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  1. Re:White people can't be evil! on Team Aims To Create Pure Evil AI · · Score: 1

    Because everyone knows that evil is a disenfranchised Latino with a sawed off shotgun? Blacks are ok, now that we have one as president.

  2. But but but on Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Confirmed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's a cashing-in on the name value of the original concept.

    If the jumpsuits are skin-tight, would it be all bad?? I, for one, say bring it on.

  3. Protest on EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights · · Score: 4, Funny

    Protest by setting fire to something. People will notice then.

  4. Re:Dang! Things were just getting fun on Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over · · Score: 4, Funny

    It should be made of gilded marble and be large enough to be seen from space. You're welcome.

    Ok, we did that, but it melted and crumbled under the blazing heat. We live underground now. - The Future People.

  5. Re:Beware of namechanges on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well put. But the problem is not the profit margin on the parts, the problem is that so few people buy them anymore. Electronics has changed wildly over the past 30 years with the advent of surface mount. Electronics nowadays is defined by an ipod, not by a pack of quarter watt resistors. They had to branch out into other areas, or as a chain they would have never survived. But the thing that bothers me the most is the disappearance of "repair centers." Nothing is repairable like it once was.

  6. Re:Basic English skills? on Generating Fast MD5 Collisions With ATI Video Cards · · Score: 2, Funny

    consume 5 times less power, and be 10 times cheaper

    Actually I'm more concerned about the rise of the eco-cracker. The "green cracker" who wants to have a low carbon footprint and crack into your bank account inexpensively.

  7. In other news on Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking Could Hurt Cell Towers · · Score: 1

    Car companies announced today if people are allowed to work on their own cars and then buy gasoline from the wrong filling station, the gas station will explode.

  8. Re:Is that really a windows environment? on Sandia Studies Botnets In 1M OS Digital Petri Dish · · Score: 1

    Microsoft would probably be reasonable, if just for the good PR, which they sorely and always need.

    Hey guess what everyone?? There's millions of our OS infected with viruses because we have never been able to fix the code!

  9. Re:In other related news... on New Zealand Tree Stuck In Evolutionary Time Warp · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..why do men still have nipples. Film at 11.

    It's 11 and here is the film. Men have nipples so that they can take part in this test which has the potential to increase monetary winnings and thus the man's ability to afford to go out on a date and eventually reproduce. This continued pressure on the nipples hence keeps them around, and may in fact make them more durable in the long term.

  10. Re:Plenty of Fish on Of Science and Choice In Online Dating · · Score: 1

    If I could go back and do it over again I would just focus on what I liked to do to make myself a better person

    I take it the dates before that did not like the shade of your lipstick?

  11. ok then on Google Will Star In New Dow Jones News Model · · Score: 1

    The only people who should be worried about this new model, says Keen, 'are all those lucky consumers who, over the last 15 years, have been getting their news for free.

    I guess I will have to go back and get my news from the television for free. Oh well.

  12. Re:Take it Further: Transhumanism on Hawking Says Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Are you just saying that, or are we in a matrix-like computer program while externalities we are not aware of are enhancing our genetics to produce ever increasing amounts of voltage?

  13. Re:What the doctor didn't confirm... on Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Liver Transplant · · Score: 1

    Yes, but can he telekinetically move chairs forcefully across rooms?

  14. Re:Ummm on Could We Beam Broadband Internet Into Iran? · · Score: 1

    So opposition forces could communicate with the outside world?

  15. Re:Whose standard would that be? on "Definitive Evidence" For Ancient Lake On Mars · · Score: 1

    Oh, you mean, Standard Units" for scientists or countries that don't use the imperial system.

    You know, socialists.

  16. Re:Suggestion: on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Using the tarred material in the road base would save on feathers.

  17. Re:products? on SCO Sells Its UNIX Product Line To London Firm · · Score: 1

    SCO have products? when did this happen?

    Yes, now that they have sold the SCO product line, they are planning to use the money to create and sell a Linux distribution called Caldera

  18. inevitable on NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's no moon, it's a pair of moons!

  19. Re:Is it powered by bovine excretions? on Introducing the Warpship · · Score: 1

    In other words, they're yanking everyone's string?

  20. Obviously on Does Bing Have Google Running Scared? · · Score: 1

    as it is rare these days for the Google founders to have such hands-on involvement in day-to-day operations at the company,

    Because the party is on the plane, and not in the office?

  21. Wait a sec on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In your calculations you forgot the small factoid that it may be another thousand years before it goes supernova. It has brightened considerably in the past only to dim back down. It was Fox news (fair and balanced) that mentions it going supernova, not the paper presented at the meeting that merely states a 15% shrinkage and nothing else.

    So,you might would have to drag/dig yourself out of the ground to see the Betelgeuse supernova. And most zombies I know about are more interested in brains than astronomy...

  22. Bring it on on Using Mobile Phones To Write Messages In Air · · Score: 1

    Boy, I bet that would go over well in a movie theater.

  23. Everything is dandy in my town on Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic · · Score: 1

    That is, Comcast Town

  24. Re:Yah... on Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm also joining the me-too choir on this one. I had the idea a couple of months ago

    I have had the idea before either of you, and actually have started construction

  25. Re:EMP Testing on Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? · · Score: 1

    bright white light over the ocean, and not a single LOST joke?

    Please turn in your nerd card. It's an X-Files joke.