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Comment /NOT/ AFJ??? (Score 1) 82

by eeyore on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @10:58AM (#63825190) Attached to: US Spy Agency Dreams of Surveillance Underwear

In related news, the original poster's calendar was still set to 2023/04/01.

Comment Facebook - is that like MySpace? (Score 1) 228

by eeyore on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:32AM (#56341625) Attached to: Regarding my personal Facebook account, I...

N/T

Comment Re:I got one (Score 1) 656

by eeyore on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:53PM (#55762547) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard?

Only if you're in the union!

Comment Re:What's the difference.... (Score 1) 656

by eeyore on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:52PM (#55762531) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard?

What's the difference between a used car salesman and a computer salesman?

The used car salesman knows when he is lying.

... and can probably drive!

Comment As mad as a gumtree full of galahs! (Score 1) 82

by eeyore on Friday November 03, 2017 @12:59PM (#55484445) Attached to: Australia Cockatoos Chew Billion-Dollar Broadband

N/T

Comment Re:Wrong direction (Score 0) 105

by eeyore on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @07:28AM (#55024169) Attached to: Toyota Patents Cloaking Device To Make Car Pillars Appear Transparent

Nice Hitchhiker's Guide reference!

Comment How could we ever tell? (Score 1) 204

by eeyore on Thursday July 06, 2017 @04:42AM (#54754815) Attached to: Are we living in a simulation?

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Comment Re:Basic (Score 1) 633

by eeyore on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:03AM (#54296737) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language?

... on a DEC-10!

Most of my programs were stored on punched paper tape!

Comment Re: There's a fart joke in here somewhere (Score 1) 180

by eeyore on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @03:30AM (#54261755) Attached to: Physicists Detect Whiff of New Particle At the Large Hadron Collider

They're about to announce ... the osmon - the fundamental particle of smell

Comment Re:Decency? (Score 1) 513

by eeyore on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:11AM (#54035375) Attached to: Work-Life Balance: Cryptographer Fired By BAE Systems For Taking Care of Dying Wife

Corporate ethics (n): A common example of an oxymoron

Comment Re:MPAA, RIAA ar hosers, eh (Score 1) 134

by eeyore on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @08:18AM (#53872525) Attached to: Canada Remains a 'Safe Haven' For Online Piracy, Rightsholders Claim

eh??

Comment In other news... (Score 1) 119

by eeyore on Thursday January 12, 2017 @12:43PM (#53654653) Attached to: Japan Researchers Warn of Fingerprint Theft From 'Peace' Sign

Glove Manufacturers report an encouraging spike in sales

Comment Re:Cost of the target. (Score 1) 303

by eeyore on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @07:51AM (#53236299) Attached to: Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot

I assume that nobody planned to have a sufficiently large soft target to allow the projectiles to be "soft-landed" for re-use?

Comment Re:Don't Worry (Score 1) 303

by eeyore on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @07:49AM (#53236281) Attached to: Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot

Oh, so the RN is not buying F-18s to make up the numbers?

Comment Re:3.14 (Score 2) 99

by eeyore on Monday September 12, 2016 @03:56AM (#52869471) Attached to: Linux Kernel 3.14 Series Has Reached End of Life

No, just keep adding new digits after 3.14 FOREVER! ;)

Isn't that too \TeX{}nical for Linux geeks??

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