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  1. Typical on Martian Meteorite Gets NASA Mars Rover's Attention · · Score: 4, Funny

    Typical, just typical. We spend all this time and money going to an exotic location to see the sights, but once we're there you want to spend all this time looking through the imported kitsch.

  2. Re:Hmmm that'll do... on Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil · · Score: 1

    Uranium actually acts like estrogen in small doses.

  3. Re:Nothing new on First Human-Powered Ornithopter · · Score: 1

    Lies! Helicopters stay up because they're so ugly they repel the ground.

  4. Re:The Internet: magical fact verifying machine on First Human-Powered Ornithopter · · Score: 1

    Do you remember when, back in the day, you could write or say anything about anything, no matter how uninformed you were, and if you communicated authoritatively enough, your audience would just eat it up with a spoon and not question you?

    Yeah, back when I could put anything I wanted up on wikipedia, and people would cite it as authoritative truth without thinking twice about it.

  5. Re:It's because on Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil · · Score: 1

    Duh, they've been fertilized with Miracle-Glo!

  6. Re:Six Degrees on Aussie Student Responsible For Twitter Exploit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    See! You can't!

  7. Re:I'd shoot the RIAA CEO in the head on Supreme Court May Tune In To Music Download Case · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, but then at least CEO2 would worry a little about pissing consumers off.

  8. Re:stating the obvious... on Are Desktop Firewalls Overkill? · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as a secure perimeter

    Yes there is. It's called "dropping your computer into a volcano".

  9. Technically true on Google Preps Instant Search For Chrome 8 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    " It seems as if Google isn't running out of ideas for its browser anytime soon"...

    That's true, but they are running out of good ideas.

  10. Re:Unexpected on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Joebert has been bitten by a snake!

  11. Re:Why? on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First off, I'm guessing they're thinking about all the shitty beer they just drank.

    Actually, that answers the second question too.

  12. Re:Five years behind? on Mega Man Designer Explains Japan's Waning Video Game Influence · · Score: 1

    Dwarf Fortress?

  13. Re:The last 25% on BP Permanently Seals Gulf Oil Well · · Score: 1

    Isn't littering a criminal offense?

    In my state at least:

    A person is guilty of criminal littering when he: ...
    (d) Discharges sewage, minerals, oil products, or litter into any public waters or lakes within the state.

    They discharged oil from into public waters. It was in the gulf in between for a while, but I'm sure an expensive enough lawyer could make that triviality go away.

  14. Re:guilty until proven innocent? on New Legislation Would Crack Down On Online Piracy · · Score: 1

    Duh. Everyone knows that the answer is always "the interstate commerce clause". No matter what the power is.

  15. Re:Government Conspiracy on Designing Wireless Sensors To Be Dropped Into Volcanoes · · Score: 1

    Gneiss one.

  16. Re:More to the story.. on DRM-Free Games Site GOG.com Gone · · Score: 1

    Ironically enough, the article itself IS marketing, and they're not actually going out of business. It's all part of the great circle of life, just like those furniture and rug stores which teeter on the edge of "going out of business" for decades at a time.

  17. Re:More to the story.. on DRM-Free Games Site GOG.com Gone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    hmmm how could they avoid that ;-)

    Experience shows: not with DRM.

  18. Re:Not running it... on Linux Kernel Exploit Busily Rooting 64-Bit Machines · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is all really transparent.

    You obviously get __yyrhdgdtfs66ytgetrfd to turn into __yyy_tegdtfsre by the addition of a reverse polish goto callback, an obscure function performed by overloading TMAGIC_66TDFDRTS and calling it every clock cycle.

    Using PREPARE_GGDTSGFSRFSD and OVERRIDE_GGDTSGFSRFSD is standard procedure when dealing with credentials that are formatted in octal precision trinary floating point, and reverting them via REVERT_DHDGTRRTEFDTD is a result of taking GGDTSGFSRFSD and applying the ')(' operator.

    And, of course, any competent CS professional who passed his first freshman year introductory course knows that gggdfstsgdt_dddex is the result of your cat walking across the keyboard.

  19. Best. Tie-In. Ever. on U. Penn Super Quadcopter Learns New Tricks · · Score: 1

    So, how long will it be before we can buy remote-controlled mini Starfuries?

  20. Re:So, what is the digit in decimal? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    There are no uninteresting digits of pi.

    Proof:

    Assume there exist uninteresting digits of pi. That means that there must be an earliest uninteresting digit of pi. But that's a very interesting property. Therefore, there are no uninteresting digits of pi.

  21. Re:does this mean on Two-Photon Walk a Giant Leap For Quantum Computing · · Score: 1, Funny

    50% more uptime!

  22. Re:RTFA. SRSLY. on Study Shows Testosterone is Bad For High-Stakes Decisions · · Score: 1

    Just saying that using "if you can't see who the sucker is, it's probably you" as a cognitive shortcut isn't entirely irrational.

  23. Re:Oh yeah? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    People never complain about mad scientists lacking control groups.

  24. This is easy to do on Turning Your Home Wiring Into a Giant Antenna · · Score: 1

    A trivial upgrade, assuming you have the right building materials. Just use some cold-riveted beams with cores of pure selenium, magnesium-tungsten alloys, and gold plated bolts, and it'll be working in no time.

  25. Re:What is your name? What is your quest? on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    That's the airspeed, not the velocity. With a round trip, as would be required for any ping, we end up with a velocity of zero.