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  1. Once again Star Trek is prophetic on How To Build a Quantum Propulsion Machine · · Score: 1

    This is quite obviously an impulse engine.

  2. I have free will on Entanglement Could Be a Deterministic Phenomenon · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...because I choose to believe that I have free will.

    If you don't believe in free will, then there's no use arguing with me, because it's been pre-determined that I will believe in free will.

    PS:
    Isn't trying to change someone's mind pretty much a futile gesture to a determinist?

  3. Two out of three ain't bad on Obesity May Accelerate Brain Aging · · Score: 1

    Fat, dumb and happy, I mean.

  4. Dual scene sight? on BrainPort Lets the Blind "See" With Their Tongues · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is, will this work for a sighted person? If the tongue seer is looking at one scene, and your eyes are looking at another, can the brain sort them out and allow a person to see two different things at once. Meaningfully, I mean. If so, there could be a lot of applications. And implications. If the brain can see in two directions at once, we could extend our visual senses in all kinds of ways.

  5. Re:What about water? on Company Claims Potential Magnification In Bio Fuel Production · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, but you can use the Ethanol to power a distiller to make your own water.


    (yes, I'm joking)

  6. Grey Goo? on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 1
    Hmm.... let's see here
    • unidentified substance
    • grey
    • gooey
    • eating Alaska

    It's Nanotechnology run amok. Bill Joy was right. We are all doomed.

  7. It's "The Thing" on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 1

    It thawed out of the ice due to global warming. Kurt Russel must have missed a piece.
    Where's my flamethrower!?

  8. very simple solution... on Ad Networks the Laggards In Jackson Traffic Spike · · Score: 1

    Web sites should display the CONTENT first, THEN load the ads. People can read the articles while all that other stuff gets it's act together. If the ad servers are too slow, then the reader will have moved on before the ads finish loading, thus freeing up resources on the ad server.

  9. Won't work and here's why on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because the Home Owner's Association requires roofs to be black or dark gray. And if you think the it's hot now, you haven't dealt with a HOA on the warpath.

  10. We need caffiene patches on Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal · · Score: 1

    They have nicotine patches, don't they? Why isn't there a caffeine patch, for those times when you can't drink it?

    I think I just gave away another million-dollar idea. oops.

  11. I for one... on Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons · · Score: 1

    welcome our silocon-brained overlords.

    Sorry. Had to be done.

  12. Does this work in all states? on Get Out of Sprint Free · · Score: 1

    I checked my bill, and sure enough the administrative fee has gone up. However, I don't recall getting any notice of such. Is this a state-by-state deal?

    PS: Sure enough, the SA has the materially adverse clause in it.

    PPS: Sprint sucks.

  13. Hasn't this already been done? on Obama Proposes Digital Health Records · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm pretty sure that health insurance companies have electronic records of all their customer's health care. Probably those records are scarily complete.

    Wouldn't it be much cheaper, and faster, to just copy the data from the insurance companies, and write a few data format conversion programs? That would get 90% of the job done. THEN you can waste $100B on the other 10%.

  14. There are very few problems on Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive · · Score: 1

    in programming that can be solved by simply "throwing hardware" them. Also, cost is only one constraint on project resources. It is true that good programmers are expensive, but they are the one element that you can't really automate.

    Looked at another way: if you are using programmers to do work that COULD be automated, you are wasting your money. Put your programmers to work building the automation tools. When they are done you can put them to work on other revenue-generating projects.

  15. Re:In other news: on Strategy Games Improve Cognitive Functions In Older Adults · · Score: 1

    What? Could you repeat that?

  16. anti-theft device on Grenade-Style Wireless Camera For Combat · · Score: 1

    I thought they had made a digital camera in the shape of a grenade to prevent people from stealing it. Oh well.

  17. GooB sale? on Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    So, when is the firesale at CircuitCity?
    Dibs on the laptops!

  18. Dual Operation on Stem Cells From Fat Create Beating Heart Cells · · Score: 2, Funny

    Liposuction + heart fix
    Come out thinner and heart-healthy, all in one swell foop (without all that tedious dieting and exercise).
    Someone is going to make a fortune.

  19. This is a Good Thing! on Microsoft Patents the Censoring of Speech · · Score: 2, Funny

    Given how zealously MS guards it's intellectual property, now NO ONE ELSE will be able to censor speech without getting sued. Free speech is saved!

  20. zfs! on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 1
  21. So they asked a state worker... on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    if they could reprogram the payroll to cut state worker salaries to minimum wage. Um, I think I see the problem.

    Wouldn't it make a whole lot more sense to stop paying the legislature instead?

  22. Homestead! on The Case for Lunar Property Rights · · Score: 1

    Let's apply homesteading rules to solar system real-estate. If you live on a piece of land for a year, making improvements (ie: buildings), then you can claim it. Not the whole planet/moon/ring/whatever, just the part that's lived on.

  23. Let me guess... on Hairy Solar Cells Could Mean Higher Efficiency · · Score: 5, Funny
    They expect to have something ready in 3 to 5 years.

    If every solar cell advance that was announced actually led to improvements of solar cells you could actually buy, then they would be 99.9999999% efficient and cost less than crackers.

    But I'm not bitter, nooooooo.

  24. Apparently the frontiers of physics don't include on Lectures On the Frontiers of Physics Online · · Score: 1, Informative

    ...advanced networking technology. Site appears to be slashdotted.

  25. Here's a cheap DIY solution on Is Cheap Video Surveillance Possible? · · Score: 1

    http://www.riccibitti.com/witnesscam/entry/witnesscam.htm> Low low cost, but hard to assemble. Maybe you could get some of these geeks to build you one for a reasonable fee?