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  1. Re:So how come they are "smart" meters? on FBI Says Smart Meter Hacks Are Likely To Spread · · Score: 1

    it's an eggcorn.

  2. 42% of households... on 42% of Worldwide Households Expected To Have Wi-Fi By 2016 · · Score: 1

    and only 1% with something other than the default password?

  3. circumvention on Company Designs "Big Brother Chip" · · Score: 5, Funny

    wet a towel and wrap it round your head.

    then get your ass to Mars.

  4. Re:Can they do that? on Google Actually Patenting Its April Fools' Joke · · Score: 1

    probably more about getting nearby vehicles out of the way quick smart before they get t-boned.

    would be amazing for those blind/deaf/selfish SUVs that don't get out of the way when an Ambulance is coming up behind them. i'd rather ambos and fireys have this tech than your regular Melbourne cop though.

  5. Re:not any more, read about formic acid on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 2

    formic acid will fuck you up though... blind, and eventually dead.

  6. Re:Let the games begin on Facebook Countersues Yahoo Over 10 Patents · · Score: 1

    FB's millions of users will see their home page looking different, then go "fuck you, Facebook", and after a short time learning the new interface, will continue doing what they always did.

  7. Re:Yahoo has been here since the dinosaurs on Facebook Countersues Yahoo Over 10 Patents · · Score: 1

    Noone is a patent troll.

  8. Re:Sanity vs. politically motivated scaremongering on NOAA Study: Radiation From Fukushima Very Dilluted, Seafood Safe · · Score: 1

    ...an extremely diluted concentration.

    so it'll only affect homoeopaths? win-win!

  9. Re:Games are an easy political issue on Bill Introduced To Ban Sale of MA15+ Games To Anyone Under 18 in SA · · Score: 1

    it's a welcome distraction from the woeful state of Australian politics.

    basically, things are very good and they need SOMETHING to argue about.

    better this than climate change - maybe they can get on with things now that they have games and boat people and other inconsequential things to argue about.

    don't get me wrong - this is bullshit, but it's easy enough to obtain the gaming content you desire without verifying your age (seriously, is anyone going to ID you at EB?).

    when politics infects any issue at all, it will fuck it beyond all recognition.

  10. Re:How many of those where linux pc's again? on Researchers Say Kelihos Gang Is Building New Botnet · · Score: 1

    so it's not security through obscurity, it's security through diversity.

    either variant of linux on it's own is not a large enough target.

    this is how wild plants survive better than crops...

  11. Re:TFA on Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water · · Score: 1

    each reactor was given it's own INES which i am too lazy to produce for you at this point. the disaster as a whole was given a 7.

    80 litres of water would probably make it onto the scale, but not particularly high.

    but we're quibbling over a designation that does not mean a huge amount. it attempts to quantify something that's not representable by a single number, in the same way that earthquakes have various scales that represent different things (the old richter scale and the modern moment magnitude scale are related only in that they are logarithmic). INES was intended to be a bit like the earthquake scales, but they don't really translate as well. fukushima and chernobyl, for instance, are quite different, though the amount of material released by the end of this thing might get up there, chernobyl was much worse (not a whole order of magnitude, but definitely worse). i'm sure you're well read on both disasters.

  12. Re:I KNOW!! on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 5, Funny

    you're crazy. they have oil. it's obvious intervention is required.

  13. Re:Hydroponics? on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    "allot" does not mean what you think it means.

  14. Re:Stopped reading at... on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 2

    by letting the food you grow rot, and capturing the resulting gas, duh.

  15. Re:Not Surprised on Munich Has Saved €4M So Far After Switch To Linux · · Score: 2

    i've found LXDE to be good, but not great. it lacks features a bit. i miss nautilus when i use LXDE, and terminal doesn't always do what it looks like it should do ($man anything).

    i'll give XFCE a try next. i'd like to see a side-by-side comparison that works.

    one thing - win7's drag-explorer-to-the-edge-and-it-fills-exactly-half-the-screen really saves the time i spend in a fit of OCD dragging edges around so i can move shit from two folders fast.

  16. Re:INSIDE THE CONTAINMENT CHAMBER on Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water · · Score: 1

    30% of children?

    cite or it didn't happen. that'd be on /.'s front page at least.

  17. Re:natural coal seam fires on Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water · · Score: 1

    only one way to stop those fires :)

  18. Re:TFA on Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water · · Score: 1

    unless your reading/comprehension is completely buggered, you'll realise i was referring to a leak of 80 litres of radioactive water into the sea.

    to think that i was referring to the entire debacle _and_ didn't realise that it as a whole was an INES level 7, seems a bit ludicrous. the quickest search of wikipedia (as you demonstrated with your own link) would tell me that the disaster was a level 7.

    you should not assume everyone you argue with hasn't the ability to read and understand, regardless of how recently or how much effort you spent attaining that skill.

  19. Re:TFA on Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water · · Score: 2

    well, mentions an 80 litre leak. not exactly INES 7 kind of thing.

  20. Re:INSIDE THE CONTAINMENT CHAMBER on Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water · · Score: 4, Informative

    even TEPCO can manage a thermometer.

    50 degrees is a bit too cool to melt through feet of concrete.

  21. Re:Just to be accurate: on Inside the Mummification of Space Shuttle Discovery · · Score: 1

    way to go blaming everyone but yourself.

    "it's not MY fault! i don't vote or pay taxes!"

    i'd love to see a fascist-socialist. really would love to see that. would that be left or right wing? what do you mean there can't be anything else?

  22. Re:My personal opinion on Why Microsoft's Keeping the Next Xbox Under Wraps · · Score: 1

    where's me mods? i spent them all modding AC troll posts "insightful" because i didn't like the people replying to them.

    the lead free solder thing is a definite issue. you gotta be crazy gentle with electronics these days, and if you have a BGA CPU you're pretty fuct. 3 years is a number i've heard quoted, and the netbook i'm typing on is a few months off that and already it's been in the shop, done a power jack and hard disk.

  23. Re:Gahh on Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad · · Score: 1

    when you launch your airline, i am absolutely not flying my family on it... not sure how my 10 month old will handle benzos (probably better than he'll handle an enhanced pat-down i suppose).

  24. Re:Poorly-written article on Amateur Astronomer Spots Strange Cloud Formations On Mars · · Score: 1

    yes! Occupy Mars!

    if you're the 99%, get your ass to Mars!

  25. Re:Gahh on Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad · · Score: 4, Funny

    how much sleep do you get in that half hour? do you manage to see the safety demonstration?

    at least you'll be relaxed if there's an emergency landing.