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  1. Good move on World's Fastest Net Link 'Used To Dry Laundry' · · Score: 4, Funny

    It does work - I used to use my high-end HP workstation to dry my biking clothes when it rained. I did feel a bit sorry for the people in the neigbouring cubes though.

  2. Re:It's just a property of wikipedia on The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 1

    - Replacing the entire page with "carrots cause wicked diarrhea"

    OK, I laughed. Is that very wrong? Probably is.

  3. Re:Makes You Wonder on Sony BMG Sued For Using Pirated Software · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did the servers have rootkits on them as well?

    Yes, so now they can deny they installed anything and just blame, um, Sony.

  4. I got mine on Practical Experience As a Beginning Programmer? · · Score: 1

    From a company looking for interns on the school's notice board (admittedly a while back!). What got me the job though was being able to talk about all the projects I had done on my own before.

  5. Re:I hope they implement this as plugins on Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition · · Score: 1

    cp -rf ~ /backup

    Personally, I use cp -a , I know I'd accidentally type rm instead of cp if I used -rf. And that would not be good in that command.

  6. Implantable devices running off body heat? on Microchip Powered by Body Heat · · Score: 1

    The article mentions implantable devices running off body heat - how would that work? I thought to harvest energy you needed a temperature difference, where would an implanted device get that?

    Just wondering...

  7. Re:Technicality, but still... on Class Action Complaint Against RIAA Now Online · · Score: 1

    And they are not "Recording Studios", they are Record Labels or Media Conglomerates or something.

  8. Well at least on The Cuban Memory Stick Underground · · Score: 1

    Sony's proprietary format is popular some place!

  9. Re:Just because you bought Blu-Ray... on How to Convert Your HD-DVD Discs to Blu-Ray · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up! I'm glad I found out about this profile stuff before I bought anything. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Player_profiles .

  10. It's not unused on Making Use of Terabytes of Unused Storage · · Score: 1

    It's just storing random data.

  11. Not a myth on 'Innovation In a Flash' Is a Myth · · Score: 1

    There must have been some innovation or we wouldn't now have 8GB cards for just a few tens of dollars.

    Oh wait, in a flash.

  12. Re:flickr on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    The only sure way to avoid this is to run your own. Gallery2 does pretty much what flikr does (and is open source). You'll need a web server that can run php and some kind of database.

  13. Re:Seriously? on Windows Vista Annoyances · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just listing annoyances would be stupid.

    Did you mean: would be slashdot?

  14. Why is it called "white" space? on TV White Space & The Future of Wireless Broadband · · Score: 1, Funny

    Surely it's black if there's nothing there? Doesn't "white" mean filled with all kinds of frequencies, as in white noise? I suppose if you think of the spectrum as a sheet of paper...

  15. Re:Tough project on Best Practices For Process Documentation? · · Score: 1

    In particular, drop the 'hit by a bus' argument.

    Or at least make sure you park your bus round back, not menacingly near the main entrance.

  16. Yes on Trend Micro Sues Barracuda Over Open Source Anti-Virus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Trend Micro is effectively trying to raise the price of security

    Um, that's what the patent system is supposed to do - to make it worthwhile investing in inventing things! Whether this is a reasonable thing to patent is another question, but you can't really complain about the patent system doing what it is meant to do.

  17. Re:It might take some time but... on Telco Immunity Goes To Full Debate · · Score: 1

    Too too too, must use preview, too too too, will the lameness filter let this trhough? too, too, too.

  18. It might take some time but... on Telco Immunity Goes To Full Debate · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's never to late to add retroactive immunity!

  19. Software Tool Strips Windows Vista To Bare Bones.. on Software Tool Strips Windows Vista To Bare Bones · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. and then pushes it into a freezing lake?

  20. Re:Limited phrasebook on The Coming Wave of Gadgets That Listen and Obey · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Honey, have you seen the remote?"

    Phone: Yeah, sure, it's cute enough, but I think I can do better.

  21. Re:When can I get this in my Roomba? on Military Robots to Gain Advanced Sight · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also, does anyone else find it disturbing that they also make military robots?

    Yeah, one day soon your Roomba will get drafted and you'll die a slow agonising death, suffocated by a sea of dust bunnies.

    Don't laugh. It could happen.

  22. Re:Ubuntu 7.0? on Lotus Notes 8.5 Will Support Ubuntu 7.0 · · Score: 1

    They say it's customer driven, so maybe those customers are running 7.04? I know I am.

  23. Slashdot spin on Recording Music Without the Recording Industry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess the RIAA has to get mentioned in any Slashdot story about music, but I don't really see this is about 'sticking it to the RIAA'.

    It seems to me it's more about just giving people a goal and a deadline - a cure for procrastination and all the other stuff that gets in the way of finishing things.

  24. Foreign Affairs? on "Hollywood" Howard Berman To Leave Internet Subcommittee · · Score: 1

    Would that be bombing Sweden then?

  25. Maybe... on Math on iPhones Just Doesn't Add Up? · · Score: 2, Funny

    They've been pinched?

    (British joke only, I guess)