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  1. Re:Sigh on Tatooine Youth Suspected In Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    I came here hoping for a least a chuckle. I honestly thought the joke was all the html/css/obfuscated javascript appearing on every page where advertisements should be.

  2. Thank you.
    If only slashdot could figure out a way to take the most relevant information in an article.. and somehow put it at the top of the comment section.. Hmm, what could we call it?

  3. Re:You bet they are "quietly optimistic".. on Researchers Experiment With Explosives To Fight Wildfires · · Score: 1

    "Fire is very fast moving if it gets up into the tree tops. If the fire is still smouldering or burning on the forest floor, it's moving at a fraction of the speed, giving emergency services extra time to come in with water bombing or ground operations," Doig says.

  4. Re:i just stare at the sun until my eyes adjust to on NASA's Plan To Block Light From Distant Stars To Find 'Earth 2.0' · · Score: 1

    Wonderful. When people told me not to stare at the sun because it would cause permanent damage, I thought they were talking about damage to the sun

  5. Re:I beg to differ. on Pedophile Asks To Be Deleted From Google Search After European Court Ruling · · Score: 1

    oh ho ho! you really.. burned me.

  6. Re:I beg to differ. on Pedophile Asks To Be Deleted From Google Search After European Court Ruling · · Score: 1

    It's surprising how much less sensitive your mouth is to temperature than the rest of your body. I'm not saying that's not ridiculously hot, but some people sip it annoyingly loud, cooling it in the the process.
    If you're taking a shower, I'm not sure what the tolerable limit is for most people.. I guess around 120F, but make the water as hot as you can stand, then open your mouth.. it just feels warm

  7. Re:I beg to differ. on Pedophile Asks To Be Deleted From Google Search After European Court Ruling · · Score: 1

    You can't comfortably pour it on your crotch either

  8. Re:Want to swim with dolphins? Better do it now. on Orca Identified As 103 Years Old · · Score: 1

    There are always people who will be butt-hurt [ifaw.org] about any human interaction with animals

    Have you ever actually seen how an elephant is trained? Positive reinforcement doesn't work with elephants. They prefer to be stabbed in the face with a large metal hook

  9. Re:Want to swim with dolphins? Better do it now. on Orca Identified As 103 Years Old · · Score: 1

    My only hope is that these anonymous cowards are just two anonymous cowards and not three or more.

    I was thinking it was just one AC arguing with itself.. ugh

  10. Re:on old whales on Orca Identified As 103 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Why does it have to stab itself? Maybe someone threw a 50 year old harpoon at a 3 year old whale 50 years ago

  11. Re:Bad example on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    The question should be more like this:
    On one track there's 10 escaped criminals and the other is your wife with son and another child in the belly.

    Is there enough time to review her life insurance policy to determine if it will be considered an accidental death?

  12. Re:Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the child isn't moving

  13. Re:I like your argument, sir. on Feds Issue Emergency Order On Crude Oil Trains · · Score: 1

    If you said that to a stranger in a face-to-face conversation, I think most would take offense.

  14. Re:Synching calendars and contacts well on The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' · · Score: 1

    If you have a feature phone with more capability than the first gen iphone, what would you add to it to make it a smart phone?

  15. Re:INteresting on NASA Honors William Shatner With Distinguished Public Service Medal · · Score: 1

    I have never heard his name in anything but an ST reference.

    I think Stephen Hawking said he was inspired to study theoretical physics after hearing Shatner's version of Rocket Man.

  16. Re:INteresting on NASA Honors William Shatner With Distinguished Public Service Medal · · Score: 1

    why can't we be friends?

  17. Re: Actually it's both. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    I would have gone with a train analogy

  18. Re:Actually it's both. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    In the vacuum, what would happen if it had empty space in the upper part of the tube? Would the liquid would just fall out of the lower end with no bubble going up the lower opening to fill the space? It would be interesting to see if that's the case.

  19. Re:Actually it's both. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    In fact it's not even wrong to say that air pressure makes a siphon work

    Wouldn't that be wrong if a siphon works in a vacuum? http://science.slashdot.org/co...

  20. Re:Editorializing on Previously Unknown Warhol Works Recovered From '80s Amiga Disks · · Score: 1

    Was Warhol's dirty TP also art?

    It could be, according to this guy

  21. Re:IIIum? on Lytro Illum Light-Field Camera Lets You Refocus Pictures Later · · Score: 3, Informative

    Illum

  22. Re:Now you too... on The Science Behind Powdered Alcohol · · Score: 1

    It's been suggested that it's just alcohol mixed with a highly absorbent tapioca starch sold as "N-Zorbit M", so at best, it would down into starch and alcohol.

  23. Re:HP LaserJet 4M+ on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 2

    I think that's mostly because of the fuser warming up. It has a hollow teflon coated roller with a 9" long lightbulb inside it to heat it. I don't remember them being more than 250-500W though. I used to repair copiers and printers.

  24. old telephones on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    Those old rotary and touch-tone phones from the telephone company in the 70s/80s. I think we had the same one from 1976 to the early 90's, and that thing took a lot of abuse from three kids. It was constantly being yanked off the counter but the handset cord, and the plastic cover would come off, but the thing was a tank. It never stopped working

  25. Re:WHAT COULD GO WRONG? on MIT Designs Tsunami Proof Floating Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1