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  1. Re:Can't figure out the address bar? on Google Zeitgeist 2008 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Annoying Squatter. What you need when you need it.

  2. Re:However, the only emotions are hate and anger on Scientists Add Emotions To Robotic Head · · Score: 1

    for instance, they might give an elderly patient a robotic seal pup to talk to, interact with

    Up north they give elderly patients robotic seal pups to club for physical therapy.

  3. Kutztown Golden Bears? on Google's GeoEye-1 Takes Its First Pictures · · Score: 1

    Talk about a specific fetish.

  4. Big deal on Give Up the Fight For Personal Privacy? · · Score: 1

    Windows is for work, so don't use it for personal information.
    Facebook is for douche bags, so don't even bother.
    Everything else can be set up under different aliases.

  5. Re:Taken for a ride on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    Now you could be an insider telling us that Euro fuel is actually more refined...

    European everything is more refined.
    Smug bastards.

  6. Re:ummmm /confused on Naphthalene Found In Outer Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    When a electron leaves an excited state it emits a photon.

    Thus explaining the origin of photon-crusted socks in the hamper.

  7. Re:Wag the dog on Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices · · Score: 4, Funny

    The odds of randomly hitting anything critical with a centimeter-wide slug from a handgun before other passengers with guns would take you out is astronomical. Especially if they just had a bowl of complementary derringers at the boarding ramp.

    Oh great, then I'd have someone's kid shooting the back of my seat for the whole flight.

  8. Re:off-peak? on Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices · · Score: 1

    Hey, that looks really good. Thanks.

  9. Re:off-peak? on Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices · · Score: 1

    There are no good options. If I get a pay-as-you-go phone, the minutes cost much more than a monthly plan if I use the phone often. If I get a monthly plan, I am forced to guess how many minutes I will use. If I choose a plan with a lower number of minutes and go over, those extra minutes are charged at a vastly higher rate. It's all very unfriendly and designed to extract as much money as possible from the customer.

    For me the problem is not the per-minute cost but the cost of having the number available to use. I use a cell phone so infrequently that I'd gladly pay $5 a minute so long as it cost me nothing for the 363 days a year it just sat in my desk.

    About four years ago my wife and I got a cell phone for the two times a year we really found ourselves wishing we had one. AT&T had a prepay plan that cost about 25 cents/minute, but you only had to pay $10 per 90 days and the minutes would roll over. In other words, for $40 per year we could have a cell phone for as much as we wanted. Then AT&T got bought by Cingular and that $40/year got raised to $100. Sure, the minutes cost the same and you got more of them, but I already wasn't using the ones I had, so I stopped paying and recycled the phone.

    Now you can't get any sort of cell phone plan, prepay or otherwise, for less than $100/year, so I'm back to not having a cell phone. Aside from those one or two times a year, I can't say I've missed it.

  10. Re:Not quite on US DoD Poll On Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    No there isn't, but you can make it culminate at noon.

    It depends where you are in your time zone. It's rare for the sun to be directly overhead at noon.

  11. Hmmm on Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US · · Score: 1

    One might consider this pollution to be a clear and present danger to the health of loyal Americans.

  12. Re:Only 6.8Mbps? on East Coast Broadband Fastest In USA · · Score: 1

    But it also has basically ONE ISP serving the state - Cox Communications

    Which is referred to by the locals as Suck My Cox Communications.

  13. Re:Several things strange here on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    You only have to look at China with their "wangyou" (internet friends).

    Maybe in China but that totally doesn't work in the USA. You can "wang you" all night, but those craigslist chicks never write back.

  14. Re:It won't work. on Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista · · Score: 1

    It's funny, but I've never heard people openly talk about how much they hate a Microsoft product before.

    If you're a Mac user, you've forgotten the outrage of Word 6, a supposedly cross-platform design that was such a clusterfuck that Microsoft created the Macintosh Business Unit.

  15. Forgive me if I don't believe it on New Scientific Evidence Emerges In Anthrax Case · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Considering the avalanche of bullshit the Justice Department has been spewing out (and/or failing to remember) during this administration, I honestly don't know why they're bothering to make a case. I'm not going to bother reading anything about this story because I'm pretty sure its just going to be more of the same.

    I was cynical before, but at this point I don't even bother reading the news.

  16. Re:Robot goes down on Robot Submarine To Dive Deep In the Caribbean · · Score: 1

    Computer says no.

  17. Re:2008 just called... on White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars · · Score: 1

    It'd be a HUGE insult to him (and, yes, perhaps to funding) if he found out because his Chief of Staff watched the news that night.

    Why? It's not it's never happened before.

  18. Re:Good! on In-flight Cell Ban Advances In Congress · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you ever try explaining to your boss how to use email on a foreign network?

    +1 Insightful, been there, got the tee-shirt, and chewed through it in frustration

  19. Obligatory on Drug Halts Decline In Alzheimer's Patients · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now what's that drug called...?

  20. Re:Well not quite, BUT... on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    If you're in it for the calories, you might as well jog(which burns 286 calories per half hour) as opposed to sex(which burns 173 per half hour). Or, better yet, jog in the afternoon(then shower, dammit!) before having sex in the evening. You'll lose a lot of sleep at first but you'll be sweating pimp juice by the end of the week.

    Or, you could play squash. Burns about twice as many calories as jogging, but it's a competitive, cutthroat game, so the time passes quickly. Just find people at your own level to play with.

  21. Re:Kayaking on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    Kayaking is a lot of fun, but very pricy if you don't own your own kayak.

    You can buy used kayaks and roof racks cheaply from people who bought them to get in shape and never used them.

  22. Purdue University researchers? on Making Strides Toward Low-Cost LED Lighting · · Score: 1

    Awesome. I wonder if these lights are powered by tabletop fusion?

  23. It's really not that much on NASA Contractor Needs Urine · · Score: 1

    Occasionally I have to do a 24-hour urine collection for my doctor. In 24 hours I usually collect about 1.2-1.4 liters.

    You figure 30 people should be able to generate that much, no problem.

  24. Re:maybe they should have stayed in the '60s on B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s · · Score: 5, Funny

    If JOVIAL is anything like ALGOL 60, it's arguably a better programming language than C.

    It's HAPPIER.

  25. Re:Is it wrong... on "New" Words From the Geek Culture · · Score: 1

    Webinar : Seminar on the web, usually using youtube, flash or some other video/podcast like medium, used by people who have only attended lecture-format courses.

    You see, the problem with "webinars" is that in actual practice they have little to do with interactive discussion and everything to do with a lecture.