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  1. Re:Sensationalist headline is sensationalist on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Crazy Eddie drive on Stellar Wormholes May Exist · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Better solution where technology exists, policy on Germany Builds Encrypted, Identity-Confirmed Email · · Score: 1

    I always thought it would be neat to take a thumb drive of public keys, and a photo ID and have the post office sign them. Maybe a yearly fee to have the USPS host the public keys on the internet.

  4. Re:Here's my model on Michigan Governor Wants 'Open Source' Economic Model · · Score: 1

    That all sounds really familiar.

    I'm going to change #2

    2. Never actually cut spending. Less than expected increases in the budget shall be called "cuts". When "cutting" spending, "cut" which ever program will cause the most news (good or bad).

  5. Re:Oh, now I see! on Nobel Prize Winner Says DNA Performs Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 2

    But don't give in to Quantum Temptation...or you'll end up in Hell!

    ...Maybe. Either way there'll be cats.

  6. Re:!rodents on Denver Airport Overrun by Car-Eating Rabbits · · Score: 1

    spear and magic helmet?

  7. Re:It's a question of policy on San Francisco Just As Guilty In Terry Childs Case · · Score: 1

    Yes I am missing that word.
    That's what I get for posting half asleep.

  8. Re:Analog Computers on Chips That Flow With Probabilities, Not Bits · · Score: 2, Informative

    You mean like a Field Programmable Analog Array?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_analog_array

  9. Re:It's a question of policy on San Francisco Just As Guilty In Terry Childs Case · · Score: 1

    I have a question. Do you ever about yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

  10. Re:Checksum failures... on The South Carolina Primary and Voting Machine Fraud · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What's that old saying?...Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

    Yeah, I think that sums it up pretty good.

  11. Re:Most important launch in decades on SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Rocket · · Score: 1

    People have run the numbers and have come to the conclusion that even a disposable system that can be launched once a week would be cheaper than what we have now.

  12. Re:Cool on SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Rocket · · Score: 1

    The space station was constipated?

    Constipation station?

  13. Re:man who says impossible shouldn't interrupt man on Japan To Launch Solar Sail Spacecraft "Ikaros" · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there's plenty of pork. But this being Japan, it's raw and wrapped in seaweed with vinegar rice.

  14. Re:Yeah on Users Rejecting Security Advice Considered Rational · · Score: 1

    Also, she isn't even a Senator. She's a Representative.

  15. Re:Safe Deposit boxes? on 11th Circuit Eliminates 4th Amend. In E-mail · · Score: 1

    Unless that email is encrypted it's not a safe deposit box, it's not even in an envelope, it's a post card. Anyone can read it once it goes through their servers. Can the feds read any post card that goes through the post office? And your key (password) isn't to protect you and your mail, it's to protect the servers from unauthorized use...your ISP doesn't want some random spammer to dump a bajillion emails through their system.

  16. Re:the correct solution on Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I could have sworn that hot dogs were precooked before packaging.

  17. Re:No flash support on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 1

    We're the United States government. We don't do that sort of thing!

  18. Re:In a related development... on Researchers Pooh-Pooh Algae-Based Biofuel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He's no longer the president. Time to move on.

  19. Re:What is the limit? on The Ultimate Limit of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    I would imagine a unit of computation would have a delta in front of it...to indicate a change

    like delta bits per second per gram

  20. Re:Color me not impressed on KOffice 2.0.0 Now Open For Firefox-Like Extensions · · Score: 1

    Google knows all...and the answer is usually at the wikipedia...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeoman

  21. Re:That's some sweet stuff on Illusion Cloak Makes One Object Look Like Another · · Score: 1

    Therein or thereon?

  22. Re:Stability, reliability on Btrfs Is Not Yet the Performance King · · Score: 1

    You should see how insightful he gets after eating cabbage and beans.

  23. Re:SI Units on Human Eye Could Detect Spooky Action At a Distance · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are we gonna have to start using Kermit again? ...and I was getting used to high speed connections.

  24. Re:Entanglement? Sounds cool! on Human Eye Could Detect Spooky Action At a Distance · · Score: 1

    You want them clothed?

  25. Re:Hayek and Friedman got one too on Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is no Nobel prize in Economics. It's an associated prize, "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel", was instituted by Sweden's central bank in 1968

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sveriges_Riksbank_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences_in_Memory_of_Alfred_Nobel