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  1. Re:Useful practice? on Astronaut Has 'Wasabi Spill' in Space · · Score: 1

    Powdered wasabi in zero G?

    Oh, the humanity!

  2. Your point? on Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight · · Score: 1
    I truly don't understand the point you are trying to make.

    One link is 404 and redirects to a domain parking page, and the other is so filled with Hebrew terminology that it is impossible to parse without an intimate understanding of Hebrew language and/or Jewish religious practices.

  3. Re:Very interesting. on Chimps Found Making Own Weapons to Hunt for Food · · Score: 2, Funny

    I find the combination of your comment and your sig particularly disturbing.

  4. Re:What isn't being said? on World's Largest Tropical Glacier Vanishing · · Score: 1
    Seeing as the plane crash landed, there was probably a fire or two after impact. That would have been sufficient to melt a pretty deep puddle in the glacier. The plane then sinks into the puddle, the sub-arctic temperatures in Greenland re-freeze the water in short order and suddenly the plane is more deeply embedded in the ice than would be expected.

    Now I'm not saying that's what did happen, but it's feasible. Perhaps glacial growth is not so underestimated. On the other hand perhaps it is anyway.

  5. Re:Enough with the goofy terms for this crap on Drive-By Pharming Attack Could Hit Home Networks · · Score: 1
    Funny, I saw it quite differently. My first thought was that it had something to do with drugs. Probably because I read it before I heard it.

    Hmmm, considering that these compromised routers will almost certainly end up somehow involved in promoting Ci/-\lis, v1@gRa, and so on, maybe I was right!

  6. Re:Ohmmm on Earth's Constant Hum Explained · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, the sound of the Earth meditating upon its naval should be a concern to all of us.

  7. Re:I would leave FAST on VeriChip Implants 222 People With RFID · · Score: 1

    Those scanners are designed to read tags far too large to be inserted under the skin.
    Perhaps so, but how do we know that those scanners can't read the smaller subdermal chips regardless of their design specs? And how difficult would it be to modify those scanners to be able to read subdermals? Or to replace them with scanners that are capable of reading them? It is however, worth noting that not one of these points matters a whit if you don't have an RFID implant.
  8. Re:What about patents? on Doomsday Seed Vault Design Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I think Kyle Broflovski said it best when he said - "Dude, that's pretty fucked up right there!"

    I thought I was cynical!

  9. Re:It would make a good movie. on Doomsday Seed Vault Design Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Beyond that you have the issue of eggs being all in a single basket. Yes, they tried to mitigate risk by stratigically placing the seed bank. But what if that planet destroying meteor just happens to land on and obliterate a certain island in the north atlantic?
    I wouldn't worry too much about that. Hadden Industries is building an identical Seed Bank in the Antarctic.
  10. Re:Meta Comment: A Comment About the Comments on Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare · · Score: 1

    You downplay the very real threat of terrorism. You ridicule the reasonable reactions of elected officials, public servants and law-abiding citizens. You object to anti-terrorism measures.

    And you have the gall to quote Thomas Jefferson?

    Well, your true allegiance is betrayed by your .sig - a quote from Yusuf Islam!

  11. Re:Clearly, evolution as a system has failed... on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 1
    Evolution as a system, has clearly not failed... Yet.

    As long as, somewhere in this vast universe, there is even one strand of DNA replicating or about to do so, evolution will continue to be a success.

  12. Re:If.... on Non-Geeky Gifts for Tech Geeks · · Score: 2, Funny
    I wish that I had $3,600 for a coffee maker that is that simple to use, yet squirts out such delicious looking coffee.
    Me? I'll be happy with my $5 Swiss Gold reusable filter that is simple to use yet dribbles out delicious tasting coffee. But you go ahead!
  13. Your French? on Bjarne Stroustrup on the Problems With Programming · · Score: 1

    I am quite willing to excuse your potty mouth.

    However, for "shouting" in upper case and for your use of excessive exclamation marks, you shall surely be darned to heck.

  14. Re:obvious question on Soft Tissue Discovered In T-Rex Bone · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Since one line of reasoning would have you believe that birds are decendants of the dinosaurs... You could conclude: They taste like chicken.
    Of course dinosaurs taste like chicken... in Soviet Russia!
  15. Re:That's EASY! on Left Sided Windows Scrollbars? · · Score: 1
    General rule is that fine gestures are done by the left hand, and more gross gestures are done by the right. No idea why this is, but it seems a general rule in the majority of left-handers. I suspect that most people follow their "handedness" for actions requiring more dexterity(*) than strength, whereas actions that require strength are performed with the opposite hand.
    For example, people who drive and smoke will often light the cigarette with their natural hand while steering with their "off" hand.

    As a righthander with a newspaper route, I certainly became accustomed to throwing the newspaper with my right hand while I steered my bike with the left. Similarly, when waiting tables, I carried the stack of plates in the left and placed them with the right.

    * There must be a word better suited to this discussion than dexterity, but it eludes me at the moment. ;-)

  16. Re:Sounds bleak on The Future of NetBSD · · Score: 3, Funny

    4. Repeat the joke.

  17. Re:Suggestion: on How Have You Equipped a Tiny Server Closet? · · Score: 1
    it would be fatal to take a big, smelly fart in that room.

    To paraphrase George Carlin, you don't take a fart, you leave one!

  18. Re:Magnets?? on UK Street Crime Rise Blamed on iPods · · Score: 1

    This really has nothing to do with magnets, but the coke can idea has one more significant flaw.
    c) The signature white earbuds leading directly from one's ears into one's tasty beverage would very likely tip off even the dimmest, most drug-addled criminal to the likely presence of something a little more substantial than cola.

  19. Re:Lift your game Blixel! on FreeDOS Not Dead; 1.0 Release Imminent · · Score: 1

    Indeed I did. Shoddy work on my behalf.

    I should be punished.
    Slap me, beat me, knock me to the ground, make me feel cheap!

  20. Lift your game Blixel! on FreeDOS Not Dead; 1.0 Release Imminent · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    so Sens youv got. nothin beter too dew then ignoure teh relivant parts-of-teh-post, and fokiss ownly on typographikal errs er othar misstaekes; then heers a hole "mesage four, you two tier apart. Hav phun. O, & Git a liefe looser. You correctly used two periods and one comma. That's a little careless, but my main concern is that, aside from the surrounding punctuation, there are six words in that message which are both correctly spelled and correctly used. Now, because some of the smaller words like 'a', 'on' and 'and' can be somewhat difficult to misspel, I was prepared to cut you a little slack. But you failed to misuse 'your' in place of 'you', and correctly spelled 'apart'. That's just sloppy.

  21. Re:What is worse that a first post? on The 10 Tech People Who Don't Matter · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. And an alarm clock that rolls away and hides when you hit the snooze button appeared about a year ago in Make Magazine - in print. So what? Welcome to the World Wide Wait.

  22. Re:Be careful out there... on Giant Paramount Auction of Star Trek Items · · Score: 1
    No problem! Sure they were designed to break. But keep in mind that they were also designed to break in the Star Trek Universe.

    All you will need need to do is apply la Forge's Principles of Engineering:

    If it breaks, try the following, in order.
    1. Reverse the polarity
    2. Modify the phase output
    3. Bypass the command protocols
    4. Switch to manual controls
    5. Replace the Beryllium Sphere
    (Disclaimer: One of these actions will not actually work in the Star Trek Universe)
  23. It's proven now? on Alcohol Powered Muscles · · Score: 1

    Judging by his diction, I suspect that "Slur" Stallone may have discovered this years ago.

  24. Re:Innoculations? on Vintage Diseases Making a Comeback · · Score: 1

    So what?

    As a former army brat, I can assure you that military medical personnel treat both adults AND children.

    THAT's what!

  25. Re:You and your fancy units . . . . . . on The World's Strongest Glue · · Score: 1

    I think Australia's equivalent might just be Kalgoorlie's skimpies(Link not safe for some workplaces. Safe for mine - YMMV)