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  1. #winning! on Can You Beat a Computer At Rock-Paper-Scissors? · · Score: 1, Troll

    I for one, welcome our new rock-paper-scissors overlords.

  2. Raw data on Graphs Show Costs of DNA Sequencing Falling Fast · · Score: 1

    Looks even better in terms of raw data in spreadsheet format DNA sequencing analysis data. The fact that per Mb drops from thousands of dollars to under a dollar is astounding.

  3. IP + 70% ? on Microsoft Rewarding Employees Who Phone It In · · Score: 1

    But if they wrote their own iPhone or Android apps they would implicitly own all rights and earn more revenue.

  4. Shirt Spam? on Wikileaks Opens Official Online Store · · Score: 3, Informative

    We already posted this last week

  5. Add time and stir... on How Watchmen Killed 'R'-rated Fantasy Movies · · Score: 1

    Blade Runner was once considered an unwise endeavor.

  6. Re:but but on Supermassive Black Holes Not So Big After All · · Score: 1

    but they are still super massive right? If not that totally ruins most of my celestial bodies jokes.

    The downgrade to UltraClumpy should preserve your astronomical punch lines.

  7. Doh! on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    I for one, welcome our new computer overlords!

  8. Re:Let's help them on The Dirty Little Secrets of Search · · Score: 1

    Yes, we hate Jews, Catholics and Protestants equally.

  9. Re:So? I have a copy of Code Red on Anonymous Claims Possession of Stuxnet Worm · · Score: 2, Funny

    But are you code red reseller? Anonymous is now an official Stuxnet Gold affiliate

  10. This or a DNA test on Bomb Detecting Plants To Root Out Terrorists · · Score: 2

    Works great as long as you can wait a few hours for the plant to change color.

  11. Fine exceeds Total Cash on Hand on Facebook Spammer Fined $360 Million · · Score: 1

    Most people are missing the point here: Facebook has only raised 600 million in private offerings. How can a few thousand pieces of spam which affected .01% of all Facebook users actually be worth almost as much as all the cash FB has ever raised in auctions?
    This is like saying the man who spit on your million dollar Lamborghini owes you 500k because your car doesn't look as nice as it did last week.

  12. Re:Sources on Wikipedia and the History of Gaming · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a small community of people are upset that nobody took the time to write about their favorite game.

    I don't think any specific MUD is as important as the concept of having some idea of what it is. Without those 100,000 people who played text muds in the 90's as the only online role-playing outlet, there could never be a successful Warcraft, which is like a graphical mud with a giant exclamation mark.

  13. silicon life? on 34,000-Year-Old Organisms Found Buried Alive · · Score: 4, Funny

    It calls itself a horta!

  14. response on Balancing Choice With Irreversible Consequences In Games · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I recommend sleep.

  15. Re:isn't this old? on ErgoSlider Offers a New Mouse Alternative · · Score: 1

    What happens when you push the cursor to the left-most left and it still won't go more left? Unlike a mouse or ball this device has an end stop.

  16. The Gnome on Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Money, get back. I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack.

  17. in-equity on NJ Server Farms Remake the US Financial Markets · · Score: 2

    Not only are you completely powerless to do anything about it now, but when some glitch causes your pension fund to suddenly be worth 10 cents, you won't be able to sue anyone.

  18. what if on New App Mixes New Drinks With What You Have · · Score: 1

    All I have is my wife and a bottle of bourbon?

  19. you are kidding me on Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you are a node-based company worth several billion, charge for services, and don't even run enough of your own supernodes and monitor them in such a way that they cannot handle an outage effectively, you need serious help.

  20. time capsule on Periodic Table Etched Onto a Single Hair · · Score: 1

    Future archaeologists will unearth this remarkable strand and wonder "Were they bored? Or just really excited about combining electrons and protons?"

  21. Can'tz? on Top 10 Things You CAN'T Have For Christmas · · Score: 1

    i can't haz cheezburger?

  22. Re:but on New Tech Promises Cheap Gene Sequencing In Minutes · · Score: 1

    There are a number of experiments which explore both nanopore scaling and eletrode interference. The majority of them are under grants at http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm. These and other future projects are summarized in plain text at Dna Sequencing

  23. Re:Bad usernames too on The Case For Lousy Passwords · · Score: 1

    Look it didn't even take me three minutes to crack his account.

    o noes i r teh h@ked

  24. fail on String Theory Tested, Fails Black Hole Predictions · · Score: 0, Redundant

    StringFail

  25. Bad usernames too on The Case For Lousy Passwords · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Anytime I visit a site that wants a signup, I use a garbage email account, with the same username and weak password. If someone hacks my identity, it's not even "me".
    It's not as if the right to post or read is such a valuable commodity that can't be replicated next time you visit the site.