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  1. Re:How much is that in shot glasses? on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 5, Funny

    No. We agreed to use imperial only. Didn't we? Oh, shit! I have a phone call to make.

  2. Don't make grand claims on Scientists Build Computer Using Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 2

    Making a claim like "one day a computer will be thinner than a human hair!!! OMG it'll be great!!!" will just make you sound like an idiot sooner than you think. Lots of the quotes about computers fitting in single rooms and doing thousands of calculations are just like this.

  3. Re:Once again on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    Turn the machines back on! Turn the machines back on!

  4. Re:Uh... on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm pretty sure it was a speed of light violation. We should announce to the rest of the world this marvelous discovery.

  5. Re:That's one pissed-off grad student he has (or h on Phantom Authors Publish Real Research Paper · · Score: 1

    It could be another professor that hates his guts.

  6. Who needs security? on Phantom Authors Publish Real Research Paper · · Score: 1

    Maybe having everyone share an account on the lab computer wasn't such a good idea after all.

  7. Re:The real question is on Apple Maps Flaw Sends Drivers Across Airport Runway · · Score: 1

    My dad used to take us to the end of the runway at Vancouver International. The planes would be very low and very loud going directly overhead. I thought it was awesome. I wonder how close you can get nowadays?

  8. Re:The real question is on Apple Maps Flaw Sends Drivers Across Airport Runway · · Score: 2

    Maybe it's because airports aren't the massive insane over-the-top security risk the TSA would have you believe. It's just an airport. Calm the fuck down.

  9. Re:Screen resolution on Amazon Launches Kindle Fire HDX Tablets · · Score: 1

    Now, not all applications will 'break' in the traditional sense but I consider text too small to read, or having to position your mouse within a 1 pixel wide area to move something like a divider, a broken application. Windows applications just aren't resolution independent.

  10. Re:Screen resolution on Amazon Launches Kindle Fire HDX Tablets · · Score: 2, Informative

    They can't because people are still on Windows, which heavily depends on bitmaps. If you increase the screen resolution that much it screws up lots of existing applications to the point of being unusable.

  11. Just as slimy on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 1

    Nice to see that Tesla's just as slimy and deceptive as all the other dealers out there.

  12. Re:Different Parents on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 1

    Ahhhh. Their.

  13. Re:Different Parents on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd wager we're talking about the same parents. The ones that are vocally opposed to violent video games are the ones who think that if WalMart sells it then it must be ok for little Jimmy. They're naivety knows no bounds.

  14. Should not be a refund on Apple Offers Refund To Stiffed Breaking Bad Season Pass Customers · · Score: 1

    Instead, give them what they paid for.

  15. Re:What's the size of an apartment block? on "Synthetic Tracking" Makes It Possible to Find Millions of Near Earth Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Roughly ten thousand olympic swimming pools.

  16. Slashvertisement on New App Aims To Track Your Dreams · · Score: 1

    There are only about a million dream tracking apps in the Google Play store already.

  17. Re:No. on Emotional Attachment To Robots Could Affect Battlefield Outcome · · Score: 4, Funny

    "You will give your robot a girl's name."

  18. Wear gloves when maintaining these things on Emotional Attachment To Robots Could Affect Battlefield Outcome · · Score: 1

    At least you know they're getting lubricated regularly.

  19. Re:42 on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any cost savings from flapping wings would be negated by having to handle and store massive quantities of vomit.

  20. Re:It's a time cube on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    I once wrote a bunch of stuff in all caps, to sarcastically imitate yelling of course, and the filter got me and pointed out that all caps is equivalent to yelling and it wouldn't let me post. But it doesn't dare mess with the timecube.

  21. It's a time cube on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 4, Informative

    EARTH HAS 4 CORNER
    SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
    TIME CUBE
    WITHIN SINGLE ROTATION.
      4 CORNER DAYS PROVES 1
    DAY 1 GOD IS TAUGHT EVIL.
    IGNORANCE OF TIMECUBE4
    SIMPLE MATH IS RETARDATION
    AND EVIL EDUCATION DAMNATION.
    CUBELESS AMERICANS DESERVE -
    AND SHALL BE EXTERMINATED

  22. Re:Amazing, for 2012 on Blackberry Z30 Phablet Announced · · Score: 1

    This is a reminder to keep your sarcasm meter maintained within proper operating parameters.

  23. Re:Amazing, for 2012 on Blackberry Z30 Phablet Announced · · Score: 1

    So then what are they buying it for?

    That's the one that has email on your phone right? I always wanted one of those.

  24. Re:Amazing, for 2012 on Blackberry Z30 Phablet Announced · · Score: 1

    Why would you want email? That's what a desktop is for.

  25. Re:Econophysicists. WTF? on True Size of the Shadow Banking System Revealed (Spoiler: Humongous) · · Score: 1

    We all know that Bistronomics is at the forefront of the science.