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  1. Re:Try to get First Post on Slashdot on Ask Slashdot: Old Dogs vs. New Technology? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We're talking about basic level IT support people. A monkey trained to hit a simple, repetitive sequence on keys could get first post on Slashdot.

  2. Hole-In-The-Wall Hostel + Digital Glory on Dreaming of Digital Glory At Hacker Hostels · · Score: 1

    = Digital Glory Hole

  3. Re:Nothing unique....so I hear on San Diego's Fireworks Show Over In 15 Seconds · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that the pyrotechnician should have put on a second condom before starting the show.

  4. Re:Get a life (Re:Stay Hungry) on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Stay Employable? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about this middle ground: fight to keep your skills current, but remember why you fight.

  5. Re:Risky experiment on CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th · · Score: 1

    We'll forget why we were searching for the Higgs-Boson particle, and we'll have to build a planet-sized supercollider to figure it out.

  6. I'm Okay With Made In The USA on Google On-shores Manufacturing of the Nexus Q · · Score: 1

    As long as it doesn't lead to TV or Radio ads done Bob Seger or Bruce Springsteen or that could in any way can be misconstrued as a Real Men of Genius spoof.

  7. Billions And Billions on Seth MacFarlane Helps LOC Acquire Carl Sagan Papers · · Score: 1

    Of papers. If the sheer volume of papers were written in a microscopically tiny font and shrunk into the size of a typical supermarket tacky romance novel, the entire content of war and peace in an equivalent density and font would no bigger than a fortune cookie paper.

  8. 12 posts in on New Mineral Found In Meteorite · · Score: 5, Funny

    And no adamantium references. They just don't make basement virgins like they used to.

  9. Re:Computers can't be considered as human beings on Free Speech For Computers? · · Score: 1

    If that means giving Holly free spech and a say in our democracy, hell no.

  10. Computers can't be considered as human beings on Free Speech For Computers? · · Score: 2

    with free speech rights. That's reserved for corporations.

  11. Just One Question on CNET, IDC Find Rapid Increase In Behavioral Data Tracking · · Score: 1

    How many users did they have to track to obtain that finding?

  12. How I interpreted the headline. on Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A Google service for bars called "Google Bars" that converts youtube songs into MP3.

  13. A better idea on Google Reveals "Terrorism Video" Removals · · Score: 1

    Ban all infomercials from YouTube and classify videos promoting terrorism as infomercials.

  14. Dizzying Intellect on Rockstar Creates 'Cheaters Pool' For Game Hackers · · Score: 1

    Because invisible cyanide molotov cocktails come from the Cheaters Pool, as everyone knows, and the Cheaters Pool is entirely peopled with cheaters, and cheaters are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the molotov cocktail in front of you.

  15. Just when you thought zombies were bad on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Standing/Walking Workstations? · · Score: 1

    Now Introducing Walking Workstations with 2x Brain Eating Power (tm)

  16. Impossible structures are neat on MIT Professor Pushes the Envelope of 3D Art and Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    But in secret we're all really wondering whether anyone's using 3-D printing to make dildos.

  17. Just Ask Apple on The Cost of Crappy Security In Software Infrastructure · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When you protect developers and users from themselves, when you start making engineering tradeoffs that reduce functionality and tinkering and fiddling ability in exchange for greater security and stability, some people start screaming that you've being evil, paternalistic and unfreedomly and not letting them decide for themselves whether they want to make tragic mistakes.

  18. Re:Barrier Islands on NC Planners May Be Barred From Using Speculative Sea Level Rise Predictions · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the R's are passing this bill to prevent the Ds from back dooring this policy.

    Earlier month North Carolina Republicans passed their amendment against gay marriage, so that statement's true on many levels.

  19. Phone + Geiger counter + Japan on Radiation Detecting Android Phone Coming To Japan · · Score: 1

    = Godzilla Foursquare Mayor of Tokyo.

  20. Re:What a waste of resources on Landmark Calculation Clears the Way To Answering How Matter Is Formed · · Score: 1

    You'd risk getting the answer that nano-seconds after the big bang matter was formed by a colossal number of perky teenage breasts banging into one another.

  21. The answer is on Landmark Calculation Clears the Way To Answering How Matter Is Formed · · Score: 3, Funny

    42. 42 kaons. Ha, ha, ha!

  22. Re:Damn it.. on The Shortage of Women In IT · · Score: 4, Funny

    Manipulating the glass ceiling involves multiple touches, gestures, and the occasional pinch.

  23. A watched pot doesn't boil on Sound Increases the Efficiency of Boiling · · Score: 4, Funny

    But a heard pot boils real good.

  24. Screw the beach ball on Axis, Yahoo's New Browser · · Score: 1

    Axis will make your *entire* browser spin around waiting for 50 seconds.

  25. Re:Recyclability? on MIT Creates Superhydrophobic Condiment Bottles · · Score: 1

    It would spawn kittens.