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  1. Re:Oh, boy! on Supercomputer Repossessed By State, May Be Sold In Pieces · · Score: 1

    New Mexico also has a yearly supercomputer challenge for kids in elementary school through high school. Having more systems available for the kids will make thing easier.

  2. Re:Reason for suing the end user is simple on Patent Troll Targeting Users of Scanners; Wants $1000/Employee · · Score: 2

    Or wrap it in a Taun-Taun carcass and strap it to the hood.

    Not that I have a patent on this particular grocery retrieval process.

  3. Re:Frying pan or fire? on Who Should Manage the Nuclear Weapons Complex, Civilians Or Military? · · Score: 1

    Wait, the nuclear weapons complex is managed?

  4. Re:-1 for linking to FOX news on 2012 Another Record-Setter For Weather, Fits Climate Forecasts · · Score: 0

    Everyone well knows that facts have a well known lib'rul bias. This means you can cut them diagonally and they'll drape correctly.

  5. Re:-1 for linking to FOX news on 2012 Another Record-Setter For Weather, Fits Climate Forecasts · · Score: 1

    Next you're going to be telling me the president of Exxon has come out on the side of global warming.

  6. Re:Platform == racketeering on Microsoft To Apple: Don't Take Your Normal 30% Cut of Office For iOS · · Score: 1

    You make them sound like a store, with ongoing costs and employees and development and such. Their just evil Apple using an evil cloud provided for free by... Um... Evil services. Or sumthin.

  7. Re:Google Play not required for all in-app purchas on Microsoft To Apple: Don't Take Your Normal 30% Cut of Office For iOS · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Buy anything from Amazon app on iOS; Apple grabs it. Apple really likes it when you buy a car or a house on iOS.

  8. Re:one condition on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    First send a really big proxy server into Mars orbit, so that all the porn and torrents are up to date by time splat landers get there?

  9. Re:If you volunteer, then you are not qualified... on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    ...interesting

    I do not think that word means what you think it means.

  10. Re:Careful you don't run afoul on Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) · · Score: 1

    So... No dirks, daggers, sword canes, etc? I suppose my 16" WWI bayonet is right out, along with my Vietnam era Gerber, my Roman gladius (is sharp; I have the scars), my Italian rapier (not fencing type foil), and WWII k-bar?

    I know that it's unlikely I could keep my gun collection in any other first world country but didn't know edged weapons were so controlled. Do chefs have to have a special license now or is everyone moving to straight razor one of knives that just flip around and such, for cooking?

  11. Re:Careful you don't run afoul on Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) · · Score: 1

    I'd still like to get a Boys anti-tank rifle one day (rechambered for .50 BMG). I got to use one in WWII reenacting (live fire contest with real ammo, not blanks) and it was sweet! My buddy won't sell me his, though. Keeps it in a state museum. FWProblems and all that.

  12. Re:my password on New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes · · Score: 1

    Removable eyeball for retina scanners?

  13. Re:Littering on Voyager 1, So Close To Interstellar Space That We Can Taste It! · · Score: 1

    *golf clap*

  14. Re:This is already the case with in-dash GPS. on The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    Basically, cars need an amplifier/connection for sound system, an av display/connector, and a physical mount for the mobile data device. Tis shouldn't be too difficult to standardize on. USB or HDMI would would work for data connection and physical mounts are easy enough. Why go to all the trouble reinventing all the options and interfaces (that all suck)? Really wish this was an option.

  15. Re:Sure on The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    I pulled my AV system out of my '70 Impala Sport Coupe, when I pulled the 454 and 3.73:1 rear end. Nice car but rust bucket. Still looking for new home for BBC.

  16. Re:And 2000 model Jaguar S type... on The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    Yup, '85 Camaro Berlinetta had car stereo in a bod that came up from floor. Cool looking but by time I got car, only AM worked and dash had no space for regular aftermarket radio. Ended up with a Sony discman velcroed to hump and wired into an amp under my seat and then hacked into speakers. Ugly but it worked.

  17. Re:Much more than that on Hairspray Could Help Us Find Advanced Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    Wait, they could be "a sign" but not a "conclusive sign" of technological processes? Since when does science give us maybes and variables? Science is supposed to be like the bible: clean, concise, and unambiguous!

  18. Re:Much more than that on Hairspray Could Help Us Find Advanced Alien Civilizations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly! All this science stuff is just humbug malarkey spread by all e college people who like to flaunt their learning as they drive past in their Suburus. And the only thing worse than an college person are those dirty worker types, all ignorant and stupid and stuff. Nope, the only people you can trust are those that wear nice suits, drive nice shoes, and wear nice cars. the sorta people you find running Wall Street. Their the last, best hope for hoomanity!

  19. Re:Much more than that on Hairspray Could Help Us Find Advanced Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    *Golf Clap*

  20. Re:Even if this was true... on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nope, the only true enthusiasts are those that play x86 binary games that require the latest developer release video card boards, whose machines are overclocked through the use of liquid helium. Which may explain their high squeaky voices.

  21. Re:It's still blamed on Obama. on US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom · · Score: 1

    Don't forget all the greedy union teachers that crashed the economy. They're lauding all the way to the bank, as they drive by in their Tercels and Suburus.

  22. Re:The country is dead on Google Releases Raw Election Polling Results · · Score: 1

    Payroll taxes were cut from 6% to 4%, back in '09 I think. They're due to expire next year. The Bush tax cuts were extended but they've been in place since before Obama took office. Now, my local taxes have been going up, as state and county have been trying to make up loss of federal funding but that's due to cutting the federal budget.

  23. Re:Obviously they are trying to build hype on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lots of folks posting from CO and WA?

  24. Re:I save money! on Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried · · Score: 2, Funny

    Exactly! What do a bunch of scientists and college people know? There's plenty of sites on teh internets that have proved that temps are actually falling, that the continents aren't spreading, the moon does have a dark side and twinkies are actually Lembas, with better marketing.

  25. Re:microsoft looks to have fired to architect of w on Windows 8 Sales Below Projections · · Score: 1

    Marketing could call it the Cloud on A Chip and make everyone feel all cool and big peener, having a whole network of systems in their box.