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  1. Re:No light pollution there on Junior-Sized Supernova Discovered By New York Teen · · Score: 1

    Actually to be completely pedantic, I don't necessarily think you'd need to maintain vacuum inside the tube if it were 100km long. Just so long as sunlight weren't entering the tube directly there would be no scattering effect that you'd have to peer through.

  2. Bad move ... on Chinese Govt Spyware Puts Computers At Risk · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We found a series of software flaws," explained Isaac Mao, a blogger and social entrepreneur in China

    ... when contacted later for further comment, it was discovered that Mao had been assigned to 18 years of reeducation through labour in the coal-mining provinces.

  3. Re:How would you learn? on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 3, Funny

    All the good tutorials are on punch cards, so unless you have a reader handy you're SOL.

  4. Re:Answered your own question on How To Manage Hundreds of Thousands of Documents? · · Score: 2, Informative

    LMAO ... Documentum is almost dead ... that's why they released V6.5 several months back and are on track to release V7 in H1'10.

    Why don't you tell us all how your "competitor" company scales to tens of millions of documents with high availablity, disaster recovery, and content caching across 5 continents?

  5. Re:OK, but on The Anti-ODF Whisper Campaign · · Score: 1

    Bob doesn't think this but Rob does

    Hold on I'm confused ... which one is Steve Ballmer again?

  6. Ohio on New Grads Told To "Leave the State" · · Score: 1

    Well, considering the high school is in Ohio, the uncorrected letter offers some pretty good advice if these grads have any hope of securing a job or any kind of bright future for themselves.

  7. Re:Hah on China Dominates In NSA-Backed Coding Contest · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Several of the Indians I work with are among the most talented, knowledgeable architects I've ever met.

    What's your point?

  8. Keep them from wandering away in the first place on GPS Shoes For Alzheimer's Patients · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally I find this solution to be ingenious and hilarious at the same time.

  9. Disaster waiting to happen on Direct-To-Consumer Genetics Testing Makes a Splash In Boston · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Considering the statistical prevalence of botched tests in the controlled laboratory environment of mainstream medicine, I shudder to think how many "wrong" results we will see when a pyramid company like Amway starts offering tests direct-to-consumer.

  10. Re:You don't even know you're missing it. on One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night · · Score: 4, Funny

    I looked up and shit my pants.

    So you managed to spot Laxitiva Major? I have some great practical joke stories about that star.

  11. Re:Milky Way, hell... on One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night · · Score: 3, Funny

    Amsterdam is blessed with sufficient nocturnal distractions that not being able to see the night sky is no great hardship.

  12. Re:Babel on Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    Well, until /. gets a +1 Sillywalk mod, +1 Interesting will have to do.

  13. Re:Not same as elevator on Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    The problem of how to build something 15km tall that can have some corporate fucking logo plastered all over it?

  14. Re:They don't care on What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They do not feel responsible for malware running on their computer.

    There is one exception ... one thing that scares the bejeezus out of most people ... and that's when you tell them their computer is being used as part of a kiddie porn ring. Somehow, when people learn that their machine is being used to host images of 8-year-olds being sexually abused, they suddenly take the concept of computer security a lot more seriously.

    Not that I'm advocating anybody should tell a devious lie to a friend in order to make him/her smarten the hell up ... I'm just saying is all.

  15. Detroit and Atlanta on Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US · · Score: 2, Informative

    Detroit and Atlanta are both Delta hubs. So you can avoid this "pilot" by choosing a different airline to leave the US ... at least until the "pilot" expands.

  16. Sounds like something starring Will Farrell on French Prisoners Get Their Own Tour de France · · Score: 1

    EOM

  17. Re:Just a matter of time on Fluorescent Monkeys Cast Light On Human Disease · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's not dead, he's pining for the fjords

  18. Re:water esential for life? on EPOXI Team Develops New Method To Find Alien Ocean · · Score: 1

    Water is a damned fine solvent ... incredibly useful for doing all kinds of biochemistry, and plentiful throughout the galaxy.

  19. Animal rights activists on Fluorescent Monkeys Cast Light On Human Disease · · Score: 3, Funny

    However many people are likely to find the routine use of monkeys in medical research far less acceptable than that of rodents, drawing action from animal rights activists.

    And once you have the attention of the animal rights activists, the harsh reality is that your research involves monkeys that fucking glow in the dark so it's not like they're easy to hide or anything.

  20. Re:Nothing new, but encouraging on Dot-Communism Is Already Here · · Score: 1

    Hey, I think I've seen that movie.

  21. Re:important lesson on Canonical Demos Early Stage Android-On-Ubuntu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Forward to what? CLI?

  22. Re:24 hour charge?? on Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they aren't going to win too many races with a pit time of 1 minute +

  23. Too bad on Mac Clone Maker Psystar Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    This is a shame, as I was really anticipating the upcoming release of the PsyBook Wheel

  24. Re:$250 K ? Must be a typo on Mac Clone Maker Psystar Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    No shit. Isn't that the average underwater position for most homeowners in Florida and Arizona?

  25. Re:Sorry guys, but... on Mac Clone Maker Psystar Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 5, Funny

    get a workable graphic interface to check their mail with

    Okay, you get on that pronto. I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic ... see if I can track an IP address.