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  1. Re:Stupid media bait on Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone · · Score: 5, Funny

    It could grip it by the HDMI port.

  2. Do you know how much damage... on Two Sailors Injured When Drone Crashes Into US Navy Guided Missile Cruiser · · Score: 1

    Mr. Prosser: Do you know how much damage this battleship would sustain if I just let the drone fly right into it?
    Arthur: How much?
    Mr. Prosser: Some!

  3. Re:Another slashvertizement! on Nathan Myhrvold's $500 Cookbook Now an $80 iPhone App · · Score: 1

    It has beer recipes too?

  4. Re:Shame on them on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 0

    At 500 years old, it's beard must have been huge!

  5. Re:Because it's worth it so have it now on Apple Offers Refund To Stiffed Breaking Bad Season Pass Customers · · Score: 1

    His own tea.

  6. Re:3g on Ars Technica Reviews iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah, since iOS7 isn't available for the iPhone 3G.

  7. Re:a C++ kernel on New Operating System Seeks To Replace Linux In the Cloud · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Fortunately, with C++ you aren't required to use any particular feature, and don't pay a penalty for anything you don't use.

    Furthermore, the alleged performance penalties that a lot of C programmers think exist in C++ actually don't.

  8. DriveSky on Microsoft Will Have To Rename SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    Nope, that's the brand name of that new flying car on display at Airventure this week.

  9. Remember the tooth! The tooth! The tooth... on Wi-Fi-Enabled Tooth Sensor Rats You Out When You Smoke Or Overeat · · Score: 2

    Just don't bite down on it too hard.

  10. Was that sucker nuclear? on Russian Rocket Proton-M Crashes At Launch · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I didn't read the article but from the name of the rocket it sounds like it's nuclear-powered. I hope there wasn't much contamination!

  11. Other features? on Telescopic Contact Lens With Switchable Magnification To Help AMD Patients · · Score: 1

    Well, what about other optical effects, like split screen, slow motion, Quantel?

  12. We had one in our house on PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years · · Score: 1

    I lived with 4 other guys in a big old house in Blacksburg, VA (VA Tech) in 1991. One guy had a knack for finding computer surplus, and brought home *two* PDP-11s, along with a bunch of other "vintage" equipment. One sat out in the garage, while the other adorned a landing in our stairwell.

  13. Re:Smells? on Iron Man 3 To Debut As a 4DX Film In Japan · · Score: 5, Informative

    My wife and I once saw the Shrek 4D Experience at Universal Studios Florida. Every seat can emit mist, air blasts in your face, small water bursts in your face (such as when one of Donkey's kids sneezes on you), smells, and there are small air jets that can move up and down, positioned strategically at your ankles. At one point all these spiders drop down from the forest above, in 3D of course, and then they get the little air jets going on your ankles - it feels like little feathers (or SPIDERZZ OMG!) on your feet. My wife FLIPPED OUT. It was hilarious!

  14. Re:Not native on Qt 5.1 Adds Android and iOS Support · · Score: 2

    You don't compile Qt in Xcode. You use the build scripts, just like you do on Windows and Linux.

    You can build Qt *applications* in Xcode. I do it all the time.

  15. Re:Quality entertainment on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    From Mississippi, huh?

  16. Re:Goolgle maps and others will be banned in new T on Texas Declares War On Robots · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well it *is* just a _theory_.

  17. Re:So get a new name! on Python Trademark At Risk In Europe · · Score: 1, Funny

    How about "GimPy"?

  18. Gimp on For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hopefully the Gimp folks can make some use of this.

  19. Ice Pirates on NASA: Huge Freshwater Loss In the Middle East · · Score: 4, Funny

    I watched the documentary "Ice Pirates" back in the 80s. It shows a far future without much water, and people turning to piracy to get it. I bet they never knew how quickly we'd be getting to that point.

    Oh and Bruce Vilanch.

  20. Re:Garbage in, garbage out on Facebook's Graph Search: Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like you have a lot of free time on your hands. Like most Facebook users.

  21. What a waste on Mars Rover Curiosity: Less Brainpower Than Apple's iPhone 5 · · Score: 2

    And yet, from my observations, all the iPhone is ever used for is cutting virtual rope and tweeting (low-res) pictures of food. Seems like quite a waste by comparison.

  22. Re:All Apple news all the time on Apple Granted Trademark For Its Stores · · Score: 1

    I've been visiting Slashdot for quite a number of years now, and I don't agree with this assessment. Slashdot used to be a bunch of cranky Linux / Open Source guys, mixed with some unix graybeards.

    I beg to differ.

  23. Re:Three-mile-tall on Three-Mile-High Supercomputer Poses Unique Challenges · · Score: 1

    Would be much easier to just lay it on its side.

  24. Re:Mod parent up. on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I keep the pedal floored until I'm half way to my destination, then decellerate at the same rate for the remaining half :)

    Jeez how often do you replace your brakes??

  25. Re:Actual Detection of Impared Drivers on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    Have you driven around much lately? Most drivers are terrible. I rarely ever feel safe while driving around town; there are always idiots cutting people off without signalling, weaving through traffic, drifting into the wrong lanes during turns, failing to yield (or even looking when entering a roundabout), talking on the phone, and who knows what else. I think most people have forgotten the rules of the road, and that is far more dangerous than driving around high.