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  1. Re:Anti-Windows posts on Nokia Introduces Windows Tablet · · Score: 2

    The Start Button is now old enough to vote. It would be ashamed to kill it off before it can buy its own beer!

  2. Re:Siri doesn't have free will on Physicist Unveils a 'Turing Test' For Free Will · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it turns out we don't have free will, I plan to go nuts and just do whatever I want!

  3. Re:Junk Science on Ocean Currents Explain Why Northern Hemisphere Is Soggier · · Score: 2

    bad news for northern-hemisphere populations

    Pfft. As if anyone lives north of the Equator.

    All the cool people do.

    Get it? Get it?

  4. Re:Back to the lock-in! on Facebook Isn't Accepting New Posts, Likes, Comments... · · Score: 1

    I "Like" this... where's the thumbs-up icon?

  5. Re:short answer on Ask Slashdot: As a Programmer/Geek, Should I Learn Business? · · Score: 1

    Slightly longer answer:

    yeeeessssss.

    You made my day!

  6. Re:"I knew Obamacare would be bad..." on Lessons From the Healthcare.gov Fiasco · · Score: 1

    I mean, what do you think "insurance" means, anyway?

    According to Obama, it means "health care".

  7. Re:simple on Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far · · Score: 1

    Discrimination in the defense of progress is no vice!

  8. Re:Alternative message from Cananda Hams on Juno Needs Radio Amateurs! · · Score: 1

    I send you dittos and mega-dittos.

  9. Juno... email? on Juno Needs Radio Amateurs! · · Score: 1

    Reading the title, I really thought Juno was experimenting with other protocols...

  10. Re:Client-side Caching on Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks · · Score: 1

    I would mod you up, but I outsourced my mod points. Let me get a hold of the call center, and someone will get you modded up right away.

  11. Re:Home servers? on ArkOS: Building the Anti-Cloud (on a Raspberry Pi) · · Score: 1

    The free market fails!

  12. Entrapment! on Science Magazine "Sting Operation" Catches Predatory Journals In the Act · · Score: 1

    That science journal had been flaunting its low standards all over town!

  13. Re:Big Oil is Dancing on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fuck oil and electricity. I want a *nuclear* powered engine. Now THAT will be an accident!

    I'm sure that in 2043, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 2013, it's a little hard to come by.

  14. Re:Damn you Fukushima! on Asian Giant Hornets Kill 42 People In China, Injure Over 1,500 · · Score: 1

    If you don't blame this on Climate Change, you are clearly a denier.

  15. Re:It takes a special kind of people... on The Changing Face of Software Development · · Score: 1

    Look for another job in the field, they're not all this way,.

  16. Re:Females? on The Changing Face of Software Development · · Score: 1

    "females"

    I think the point is that not all developers are human (male or female).

    You mean, "hew-mahn", if we're talking Ferengi.

  17. Re:"Aliens" on Cassini Probe Sees Plastic Ingredient On Titan Moon · · Score: 1

    No, Hank Hill. He sells propene and propene accessories.

  18. Re:Great idea! Let's keep it going: on 'Eraser' Law Will Let California Kids Scrub Online Past · · Score: 1

    Not to mention eliminating many pesky pregnancies...

    They already have a way to "scrub" pregnancies.

  19. Re:The graphics were simply brilliant on Myst Was Supposed To Change the Face of Gaming. What Is Its Legacy? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the Pentium experienced a floating-point error... or running-water error.

  20. Re:Moo on Popular Science Is Getting Rid of Comments · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? He couldn't even keep His name straight. If it's causing that much trouble, get rid of either the "I" or the "J"!

  21. Re:Different Parents on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 2
    This comment:

    at least 10% of them went to parents accompanied by a child

    I guess is based on this quote from the linked article:

    Last week my store sold over a thousand copies of GTA V, at least a hundred of which were sold to parents for children who could barely even see over my counter

    Could it be for the parent maybe?

  22. Re:Steady state on Learning To Code: Are We Having Fun Yet? · · Score: 1

    Six months later, my new wife and I played Adventure on an IBM 370. She just earned her CISSP. A little whimsy goes a long way.

    All the way to the altar! What a swell story.

  23. Re:Really? on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Work Schedule Make You Unproductive? · · Score: 1

    If I'm working, I'm unproductive. If I'm not working, it gets even worse.

  24. Re:interesting on Fracked Shale Could Sequester Carbon Dioxide · · Score: 1

    You don't get it:

    You don't really need to slow down oil consumption, if the CO2 thus produced is buried instead of polluting the air.

    Because environmentalists had no opinion one way or another about oil before climate change became an issue, right?

  25. Re:Tackle health or tackel illness? on Google Tackles Health · · Score: 1

    Almost as hard as spelling.