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  1. Re:Don't get into the science pool if you can't fl on X Particle Might Explain Dark Matter & Antimatter · · Score: 2

    It is, however, entirely suited to making bad jokes on ./, for example:

    Q: What's yellow and sour and equivalent to the axiom of choice?

    A: Zorn's Lemon!

  2. Obligatory on George Lucas to Resurrect Dead Movie Stars? · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Good Riddance on Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key · · Score: 1

    The Caps Lock key is an arcane relic of the ancient IBM keyboards

    Keyboards? Try ancient IBM typewriters.

    And we needed it. In Conclusion, get off my lawn, whippersnapper.

  4. Old News on Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do even the editors read anymore?

  5. Damn on Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank · · Score: 1

    And encryption won't help.

  6. Pointers on Evaluating Or Testing Utility SCADA Security? · · Score: 2, Funny

    0x00000047, 0x000008C4, and 0x00000A08 All hold awful vulnerabilities, make sure no one has access to them.

  7. Re:You're Bugged on Batteries Smaller Than a Grain of Salt · · Score: 1

    We have those, they are called `insects'. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4808342.stm

  8. Define Half. on Linux To Take Over Microsoft In Enterprises · · Score: -1, Redundant

    41.2% is `less than half', yet 43.6% is `nearly half'. Who thinks samzenpus' threshold between these two phrases is really between these two numbers. Also: Douglass Adams fans, 0.42 == 42% != 42.

  9. Call me cynical, on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I suspect that Dido has cut a check to McCandless. This is great, and probably cheap publicity.

  10. Write Your Own on Simple Virus For Teaching? · · Score: 1

    Just code your own virus. You'll know how to remove it. Alternatively, if you are teaching an advanced class as well, have those students write it.

  11. Re:Beware? on Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am afraid of Iris scanning technology, because it MAY give someone an incentive to rip my eyeballs out.

    I like my eyeballs.

  12. Did We Screw Up? on Europe Proposes International Internet Treaty · · Score: 1

    Can we at least wait until the US department of commerce significantly screws things up before we go around demanding international treaties?

  13. Re:Manhack on U. Penn Super Quadcopter Learns New Tricks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One of the most terrifying things I've seen in a video game. Whenever I hear something that even vaguely sounds like a manhack, I instinctively spin to face it, and attempt to take out the Crowbar/GravGun.

  14. From the Article on Cell Phones Powered By Conversations · · Score: 3, Informative

    The sound waves produced a mild electrical current of about 50 millivolts. The average cell phone requires a few volts to operate, several times the power this technology can currently produce.

    Wrong, so very wrong. Millivolts is not a unit of current, and volts is no unit of power. Nor is power current. I've seen journalists not understanding electrical units before, but never have I seen something quite so wrong as this.

  15. It's a Trap on MPEG LA Announces Permanent Royalty Moratorium For H264 · · Score: 1

    `Paid' and `Free' subject to future profitable redefinition.

  16. Re:Google on German Photog Wants to Shoot Buildings Excluded From Street View · · Score: 1

    If the man wants to tilt at windmills, I say let him.

  17. Re:Fine on Website Lets You Bet On Your Grades · · Score: 1

    I bet $1 Billion you didn't RTFA.

    This is idle, GP didn't read the summary, probably didn't read the title. I know I didn't.

  18. Vampire Plug on Scientists Develop Brain-Microchip Bridge · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What I really want is a vampire plug that sits on my optic nerve(s) and captures everything I see and records it to a hard drive. I would like it to automatically tag timestamps with my thoughts at the time, but that can wait for version 2.0.

  19. Re:And this is news? on Java IO Faster Than NIO · · Score: 1

    I use rmmod psmouse . (a line in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist) It works fine on my Dell D630, it might work for you.

  20. Re:About Software on Windows Vulnerable To 'Token Kidnapping' Attacks · · Score: 1

    Yes, "hello, world" should start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark. The comma is also unnecessary.

  21. Man in the Middle on When Telemarketers Harass Telecoms Companies · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Find two telemarketers who call you at (roughly) the same time.

    2. Put them on the phone with each other.

    3. ???

    4. Hilarity ensues.

  22. Three Words: on Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    Not Bloody Likely. Motivated students, and trust me they ARE motivated, are far more effective than the MAFIAA leaning on the government leaning on schools.

  23. Good Riddance on NASA Ends Plan To Put Man Back On Moon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unless we can set up a colony there, it just isn't worth it.

    The moon, you see, is a harsh mistress.

    YEAHHHHHHHH!

  24. Re:The remediation advice is wrong on Backdoor Found In UnrealIRCd Source Archive · · Score: 1

    LiveCD.

  25. Re:The freedom part sounded like: on Matt Asay Answers Your Questions About Ubuntu and Canonical · · Score: 0

    What an odd poem...

    ... the only winning move is not to play.