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  1. Re:Bacon. on Lab-grown Kidneys Transplanted Into Rats · · Score: 1

    Only if you decide to put the meat into a pig. Why not grow bacon without a pig around it?

    What no blanket?

  2. Re:Rebound effect? on Possible Cure For MS Turns Common Skin Cells Into Working Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    What happens if the body reacts and tries to compensate? By turning brain into skin, for example?

    A skinhead?

  3. Re:zettabyte? on NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but how do you generate that much data in the first place? Require everyone to wear their Google Glasses 24/7 and capture it all in high def?

    Trust me, that is never an issue. From my experience any time you give an organization free space... it will be filled!

    Now, I'm not saying it will be useful stuff, but it will be full.

    Information expands to fill organizational free space,

  4. Re:Hmm on New Bird Shaped Drone Shown at Security and Defense Trade Show · · Score: 2

    And I hope many guilty drones by hunters who were hoping for a trophy.

    It's just so win-win...

    Its not drone season.

  5. Re:Hyphenation on New Bird Shaped Drone Shown at Security and Defense Trade Show · · Score: 2

    Even with the hyphen, it can still be read as "shaped by a bird". Perhaps context and common sense can help ease the confusion.

    Shaped by a bird colonel?

  6. Re:If I was Crick... on Crick's Nobel Medal Fetches $2.3 Million At Auction · · Score: 1

    I would come back from the dead to slap my descendants for allowing this guy to have my Nobel price.

    A nobel prize for the discovery of DNA goes to a modern day charlatan making money off the uneducated population. Well done - Crick family - well done. I hope you're proud.

    Regression to the mean?

  7. Re:Did the Penny Drop! on High-Speed Camera Grabs First 3D Shots of Untouched Snowflakes · · Score: 1

    A penny for your thoughts?

    A snowflake for your thoughts?

  8. Re:If it really knew where it was... on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 3, Funny

    If the thing had good enough heading and position information, it could overlay detailed information on the real world. But it's not that good. It's just a smartphone display.

    Also, I'll bet that driving with it will be prohibited after the first few hundred accidents.

    There will be talk of prohibiting porn.

  9. Re:Well to be fair on Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware · · Score: 1

    Bing's servers run on Windows

    Google's servers run on *Nix

    Of course Bing is going to find more malware!

    Bada Bing!

  10. Re:At least they are leading in something on Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware · · Score: 1

    How soon until they join the ranks of Digital, Wang, Novell, etc.

    Wait, you released a Digital Novel about my Wang?

    Technically it was a "short story". .

    Another schlortz?

  11. Re:Maybe he was British on Iceman Had Bad Teeth · · Score: 1

    An American Ice Man would have had braces as a cave child.

    Hence the cavities.

  12. Re:That's not a very nice thing to say on Iceman Had Bad Teeth · · Score: 1

    ONE comment, and you've already beaten me to the Val Kilmer joke...

    So it was the first Val Kilmer post.

  13. Re:My theory on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting on a 24 inch laptop.

    Would that be with cup holders?

    Actually those are for donuts.

  14. Re:CRAAAAAB PEOPLE on Increased Carbon Emissions Creating Giant Crabs · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our steel pincered overlords.

    You go right ahead, while I hunker down and prepare for CRAB BATTLE!

    Do you mean BATTLE CRAB where the steely Iron Chefs reign supreme.

  15. Re:Is this not your local net police? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 2

    I'd lean more toward using W5922XA.

    It was colliding tortoises all the way down.

  16. Re:The Dice Angle on LucasArts Employees Hold Wake & Eulogy; Vader Still Roams · · Score: 1

    I suppose we'll start seeing more stories that have a sensational twist in terms of inducing job-loss fear

    When Darth fires someone its like a strangling without the hands on part.

  17. Re:Is this not your local net police? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 1

    I'd lean more toward using W5922XA.

    Its a hover-tortoise ossifer, and it was headed thataway.

  18. Re:Is this not your local net police? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 1

    I'd lean more toward using W5922XA.

    Testosterone poisoning?

  19. Re:Is this not your local net police? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 1

    Just make it look official and let everybody know you're using all the most modern coding tools. For example, your mythical patient could suffer from a burn due to water skis being on fire (ICD 10 code V91.07XA). Or he could have been attacked by a turtle (W5921XA).

    Real codes, but it would be rather unlikely to find such traumatic incidents in actual medical practice.

    A turtle on a fencepost could be dangerous.

  20. Re:I just don't get it on Senator Feinstein: We Need Video Game Control · · Score: 1

    Preventing mentally ill people from getting guns is probably about as easy as preventing criminals from getting guns.

    Criminals don't tend to follow laws, and mentally ill people are not always labelled as such until after they've done something crazy.

    Obviously there should be safeguards in place to prevent dangerous people form getting *easy* access to guns, but it is naive to think that a law lone would have definitely stopped Newtown or any other massacre. It is simply too easy to illegally get a gun in this country.

    This one was labeled, and his mom got the guns legally.

  21. Re:I just don't get it on Senator Feinstein: We Need Video Game Control · · Score: 1

    If having a mentally ill person with access to one's guns were a disqualifier to have guns, then Newtown would have not happened.

    A similar situation would occur if one's crossbow were in a garage without a lock, that is it was not secured by a locked door..

  22. Re:What do you expect? on Senator Feinstein: We Need Video Game Control · · Score: 1

    It is the usual democratic knee-jerk reaction.

    As opposed to the alternate republican knee-jerk reaction.

    I don't even think that these people believe the verbal diarrhea they spew, but it plays well to their constituents.

    Overall, across the country, crime is down. Way down, and that includes murder and murder by gun. That doesn't seem to get considered in their posturing.

    Posturing positions that the other side can't possibly accept.

  23. Re:Implication to secure boot... on AMI Firmware Source Code, Private Key Leaked · · Score: 1

    Assuming for a moment that the validity of this key is confirmed independently then any further question about the technical feasibility of using this to sub/pervert a Secure Boot arrangement is moot when you consider the deeper and more practical implication which is that you can't trust a major motherboard vendor to keep a signing key properly secured.

    Secure Boot is dead, long live security.

    All hail our Moot Boot overlords.

  24. Re:What a hack on Court: Aereo TV Rebroadcast Is Still Legal · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't have a capital 'S' after a colon.

    Its called a colon-S-capade. Too colonesque.

  25. Re:Fairplay on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 1

    Simple. Because it costs the airline more to move 180lbs than it does 100lbs. Simple way of pricing tickets, you and all your luggage step on a scale and you're charged a per lb rate for your ticket. Very fair.

    Stop discriminating between passengers and luggage.

    I for one welcome our luggage losing overlords.