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  1. Re:fox news at work here on 45 Years Later, Does Moore's Law Still Hold True? · · Score: 1

    Some years ago, Ted Koppel moderated a show with half Israelis and half Palestinians in an auditorium.

    Did he invent Fair-and-Balanced?

  2. Re:Voice Recognition on Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead · · Score: 1

    A little girl walks into the Ladies room in a seafood restaurant.

    When someone farts, she says "Mama is that you."

  3. Re:It's not that hard to be a lacto-ovo veggie on Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead · · Score: 1

    If you eat enough bananas, your shit does not stink.

  4. Re:Security issues on Researchers Claim 1,000 Core Chip Created · · Score: 1

    Once upon a time, there was a writable control store computer from TI.

    Some one wrote a Super Compiler that produced microcode directly instead of producing instructions as usual.

    Perhaps something like this can come back.

  5. Re:Hmmmmm on Why Published Research Findings Are Often False · · Score: 1

    When all you have is chickens, all your problems look like Voodoo.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096071/

  6. Re:Hmmmmm on Why Published Research Findings Are Often False · · Score: 1

    This is just a journalistic tactic, though. Start with a ridiculous premise to get people reading, then break out what's really happening : poor use of statistics in science. What was really the point of implying that truth can change?

    What is the point of answering a question and then asking the question?

    Do not reveal the surprise beginning.

    This sounds like politics, voodoo politics.

    Where can I find the voodoo journals that must be out there somewhere.

  7. Re:Confusing title on Microsoft Research Takes On Go · · Score: 1

    Sheesh, I need sleep. And perhaps to stop learning so many useless programming languages.

    Useless programming languages are for useless programming.

    --

    Sigfault

  8. Re:Copyright Rocks on Pirate Party Founder Steps Down After 5 Years · · Score: 2

    and the horse you rode in on.

    The horse I rode in on is an experimental bio-fueled vehicle.

    The complaints about its exhaust are overblown.

    Have they improved on it? Nay.

  9. Re:Translated to Headline du Jour on Hungarian Officials Can Now Censor the Media · · Score: 1

    Has the industrialized world reached Peak Freedom?

    We are now dependent on foreign turmoil.

  10. Re:Rude, just rude on Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Hack Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Neither the app nor the methodology is public, and it will NOT be released

    And on the seventh hour, the Developer rested.

  11. Re:Stupid is as stupid does. on Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit · · Score: 1

    They can put him on the fifth floor, orthopaedic and psychiatric, or nuts and screws.

    If he gets better and starts walking around, then they can ask him which he is.

  12. Re:this is not idle. on German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs · · Score: 1

    Your typical preschooler or kindergardener isn't going to know how to read very much, let alone sheet music. They learn songs by repetition and memorization.

    "We know you can't read music; turning the pages is fooling no one." Bernstein

    I haven't celebrated a birthday since that fruitcake incident; however, birthday singing is mostly predictable. All the GEMA or RIAA need to do is to charge for singing annually.

  13. Re:Moving Data? on IBM Makes a Super Memory Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Eckert and Maunchly weren't too far off with mercury-tube memory in Univac.

    If only they had exponentiated to mercury-nano-tube memory. If they had used vacs in parallel as Univax.

  14. Re:Will they simulate themself on Living Earth Simulator Aims To Simulate Everything · · Score: 1

    Will simulate even the discovery of "the theory of everything"... have to tell you, that would be about time... I'm already sick of the super-string theories.

    String theorist tells wife he can explain everything.

  15. Re:I have some genius ideas! on London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day · · Score: 1

    Orwell was so smart, but not in the way people think. We shouldn't see it as a warning so much as a suggestion! Who's with me? Come on! If you're not with me you're against me. You're not a terrorist, are you?!

    Blair, Eric Blair

  16. Re:Who'da Thunk? on Auditors Question TSA's Tech Spending, Security Solutions · · Score: 1

    Gee, TSA wasting tax payer money? Who'da thunk Chertoff's big money maker would be a big money waster for the rest of us "little people"?

    What we need is Kabuki sniffing dogs.

  17. Re:poor choice of verb on Satellite-Based Laser Hunts Woodpeckers From Space · · Score: 1

    With a little more power, they can hunt woodpeckers from space.

    Who picks up the game?

    Its the Passenger Bison all over again.

  18. Re:it's Schadenfreude on Spammers Finally Under the Legal Gun? · · Score: 2

    Does no one here know German? Shame on you.

    Many here know German...none of whom, unfortunately, are among the editors.

    Had there been any, then they could have gone past the spelling and gotten the meaning. If the spammers had rheumatism, St. Vitus dance, and erectile dysfunction, then where might be schadenfreude in the Village of the Spammed.

  19. Re:Quoting Homer on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    Alcohol: the cause of, and the solution to, all of life's problems.

    Congress and alcohol -- made for each other.

  20. Re:Summary is sexist, story is stupid on Record Set For World's Youngest Chess Champion · · Score: 1

    Fearless prognostication: Celebrity chess players and Chinese Government backing just might produce talented women players -- not 200 ELO trailing either.

  21. Re:Summary is sexist, story is stupid on Record Set For World's Youngest Chess Champion · · Score: 1

    I am told that one gets better at chess by playing better chess players. If this is so, then two groups with different chess skills would stay that way. Call it history and positive feedback.

  22. Re:The real plan on Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End · · Score: 1

    The emulation of the railroads in being granted huge rights-of-way would have been extremely lucrative and in the robber baron tradition.

    FWIW In Texas, oil drilling is regulated by the Railroad Comission.

  23. Re:The "law" on Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End · · Score: 1

    typical knee-jerk half-assed expensive solution to deal with the high priced oil.

    The era of big government typical knee-jerk half-assed expensive solutions is over. Oh wait.

  24. Re:Not so much on Progress In Algorithms Beats Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    some good leds and make 'em blink at hypnotic 4HZ

    And if you make 'em blink at 8HZ, you might get a migraine.

  25. Re:Yeah. on White House Warns of Supercomputer Arms Race · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on... everyone knows the eleventy-billionith digit of pi is way more important.

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