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  1. Re:Since the 70's!? on Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves · · Score: 1

    If one had a stack permit, was he working in "the salt mine."

  2. Re:Epifany... on The Encryption Pioneer Who Was Written Out of History · · Score: 0

    Gore follows his web chasing Doc 'Ocks.

  3. Re:Space trolls!!! on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 1

    He moved from the top of the i to the bottom of the d while we were adjusting the camera, honest.

  4. Re:Analytical Engine: No Definitive Design Exists on It's Time To Build the Analytical Engine · · Score: 1

    Ada magic rondevu.

  5. Re:I don't feel sorry, but... on Canadian Spammer Fined Over $1 Billion · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, the real question is how the hell does $100 per message times 4.4 million messages equal $1 billion. $600 million in "punitive damages?"

    Plus $400 million in Court Costs for all the copies they had to make.

  6. Re:Is it just me? on It's Time To Build the Analytical Engine · · Score: 1

    My sister tells of passing a spool of thread around the room. If only they had invented the tin can then.

  7. Re:Analytical Engine: No Definitive Design Exists on It's Time To Build the Analytical Engine · · Score: 1

    The Ni Polar Option

  8. Re:Analytical Engine: No Definitive Design Exists on It's Time To Build the Analytical Engine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then its like Difference Engine Forever then?

  9. Re:Real Man's Laptop on Best Mobile Computing Options For People With RSI? · · Score: 1

    I use a real man's laptop.

    Mine broke.

  10. Re:Anonymous Coward on Best Mobile Computing Options For People With RSI? · · Score: 1

    "I did it. I'm glad I did it. If I had it to do over again, I'd do it over again."

    A Peter Lorre character

  11. Re:Rounding Error? on 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP · · Score: 1

    I have a copy of BOB. Should I upgrade?

  12. Re:Damn on Neurosurgeons Use MRI-Guided Lasers To Destroy Tumors · · Score: 1

    If the nucleus of the cancer cell is black, then one can preferentially toast them like the balloon demos.

    For lack of a better name, a liquid cover slip with an index of 1.533 to match cytoplasm would allow one to light things up without tiny lenses distorting the beam.

    Maybe someone with good Google-fu can find the images of HeLa on a slide, cervical cancer with a surface like stucco, and a cervix that is gray with cancer that show the effect.

  13. Re:Distributor caps and a strobe light on Rube Goldberg and the Electrification of America · · Score: 1

    Car analogy to computer analogy to Rube Goldberg Machine.

    Turn knob to tune latest thingamabobs and gimcracks.

  14. Re:This is a common business shortfall on Software Theft a Problem For Actual Thieves, Too · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  15. Re:They don't say who they think it is on Iran Arrests Alleged Spies Over Stuxnet Worm · · Score: 1

    spread via contractors laptops.

    A PLC can be programmed with a pendant or with a laptop. After someone uses a laptop for the purpose, they will tell you where to put the pendant.

  16. Re:Climate Change on Paleontologists Unearth Giant Fossilized Penguin · · Score: 1

    Why aren't there giant penguins around today?

    Brown feet that did not go with the tuxedo motif?

  17. Re:Pre-emptive posting on China Successfully Launches Second Moon Probe · · Score: 1

            Great job China, you're just 50 years late (smug).

    I'd laugh my ass off if China went to the moon, kicked down the American flag and put up their own.

    They can do that?

    manned lunar mission doesn't have to mean a landing. It could just be their normal orbital vehicle on a figure eight trajectory around the moon.

    Which puts it in retrograde orbit suitable to launch plastic or sand at existing satellites.

  18. Re:Really, I'm going to be the first? on Army DNS ROOT Server Down For 18+ Hours · · Score: 2, Funny

    When the movie comes out, will it be Stephen Spielberg, James Cameron, or Mel Brooks?

  19. Re:No thanks on Ubuntu 10.10 Release Candidate Launched · · Score: 1

    I'm jaundiced you insensitive clod.

  20. Re:Shit where do I sign up on US, NY Bust 92 Mules In 'ZeuS Trojan' Crime Ring · · Score: 1

    Overheard in a restaurant:

    "We're Crime, and Crime doesn't pay."

  21. Re:Fox News! Burn it! Burn it with fire! on 2010 Ig Nobel Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    Wrong Prize.

  22. Re:Bah! on Unseen Moon Landing Video Released · · Score: 1

    They'll never release these videos in HD because you would see all the strings. ;)

    Strings are characters in order. I think you mean guidelines.

    Seriously, we left arrays of corner reflectors on the Moon.
    An astronomer with a telescope and a laser can show that they are there.

  23. Re:And if the information is wrong or fake on "Pre-Crime" Comes To the HR Dept. · · Score: 1

    And from the three providers: Three numbers. The formula is not a function.

  24. Re:Vodka on Researchers Test Space Beer · · Score: 1

    Alcohol may lower calcium which may make a problem of losing calcium in space worse.

  25. Re:Fart apps = Hello World on RIM Doesn't Want 200 Fart Apps · · Score: 1

    The Fart App is the new Hello World!

    Do you need a toolkit to write a Fart App?

    --

    GIS Fart Follower app anyone?