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  1. Re:Forget it on Committee Lowers Nobel Prize Award · · Score: 1

    A wooden spoon?

    Due to budget issues, this year it's just a stick...

  2. Re:Sooo on Fighting Counterfeiters With Quantum Money · · Score: 1

    What happens when someone needs to look at the money to verify it's not counterfeit?

    You can know how much you have, or where it is, but not both.
    Looking at it changes it
    If you look at a counterfeit it will remain unchanged.
    Don't stare at your 401k...

  3. Re:Okay, Okay It Was Me on War and Nookd — eBook Regex Gone Haywire · · Score: 2

    ...where they searched and replaced "ni99a" with "slave" from Huckleberry Finn...

    You do realize that you can actually post the word "nigga" on slashdot, right?

    You do realize that Mark Twain was l33t, right?

  4. Re:Steve Jobs on Backdoor Found In China-Made US Military Chip? · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I have to complain about this moderation."

    You're funny!

    And I modded him Funny... Oh, Crap....

  5. Re:Or what? on NASA To Future Lunar Explorers: Don't Mess With Our Moon Stuff · · Score: 1

    Scrap yard and recycling would be more profitable. "Oh sure, you might find a used lunar rover back on earth, but the shipping charges are astronomical! We can make you a sweet deal on this low mileage unit and there's no sales tax, registration fee, or insurance payment to worry about..."

  6. Re:Worse? on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 2

    (Which obviously proves satellites cause sea level rise. )

    A statement of much gravity!

  7. Re:Worse? on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    It would be even worse if we weren't also locking up lots of water from rivers behind dams like the Hoover Dam

    Even worse? Like a couple more millimeters! Evacuate NYC!

    I think that's a false assumption in any case. We don't save that water forever, we use it somehow and then it continues on in the cycle of water we pump out of the ground. A reservoir only delays waters journey, it does not terminate the process. Once (or if) a reservoir is full the normal volume of outflow for the river needs to resume in some manner or the dam will overtop. If we were to pump the water into the ground (and leave it there forever) that might be different.

  8. Re:What's wrong with keyboards? on The Leap: Gesture Control Like Kinect, But Cheaper and Higher Resolution · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, I don't expect that I'll ever need that much computer assistance for my daily shit. Invisible or otherwise.

    But... but... HOW will you manage without toilet paper sheet counting and averaging? You will actually have to remember to go buy T.P. instead of having Amazon ship you a case every so often automatically. Also, properly placed sensors can make sure you wipe properly, and then ask if you would like to upload a video of your last "download"...

  9. Re:Go Figure! on Archaeologists Find Oldest Known Mayan Calendar · · Score: 1

    I can't tell if this is a joke or if it's serious.

    It is seriously a joke...

  10. Re:So... on Mars Rover Turns Up Evidence Of Water · · Score: 1

    Sadly, in my head I actual heard your reply in Raj Koothrappali's voice...
    That being said, I agree with you.
    I should probably take my pills now.

  11. Re:So... on Gaming Clichés That Need To Die · · Score: 2

    I always tell people : Fast, Cheap, Good... You can have any two.

  12. Re:Everyone in a courtroom has an agenda on The Scientific Method Versus Scientific Evidence In the Courtroom · · Score: 2

    Blind judges can cause problems though:

    We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the 27 8x10 colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up, and Obie stood up with the 27 8x10 colour glossy pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the 27 8x10 colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog. And then at 27 8x10 colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry, 'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the judge wasn't going to look at the 27 8x10 colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us.

    Sir, you clearly belong on the Group W bench...

  13. Re:Lord, Jewsus! on Physicists Detect Elusive Orbiton By "Splitting" Electron · · Score: 2

    Shouldn't they have renamed the electron the "hardon" because it is so difficult to split into smaller components?

  14. Re:On the upside though on Was Earth a Migratory Planet? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, dihydrogen monoxide is perfectly safe as long as you process it with grain, yeast, a bit of hops, and the correct amount of time... it was in fact this process that saved the world!
    http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/how-beer-saved-the-world/

  15. Re:New problems on Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now the birds will get dry eyes.

    We will need to squeegee them off the turbine blades in order to confirm the eyes were dry before impact...

  16. Re:Can't wait!!! on The Three Flavors of Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I think Classic Shell is gearing up to work with Win 8...
    http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

  17. Re:Cool for cats. on Raspberry Pi Passes EU Electromagnetic Compatibility Testing · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh come on, if you invoke Mrs. Slocombe, you have to let her talk about her pussy...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJlItzalJY

  18. Re:Darn that dirty hydrogen on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It would make for a wonderful closed circuit...

    For a closed circuit wouldn't we also end up with a pile of zinc oxide?

  19. Re:Pedantic response ensues on Swedish Researchers Expose China's Tor-Blocking Tricks · · Score: 2

    Now, I read that totally differently from you. I see:

    While this looks like another example of the cat and mouse game between those wishing to surf the net anonymously and a government intent on curtailing online freedoms,

    As saying: "This looks like another story about China censoring the web"

    And then:

    the researchers suggest ways that the latest blocking techniques may be defeated."

    Says to me:

    However, this story actually suggests ways the censorship might be mitigated or defeated temporarily. So, it is contradicting the first point of it just being another censorship story, it may actually provide people in need with some advantage over their oppressors...

  20. Re:How unfortunate: Wyse and not Wang on Dell To Acquire Wyse · · Score: 1

    Wang is nothing to joke about. Once a profitable company, many investors ignored the warning signs of its decline...
    A lot of people lost their ass to Wang!

    I know, it was a long way to go for the punchline...

  21. Re:Oracle and Google should compensate the jury on Oracle and Google Settlement Talks Falter; Trial Set for April 16 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd be mad as hell if I was on that jury for weeks or months and got some stipend like $50 day, parking tickets not included.

    Jurors are paid an attendance fee of $40.00 per day. Regardless of means of travel, jurors also receive round-trip mileage from their home to the courthouse at the rate currently authorized by the Internal Revenue Service. The court validates juror parking at specific parking lots near the courthouse and reimburses bridge tolls when applicable.
    Source:http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/juryfaq#question_6

  22. Re:Not a flying car on Flying Car Makes Successful Maiden Flight · · Score: 1

    Right. You have to get out of this thing to extend the tail and top rotor, so you need a small takeoff and landing strip...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgHSaNtAMjs

  23. Re:"health care" = "disease management" on Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? · · Score: 1

    We won't talk about the adjustments - those should be done with a framing hammer for most people.

    Why so gentle, sledgehammer in the shop?
    I will go along with good diet and exercise, but he left out quality rest. For optimum sleep I recommend my Snooze 4 Sure line of mattresses and box springs. Only Snooze 4 Sure is made with the same material used to line caskets... so you know it's comfy!

  24. Re:FIAT CURRENCY! on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    Since when are people from zh on /.?

    Zoo Helpers?
    Zombie Hunters?
    Zealous Hipsters?
    Zigzag Hotels??
    Zulu Haters?!?!

    All that and you missed Zaftig Humpers?

  25. Re:A decent hint. on Giant Paper Airplane Takes (Brief) Flight Over Arizona · · Score: 3, Funny

    omg, i'm such a n00b and fb whore, I tried to thumb up your comment.

    Around here it tends to be more of a "single finger" up and it's often applied via an AC comment...