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  1. Re:Oh gosh. on Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" · · Score: 1

    >Fuck. Yes.

    >Any other questions?

    Ever been to a third-world country? Asshole?

  2. Re:awww poor casinos on Casinos Warn iPhone Card-Counting App is Illegal · · Score: 1

    Brain implants are going to cause a ton of fun for the lawmakers of Nevada, it seems.

    "What do you mean, cheating? I did all the realtime 3-D roulette-wheel physics modelling in my head, officer!"

  3. Re:"UK doesn't make people disappear" on UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel · · Score: 1

    Ooo, you nasty criminal.

    It was definitely the beard. Only a terrorist would wear a beard.

    Bloody interesting little drama, thanks for the TV link. Not quite that bad in Oz yet... unless you're brown-skinned or orthodox Muslim, then you can get done for pretty much anything.

  4. Re:Mod parent up on Hackers Clone Passports In Driveby RFID Heist · · Score: 1

    Damn right!

    Incidentally, Killing Time OWNZORS Nuisance Value all the way.

  5. Re:....With a Return Address on Iran Has Put a Satellite Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    Did you notice that, when the USA decided to crush the Taliban/Al Qaeda utterly, no-one cared? Because those idiots had just attacked America, they got stomped, and everyone saw this as the natural response.

    If Iran nuked an American city, even a cool, calm, level-headed Obama would push the button to turn an Iranian city to glass. You should understand this in your bones.

  6. Re:Where is the "Opt-out" button or list for this? on New Ads That Watch You · · Score: 1

    Ah, the anti-marketing market! That's a big market.

  7. Re:Change- but for the better? on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    Not true. GWB spent 40 million on his - NOT COUNTING SECURITY. Obama spent 120 million, counting security, counting 2 million people showing up vs Bush's few hundred thousand...

  8. Zero-length wormhole. Problem solv ed. on The Science and Physics of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    If we treat the flux capacitor's effect as the creation of a wormhole with one mouth in front of the Delorean and the other in another part of spacetime, all the problems go away. The wormhole is only open long enough for a Delorean, travelling at 88 mph, to traverse it. This is why it takes so much energy!

    More support for this interpretation comes from the fact that the flux capacitor, which bends space to create the wormhole, is not the only important power drain! The "time circuits", which are needed to calculate the exact spacetime location corresponding to the current Earth co-ordinates but displaced in time, must be quite amazingly power-intensive.

    Maybe the time circuits use space-manipulation tech in their design.

  9. Aerogel! on First Earth-Sized Exoplanet May Have Been Found · · Score: 1

    Make the upper layers out of aerogel; it's extremely low-density, has good structural strength, and can withstand the heat of compression to a significant depth.

  10. Re:Launching space tractors. on The Unmanned Air Force · · Score: 1

    GPS, lasers, radar.

    Ze Germans didn't invent those.

  11. Re:Thanks for another Australian story timothy! on Telstra Kicked Out of $15bn Broadband Project · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's no L in Straya. Mate.

  12. Re:stupid scientists on Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? · · Score: 1

    Well, you gouda laugh, eh?

  13. Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? on Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? · · Score: 1

    The other one would be Kilimanjaro, perhaps?

  14. Re:you are about as wrong as you can get on Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System · · Score: 1

    You know, if you imagine that circletimessquare has batman's voice, his posts are even better.

    Wait, cts lives in Gotham City...

  15. Re:Segregated pools... on Houses With Tails · · Score: 1

    Of course you have no homeless people, the ones that haven't frozen to death have been eaten by all the huskies.

    You know, because it's COLD.

  16. Re:Misleading on Talking Web, Memory Aids, and Solar Phones In 5 Years · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It looks like you're trying to make love! Do you need help?"

    FUCK OFF CLIPPY

  17. Re:Golf is worse on 90% of Gaming Addiction Patients Not Addicted · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer: I have played two games of golf, ever. The following knowledge was passed on to me by my paternal grandfather, who lived into his 80s.

    Golf is good exercise. It's good for your heart, your lungs, your eyesight, and muscle co-ordination. All the walking (unless you use a golf cart, fatass) is great for overall fitness, which helps keep your mind in shape.

    Computer gaming is good for hand-eye co-ordination, brain-training (if you play the right games) and helping keep Alzheimer's at bay, but it's not a life-extending activity unless you intentionally seek out DDR or Wii Fit.

    This argument is not simple enough to say:
    "Well, you're addicted to golf, I'm addicted to Eve Online, what's the difference?"

    There is actually a difference. What you choose to do with your leisure time can affect your whole life. So make your gaming count; play on hard, play cerebral games more often, and you'll get the full benefits. You can even go rock-climbing or fencing or parkour or something to keep the rest of you in shape.

    If I kept following my own advice as much as I used to, I'd be a happier person.

  18. Excellent. Arthur C Clarke no doubt approves. on New "Juno" Mission To Jupiter Announced · · Score: 1

    Close-up, high-resolution views of Jupiter's clouds... if there are any large gasbag-like organisms down there, this mission might see them.

  19. Re:Big whoop... on Stardock Tried To Make Star Control, Master of Orion Sequels · · Score: 1

    god-DAMNIT NOT AGAIN

  20. Re:Uhm, what? on Tabula Rasa To Shut Down · · Score: 1

    You can only really have fun at school on the last day of term.

    Imagine the last week of school when your grades are all in, you've got an acceptance letter, and the school is shutting down next week... Goddamn, that's one helluva party.

  21. Re:That's awesome but... on 10 Years of Half-Life · · Score: 1

    If you don't want programs stealthily setting themselves to run at startup, download the following pieces of genius:

    http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml

    http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

    They are StartupMonitor and Startup Control Panel, by Mike Lin. StartupMonitor is the really awesome one.

    Every time its message comes up saying "Hey, some driver thinks its terrible control software needs to run all the time! Want that to happen?" and I click NO, I laugh like a person who has just been given the means to set people on fire through the Internet. It is the fucking bomb to end all bombs. It is made of antimatter.

  22. Re:Biggest Failure?? on New Report On NSA Released Today · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Cuban Missile Crisis was VASTLY more significant an intelligence failure than 9/11. There's no comparison!

    Simply put: If the Cuban Missile Crisis had gone south, billions of people would have been dead in a few short years. (After nuclear winter set in, and all the crops died.)

    9-11 involved the destruction of some buildings in one city, and the deaths of thousands of people.

    There's no comparison.

  23. Re:I know what bone marrow transplants do to peopl on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 1

    30% mortality within a few weeks, then. You pedant.

  24. Re:don't get it on Fallout 3 Launches Amidst Controversy · · Score: 1

    Because kids are weak. Therefore, killing kids is lame.

    And unlike mole rats, kids don't attack you.

  25. Re:You should have asked this a year before. on Getting Hired As an Entry-Level Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, you spelled "schlock" worng. :D