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  1. Re:Baffled on The Pocket-Sized Projector Has Arrived · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and you thought cell phones were annoying when they came out . .

    They still are.

  2. Re:In the Image of $DEITY Created $DEITY_PRONOUN I on Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    "In the Image of $DEITY Created $DEITY_PRONOUN It" - like Yoda you speak.

  3. Re:ultimate symbol of our throw away culture on ESA Unveils Re-Entry Module · · Score: 1

    SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo were purely sub-orbital ...

    Was? AFAIK, SpaceShipTwo hasn't even flown yet.

  4. RBT on A Linux-Based "Breath Test" For Porn On PCs · · Score: 1

    The summary is wrong: it's a Random Breast Test.

  5. Re:Random musings about calcium on Memory Molecule Identified · · Score: 2, Funny

    myosin Vb molecule in hippocampal neurons responded to a flow of calcium ions

    "So remember to drink your milk, boys and girls, or you will forget how to."

    Forget milk; drink Vb and alter your synapses directly.

  6. Re:Could/Should we push all the junk back at earth on Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    The established procedure for dealing with a piece of space junk containing a dangerous chemical that could land anywhere and might hurt someone is to shoot it down with a Standard Missile-3. Gentlemen, start your AEGIS.

  7. Re:Lander, not Rover on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Is Back In Business · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like anime characters to me, but then I'm not a rocket scientist.

  8. Alternatives to TWiki? on TWiki.net Kicks Out All TWiki Contributors · · Score: 1

    Crap... I was looking at using TWiki at work, but now I have to seriously reconsider now that they don't appear to have a developer community any more.

    The key "enterprise" features were the ability (albeit clumsily) to maintain several separate public and private wikis, integration with AD (kinda) for accountability, and the GUI editor was handy for non-Wiki users. Being free/open source also means I didn't have to fill in a mountain of paperwork to try and justify the cost when we're just testing the Wiki water.

    Any suggestions for an alternative?

  9. Re:Why Doesn't The Military Simply.. on US Army Sees Twitter As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool" · · Score: 1

    The point of these reports isn't to state the obvious, but to highlight specific capabilities to the decision makers, who decide what to do about it: nothing, monitor it, subvert it, bomb it. The latter process never gets reported because it a) doesn't get cheap laughs, and b) is probably classified.

    "Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." - Groucho Marx

  10. Re:So who is going to register... on ICANN Releases Draft For New TLDs · · Score: 1

    idontlike.spam

  11. Re:Stupid Guns on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    I love how people tend to forget we're a nation born of revolt and war, tempered in the fires of combat, using pretty much PRIVATE WEAPONS and allied FOREIGN ARMIES against a MUCH LARGER ARMY.

    Fixed that for you.

  12. Re:Wow on Storing Qubits In Nuclei · · Score: 1

    And you also have to be really fast because 1¾ seconds later, you have to reboot...

    So their quantum computer already runs Windows? Whoa.

  13. Re:Wise They Are on Russia Mandates Free Software For Public Schools · · Score: 1

    They ... created the periodic table

    Yes, Dmitri Mendeleev was Russian - but saying "Russians invented the periodic table" is like saying "Germans invented the theory of relativity". Credit where credit is due.

  14. Politicans on Voters Swayed By Candidates Who Share Their Looks · · Score: 5, Funny

    No wonder politicans are two-faced - they're trying to double their votes.

  15. Re:Wait... on For 3 Years, Scammers Ran Truckless Trucking Company · · Score: 1

    4) Go to Jail; do not pass Go, do not collect $3500.

  16. Re:Yes, but.... on Red Hat CEO Says Economic Crisis Favors Open Source · · Score: 1

    ... you need to renew (read= pay more $$$) each year ...

    You get a discount if you subscribe for three years rather than one.

  17. Re:Cosmic Censor on No Naked Black Holes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only if they eat wafers and sacrimental wine. Eating stars, solar systems etc. is gluttony - one of the seven deadly sins (collect them all!)

  18. Re:10 to 20 hours is easy... on Linux Rescues Battery Life On Vista Notebooks From Dell · · Score: 1

    Rather than quoting run time on battery we should probably start reporting the average power draw of the system idle and under full load.

    Why? Apart from electrical engineers, users don't care what the power draw is - they do care about actual run time.
    If you want to put that value into context, factor in the other variables that matter to users e.g. run time per kg, run time per cm^3, run time per $.

  19. Re:I'm surprised that the thief was so dumb. on Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief · · Score: 1

    This is no braniac master-criminal

    It sounds like the owner of the laptop was no genius either.

  20. Re:I just got 2.4! on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 1

    So call it by it's full name. Gnu Image Manipulation Program.

    What if I don't want to manipulate images of gnus?

    It's called GIMP - get over it.

  21. Re:O Canada! on IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's HRHILF Queen Elizabeth II, to you!

    Her Majesty The Queen.

  22. Re:Camera phone funding on First Photos of the Reentry of the ATV "Jules Verne" · · Score: 2, Informative

    The EXIF data says it was taken with a Nikon D700 DSLR and a 20mm lens.

    A wide-angle 12.1 Mpixel image taken with a diffraction grating and cropped to 778x500 pixels would explain the image quality.

  23. Re:In my day, we had to hand format disks on PC Historian Finds Puzzling Game Diskette Image · · Score: 1

    Punctuation cost extra STOP Now get off my lawn STOP

    (Damn lameness filter.)

  24. Re:Mundie? on Microsoft's Mundie Sees a Future In Spatial Computing · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't like Mundies.

  25. Re:I don't @*&!! want a camera in my @*&! on Mobile Phone Users Struggle With Hardware Adoption · · Score: 1

    ... or - even worse - ring without me being there to answer it.

    Oh, the humanity!