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  1. Oh great on Human Genome More Like a Functional Network · · Score: 1

    Oh great, that just killed my idea for a weight loss program using a pair of scissors and a guide to junk DNA.

  2. Quickies? on Google Privacy Quickies · · Score: 1

    Quickies? That is either a subtle hint in the title or a freudian slip. But the title seems fitting in that it suggests Google gave privacy a quick shag. :)

  3. Re:Stargate on Classified US Intel Budget Revealed Via Powerpoint · · Score: 1
    If you are thinking SG is a TV show you are under the secret cabals evil mind control, better check your tin foil hat. Additionally I got some good and bad news for you. And even horrible news...

    The Stargate Conspiracy is real (bad) and when you think you are watching SG, you are actually remembering an OP you were on (good). If you get a non SG fan to tell you what you are actually watching, they will tell you it is Barbie the doll animated adventures (horrible).

    :P

  4. Re:Fascinating on Battlestar Galactica's End Officially After Season 4 · · Score: 1

    Actually it can be their homeworld. Since neither of them knows where it is, the cylons could have found it by pure chance without knowing what it was.
    If you consider how little there is know about Kobol, what happend there and the 13th tribe, the 13th tribe could be the first step of the creation of the Cylons (or their creators). And hence why they chose to go elsewhere and why so little about them have survived.
    And if memory servers, we are told that the 13th tribe set out to go to Earth, not that it was their home planet.

    Another thing is the references to cycles, "it have happend before and will happend again" and certain other hints through out the series (Possible SPOILER ahead). for instance the elephants which can be seen on some old paintings. Since these are from Earth, Kobol is already linked to Earth. I doubt that the writers thought about it, but maybe the people on Kobol was cast out of heaven (Earth) and is seeking their redemption since then, and in doing that created the Cylons (they do seem obsessed with love and the will of god/God). The current cycle on Earth could be any range from pure human to pure Cylon (of some kind, new seasons to come :p), my money is on a kind of half human/Cylon (androids if you will).

  5. Re:Not only a dupe... but of an old story on Intel Shows Off 80-core Processor · · Score: 1

    "Old" news indeed, and they still write it as if is 80 CPU cores, when it is 80 floating-point cores.

  6. pffft, it is easy on Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard? · · Score: 1

    Parallel programming is very easy to do, when you know the trick to it, do the parallel programming in a parallel universe.

  7. Re:US military has one too: USAF Cyberspace Comman on China Crafts Cyberweapons · · Score: 1

    Cubicles? Chair force? What's next, General Steve Ballmer is the head of the secret training of chair force at MS?

    *shudders* It makes complete sense now.

  8. Counter question: Who is the worst? on Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? · · Score: 1

    Whenever someone ask what is "best" in this manner (whatever best means ...), it is often equally important to ask/answer what the "worst" is as well. If you can answer both, and answer it well (no hype thanks), you probably know wtf you are talking about and the one who asked have an idea what you mean when you answer, including bias.

    Who is the Worst Presidential Candidate for Nerds?

  9. Why students only? on Using RFID and Wi-Fi to Track Students · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Angelo Lamme, from Motorola, said tracking students on a campus could help during a fire or an emergency. Why students only? If this truely is the reason, everybody on campus should have one. Anything less (or at all really) is a attempt at control over others.
  10. Re:Of course you know this means: on CSS of DVDs Ruled 'Ineffective' by Finnish Courts · · Score: 1

    Actually Denmark "crossed" the line some years ago, when the cultural department of the goverment in an official statement allowed the protection on any media to be circumvented so the content could be used, in particular systems (OSes) which didn't have any "legal" players (BSD, Linux etc.). That is, you are free to enjoy the content you bought in any way you please, as long as it didn't break any copyrights. And even returning/exchanging a media that can't be played if the protection on it prevented it from being used. One place to look is here http://www.kum.dk/sw5335.asp (Danish only, sorry).

  11. Re:30 years old on Star Wars is 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    I would guess that he is a gamer who reeeeaally likes to play Dance Dance Revolution all day long, and might be famous on youtube or somesuch.
    Maybe he could get Nike to sponsor him, or with luck get some named after him and show him in ads wearing his Nike DDR Jordans while playing the game.

  12. Re:Of course... on Games Are No Cause For Murder · · Score: 1

    I am Jacks complete surprise at this news/headline. :p

  13. Re:People are too easy to distract on Is Email 'Bankrupt'? · · Score: 1

    That really is the key. 'Really' is the key? I haven't thought about it that way, but I guess you are right, reality is linked to 'really' and hence the key is 'really'. Or is it this way "That, really, is the key"? Making the key 'that'. Althougt I don't see how 'that' could be a key to anything.

    Maybe you meant they both are one and the same, so the key is 'that really'. You could also have been philosophical and made a zen like statement in which 'really' and 'that' both can be a key, to something which will be revealed when you figure out which of them is the true key. Hmmm, very interesting it think I see it when I squint my eyes.

    Argh, I need to lie down, my brain is hurting.

    :)

  14. Re:Just curious on Bush Causes Cell Phone Ban · · Score: 1

    Obviously, whatever the president does is always legal. Richard Nixon, is that you?
  15. Read faster on 3-D Model of Breast Cancer in the Lab · · Score: 1

    3-D Model of Breast Wohooo, hooters.

    ... Cancer in the Lab Eeewwww. I really need to read faster.
  16. Re:Battlestar Craptastica on Battlestar Galactica To Continue After All · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you look at some of the setting of the series, particular the pilot and first season, you will find that there are hint to where the humans are from and thier ancient history. Taken that with the sparse information we have about the cylons, I think this is the most likely ending;

    6) Earth is the home planet of the cylons (and it is the source of the human models.)

    Depending how it is on earth, you can have the series continue after BSG finds earth, since finding it only closes one major plot (and please do it in season 4, no more stupid fluff fillers).

  17. Re:Emerging markets... on Red Hat Develops Online Desktop · · Score: 2, Funny
    My guess is that they have not looked into optimizing the build, while the following will work fine, the build time is very long

    root~$ emerge market
  18. Re:Some interesting points about Novell/MS on Think Tank Report On the State of Open Source · · Score: 1

    Microsoft was represented by Sam Ramji

    He should stick to what he knows, making (horror) movies.

    Ooooh Ramji, nevermind. :p

  19. Re:Some suggestions on Beating WoW At Its Own Game · · Score: 1

    8. Game cards which can be bought in stores. Not everybody have an option to pay online.

  20. Re:youtube on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: 1

    Simple really, youtube opens the story to be linked to Google, and then Microsoft. Thereby allowing people to compare the story in the context of Linux vs. Microsoft, and with "luck" some car analogies. This is known as Submarine Stories. A more skilled Submarine story submitter use more obscure references, like jellyfish (hint: Gopher). :p

  21. Hoax? on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 1

    Looking at some of the photoes, they look like they are taken of random parades or people who are dressed up, and some of the buildings shown appear to be models or mockups.
    Lots of more or less well know characters appear throughout it all, and it all look really cheaply made (in the bad sense, those costumes are baaadly made).

    I can't help but rate this very high on the fake-o-meter, at least until we get more from a well known source.

  22. Too easy on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 1

    The domain name is bs-amusement-park.com, BS? BS!? Come on, at least give us a challenge to poke fun at the name, this is too easy. :P

  23. Old news on Thin Water Acts Like a Solid · · Score: 1

    Not just old, but ancient news. Jesus showed that effect almost two millennia ago. :p

  24. Re:It's not libel...been there, done that on Report of Net Art Theft Draws Lawyer Threats · · Score: 1

    This might sound sappy, but I mean it, upon seeing photo #4445 one can only think that you are the kind of person who makes the world a better place to be.

    I hope that you will be victorious in court.

  25. Re:A show of hands if you are surprised on DOJ Names Dozens of IT Vendors in Kickback Scheme · · Score: 1

    Pffft, 'in' should have been 'involving'. Goverment contracts tend to be a gold mine, which is easy to suck dry, with little chance of getting caught. Not really serving the will of the people, is it.