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  1. Re:Question on Dinosaur Fossil Found With Preserved Soft Tissue · · Score: 1

    One does ask why, having found a fossil, they don't erect a large tent over the site, in the same way they do for forensic investigations.

  2. Re:Groklaw - she's ahead of you. on OLPC Lawsuit-Bringer Has Past Fraud Conviction · · Score: 1

    She already has cried 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war.

    I would include some sort of reference to enjoying Shakespeare in the original Klingon here, but gotta go.

  3. I for one on Carnegie Mellon Gets $14.4M to Build Robo-Tank · · Score: 1

    ...welcome our SkyNet overlords

  4. Internal Decision ? on Egyptian Blogger Silenced by YouTube, Yahoo! · · Score: 1

    A gut decision maybe? Or just like a gut, full of sh*t.

  5. Now criticise him for making it public domain on DJB Releases All Source to Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Coming Soon! Microsoft Embraced QMail with Extended features for use only by MS applications....

  6. Re:Brains? on Scientists Create Zombie Cockroaches · · Score: 1

    Actually the larvae will eat everything, brains included.

  7. Bzzt on Google Goes Green · · Score: 1
  8. Forget Online Dating on Flawed Online Dating Bill Being Pushed in New Jersey · · Score: 1

    I'd automatically want a criminal background check if I was going to meet anyone from New Jersey!!

  9. Cooling solution on Microsoft Plans Data Center in Siberia · · Score: 1

    As others have pointed out, Siberia gets very hot in the summer, so teh real solution is to have a datacenter in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, each alternately only operational for about half the year.

  10. Re:Stable power? on Microsoft Plans Data Center in Siberia · · Score: 1

    As long as they're not thinking of Chernobyl.

  11. Elite on Why Do Games Still Have Levels? · · Score: 1

    Did not have levels, but you soon knew about it if you tried to enter an anarchist system in a basic ship!! Elite allowed you to select which systems you went to guided by the information on how lawful the system appeared to be.It was a sort of personal level selection.

  12. Wrong Artist on The Pirate Bay Facing "Old Fashioned" Pressure · · Score: 1

    musician with a track record for going head-to-head with record labels and little kids....

    I thought it was Michael Jackson for a moment....

  13. Solution to cron problem on Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    It seems a valid concern, but I do not often encounter cron jobs running every minute, so applying the leap minute at [0-5][234789] minutes past the hour would avoid 99.9% of all these concerns.

    (Apologies for any regex blaspheny I may have committed above)

  14. What would be wrong with on Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A leap minute every 10 years (or so)?

    One event every 10 years does not cause lots of disruption, and being a minute out of sync with solar time is not large enough to be a problem. You'd notice an hour's difference if you're in a northerly latitude and have Daylight Saving Time...

  15. Did they manage on Scientists Trap a Rainbow · · Score: 1

    to capture Oz too?

  16. Not Irony? Maybe it's on WWII Colossus Codecracker Outdone by a German · · Score: 1

    Infamy! They all have it infamy!

  17. Does Colossus work faster on Colossus Cracks Again · · Score: 1

    ..if you have Beowulf cluster of them?

    Boom*Tish!

    I'll be here all night..... (unfortunately)

  18. Reductio ad absurdam on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 2, Informative

    By the same principle, all you have to do to avoid being a terrorist target as a US citizen is leave the country, renounce your belief in a free democratic non-religious government (whatever the truth of the matter may be under GWB), and become a devout Muslim. Easy isn't it ? (/sarcasm)

    "Choice" is an interesting word. People are trained to do jobs and sometimes take years to learn the skills to do that specific job. Choosing to leave that job for another one probably would involve severe loss of income.

    In short, HLS is performing a legitimate activity and therefore should be protected. It is also legitimate to campaign for banning of experiments on animals; but such campaigning should not involve violence and intimidation.

  19. Answer on US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy · · Score: 1

    It must be one of the ingredients of mayer-naisse.

  20. 45% attorneys fees?? on Microsoft pays Timeline $5M in Patent Settlement · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am in the wrong business.

    I don't think Timeline made any money. In this it indicates that Timeline (and MS) paid $2.5m jury costs, so it looks like MS coughed up $5mill to feed the lawyers and pay Timelines expenses.

  21. Winning a battle, losing a war? on EFF Documentation Victory in Telco Spying Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Judges generally grant motions related to discovery to be on the safe side, to limit chances of appeal later. Only the most unreasonable discovery requests are likely to be refused.

    The EFF have to find something in that discovery to win their action, and that is the uphill battle....

  22. Save Ferris!! on Does Hacking Grades Warrant 20 Years in Jail? · · Score: 1

    An American student, Ferris Bueller, is now facing life without parole for a number of heinous crimes,including computer misuse, fraud and identity theft.

    Ferris, stated the District Attorney, tapped into school computers, altering grades, and impersonated others through use of physical disguises and impersonating them in telephone calls. As a result, the DA stated, the state felt that it had no alternative but to ask for the maximum sentence permissable.

    Ferris' co-students and friends are organising a petition to the governor and have organised public displays of their devotion to Ferris in his time of need.

    Ferris was unavailable for comment.

  23. Jurassic Park on First Fossil Evidence That Velociraptors Hunted in Packs · · Score: 1

    Seems to have won a number of educated guesses about how big dinosaurs were and how they acted. Its nice to see a film actually get things (more or less right).

    The only thing that it seems they may come a cropper on is skin colouring and coating as it appears that velociraptors may have been feathered.

  24. Re:Oops... on Make Your Own Sputnik · · Score: 1

    You've been getting too much V1agra spam

  25. I'll buy you one... on Home-made Helicopters in Nigeria · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..provided you name me as your sole heir....