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  1. Re:"27 out of 55 major government entities" on Half of Fortune 500s, US Agencies Still Infected With DNSChanger Trojan · · Score: 1

    Come on, they only leave early to compensate for being in late.

  2. Re:Troll Submission? on Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, that just shows you how much the USA has 'loosed' already... 'No child left behind' simply meant that all children got left behind.

  3. Reading, riting and rithmetic on Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, in Europe, most people can read and write. Consequently books and magazines are more popular and can cater to a more advanced demographic.

  4. Re:wow - what a huge sample size of 130 on Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ · · Score: 1

    Except for the 2 BILLION trees planted each year in North America alone...

  5. Re:New service? on New Privacy Laws Could Boost EU Cloud Industry · · Score: 1

    Hmm, Wuala is based in Switzerland, but SwissDisk isn't.

  6. Re:Huh? on Google+ Officially Open To Teens · · Score: 1

    Google+ is actually a multi-vitamin for those over 50. They are now trying to attract the younger crowd, but it lost its cool factor long ago.

  7. Marriage and women on Ask Slashdot: Techie Wedding Invitation Ideas? · · Score: 1

    You should rather leave things to your spouse and her family, unless of course you *are* the bride, in which case, go ahead sweetheart, do whatever you want.

  8. I can never get those things to bloody well work on Corporate Boardrooms Open To Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    Skype is making inroads into meetings because it is easy to get to work as opposed to those things. Most fixed video systems are incompatible, so you cannot call any meeting room - it has to be a specific meeting room with similar equipment and even then it seldom works.

  9. Re:Marketing on CEOs of RIM Step Down · · Score: 1

    Uhh, no. The Obamaberry only looks like one. It is manufactured by General Dynamics and contains a class one crypto unit.

  10. Re:There are no acceptable ads. on Google Updates Algorithm To Punish Websites With Excessive Ads · · Score: 1

    Geez, why don't you go all the way and use links or lynx instead of a resource hogging graphical browser?

  11. Re:I think Tesla maybe has better business model on The Coda Electric Car at the Detroit International Auto Show (Video) · · Score: 1

    GM only made the Volt, because the president of the USA ordered them to make it. One of the reasons president Obama fired Wagoner and replaced him with an aparatchik was because he refused.

  12. Re:This is terrible on Indonesian Man Faces Five Years For Atheist Facebook Post · · Score: 1

    Only 30% of Aussies are non-believers? Even the USA doesn't have 70% believers and Canada has only about 30% believers.

  13. Looks like a tax scam on A Data Center That Looks Like a Mansion · · Score: 0

    looks like someone wants to build a mansion and write it off as a business expense.

  14. Re:Is it the sweet crude oil? on Engineered Stomach Microbe Converts Seaweed Into Ethanol · · Score: 1, Informative

    No. Oil is not decayed plant matter. Oil is created by archaea bacteria in the earth's crust, from methane and ethane gas that was created when the previous sun went nova. Note that I said 'is created' - an ongoing, but very, very slow process. Coal is decayed plant matter from multiple global wide tropical jungle periods about 100 million years ago.

  15. Re:Nice from a tech point of view, *BUT*... on Engineered Stomach Microbe Converts Seaweed Into Ethanol · · Score: 1

    Fossil fuel is renewable too - just on a rather long time scale. In a few million years (or about next year, according to the global warming crowd), when the earth has warmed up to the point where it is a huge steaming tropical jungle from pole to pole, ferns will again fix fossil fuel and coal seams will be renewed.

  16. Re:So Long DVI... on VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Yup, the only place I ever saw a DVI connector was on a few TV sets, but since nothing else ever has a DVI port, there is no point in providing it.

  17. Re:The point was to employ contractors on Post-9/11 DOJ Tech Project Dying After 10 Years? · · Score: 1

    The one burglary I experienced, a guy tried to climb through a high window into the kitchen. I heard him struggle, woke up, went to see what is going on, and hit him over the head with a plastic bottle of Coca Cola that was standing on the counter. The police were very amused at having to revive him and drag him out. I didn't even have to go to court about that - the poor sod really didn't know what hit him...

  18. Re:When NTFS was introduced... on Microsoft Announces ReFS, a New Filesystem For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Over the years, MS has announced a few new file systems that were never released. This may be another one of those vapor ware file systems.

  19. Re:They're going to frack a Volcano? on Pouring Water Into a Volcano To Generate Power · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, if the sea cannot cool down and underwater volcano, what makes you think that pumping a little pissant stream into one will do anything?

  20. Re:inb4peta on Navy May Use Mine-Detecting Dolphins In the Straight of Hormuz · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I support People Eating Tasty Animals, but Dolphin - uhhhgh - that feels like eating a dog.

  21. Re:straight straits on Navy May Use Mine-Detecting Dolphins In the Straight of Hormuz · · Score: 1

    I live close by. That strait sure ain't straight at all. It makes a rather distinct dog leg around the UAE.

  22. Re:So...vampire treatment? on Multiple Sclerosis Damage Washed Away By Stream of Young Blood · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I guess mommy is too loose for him.

  23. Re:Bogus premise on The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Please. There was NO radio active fallout from the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs. That is why people are today living happily in those very cities. The bombs were properly built and exploded in the air. All fuel was burned.

  24. Cruise ship aground - nude girls swimming ashore on 2011's Fastest Growing Language: Objective-C · · Score: 0, Troll

    A cruise ship ran aground off Italy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16558910 OK, I had to add something to the subject to spice it up, else no-one will click it.

  25. Re:MagnaVolt on The Future of Hi-Tech Auto Theft · · Score: 1

    A hidden toggle switch and ignition coil and spark plug under the seat with some wires threaded into the seat works wonders. This was a rather common thing done by engineering students in the 1980s in my school...