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  1. Re:libelf!?! on Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    And here I always thought that libelf was the version of the libel() function that returned a nicely formatted incorrect defamatory statement.

  2. Re:Amazing on Two ESA Craft To Observe Asteroid 21 Lutetia · · Score: 1

    I am more amazed by double and triple rainbows...

  3. But??? But??? on Microsoft Kills the Kin · · Score: 5, Funny

    How will I know when ?uestlove is having a free concert in the park?

  4. Re:Tinfoil hat mode on Sleeping iPhones Send Phantom Data · · Score: 1

    My problem would be remembering to take it out of airplane mode the next morning.

  5. Blowout preventer failsafes on Quantifying, and Dealing With, the Deepwater Spill · · Score: 1

    Rather than relying on electrical or mechanical activation of the blowout preventer (which failed to occur), why can't they be made so that they activate automatically with the loss of an electrical signal?

    I guess you might get some unwanted activations, but it might have saved their bacon with something like this.

  6. Three simple steps? How about four. on Google Launches a Data Prediction API · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Upload the data.
    2. Train the model.
    3. Generate predictions.
    4. PROFIT!!!!

  7. Re:English as Second Language on 76% of Web Users Affected By Browser History Stealing · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're also vulnerable to a sexual attack by Mr T. However I hope you are never affected by that attack either.

  8. Re:Correction on A Look At CERN's LHC Grid-Computing Architecture · · Score: 1

    Tier 0
    Tier 1
    Tier 2
    Tier 3

  9. Re:Sports on One In Eight To Cut Cable and Satellite TV In 2010 · · Score: 1

    EXACTAMUNDO!!! Why do you think the sports networks are increasing their rates faster than anyone else? If I had mod points, I'd hook ya' up.

  10. Re:Flashback! on Government Approves First US Offshore Wind Farm · · Score: 1

    Did they get the fill from the ancient burial ground and thus lower it below the seal level?

    Baby seal killers!!!!

  11. Re:Protection on What Can Be Done About Security of Debit Cards? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The point is, you shouldn't have to do all that.

  12. Re:Could someone explain... on Hubble Builds 3D Dark Matter Map · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Also, gravitational lensing sometimes produces distinctive distortions and arcs.

  13. Re:This will work on The Times Erects a Paywall, Plays Double Or Quits · · Score: 1

    This will not work. There are plenty of other sources for news, including the big TV-related sites where the website is simply part of the overall news presence and the money is made on the TV side (and the advertising revenue is primarily generated there). CNN, MSNBC, Fox.

    Some people may pay some money for a local news site for local content, that remains to be seen. But it's a smaller market.

  14. Re:8 pounds a month on The Times Erects a Paywall, Plays Double Or Quits · · Score: 2, Informative

    You still can't use them for more than you have in your account, hence *debit*

    Certainly you can. They love it when you do. It generates all kinds of tasty fees for them. NOM NOM NOM

  15. Re:Warning! on Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 · · Score: 1

    Might not be lead ... maybe it's cadmium.

  16. Re:The important questions... on California Lake's Arsenic Hints At a Shadow Biosphere · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Eating arsenic-based life forms? I'll leave that for you. I know you're just joking, but If by some inconceivable chance they do exist, one pretty good guess at why they're still here is that arsenic is extremely toxic, which as far as biological defenses go is a pretty good one.

  17. Abydosaurus mcintoshi on New Type of Dinosaur Unearthed · · Score: 1

    Which evolved into its much cooler offspring, iPodosaurus.

  18. Re:How about integers instead of floating point? on Quake 3 For Android · · Score: 1

    You need to scale your values of X, Y, and time so that the time component is larger relative to X and Y.

  19. Re:From TFS on MPEG LA Extends H.264 Royalty-Free Period · · Score: 4, Informative

    By 2016 would be better.

  20. Re:I think Google is being reactionary here on Google To End Support For IE6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IE6 has long been known to be non-standards compliant and insecure, and quite frankly these companies should have had the foresight to be moving away from it years ago.

    Microsoft themselves wants companies to abandon IE6.

    Consider it a little tough love from Google. If they announced they'd end support for IE6 in 18 months, nobody would do anything for the next 15 months.

  21. Re:How do you know when it's decrypted? on Parallel Algorithm Leads To Crypto Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Even if it's ASCII or a picture, just encrypt it twice.

  22. Re:Is that the real actual name? on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 1

    I would have gone with iSlab, myself. Or iPlank. How about iBlink?

  23. Re:WTF is a MiFi?? on MiFi Attack Exploits GPS To Reveal User's Location · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I saw MILF Attack Exploits GPS to Reveal User's Location, and I thought that's not an exploit, that's something I'd pay for!

  24. Spelling? on Sponge-Like "Swelling Glass" Absorbs Toxins in Water · · Score: 5, Informative

    TFA refers to the material as Obsorb, but a linked page refers to it as Osorb.

    So which is it?

  25. Re:facepalm.jpg on USA Has More Open Wi-Fi Hotspots Than EU · · Score: 1

    Must be referring to this.