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  1. Spam taxes my patience.

  2. Re:China follows Google's lead on Researchers Put Numbers On China's Microblog Censorship · · Score: 1

    Morons think Google has 'algorithms' that do the clever stuff, but Google's success in the search-engine business is down to legions of Human operators who constantly create 'semantic hints' from daily mined data flowing from the search terms people are using.

    Are they headquartered in China?

  3. Re:Schrodinger would be happy on Physicists Discover a Way Around Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    The Cat is Dead now. Otherwise Schrodinger would be famous for finding a way to greatly extend the life of Cats.

    This fails to account for the nine lives of a cat.

  4. Re:Dr. Phil on Neil deGrasse Tyson On How To Stop a Meteor Hitting the Earth · · Score: 1

    The Neil deGrasse Tyson of AstroPsychology.

  5. Dr. Phil on Neil deGrasse Tyson On How To Stop a Meteor Hitting the Earth · · Score: -1

    The Neil deGrasse Tyson of Psychology.

  6. Re:Nearly every crime involves a phone on Nearly Every NYC Crime Involves Computers, Says Manhattan DA · · Score: 1

    Nearly every crime involves a phone - most phones would qualify as computers.

    NYC seem to be aware of the obvious.

    But maybe not masters of it yet.

    FTFY

  7. Re:Car analogy on Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay · · Score: 1

    How about a NasCar fan analogy? You think they have brains, but when you open up their skulls you find tiny Leprechauns jacking off to chrome hubcap advertisements.

    Drinking from wheel covers is addictive.

  8. Re:Wow on Steam For Linux: A Respectable Showing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Before you know it, you'll be playing Left4Dead on your phone. There's a HUGE untapped market there.

    My phone left me for dead long ago.

  9. Re:Really? on Texas Declares War On Robots · · Score: 1

    I guess Hammy the Hamster is going for a ride!

    And the folks on the ground will be hamsterducken.

  10. Re:Chunking overlords on BigDog Robot Grabs, Lifts, and Throws Cinder Blocks With Its New Arm · · Score: 1

    Once it can throw chairs, Balmer should worry about keeping his job.

    Right now it would destroy cinder block furniture.

  11. Re:Not telepathy, not Borg... on Intercontinental Mind-Meld Unites Two Rats · · Score: 1

    It's Bitmouse!

    A USB mouse.

  12. Re:State sponsored on Stuxnet's Earliest Known Version Discovered and Analyzed · · Score: 1

    No, there is no doubt.

    Even tiny nation-states have their own cyber forces now. Heck, even African countries with people living in dung huts have cyber warriors.

    They should never have networked the dung huts.

  13. Re:the idea was prototyped for trains, too on 1967 Gyro-X Car To Be Restored · · Score: 1

    1. Is this gyro going to serve dual-purpose as a flywheel?

    Yes. IIRC someone did the math and the optimum was to go for strength and speed rather than weight in the flywheel for energy storage.

  14. Re:I Don't Understand the Conclusion on Terminator Sparrows? · · Score: 1

    Sparrow Connor taught him about Tweetie and Sequester.

    Tweetie and Sequester: How one bird reached across the aisle and averted the budget crisis.

    And he said, "I think you're ... delicious."

  15. Re:no on Cryptography 'Becoming Less Important,' Adi Shamir Says · · Score: 2

    Unless the subject of the email is "NAKED PICTURES OF " Then Average Joe will dismiss all warnings without reading them.

    Hillary Clinton?

  16. Re:I Don't Understand the Conclusion on Terminator Sparrows? · · Score: 1

    Awesome research but the last section puzzles me:

    The living male birds were equally aggressive to Robosparrow whether its wing movements were activated or not, the researchers found.

    "It confirmed our hypothesis that the wing-waving behaviour is functioning male aggressive communication," said Dr Anderson.

    Wouldn't the first sentence imply that nothing can be determined? I mean, it sounds like they weren't beating the shit out of robosparrow because of his wing movements but more so because he was going around looking for Sparrow Connor.

    But in all serious does anyone know how they came to that conclusion given the seemingly arbitrary constant aggression?

    Sparrow Connor taught him about Tweetie and Sequester.

  17. Re:"Protecting Linux"... on How the Open Invention Network Protects Linux and Open Source (Video) · · Score: 2

    As many in the racketeering community would put it... giving cover to shopowners who prefer to operate in marked territory without paying protection money...

    That is a nice OS you've got there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

  18. Re:So THAT'S where they go on Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean · · Score: 1

    "Dior" monogrammed socks distinguish left and right socks BTW.

  19. Re:So THAT'S where they go on Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean · · Score: 1

    Found!, along with 200 million unmatched socks

    All left feet?

    You didn't think very hard on that, did you? I've never seen socks that were left vs. right dependant, other than those funny Japanese slippers with toes (cf. gloves).

    Left vs. right socks was a gag played on a blind person.

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

  20. Re:The IAEA has no actual evidence on How Close Is Iran, Really, To Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    The fact is, Iran wants Nuclear weapons. They are almost assuredly trying to develop them under the guise of a peaceful program. But, there's nothing we can really do about it. They WILL get nuclear weapons eventually. Short of a full invasion, there's very little we can do. It may be a year from now, or 50, but one day Iran will test their first bomb and then we'll know for sure.

    Even if the plant is a mile underground, bombing the entrance stops it.

  21. Re:How Close? on How Close Is Iran, Really, To Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    Uh, no, he means we'd let them look at ours (so long as they looked really, really, fast as they tend to detonate upon arrival).

    They have been into the mushrooms again.

  22. Re:So THAT'S where they go on Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean · · Score: 1

    Found!, along with 200 million unmatched socks

    All left feet?

  23. Re:Plate tectonics on Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean · · Score: 1

    Someone just discovered geology. Amazing.

    Which of course is such a horrible thing and must be discouraged? If we let geology become too interesting, lay people might get interested... then what?

    DIY geology like what happened on Mars?

  24. Re:Not the first time, nor the last on Buying Your Way Onto the NY Times Bestsellers List · · Score: 2

    So the most important writing skill to learn is how to write a check? WooHoo! I'm qualified to be a best selling be author!

    No. The trick is to damp the natural resonances of the check.

  25. Re:One Word on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 1

    STOP LEAK

    OK, maybe that is two words, but it works in my car radiator. I would imagine Bardahl would donate a few thousand gallons just for the publicity.

    Relax this car 'aint goin' noplace. Blackie Carbon