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  1. Sci-Fi is Reel again on After 60 Years, Tape Reinserts Itself · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once again, Reel-To-Reel computers are no longer anachronistic in 60's Sci-Fi shows.

  2. The Answer on FBI's Top Cyber-cop Says We're Losing the War Against Hackers · · Score: 1

    "I don't see how we ever come out of this without changes in technology or changes in behavior"

    ding, ding, ding, ding

  3. Re:High UV and radiation on Scientists Estimate 40% of Red Dwarfs Have A Rocky Planet · · Score: 1

    The Ironites of planet Ferra say that high levels of the corrosive gas oxygen may hinder the development of life, but it could have developed underground protected by a layer of thick rock.

  4. Noble Aspirations on Ask Slashdot: What Defines Success In an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    When a how-to book about your project can be found in the computer book section of Barnes and Noble. Bonus points for making it to the "For Dummies" series.

  5. Re:Pen and paper on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Mobile OS? · · Score: 1

    Unless your invisible ink gets lempwn3d juiced.

  6. Malheursement sans Rush Limbaugh on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 2

    "Anyone who regularly consults Internet sites which promote terror or hatred or violence will be sentenced to prison".

    Guess I can't visit the Fox News site when I visit France.

  7. Why we need this law on Supreme Court Limits Patents Based On Laws of Nature · · Score: 2

    The anti-evolution people could patent evolution and then claim any teaching of it to be infringement.

  8. What's the animal on Mystery of Duqu Programming Language Solved · · Score: 4, Funny

    For O'Reilly's "Mastering Duqu"?

  9. I was a psychology major ,too on Ask Slashdot: Finding an IT Job Without a Computer-Oriented Undergraduate Degree · · Score: 2

    And to boot, I was primarily skilled in Cocoa/Objective-C development. Which really wasn't very popular in 2005 when I graduated. "Cocoa? What's that? Did you work at Starbucks?" I eventually got a call out of the blue from the lead tech guy of a very small company in the rust-belt to come up and fix a programming project that had gone terribly awry. The key to me getting that job was that the company was too small for the HR drone to block my path.

    You might want to take a look at smaller companies where the first person who reads your resume is a technical person. It also helps if you work with recruiters because they might possibly be able to get you past an HR drone. Finally, I'd say that if relegating the initial tossing of resumes is assigned to an HR person, you might find that if you get the job a lot of other technical decisions at the business might be frustratingly assigned to non-technical people who are least able to effectively make those decisions. So sometimes being filtered by the HR drone is a blessing in disguise.

    The difference between a psychology major and a CS major doing software engineering is that when the CS major has someone report a bug in a feature that doesn't exist in the software, they want to strangle the person who reported it. When a psychology major gets a bug in a nonexistent feature, they understand that human memory is a constantly and actively reconstructed process and isn't surprised that the human mind invented a feature that doesn't currently exist.

  10. Metaphor on Van Rossum: Python Not Too Slow · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Arguing about whose interpreted scripting language is slower is like arguing about whose rich delicious cheesecake is less fattening. When you eat the cheesecake, you accept the tradeoff of tastiness for five minutes off your total lifespan.

  11. Re:Neutrino Man! on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Neutrino would be so small and unnoticeable that the subject wouldn't even feel being penetrated. Time to rethink those clever pickup lines.

  12. Albert Gonzalez on Stratfor Breach Leads To Over $700k In Fraud · · Score: 2

    By day, he's a mild-mannered Attorney General. By night, he becomes an uber-hacker who compromises Visa. Coolest duality ever.

    Oh wait, we're missing an 'o' on the end. Never mind.

  13. Re:Just because you CAN do something on Reinventing the Clapper With a Knock-Based Home Automation Controller · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't knock it till you tried it.

  14. It's a secret plot by NASA on X-37B Space Plane Marks One Year In Space · · Score: 1

    The secret military mission is really a cover for further NASA cutbacks. It's just cheaper to keep it up there all the time than it is to bring it down.

  15. Re:We're computer geeks on Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us · · Score: 2

    I'd stay away from OpenBSDM, lest Linus Torvalds call you master-beating monkey.

  16. Inconvenient Truth on Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us · · Score: 4, Funny

    Time to rethink all of your redhead BSDM fantasies.

  17. Helicopters on Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can injure boarding/deboarding passengers with the intense amount of static electricity that builds up on the rotors. Getting fried by discharge of built-up charged particles is not a new downside to travel methods.

  18. Re:Big Brother is speaking on Speech-Jamming Gun Silences From 30 Meters · · Score: 2

    I disagree. Yelling and interrupting others has no place in a democracy where decisions are made by rational, respectful debate and letting all voices be heard. Guests with dissenting opinions on the Bill O'Reilly show could sure use one of these devices.

  19. I'd be pissed on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    If I spilled a bottle of isopropyl on my dash and my car wouldn't run for two weeks.

  20. Liberating Experiences on Are Smartphones Starting a Boom In DIY Medicine? · · Score: 2

    Bluetooth cellphone headsets liberated schizophrenics from the stigma of talking out loud to yourself.
    DIY cellphone medicine will liberate people who want to stick their cell phone up their anus from the stigma associated with sticking a cell phone up your anus.

  21. HIstory repeating on Developer's View: Real Life Inspirations Or Abstract Ideas? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since the 1970's every generation has independently invented disco and think they have something new. Donna Summer, Techno, Lady Gaga, etc. But eventually they get over it.

  22. "Your mom came over ate my tube steak!" on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    It's not just for insults any more.

  23. If it's a mini-Internet on A Look At Microsoft's 'Mini Internet' For Testing IE · · Score: 1

    Then technically 40% of its traffic is pure Pr0n.

  24. If it's built by the Swiss on Swiss To Build Orbital Cleaning Satellite · · Score: 2

    It will probably have a fold-out corkscrew.

  25. Using the force on Jedi Master's Hand-Made Lightsaber Stolen · · Score: 1

    Reporting a $400 lightsaber theft nets the troupe $10,000 in free publicity--a simple jedi mind trick that only works on the weak-minded consumers of media. Oh, wait a second...