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  1. Re:How to decide the fate of helium on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 1

    Well, actually they won't figure it out for themselves. Other people may figure something out, for example the guy with the burning cigarette, but his buddy who breathed the hydrogen gas won't.

  2. PDF Printer on Can Microsoft Really Convince People To Subscribe To Software? · · Score: 1

    When I get a Word file from someone for review, I feed it to an online MS Word PDF Printer, then scribble all over the PDF file with Xournal and send the resultant PDF back to the originator.

  3. Re:Hope this works. Ad supported is not what I wan on Can Microsoft Really Convince People To Subscribe To Software? · · Score: 2

    One word: gnumeric

  4. Adbuntu on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Adbuntu, the consumer friendly distribution.

  5. Good for Canada, Russia and Alaska on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 1

    It is good for Canada, Russia and Alaska.

  6. Re:99.999% on Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware · · Score: 1

    Wow, only Windows - who whoulda thunkit?

  7. Windows 3.1 Forever on Designers Criticize Apple's User Interface For OS X and iOS · · Score: 1

    Judging by that article, the newly warmed over Windows 3.1 UI, is the one and only way. Just wait till MS brings back Microsoft Bob and Clippy.

  8. Re:But what's the timeline for "low cost" energy? on Fusion Power Breakthrough Near At Sandia Labs? · · Score: 1

    'fact' - haha, snort, uhmm, sorry... We have enough oil, gas and coal to last for hundreds more years of fusion research.

  9. Not worthless, just worth less on Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia · · Score: 1

    Diamonds used to sell for around $8000 for a 1 Ct stone in 1995 and now it sells for about $3000. So if you happen to be the proud owner of a stone bought 20 years ago, then you may be unhappy with the price, but the stone is still the same, whereas a car bought for $8000 in 1995...

  10. Streamtuner on A Glimpse At Piracy In the UK and Beyond · · Score: 1

    I would have thought that streamtuner and the like would have killed music piracy by now. I suppose most people simply do not know how convenient internet radio stations are. I haven't pirated or purchased music in years. Their is no need to do so, with hundreds of internet stations listed.

  11. Re:Give a man to fish... on How the Critics of the Apollo Program Were Proven Wrong · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah, but what you are missing is that many people - the vast majority on the planet - are incredibly stupid and cannot cope in a modern society. Lots of people are too stupid to learn anything, even fishing. The best (only?) way to fight poverty is with birth control measures. India and Africa can solve most of their problems within 30 years if they would just stop breeding like rabits.

  12. Re:Answer: Yes and No on Can Anyone Become a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Your assumption is that everyone has a mind. I am not so sure about that. Human stupidity is limitless.

  13. Yes, for small values of anyone on Can Anyone Become a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    It is true in a special kind of way...

  14. The PC is dead. Long live the PC! on The Passing of the Personal Computer Era · · Score: 4, Insightful

    YASIFS (Yet another sky is falling story). The overall computer market is still growing.

  15. Moses on Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It · · Score: 1

    Even Moses whacked his tablets, much to his gods annoyance, since he just got his hands cleaned of the pot clay...

  16. Re:DNS not counted? on Wrong Number: Why Phone Companies Overcharge For Data · · Score: 1

    Hmm, so I should run my SSH socks proxy over port 53...

  17. Re:Someone better tell TEPCO on Japan Aims To Abandon Nuclear Power By 2030s · · Score: 1

    Well, 2030 is not soon, and another government with more backbone can then extend and expand it.

  18. Re:Technology on Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics · · Score: 2

    Yah, even God's clay tablets given to Moses had rounded corners.

  19. Re:Imagine if this was self-driving car on BMW Cars Vulnerable To Blank Key Attack · · Score: 1

    If a self driving car makes a mistake, then it is an industrial accident. We already have laws for that situation.

  20. Tax on Ask Slashdot: When Is It a Good Idea To Incorporate? · · Score: 1

    In Canada at least, for a revenue stream of $100,000, the small business tax rate is about half the personal tax rate. So if you think that you could perchance use $15,000 or so yourself, instead of giving it to the tax man, then you should incorporate. If however, you think that the federal government will put your money to better use, then don't.

  21. Re:the furniture on Microsoft Patent Details Whole-Room Projection Game Environment · · Score: 1

    Steve, upon getting to the perley gates, immediately sued Moses because of the rectangular rounded corner design of his clay tablets...

  22. Graphics cave on Microsoft Patent Details Whole-Room Projection Game Environment · · Score: 3, Informative

    So, a personal game graphics cave circa 1990? That sure is MS innovation for you.

  23. Re:OK, place your bets on Apple Announces iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    The 3 fingered iPhone 5 grip?

  24. Re:Fall in line on The Linux Desktop and ISVs/OEMs · · Score: 1

    I gave my mother in law a Linux netbook 3 years ago. She lives in a different country, so initially I fretted about remote support with SSH, but I have never needed to do anything. So, when it eventually breaks, I'll just send her a new one.

  25. Linux Morse code keyboard panic LEDs on Intel Encodes Data In Flickering LEDs (and Shows Off Other Bright Ideas) · · Score: 1