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  1. Re:yeah, right on Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Engineering · · Score: 1

    Turns out Pauling was at least partially correct, but the vitamin C has to be injected to get concentrations that are anywhere near effective.

  2. Re:Simple enough fix on Secret Printer ID Codes May Be Illegal In the EU · · Score: 1

    No, don't make them random. Decode the dot pattern, then add yellow dots on all the points of the grid the printer won't add them.

  3. Re:Balanced view. on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 1

    >I dare anyone to reproduce this experiment and get a different result than I did.

    Nobody expects... that to happen.

  4. Re:Not just Pheonix on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 1

    Vegeta, what does wikinews say about the number of participants?!

    </oblig>

  5. Re:Butterflies with lasers on Femtosecond Lasers Used To Color Metals · · Score: 1

    Dark Helmet: What the hell am I googling? When does this happen on Slashdot? Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now. Dark Helmet: What happened to then? Colonel Sandurz: We passed then. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now, now. Dark Helmet: Go back to then! Colonel Sandurz: When? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz: Now? Dark Helmet: Now! Colonel Sandurz: I can't. Dark Helmet: Why? Colonel Sandurz: We missed it. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. Dark Helmet: When will then be now? Colonel Sandurz: Soon. Dark Helmet: How soon?

  6. Re:Maybe the NSA has to cut the cable to tap into on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 5, Funny

    >The government always surprise me by sinking to a new low, maybe this is the new low?

    Well, it *is* the bottom of the ocean.

  7. Re:Sociology first principles are bunk.... on Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? · · Score: 1

    >Would the world not be a better place if, instead of doing the sort of stupid stuff we see every day on the TV show "Cops", people acted
    >rationally and led normal lives rather than acting like rednecks? I rest my case.

    But then what would we watch on TV?

  8. Re:Truly the best system on What's the Best Game Console of All Time? · · Score: 1

    So... what you're saying is that versatility and the ability to run Linux are the most important characteristics (including emulation), and that the X-Box's flaw is slow hardware. So if something corrected that, and could play a larger variety of games, then it would be even better, and hence the new greatest console of all time. This leads to the inevitable conclusion that:

    MY PC IS THE GREATEST CONSOLE OF ALL TIME! WOOO!

    QED.

  9. Re:Sim Colony on Information Requested for NASA-Based MMORPG · · Score: 1

    You mean like spore?

  10. Re:Martin Schweiger's Orbiter? on Information Requested for NASA-Based MMORPG · · Score: 1

    Newtonian? Why stop there. Make it relativistic physics.

  11. Re:YES!!! on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 1

    [Citation Needed]

  12. Re:Unbelievable on Some DNS Requests Ruled Illegal in North Dakota · · Score: 1

    If a charity worker walks up to a geek and asks him for some money, and he gives it to them, is it a mugging?

  13. Re:My personal feelings.. on The State of Security in MMORPGs · · Score: 1

    No, he was right. It seems like you only have the choices of buying it from another grinder or using exploits, but you actually have a third option of spending fifty hours to get that last rare drop.

  14. Re:I live in Italy: the Vatican is simply evil on Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest · · Score: 1

    Have you by any chance said that the sun rose or set? Wasn't that advocating a flat Earth? Or were you just using an idiom?

  15. What, no Guxt? on 101 Free Games for 2008 · · Score: 1

    Pixel's newest game. This time he's done a schmup. Can be found the same place as his other games. http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022293/storehouse.html

  16. Re:how long before.... on Coming Soon — Cyborg Farmers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, don't anthropomorphize robots. They hate that.

  17. Wait a second. on Coming Soon — Cyborg Farmers · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture wasn't in charge of Gundam.

  18. Re:Version? on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 1

    The SNES Simcity doctor is confirmed for Brawl!

  19. Re:how many other "systems" like this? on 14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the radioactive boyscout. http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

  20. Vegata on Upgraded Hubble To Be 90 Times As Powerful · · Score: 1

    What does the scouter say about the new resolution? It's over 9000%!

  21. Re:fuck the news media on McCain, Clinton Win New Hampshire · · Score: 2, Informative

    >the laid-back approach to Katrina disaster relief, Not that he could have done anything until the state asked him for help.

  22. Re:better spell system on Ask the Designers of D&D Fourth Edition · · Score: 1

    Should have used commanding robot as the base power instead (5 mana per robot), with a party member as the target so the cost is halved. Of course, then the GM punishes you by making his army of bear-things your ardent supporters.

  23. Using The Core as a serious example in a debate on Using Google Earth to Find Ancient Cities · · Score: 1

    I applaud you. From a safe distance. It may be contagious.

  24. Re:Sheesh on Proof That Practice Does Make Perfect · · Score: 1

    Coffee isn't strong enough. However, repeated clinical trials have proven that Red Bull does in fact aid in unassisted human flight.

  25. Re:Inaccurate summary on Google Algorithm to Search Out Hospital Superbugs · · Score: 1

    Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of tangential posts!