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  1. Re:well... on Nuclear Bunker Houses World's Toughest Server Farm · · Score: 1

    The Doctor is regenerating right now; however, K9 has been tuning the servers for optimum performance and doing touch-and-goes in the Tardis.

    Relation of this to nuclear survivability -- Zero.

  2. Re:"Agile", no -- "agile", yes on A Decade of Agile Programming — Has It Delivered? · · Score: 1

    Just because it takes 1 woman 9 months to have a baby, doesn't mean that you can put 9 women on the project and produce a baby in one month.

    Every time I hear that one, I think pipelining.

  3. Re:Cool on Fermilab Confirms Evidence of 4th Flavor Neutrino · · Score: 1

    If a chicken flavor neutrino travels through the earth and interacts with a Chinese taste bud, then is the effect gone in 30 minutes?

  4. Re:Miniature drinks? on Miniature Human Livers Grown In Lab · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, and you can only go to minibars.

    The upside is that the ladies wear miniskirts.

    And they sing Cry Me a Liver.

  5. Re:Doh on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    And the toxic* enzyme which causes the cancer cell to die: Croakin.

    * Toxic to cancer cells that is.

    Sayonarain?

  6. Re:Doh on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    And the toxic* enzyme which causes the cancer cell to die: Croakin.

    * Toxic to cancer cells that is.

  7. Re:A little more on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't that cause an infinite loop of telepathy? Our heads would explode!!!

    That would cause a Cerebral Denial of Service CDoS. Colloquially they were Slashdotted.

  8. Re:Cool on USB 'Dead Drops' · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And then two dozen ./ users came by and said, "Hey, free karma!"

    And then two dozen /. users came by and said, "Hey, free karma!"

    FTFY

    --

    What would CmdrTaco do?

  9. Re:So... with gene therapy, or appropriate drugs.. on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    Invasion of the Policy Snatchers.

    Or was it just a dream?

  10. Re:YES YES YES! on British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests · · Score: 1

    Cue Die Hard character by Alan Rickman.

    I must have missed something.

  11. Re:Question: on The Empire Strikes Back Vader Costume For Sale · · Score: 1

    That's why you need to buy this suit. I bet no one ever kicked Darth Vader in the balls!

    If they did they would be featured on Wikileaks.

  12. Re:discovered? on Giant Impact Crater Found In Australia · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Too slow on Closing In On 1Gbps Using DSL · · Score: 1

    AT&T puts those boxes on every block in our neighborhoods. Uverse currently runs at 8.5MHz over flat pair here.

    Maybe they could twist some speed out of it.

  14. Re:Update to the story on Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 1

    So somebody set the clock wrong?

  15. Re:Who's to say on How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about a small integer k times the real serial number plus a uniformly distributed random integer from 0 to k-1?

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    Mein Herr,

    Your application for Grammar Fuhrer is rejected. You are otherwise highly qualified, but the post is occupied.

  16. Re:No Connection with Tehran on Iranian Cyber Army Moves Into Botnet Renting · · Score: 1

    The Iranians are not Arabs, and they invented Chess.

  17. Re:No Connection with Tehran on Iranian Cyber Army Moves Into Botnet Renting · · Score: 1

    A strange game, the only way to win is not to play.

    Would you like a nice game of chess?

  18. Re:An odd approach... on The Future of the Most Important Human Brain · · Score: 2, Funny

    Much later: A physician was asked what course not in Med School contributed most to his career.

    Carpentry.

  19. Re:Tall statement on New Programming Language Weaves Security Into Code · · Score: 1

    Because trying to force everybody to use Ada worked so well...

    They were Ada up.

  20. Re:Tall statement on New Programming Language Weaves Security Into Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    Give me TP for my security hole!

    Turbo Pascal?

  21. Re:ouch! on Robotic Hands Grip Without Fingers · · Score: 1

    Concave and Convex...

    Oh nevermind.

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    Once the Daleks took the plunge, the rest was inevitable.

  22. Re:In Other ( Two ) Words: ( +1, Helpful ) on Bees Beat Machines At 'Traveling Salesman' Problem · · Score: 1

    Simulated kneeling and sharing the latest buzz makes the modern beeowulf bee what she is today.

  23. Re:Replace tinfoil hats on Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van · · Score: 1

    ... With tinfoil clothing? (or substitute your favorite x-ray opaque material)

    Bullet proof bikini FTW

  24. Re:Natty Narwhal? on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 1

    Experiment:

    For the next 60 seconds, try not to think of the word "Hippopotamus."

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    Clear, Concise, Complete: Pick two.

  25. Re:Anyone have the coordinates? on New Video of Apple's Enormous iDataCenter · · Score: 1

    Nope. "A" is the spot. Compare the sat to the video.

    Well done Sir. Thanks.