Geologically and climatologically safe places are almost always boring, empty and low-value.

Also, these areas probably have secret US bases and research facilities that are targeted by Russian nukes.

I thought that Hot Pockets were classed as microwave WMDs.

They do a much nicer job on color than laser printers do.

You should say "than most laser printers do". Many minilabs (photo) use lasers to print on photo paper. The Fuji Frontier minilab being a good example.

Let the giclee (inkjet ) vs laser religious war begin.

If you go through life navigating by looking in your review mirror, you are going to run into a lot of things.

I have to navigate life via my rearview mirror since my life transmission only goes in reverse, you insensitive clod!

However, if he kept the gun and they found out he would have problems because guns, shipped via mail, need to be shipped to a FFL licensed dealer.

Exception: C&R License. If a gun falls under the C&R classification, and a gun collector has a C&R license, then the gun can be shipped to the collector's house. And before you all go on about C&Rs being all bolt action and what not, please note that there a few semi auto hand guns that are C&R classfied including the CZ-82 Makarov.
   

When swallowed, it generates a slight voltage in response to digestive juices, which conveys a signal to the surface of a person's skin where a patch then relays the information to a mobile phone belonging to a healthcare-provider.

So what kills you first when you OD? The voltage OD or the drug OD?

Already invented: Speech Jammer.

Any chance it has a way to transmit power via microwave from and to the planet? I have some SimCity style "experiments" i need to run. ;-)

Koss PortaPro. Good since 1980's, and still good. Of course probably not what you need( not noise canceling). My favorite Koss product.

Yeah, we got that as well. I think it's called Aluminium oxynitride. $15 a square inch. Fun stuff. ;-)

Wait until 2.39:1 becomes standard. Eventually we'll be carrying around laptops that look like ironing boards. Won't that be convenient.

Speaking of which, I actually want one those 2.39:1 HDTVs that came out in 2010.

Philips

Vizio

The earth's shape is a geoid [wikipedia.org], which is flattened compared to a sphere [wikipedia.org].

So what you're saying, if i read this like a standard slashdotter, is that the earth is flat? I think there is a society i need to join now.

Oh? They invaded Iraq.

I don't think Iraq was a particulaly innocent party in this matter. The term counter-offensive comes to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War#1980:_Iraqi_invasion

Question directed at Wine users - how does it stack up against VMware, Virtualbox or the other virtual machine servers?

I can run Photoshop CS4 in wine with no major issues. I had been using Virtuabox before that, and I found the performance to be better with wine. (This was with an Athlon XP 1.4 GHz + 1256 megs of ram with Linux Mint)

We'll just send the Space shuttle up, recover the satellite, bring it back to earth, fix the problem and relaunch it. oh wait... nm.