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  1. Re:Dee You See Tee on Brits To Crash Test a Scramjet · · Score: 1

    That's weird, because in my experience Duck Tape has not been very waterproof.

  2. Re:not the right way to start on Brits To Crash Test a Scramjet · · Score: 1

    A fisherman reported seeing the plane crash into the sea, south of Elba

    Napolean really knows how to hold a grudge.

  3. Re:Thi is the promise of the internet on GDC - The Importance of Self-Publishing · · Score: 1

    You're right, but their services are cheap enough that a devoloper can buy them and maintain content control, instead of having to partner up and relinquish some content control.

  4. Re:Well DUH on Analysis of .NET Use in Longhorn and Vista · · Score: 1

    Am I the only nerd in the world that's gets annoyed when someone uses "win" for "good idea"?

  5. Re:Do we want this? on Lab Produces 3.6 Billion Degree Gas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe the energy is coming from strong force interactions of some sort. It sounds like the temperatures were high enough that maybe there was some sort of quark-gluon plasma thing going on.

    These are possibilities, but you should consider that the tachyon phase tranducers might have cross-coupled with the warp core.

  6. Re:Evolution and Jerry Springer on Human Genes Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    I have no desire to outlaw birthcontrol, but in developed countries it clearly renders the stupid, the lazy, the irresponsible, and the superstitious more reproductively fit relative to the everyone else.

  7. Re:Elder Scrolls Oblivion Gold on Elder Scrolls Oblivion Gold · · Score: 1

    No, it's more like Robot brains divinity fish. Which sounds like a good premise for a game, actually.

  8. Damn Straight on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 0

    bin Laden played the American bed-wetter contingent like a pro.

    Fuck bin Laden, fuck Bush for playing along, and fuck half of America for falling for it.

  9. Re:The deadline. on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 1

    After working at it for four years, with millions of reviewers?

  10. Re:let's stop the hysteria on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 2, Informative
    Nice out-of-context troll:


    The ACLU said that most of the voluminous Patriot Act is actually unobjectionable from a civil liberties point of view and added that the law makes important changes that give law enforcement agents the tools they need to protect against terrorist attacks. A few provisions, though, unnecessarily trample civil liberties, and must be revised to bring them in line with the Constitution.


    Congress passed the flawed bill, and more than four years later renewed the bill without correcting the flaws, after many opportunities to do so.

    They've had their second and third chance to fix this. A cynical observer might conclude that Congress considers these tramplings of civil liberties to be a valuable part of the act.
  11. Re:D&D Online a disappointment? on Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    In The Hobbit, Thorin Oakenshield shoots a stag dead in the forest, and near the end of the book he shoots at a messenger and hits him right in the shield. He may not have been a Paladin, but he was certainly the fanatic of the bunch.

  12. Re:Logical sequencing? on Enzyme Computer Could Live Inside You · · Score: 1

    XOR(a,a) != NOT(a),

    XOR(a,TRUE) == NOT(a)

    You don't need two types of gates.
    NAND gates alone are logically complete.

    NOT(a) == NAND(a,a)
    AND(a,b) == (NOT(NAND(a,b)))
    OR(a,b) == (NAND(NOT(a),NOT(b)))

  13. Re:Stop babying them on Exposing Children to Technology? · · Score: 1

    I just give them my old computers.

    And that really highlights the difference between the generations. We were all kids before PCs, or during the period when well to do families had only one and they didn't let you touch it if you didn't know how to use a toilet.

    I've got 5 running machines now, including two old pentium laptops that are strictly for the kids, toddlers, babies. And I'm a low-wage uninsured code monkey.

  14. Re:Programming. on Exposing Children to Technology? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoah, imagine what a whole brother could do.

  15. Right On on Google Targeted By Anti-Censorship Movement · · Score: 1

    Chinese dissidents have long noted that when the US has highlighted oppressive policies of the Chinese government and made our opposition to them import to our own policies, that the dissidents' lot has improved, that the oppression lessons, that freedoms increase. When we reverse, that trend also reverses.

  16. Were parts of this article censored? on Google Targeted By Anti-Censorship Movement · · Score: 1

    You seem to be missing the cause of the boycott. I don't think anyone would be boycotting Google for selling burgers in beiging or for manufacturing cheap panda pr0n. Show us other companies (yahoo and microsoft are good examples) that work with the Chinese government to opress the people, and I'm sure most here would not hesitate to break up with them, too.

  17. OT treason on The Politically Incorrect Science Fair · · Score: 1

    Which do you think is more treasonous, criticism of the government and it's policies, or meeting with and negotiating with evil dictators?

  18. Re:Make sure you account for everything on Near Light Speed Travel Possible After All? · · Score: 1

    Or they could pack some food.

  19. Re:Make sure you account for everything on Near Light Speed Travel Possible After All? · · Score: 1

    He's just saying that if we launched an attack against Alpha Centauri, They wouldn't have any visual indication of it for 4.3 years, so if we went near the speed of light they might only have a few months of warning.

  20. Re:Wait, isn't this worse security? on RFID Injection Required for Datacenter Access · · Score: 1

    It occurs to me, having never read the article, that the real reason they are doing this is not to cut down on high-tech criminals who want to gain access, but to put an end to employees' borrowing of others' cards, so they have an accurate record of who was in the datacenter.

  21. Re:Good News and Bad News on NASA Public-Affairs Appointee Resigns in Disgrace · · Score: 1

    For as much as I like to harp on the religious right (all religions, not just christianity), it is refreshing to see people who understand that science is science and religion is religion...

    People tend to forget that there is a very large religious left in the US and other countries, though it is much calmer and quieter than the other wing. I'd be willing to bet that a large chunk of the 10,000 comes from those sort of people. Christianity at it's root is one of the most liberal religions on the planet. Though many right-wing Christians think you can't be liberal and Christian at the same time, it's really they who are tied in knots trying to reconcile irreconcilable ideologies.

  22. Re:RIAA's investigative methods on RIAA Sues Woman Who Has Never Used a Computer · · Score: 1

    When my wife's father passed away, she turned up dead in all three credit reports because her first credit card was a joint account with her father. Never mind that she kept using all her other credit for years afterwards without a peep from the credit people.

  23. Re:Wouldn't dentists fight this? on Fight Tooth Decay with Electricity · · Score: 1

    Same here, only I was a sucker and got the root canal.

    They also said my wisdom teeth are going to have to come out, or by the time I was twenty-five I'd be in horrible pain and have crooked teeth. I'm thirty and no pain and no crooked teeth.

    Funny, too, how the root canal was in the only damned tooth I ever previously let them work on. They drilled that guy and filled him, and I'll be damned if that filling didn't keep popping out and have to be replaced, each time with supposedly better and more expensive dentist.

  24. Re:Alternate version? on Librarian Stands up to the Feds · · Score: 1

    And what if the only way to stop the terrorist was to launch a hellfire at an apartment building?

  25. Re:The Economist on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1

    In Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently series, theres a bit about a horoscope writer that has it in for Gently and so puts nasty predictions in the paper under Gently's sign. As a consequence, circulation dropped by a twelfth.

    Adams took it for granted that nearly 100% of the readership would read the horoscope and could be offended by it.