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  1. Re:should have added the {{plagiarism}} tag on Wikipedia Plagiarism Ends Journalist's Career · · Score: 1
    Add the {{PlagiarismSeries}} template and [[Category:Plagiarism]] too.

    This Plagiarism-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it

  2. Re:How did they know? on Wikipedia Plagiarism Ends Journalist's Career · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Anyone else? on New Ion Engine Being Tested · · Score: 1

    Wow. You must hate the Mac an awful lot!

  4. Re:Deep Space 1 on New Ion Engine Being Tested · · Score: 1

    The women on The Planet Where They Took Spock's Brain had ion engines since the sixties.

  5. New urban myth variant! on New Uses For LCD Technology · · Score: 2, Funny
    Your friends simply snap the photos and send it to you and you tear open the perforations, fold out a little kick stand on the back and sit it on a bench top .. and look at the last dozen pictures where some bandits entered their room and made .. inventive .. use of the toothbrushes.

    First it was the future possibility of mythical bright green circles on cliff-sides from JATO-equiped flying green pigs, and now this. Today is a good day to myth!

  6. Re:The moon is a harsh school mistress on Return to the Moon · · Score: 1
    Being sentenced to Transportation is nothing new, of course. There was one enterprising scam artist who took a bunch of money to transport prisoners away from England, and then dumped them on an island just off the coast. Theoretically it was according to the letter of the contract...

    Be sure to read the fine print. Being dumped part way to the Moon could be uncomfortable.

  7. Bill still has over a week to go! Be fair! on Spam is Dead · · Score: 5, Funny

    He made that statement Friday, January 23rd, 2004 so he still has 11 days to pull it off. So he can still slack off for ten days and pull an all-nighter of something. (Maybe he could offer each spammer 2 million dollars to go away? For less than billion, problem solved .. right? ;)

  8. Re:Why this is great science. on Taiwan Breeds Transgenic, Fluorescent Green Pigs · · Score: 1

    Even more important, you could make bacon that tastes like chicken. Pork: The White Meat.

  9. Re:But... on Taiwan Breeds Transgenic, Fluorescent Green Pigs · · Score: 1

    Man, that's really going to up the ante for urban myth Darwin awards! "And they found the guy's body six feet into the side of a cliff, highlighted by a bright green circle."

  10. Re:Will this work off of a car 12V? Some other lin on The World's Tiniest Power Supply Unit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never mind that! How many trees will I have to tap to power my server?

  11. Re:Information Retrieval on NSA Wiretapping Whistleblower · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nothing to hide? Everyone is within six degrees of seperation with a terrorist.

  12. Re:This is so Funny on NSA Wiretapping Whistleblower · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe we should settle for a solid background check and occasional polygraph tests? (Granted the polygraph tests have failed quite badly in some cases.)

  13. Re:Much more info on Democracy Now on NSA Wiretapping Whistleblower · · Score: 3, Informative

    The classic way around that restriction was to have an allied intelligence service do the spying on Americans for them, while returning the favour by passing them information on their nationals that they weren't allowed to collect. Once the spying (data collection) part was done, I'm not sure that the processing, tagging, linking and reporting was kept especially seperate.

  14. Re:Potato clock? on Tapping Trees for Electricity? · · Score: 1

    No, because people can rarely be scammed into investing in a potato clock company. :)

  15. Re:The guy made an electrochemical cell ("battery" on Tapping Trees for Electricity? · · Score: 1

    Look at the wonderful magic box. Good grief, talk about a cheesy prop for a scam: A box, alligator clips on wires and four switches!

  16. Re:Don't invest, this is bollocks. on Tapping Trees for Electricity? · · Score: 1
    They can't even get their spelling right. From their press release "Wadle said he got the original idea of harnessing a tree for electrical energy from studying lightening, more than 50 percent of which originates from the ground."

    Lightening eh? So it's free unlimited and a diet plan?

  17. Re:Nothing you can do on Getting Off NetHack? · · Score: 1

    Or just install Windows ME underneath Nethack.

  18. Re:I have always preferred deskside machines on Computers That Feel our Mood · · Score: 1

    Wait, are we talking about deskside or darkside machines?

  19. Re:This will save my wrists! on Sony Reader Taking Hold? · · Score: 1

    I found that the strain to my wrists from flinging the books of the White Gold Whiner across the room was only temporary, and glow of satisfaction much longer lasting. I'm not sure that flinging the Reader or merely deleting the files would bring enough needed relief.

  20. Re:Vinyl tracks on Mysterious MilkyWay Warp Finally Explained? · · Score: 1

    Warped is no big deal. I worry if the Milky Way has the Sony "protection" rootkit.

  21. Re:I'd be happy if... on Computers That Feel our Mood · · Score: 1

    Here's a better form of process control for venting rage.

  22. Re:This should greatly enhance productivity on Computers That Feel our Mood · · Score: 1

    From the sounds of it, they already have more information than a toy e-meter reads, so maybe...

  23. Re:I loved the part where... on Air Force Builds Quiet Mach 6 Wind Tunnel · · Score: 1

    To add insult, he'll also be fired.

  24. Re:I loved the part where... on Air Force Builds Quiet Mach 6 Wind Tunnel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even if it didn't kill you, you'd certainly be exhausted.

  25. Re:Hm.... on CEV Revolutionary Gimballed Thrusters · · Score: 1

    What are you going to use gimballed thruster on, your flying car?