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  1. Re:thin client exam takers on Preventing Networked Gizmo Use During Exams? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think he's worried that you could IM a friend during an exam to work the answers out for you, as if you're a thin client, with all that computing power over in the cloud.

    I might be a client, but I am not thin.

    Student traces diagram on onion-skin paper, photographs it, eats it.

    Adds a whole new dimension to passing the test.

  2. Re:Wireless = Radio? on Fujitsu Eyes Wireless Gadget Charging For 2012 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because there is not enough, but I suppose you could market a mobile phone which you charge by putting it in the microwave.

    But the Tesla coil is in there.

  3. Re:Doesn't really matter... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    Sherlock Holmes was modeled on a Scottish physician named Bell. I don't recall his last name.

  4. Re:Nothing new on Burglary Ring Used Facebook Places To Find Targets · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you don't go to their funerals, then they will not come to yours.

  5. Re:in soviet russia on Microsoft Complaints Help Russian Gov't Pursue Political Opposition Groups · · Score: 1

    Clippski has backup.

  6. Re:Easy solution! on Microsoft Complaints Help Russian Gov't Pursue Political Opposition Groups · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clippsky, I notice a recent install; can I help you connect to the Internet?

  7. Re:Shhhhh on £32k a Day For Birmingham Council Website · · Score: 1

    Do they have an app to compute their salary in real time?

  8. Re:It will be a critical ability. on Spaceflight Formation Flying Test Bed Takes Off · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So when swimming under water, you're actually flying under water?

    Especially Penguins fly under water.

  9. Re:Pi, what a waste of time on How the Web Rallied To Review the P != NP Claim · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Take a CAD program and figure the area of a circle of radius one. In some cases you get an interesting value of pi.

    --

    pi = 22/7. 22/7 repeats. Therefore pi is not transcendental.

  10. Re:Duh on Robots Taught to Deceive · · Score: 1

    Have you been deceived? Has it cost money or prestige?

    You may be entitled to a large cash award. Time to file is limited. (Non attorney spokesman)

  11. Re:The holy grail of camera tech.... on HDR Video a Reality · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cash for clickers.

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    Do you have a digital camera? No I have an analog camera.

  12. Re:Sure it is! on Swedish Police Shoe Database May Tread On Copyright · · Score: 1

    Be on the lookout for person of interest in stolen Superstar tennis shoes.

  13. Re:Assassins is a bit much. on Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates · · Score: 1

    Windows don't think Boy Wonder.

  14. Re:From the Description... on Tractor Beams Come To Life · · Score: 1

    Why not? Random molecules entering the beam would gain heat giving rise to a radial inward airflow (the same one that contains stuff now). Gentle suction and the contents would move. If I had the equipment, I would try it.

  15. Re:How's this different from a do-not-call list? on Online Ads, Privacy Remain In FTC Crosshairs · · Score: 1

    If by taking up arms you mean voting them out.

  16. Re:Could be worse on Solar Cells Made From Bioluminescent Jellyfish · · Score: 1

    Jellyfish could be using Human Beings to generate power.

    Its the next Stimulus.

  17. Re:Expensive on School Swaps Math Textbooks For iPads · · Score: 1

    That is fortunate because they did not read the book.

  18. Re:Might as well get used to it on Assange Asks For New Lawyer, Denies Blaming CIA · · Score: 1

    Low profile people are murdered instead of being assassinated.

  19. Re:Science! on Researchers Discover Irresistible Dance Moves · · Score: 1

    A frog in a blender is not dancing. Neither is a fly on flypaper http://www.naute.com/stories/fly.phtml

  20. Re:You don't get out much.... on Robot Snake Can Climb Trees · · Score: 1

    If you throw an oroborus on the ground,
    it will roll because its round. (Appologies to Guy Lombardo's Silver Dollar)

    Can it talk?

  21. Re:Are they joking? on NSA Director Says the US Must Secure the Internet · · Score: 1

    Cut the string from her tin can to his.

  22. Re:Crony Despotism in Action on Former HP CEO Selected As Oracle Co-President · · Score: 1

    Duke Nukem Forever back in development. The Hurd arrives.

    Two out of three?

  23. Re:Intelligent stamp, or phone? on UK's Royal Mail Launches First Intelligent Stamps · · Score: 1

    How about basic stamps?

  24. Re:Stamps for how long? on UK's Royal Mail Launches First Intelligent Stamps · · Score: 1

    Irish dance leader.

  25. Re:Once again Microsoft abandons innovation on Google Says Microsoft Is Driving Antitrust Review · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?

    Is that a one time pad?