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  1. Re:Office Space 2: The Knocked Up guys on TSA Makes $400K Annually In Loose Change · · Score: 1

    substitute "baby daddy" for "father" and it's OK.

  2. Re:Why? on Victorinox Makes 1TB Swiss Army Knife · · Score: 2

    Is that the one described in the Epic of Gilgamesh?

  3. Re:FFS... on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 1

    So brown and shiny then. Could be good.

  4. Re:Dull Specs, but battery life? on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 1

    Heck, I even have a cable that lets me plug my phone into the freakin' wall!

  5. Re:Dull Specs, but battery life? on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 1

    Unless the video is 1/30 of a second in length, obviously.

  6. Re:Why So expensive? on Kinect For Windows Releasing On February 1 · · Score: 1

    Don't do that...the Angry Birds will get it for sure.
    Keep it under wood, brick and glass structure and see if it ever bumps up against the ceiling.

  7. Re:Zeno on The Doomsday Clock Is Moved Closer To Midnight · · Score: 1

    I don't think he was saying we'd run out of iron itself, but that we'd be energy-limited, therefore unable to refine any iron ore or recycle any more iron/steel.

  8. Re:Yes! on Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be hard to rename it...how about GRIM: GNU Raster Image Manipulation? That'd be a step up.
    GNU Raster Editing Program...oh that name is taken?
    GNU Raster Editing And Tailoring
    GNU Image Viewer Editor & Refiner
    Wait. I have an idea. How about naming it without requiring the name to be an acronym?

  9. Re:DECtalk on Glimpse of Stephen Hawking's Computer · · Score: 1

    It was probably unplugged just before the photo was taken. Everyone knows that cats love sitting on top of warm things.
    Heck , when I was a kid, we had a cat that would rest on top of the dog!

  10. Re:Mr Dell's reality distortion field on Michael Dell Dismisses Tablet Threat To the PC Market · · Score: 1

    This. 128 x 0.001% = 0.128%

  11. Re:Also, if you owned Apple on Michael Dell Dismisses Tablet Threat To the PC Market · · Score: 1

    Please explain how leaving a laptop on all the time wears it out.

  12. Re:Hmm...scale does not compute. on Could a Dirty Rag Take Out a $2 Billion Satellite? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, not paper. These things are assembled in cleanrooms, in which ordinary paper is not allowed, due to the particles/fibers it sheds. Cleanroom cloths are usually lint-free polyester cloth squares about 8 inches on a side, IME.

  13. Re:Is it age? on New Research Shows Cognitive Decline Begins At 45 · · Score: 1

    GP didn't say anything about fluoride. He blamed flouride. So many people are anti-wheat these days.

  14. Re:This will finally make men obsolete. on Mouse Sperm Cells Grown In Vitro · · Score: 1

    I find a spoon works better usually.

  15. Re:When in Rome on Australian Deported From Bahrain Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 2

    ...and if the cultural norm is to shoot people for peacefully protesting, we should just accept that cultural difference and be happy.

  16. Re:Extended warranty? How can I lose? on FDA Approves Self-Sanitizing Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I imagine the UV is much more than 99.9% effective.
    But as for stuff that says 99.9% effective, you're right.
    If there are a million bacteria on a surface and I kill 99.9% of them, I can leave the 1000 strongest ones alive to multiply and make a million much stronger bacteria.

  17. Re:Chromebooks, fool. on Teachers Resist High-tech Push In Idaho Schools · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see the transcript:

    Googling: A-
    ICanHazCheezburger: B+
    4chan trolling: B
    Wikipedia surfing: C+
    Facebook updating: B+
    Flash games: A

  18. Re:That's the big problem. on Teachers Resist High-tech Push In Idaho Schools · · Score: 1

    So is a "large" cup larger than a quart? My, my. A quart or more of soft drink as a serving? No wonder we have the obesity issue we have.

  19. Re:I dunno. on Germans Increase Office Efficiency With "Cloud Ceiling" · · Score: 1

    Old school. CRT Zeppelin. Monochrome amber.

  20. Re:Next step... on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1

    It's strange that you got modded down, while GP got modded funny, when the implication of GP's post is your post.

  21. Re:Consider a high end pocketable on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 1

    G12 is a good camera, but pocketable? Those are some big pockets.

  22. Re:Not a bad idea but... on Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar · · Score: 1

    Yeah, ounces per square foot, actually. I used to work in PCB fabrication myself. Hated plating then screening those heavy copper boards, like 2 oz. and above.

  23. Re:In a nutshell: on Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar · · Score: 2

    Ethiopian calendar has thirteen months, with the thirteenth month being variable length and only a week or so long, IIRC, in order to do this.
    They also are on a different year number than the Gregorian calendar, about seven years behind I believe. I went there in 2008 and found that Y2k had been the previous year in Ethiopia.

  24. Re:Not a bad idea but... on Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar · · Score: 1

    Speaking as someone working in manufacturing (in the USA), we still regularly use *both* systems, lbs and kg, gallons and liters. It is a minor annoyance, adding work and occasionally confusion.

  25. Re:Everything would be on the same day every year. on Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar · · Score: 2

    But they're not on the same day every year now, so not a big deal.
    Oh, and Easter wouldn't be on the same day every year either, due to the moon.