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  1. Re:Stickers... on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a terrible question. The guys "problem" is that women are coming up to him and talking to him? .

    Well, maybe he's gay and wants to prove how macho he is so he can attract a nice manly man.

    Didn't think about that one now did you?

  2. Re:Stickers... on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stickers are for wimps, real men get truck nutz for their netbooks.
    http://www.truck-nuts.com/

  3. Re:How about USB/wirelessUSB? on Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback of Sorts · · Score: 1

    Unicomp sells USB keyboards

  4. Re:Comeback? They never went away on Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback of Sorts · · Score: 1

    I guess it's better than people shelling out big bucks for a "vintage" model M or a Das Keyboard.

  5. Comeback? They never went away on Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback of Sorts · · Score: 3, Informative

    This news is about 12 years old. They have been in Lexington, KY using the same old equipment that IBM used to make the Model M keyboards.

  6. Re:Article is WRONG... on California May Reduce Carbon Emissions By Banning Black Cars · · Score: 1

    I would imagine that window treatments and a white or otherwise highly reflective roof would get you most of the benefits since what you're worried about heating and cooling really is the passenger compartment. The hood is over the engine which will be hot no matter what when the car is on, and in fact a hotter engine compartment at start up may increase the fuel efficiency since the time to fully warm up the engine will be less. The doors of the car will likely get relatively little direct radiative energy, and the trunk may get hot, but could be isolated from the cabin better I guess.

  7. Re:Apple suckers drooling over decades-old ports on id Releases Open Source Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone · · Score: 1

    As an Apple Fanboy/Apologist/Groupie, I still LOL'ed.

  8. Re:not free if you can't jailbreak on id Releases Open Source Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone · · Score: 5, Funny

    God, I hate paying people for their work. It makes me feel so dirty and wrong.

  9. Re:cluster? on Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons · · Score: 1

    That might cause some cluster headaches

  10. Re:An Xbox 360 breaking... on Increase In Xbox 360 E74 Problems · · Score: 1

    In fact, it is "Breaking News"

  11. Re:Potential Failure RIsks: on Doctors Will Test Gene Editing On HIV Patients · · Score: 1

    It sounds like what they're thinking of doing is more like: (1) draw up 10 billion T-Cells, (2) use an enzyme to cleave off the CCR5 proteins, (3) filter out the enzyme+proteins, and (4) reinject the T-Cells.

    Proteins aren't cleaved, a zinc finger nuclease is used to mutate the CCR5 gene so that it is the HIV resistant type. These are then cloned.

  12. Re:Potential Failure RIsks: on Doctors Will Test Gene Editing On HIV Patients · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't think 1 will be a problem. All T Cells have a CCR5 membrane protein, but the HIV resistant ones have a mutant type CCR5 protein. CCR5 is the way in which T cells get infected by HIV, and people with mutant type CCR5 genes survive quite well.

    2 may be a problem, and I think will be the biggest hurdle here.

    3 Shouldn't be a problem. Zinc Finger nucleases are able to delete the genes from a bunch of different cells at once. The idea is that you get a whole lot of T-Cells, Remove the 32 base pair segment from the two copies of the CCR5 gene in each T-Cell using zinc finger nucleases to make them the HIV resistant mutant type, culture more T-Cells which should be HIV resistant since they have the mutant gene, and inject the T-cells back into the patient.

  13. No wonder Apple stock is going down on Tech Publisher O'Reilly Slashes Jobs · · Score: 1

    All these companies keep beating up on Steve. One company is cutting him, another is slashing him, no wonder he looks so thin.

  14. Re:Since the article doesn't mention it... on Tapping the Earth For Home Heating and Cooling · · Score: 4, Funny

    Al Gore doesn't have a Crawford Ranch.

  15. Re:Depends on the ground on Tapping the Earth For Home Heating and Cooling · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried to stop by his place, but since I knew its momentum exactly I couldn't find it.

  16. Re:Bye, bye GM :) on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 1

    BYD will be in NA in short time

    And will probably be here long time.

  17. Obligs on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In communist China, Hybrid car plugs YOU in.

    Something about "Erectric" cars

    1. Make chinese electrical car
    2. ???
    3. Profit

    Me Chinese, me play joke, me put battery in your car that can run for 100 km on a single charge

    It runs on electricity, but does it run Linux?

    I for one welcome our environmentally friendly overlords.

    All BYD's electric cars are belong to the Chinese (until the 2011 US and European releases)

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these

    You must be new here, Robert Anderson Unveiled the first electric car in the early 19th century

  18. THEMIS Probes on Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Naw them ain't probes, them is aliens.

  19. The Summary on Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is a lie.

  20. Not a Game Boy on Anatomy of the First Video Game, Born 1958 · · Score: 1

    "Back when the original âoeTennis for Twoâ was built, Higinbotham used a vacuum tube analog computer"

    So it's not a game boy you put in your pocket, or a big truck?

    It must be a series of tubes!

  21. Probably will be great for him on Weird Al To Release Songs As He Records Them · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess now by doing this he can have a parody in the hands of his fans while the original version of the song is still popular. If you're trying to lampoon popular culture, releasing an album at a time means that you will always be a good deal behind the times.

  22. Re:Deep Fritz on 16th World Computer Chess Championship In Progress · · Score: 2, Informative
  23. Re:But on ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista · · Score: 1

    I like Max a lot for converting FLACs to ALAC, so I'll have to check out Play based on your recommendation.

    Been using your visualization software since the days of SoundJam. Still the best in the biz, IMO.

  24. Re:Note on Units on Spectacular Fossil Forests Found In US Coalmine · · Score: 3, Funny

    My coat's the one full of shot.

    Unfortunately, Bristol's baby's daddy's latex coat was not full of shot. That's why she is now pregnant.

  25. That's okay on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 5, Funny

    most of the american stock exchanges have been going down all year.