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  1. Chicken Dance on Researchers Discover Irresistible Dance Moves · · Score: 1

    I always wondered why I never got laid when I went to bars and did the Chicken Dance. It's all so clear now.

  2. What I don't understand about Mark Hurd on Former HP CEO Selected As Oracle Co-President · · Score: 1

    If you're a rich and powerful executive, I'd have thought you'd have inappropriate relationships with 20-something interns, not 40-something former porn stars.

  3. Re:Ah Mercury on Transition Metal Catalysts Could Be Key To Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    Sealab 2021 reference

  4. Ah Mercury on Transition Metal Catalysts Could Be Key To Origin of Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sweetest of the transition metals.

  5. Journalism on The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every so often I think it's a sad state of affairs for journalism when satirists like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert on a comedy channel are considered more reliable, trustworthy, and objective in their reporting than "serious" (for lack of a better term) journalists like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly on what's supposed to be a news channel.

  6. Sun Tzu & The Taliban on GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases · · Score: 4

    Sun Tzu put it best why American soldiers should play as the Taliban:

    So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.
    If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.

  7. Cowboy Chic on Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But ACID still lacks NoSQL's "Cowboy Chic".

  8. The Great Depression Is Our Lives on Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    Fuck virtual girlfriends. We need to restrain these guys Clockwork Orange style in front a 10' plasma screen that continously replays Fight Club.

  9. If you make fun of tinfoil hat wearers on Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices · · Score: 1

    Be aware that there's now a 50% chance they could be a convict thwarting GPS instead of a nutcase thwarting the government.

  10. Re:It's a nice framework on Rails 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    But I do wish the community would grow up.

    You're preaching to the choir, but I seriously doubt that the Python or PHP community you're referring to will grow up enough stop the needless and harmful proliferation of ORM frameworks (Django, Turbogears, Zope, PHP Cake, Symfony, Codeigniter) that wastes developer time and store bookshelves and instead learn from Rails and Merb's excellent example of putting community ahead of ego's and redirecting the entire community's programming and documentation efforts into a one single excellent framework.

  11. Contradiction on State Senator Admits Cable Industry Helped Write Pro-Industry Legislation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Whenever there's a discussion about privatizing municipal services, private industry's selling point is always that they can do a far better job than government because government is so inept and inefficient.

    If this is indeed the case, then shouldn't a municipal broadband should be no threat at all to private industry, and therefore there should be nothing at all for them to worry about.

  12. The Gist I Got Of The Article on Many Hackers Accidentally Send Their Code To Microsoft · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hackers and Developers are both lazy. This is why things haven't gotten any worse and also why things haven't gotten any better.

  13. Seven Dirty Words on FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy · · Score: -1, Troll

    The kind of shit that gets on these fucking cocksucker motherfurcker cunts' tits is really starting to piss me off.

    (Any replies to this post must also make use of all the seven dirty words)

  14. Re:I thought USB devices were safe on 25% of Worms Spread Via USB · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good News: Assuming a certain level of competence where the windows machines formatting the drives in China were not recycled from somewhere else, had their hard drives given a clean wipe, and weren't hooked up to the Internet and used to browse Pr0n on lunch break, then yes drives in the blister pack are secure.

    Bad News: It's highly dangerous to assume a certain level of competence.

    Moral Of The Story: When you buy a flash drive, immediately format it and bypass and "value-added gravy" the manufacturer tries to shove down your throat.

  15. Brainf*ck on 'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines · · Score: 1

    Laugh if you will, but I find that the most effective demonstration of low-level "how computers really work" programming (short of flipping manual switches PDP style) is Brainfuck.

  16. Re:"insecure electronic voting" on Researchers Reprogram Voting Machine To Run Pac-man · · Score: 1

    "I don't honestly understand why the Slashdot community dislike e-voting that much."

    Because we can't mod candidates we like and hate as Insightful or Flamebait. There's only this silly little "Yes" or "No" option.

  17. Cue The Joke on Sandisk Debuts World's Smallest SSD Yet · · Score: 1

    About the guy carrying a Sandisk SSD and postal stamp in his pocket who goes down the post office to mail a letter and then sticks the stamp in his smartphone.

  18. Real Humiliation on Autism Diagnosed With a Fifteen Minute Brain Scan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Therapy's not humiliating. Hell, OT's kinda fun.

    Real humiliation is when you're growing up and all the interactions with your peers blow up in your face due to your mind-blindless and inability to read body language or understand personal space, and your classmates ostracize you because they think you're weird, and you don't know what's going wrong. And since there's nothing you know of (because your'e undiagnosed) that differentiates you from your peers or explains why this is happening, you conclude you're getting ostracized because you're some doofy, idiotic, bad person. That, my friend, is real humiliation.

  19. Re:Just Pushes Back The Question on The Sun's 'Quiet Period' Explained · · Score: 1

    From wikipedia

    Although the underlying equations governing plasmas are relatively simple, plasma behavior is extraordinarily varied and subtle: the emergence of unexpected behavior from a simple model is a typical feature of a complex system. Such systems lie in some sense on the boundary between ordered and disordered behavior and cannot typically be described either by simple, smooth, mathematical functions, or by pure randomness.

  20. Parallel to Godwin's Law on Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 1

    As an online discussion decomposing the software stack of a linux distribution grows longer, the probability of RMS bursting in and saying "It's actually kind of sad that most people soley identify the GNU toolchain environment as 'Linux', which is just kernel." approaches 1.

  21. Screwdrivers on Man Patents Self-Burying Coffin · · Score: 1

    This means that the cemetery security guards now have to keep on alert for shady characters with really large screwdrivers.

  22. Re:mix the ash with concrete on Man Patents Self-Burying Coffin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People have been making ossuaries for hundreds of years. Your idea is probably less creepy.

  23. Protection on SMS Trojan Steals From Android Owners · · Score: 2, Funny

    With Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a, you can now have two different trojans in your pocket to offer the ladies.

  24. Re:helium shortage on The Second Age of Airships · · Score: 1

    If we get fusion power up and running, we'll have all the helium we'll need.

  25. When I see the word Elo on Chess Ratings — Move Over Elo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't think of anything other than 70's cheese and largest white afro up until the release of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.