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  1. Re:Too late on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    Except for the fact that the area that these earthquakes are occuring contimues to rise and tilt the lake south

  2. Doubly bright side... on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    He will lose a few pounds when he is foraging for berries and bugs, and running away from hungry wolves like the rest of us.

  3. Re:The Fix on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 4, Funny

    And all accross this great nation of ours countless tiny screws are getting lost in the carpet.

  4. Re:Leap Day... on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    If that is the case it should fix its self tomorrow.

    Is the ghost of the programmer that Steve Balmer is gonna kill today going to come visit you in a dream tonight??

  5. Re:I heard a song about this once... on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    ....And right about then my zune player died.

  6. I heard a song about this once... on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 5, Funny

    You don't need no entertainment
    You dont need no Zune control
    No dark sarcasm on the nets
    People leave them Zunes alone
    Hey! people! Leave them Zunes alone!
    All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
    All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

  7. Re:Alan Cox? on Alan Cox Leaves Red Hat · · Score: 1

    Your overlord.

  8. Wait on Technocrat.net Shut Down · · Score: 4, Funny

    Has Netcraft confirmed this??

  9. Re:The Post-Bikini Era Gets Underway on The Post-Bilski Era Gets Underway · · Score: 1

    Sadly, the post-bikini era still remains but a dream for most nerds.

  10. Re:I am no chip designer..... on Student Invention May Significantly Extend Mobile Device Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Unless this guy's name is Tesla, and/or they have developed a completely new principle...

    Reversing the polarity of the main deflector??

  11. Re:Not worth it... on Lenovo's New ThinkPad Has 2 LCD Screens, Weighs 11 Pounds · · Score: 1

    Actually the notebook only weighs 2 pounds. The extension cord weighs 9 pounds.

  12. Re:Success relies on our tendency to get well or d on Trick or Treatment · · Score: 1

    . I really wish we were better able to teach that correlation does not imply causation.

    Maybe there is a correlation and causation. That is, the reason all these alternative treatments gain traction in the first place is because of the gross failures at every level of our so called "modern" medical system. I submit the quicker someone as a patient realizes that when you go to see a licensed doctor, you are not seeing a scientist, but rather a guild member, the better his health will be. For an instance, when was the last time that after your physician prescribed a medication for you, did they on they're own accord call you up and see how you were doing? (i.e. measure the efficacy of their diagnosis and hence treatment). Maybe if the doctor was not worrying about his portfolio, tee times, or whoring himself out on a ski vacation sponsored by a drug company he would have the time to do so. Another interesting fact is that medical care skyrocketing costs are at least twice that of inflation, and I know that when I go to see the doctor it seems to me that I am receiving half the care.

    It's clear to me that the medical community et al top down has a considerable amount of housecleaning to do, before they call people out on so called quack medicine. The reason they are there in the first place is because modern medicine is not working (for a myriad of reasons).

    And don't tell me how wonderful your current doctor is blah blah blah. If that was really the case, you would not see all the whore-swag from the drug companies in his office.

  13. Re:Who will replace her? on Majel Roddenberry Dies At 76 · · Score: 1

    There's always "I'm sorry I can't [open the pod bay doors] do that, Dave" Hal.

  14. Travel services is dead. on Novell Cancels BrainShare Conference · · Score: 1

    One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered Travel industry when Novell cofirmed they were going to move to cancel Brainshare conferences and use online resources. Ntecraft confirms that oil is at already at umprecedented low levels collapsing in complete disarray, as more people use online networking instead of hotels. You don't need to be a Kreskin to see where this headed. We're all going to have internet implants rather than using airplanes. Let's look at the numbers...

  15. Don't worry on Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's why the imagineers invented animatronics.

  16. Re:Well on Long-Term Personal Data Storage? · · Score: 1

    It takes a long time before paper takes root though.

  17. Re:Ask Slashdot AGAIN on Long-Term Personal Data Storage? · · Score: 5, Funny

    How many times has this question been asked on Slashdot?

    It needs repeated backing up.

  18. Or maybe on Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was caused by aliens driving 737's and dropping nukes into volcanoes.

  19. The problem on HP and ASU Demo Prototype Flexible Display · · Score: 4, Funny

    The ink cartridges used to do the lithography only come one-quarter filled.

  20. Re:Donald Knuth agrees on Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey, we could just "gang up" on Knuth and have edit wars with him. We'll surely trip him up on the 3RR rule. He's been a hack anyway ever since he stopped giving out checks.

  21. Re:Yes on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cause then it would no longer be socially acceptable for women to call us that anymore.

    That wouldn't matter. The Neanderthals being the new "hot" in town would steal everyone's girlfriends. They would even be making movies out of it, probably calling it something like "dusk."

    I have an ethical problem with that.

  22. Re:Oceans, Not Rivers on Harnessing Slow Water Currents For Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Actually no. If you read the fine article they mention that it would work with river flow with a flow speed of 2 mph. If you follow along to the website there are papers that describe the system and equations with very straight forward math. Essentially, most any eddy producing system could apply here.

  23. Re:I fail to see how facial reconstruction... on Search For the Tomb of Copernicus Reaches an End · · Score: 1

    ... can give, from a skull, any hint about the size of the nose and the shape of the ear, both of which are made of just cartilage.

    Any hint ?

    Derived from what a grumpy math/physics professor looks like. Heck, he probably even wore a ratty old sweater too.

  24. The only important question on Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do they taste good??

  25. Re:What channels? on Unhappy People Watch More TV · · Score: 1

    I watch cnbc the financial news channel.

    Does watching your 401k melt into nothingness count as unhappiness?