User: Off the Rails

Re:bad idea...

On: Porn Surfing Rampant At US Science Foundation

It's just pictures of people having sex.

usually...

Re:Obligatory quote

On: Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World

Overlords?

You must be new here.

Re:PER ASPERA AD ESCALA

On: Robots Take To the Stairs

Oh, God, I wish I had mod points.

Re:And the judge understood it?

On: Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses

Brings to mind this classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6KyA_KabNM

Are you absolutely sure it's not...

On: First Image of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo

...the head section of a big statue of Darth Vader?

Re:Cookies

On: NASA's Phoenix Finally Fills Oven

Who wants cookies? I'd prefer a mars bar.

Out of the woods?

On: Unexpected Slashdot Downtime

I had a couple of 404 errors loading this story. Anybody else?

Re:That's nothing new

On: Meet the Laptop of 2015

it is just not possible to effectively touch-type on a hard surface that has no tactile feedback One of the other concepts in TFA has a fully tactile display for blind people. If that kind of technology can be integrated into an OLED or something similar, you get the best of both worlds - a keyboard, second display and handwriting pad all in one.

Crime goes DOWN...

On: A Super-Efficient Light Bulb

...but do road accidents go UP?

Mod parent up!!

On: "Cone of Silence" Possible Say Scientists

Got to be the funniest comment I've seen all year.

Re:Egomanical monitoring of the populace?

On: Vista is Watching You

Bill Gate? Is he by any chance related to this guy?

Re:My Backup Strategy:

On: It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky?

That's never worked for me. I guess you are either wealthier, more sensible or less alcoholic than I am.