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  1. Re:Not for long on Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold · · Score: 3, Funny

    Instead of producing it from bees for $350/g, you could put the appropriate genes into some E. coli and have them produce it for 20% of that price or less. But of course then you wouldn't be able to sell it for $350/g.

    I thought getting shitfaced meant something else.

  2. Re:Anybody using Ada? on Ada 2012 Language Approved As Standard By ISO · · Score: 1

    I've seen it. Nothing crazy or particularly unusual about it.

    Big thing with ADA is the focus on reducing errors.

    When $(Famed_Programmer) heard that $(they) intended to produce 10 million lines of error free code, he left the project.

    If lives depend on code working, it had better run reliably. If a part of the code has a problem, then deal with it without simply quitting.

  3. Re:Yes it should on Ask Slashdot: Should Scientists Build a New Particle Collider In Japan? · · Score: 1

    If the populace of Japan has the foresight to back the project with their tax dollars, then they deserve it. If you want another particle collider in the US or Europe then you need to get the populations priorities in order and spend more on STEM and less on war mongering, pointless drug wars, and other pork.

    They think its the porcine path to prosperity.

  4. Re:Good move. on Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys · · Score: 3, Funny

    It wouldn't have been such a problem if they'd kept calling things Linksys, and not put the Cisco Systems logo all over everything. Then releasing all the Linksys kit as Cisco SMB - that was just crazy.

    A route to disaster?

  5. Re:Ah, I'm not sure what's so Earth shattering on Australia Plans To Drill 2,000-Year-Old Ice Core In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one thinking "worlds most expensive frozen margarita" ?

    Nope- there have already been coctail parties in Greenland (following long weeks of science) and guess where the ice in the drinks was from =)

    Greenland?

  6. Re:How cheap? on Solar Impulse Announces Flight Across America For 2013 · · Score: 1

    You have no idea how hostile the FAA is to aviation. This will not fly in a certified aircraft in my lifetime, nor, likely, my kids.

    Especially not on impulse power.

  7. Re:Good opportunity on "Jedi" Religion Most Popular Alternative Faith In England · · Score: 1

    Please don't remind us that one must now associate Star Wars with Disney. It makes me feel funny.

    There is a disturbance in the Force : A giant mouse and another, a Mini mouse.

    --

    Is it Goofy yet?

  8. Re:Did anyone else read this on Australian Uni's Underground, Robot-Staffed Library · · Score: 4, Funny

    as a library for banned (underground) texts, and get all excited?

    Next an underground text ban treaty?

  9. Re:Don't tell the Japanese on Has the Mythical Unicorn of Materials Science Finally Been Found? · · Score: 2

    Dolphin?

    Courtesy of Wiki: "The mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. Also known widely as dorado, it is one of only two members of the Coryphaenidae family, the other being the pompano dolphinfish."

    So they chase el dorado?

  10. Re:On a completely unrelated note... on Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who saw the "electrichum" tag and thought "electri-chum"? Think electrified chum would work pretty well for fishing. The scent would bring the fish in and the electricity zaps them/dolphins/penguins/scuba divers.

    It also attracts electrified sharks.even if their lasers are off.

  11. Re:Police on Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime · · Score: 2

    After all, if you don't periodically make the police prove they didn't fabricate evidence, then there's less incentive to not fabricate evidence.

    Use of excessive force against that sentence has been approved.

  12. Re:Car Analogy on Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    More like your car comes back from a service with adverts all over it. You complain and they say "don't try to infringe my freedom of speech". Then you notice that the cost of the adverts has been added to your service bill. They say "it is proper that recipients 'bear some cost' of unsolicited adverts".

    Attempts to remove the adverts cause the car to be disfigured and some even cause holes in the body. The warranty is voided and your insurance goes up as a commercial vehicle. The neighbors sue to have the junk removed, and the wife leaves for a used car salesman with ED pills.

  13. Lets bargain on Microsoft To Apple: Don't Take Your Normal 30% Cut of Office For iOS · · Score: 2

    Is 100% too much?

  14. Re:Chutzpah on Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal · · Score: 2

    I think the proper Yiddish word that you are looking for is "Shyster."

    Dayenu.

  15. Re:Car Analogy on Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal · · Score: 1

    Like watching the Quartlow brothers add 10W30 when you said 30HD. You point it out, and they say "Is equeevalent.'

    --

    I spam you. You spam me. We're a dysfunctional family.

  16. Re:Won't be long now... on Inside the World's Biggest Consumer 3D Printing Factory · · Score: 1

    before the MAFIAA turn their attention to these 3D printing outfits.

    Could one even print a 45 rpm record?

  17. Throttle ? on Google Sync Clobbers Chrome Browsers · · Score: 1

    Why not request bandwidth and only proceed when it is granted.

  18. Re:Always found it funny on Happy Birthday To Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer · · Score: 1

    World's first nerd? Hardly. In the first place, the word "nerd" didn't exist until 1954 when Dr. Suess coined it in "If I Ran The Zoo".

    Second, you don't consider Newton to be a nerd? How about the guy who invented the wheel or agriculture or tamed fire? Those people were all nerds.

    One of them was a wheel.

  19. Re:The first programmer was Hero of Alexandria on Happy Birthday To Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer · · Score: 2

    If you read her Wikipedia article, there was evidence that she has had affairs while married. It is possible that she was screwing Babbage and he covered for her by claiming she was working with him.

    She wrote a Wikipedia article?

  20. Re:Give them a break on Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement · · Score: 2

    They thought they had Gilbert Gottfried in custody. An immediate trip to solitary seemed to be the only humane thing they could do for the rest of the prisoners.

    Especially if he told the one about life in prison not being too bad.

  21. Re:Temporarily stranded? on Catfish Strands Itself To Kill Pigeons · · Score: 2

    I've seen the sterotypical scene of a momma duck and her babies floating out along behind her, touring the pond in the shallows....

    And then a big swirl, maybe a splash, and there is one less duckling in the parade...

    Only difference is these catfish are going where they don't really belong to do it. I'm assuming that the same species in other locations doesn't display the same behavior on a fairly regular basis...

    Birds gotta swim and fish gotta fly.

  22. Re:ED entry on Former Anonymous Spokesperson Indicted · · Score: 1

    They caught him with spam?

    Nice post BTW

  23. Re:As we speak... on Bitcoins Join Global Bank Network · · Score: 1

    Paypal doesn't create its own currency. There are no "PalBucks". This is just baffling.

    One word overdrafts.

  24. Re:why was it even granted? on Steve Jobs Patent On iPhone Declared Invalid · · Score: 2

    While at the same time the courts trust the USPTO to have gotten it right.

    Vicious circle.

    iVicious, iCircle, or just iNvalid.

  25. Re:What wrong has Steve done to you? on Steve Jobs Patent On iPhone Declared Invalid · · Score: 1

    I built the most valuable company in human history.

    Steve is that you?