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  1. Re:Cloud computer? on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, until the meme changes from "beowulf cluster" to "cloud," then I think we're safe.

  2. Re:Cloud computer? on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The point of this is that it connects to their cloud. Think of this as an X terminal that connects to a mainframe via the internet. The point isn't to build a cloud out of these things.

  3. Re:Free-based computing on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bender: well, if jacking on will make total strangers think i'm cool, then ok, I'll do it!

  4. Re:Only London air visible? on Oyster Card Hack To Be Released, In Good Time · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've never been to LA... but I do like to make references to Charles Dickens.

  5. Re:Why yes, they do on Oyster Card Hack To Be Released, In Good Time · · Score: 3, Funny

    Prolonged exposure to roadside air anywhere isn't exactly a day at the spa... but then, London does have the distinction of being the only city in the world wherein you can see the air you breathe ;-)

  6. Re:TFA on Astronomers Claim Discovery of Earth-like Planet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh, they just don't like me. I've learned to deal with it.

  7. TFA on Astronomers Claim Discovery of Earth-like Planet · · Score: 5, Informative

    TFA is dated 24 April, 2007 -- I'm pretty sure that this is old news.

  8. Re:Huh? on The Ideal, Non-Proprietary Cloud · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, you just don't get how awesome it'll be to get all your Web 2.5rc1 content via Internet2 through the cloud, man... it'll totally shift your paradigm.

  9. Re:The end of one-handed surfing? on Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you yourself say that the ATM touch screens are poorly implemented. That means that there must be properly implemented touch screens, which would not suck. Of course, I'm not saying that I think touch screens are that great of an idea. I can definitely see where they would have useful applications, but as for a general purpose input device I'm just not sure that they're the best solution.

    Of course, it could just be that we're already setting on one particular thing about which we'll be stogy old dotters over in the future. Time to get out the Fed Mertz pants...

  10. Re:By that note... on Linux Needs More Haters · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FreeBSD is, as the kids say, "t3h r0x0r."

  11. By that note... on Linux Needs More Haters · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slashdotters must all be MS shareholders and Vista early adopters!

  12. Re:Where do we sign up? on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, I'm 6'4", can bench more than my body weight, dabble in rugby and hurling and play guitar and bass, occasionally in bands. I'm not just some pasty nerd. It's those attempting to win the love of women based on statements such as "I wish I were your derivative so that I could lay tangent to your curves" that fail.

  13. Re:Where do we sign up? on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 0, Troll

    quarterbacks don't fuck with goth chicks. Plus, we graduated high school 6 years ago.

    Yes, I did burn her photos. And the original copy of her birth certificate... with out that, she's dead, right?

  14. Re:Where do we sign up? on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've made many a greasy anime nerd scoff in disbelief before, so perhaps, for public health concerns, as well as the general welfare, its best that I don't.

  15. Re:Where do we sign up? on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, given the size and scope of Bruce Wayne's awesome shit, I'd say quite well.

    That, or its being a self-loathing billionaire industrialist that pays out.

    or maybe it's a self-loathing billionaire industrialist's orphaned son that pays out? honestly now, mommy and daddy's money came with interest and a nice bank statement!

    To quote Lil' Bush: "Jobs are for suckers -- you should get your money the old fashioned way: inheriting it from your rich parents. Its what we call a free market economy!"

    honestly though, you need to aim for the nerdy girls. they're much smarter and much hotter than mere "honeys"

    My high school girlfriend was a runner-up and spirit award winner for Miss Teen VA when we were 16; She was also a brown belt in karate. I can do alright for myself, I'm just in a slump since we broke off our engagement a few months ago (we got back together after college).

    Not that's relevant. just sayin'.

  16. Re:Where do we sign up? on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, given the size and scope of Bruce Wayne's awesome shit, I'd say quite well.

    That, or its being a self-loathing billionaire industrialist that pays out.

    Frankly, its probably not even in the scope of most slashdotters to end up being ATHF's Meatwad... after all, Meatwad makes the money, see; Meatwad gets the honeys, G...

    and we don't :(

  17. Re:afterwards on Live Giant Squid Dissection Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    When I was in AP Bio about 8 years ago, our lab manual for the squid dissection contained instructions for making calamari from the squid afterwords. of course, our squids had been soaked in formaldehyde or whatever it is that they use nowadays for quite some time.

  18. Re:Jesse Ventura only serious contender I can supp on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 1

    Ventura is a special case. From his pro-wrestling and acting, he has a lot of high-dollar contacts and name recognition. He was also a Navy SEAL, and so has proven himself to be a serious public servant, not just a showman. He has the background and contacts to get on with people on both the "left" (Hollywood) and the right (serious military service).

    I'd vote for him.

  19. Some suggestions on 20 Features Windows 7 Should Include · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps they could take FreeBSD, perhaps with a customized Mach kernel, and add a fancy, easy to use and intuitive graphical user interface?

    oh, wait...

  20. Re:No, GNOME-like values on QT on Shuttleworth Sees Possibility For a QT-based GNOME · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why the hell shouldn't KDE swith to Gtk then? I don't like KDE and I've **NEVER** liked KDE. Ever. And its not for lack of trying or wanting to like KDE. I just can't use it for longer than 20 minutes before I get incredibly frustrated and give up. Its been that way for me for 10 years.

    I'm quite content with GNOME right now, but if they switched to Qt, or tried to merge with KDE, I'd go full-time to e17 and say a pox on both their houses. But that is just me.

  21. Re:Can MIT develop a cheap/safe circumcision devic on MIT Helps Third World With Hands-On Approach · · Score: 1

    Circumcision can reduce the HIV/AIDS by a significant percentage. However, access to circumcision and doctors is the problem in third world countries. If MIT could develop a circumcision device that the third world lay person could operate in a safe manner, this would be a big help in reducing HIV/AIDs and the suffering.

    Also, there are some of us in the first world that could also use such a device. Circumcision without the embarrassment of a doctor's visit and in the privacy of one's own home. I'd look to get my hands on one to cirucmcise myself at home, and perhaps the first world's use could subsidise the manufacturing costs for the third world.

    Have you tried employing the use of a cigar cutter for this? If you heat up the blades, then it can cauterize in the same motion.

    Not that I've personally tried this.

  22. Can't wait... on Yahoo Rejects Another Bid From Microsoft, Icahn · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure which is getting to be more tedious -- this crap, or the Presidential elections. Maybe the MS-Yahoo merger is supposed to be this year's "October Surprise?"

  23. Re:People in India on Nielsen Collects FL Tax Breaks, Then Outsources Jobs · · Score: 1

    Bollywood porn orgies, duh!

  24. Re:People in India on Nielsen Collects FL Tax Breaks, Then Outsources Jobs · · Score: 1

    Because the Taliban are a Pakistani spillover movement, who got there start in Pakistan, the arch-nemesis of India? Because killing Indians in Afghanistan, which is more or less safe from Indiana retaliation is a perfectly good proxy for fighting in Kashmir, where there are no US troops to serve as a human shield from Indian nukes?

  25. Re:At least respect the purists. on Should the Linux Desktop Be "Pure?" · · Score: 3, Funny

    GNU/Linux is the virtual America.

    Does that make RMS the virtual Bush? Well, I guess they both have about 30% approval ratings among their own citizens and most of the rest of the world thinks they're nuts... so, yeah. I can see that.