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  1. Re:Finally! on French Bees Produce Blue and Green Honey · · Score: 1

    Something to go with my eggs.

    Put parsley leaves in a blender for green eggs. An Iranian dish : "Kuku Zhab Zie."

  2. Hey, even our best of intentions sometimes go awry on Ad Agency's Bizarre Steve Jobs Tribute Flash Mob Hits Seattle · · Score: 1

    Or not.

  3. Re:Who makes them? on Boston Airport Replacing X-ray Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Here's the citations, I'm sure you left them out by accident...

    Michael Chertoff, George Soros

    Ok as long as King George is involved.

  4. Re:New and Improved on Boston Airport Replacing X-ray Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    mm wavelength scanners will prevent Logan Airport from being blown up by LED T-Shirts.
    We need more scanners.

    That's when Moononites invade.

  5. Re:Big whoop... on Boston Airport Replacing X-ray Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    As my upper-middle-class, female, New Yorker friend just found out, the problem with the sanitized images is that forgetting a dime in your pocket will cause it to trigger a general alert and you'll be whisked aside for gate-rape.

    And let's not forget that a butt-bomb, like that used by terrorists in Saudi Arabia in 2009, is still undetectable by gropers and scanners.

    Wouldn't the wire show?

    --

    Ok guys, quit whisking the passengers.

  6. Re:Bless on Unusual New Species of Dinosaur Identified · · Score: 2

    You forgot Rosy O'Donnel dude. Just making sure you covered everything.

    Jurassic Pork.

  7. Re:Must be unique on Unusual New Species of Dinosaur Identified · · Score: 1

    "stabbing canines in its parrot-shaped beak"

    Now that's got to be really unusual: a beak shaped like a parrot...

    Can he talk?

  8. Re:meanwhile another team of Japanese researchers on Lab-Made Eggs Produce Healthy Mice · · Score: 1

    is developing a robot cat specializing in nabbing and eating the stem cell mice.

    Sonya the cat (sometimes pronounced Sony).

  9. Re:Where do the Presidential Candidates stand? on Stolen Maple Syrup Found and Returned To Strategic Reserve · · Score: 2

    Bacon Shortage. Stolen Maple Syrup. Clearly there is an international threat to our wholesome breakfast way of life. But where to the Presidential Candidates stand on this issue? Clearly the moderator dropped the ball by not bringing up this vital issue of world peace and security during the debate.

    Strawberry or the old stalwart bacon and lingonberry haven't been used to jam radar for decades. Nothing beats maple syrup.

  10. Re:Sparc T5! on Oracle's Sparc T5 Chip Evidently Pushed Back to 2013 · · Score: 1

    I'm a glass-half-full kind of guy.

    Or maybe, this glass is 1/1000th full (rather than 99.9% empty) kind of guy...

    Was I hacked, or did a sable oracle
    Turn forth a silver lining on the sparc?

    Did someone downsize that glass with a hammer?

  11. Re:That's not even pocket change for either of the on The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet $30 Million On Quantum Computing Company · · Score: 2

    Sure wish Bezos would spend a nickle to make Amazon search actually work.

    Is 13 out of 10000 tries good enough?

  12. Re:Will that there engine fit in my '79 Firebird? on Successful Engine Test in UK For Planned 1000 mph Car · · Score: 2

    Maybe he just wants to go backwards really fast? :)

    He could call it "Crayfish 1000."

  13. Re:While... on Earthquakes Correlated With Texan Fracking Sites · · Score: 1

    If it moves when you lubricate it, then there was stress on it.

    Just add Pennzoil.

  14. Re:While... on Earthquakes Correlated With Texan Fracking Sites · · Score: 1

    Small earthquakes are also symptoms of larger shifts. You do them no favor by inducing them, or allowing their tap water to ignite as natural gas gets pumped up through aquifers.

    Reminds me of someone's pronuciation of this as aqua-fires.

  15. Re:Some people on LightSquared Wants To Share Weather-Balloon Frequencies for LTE · · Score: 1

    " It is 100% the fault of shoddy deities with poorly thought out laws of physics"

    FTFY

    You can't here a whisper from 20 yards away if the guy sitting next to you is screaming down his mobile phone.

    There there, he has GPS for that.

  16. Just Think on African Robotics Network Challenge Spurs Rash of $10 Robots · · Score: 1

    Real progress toward edible electronics.

  17. Re:'by hand' - not really. on iPhone 5 A6 SoC Teardown: ARM Cores Appear To Be Laid Out By Hand · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is not by hand.
    To take a programming analogy, it's looking at what the compiler generated, and then giving it hints so the resultant code/chip is laid out as you expect.

    Chips stopped being able to be laid out 'properly' by hand some time ago.

    Doing this has much the same benefits as doing it with code.
    You know stuff the compiler does not.
    You can spot silly stuff it's doing, that is not wrong, but suboptimal, and hold its hand.

    Or grab its ARM.

  18. Re:Just like the USA on Russian Opposition Figure Thinks Anti-Putin Movement Has Faltered · · Score: 1

    So really, what is it that bothers you so much about providing healthcare coverage?

    I'll bite on this one. It's not the coverage, it's the way in which it was implemented. I know what I am paying for my healthcare at work, and I know what my company pays (it's a 25% / 75% split). So, take my plan (which, btw, is the most expensive one offered as my wife has asthma and we tend to need services more than others), and multiply that by 25 million (as my plan covers 2 people).

    So what happens if you lose your job?

    I'm on a pension you insensitive clod.

  19. Re:What NASA needs. on Romney-Ryan Release Space Policy Paper · · Score: 1

    You can't build rockets on the moon. There are no sources of refined metals, or plastics, or electronics. There are no machine shops, nor tool and die fabricators. There are no people to operate anything either. There are no launch facilities, no way to fuel the rocket, even if you managed to get it built.

    Worse there is nowhere to spend money.

  20. Re:Wha? on Milky Way Is Surrounded By Halo of Hot Gas · · Score: 5, Funny

    that envelopes the galaxy

    Surely you meant to use the verb, i.e. "envelops".

    Forming a letter of galactic proportions without a stamp.

  21. Stop the presses on New York Times Takes Aim At Data Center · · Score: 2

    And at the NYT the presses sit idle most of the day.

  22. Re:Hydrogen mixture for ballons? on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 1

    Maybe a mixture of "many parts" hydrogen, "a few parts" helium, and "a very few parts" nitrogen (or something along this lines) would address this problem while at the same time preventing party balloons from doubling as IED's.

    I bet the gasses would separate while in the balloon. This method would probably not be a solution.

    If you got the balloon cold enough, then the gases would separate.

  23. Re:More like... on Another EUSecWest NFC Trick: Ride the Subway For Free · · Score: 1

    How would anyone ever catch you? These systems probably don't have network access, otherwise they would just read a token and then authenticate against a server, so all you have is log files. You could detect the fraud after the fact (if you somehow collected the log files), but to actually catch someone red handed would be pretty difficult.

    Even if you did collect the log files, they may be useless. You would have to catch the same non-reloadable card bring used more than the maxumum number of times. To do that, you would probably have to analyse hundreds, if not thousands of .log files from different devices, unless the transactions are somehow manually collected and uploaded into a database. Even then, it would be an after-the-fact type thing.

    You would need a computer to do it. Oh the horror.

  24. Re:Virgin Penetration is Easy on 6 Million Virgin Mobile Users Vulnerable To Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 2

    Last time it was tried.

    Great in rehersal.

  25. Re:Another reason on Switching Tasks Changes Worker Bee DNA · · Score: 2

    not to multi-task.

    Have you been watching B movies?