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  1. How hard can it be to make a program... on Voting Machines Malfunction: 5,000 Votes Not Counted In Kansas County · · Score: 1

    That can count?

  2. Re:Bell Labs on Isaac Asimov: How Do People Get New Ideas? · · Score: 1

    The only thing I would even dare venture to guess is that the great ideas of the ages have come from people who were looking for things, even if they found something other than what they were looking for (like Penicillin).

    Or LSD. Or cortexiphan.

  3. Re:Gosh! A friend of THE Isaac Asimov! on Isaac Asimov: How Do People Get New Ideas? · · Score: 1

    Doh ... Senor, not senior.

    Yo soy el stupido. :-P

    It's actually Señor.

  4. Women outside the house... on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    It's posts like these that will get even Slashdot banned in the Middle East one day... Well, I say we send the radical islamists to space first.

  5. Question is... on Exxon and Russian Operation Discovers Oil Field Larger Than the Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 1

    Will we have enough oxygen to burn it enough electricity to power all those A/C units in a couple of years time...

  6. They can do what they want... on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 2

    But nobody is taking my Whiskey from me!

  7. What year is it? on Ask Slashdot: Remote Support For Disconnected, Computer-Illiterate Relatives · · Score: 1

    Thought it was 1997 for a minute...

  8. Matter of coice on Newly Discovered 60-foot Asteroid About To Buzz By Earth · · Score: 1

    This one decided it would rather spend another aeon in the cold of space alone than land in Russia.

  9. Re: Around or on top of millitary bases? on Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US · · Score: 1

    Why Chinese, right away? They could be Russian for all you know. They're still no different from the commission we know and plenty of ruthless crooks there too. *cough* Putin *cough*

  10. Ethically? on NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts On One-Way Missions To Deep Space · · Score: 1

    If we had done anything ethically on this planet we wouldn't have to be looking for a new one to move to in the first place...

  11. I know this is getting old... on Japanese Man Already Lined Up To Buy iPhone 6 · · Score: -1, Troll

    But is anyone line up for beta yet? ^_^

  12. One word... on Enlightenment E19 Pre-Alpha Released · · Score: 2

    Screenshots!!

  13. Ban the internet! on How the Web Makes a Real-Life Breaking Bad Possible · · Score: 2

    Joking. Interesting read. Clearly some drugs, by all means not all, should be legalised - better quality, increased safety, less incentives to invent untested and often hazardous chemicals and, last but not least, PROFIT for the country's budget! Old school politics and the WOD nonsense have caused enough damage already. Even the head of UK Police is saying it: End war on drugs, says Durham police chief Mike Barton

  14. Owncloud on Ask Slashdot: Events Calendar Software For Local Community? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Though it provides a handful of other features, such as file storage and address books, it has a pretty robust CalDAV management interface, complete with user & group sharing and mobile device support - which is what I've primarily set it up to do for our SME without the need of signing up for Google Apps at $5 a pop.

    Hope this helps.

  15. Is EU becoming EUSSR...? on EU Court Holds News Website Liable For Readers' Comments · · Score: 0

    ...or EUSA?

  16. Old hardware still being produced?? on iPhone 4, iPad 2 Get US Import Ban · · Score: 0

    Is this really such a big deal? How long since iPhone 4 / iPad 2 have gone out of production and replaced by newer models? Doubt the ruling will have any serious impact...

  17. Lack of technical details on Pod2g Confirms iOS 6, iOS 6.1 Beta 4 Untethered Jailbreak · · Score: 0

    Rather disappointing the complete lack of even vague details about how the Jailbreak came to be. Hopefully there'll be something to munch on once 6.1 GM is released...

  18. Spotty availability on Kim Dotcom's Mega Claims 1 Million Users Within 24 Hours · · Score: 0

    "Demand was great enough to knock Mega offline for a number of users attempting to either connect up or sign up for new accounts, and Mega's availability remains spotty as of this articles' writing."

    Just wait until Slashdotters start waking up around the World. That should take care of both spotty and availability.

  19. Re:This is probably common on FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn · · Score: 0

    "70 percent of the time - it works every time!" - Anchorman

  20. Getting caught on Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge · · Score: 0

    A slight off-topic - but how do people who have the skills to realize complex attacks manage to fail to cover their tracks and get caught?

  21. DRM for Weapons on New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles · · Score: 0

    What, this isn't already done by default? Nothing learnt from Saddam/Iraq then...

  22. Yes but... on Steve Jobs' Yacht Revealed · · Score: 0

    Does it run iOS?

  23. Subcontract on Our Weather Satellites Are Dying · · Score: 1

    Why not lease or buy the data from the Russians & the Chinese while we're getting the new ones into orbit... Cheaper and would get the job, or at least some of it, done. 2c

  24. UVB x 3 on Alpha Centauri Has an Earth-Sized Planet · · Score: 0

    I wonder what factor protection they use over there. Oh wait, it's only 6 Mkm away from Cen B.

  25. Value for money? on Gold Artifact To Orbit Earth In Hope of Alien Retrieval · · Score: 0

    Why not use something a bit more durable and less expensive?