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  1. Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! on Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space · · Score: 4, Funny

    The shadowy figure waves back at you!

  2. Re:Computer security rocket science on Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC · · Score: 1

    PROTONS!

    I thought they were pr0nons! Now you see why I had to be on the web and then my mother-in-law sent me this greeting card with an animated snowglobe, but then this pop-up window said that I had some malware, so I had to download the cleaner and...

  3. I don't know... on Dog Appears As Witness in French Murder Trial · · Score: 1

    That dog looks kind of shady, what with the do-rag and all. They say he was the one found with the body.

    Sounds like a frame-up to me.

    They always say the prime suspect is the boyfriend...

  4. Re:X! on SpaceX Gets Operational License For Cape Canaveral · · Score: 1

    and while I'm at it, am I the only one old enough to parse this as "space don't care"?

  5. Re:X! on SpaceX Gets Operational License For Cape Canaveral · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, SpaceX is so Baby Boomer (trying to pass as Gen-X). They need to grasp the next younger form.

    Ladies and gentlemen, I present SpaceY.

  6. Re:Explains the silence, they all did it before... on LHC Flips On Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? It's easy to detect alien civilizations similar to our own.

    That's what The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission does, right?

  7. Re:Most expensive science experiment ever? on LHC Flips On Tomorrow · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm just mad that the Europeans are going to beat us to destroying the Earth.

    What every happened to America #1?

    It would server them damn Europeans right if the LHC _didn't_ destroy the Earth and we managed to do it with Global Warming (sorry, Global Climate Change) instead. Ah, they'd probably just hide out in their circular tunnel, tweaking their precious proton stream until they got it right... ...stupid geniuses...

  8. Re:Not a good test on Leaping the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the measure of the technique is, "how different does Emily look than the actor who supplied the base footage?"

    For example, could they make me look like a sixteen year old boy like I portray when I'm chatting?

    Oh, wait, I meant to post that anonymously...

    Undo, undo, undo!!!

  9. Re:Doped athletics is not athletics. on Let the Games Be Doped · · Score: 1

    Coming soon to a sporting goods store near you, the Speedo LZW. If you check the crotch, you'll notice it has extremely efficient dynamic compression. They say it's lossless, but we'll let you be the judge.

  10. Re:And then the olympics will die. on Let the Games Be Doped · · Score: 1

    These aren't the droids you're looking for. They've exhausted their collegiate eligibility...

  11. Re:Rat-Brained overlords on Rat-Brained Robots Take Their First Steps · · Score: 1

    Ok, now _you_ try running an underwater maze, monkey-boy...

  12. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well until Valentine's Day this year, you weren't allowed to own too many sex toys either...

    http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202904864073

    Of course, you can still have guns. I mean, we're not savages here...

  13. Re:COBOL. on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Yeah, one day to write that Perl script and one year to debug it.

    Language matters a lot less than design and discipline.

  14. Re:What was that info doing on a laptop? on "Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO · · Score: 1

    "Hello, Paul Schwartz' office, please hold..."

  15. Re:Um, dumb question time on Gravity Tractor Could Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that too...

  16. Re:Um, dumb question time on Gravity Tractor Could Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not orbital mechanics, but asteroid mechanics that come into play. An asteroid may be a loose gravel pile, so an engine placed on the surface may dig in, or even push all the way through. Gravity traction is a very low-stress way to impart momentum.

    I'm not a rocket scientist, but my hot girlfriend's little sister is...

  17. Re:Scotty's final trip on SpaceX Launch Fails To Reach Space · · Score: 1

    Always mount a scratch Scotty...

  18. Re:Take care to on Citizens Spy On Big Brother · · Score: 1

    As the wireless net gets faster and cheaper, smashing the camera will do little more than demonstrate the guilt of those filmed.

    Now we need some sort of site to warehouse this raw video. If you don't sign in to pick it up in 24 hours, moderators get to view it to see if you stumbled on something really nasty.

    Or, with all their cameras, maybe what we need is gPolice?

  19. Re:This is great and everything.... on The First Paper-Based Transistors · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah,
    3) Meat-based computing

    Isn't that what cybernetics is?

    We could use vellum as the paper is being used now, but employ jerky for the really high-voltage applications, and then when they failed, it would smell like lunch.

  20. Re:This is great and everything.... on The First Paper-Based Transistors · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I meant the Declaration of Independence. That's entirely different.

  21. Re:This is great and everything.... on The First Paper-Based Transistors · · Score: 2, Funny

    Two variants I want to see:

    1) Hemp-based transistors (it's good enough for The Constitution)

    2) Flash-paper (nitrocellulose) transistors. That will give that extra incentive not to design circuits that run too hot... Or, the ultimate in hardware-based, tamper-proof, and retributive circuitry.

  22. Re:"The Cost of Being Batman" (Forbes) on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 1

    Batman training - $30,000 Batman suit - $1585 Tying up chicks in cat-ears and spandex - Priceless

  23. Re:Then we'd need to train a bunch of people... on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 1

    Sous - Superhero Of Unusual Size

  24. Re:buzz words on Multiple Experts Try Defining "Cloud Computing" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In regular computing, you don't know what's being done.

    Cloud computing is the same, except that you don't know where it's being done either.

  25. Re:Shocked on Logged In or Out, Facebook Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    It's times like this I regret being that guy who doesn't finish what he starts... Sorry Ma...