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  1. Re:Duck, it's an Omega beam on Extreme Exoplanet Volcanism Possibly Detected On 55 Cancri E · · Score: 1

    I thought you were talking about Omega http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

  2. Cancri on Extreme Exoplanet Volcanism Possibly Detected On 55 Cancri E · · Score: 1

    I love that word. Cancri.

  3. Is Clippy back? on Microsoft Office 2016 Public Preview Released · · Score: 0

    We need to start a petition to get Clippy restored to Office. It could be voice activated like Siri to help you through building a pivot table in Excel. We all need help with that!

  4. Re:Style guide on American Psychological Association Hit With New Torture Allegations · · Score: 1

    American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., text rev.). Washington, DC: Author.

  5. Style guide on American Psychological Association Hit With New Torture Allegations · · Score: 5, Funny

    They may have used the APA style guide. That's been torturing people for a long time.

  6. Customers get tired of it after a few iterations on IBM CIO Thinks Agile Development Might Save Company · · Score: 1

    In our experience, customers are leery of it at first. Then they get excited as they see the project progress. After a few iterations, they get bored and want to return to the old method. It gets hard to get everyone necessary to attend sessions. It soon collapses back to a more waterfall like state, or the project gets cancelled.

  7. Lost contact with the ground on Russian Cargo Mission To ISS Spinning Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Well, it's going make contact with the ground, literally.

  8. Someone built one of these on Crashing iPad App Grounds Dozens of American Airline Flights · · Score: 1

    to create the no IOS zone. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

  9. Re:I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords on Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work That Immigrants Won't Do · · Score: 1

    This planet has a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

  10. Re:This is so going to be on southpark on Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work That Immigrants Won't Do · · Score: 1

    They will just import more of the future people like they did last time. "They took our jobs!"

  11. I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords on Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work That Immigrants Won't Do · · Score: 2

    Once you put food production into the hands of robots, we are soon going to be in trouble.

  12. Got to build one of those on iOS WiFi Bug Allows Remote Reboot of All Devices In Area · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I can get a seat at my local coffee house.

  13. Re:We may have just found on Hubble Spots Star Explosion Astronomers Can't Explain · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's from a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. Must be the Death Star blowing up Alderaan.

  14. You understand the merits of this on How False Color Astronomy Works · · Score: 1

    When you need to decide what color to make sulfur II so you can tell it from hydrogen alpha, and the merits of using hydrogen beta over oxygen III.

  15. Re:Repeal the Fourth Amendment on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    The point behind the constitution was to define what the government was and how it was run. Once you had that, you could start dealing with rights.

  16. Repeal the Third Amendment on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 2

    We need to be able to station soldiers in people's houses to prevent crime in the first place.

  17. Re:IRS on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    No, they have to take them to court first. You are innocent until proven guilty. But, just imagine that chaos.

  18. IRS on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 5, Funny

    The IRS will now show up and demand that they file their taxes.

  19. Re: Should be rezoned agricultural on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    True.

  20. Should be rezoned agricultural on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    So he can spread shit all over it in the Spring to annoy his neighbors.

  21. Zombie carrier apocalypse on Scientists Locate Sunken, Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast · · Score: 1

    The carrier is just waiting for the zombie apocalypse. Not sure which side it will take.

  22. 32 bit? on GNU Hurd 0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    "GNU Hurd runs on 32-bit x86 machines. A version running on 64-bit x86 (x86_64) machines is in progress." Are you kidding me, it's still just a 32 bit application? The way this is going, everything else will be 128 bit by the time they go to 64.

  23. Oregon trail wouldn't work on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 1

    All the ipads died of dysentery

  24. Sears on World's Oldest Stone Tools Discovered In Kenya · · Score: 1

    Take them back to Sears and exchange them for new ones.

  25. You should have seen it... on New Horizons Captures First Color Image of Pluto and Charon · · Score: 1

    Ah, you should have seen it, that old planet. The second sun would rise in the south, the mountains would shine. The leaves on the trees were silver. When they caught the light every morning, they lit the forest on fire.