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  1. Re:Last you checked... on Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. Thanks. My bad. Someone please mod my previous comment down. Ouch.

  2. Re:"shake like a polaroid" ? on Sun Puts Data Center Through 6.7 Earthquake · · Score: 1

    Used to do it myself. E-6 (color slide) process and B&W prints (long live Tri-X! can you still get that?). Never did any color prints. Too expensive for me at the time.

  3. Re:Think of the naked 13 year old on Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    This was done by a public school. Oh yeah, the public schools are just overrun with conservatives. I forgot.

  4. Re:Last you checked... on Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you in Congress or what? Revenue != profit.

  5. Re:And so.. on Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... what is the worst it can do?
    Talk you to death?


    You're not married, are you?

  6. Re:Your choice on How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work? · · Score: 1

    Given your sig, how can I resist?

    Student: "When are you going to teach us about pointy sticks?"

    Teacher: "Ooh, ooh, ooh; want to learn how to defend yourself against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you, eh? Well let me tell you something lad! When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after YOU with a bunch of loganberries, don't come cryin' to me!"

  7. Re:Vista adoption.. on UI Features That Didn't Make It Into Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Dell and Lenovo are STILL offering laptops with Vista Business and FREE "downgrades" to XP Pro. I'm looking at one right now...

  8. Re:wha? on Princeton Student Finds Bug In LHC Experiment · · Score: 1

    Clearly she concentrated very hard in order to find this error...

  9. Re:The cure for Slashdot! on Addicting Mice To Light · · Score: 1

    You're the only one who said anything about love, fella.

  10. Re:Explain the science behind "miracles"? on How To Get High-Schoolers Involved In Real Science? · · Score: 1

    How seas can't just rise up.
    Cool. an experiment to disprove global warming. That should pique some interest. (It's a joke - don't get all riled up)

  11. Re:Name for the bat (Re:119V-0080) on Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery? · · Score: 1

    Might've frozen to death first.

  12. Re:On one hand... on Harlan Ellison Sues For "Star Trek" Episode · · Score: 1

    T.J. Hooker does NOT rhyme with Barn! What have you been smoking?

  13. Re:Tweet? on Juror Tweets Could Create Mistrial · · Score: 1

    Factually, nothing, at least taken as an isolated event. But hindsight is not the same as foresight. Your five-year old can't explain to the gallery why they should buy his work (i.e. ascribe the deeper meaning to it that the buyer wants, create a coherent body of work, not just a one-off slopping paint on a canvas, etc.) I'm really out of my league answering this question, as I majored in chemical engineering not art history, and I'd rather not switch over to a car analogy at this point, but that's my 2 cents worth.

  14. Re:Side effect on Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    By your logic, it would be perfectly reasonable for a city to set up a traffic light with a 100 millisecond yellow light, and then give you a ticket for going through it. Maybe you're able to predict when the light is going to change, but everyone else lacks your special ability.

  15. Re:Tweet? on Juror Tweets Could Create Mistrial · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's like the thought process of someone looking at an abstract painting, like a Jackson Pollock, and saying, 'My five year old could have done that!"
    The point is, you didn't, they did, and you can only wish that you had.

  16. Re:if they do that on Intel Threatens To Revoke AMD's x86 License · · Score: 1

    No, it's not really all that fun running a race with no competitors.

  17. Re:And then? on New Laser System Targets Mosquitoes · · Score: 0

    OK, but 9/10 is a valid fraction to both of you - he should have used that as his example instead of 1/1 - and I think we'd all be happy if we eliminated 90% of a disease vector.

  18. Re:Compression on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 1

    The loss due to the space between the pixels increasing as the number of pixels increases is small compared with the loss due to simply smaller pixels as the number of pixels incrases for a constant sensor (format) size.

  19. Re:Just to get it out of the way on What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway? · · Score: 1

    You just missed it. It's up there.

  20. Re:"Caustic"? on New Graphics Firm Promises Real-Time Ray Tracing · · Score: 1

    If they ever put in images in the Acid3 test (I guess it'll be Acidx where x>3) that require ray-tracing like this, Caustic Graphics solutions will be neutralized. Yuk yuk.

  21. Re:Aside from that... that isn't scientific litera on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    Or maybe even a run-on sentence. Or a sentence fragment. Or...

  22. Re:PPL still use FF? on Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not offtopic if you consider that there is an ad for Google Chrome on the page along with the article about Firefox. Kind of ironic, actually.

  23. Re:Great on Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah. They set the date one year beyond planned release date, but it's delayed by two years, so ends up with the previous year in the name by the time it's released...

  24. Re:Something stinks around here on DHS To Use Body Odor As a Lie Detector · · Score: 1

    I can just see it on product labels...
    "This product manufactured in a plant that also processes tree nuts, soy, milk, wheat, and rocks."

  25. Re:Um, what? on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 1

    actually 74 minutes, but the other plus is that they sound better than mp3s. Yeah, I expect that's opening that old can of worms...