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  1. Re:Future on The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see some form of UNIX making it to the 22nd century and beyond.

    +1 Forth-sightful

  2. Re:No surprise due to bundling on Chrome Becoming World's Second Most Popular Web Browser · · Score: 2

    Just like getting a new PC with all the trialware crap.

    As an aficionado of both Paint Shop Pro and Corel WordPerfect, I find this statement offensive.

  3. Re:Damn... on Lightning-made Waves In Earth's Atmosphere Leak Into Space · · Score: 1

    Damn global warming!!!

    The opposite, by definition.

  4. Re:Or ... on A Floating Home For Tech Start-ups · · Score: 1

    ... set up shop in Tijuana. Or Vancouver BC.

    ...or set up Skype in shop.

  5. Re:What happened to qwerty devices? on CyanogenMod 9 Working On the Nexus S · · Score: 1

    My keyboard and Swype usages are pretty much one-to-one on my soon to be two y/o Droid 2...making my next choice more difficult than usual. The dealbuster that has me leaning towards a keyboard for the next device is passwords. This post being a case study, with the keyboard coming out for a pretty basic, mostly alpha string.

  6. Re:Not surprising... on Battlefield 3 Banned In Iran · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still holding out for a game about Italian-American plumbers from a Japanese perspective.

  7. Re:Kids these days... on How Much Tech Can Kids Take? · · Score: 2

    Now that they all have skinny jeans and giant Beiber hairdos, look for a downturn in this metric.

  8. Re:vanity on Recreating a Mysterious, 2,100-Year-Old Clock · · Score: 1

    From TFA/TFS:

    The question is — why on Earth would you want to strap one of these to your wrist? It barely tells the time, and it can't take pictures, tweet or connect to your Facebook.

    Because fuck you, some of us want to tell what fucking time it is without at least a 1GHz processor with 16GB of RAM, you smarmy Gizmag writer asshole, that's why.

    Well, keep looking. Said device doesn't do that whatsoever.

  9. Re:Go with the simple over complex theory on Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to live in public or private spaces at the inconvenience of others, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    Oh...there it is.

  10. Re:You wish you were this guy on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    You have heard of the judiciary branch of federal government, right?

  11. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN. on Watch the Fiery Re-entry of Progress Module · · Score: 1

    Umm, what part of TIME LAPSE do you not get?

    The part where it fundamentally differs from any other frame rate.

  12. Re:Photographs, not video on Watch the Fiery Re-entry of Progress Module · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The "video" is a time lapse animation made from those stills

    Which, by definition, is a video.

  13. Re:I, for one... on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1

    welcome our new tremor overlords

    Underlords?

  14. Re:'cool' power users should like usability and ea on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 1

    Ctrl-Alt-t still does the trick. They haven't *improved that function yet...

  15. Re:Some questions here. on Highly Efficient Oxygen Catalyst Found · · Score: 1

    First, "at a rate 10 times the previous gold standard" is interesting, but meaningless.

    Rp = Reactions per time unit

    Rn = 10 (Rp)

    For Rp previous best rate, Rn new rate

  16. Re:It does require power on Robot Walks Like a Human, Requires No Power · · Score: 1

    It does require power, namely gravitational energy.

    power : rate :: energy : quantity

  17. Re:actual translation on Copiale Cipher Decoded · · Score: 1

    Son of a bitch.

  18. Re:Uhm... so... on Northeast Passage Becomes Viable Trade Route · · Score: 1

    Good? :(

    Different. :|

  19. Re:Congratulations for trying! on Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space · · Score: 1

    How many countries just rely on someone else to do the space thing for them?

    The monkey space thing? Roughly 200.

  20. Re:USB on Electrical Power From Humans · · Score: 1

    Embed your iPhone into your chest cavity- put a speaker in your ear.

    Playing Angry Birds during meetings would be a bit more overt.

  21. Re:What distribution left for developers? on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1

    What distribution are we supposed to use now? Ubuntu has given up on its users, and is turning into an interface for the elderly, the disabled and netbook people.

    I'd rather have my advanced UI that lets me do whatever I want with my workstation, thank you very much.

    Arch

  22. Re:I thought... on We Finally Know Why Oil and Water Don't Mix · · Score: 3, Funny
    FTA:

    The model quantitatively accounts for the elastic strains, deformations, long-range forces, energy maxima, adhesion minima, as well as the instability (when it exists) as two bilayers breakthrough and (hemi)fuse. These results have several important implications, including quantitative and qualitative understanding of the hydrophobic interaction, and making Amish bread makers exercise more.

    Partial credit awarded.

  23. Re:...and this has to do with /. ... how? on NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera · · Score: 1

    Moon thievery? Come on man. Save the grunting for the next bitcoin post.

  24. Re:Just imagine on RIM Server Crash Leaves Millions Without BBM · · Score: 2

    If Blackerry was still popular.

    Or if it happened to BlackBerry....with their 70M subscribers.

  25. Re:Really that's the best you got? on Astronauts As Alien Life Hunters? · · Score: 1

    Weak argument for sure. The best part of TFA was the epic Photoshopped picture of astronauts exploring a space volcano.