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  1. Re:Jurassic Park here we come! on Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning · · Score: 1

    We do not share a common ancestor with dinosaurs.
    Umm, you might want to think about that statement for a while.

  2. Re:Did they use that tool to develop that tool? on Fixing Bugs, But Bypassing the Source Code · · Score: 1

    Please not to make program I will use.

  3. Re:Nope, this is very 2000s on Microsoft Aims To Cure Server-Hugging Engineers · · Score: 1

    Everyone is overseas.

  4. Re:Who needs metadata any more on Google Books As "Train Wreck" For Scholars · · Score: 1

    > it could be available correctly with good quality in say five years

    Computers will be better in five years, too. Please turn yours off until then.

  5. What the sweet fuck ... on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 1

    ... does this have to do with my rights online?

  6. Re:Subs don't always use SONAR on Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean' · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a whole lot of nothing.

  7. Re:How soon until... on "Nuclear Archaeology" Inspires Replica of Hiroshima's Little Boy · · Score: 1
    I hope you realize that "fully automatic" weapons are already illegal.

    This is false.

  8. Subversion completion on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 1

    These bash tab-completions make subversion much nicer to work with: http://paste.ideaslabs.com/show/2UYMIdYr0p

  9. Re:Kudos goes to my bank then on Most Bank Websites Are Insecure · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. What does their "interactive, graphics-based typepad" send back to the bank? Whatever it is, a script can send that, too.

  10. Full-text search of everything I've ever browsed on What Do You Want On Future Browsers? · · Score: 1

    That's what I want.

  11. Bottom line on Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World · · Score: 4, Informative
    The bottom line:
    • Energy of maximum LHC collision: 14 TeV
    • Energy of "Oh My God Particle" cosmic ray that hit the sky over Utah in 1991: 300,000,000 TeV
    Sources:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeV
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Technical_design
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_My_God_particle
  12. Re:Who is responsible for maintenance? on Oil Billionaire Building World's Largest Wind Farm · · Score: 1

    Still, as for having to be near a wind turbine that crashes or a nuclear power plant that melts down, I know which one I'd rather take my chances with.... Word. A windmill can only take off an arm, not make you grow a new one.

  13. Re:Wow! on Oil Billionaire Building World's Largest Wind Farm · · Score: 1
    If nuclear's so great, how come they can't pay their own insurance bill?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price-Anderson_Nuclear_Industries_Indemnity_Act

  14. Re:Remember 'The Meaning of Life" on Using RFID Tags Around the House? · · Score: 1

    Silly humans: you spend trillions of dollars on technology, and it can't even fix your problems!

  15. New bumper sticker on FBI Concerned About Implications of Counterfeit Cisco Gear · · Score: 1

    "Don't steal data; the government hates competition!"

  16. Frustration with the science cabal on Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity · · Score: 1

    It must be exhausting for creationists to have to fight against the geologists, astronomers, physicists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, and paleontologists and who are all deluded by "evidence" in their respective fields that the Earth is really old.

  17. Re:It isn't science. on Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity · · Score: 1
    Evolution can be neither observed nor demonstrated.

    I know a strain of penicillin-resistant bacteria that disagrees with you.

  18. Re:This is an opportunity on NASA Running Out of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    Sure it'll be cheap, as long as they keep making us pay their insurance bill.

  19. Re:What happened to Tcl? on Sun Hires Two Key Python Developers · · Score: 2, Funny

    What happened was it starting sucking and never stopped.

  20. This would be *good* for Linux on Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd? · · Score: 1

    This means when developers ask themselves what platform to target, POSIX will be the only option that is well supported on Windows, Mac & *nix.
    Which means many more people will target it.
    Which means it will be easier for users to swap out the POSIX implementation.
    Which means many users will choose the cheapest, stablest one with the best hardware support.
    Which is Linux.

  21. Re:Contribute on Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act · · Score: 1
    It takes enough willpower on behalf of large segments of the population as it is, to refrain from firebombing the ACLU, without them being given our tax money.

    The great thing about the ACLU is that they would support your right to firebomb them.

  22. Re:Has it ever been tested? on Microsoft States GPL3 Doesn't Apply to Them · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as "being forced to open-source their drivers". If they were found to be in violation of the license, they would lose the right to distribute; forced release of source is not a remedy that has ever been applied, AFAIK.

  23. Re:Just a thought... on Google Summer of Code Program Overhauled · · Score: 1

    Their slogan is "flip bits, not burgers". :)

  24. Re:Appletalk? on Mac OS X Versus Windows Vista, The Rematch · · Score: 1

    Works for Windows. :)

  25. For the pervs, a link to some virtual CP on UK Wants To Ban Computer-Generated Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Simulated under-age sex, then simulated snuffing of the participants: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063518/

    Thank me later!