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  1. Re:It's the Great Space Coaster! on NASA Building Giant Roller Coaster For Science · · Score: 1

    Are you saying it's a slow Ga-news day?

  2. Wait what? on Retailers Fighting To No Longer Store Credit Data · · Score: 4, Funny

    several years before retailers could purge their systems and applications of credit card data
    TRUNCATE TABLE Customer Data

    There ya go!
  3. So close on Missing Potential Earth-Busting Asteroid Found · · Score: 2, Interesting

    it's still .7 units away. We just happen to know where it is now...

  4. Re:Nefarious? on China Now Blocking RSS Feeds · · Score: 1

    Isn't nefarious necessarily something evil (as opposed to tricky)?
    nefarious :
    * abominable; atrociously sinful or villainous
    * extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"
    Yes
  5. Re:Shouldn't competition produce a cure? on Researchers May Have Found Cause of Type 2 Diabetes · · Score: 1

    But it's my understanding because of drug patents and research dubbed "trade secrets" getting the information to a competitor to create some kind of cure is near impossible. I'll try keep my tinfoil hat off and not say there is some kind of "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" going on between companies to keep research and patents the way they are.

  6. Re:Nice on Researchers May Have Found Cause of Type 2 Diabetes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A treatment means that you can prolong it. At least street dealers give you the first one for free... Wait, don't drug reps give doctors offices free samples to hand their patients?

    Maybe I'm just cynical that the medication to keep me aloft costs 2k a month so the prospect of a cure for my illness won't come till after that gravy train derails...

  7. Re:Update: only losers will be attending. on Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Party Updates · · Score: 1

    Losers, mark your calendars now.
    I put it in my blackberry!
  8. Dupe (kinda) on Game Developer Now Offering Employees Overtime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WE talked about this before. Some people are all for overtime in the developer world some of us think it's worthless. If it gets games out by their release dates great! But I'm not shelling out 90 bucks a game!

  9. Didn't the RIAA try this on Microsoft Marketing to OS Pirates, Just Agree to Audits! · · Score: 1

    Just tell us who you are, we'll help you get legal... After we slap you for being pirates first of course

  10. Re:I can't be the only one on Technology Could Enable Computers To "Read The Minds" Of Users · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I understand, it's still the thought of tech that can read my mind seems rather more invasive than I'd like.

  11. I can't be the only one on Technology Could Enable Computers To "Read The Minds" Of Users · · Score: 5, Insightful

    who thought it was an oxymoron to see "non-invasive" and "computer brain scan"?

  12. On soviet Slashdot on Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents · · Score: 3, Funny

    Editors give presents to you? ...wait

  13. I noticed something this morning on Spam Sites Infesting Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    In my GMail account there where over 60 pieces of spam in a mailbox that has maybe 1 or 2. I wonder if these are related.

  14. Re:I'm from Ohio. on Ohio Net Censorship Law Struck Down · · Score: 1

    And we paid for them to write it, pass it, send it to court, loose, and we'll be paying for the appeal too I bet.

  15. How would they of enforced it anyway on Ohio Net Censorship Law Struck Down · · Score: 1

    Since many websites are hosted outside the state/country it seems moot. Well, at least the sites with the material that would harm you to look at it...

  16. Vista's Roots on Microsoft Should Abandon Vista? · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's just cobbled together CE, ME, and NT versions with a new GUI. Though, they could of stuck with the first name... Windows CEMENT... Would of been far more accurate.

  17. Re:I Motion To... on Jack Thompson Includes Gay Porn With Court Filing · · Score: 5, Funny

    That'll learn him gay porn first hand!
    I believe you mean FIST hand...
  18. Re:RIM is still my choice on Linux Crashes the Mobile Party · · Score: 1

    Oh, they get you for, over use, of commas, as well, as under use?

  19. RIM is still my choice on Linux Crashes the Mobile Party · · Score: 1

    Call me what you will a BES set up is still really easy if all you need it for is email/calendar/contact sync from a corp standing

  20. Re:Ahh, Rumors on Google Testing "My World" Second Life Rival? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot: All the truthiness you need!

  21. What's the line from Office Space on Law Firm Fighting For White Collar (IT) Overtime · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...In a given week I do 15 hours of REAL actual work...? Let's be honest with ourselves. We work overtime because a LOT of what we have to do must be done during non production hours. There are some days where we're in support mode and just read websites all day...

  22. So this universe on A Mathematical Answer To the Parallel Universe Question · · Score: 1

    Would it have senile felines? You know like schrodinger's cat!

  23. Re:Clarification on Game Pirate Sentenced To Jail Time · · Score: 1

    Selling != Fair use and this shows that well. It's one thing to make backups of your games to run on a modded box, it's a whole other to sell them later on.

  24. Re:I'm getting tired of this... on Jack Thompson Sets His Sights On Halo 3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    In soviet russia you drive jokes nuts...

  25. Taking on Take two is one thing on Jack Thompson Sets His Sights On Halo 3 · · Score: 1

    But Bungie is part MSFT right? Also there is a big difference between blasting aliens and defending yourself against bullies. IF this works maybe he'll go after the America's Army game. That's more real military themed violence.