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  1. Boy Did I Lose This Bet on 100/1 Odds On 'First Contact' Within a Year · · Score: 1

    I thought our First Contact staff would include Will Smith.

  2. Darn! I Mis-Read TFA on Microsoft Migrating Live Spaces Users To WordPress · · Score: 1

    I thought the article was about Microsoft moving to Wordpress. From my point of view, using Linux,Apache,PHP,mySQL, and Wordpress would do the Windowed Ones some good.

  3. Re:Cry me a river, billionaires on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 3, Funny

    The pressure of being a multi-billionaire is immense. Maybe these tragic ones could find peace in some other climate. Maybe a place where Monsoons are spelled with accent marks? But why there? Well, that was were their wealth came from of course. There's good times there, and everyone knows their name.

  4. Re:Incompetent? on Microsoft's Chief Exec For Latin America Says 'Open' Means 'Incompetent' · · Score: 4, Funny

    It could be a translation error, in Brazil, Portuguese is the main language. Maybe he meant to say "In Compliance", which is something of a challenge for the arrogant among us.

  5. Re:Comparisons like this don't mean squat... on Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 1

    How many computers does a home user will buy 1, 2, or maybe even 6 computers. A business user will buy 10 to 1000 times that many computers. This is not a competition for the home desktop, but for the office desktop.

    I think it would make an interesting test to see how many times, and how long each time it took for the client can do a clean install?

    Another test I'd like to see is how many keystrokes it takes to remove unwanted software both singly, and jointly.

  6. Re:Georgia Aquarium on Promised Microsoft Tablet 'No Thicker Than Sheet of Glass' · · Score: 1

    If Linux cannot be ported to it, then the product will look like a clear example of a Paper Weight?.

  7. Re:Er, on Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates · · Score: 1

    This could be an interesting plot line for a Comedy script. I believe that Girish Kumar has just confessed to committing a felony. Is the DHS done eating dinner?

  8. Re:Unsuitable for outdoor use in wind on Parrot iPod-Controlled Quadricopter Launches This Week · · Score: 1

    It is a common error to evaluate flying like walking. If you think of flying is like sailing, only the medium is a lot thinner, and is in 3 dimensions. Then things start to make sense. A simple breeze could veer this drone quite a bit off course. Personally, I wish that the Android could fly it also...

  9. As an Old Guy I Have A Different View on Old People Enjoy Reading Negative Stories About Young · · Score: 1

    Given that newer, healthier folks are popping up daily; it concerns me that the youngsters have not learned very well from the mistakes of biblical proportions that others like myself have made. Lessons that the unlearned will learn will be repetitive, merciless, and unyielding.

  10. Re:Shutdown patents on Microsoft Patents OS Shutdown · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always kind of wondered where Dr. Bunsen and Beaker went to work after the Muffet Show was canceled, not any longer...

  11. Re:It has been obvious for years. on New Silicon-Based Memory 5X Denser Than NAND Flash · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...5X Denser Than NAND Flash... Flash is sure taking a beating these days, first Apple, now Intel.

  12. Simple Solution. on NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research · · Score: 1

    Change the law. As for this Filibuster nonsense, my fellow Hard Core Republicans talk trash, but they can't back it up.

  13. Accountability on What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders? · · Score: 1

    One of the finest lessons any incoming Freshman/woman could ever learn. And also the best sites for downloading Monga.

  14. New Science Project for 12 Year Olds on Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans · · Score: 1

    I can only wonder at how many 12 year old's are going to quietly 'barrow' mom's and dad's keys for the mini van, after they finish their 'science' project in the basement.

  15. MIT Can Reclaim 3% of the Oil, Not Bad on MIT Unveils Oil-Skimming Robot Swarm Prototype · · Score: 1

    3%? I guess it's the best that MIT could do, given their comprehension of the problem to solve. And people still wonder why I think the Cardinal Red 'S' looks pretty good.

  16. Step 1 To A Long Term Lunar Presence? on China Plans To Mine the Yellow Sea Floor · · Score: 1

    How better to begin learning what it will take for Lunar expansion? With raw materials literally laying on the surface of either environment?

    Personally, my mind ponders the wording used in Psalms, 107:23 KJV. Maybe a minor modification to include women, and a minor edit for altitudes greater than 60 miles.

  17. Re:Considering Future Applcations... on Video Showing Half a Million Asteroid Discoveries · · Score: 1

    If a raw material is out of the gravity well, isn't gathering it for processing a little easier?

  18. Re:So now crackers have a new way to attack Micros on Many Hackers Accidentally Send Their Code To Microsoft · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You wrote, "...will be looking..."

    Wouldn't a corporate policy change that major require a filing with the SEC?

  19. Let Me Think, m$'bots Walking Around A City on Robot Swarm Control On Microsoft's Surface · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know weather to laugh or scream.

  20. Considering Future Applcations... on Video Showing Half a Million Asteroid Discoveries · · Score: 1

    What are those rocks made of? And given that their made from some heavy elements, what could either Venus, or Titan offer to lighten objects up?

  21. Re:In his defense on Drunken Employee Shoots Server · · Score: 0

    Essentially, the server was considered 'Homeless'.

  22. Re:hmm.. on Zombie Ants and Killer Fungus · · Score: 1

    I believe a TV series called "the X Files" has such an episode, only with humans instead. And I saw something about this fungus/ant stuff on the Nature Channel about a year ago.

    "The Truth is Out There" - X-Files 'tag' line

  23. Re:Sure and maybe on NAB, RIAA May Seek Mandate For FM Radios In Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    I guess everyone forgot the needs of the Horse. We will also need to have Feed Bags, Flat Edge Shovels, and Watering Troughs in new cars.

  24. Re:well, that's a new one on Inmates Escape As Guard Plays Plants Vs. Zombies · · Score: 1

    I cannot help but wonder if maybe the Officer should have kept his eye from his iPhone, (pun intended).

  25. Symbiotics for a Self Sustaining Life on Man Takes Up Internal Farming · · Score: 1

    With my daughter gunning for a major in Environmental Science, my first thought was, "What is the optimal design for generating sufficient food for one, four, 100, and 20K humans?" Besides the obvious answer of, "Planet Earth".