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  1. Re:pronounciation on Swimming Robot Reaches Australia After Record-Breaking Trip · · Score: 5, Funny

    'Varbie'.
    Got it.

  2. 100 Years from Now; on Robot Controls Person's Arm To Manipulate Objects · · Score: 1

    The robot revolution will be remembered as starting with "Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!"

  3. Re:Oh the Drivel You Will Spew on Anatomy of a Privacy Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Doesn't have any record for me at all, and my name, as far as I know, is unique in my country.

  4. Re:"List of routers affected" is just a picture on Millions of Home Routers Are Hackable · · Score: 1

    It looks like it's all the G series that ran on the Linux firmware, so that includes the GL but leaves out the G from V5 on.

  5. Re:It won't work on Climate Change and the Integrity of Science · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Oh, balls. Look, cherry-picking your data to show what you want may convince some, but the fact is that using a year with an extremely strong El Nino effect as your starting baseline is dishonest.

    Long term global temperature trends are still UP, not down.

  6. Where's my perfume-free zone? on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm serious. I've been on flights where fellow passengers apparently subscribed to the "perfume instead of a shower" school.
    And it was disgusting, and made my flight a hell, with clogged sinuses and the concomitant ear congestion that results in excruciating pain until the congestion clears (oh, it only takes a few hours). Benadryl and Claritin and any other anti-allergy drug don't help.

  7. Re:Shrimp free zone? on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Allergies that can kill are no joking matter..."

    Oh.
    Now I understand all those dirty looks I've been getting.

  8. Re:Taikonaut, cosmonaut and astronaut on China To Snap 4 Space Ships Into a Station · · Score: 1

    Hey, if English was good enough for Jesus it's good enough for me.

  9. Re:Moon vs Mars - benefits... on Ares V Rocket Bigger and Stronger For Moon Mission · · Score: 1

    Of course, once you're in Earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere.

  10. Re:Bigger and stronger? on Ares V Rocket Bigger and Stronger For Moon Mission · · Score: 1

    Of course, there's also the problem of multiple EMP bursts, ranging from low to high altitude detonation. Those probably wouldn't be desirable.

  11. Re:CDs are still readable on Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years? · · Score: 1

    unless you had like 3 espressos, the only speed you could do it at was 1X. Well, yeah - if you were such a malaprop that you couldn't use 3 magnifying glasses at once, anyway.
  12. Re:Yes I'd like to see that on Group Wants Wi-Fi Banned, Citing Allergy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Part of it isn't even that people are necessarily getting more cancer. Doctors are finding more cancer. More testing and better testing will have that effect.

  13. Re:Here's how it will PASS... and its underway. on Canadian DMCA Bill Withdrawn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When you have an axe to grind, all you see is grindstones.

  14. Re:Perfect thing to fit on a truck to ram somewher on Portable Nuclear Battery in the Development Stages · · Score: 1

    Building 7 did not fall down at free fall speed. Video shows objects *actually* in free fall, falling faster. Same goes for the collapse of the towers.

    Oh, and that 'molten steel'? Never verified as such, and almost certainly it was molten aluminum. Workers reported seeing molten *metal*, or they simply assumed it was steel, but the fact is that the ruins were hot enough in places for aluminum to be molten for days or weeks after the day - and there was a LOT of aluminum in the wreckage. All the cladding on the outside of the towers was aluminum, for a start.

  15. Re:Not even close. on People Believe NASA Funded As Well As US Military · · Score: 1

    Actually, the US currently spends MORE per capita than Canada on the publicly-funded parts of its healthcare, like Medicare. And those programs don't cover everyone. So the upshot is that Canada is providing healthcare to everybody, and spending less per person than the US, who provide healthcare to only some of the population. That's not taking into account the amount spent by people on private insurers, either.

  16. Re:What's the speed of force? on Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now that John Holmes is dead, anyway.