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  1. Molecules shmolecules on Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe the male scientists need to shower more often...

  2. Wait, what? on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do they really have nothing more pressing to deal with than legislating common courtesy?

  3. Galactic Spying on Three New Exoplanets Seen In Direct Photographs · · Score: 1

    I see the NSA is not content with spying on Earthlings...

  4. Declared by Syria... on Syria Completes Destruction of Chemical Weapon Producing Equipment · · Score: 1
    21 of the 23 sites declared by Syria

    And how many sites do they have that they didn't declare?

  5. Re:Halifax too! on Connecting To Unsecured Bluetooth Car Systems To Monitor Traffic Flow · · Score: 1

    Does it tell you how long it will take to get out of the cone of snooping?

  6. Be careful when you hire... on Fukushima Leak Traced To Overflow Tank Built On a Slope · · Score: 1

    Did the same people design this tank that couldn't handle the English-to-Metric conversion problem at NASA?

  7. Re:Predicting a future headline: on Bypassing US GPS Limits For Active Guided Rockets · · Score: 1

    A more realistic future headline will involve the Darwin Award.

  8. Very Bad on Wireless Charging Start-Up Claims 30-Foot Radius · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall the M5 using wireless charging over distance with disastrous results...

  9. Of course they did on Ancient Egyptians Made Iron Jewelry From Pieces of Meteorite, Archaeologists Say · · Score: 1

    Ancient Egyptians had help from aliens when they built the Pyramids... Its only natural they would make jewelry from space rocks. Duh!

  10. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? on Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman · · Score: 1

    Or in a Monty Python sketch... "Its symbolic of his struggle against reality"

  11. Re:Wrong question... on Can There Be Open Source Music? · · Score: 1

    what is considered "good" in humor is usually subjective.

  12. Wrong question... on Can There Be Open Source Music? · · Score: 1

    Of course there can be open source music. The proper question is, of course, can there be good open source music?

  13. Wait, what? on Area 51 No Longer (Officially) a Secret · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean that Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction was fiction? Shocking. Does that mean we really did land on the Moon?

  14. Third-party Hardware on MS Researchers Develop Acoustic Data Transfer System For Phones · · Score: 1

    The only drawback is that you need this aftermarket hardware to plug it into the cradle.

  15. Headstart on US To Standardize Car App/communication Device Components · · Score: 1

    They want to get out in front of any standards so they can design in any API that the NSA needs. Those things are notoriously hard to get right after the fact.

  16. Disclaimer on BlackBerry Officially Open To Sale · · Score: 2

    2 year contract required. Price includes $50 mail-in rebate via gift card.

  17. First they came for... on Talking On the Phone While Driving Not So Dangerous After All · · Score: 4, Funny
    First they came for the callers, but I didn't speak up because I have blue-tooth.

    Then they came for the texters, but I didn't speak up because I never text and drive.

    Then they came for me... And no one would pick up.

  18. Re:WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! on Queen's WWIII Speech Revealed · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was thinking more along the lines of "Another One Bites the Dust". Great minds think similarly.

  19. Teaching Siri to listen? on Look Out, Nuance: Apple's Office Near MIT Is Stocking Up With Speech-Tech Talent · · Score: 0, Troll

    --insert sexist remark here--

  20. Re:Search and replace on Mozilla Labs Experiment Distills Your History Into Interests · · Score: 2

    There are perls of wisdom in what I said. Stick that in your | and smoke it.

  21. Re:Search and replace on Mozilla Labs Experiment Distills Your History Into Interests · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stop the puns or I'll have to bash someone.

  22. Search and replace on Mozilla Labs Experiment Distills Your History Into Interests · · Score: 2, Insightful
    s/article/ad/g

    s/content/ad/g

  23. Cool Factor on Low-Cost Micromachine Writes Calligraphy With Atoms · · Score: 1

    That sounds so much cooler than the Star Wars Micromachines I had when I was a kid...

  24. Re:Curious on Disney Research Creates Megastereo - Panoramas With Depth · · Score: 1

    Various CSI teams from Las Vegas to Miami have been using these algorithms years before they were adopted by the Navy. Although, the civilian applications seemed to be stronger at inferring pixels, thus allowing a near-infinite zoom.

  25. When asked for comment on Texas Physicists Create Tabletop Particle Accelerator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Egon Spengler would only say "Don't cross the streams".