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  1. Re:Please stop the metaphors on Taco Bell Programming · · Score: 1

    If RMS wrote a software cookbook, I would be interested in reading it.

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

    Are you sure that's not Apple Tree Service you found?

    Nevermind. iForgot.

  3. Re:No surprises here on Chatbot Suzette Wins 20th Annual Loebner Prize, Fools One Judge · · Score: 1

    That does it. I'm breaking up with Suzette.

  4. Re:No surprises here on Chatbot Suzette Wins 20th Annual Loebner Prize, Fools One Judge · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Computer Science/Engineering professors can't tell the difference between chatbots and Computer Science/Engineering students.

    Film at 11!

  5. Re:Maybe they're misinterpreting the results on Hard-to-Read Fonts Improve Learning · · Score: 1

    Bogus headline, or bogus research, or maybe both.

    Uncle Bogus has been CAPTCHAd by aliens.

      His handwriting was bad; however, this is ridiculous.

  6. Re:The view must be nice on Astronomers Find Planets Around Weird Binary Star · · Score: 4, Funny

    they're both dwarf stars.

    Vertically challenged celebrities.

  7. Re:Frequency Hopping and Security on In Florida, a Cell Phone Network With No Need For a Spectrum License · · Score: 1

    Somewhat. Frequency hopping was invented to prevent radio-steered torpedoes from being jammed by the enemy.

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

  8. Re:And one by one... on On Several Fronts, US Gov't Prepares To Regulate Online Privacy · · Score: 1

    I wonder if anyone's patented that business model.

    1. Propose sweeping legislation affecting profitability of large corporations.
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

    At least some Politicians have that business model.
    Do you think that lobbyists will pay if there is no threat?
    How many are in it for Good Government?

  9. Re:Physicists on Fermilab To Test Holographic Universe Theory · · Score: 1

    Nah, THEY will send an agent to suicide the physicists that found out too much.

    Nah, THEY will send an agent to Mandelbrot the physicists that found out too much.

  10. Re:Simple: on All Your Stonehenge Photos Are Belong To England · · Score: 1

    Actually, while reading the comments on the article, I found this rather amazing link to a "street view" care of Google that lets you walk right through there from the comfort of your own PC terminal.

    Do I see the aligned object on the right days of the year?

  11. Re:V is for Vendetta! on UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he was intentionally encrypting his posting - you never know who is watching!

    The encrypted message is "42."

  12. Re:Not impressed on Boeing 747 Recycled Into a Private Residence · · Score: 1

    "buffalo jump" sites where they chased Bison off cliffs.

    The buffalo flew (briefly).

    The 747 cockpit reminds one of a buffalo in profile.

  13. Re:But why ? on UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water · · Score: 1

    1 - Buy spray synthesiser machine.
    2 - Make it known that you offer a safety service to bank robbers: they come to you once sprayed and you make 100l of the substance for them to spray on the streets for a week.
    3 - Profit.
    4 - ???

    5 - Cops find trail ten miles long to lab. They seen interested in sales records.

  14. Re:Water? on UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water · · Score: 1

    A: Yesterday, a guy in the street sprayed me with a substance I didn't identify. I tried to chase down the guy to ask for an explanation but he ran faster than me.

    Maybe that's what the crooks were doing at the track. They were qualifying runners.

  15. Re:US needs China more then China needs US on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    Especially if commodities start trading in something other than US dollars.

    Especially if oil starts trading in something other than US dollars.

    FTFY

  16. Re:I, for one, on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    Welcome rare earth magnate overlords from China.

  17. Re:Solution: on Un-killable 'Evercookie' Killed ... Sometimes · · Score: 1

    Don't accept evercookies.

    They are made in highly automated hollow trees by elves with no visible means of support in a forest alleged to be enchanted.

  18. Re:If only... on Un-killable 'Evercookie' Killed ... Sometimes · · Score: 1

    The raisins got up and flew away.

  19. Re:Midichloreans! on The Effect of Internal Bacteria On the Human Body · · Score: 1

    No. After.

  20. Re:Now that Ozzie's gone... on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Who is Ray Harriet?

  21. Re:Gut Bacteria Causes Weight Gain on The Effect of Internal Bacteria On the Human Body · · Score: 1

    A recent commercial said: When John Wayne died, he had 52 pounds of undigested fecal matter in his system.

    Is nothing sacred?

  22. Re:Sigh... on The Effect of Internal Bacteria On the Human Body · · Score: 1

    I for one (sigh) welcome our new microbe overlords...

    which predate the dinosaurs.

  23. Re:And we could call it on What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? · · Score: 1

    s/South Harmon/Sam Houston/

    FTFY

  24. Re:End of Azure on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    "hugely complex piles of shit."

    Can you simulate that with enough computing power at say 17,000 nanoseconds per diem.

    Can they model the Big Bing?

    The CSA is gone, long live the CSA. Um no. Really. Never mind.

    --

    The bathroom is upstairs over the driveway.

  25. Re:wrong OS? on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    There are three certain things: Death, Taxes, and Linux Impersonators.