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  1. Re:Another blow to the no life on Mars crowd on New Images Reveal Pure Water Ice On Mars · · Score: 1

    So, anyways, you get a lot of spam, eh?

  2. Spaming slashdot on Idaho Tops America's Most-Spammed States · · Score: 1

    This is the same website with a bogus security story (straight from PR press I think) just a while back. Maybe slashdot should filter that site?

  3. Re:Potatoes on Idaho Tops America's Most-Spammed States · · Score: 1

    And spam goes with th'e potatoes.

  4. Re:No more than a tech demo on Google SideWiki Brings Comments To Everyone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, mods, sprinkle some "insightful" mod points to the post above.

  5. Re:Statistics [Re:Lulz] on AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful · · Score: 1

    I feel farty so I'll let it out.

    A primary assumption in your analysis is that the underlying phenomena is correctly represented with a poisson distribution. It may be a good assumption, but I am sure it's still arguable. This is one of the reasons why employing stats is a bitch.

    Sorry for the stink.

  6. Re:The basis is sound. on Alabama Wages War Against the Perfect Weed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bugs are the plankton of the land.

    Bugs are also bugs of the land. Does your algorithm ends with gorillas dying off in the winter?

  7. Sad on Using a Treadmill and Wiimotes To Run and Fly in Aion · · Score: 1

    First thing that pops into my head is lawsuit. Crazy country.

  8. Re:Trademark the Hamburger on Malaysia Seeking to Copyright Food? · · Score: 2, Funny

    What I found truly popular in the disparate countries I visited is fried chicken. Don't care how poor or rich the country, if they are a target market for KFC, you'd see groups of fat people gorging on buckets of them.

    Fried Chicken©!!!

    The devastating 1-2 combo with: Potato Chip©.

    We are now THE global IP superpower. Take that all you fat foreign bastards, I mean, our valued customers!

  9. Don't panic on Iranian Government Cuts Off Internet Access Again · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's the routine planned Monday outage.

  10. Re:Font on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    Like everything else, the Chinese killed the papyrus market by flooing it with their new-fangled paper thing. This dirty writing business, Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhcckk-PTOOO!

  11. Re:One sentence discredits the whole article on Bringing Convenience and Open Source Methods To Higher Education · · Score: 1

    Dang, someone thinks I'm young. Must be my lucky day.

  12. Re:I beg to differ on MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions · · Score: 2, Funny

    They find you out through your ever-accumulating enemies. MUAHAHAHAHAH!!!

  13. Re:Don't believe any statistics ... on Dead Salmon's "Brain Activity" Cautions fMRI Researchers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yep. What little I remember of stats is that it is an extraordinarily delicate tool, every little theorem is couched in uber cautious qualifications. All the more reasons to be cautious of stat-based findings of math-impaired social scientists, and medicine isn't all that far ahead in terms math literacy.

  14. Re:Corporate Culture on Google, Apple Joust Over Rejected Voice App · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're merely reinforcing the GP's point.

  15. Re:'Good' people still go to that 1 toll booth on News Content As a Resource, Not a Final Product · · Score: 1

    My bad - your post (GP) reads like a sarcasm of sort.

  16. Re:'Good' people still go to that 1 toll booth on News Content As a Resource, Not a Final Product · · Score: 1

    Damn man, that's one powerful coolaid you had. Which flavor was it?

  17. Re:One sentence discredits the whole article on Bringing Convenience and Open Source Methods To Higher Education · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Let's face it, you DO NOT need to physically be in a classroom to learn computer science. Hell, most old line universities are so far behind the IT curve that it's become a bit of a joke in the IT field."

    Computer science is not IT.

    Cookie-cutter lower-level math and science courses (excluding labs) seem well suited for online learning, I agree.

  18. Re:Ask the retired on Who Wants To Be a Billionaire Coder? · · Score: 1

    What your problem? You don't got no lawn?

  19. Strange world on Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Funny world we live in. Car noise became so ubiquitous, we "need" them.

  20. Sup Dawg! on Python Converted To JavaScript, Executed In-Browser · · Score: 1

    We heard you like converting, so...

  21. Words on FCC To Propose Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Words in laws are like numbers on restaurant bills. Nevertheless, I look forward to the actual verbiage.

  22. Outrage on ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man, this makes SOOOOOOOO angry. Someone should write a song about this.

  23. Re:Duh! on How GNOME and KDE Spend Their Money · · Score: 1

    On further reflection, it would be prudent to ignore blackjack and drugs in favor of the remaining and more vital investment.

  24. Re:Let me get this straight on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 1

    True. "Basement" is a state of mind.

  25. Re:What? on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 1

    To add to the fun:

    RVs are big buses. Campers (trailers) are what we call winebagos. Look'em up.