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  1. Re:No we are not. on Google's Android Ambitions Go Beyond Mobile · · Score: 1

    "...because I can't wait 10 minutes to get into the bath."

    Really? I can't tell if you're serious or not. Electricity and bathtubs sounds like a bad combination. Also I can't imagine getting home and having nothing else to do but immediately jump in the bathtub. Or having such an urgent need to.

    Being able to turn lights on or off while away from home sounds like a good idea, OTOH.

  2. Re:Future shock on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 1

    Populous is an adjective, not a noun.
    The word you sought was populace.

  3. Re:it is a shame too. on The Internet Is Killing Local News, Says the FCC · · Score: 1

    Did you notice his sig?

  4. Re:WeinerGate on Hackers Expose 26,000 Sex Website Passwords · · Score: 1

    That's what Pete Townshend said!

  5. Re:WeinerGate on Hackers Expose 26,000 Sex Website Passwords · · Score: 1

    Can't be. He's my bowling partner.

    - Walter Sobchak

  6. Re:so DUI checkpoints are 100% on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    It was a small town, the guy was quite overweight and not accustomed to walking, beyond that I don't know.

  7. Re:I was hoping on Arduino Music Controllers With Horns, Finally · · Score: 1

    Correction: her *right* hand. Left hand would be a sure sign of a poser. And she's sure to be a good kisser, with that embouchure.
    Got any good viola jokes?

  8. Re:Oaths on Tennessee Bans Posting 'Offensive' Images Online · · Score: 1

    Of course, the Constitution (as is any document) is powerless by itself, and depends on men of courage to defend it. Men such as they who signed the Declaration of Independence. These have been lacking.

  9. Re:As I'm reading this through IE6 on Ex-Google Engineer Blasts Google's Technology · · Score: 1

    Least you could do is read it on Chrome running on XP like I am.

  10. Re:Is it possible to.. on Why Apple's DUI Checkpoint App Ban Is Stupid · · Score: 1

    Depends on where you are, I'd say.

  11. Re:I was hoping on Arduino Music Controllers With Horns, Finally · · Score: 1

    Same here. When I see horn and music in the same sentence/headline, I think of this: http://www.cgconn.com/content/detail.php?model=8D

  12. Re:so DUI checkpoints are 100% on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    I once worked at a place and a guy that worked for me drove his lawnmower to work one day because his car was out of commission. Got a good laugh out of that.

  13. Re:Mac cam : LED on on Police Say Mac Tech Installed Spyware To Photo Women · · Score: 1

    He most definitely dissembled.

    Your sig is a little ironic in this case. Recommending to do something that you've never seen done because you have a theory it would work?

  14. Re:I'm so sorry but... on Police Say Mac Tech Installed Spyware To Photo Women · · Score: 2

    He's a grocer. He's allowed to have those extra apostrophe's.

  15. Re:A-PPolice State. on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    I assume you must have a significant portion of the shares of Apple stock. So go to the shareholder meetings and exert your considerable influence as an owner to get Apple to provide the apps that you want. Let us know how that works out for you.

  16. Re:A-PPolice State. on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    This seems to contain the implicit assumption that you MUST have an iPhone. Like it's required by law or in order to survive.
    The logic here astounds me.

  17. Re:A-PPolice State. on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that if enough people want something and there is no distribution but the thing exists, that someone else will come along and take advantage of the situation and make another store.

  18. Re:And you could always not drive a car on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    Gee, I hadn't heard that the government banned all car companies other than GM. That's a bummer.

  19. Re:so DUI checkpoints are 100% on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    I 'm willing to opt out and use the private roads then.

  20. Am I unusual? on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1

    I see a lot of comments from others to whom this has happened or is still happening.
    It has never happened to me.
    I think we need a new poll to see how common it is.

  21. Re:More like iDoughnut on Apple Plans New Spaceship-like Campus · · Score: 1

    First, he didn't gain much since he posted as AC,
    Second, he had to know enough to look it up on wikipedia.
    But yes, posting an interesting or informative wikipedia link is a common way to gain an upmod.

  22. Re:I can see it now ... on Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors · · Score: 1

    GP was answering the question properly, not asking a question. You are familiar with Jeopardy, aren't you? (That is a rhetorical question.)

  23. Doesn't look as big as the sun itself to me on Massive Explosion On the Sun · · Score: 1

    ...but it's a little hard to tell since the whole thing doesn't fit in the video frame.

  24. Re:"But but but" blah blah. on Japan Doubles Fukushima Radiation Leak Estimate · · Score: 1

    What level of peril?

    Sir Lancelot: We were in the nick of time. You were in great peril.
    Sir Galahad: I don't think I was.
    Sir Lancelot: Yes, you were. You were in terrible peril.
    Sir Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
    Sir Lancelot: No, it's too perilous.
    Sir Galahad: Look, it's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can.
    Sir Lancelot: No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on.
    Sir Galahad: Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
    Sir Lancelot: No. It's unhealthy.
    Sir Galahad: I bet you're gay.
    Sir Lancelot: Am not.

  25. Re:Mathematics should get one first on Why There's No Nobel Prize In Computing · · Score: 1

    I agree with you basically, but you could leave out the "bring mankind forward" bit since I think mathematics does that, albeit in a different way from the applied sciences. Although the applied sciences constantly rely on mathematics, there is an abstract/concrete distinction that separates the two.