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  1. animals == food on PETA Creates New Animal-Friendly Software License · · Score: 1

    If God didn't want us to eat animals, He wouldn't have made them out of meat.

  2. Awesome on Fluorescent Protein Research Lands Scientists Nobel Prize · · Score: 1

    Now let's see them insert the gene into a chameleon and see what it'll do...

  3. Re:They're Right on Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't justify the oppression of their government, but it may justify the perception by their people of us being hypocrites. What percentage of the Chinese population knows what their government is doing in Tibet? Considering the censorship over there, very little I would say. And what do you think their government is letting through about what we are doing? Anything bad I would imagine...

  4. Re:Good on GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Was probably written with remote controlled cars used by the movie industry in mind.

  5. Re:It cracked the amber and immediately.. on Possible 25 Million Year Old Frog Found · · Score: 1

    But is there free beer?

  6. Load system files into nvram on Why Do Computers Take So Long to Boot Up? · · Score: 1

    The last computer that could do this was the Amiga, and it was so far ahead of its time that they still haven't caught up with it...

  7. I had a very similar problem with a used EQ2 acct on EULA Confusion w/ Used Copies of WoW? · · Score: 1

    I had to use the original owner's account... change his password, delete his characters. He gave me his security question/answer, which he can still use to regain access to the account, but then I can just do the same thing.

  8. Save Hubble! on China To Launch 2 Into Space In September · · Score: 1

    Hey maybe the Chinese will be able to get a program together to save the Hubble...

  9. God willing on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    Its the whole "God willing" thing that gets me. If they don't find anything, they'll say God wanted it to remain hidden, thus proving absolutely nothing.

  10. No, really, who's gonna buy it? on 419er Lost in Space · · Score: 1

    Holy shizoli, if anyone actually belives this story, I got oceanfront property on the moon for ya, real cheap...

  11. MS on New Windows Vulnerability in Help System · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft is in some serious need of some help on this...

  12. huge wooden speaker? on Giant Sub-Woofer · · Score: 1

    It'll take alot of sake to make a wooden speaker of that size!

  13. Re:The domain is registered to someone in Virginia on Compensation for Bandwidth Costs is Extortion? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, those phony phone numbers in domain registrations... should be a federal crime...

  14. rubbing a website on Compensation for Bandwidth Costs is Extortion? · · Score: 1

    My website had 2648739 hits last month. The approximate hardware value of the server is in the neighborhood of $500. My bandwidth costs come out to about $50 or so a month for DSL. Count me in with the ones who don't believe his $300,000 charge for hosting the website.

  15. worse than expected? on Super Tuesday Not So Super For Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    "More troublesome than previously anticipated"?

    These were anticipated to cause a meltdown if chernobyl proportions... you can get worse than that?

  16. Been there, seen that... on USPTO Grants CA Lawyer Domain-Naming Patent · · Score: 1

    Yawn, another slow news day?

  17. here is MY Idea on USA To Return To Moon By 2015, Then Mars · · Score: 1

    Disband NASA. The $86B, spend it elsewhere. Except for about $3-5B... use that as and Xprize type fund. Give it to the first privately funded group to get to Mars. Call it the M prize.

  18. Multi purpose ATMs on Windows ATMs by 2005 · · Score: 1

    "Even though Celent's Bezard said most banks would not offer advanced features on their revamped ATMs, machine manufacturers such as NCR envision a future in which the machines not only dispense cash, but also lottery tickets and soft drinks."

    Can't wait til the day I withdraw $40 and the ATM says "you want fries with that?"

  19. Re:They got their fullerenes mixed up on Buckminsterfullerene Strikes Again - Nanotube RAM · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, the spherical is the buckminsterfullerene, fullerene refers to all of the types of molecules, spherical or tubular or other.

  20. They got their fullerenes mixed up on Buckminsterfullerene Strikes Again - Nanotube RAM · · Score: 2, Informative

    A fullerene is a certain class of carbon molecules that have a tubular or spherical form. The Buckminsterfullerene, or "buckyball" refers to the specific spherical C60 fullerine (shaped like a football). All other non spherical molecules (eg tubular) are just referred to as fullerenes.

  21. updates? on Bluetooth, GSM, and Gameboy · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Looks like that was 2 years old, is there anything newer about the project?

  22. Bad, very bad on Nicotine-Free Cigs, Genetically Engineered · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One main reason smokers smoke one or two or more packs a day is that is the level of nicotine they are addicted to. Take away the nicotine and they'll be puffing away on 4-6 packs a day...

  23. Re:You forgot some... on Top 10 New Sci-Fi/SF Authors? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He didn't forget them, they weren't worth mentioning. He did however forget Heinlein.

  24. Programming language as OS? on Programming Languages Will Become OSes · · Score: 2, Funny


    10 A$="Who ever heard of that? It'll never work"
    20 PRINT A$
    30 GOTO 20

  25. It figures on Oregon Considers GPS-based Road Taxes · · Score: 1

    that a story like this would come out of the Statesman Urinal...