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  1. Re:That's slick on Deep Impact on Comet Theory · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the old "The Dog in Black ate my homework" trick!

  2. Re:from the WTF? dept. on Deep Impact on Comet Theory · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, comets have batteries, therefore it-could-be-bunnies, thump thump thump thump...

  3. Re:Death Star! on Cassini's Got Pictures And Data · · Score: 1
    Maybe we'll find a force field and some dude asking for a spaceship.

    My stars! It's full of god!

  4. Newton decoded on Royal Society Finds Lost Newton Papers · · Score: 1

    When the notes were decoded, they made reference to "Eat up Martha".

  5. Re:"Nothing left to invent" dupe on Innovation Getting Slower? · · Score: 1

    Okay, and here's the link. it's a story. Falling asleep now 78 hi h7jy6umj

  6. "Nothing left to invent" dupe on Innovation Getting Slower? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is the story that a US Patent Office official said in 1843, "The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end." Well, it's a story.

  7. Re:Not tomorrow, but the day after on Tempel 1 Impact Day After Tomorrow · · Score: 2, Funny

    And if the comet people get mad, followed by The Tempel of Doom.

  8. Cheap planet on Cassini's Got Pictures And Data · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Imagine a planet losing seven minutes over a couple decades! If they look closely, they'll probably see that it's really a S4turn and God bought a cheap knock-off from a sidewalk vendor.

    They did say that they might not be measuring it right. Still, between the swirly fluid mass of the planet, the moon system, magnetic field and whatnot, if they're correct, it would be interesting to see where Saturn's hiding all the angular momentum.

  9. Kowabunga! on Cassini's Got Pictures And Data · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Death Star! on Cassini's Got Pictures And Data · · Score: 1

    Do you mean Iapetus or Mimas? (They should take a look at the Herschel crater on Mimas to see if anyone was using fusion charges there to move it.)

  11. Re:shutdown -h now on Japanese Robot Guards to Patrol Shops And Offices · · Score: 1
    Computer System: Guardrobo D1 is offline

    Computer System: Release Evil Otto. The humanoid must not escape!

  12. Re:Duh! on Japanese Robot Guards to Patrol Shops And Offices · · Score: 1

    He got a promotion, now he's Major Obvious!

  13. Re:Hmmm on A $251 Million Typo · · Score: 1

    I don't think Clippy needs to be that polite.

  14. Re:Nice... on A $251 Million Typo · · Score: 1

    If there was karmic balance, Fubar Securities would end up firing a Ms Buttle. Do they have a form twenty-seven B-stroke-six?

  15. Re:Fine by me. on ICANN Won't Get DNS Root Servers · · Score: 1

    Yeah the Pontiac "tree" ahead of me that panic-stopped had ABS brakes.

  16. Re:Redundancy is good on ICANN Won't Get DNS Root Servers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those are the logical servers. The physical servers for five of the roots have multiple locations. (But that might just be a building across town for some of them.) The Wiki claims that As a result most of the physical, rather than nominal, root servers are now outside the United States. And if it's in a Wiki, it must be true, right? ;)

  17. Re:Redundancy is good on ICANN Won't Get DNS Root Servers · · Score: 1

    The root DNS servers are fairly well distributed, although most are in the USA.

  18. Re:Fine by me. on ICANN Won't Get DNS Root Servers · · Score: 1
    With IPv6, that may not be so far-fetched.

    You still have to route it.

    [..] every pony I get for you dies.

    Hey, my Hyundai Pony lasted for many years! (It was the lo-tech brakes in an ABS world that eventually doomed it.)

  19. Re:Fine by me. on ICANN Won't Get DNS Root Servers · · Score: 5, Funny
    And we should just allow people to pick and use whatever IP address they want too.

    And I want a pony.

  20. Johnny Castaway on The Little People In Your Games · · Score: 1

    Johnny Castaway (1993) from Sierra On-Line was an entertaining screensaver. While it wasn't really a game (no user input), people found it quite addictive to watch. The free version does install on Win98SE, haven't tried XP.

  21. Re:The Most Amazing Dupe Known To Man! on Morse Code on Cell Phones? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Wait, I get signal...

    Dupe-di-dupe-dip Dupe-dupe-di-dupe...

  22. Re:So... on Carter Copter Breaks Mu-1 Barrier · · Score: 3, Funny
    The whole thing is moving forward while parts of it are moving backward or standing still at the same time?

    And some parts shake. That's what it's all about!

  23. Re:Um. on Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    That's okay, the rest of us will get rich getting paid not to release carbon.

  24. Re:On Sale in two weeks on CVS Disposable Camcorder Hacked · · Score: 1

    Dude, alcohol and chocolates are lubricants.

  25. And how did that first job work out? on The Complete History of RIM · · Score: 1
    Started in 1984 as a firm that built electronic devices for other companies, RIM signed its first deal with General Motors, to deliver a networked display system that scrolled words across LED signs in GM factories.
    Odd. In 1988, I worked for a company Vipco/Magic Sign that had a project to design and make networked LED display signs for GM factories... I forget if we were handed a spec to match or what. It sounds like GM moved on to another supplier after a few years. Is RIM padding their résumé? :)