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  1. Re:hard to see how this works on US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle · · Score: 1

    'Chute deploys, round stops, imaging system identifies targets, on-board EEG reads hostile intent, guided submunitions are released, it's all good.

  2. Can't wait on US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle · · Score: 1

    For the water balloon version from Walmart!

  3. Re:Just Tesla on Toyota Introduces Electric RAV4, Powered By Tesla Motor · · Score: 1

    They are using A/C batteries

  4. Take a point from theaters on Time To Rethink the School Desk? · · Score: 1

    Inverse stadium seating with cubicle walls - teach can see each student but none of them can see each other

  5. Re:Glowing Cylon Spines? on Flexible, Stretchable, Implantable LED Arrays Created · · Score: 1

    Wait! I'm not done! Mood Boobies! Finally we will know if they really are interested...

  6. Glowing Cylon Spines? on Flexible, Stretchable, Implantable LED Arrays Created · · Score: 1

    I got nothing else to add

  7. I'm the Doctor on Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves · · Score: 1

    And you're in the biggest library in the Universe! Look me up!

  8. Isn't that nice on Facebook Patents Location Social Networking · · Score: 1

    But it seems to me that it is a lot like patenting using the telephone, after Bell patented the telephone. Wait! I take that back. Please ignore this. I need to go to the patent office real quick!

  9. Re:Cable - Why Not? on Tapping Solar Wind's Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Why yes m'aam, you will be traveling up the elevator to space along a cable carrying 100 giga gigawatts of power, but it is perfectly safe.

  10. Re:Just so I'm clear... on Tapping Solar Wind's Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Betsy! Betsy Ross! Please report to the sewing room after your break.

  11. Re:Overly pedantic on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    Does the road to the stars have bikeways?

  12. Re:Alas poor segway, I knew him not so well on Segway UK Boss Dies After Driving Off Cliff · · Score: 1

    Wrong on every count. It was marketed to do all those things. It was invented to be cool.

  13. Re:Before anyone says it: on Segway UK Boss Dies After Driving Off Cliff · · Score: 1

    I thought the irony was about how flat he became when he landed...

  14. Seriously on Airbus Planning Transparent Planes · · Score: 1

    Aside from all the obvious jokes - won't this make life hell for the air traffic controllers?

  15. darn on Why Broadband Prices Haven't Decreased · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have a pertinent comment - but I can't afford the bandwidth surcharge

  16. Re:Stickers are everywhere! Worst Experience? on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    simplistic analysis, actually, as the residue from the burned sticker still needs to be removed. If you ever do any plumbing you will see this.

  17. Stickers are everywhere! Worst Experience? on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps the most annoying sticker placement I have ever encountered is on the mating surface of copper plumbing fittings. Makes a 10 second cleaning job into a five minute ordeal. Any other sad or funny stories?

  18. As someone who might be considered old on Old People Enjoy Reading Negative Stories About Young · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would suggest that many 'old' people don't think of themselves as old. Thus they tend to see younger people as their near peers, and older folk as, well, old folk. So when we see our 'near peers' do something that we are too wise to do, we judge them as less than ourselves (and have a satisfying ego moment). And when we see 'old folk', we just seem to have less in common with them.

  19. Seeking $50B for start-up on India Now Wants Access To Google and Skype · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that Sat phones might stage a comeback if this trend keeps up.

  20. Re:Won't be long now on The iPad As a Shape-Recognition System · · Score: 5, Funny

    This will only be done in a most secure manner to verify the authenticity of the application and to certify the ownership of the download. All in the cause of guaranteeing the quality of the user experience, and with no ulterior motives. Inputting your mother's maiden name and the last 4 digits of your SS # is entirely optional, but will make available additional game features. Again, this is for your protection and is entirely secure. Play on, and don't give it another thought.

  21. What are the competition constraints? on Low Energy Supercomputing · · Score: 1

    For example, can they run their allotted current (at nominal AC 120 voltage, one assumes) for a few days to charge a capacitor and/or supercool the equipment in advance of the test?

  22. It may not be more stimulating on How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? · · Score: 3, Informative

    But you should be writing the test as you write the code

  23. Excuse Me... on The Fuel Cost of Obesity · · Score: 1

    Is that a fat joke?

  24. Re:teachers on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since I doubt you can produce someone older than 500 years, so far as everyone is concerned the = symbol has been around forever. If anyone beyond 3rd grade cannot understand the problem and solve that equation for the unknown value placeheld by the ( ) symbol then the teachers' unions should take the blame.

  25. It is a banner Day on Robonaut To Escort On Space Shuttle Mission · · Score: 1

    Today we not only have touchy-feely user interfaces, we also have escort service to the International Space Station