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  1. Epic Fail! on Opera 10.0 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Recent versions have become increasingly brittle. In the "final" version (at least for linux), it's got a showstopper bug that causes it to spin in a loop anytime the cpu gets busy, causing it to eat up even more cpu time. This is nowhere near ready for release.

  2. Wildridium on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 1

    Hey, just because it's got nothing to do with me is no reason they shouldn't name it after me, is it? Well, they should do it anyway.

  3. Re:Gomco, Mogen, Plastibell. on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 2, Informative

    All the medical evidence is that circumcision does nothing of the sort. Every time there's new thing, like AIDS, claims are made that circumcision prevents it and it is always proven false. It is a mutilation to reduce sexual pleasure and has no other purpose. That female circumcision is worse is meaningless. But don't let the piles of medical evidence cloud your reality.

  4. What do they tell us about the evolution of birds? on What Parrots Tell Us About the Evolution of Birds · · Score: 1

    Pretty much the same things we told them. Oh, and crackers came up surprisingly often.

  5. Here's how they can make it up to us -- I mean, me on Canadians Miss Out On Doctor Who Season Finale · · Score: 1
  6. Re:18 minutes out of . . . ? on Canadians Miss Out On Doctor Who Season Finale · · Score: 1

    The Canadian Broadcorping Castration, as it were.

  7. Is this a joke? on Black Mesa Nearing Completion, Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Ha ha, fat chance!

  8. I can't see a difference ... on 18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... It's the same old crappy writing and acting, characters and dialogue. Now, with HD, you get a crystal clear image of the crap they put on the millions of channels. Yay! Maybe once they put out something worth watching I'll worry about the picture quality.

  9. Re:Wrath of Kahn on The Best Fictional Doomsday Devices · · Score: 1

    A working Genesis device might do that, but they never got around to making a working one. They have the one that blows the planet to bits. That's kinda uninhabitable.

  10. The Positronic Ray on The Best Fictional Doomsday Devices · · Score: 1

    Created by earth scientist Durand Durand in Barbarella. I, for one, don't want to be deminimalized into the fourth dimension, or whatever it was that it was supposed to do.

  11. Re:Show attached block devices on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 2, Informative

    tail --follow=name --retry --max-unchanged-stats=5 Is good for log files that periodically restart and rename the old ones.

  12. Re:Computer models do what they are told. on The Rise of the (Financial) Machines · · Score: 1

    Something about "Garbage in, garbage out" comes to mind.

  13. Re:Since looking farther = further in time on "Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe · · Score: 1

    Beyond this bubble, thar be dragons!

  14. Re:Errata on When Dinosaurs Battled Crurotarsans · · Score: 1

    ... but the loveliest of all were the Crurotarsans.

  15. Re:Hurray! on NASA Announces Water Found On Mars · · Score: 1

    First the ice -- Then Ice Pirates!

  16. Re:what? on Police Director Sues AOL For Critical Blogger's Name · · Score: 1

    Is? Can't get very far without is.

  17. Re:Why can't they just leave shit alone? on Makemake Becomes the Newest Dwarf Planet · · Score: 1

    Yep. But when we're counting planets we don't count dwarf planets. It's a funny old world. Of course when we're counting humans, we'd rather get the right number than create an artificial distinction such that we have a well known, non-changing, easily remembered number of humans. Personally, I think that as long as it's spherical and orbits the sun, it's a planet and there are however many of them that there are, and we'll discover them as we discover them. But I'm not an astronomer and I don't get a vote.

  18. Re:Why can't they just leave shit alone? on Makemake Becomes the Newest Dwarf Planet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's the beauty of this new system: Dwarf planets don't count towards the overall total. So it doesn't matter if Sedna, Orcus, Santa, Ixion, Quaoar and so on turn out to be dwarf planets, the number of planets will still be eight. So you won't have to learn anything new.

  19. Totally Tubular on Makemake Becomes the Newest Dwarf Planet · · Score: 1

    Hey, it's the first dwarf planet that comes with it's own Mike Oldfield theme song -- Neat!

  20. Re:Time to patch on 33-Year-Old Unix Bug Fixed In OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Better than your system taken over Yahoo Seriously.

  21. Re: Danish Blue on A Really, Really Ex-Parrot · · Score: 1

    If Slashdot readers were the type of people to read the article, they'd know the people that named it Danish Blue were aware they were naming after the Norwegian Blue. But then again, there's not much call for reading the article around here.

  22. Re:No Child Left Behind on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    A recent study on American public schools found that only 43% of highschoolers know that the Civil War was fought between 1850 and 1900; a testament to the success of President Bush's "57% of Children Left Behind Act." When confronted with these results, Bush asked, "OK, but who won? 1850 or 1900?" - N. Glaser + R. Roy

  23. Re:The worst part is ... on Register, Others Call Plagiarism in "Limbo of the Lost" Game · · Score: 1

    That would, of course, be the joke. Their thing is "similar" to the point where it can't be merely co-incidental, but not identical.

  24. Re:The worst part is ... on Register, Others Call Plagiarism in "Limbo of the Lost" Game · · Score: 1

    Curses! -- Meme'd again!

  25. The worst part is ... on Register, Others Call Plagiarism in "Limbo of the Lost" Game · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... The scene where the protagonist is leaping over barrels thrown by a large orangutan. It's a dead giveaway.