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  1. smell on Outer Space has a Smell · · Score: 1

    maybe astronauts just have pleasant, metallic BO

  2. sooo... on First Organic Molecules Found on Alien World · · Score: 3, Funny

    methane... aliens can fart...?

  3. banal on Hostile ta Vista, Baby · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is no single correct way to pronounce it. You're just being anal.

  4. big deal on First Amendment Ruling Protects Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    this article is gay

  5. Re:Information sharing is optional on Facebook Sharing Too Much Personal Data With Application Developers · · Score: 1

    and ZERO of the applications are worth it, even if they didn't need personal info.

  6. Re:The Gaming Industry is Shaping Me on Are These People Reshaping the Gaming Industry? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Gaming Industry is Shaping Me... Unfortunately, it isn't for the better. Maybe if I stop playing games, get out of the house, exercise, eat properly.... Same here, but I think 'round' is a pretty good shape.
  7. Re:It's just an attempt to get traffic on Fifth Cable Cut To Middle East · · Score: 1

    ...so this is where "journalism" is heading. It's all about the money of course, but it's actually the first time it's been so clear.

    You must not watch Fox.
  8. Re:Toughest device? on Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    Similar thing happened to my Tamagotchi.
    But even after a wash cycle it was still shitty.

  9. Re:Creative Media on Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    I had a nomad 3 that survived water damage, and about 10 drops on concrete and a few accidental kicks. it finally died when i dropped it, and it happened to hit the concrete right on the headphone jack, breaking the female end of the jack into several pieces.
    I could have fixed it, but it was time to let go.

  10. Re:Time for the Electric Company to Jump in for Re on Time-Warner Considers Per-Gigabyte Service Fee, After iTunes · · Score: 1

    My employer has done some work for a company that makes devices that automatically take the reading, send it by radio (I think) to a device on a nearby telephone pole, and then the readings are sent over the phone lines. No drive-by required for this company's devices, as far as I know.

  11. Next gen? on Next Generation of Gyroscopic Controllers on the Horizon · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you think gyroscopes are next gen, I have just one word for you: plastics.

  12. tax break? on Creative Capitalism Gets Microsoft $528M Tax Break · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If there's no corporate taxes in that area, the fact that they don't pay the non-existent taxes makes it a tax break? disclaimer: I didn't read the article

  13. Re:Third cut? on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 1

    How do you say 'Firesale' in Farsi?

  14. Re:spare us the snobby elitism on ACLU of Ohio Sues To Block Paper Ballots · · Score: 1

    agreed. people should have the opportunity to correct a mistake.
    ballots could be designed to get some types of people to fill them out "properly", and others, well, they'd just be SOL if they cant read small text, or don't know the meaning of a certain word, or anything else a corrupt politician can dream up.

  15. Re:Edmund Burke Updated on Technical Risks of the US Protect America Act · · Score: 1

    I give you one week before Bush uses that exact quote to *promote* this bill.

  16. Re:Best game console on What's the Best Game Console of All Time? · · Score: 1

    Sega CD came out before 3do. and there was probably a console before that that used optical discs.

  17. Sega Mega-CD (Sega CD) on What's the Best Game Console of All Time? · · Score: 1

    It came with Sewer Shark!

  18. Continue downloading! on U2's Manager Calls For Mandatory Disconnects For Music Downloaders · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe then, finally, U2 will stop making music! *crosses fingers*

  19. Re:Very good, very original on Cloverfield Discussion · · Score: 1

    I'm very surprised that The Host wasn't mentioned earlier.
    The Host was amazing, and Cloverfield looks like a Blair Witch'd version of it The Host, without The Host's fun factor.
    I haven't seen Cloverfield yet, I'm not sure if I will. There's so much "You HAVE to see it in the theater! It won't be the same on a small screen!" hype, it makes me wonder if the studio is paying everyday people to hype it up. And I don't like the social engineering in advertisements.

  20. Re:Ethical Outperformance on Examining the Ethical Implications of Robots in War · · Score: 1

    I guess it depends on if they've 'discovered' the zeroth law. In that case the robot might destroy the General for the benefit of mankind.

  21. Re:Chemical Dectectors.... on NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    This reeks of corruption. They'll confiscate our noses, only to turn around and sell them on Omicron Persei 8.

  22. Re:It's like a party in your stomach! on New "Endoscope On a Pill" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fry: Are you crazy? I can't swallow that. Professor Farnsworth: Well, then good news! It's a suppository.

  23. Re:Why not declare war on religion in general? on Internet Group Declares War on Scientology · · Score: 1

    I don't have a citation other than my memory.
    memory of what i learned in school, not my memory of my childhood in 1500s England.
  24. Re:Why not declare war on religion in general? on Internet Group Declares War on Scientology · · Score: 1

    I don't have a citation other than my memory. Back when the Church of England sold indulgences, they controlled access to the scriptures so the people wouldn't know any better than to fork over money to forgive sins, and release deceased loved ones from purgatory.

  25. Re:Tom Cruise, Heath Ledger, and Google on Internet Group Declares War on Scientology · · Score: 1
    Probably something to do with the probability that Tom Cruise and Heath Ledger are two of the most googled male celebrities right now.
    From Google's faq:

    What is statistical machine translation?
    Most state-of-the-art, commercial machine-translation systems in use today have been developed using a rule-based approach, and require a lot of work to define vocabularies and grammars.
    Our system takes a different approach: we feed the computer billions of words of text, both monolingual text in the target language, and aligned text consisting of examples of human translations between the languages. We then apply statistical learning techniques to build a translation model. We've achieved very good results in research evaluations.
    Or maybe someone's just having fun with google.