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  1. Re:Of course men not obsolete just yet on Sperm Made From Female Bone Marrow, Men Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    The depressing thing is, as a man I can't really think of why we should be allowed to stick around. Come to that, why should people with disabilities be allowed to stick around, when a fully able-bodied society would be perfectly viable? Isn't that what he meant?
  2. Re:Yawn. on Japan to Launch Maglev Trains by 2025 · · Score: 1

    Yep, when this is built it will be much more convenient to travel out of Tokyo, check in for your flight, board the flight, wait to take off, fly to Nagoya, wait to get your bags at the other end, and then catch a train into the city. Or, you could just catch a nice fast train from the centre of Tokyo to the centre of Nagoya.

  3. Re:2.4 OS Images on The End is Nigh for XP · · Score: 1

    If you're a consumer, you're unlikely to be managing more than say 2.4 OS images at home

    What is the 0.4? Windows 98?


    Ten copies of WinME.

  4. Photo tourism on Using Google Maps With a Photo Album · · Score: 1

    Reminds me a bit of this photo tourism application, a neat way of viewing hundreds of photos of a particular landmark:
    http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/

  5. Re:It Won't Go Anywhere on Dresses Made from Wine · · Score: 1

    Just think of the lucky buggers working on this who get access to wine and beer for work purposes!

  6. Re:Whatever happened to telecommuting? on Google's Best Perk — Transport · · Score: 1

    It's because only mediocre companies outsource to Bangalore.

    Yep. Other companies go to Hyderbad, including Google.

  7. Re:tsk on The Blackest Material · · Score: 1

    They must have painted the original with this material and can't see it anymore.

  8. Re:Shocking... on iPods to be Used as Flight Data Recorders · · Score: 1

    What? They don't make bright orange iPods?

  9. not as big as the 80s on Data Storing Bacteria Could Last Millennia · · Score: 4, Funny

    100 bits ought to be enough for anybody.

  10. Re: slashdotted on oct/2003 on Water Logic Gates Built at MIT · · Score: 1

    so? It's time that this story was recycled.

  11. Never underestimate... on How Would You Deal With A Global Bandwidth Crisis? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would start a company that drives truckloads of hard drives across the country. They didn't say anything about a latency problem...

  12. Re:Willing and able on YouTube Hands Over User Info To Fox · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe this person should be suing Fox for airing the show that he released first, without his permission!

  13. Re:An even bigger hole... on "Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design · · Score: 1

    That sounds very useful to me. Boot the computer, and then let it sit there running since you can't run any apps or games, and wait for it to start a fire. Easy!

  14. Re:Agree! Weather-manipulating super-terrorists!? on Michael Crichton on Why Gene Patents Are Bad · · Score: 1

    There's nothing ridiculous about the blue-ringed octopus.

  15. Re:BSA? on Microsoft to Get Tough on License Dodgers · · Score: 1

    I thought it was the Blue Screen Army.

  16. "the sponges have to be WET" on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 1

    from TFA: "Two minutes in the microwave can kill many germs on kitchen sponges, but the sponges have to be WET."

    I wanted to sterilize my sponge but I didn't know what WET stood for. According to Wikipedia, it could be either Western European Time, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Wuest Expanded Translation (a translation of the New Testament by Kenneth Wuest) or WET Web Tester, an automated web testing tool. I assume that my sponge is none of the last three, so how do I change the time zone setting of my microwave?

  17. Re:Silicon Heaven on Where Does Google's Hardware Go to Die? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've seen toasters with wings though... I wonder if they were running Java?

  18. Re:I know this one on Doomsday Clock To Advance · · Score: 1

    Funny you should mention Chuck, brother of Robert who co-wrote that article.

  19. Re:No Roo bars? on Solar Powered Car Attempts to Break Record · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At least they'll be safe in the Nullarbor, there's no trees for them to drop from.

  20. Re:Pffft Yeah Right on Solar Powered Car Attempts to Break Record · · Score: 1

    Hey, settle down, everyone knows that Western Australia doesn't exist. The summary is wrong, it should read "Jaycar Sunswift III today started on its 14000km journey across the world, including the Australian outback, in an attempt to beat the 8.5 day record from Perth, Scotland to Sydney, Australia."

  21. Re:oh boy on How 'Games for Windows' Will Change PC Gaming · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://minesweeperlive.com/ - real minesweeper, not that flags game.