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  1. N = Neutral on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    Maybe Amerikin Publick Skools should include an explanation of the middle letter of the PRNDL acronym found in all their cars...

  2. Re:No thanks on Mercedes Can Now Update Car Software Remotely · · Score: 1

    A Trabant in other words.

  3. Re:Cost? on CSIRO Develops 10 Gbps Microwave Backhaul · · Score: 1

    Just note that two links side by side could be slower than one link, due to co-location interference.

  4. Re:Way to promote cultural stereotypes on Australian WiFi Inventors Win US Legal Battle · · Score: 1

    ...or said that the Aussie national anthem is Waltzing Matilda...

  5. Re:So, in other words... on Counterterrorism Agents Were Told They Could Suspend the Law · · Score: 0

    Exactly! I don't see any falsehoods in that training program.

  6. Just in: Prisoner escapes from jail cell on Particle-Wave Duality Demonstrated With Largest Molecules Yet · · Score: 1

    Breaking news: By exploiting wave and particle duality, the mad scientist Doctor Who, escaped from his jail cell...

  7. Just buy two cars on A Hybrid Car With Detachable Engine Proposed · · Score: 1

    It would be a whole lot easier to just buy two cars, an electric and a petrol model. That way, you need not mess around with swapping schtuff, just take the other key.

  8. Re:~space on Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They didn't do too bad with cleaning up Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

  9. Red Herring? on Senators Ask Feds To Probe Facebook Log-in Requests · · Score: 1

    The whole login credentials request hullabaloo sounds like a red herring / internet myth to me. Who in his right mind would make such a request and who in his right mind would comply? So the whole story has an distinct odour of BS around it.

  10. Two-motion electromechanical exchange sound on The Sounds of Tech Past · · Score: 1

    Has anyone else been inside an electromechanical telephone exchange? It was a real ear and eye opener the first time.

  11. It works... on Why Linux Can't 'Sell' On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    It works, is robust and zero maintenance.

  12. Re:Pirating must pay really well on The Pirate Bay Plans Servers In the Sky · · Score: 2

    A single weather balloon will carry a raspberrypi, so the airborne part is the easy part. The difficult part is the ground station that has to track and manage the things.

  13. Re:The other side of the story on Time to Review FAA Gadget Policies · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yup, that is exactly what it is about. The restriction on phone use in flight is to protect the cell phone towers.

  14. Re:Which distributions? on Linux 3.3 Released · · Score: 2

    You don't have to wait for a distribution house to pick it up. Downloading and doing a kernel compile is easy.

  15. Start your own business on Ask Slashdot: Finding an IT Job Without a Computer-Oriented Undergraduate Degree · · Score: 1

    Either get 'papered' or start your own business.

  16. Re:I'm not going to make the tablet mistake again. on New iPad Jailbroken Already · · Score: 1

    Never heard of Xournal have you? It is the best thing for marking up PDFs.

  17. Re:Not worrying on Microsoft: RDP Vulnerability Should Be Patched Immediately · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft bought RDP from Citrix. Microsoft doesn't develop software, they buy/steal and redistribute it. For example Internet Explorer and Stax...

  18. Re:Ben was just being satirical on Did Benjamin Franklin Invent Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    It is still a joke. Every year, the power companies announce that they haven't noticed any difference in the power consumption. The reason is simple. A 1% change in the 2% of electricity that is actually used for lighting will not have a noticeable effect. So why bother with this DST nonsense?

  19. Sundials on Did Benjamin Franklin Invent Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    So why don't we all go back to using sundials and adjust our water clocks accordingly?

  20. Re:Project security on South Africa Wins Science Panel's Backing To Host SKA Telescope · · Score: 2

    It is in the middle of the karoo, which is a desert. The biggest security threat would be dirty deeds done with sheep.

  21. Re:More Information Please. on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    I only hit a guy in high school once and knocked him out cold with a single Karate punch - after he and his mates annoyed me for 3 years. Nobody ever bothered me again after that. When my son was in grade 1 he was bullied by a bigger kid. I dressed in a black leather jacket, jeans and boots, went to school, picked the kid up off the ground by grabbing the front of his shirt with one hand, talked gently to him for a minute or so, then dropped him and walked off. My son says he practically never saw the kid again, he slinked kept far away in the distance. So, yes, judging by this sample of two, bullies do respond well to strong arm tactics.

  22. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    Americans is the nice term, loud mouths is another... ;)

  23. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 2

    Knucklehead, blockhead... ;)

  24. Re:Where is the things we need? on NASA Rocket Barrage Will Light Up Mid-Atlantic Coast · · Score: 1

    Eventually someone will build a proper tower of babel in the middle east. The Burj Kalifa just needs to be made a few thousand times taller.

  25. Re:Digital Handwriting? on Amazon Patents Annotating Books, Digital Works · · Score: 2

    Xournal is probably the best one for annotating PDF files.