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  1. Re:Might help the US.... on Brazil Blocks Foreign Mobile Phones · · Score: 1
  2. Re: Controlled fires on Forests Around Chernobyl Aren't Decaying Properly · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think they meant the smoke alone from the fire would cause radiation to spread.

    Oh come on, get a half-life already!

  3. Re:Forget the customer on Google and Microsoft Both Want To Stop Dual-Boot Windows/Android Device · · Score: 1

    Not wanting to speak ill of the dead, but I just can't trust anyone with five first names...
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551912/

  4. Re:Google.. on Ask Slashdot: Easiest To Use Multi-User Map Editing? · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's usually some warning, and occasionally even a reason. But relying on their stuff is indeed somewhat risky.

    Why, how on earth can you say that?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discontinued_products_and_services

    Oh, Right. Now I remember...

  5. Re:Forget the customer on Google and Microsoft Both Want To Stop Dual-Boot Windows/Android Device · · Score: 4, Funny

    If these guys had customers in mind, they wouldn't make a half baked half assed hybrid between windows and android.

    Androws!

    no no no, wait...

    Windroid!

  6. Re:Underground? on Ice Age Fossils Found During Los Angeles Subway Exploration · · Score: 1

    Actually, most of LA's subways are above ground.

    So, they are just "ways"? It's almost like someone said "Hey, let's take the buses and put them on tracks!"

  7. Re:Welcome to a third-rate USA on Up To 1000 NIH Investigators Dropped Out Last Year · · Score: 2

    Get ready for the visionaries who tell us that the source of American innovation is guys working in garages, and all we have to do is lower taxes on garages to unleash the flow of productivity.

    Once it was "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"
    Now I can see a time when our chickens are on pot, and we'll be living in garages...
    (it does make for a more trippy class of omelets...)

  8. Re:Out of ~22,000 on Up To 1000 NIH Investigators Dropped Out Last Year · · Score: 1

    Without something to anchor your 500-1000 number, who will know how outraged they need to be?

    I agree! For example, is this Less Than, Greater Than, or Equal To deporting the finest Ice Hockey Player in all of Ecuador?
    I can't bother to get worked up over something if it is just a "Best Ballerina on Bora Bora" level event...

  9. Re:Donald Knuth on Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS? · · Score: 1

    Sir, your are in danger of angering the Gods!
    https://xkcd.com/224/
    or at least making them snort beer onto the displays...

  10. Re: How big is it? on Einstein's Lost Model of the Universe Discovered 'Hiding In Plain Sight' · · Score: 1

    How much is infinity divided by infinity?

    You know, that makes me wonder... once quantum computers are more common, will programmers have to deal with "divide by infinity error" messages?

  11. Re:which he at first found "abominable", on Einstein's Lost Model of the Universe Discovered 'Hiding In Plain Sight' · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Stop trying to tell God what to do." -Bohr

    "Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen." - Hawking

  12. Re:magic on Dinosaurs Done In By... Dark Matter? · · Score: 1

    Dude! Like, when you are hammered you can SEE it, right? The rest of the time nobody notices because they are out of sync with the universe! We are totally getting a Nobel Prize for this, but we're going to need enough booze to get the whole committee wasted so they can grasp the cosmic significance! And then enough Bloody Mary mix and vodka so they can write the proclamation (and the check) the next day...

  13. Re:no surprise on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 2

    OK, if she stands still long enough for someone to carve or sculpt a likeness then I gotta think she's kinda into it...
    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/graven

  14. Re:The Libertarian end game. on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 1

    There's more here than meets the eye. FB certainly could have hired off-duty police officers as security guards for cheaper. It's either some stunt by FB, or a blatant shakedown by the local PD (nice campus you've got there ...), and I doubt we'll ever know which.

    It's not a stunt. Facebook is just warming up enforce that TOS agreement... they really do hate fake names over there...

  15. Re:magic on Dinosaurs Done In By... Dark Matter? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have found you can increase gravity locally by slamming down a 12 pack of beer. From this I can deduce that in order to stay together, the galaxies must be totally hammered...

  16. Re:I have your conversion right here... on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 2

    There is an alternative, ReactOS.

    But it isn't viable yet.

    I strongly encourage everybody to contribute somehow.

    I would like to see this actually become a viable option, but I'm more excited by Android-x86.
    Many of the XP hold outs do have an Android phone already, turning the learning curve into a slight bump. That being said I don't know if Android-x86 will ever be ported back to XP age hardware...

  17. Re:Ob msft on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sort? · · Score: 1

    "We don't. We declare chaos as the standard."

    I agree, as long as you wash on cold sorting should not be an issue.

  18. Re:4/1 on DARPA Funds Research Into a Network-Based Interpretation of Dreams · · Score: 3, Funny

    So My Little Pony was just a dream?

    We could ask The Dream Police... if only we knew where they lived...

  19. Re:Roku has Amazon Video Channel already, so why? on Amazon To Put Android In Set-top Box To Compete With Apple, Roku · · Score: 1

    Have you checked this out?
    http://www.the-digital-reader.com/nates-reviews/stream-amazon-instant-videos-android-tablet
    It specifically mentions the Nexus 7 but you may need a hacked version of flash via a link provided in Troubleshooting. In the comments I see someone saying this works with Nexus 7 running KitKat.

  20. Re:Roku has Amazon Video Channel already, so why? on Amazon To Put Android In Set-top Box To Compete With Apple, Roku · · Score: 1

    Are your devices registered with Play?
    It's an Android App or it would not be on Play...

  21. Re:It's a keyboard on Nostalgic For the ZX Spectrum? Soon You Can Play With a New One · · Score: 2

    Could it be worse than the Surface keyboard?

    ...and now we need a "+1 Rhetorical" mod...

  22. Re:Roku has Amazon Video Channel already, so why? on Amazon To Put Android In Set-top Box To Compete With Apple, Roku · · Score: 1

    ...

    The ability to use a phone other than an iPhone. Currently, Apple has a monopoly on phones compatible with Amazon video.

    Even on Apple TV, you can play Amazon Video content if streamed via AirPlay from an iPhone/iPad.

    But then you have to buy an iPhone/iPad first.

    Then what is this doing in Play?
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.avod&hl=en

  23. Got it Handled! on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have just finished my patent application for the steering wheel mounted Ctrl, Alt, Delete button combination...
    Problem solved!**

    **Some users may experience complete lack of vehicle control while the system is rebooting.

  24. Re:2d biggest? on WhatsApp: 2nd Biggest Tech Acquisition of All Time · · Score: 1

    Did they mean "2nd biggest"?

    Why not just write "Second biggest"?

    The purchase is only on paper...
    thus, 2d!

  25. Re:Scientists Create Pizza That Can Last Years on Chevron Gives Residents Near Fracking Explosion Free Pizza · · Score: 4, Funny

    Scientists Create Pizza That Can Last Years

    But that pizza is served just about room temperature. Now, if you store it close to that natural gas well site you could have some fracking HOT pizza!