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  1. Re:Don't Use 'Maroon' Negatively on Google's Academic TB Swap Project · · Score: 1
    I have a pretty good vocabulary, yet I was unfamiliar with the 1st definition provided above.

    I assumed the Bugs Bunny interpretation as well. There, now you have at least two instances.

  2. Re:Claustrophobics rejoice on The Blackest Material · · Score: 1

    I doubt that would work. Being inside a small cylinder, visual cues are not the only thing giving you a sense of what you're in. Sound is also an important indicator.

  3. Re:What do you use Photoshop for? on Photoshop Online Within Six Months · · Score: 1

    OK. So why not tell us what exactly is the best photo editing software?

  4. Re:Spelling error on Ramanujian's Deathbed Problem Cracked · · Score: 1

    Someone please mod up SQRT(-1)!

  5. Re:sIFR is annoying on The Principles of Beautiful Web Design · · Score: 1

    I don't reply to Anonymous Cowards. But you did, you did.

  6. Re:I don't know... on Windows Vista - Still Fresh After 19 Months? · · Score: 1

    I don't hate "M$", but c'mon that there's funny!

  7. Re:Here's an idea on Does the Internet Need a Major Capacity Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    why should we believe you? You're an impostor.

  8. Re:So why not imitating fish? on Fish-like Sensors for Underwater Robots · · Score: 1

    Looks like flyingfsck had some mod points.

  9. Re:It is a no-win situation on Human Nature Trumps Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    We have heard of some - obviously they didn't mean anything to you or you weren't paying attention.

  10. Re:So why not imitating fish? on Fish-like Sensors for Underwater Robots · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    It's == It is

    What's [what is] the problem?

  11. Re:It is a no-win situation on Human Nature Trumps Homeland Security · · Score: 1
    I think in #4 you meant "2. Terrorist attack is foiled."

    It cannot simulataneously happen and be foiled.

    In any case, isn't what has really happened more like this?:

    Scenario #4

    1. $PRESIDENT and $EXECUTIVE_BRANCH_POLITICIANS do everything that they can given the political and budget constraints to prevent anything even resembling a terrorist attack.

    2. Terrorist attack happens, but is foiled.

    3. People ignore the foiled terrorism or don't even hear about it and $PRESIDENT and $EXECUTIVE_BRANCH_POLITICIANS still get blamed for spending and doing ineffective counter-measures.

  12. Lack of OO.o not surprising on Software Missing From Vista's "Official Apps" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    . . . lack of Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, etc. very surprising.

  13. Re:Putting Paid on Microsoft Apologizes for Serving Malware · · Score: 1

    Interesting tidbit, but I don't think it explains the poorly worded sentence in the summary. If I'm wrong, please explain.

  14. Re:California? on Asteroid Highlighted as Impact Threat · · Score: 1

    and California, if it were considered to be its own nation, would have either the sixth, seventh, or tenth largest economy among all nations in the world today, according to various sources.

  15. Re:Ummmmmm on Wikipedia Founder Introduces Wiki Magazine Sites · · Score: 1
    Does anyone actually bother reading anything that has sentences sprawling across the entire width of a computer screen?

    Um, yeah, like all the comments on /.?

  16. Re:And a butterfly could cause a hurricane on Bird Flu Pandemic Could Choke the Net · · Score: 1

    er...yeah...look at my User Page: http://slashdot.org/~treeves/

  17. Re:better name? on Motorola Unveils Phone That Bends · · Score: 1
    That's funny.

    But what's the Matt Groening connection?

  18. Re:Of Course... on Do You Care About Race in Games? · · Score: 1
    When I saw the question I immediately thought of racing as well and had to read a comment to realize what was meant!

    I don't know if the reason is I'm not a gamer. I just wanted to understand how racing/chasing could be a factor in non-racing games -

  19. Re:Submariners on Breakdown Forces New Look At Mars Mission Sexuality · · Score: 1

    "Boomer" is the slang for ballistic missile submarine - SSBN (as opposed to attack submarine - SSN).

  20. Anyone notice? on Intel Squeezes 1.8 TFlops Out of One Processor · · Score: 1

    One year later, and /. has updated their Intel logo to the new one?

  21. Re:Submariners on Breakdown Forces New Look At Mars Mission Sexuality · · Score: 1

    They called us "boomer fags", but I knew of only one during my time in the submarine force. He was a cook and he was quietly discharged during the force reduction at the beginning of the Clinton era.

  22. Re:Unless it's turrists! on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1
    Insightful?

    FYI, NY Sen. Carl Kruger is a Democrat.

  23. this is interesting. . . on DNS Root Servers Attacked · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Nothing like Water World, here's why: on Ocean Planets on the Brink of Detection · · Score: 1
    And they say if you had a bathtub big enough, Saturn would float in it.

    Of course that much water in the vicinity of Saturn would be ice, but it's fun to think about a planet floating in a bathtub.

  25. Re:but... the most *unique feature... on OS Comparisons From the BBC · · Score: 1

    OK. I'm not a Windows hater, but that was LOL funny!