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  1. Re:Will it be next to the furniture store? on Celebrate Your Next Birthday At the Microsoft Store · · Score: 1

    Careful, you don't want Microsoft Sam telling you off for being mean to Clippy!

  2. Re:What are they trying to hide? on Temperature Data Wants To Be Free · · Score: 2, Funny

    That, or someone mixed up various censorship blacklists with the data,

  3. Re:Will it be next to the furniture store? on Celebrate Your Next Birthday At the Microsoft Store · · Score: 1

    asfaik the 'squirted' song is destroyed after play or 10 minutes or something :|

  4. Re:Will it be next to the furniture store? on Celebrate Your Next Birthday At the Microsoft Store · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forgot, there would be some guy dressed up as a paperclip constantly bugging you asking questions like:

    "It appears you are trying to browse for Office software, would you like some help on purchasing Windows Seven?"

  5. Re:Clever Modding on New Zealand Tree Stuck In Evolutionary Time Warp · · Score: 1

    Possums are marsupials, not rodents.

  6. Re:don't believe it on Artificial Brain '10 Years Away' · · Score: 2, Informative

    Genetics in robots is basically hard-coded or predefined information.

  7. Re:Whole Disk Encryption on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 1

    Well, you see, a the fourth failed attempt to decrypt the data would cause an earth shattering ka-boom ;)

  8. Re:And yet... on How Apple's App Review Is Sabotaging the iPhone · · Score: 1

    If you can make something easily, quickly and pretty much pointless to any user and have people pay for it then you have won.

  9. Re:DRM is dead? on RIAA Spokesman Says DRM Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Digital Resource Management Act


    Whenever I see RMA I think of the Resource Management Act.

  10. Re:I don't get it on ESA and NASA Establish a Joint Mars Exploration Initiative · · Score: 1

    I like both Toyota and Audi. My mum's Audi was rear-ended by some girl who was txting at the wheel. Apparently her car hhad some damage, mum's Audi (A3 Hatch) looked completely unscathed.

    Note: I had to write this as "My mum's Audi was..." as opposed to "My mum was rear-ended..."

  11. Re:MGS tech on MIT Develops Camera-Like Fabric · · Score: 1

    The invisible car in a Bond movie.

  12. Re:I don't get it on ESA and NASA Establish a Joint Mars Exploration Initiative · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, we all know that European cars are better than American cars. Just look at Audi versus Ford.

  13. Re:Accidents are not accidental. on New Zealand Creates Safety Billboard That Bleeds When It Rains · · Score: 1

    The word 'accident' is a scapegoat term as to assume that there is no one (not even one's self) to blame. An accident is an avoidable incident, avoidable by being a little more careful.

  14. Re:Al Gore's hyperbole knows no bounds on New Zealand Creates Safety Billboard That Bleeds When It Rains · · Score: 1

    Some ideas are worse than others. Any road advert that takes one's eyes from the road for more than two seconds is poorly designed -- especially if it is to convey road safety.

  15. Re:Japan is insane. on Railway Workers Get Daily Smile Scans · · Score: 1
    Yeah, they even got the quote wrong:

    If your smile number is too low the computer will give you a message such as, "lift up your mouth corners" or "why so serious?".

    fix'd

  16. Re:LaTeX on HTML Tags For Academic Printing? · · Score: 1

    HTML is only portable and widely spread because every operating system that one would view an HTML file in has a rendering engine designed to render HTML -- yeah, a browser!

    If, for example, Mozilla incorporated LaTeX into Gecko then LaTeX would do the job that your first bullet points out. Probably any implementation using LaTeX would be a on-the-fly compile and view as PDF.

  17. Re:Things to learn from the Open Source model on Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs · · Score: 1

    W3C should actually just grow some balls and push OGG/Theora + OGG/Vorbis as suggestions, not requirements. Why can't Apple approach Xiph requesting a (obviously $free) "Patent License" ... I'm pretty sure that Xiph would provide one if it cures Apple's worries about the patent issues.

    Though, now with no suggested codecs involved Firefox+Opera will keep OGG/Theora and possibly work forward with getting more codecs, Google will continue getting what ever into Chrome/Chromium as possible, and Apple will get QuickTime codecs and, if they need to, OGG codecs.

    Microsoft will lag behind until IE9 and release something that only supports WMA/WMV, etc or when IE dies and is replaced by something else...

  18. Re:Until they turn against you on NASA Suggests Nano Robots To Explore Mars · · Score: 1

    But today is all about kill switches and things to stop others from doing things.

  19. Re:Until they turn against you on NASA Suggests Nano Robots To Explore Mars · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you program the robots into detecting an 'acceptable' amount of a certain material and stopping once there is that much there...

  20. Re:Obligatory quote on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World · · Score: 1

    DO NOT WANT

  21. Re:Genetic drift on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World · · Score: 1

    Hey! I thought only free and open source software could use recursive acronyms -- GNU's Not Unix; WINE Is Not an Emulator; etc.

  22. Re:don't tread on an ant ... on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World · · Score: 1

    You made me realise that these ants have shown to be able to handle one thing greater than us: LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS.

  23. Re:Obligatory quote on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World · · Score: 1

    Can they carry coconuts?

  24. Re:Obligatory quote on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World · · Score: 1
  25. Re:um...grats? on Yahoo's "Chicken Coop" Data Center Design · · Score: 1

    This story, and robotic search crawlers, makes me think about Robot Chicken.