fault you're a jerk on Facebook Linked To One In Five Divorces In US · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, some don't consider bringing naked chicks home to be cheating.

    Well, what else should you do? Leave them out on the street? C'mon, they'll get cold!

  25. Re:Money on An Open Letter To PC Makers: Ditch Bloatware, Now! · · Score: 1

    Option 1: Buy "corporate". For a modest premium, you can go with the corporate, rather than "consumer" version of your x86 packager of choice. It will cost more; but the packagers know not to fuck with corporate, and the bloatware-pushers know that the value of bloatware that is 99% assured to be blown away with a corporate standard image is near zero

    You can often do this without any premium. My wife needed a new basic laptop, and I found that after wading through the Dell site and applying every "secret" discount (Dell is worse than a used car dealer), I could get a "small business" Vostro laptop for the same or less than a comparable consumer model. And for the small business one, I could deselect every piece of crapware from the install. The small business line is not very exciting (display adapters in particular tend to be low-end), but if it's all you need, it can work out.