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  1. Re:Is it safe for motorcycles? on Ramp Creates Power As Cars Pass · · Score: 2, Funny
    I question how much energy my motorcycle and I (260 kg together) are really going to generate.

    If they can capture the sonic energy as you scream when you're catapulted into the air by the non-yielding (to a mere 260 kg) bump, quite a bit... Damn, imagine body-surfing across a stretch of those things after laying the bike down!

  2. Re:So don't pay! on Cell Phone CEOs Marked For Phone Cloning · · Score: 1

    And what is a Collection Agency going to do that Rogers couldn't do themselves? (Other than attempt to harass you by phone.)

  3. Re:Incorrect detail on Cell Phone CEOs Marked For Phone Cloning · · Score: 1

    Well then, it should have said "No one (who wants to keep their job at Rogers) wants to disconnect Ted", shouldn't it? Plenty of his customers would love to!

  4. Incorrect detail on Cell Phone CEOs Marked For Phone Cloning · · Score: 3, Funny
    Nobody wants to shut off Ted.

    Ted Rogers? In a heartbeat! Let him go through his own crummy "customer service" to get reconnected.

  5. Re:Actually rather different on Another NTP Patent Invalidated · · Score: 1

    Dear Lord! What happens when I read my email from my AuxCon box over 802.11g? Oh no, I am a criminal and await arrest. Oh wait, I'm in Canada, never mind. (Come to think of it, I know people who were reading their email over Amateur Packet Radio back in 1980.)

  6. Serial Cliffhanger on Another NTP Patent Invalidated · · Score: 1

    It's a race between RIM's last defences against a shutdown verses the remaining patents of NTP being blown away. Stay tuned while we take this commercial break...

  7. Re:Roomba Theater on Roomba Vacuum Robot Opens to Hackers · · Score: 1

    Hmm, mount something like a PDA, tablet or PSP on the top displaying animated heads saying the words...

  8. Hackable Clearmate clones? on Roomba Vacuum Robot Opens to Hackers · · Score: 1

    There seems to be at least one clone of the Roomba, the Cleanmate 365 QQ-1. Has anyone checked to see if these cheaper clones are at all compatable/comparable with the Roomba for hackitivity? Update: Some people are looking into it.

  9. I see a Christmas TV special! on Roomba Vacuum Robot Opens to Hackers · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about several Roombas playing musical accompaniment to Drunk animatronic Walmart Santa?

  10. Re:thin crust, extra cheese on Journey Towards The Center of the Earth · · Score: 1

    Here, everyone can have a slice: "The boundary is between 25 and 60 km deep beneath the continents and between 5 and 8 km deep beneath the ocean floor."

  11. Microsoft is SO ready! on What Will The Future Desktop Interface Look Like? · · Score: 1
  12. Re:The Bloat Divides? on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sounds like when Windows was a GUI shell on top of DOS.

  13. Re:What I want to know is ... on New Object Found at Edge of Solar System · · Score: 1

    Circular orbit? That sounds peaceful. How about Serenity? Call the type of objects Fireflies...

  14. Re:Then what we need is ... on Narwhal Tusks are Sensory Organs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not just get them to switch to sugarless codfish?

  15. Re:toothache on Narwhal Tusks are Sensory Organs · · Score: 1, Funny

    And they spend their time with it in cold water. Ouch!

  16. Wifi Tusks on Narwhal Tusks are Sensory Organs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Aliens? Nah. The tusks are antenne for wireless communications for sharing whale songs among the Narwhal pods. The protocol? Why naturally their Pods use Bluetooth...

  17. Re:Argh! You bastard. on Narwhal Tusks are Sensory Organs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps that's the Narwhal equivalent of flossing after meals? With all those nerve endings and no dental plan, getting a bad cavity would hurt.

  18. Re:In Related News on Java Is So 90s · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you should have seen what a POS it was before I fixed it while he was snoring over his margaretta. "It looks like you're trying to write a BASIC interpreter", I told him. He jotted down what I said for some reason.

  19. Re:In Related News on Java Is So 90s · · Score: 2, Informative

    Print with no , or ; termination automatically does a CR/LF.

  20. Re:In Related News on Java Is So 90s · · Score: 1

    They might have started it in 1963, but until companies like HP and DEC had implementations for their computers, the language wasn't much more than just an experiment on DTSS. And I don't have my Dartmouth manuals any more, so I'm not sure exactly when that grew to a useful configuration. (Even in 1972 it was a Rube Goldberg contraption with different types of core memory, drum memory and new fangled disk storage, bleh!) I think my first user id there was M030017. The password was random and I still use it.

  21. Re:Interpreted Versus Compiled on Java Is So 90s · · Score: 1

    Umm. The lines between complied and interpreted are fuzzy even for implementations of languages, with pcode (bytecode, MSIL, etc) and JIT native code compilers. There are few languages that are inherently compiler or interpreter only.

  22. Re:In Related News on Java Is So 90s · · Score: 1

    As usual, the news gets it wrong. BASIC was "So 70s".

  23. Re:42 on Mice Created With Human Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    You were expecting it.

  24. Re:I for one welcome... on Mice Created With Human Brain Cells · · Score: 1
    Got to have cat girly-girls too!
    Hid the Bell with a blot she did.
    But she fell in love with a hominid.
    Oh, where is the which of the what she did?
    - The Ballad of Lost C'mell
  25. Re:42 on Mice Created With Human Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    And you know this because you had mice running tests in mazes? Suddenly running down the wrong way, eating the wrong bit of cheese... Such subtlety, one has to admire it.