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  1. Re:Always on As US Cleans Its Energy Mix, It Ships Coal Problems Overseas · · Score: 1

    America Exports Black Energy Death Throughout the Globe, Condemning Humanity to Extinction

    That's the weirdest title for a story about Michael Jackson's death that I've ever read.

  2. Re:Dupe on Did Large Eyes Lead To Neanderthals' Demise? · · Score: 2

    It's nice to know that the Dice purchase hasn't changed the old /. traditions.

  3. First? on Walgreens To Build First Self-Powered Retail Store · · Score: 1

    There have been plenty of net-zero retail stores over the last few millenia, and I'm sure that someone has some net-positive stores out there now. The net-negative trend is fairly recent.

  4. Re:Ok... on Windfarm Sickness Spreads By Word of Mouth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or they have just become less capable of using proper grammar.

    When eight hundred years old you reach, use grammar as well you will not.

  5. Just imagine a "Supernatural" episode on Most Popular Human Cell In Science Gets Sequenced · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...with the ghost of Ms. Lacks. They'd have to salt & burn every last cell line.

  6. Re:Forgotten 2012 campaign poster on Obama Administration To Allow All Spy Agencies To Scour Americans' Finances · · Score: 1

    I don't see us pushing the weak aside for living space,

    That's because we still have plenty of living space. But the prime real estate is being taken with eminent domain for shopping malls. Back in the day the investors had to buy out the homes individually.

  7. Overheard at Facebook on High Tech Vending Machines Transform IT Support At Facebook · · Score: 1

    "Want to see something hilarious? Get Tim the intern to check out a Monster HDMI cable; he's only $400 away from tripping the employee-theft algorithm."
    Seriously though, interns will have much larger "bills" on these machines.

  8. Bloggers Being Sued By Panda on EFF Jumps In To Defend Bloggers Being Sued By Prenda · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's what I read due to the tiny font on my phone. Durn letigigious pandas.

  9. Instead of killing the world five times on Nuclear Arms Cuts, Supported By 56% of Americans, Would Make the World Safer · · Score: 1

    We'll just kill it three times. Safer!

  10. Re:Are you baiting us? on SpiderSense Suit Delivers Superhuman Perception · · Score: 1

    According to MSH, it's a technology-based super power. Magic/Genetics/Technology/Psychic, the source doesn't matter in Marvel as much as the effect (unless you're talking about the social aspects; Mutants being the obvious case).

  11. Nope, that's Iron Man's sensors on SpiderSense Suit Delivers Superhuman Perception · · Score: 2

    Spider-Man's spider sense is psychically/mystically based (he can sense if a hidden sniper a mile away is pointing a gun at him). This is more like Iron Man's armor sensors, which have danger detection systems too. /nerd

  12. Re:excellent on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 1

    No, just pointing out that depth of water can be related to latitude.

  13. Re:excellent on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 1

    Depth of water isn't related to latitude.

    That depends on how fast the world revolves on its axis.

  14. Re:excellent on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 1

    Lots of older houses in the north have highly angled roofs and doors-to-mid-air on second floors. That said, it doesn't all fall at once, so some regular shoveling will keep the front of the house clear.

  15. Re:All places I worked on Harvard Secretly Searched Deans' Email · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everything relates to academic independence. It's the diplomatic immunity of the academic world.

  16. George Lucas says: on Lucas Says Ford, Fisher and Hamill May Return For Next Star Wars · · Score: 1

    "I don't own Star Wars any more what are you bothering me for?"

  17. Re:Let me get this straight on Hockey Sticks Among Carry-On Items TSA Has Cleared For Planes · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Good luck on Planescape: Torment Successor Funded In 6 Hours · · Score: 1

    And those things don't work as strings of cutscenes either. They need the RPG to make you invested.

  19. Re:Not a joke on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 1

    And we know where they come from, but we just let Canada get away with their deployments every fall.

  20. Re:It's a drone dammit on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was a scary color and had a bayonet mount.

  21. FBI said it was looking to identify and locate on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 1

    FBI said it was looking to identify and locate the aircraft and its operator

    ...with their black, three foot wide, four propeller drones.

    Andyway, 3' wide? That's tiny!

  22. Re:Get TeamViewer on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Set Up a Parent's PC? · · Score: 1
    Hopefully you're using ssh tunneling or stunnel or something: http://www.tightvnc.com/faq.php#howsecure

    Although TightVNC encrypts VNC passwords sent over the net, the rest of the traffic is sent as is, unencrypted (for password encryption, VNC uses a DES-encrypted challenge-response scheme, where the password is limited by 8 characters, and the effective DES key length is 56 bits). So using TightVNC over the Internet can be a security risk. To solve this problem, we have plans to implement built-in encryption in future versions of TightVNC.

  23. Re:iPad on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Set Up a Parent's PC? · · Score: 1

    so with virus software XP is OK

    Only for one year. XP will be EOL in April 2014. No more security patches.

  24. Re:Who cares? on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    Just charge anybody involved in the distribution high taxes/fees for the extra recycling it causes. If the company keeps tossing phone books out to people who don't want them, the fee obviously isn't high enough.

    So the purpose of the fee isn't to recoup losses for the extra recycling, but instead punish the company into non-existence?

  25. Re:Give up your privacy to the phone book? on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    Yellow Pages aren't the White Pages. Yellow Pages is an advertising book, filled with business ads, and no personal info.