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  1. Re:Why Don't They Leave the Shuttles Up There, Too on Additional Lab To Be Added To the ISS · · Score: 1

    The ISS doesn't charge the batteries, it just provides power so that the shuttle doesn't draw on its own batteries as much. This only extends a shuttle mission by four days.

  2. Re:Chemically inert, they mean on Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seriously, why not just say it can make heavy metals non-toxic, since the process works equally well for the non-radioactive versions.

    Oh right, sensationalism.

  3. Re:Why Don't They Leave the Shuttles Up There, Too on Additional Lab To Be Added To the ISS · · Score: 1

    Because the shuttle's batteries run out after 3 weeks and the ISS can't power them.

  4. Re:normal for Apple on Apple Blames 'External Forces' For Exploding iPhones · · Score: 1

    The problem occurred when people removed the factory-installed 5200 RPM hard drives and installed 7200 RPM Seagate hard drives.

  5. Re:Start small? on Fully Functional Bioengineered Tooth Grown In a Mouse · · Score: 1

    I dunno, we have no idea what she's doing with those teeth. I have a feeling she's getting more out of it than we are...

  6. Re:Meh, this is nothing on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 1

    They've gotten away with it for years. After all, on the internet nobody knows you're a dog.

  7. It's true! on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 1

    I knew someone who owned several dogs before having his first child. He kept us updated on dog vs. baby intelligence, and by 18 months still gave the dog the edge.

    I guess this is why biology Ph.Ds shouldn't have kids.

  8. Re:More and more powerful... on 11.6" Netbooks Face Off · · Score: 1

    11.6" is just too big. Lets get back to the 7" and 8" models please.

    Ahem.

    That's what she said.

  9. Re:Corrective Surgery? on Psychopaths Have Brain Structure Abnormality · · Score: 0

    And if the abnormality is the result of psychopathy, not the cause?

    In any case, we are not robots programmed by the structure and chemistry of our brains. My fear is that discoveries such as these will prompt people to start blaming criminal behaviour on physiological features, with brain surgery as the prescribed cure, just as ADD is overused as an excuse for misbehaving children with the result that children are being medicated with potent drugs.

    Everyone still has the ability to choose their actions, and for everyone with a disorder that "forces" them to commit a crime, I'm sure you can find someone with the same feature who lives a normal life. Brains are not computers, you cannot expect to hack them for a quick fix to interpersonal problems.

  10. Re:Oh Lord! on Typography On the Web Gets Different · · Score: 1

    You know, it takes fewer keystrokes to type "red" and "blue". But I guess then you wouldn't gain as many geek points.

  11. Re:What!?! on IronKey Unveils Self-Destructing USB Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    That just puts you at risk of losing an eye as well as a USB drive.

  12. Re:Just like the Matrix! on Gaze-Tracking Software Protects Computer Privacy · · Score: 1

    I don't even see the code anymore, all I see are blondes, brunettes, redheads...

    That's what happens when you stop using Lynx as your porn browser!

  13. With good reason on Free Wi-Fi For the Residents of Venice, Italy · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a public safety issue! The less wires the better for the next time the city floods.

  14. Re:Oh no... on NASA Suggests Nano Robots To Explore Mars · · Score: 1

    Nanomachines evolving into humanoids? Sounds more like Stargate than BSG.

  15. Re:Oh the Humanity! on NASA Sticking To Imperial Units For Shuttle Replacement · · Score: 1

    See what I did there?

    Misspelled non sequitur?

  16. Re:Futurama? on Introducing the Warpship · · Score: 2, Informative

    "The ship stays where it is, and the engines move the universe around it."

    That's preposterous!

  17. TNG consoles? on Ubisoft CEO Says Next Gen Consoles Closer Than We Think · · Score: 1

    Why would you want the Next Gen consoles? They explode every time the Enterprise gets fired on!

  18. Red matter on Black Hole Swallows Star · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Clearly the star was going to go supernova and threaten the entire galaxy, so Ambassador Spock took one for the team by dropping some red matter into it...

  19. Re:let me guess on Apple Plans $1 Billion iDataCenter · · Score: 1

    i loose my faith in humanity.

    How tight is it right now?

  20. Re:Funny on Canada's Conference Board Found Plagiarizing Copyright Report · · Score: 1

    Aren't US American's what?

  21. Re:How does that make it not "real water"? on Space Station Crew Drinks Recycled Urine · · Score: 1

    changing a poop-filled diaper or wiping the bottom of a young child does not make me nauseous at all

    I think you mean "nauseated". Nauseous means that you make other people feel nausea... oh wait, never mind!

  22. Re:That's "dilithium" on Ultra-Dense Deuterium Produced · · Score: 1

    No, I think that was Yoda.

  23. The pattern decoded on New Pattern Found In Prime Numbers · · Score: 1

    Decoded, the pattern spells out the message: "Haha, it's me, God, I existed along"

  24. "Star Trek's Warp Drive" on Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    Really? Specifically Star Trek's Warp Drive is possible?

    So does that mean some day interstellar travellers will be able to disinfect their computer systems of a cheese virus by using the warp field to heat the ship? And we'll be able to travel through time by using it to fly around the sun? And rerouting Warp power through the deflector dish will be used to solve any problem?

  25. Re:I Could Be Really Excited About This--Maybe on GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks · · Score: 2, Funny

    I want my flying jetpack damn it!

    That sounds like too much trouble... you'd have to coax it down to ground level just to put it on.