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  1. Re:More of the same on Russians Can't Make Contact With Busted Space Probe · · Score: 1

    (hint - the 'old' CCCP still lives in little pockets in Russia, nowhere more so than the space program)

    It was instructive to hear Boris Yeltsin pronounce it as SSSR

  2. Re:Money Laundering on How Cell Phone Money Laundering Works · · Score: 1

    I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up " money laundering" in a dictionary.

    Wash and rinse 10 percent
    Iron 1 percent
    Perfume and blow dry 1 percent

  3. Re:This can only make the work place more awkward. on DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection · · Score: 2

    I shudder to think how much porn I would need to watch before I can check my email.

    Perhaps they'll incorporate biometrics of your private parts. Unzip, insert......."welcome mr todger, how may i assist you today".

    I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.

  4. Re:I know one of these on Biofuel Thieves Steal Restaurant Grease · · Score: 1

    it makes your car perpetually smell like fast food

    How is that worse than smelling like diesel?

    Diesel fries . . . yum.

    They would be caught by insanely cackling "We're green."

  5. Re:In the digital era, we're all in the public eye on Actress Sues IMDb For Revealing Her Age · · Score: 1

    The principle that we each should be in charge of the release of our personal information is a protection for you and me as well as for aging actresses.

    As for determining which information about someone is "trivial," I suggest not outsourcing that either.

    Is there a helpdesk?

  6. Re:Bitcoin on Value of Bitcoin "Crashes" · · Score: 1

    Exactly how is this different than taking my money to the riverboat and laying it down on blackjack?

    The odds?

  7. Re:Launching from Kourou on Galileo To Be Europe's Answer To US GPS · · Score: 1

    Pedantry is the new trolling.

    At least you stand in the great tradition of Futurama that "technically correct is the best kind of correct!".

    And politically correct is the worst.

  8. Re:Name one non-rapator that uses flapping for spe on Winged Robots Hint At the Origins of Flight · · Score: 1

    If gliding is faster than walking/running, then isn't using flapping to glide technically increasing running or walking speed?

    Heh, the quote at the bottom of the page: "Misfortunes arrive on wings and roller skates, and leave on foot."

    FTFY

  9. Re:Human gliders on Winged Robots Hint At the Origins of Flight · · Score: 1

    The lack of a parachute would make any organism that tried to do that naturally a very definite evolutionary dead end.

    Picture the mother of Archaeopteryx, Marthaopteryx mourning his untimely demise.

  10. Re:Aluminum Foil on Seeing Through Walls · · Score: 1

    In the future, I guess snipers will have to carry a $ 5 roll of aluminum foil, to block the multimillion dollar real time radar.

    Which would shine conspicuously in the radar beam. That's where I'd shoot.

    Its a trailer park, or the enemy would make everyone put foil on their windows.

  11. Re:Da on Northeast Passage Becomes Viable Trade Route · · Score: 1

    Bitcoins : Easy to buy, easy to sell, and never worth zero.

  12. Re:Why? on All-Electric DeLorean Car To Hit the Streets In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Actually, I have a PV kit on top of my garage.

    My bad . . . Nuclear or Photo Voltaic.

  13. Re:Why? on All-Electric DeLorean Car To Hit the Streets In 2013 · · Score: -1

    I think that's the point of the article. In your rush to be 'first', you probably failed to notice that the car doesn't run on fossil fuels. Given that the 80's had no such car that was fully electric and ran at 125 MPH, then it's unlikely we'd find such a car unless we went to the future. Say, somewhere around 2013 to find it, no?

    Unless your electricity is from nuclear power, then it does run on fossil fuel.

  14. Re:Watch Out on Electrical Power From Humans · · Score: 1

    Damn near anything living in deep, subterranean caves? I can't recall the name, but there was a cave discovered completely sealed off from everything that had eyeless, colourless lizards from having lived cut off from the sun for thousands upon thousands of years.

    I also figure cockroaches, or most any other insect or creature that lives underground would do well enough for a long time, until the nutrients in the soil itself are depleted.

    Did they develop bioluminescence?

  15. Re:USB on Electrical Power From Humans · · Score: 1

    Embed your iPhone into your chest cavity- put a speaker in your ear.

    Playing Angry Birds during meetings would be a bit more overt.

    That was Angry Buds.

  16. Re:Last digit on Pi Computed To 10 Trillion Digits · · Score: 1

    What's the 10 trillionth digit of pi? I've got my money on 7.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93Plouffe_formula

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    Has your cloud been running slowly?

  17. Re:I wonder... on Australian Government Redacts Anti-Piracy Consultation Paper · · Score: 1

    Well perhaps not. The Attorney-General's Department have now apparently redacted that document, removing all mention of the controversial proposal, without telling anyone."

    Welcome psychic overlords.

  18. Re:But its a Sunday on California Declares Today "Steve Jobs Day" · · Score: 1

    On Valentines Day /. readers have nothing to celebrate anyway.

    Was there another massacre?

  19. Re:NO on California Declares Today "Steve Jobs Day" · · Score: 1

    How about Albert Sabin Day. He fought the bureaucracy and won.

  20. Re:The array formerly known as on Renaming the Very Large Array · · Score: 1

    Plow lines between the dishes on the array, make a nice vector logo, and make the logo its name and refer to it as the Array Formerly Known as the Very Large Array.

    Sagan Nazca Array?

  21. Re:From the horses mouth on US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry · · Score: 1

    "Most transparent administration ever."

    Yes, the President is truly an Empty Suit. Doesn't get more transparent than that.

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    Google may say Don't Be Evil, but how do such flaming Liberals define Evil to start with?

    Evil : Bad for large values of *is*.

  22. Re:Purely out of curiosity on Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac? · · Score: 1

    Android speech-to-text actually works pretty well. I'm using it now to write this and I find bark bark shaddup I find that it bark bark shut up damnit bark bark don't make me come down there I find that bark bark okay that's it I'm coming down there argh crash thud bark bark bark bark bark bark

    Troubles with the wife?

    The WiFi is working fine sir.

  23. Re:T-Rex isn't fat on T-Rex Bigger and Hungrier Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Is it still clocked at 42 miles per hour?

    Which is the answer to everything you needed to know about the tea wreck.

  24. Re:Not bound by the statute of limitations? on NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera · · Score: 1

    Did I just read that the government is not bound by the statute of limitations? ..and here I thought the statute of limitations was specifically there to bind the government.

    There is no statute of limitations on Federal Income Tax Evasion.

  25. Re:Who cares? on Predator Drone 'Virus' Could Be Military's Own Monitoring · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have no issues what so ever eliminating hate filled hypocritical pustules

    When do you plan to set drones loose on Washington?

    That is the other one, the creditor drone.