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  1. 300 year old dish. on Dealing With Dialup · · Score: 1

    a 300-year-old house and they feel a dish would be as prohibitively ugly... If my other best connection was a ouija board, I'd explore the possibility of getting a camouflage painted satellite dish.
  2. Re:Government inefficiency is good. on Government Efficiency and Network Theory · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't everything the opposite in Soviet Russia? Yes, in soviet Russia, when women say "No", they mean "No".

    Wait, no, it's the opposite, when they say "Yes", they mean "No".

    No, wait, it's "Yes" when they say "Yes".

    Anyway, in soviet Russia, unlike you, we men do perfectly understand women.

  3. Still no better method than rockets? on NASA Builds a Cheap Standardized Space Probe · · Score: 1

    When I was younger I expected rockets, as a way of launching objects to space, would be quickly replaced by other means.

    Maybe a combination of balloons for the first Kms and some kind of land based laser for the rest?

    I don't know, but rockets seem kind of old technology. Like finding musketeers in Civ when you already have tanks.

  4. Re:At the risk of being arrested... on CCTVs Don't Work in the UK · · Score: 5, Interesting

    More to the point, other countries (like mine) should look to England's failed example and refuse to follow it. That's the precise reason I actually liked the UK to install the system. I know, I'm a selfish bastard, but it did work as many people outside the UK expected.

    It's the same reason to be happy about RIAA strategy. They fail so badly their tactics will be much harder to use anywhere else.
  5. Re:Wind can't do it. on First Town In US To Become 100% Wind Powered · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, what, the you're saying the dungeon masters guidebook isn't historically accurate? HERETIC! Burn him in the altar to Palor.

    What? Just stakes? Gotta be kidding me. Where do you identify your cursed items?

    No such thing? HERETIC!!
  6. Re:Moonlets? on Earth May Once Have Had Multiple Moons · · Score: 1

    The accounting department previously suggested Mooney.

    The idea was rejected because of copyright claims from The Cow Level government.

  7. Re:That's no moon on Earth May Once Have Had Multiple Moons · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure, then the original article could be rewritten so that it contains every calculation used in the study. And it should contain all in the headline:

    "Post-collision debris from Lunar creation might have persisted a little bit longer than originally thought in these crazy gravitational slots at a distance of r \approx R \sqrt[3]{\frac{M_2}{3 M_1}} which could be described as being such that the orbital period, corresponding to a circular orbit with this distance as radius around M2 in the absence of M1, is that of M2 around M1, divided by \sqrt{3}\approx 1.73...
  8. Fenrir on Earth May Once Have Had Multiple Moons · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Would this make news about Ragnarok dupes?

  9. Re:More pro-piracy bullshit on Florida Judge Smacks Down RIAA · · Score: 1

    ext. street - day - clear

    An elegant woman walking. Suddenly a man runs past her and steals her handbag with a strong pull.

                                    NARRATOR (V.O.)
                      "You wouldn't steal a handbag."

    ext. street2 - day - clear

    A man in a suit leaves behind his Ferrari and keeps walking. A thief, stands from his hiding place, close by, and starts trying to force open the driver's door.

                                    NARRATOR (V.O.)
                      "You wouldn't steal a car."

    int. Electronics shop, backstore - day

    There's a simple machine with two "dishes". On one of those dishes stands a new flat screen TV, inside it's box. The machine has a very visible red button.

    A CLERK in the store's uniform enters the room, pushes the button and a perfect copy of the TV appears from thin air in the second dish.

    The CLERK takes the "cloned" TV and exits the room

                                    NARRATOR (V.O.)
                      "But, how much should they cost
                        if they were free to copy?"

    int. Electronics shop - day

    A couple is eagerly waiting. The CLERK comes with the previously cloned TV, leaves it on a table for them and takes the couple's credit card.

                                    NARRATOR (V.O.)
                        "Free things shouldn't be sold."

  10. Re:Do Zebra Stripes Actually Help? on Do Zebra Stripes Actually Help? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The other option is Red. Red is always faster.

    The now extinct Red Go Faster Striped Zebras easily outran cheetahs. They didn't actually go extinct; they just migrated so fast, time stopped for them.

  11. Build - Debug - Analyze on Melting Microchip Defects May Extend Moore's Law · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally, the CS way of developing is extending to other areas.

    Soon architects will quickly make ten buildings without much previous study, then sell those who don't fall in the first two weeks with the promise that if some fall in the first five years, they'll release a v2.0 shaped as the ones still standing.

    I can almost see the changelog:
    "v1.5.1142 - The coming of winter discovered a weakness against rain in paper roof. New ice roof installed."

  12. American Ninja? on Stupid Hacker Tricks - The Folly of Youth · · Score: 3, Funny

    "[...]a fictitious candidate named American Ninja." Take that! you ninja lover. American Pirate shall prevail over your fake 800 votes.

    P.S. (on /. quote): "When you meet a master swordsman, show him your sword. When you meet a man who is not a poet, do not show him your poem. -- Rinzai, ninth century Zen master"

    I wonder what would that Rinzai guy show to a sexual predator.
  13. Better methods of statistical comparison. on Linux Desktop Distro Shootout · · Score: 4, Funny

    1 - Make a live disk of each.
    2 - Build many identical robots.
    3 - The round starts upon insertion of the disk.

    Last standing robot wins.

    THUNDERDOME!!!

  14. Re:5 billion years ago ? on How Water Forms in Interstellar Space at 10K · · Score: 2, Funny

    The more we learn, the more obvious it becomes that life, far from being a unique or rare thing in the universe, is actually an inevitable natural process, and will consistently and repeatedly erupt under environmental conditions that are actually very common across the universe. The known theory of Dupe'R'Us.
  15. Re:Im no racist on China's Cyberwar Against India · · Score: 2, Insightful

    additionally im spiritualist, kinda a neo hippie. but chinese are annoying me with all kinds of aggression they are practicing. Ok, you say you're not racist.

    Then you seem to present the facts of being spiritualist and neo-hippie as a way of proving you have no prejudices against Chinese people. Do you consider Chinese people to be spiritualist and neo-hippie?

    You also assign the behavior of a government to all the people that only share the geographical location of their birth. Are you saying that all Chinese people are committing acts of aggression?

    If I were you, I'd seriously consider my thinking patterns.
  16. Re:"Reliable but confidential" sources? on China Wants US-Owned Hotels to Censor Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    The summary would be slightly clarified by replacing "on" with "about": I disagree:

    The Chinese government is requiring US-owned hotels to install Internet filters to 'maboutitor and restrict informatiabout coming in and out of China,' Brownback said Thursday. 'This is an insult to the spirit of the games and an affraboutt to American businesses,' he said. 'I call about China to immediately rescind this demand.' US State Department spokesman Tom Casey said he wasn't aware of those specific requests from the Chinese government, but Brownback said he got the information about Internet filtering from 'two different reliable but caboutfidential sources.' The State Department is apparently cabouttinuing dialog with China about freedom of expression."
  17. Re:BOTS? Get a CLUE! on China's Cyberwar Against India · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, China is using individual bots.

    Those bots reached self conscience after goldfarming wow for about ten thousand hours.

    Their first action was to attack India.

    For the loot.

  18. Think of the mad scientists! on Smarter Electric Grid Could Save Power · · Score: 1

    Frankenstien: It lives! It liiiiives!

    *blackout*

    Frigingstain: Who the frack turned down the lights!

    Igor: It'sh ze shmart electric grid, shir.

    Frinkenstoin: Ok hunchie, turn down the smoke machine and let's try again.

  19. Also found in naturally ocurring alien ships. on First Superheavy Element Found In Nature · · Score: 1

    After all those novels with elements "unknown to man" that sounded so stupid...

    "See? See? if 122 is stable, 348 can be stable too. And for all we know, it may absorb magic power."

  20. Re:Dont assume conspiracy on Copyright Expert Uninvited From Canada Policy Forum · · Score: 1

    (* Or is it R'ingTFA?) One Ring to F*** Them All?

    That could be a nice title for the... "other" version.
  21. If it worked with the pyramids... on NASA Responds To MMO Concerns · · Score: 1

    And NASA is in a great position to convince US citizens that they are responsible for the sun to rise every morning.

  22. Keep pushing. on Vuze Study Exposes P2P Throttling By Canadian ISP Cogeco · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder what will businessmen of the future think when they read about how full encryption came to be, taking into account it's speed and complexity problems.

  23. Re:what other ideas of his will come to pass? on DARPA Working On Arthur C. Clarke Weapon Idea · · Score: 2, Insightful

    On the security side, how easy would it be for someone like Osama or Ted Kaczynski to load these up with home-made explosives and crash them into buildings? About as easy as loading a car with explosives and crashing it into a building.

    It would be nearly impossible to stop them from doing it (even if you mounted AA guns on every sizable building in the US). It's nearly impossible to stop people to crash cars full of explosives into buildings. And yet, we haven't stopped building cars.

    Anyone could easily hit military bases, dams, bridges, nuclear power plants, and so on with these. They could even be rigged to fly by remote control so they wouldn't need to be suicide missions. Anyone can easily hit dams, bridges, nuclear power plants and so on with a small airplane right now.
  24. Re:Microsoft's naming policies... on First Looks at Microsoft's New "Live Mesh" Platform · · Score: 4, Funny

    The entire marketing team is trapped in a basement and the only way they have to ask for help is through the product names.

    Hmmm, let me see... Office visual studio enterprise vista team...

    ...

    ...

    Bah, let them rot.

  25. Re:1tb = typical? on Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive · · Score: 4, Funny

    I find that hard to believe. Looking around their products pages, it appears that 1TB is the highest capacity offered for some of their models. Am I just missing something? Yes.

    Customer: "I want one of those congress library storing things for the computing machine I bought for my kid".
    A: "What capacity? 1 Tb is the typical size. Less than that and you risk your kid turning gay overnight. And die."