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  1. oh, wait, I'm dead now. that sucks. on A Solar-Powered 3D Printer Prints Glass From Sand · · Score: 1

    So? If you wreck it, just print a new one. sheesh...

  2. base 60 on The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second · · Score: 1

    I think we should do everything in base 60 since it is a round multiple of 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 , so it's three factors better than base 10.
    The next step would add 7 as a factor, and we sure wouldn't want to try to base our technological civilization on that! (do the math, be, um, enlightened...)

  3. Re:Mozillacide on The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla · · Score: 1

    For $2000 more, I could make you one that went to twelve.

  4. Re:Apparently on Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Labs · · Score: 1

    Whoa, slow down there maestro. There's a NEW Mexico?

  5. it's called being self-sufficient on Among the Costs of War: $20B In Air Conditioning · · Score: 1

    I don't think the CIA will get onboard with that plan since it interferes with their heroin supply.

  6. Re:Irrelevant on Among the Costs of War: $20B In Air Conditioning · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can live without AC FOREVER..

    Sir, I would like to receive your pamphlet. Is there some sort of ritual I will need to perform?

  7. Re:...again on Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Labs · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the Earth first types burning down new construction and auto dealerships.

    (holy shit, you really owe it to yourself to GIS fire tornado that's ten kinds of awesome. Sadly, adding lightning to the query doesn't improve things much.)

  8. sometimes you do something just 'cuz it's cool... on Where Jules Verne Meets Star Wars: GE's Walking Truck · · Score: 2

    You can't fight city hall, but sometimes you can knock it the fuck over.

  9. MAUD, PAY RENT! OOP! on US ISPs, Big Content Reaching Antipiracy Agreement · · Score: 1

    How about a campaign to complain that the CEOs of these companies have been downloading illegal files?

    I hope this goes directly to the top a Anonymous' / LulzSec's todo list if this crap is implemented. I strongly believe many lulz would ensue if they get bombarded with bogus takedown notices against the ISP CEOs. Also add every major **AA player to the list.

  10. YM! YBIU! ODY! GDYAtH! /Taylor on Who Killed the Netbook? · · Score: 1

    Netbooks were originally all solid-state for weight, power consumption & ruggedness.

    Then Microsoft wanted to get into the game, but couldn't pare down XP to fit into a 16GB SSD. So we started getting all these bastardized "netbooks" with spinning disks in them. And x86 arch... Once again, Microsoft ruins a perfectly good idea.

  11. Re:Study Design a Must on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    I like the way you think!

    Oh, and on the plug, width is proportionate to voltage, height is proportionate to current. So if you can jam the plug in, you're assured that close enough to the right rating. Obviously this would also require a key so it will only go in one way. You may cite this as prior art if you like.

  12. not goatse, honest! on Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday · · Score: 1

    think different?


    what, too soon?

  13. Re:Haidinger's brush on Human Eye Protein Senses Earth's Magnetism · · Score: 2

    vi's been around longer than Fox News.
    And it will be around long after it.

    I was going to make a crack about it being a arcane tool of the elder gods from the time before history, but that's actually emacs.

  14. Re:Bitcoin explained on Amir Taaki Answers Your Questions About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    My friend's aunt's mailman's kid's teacher's bulldog told him that bitcoin is specifically delineated as the new official currency in the secret NESARA legislation signed by Bill Clinton in 2000 right before he left office.

  15. Re:A great remainder... on WordPress.org Hacked, Plugin Repository Compromised · · Score: 1

    I don't appreciate your divisive comments!

  16. a related project in danger on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I doubt Congress' commitment to project Sparkle Motion.

  17. WHOA THERE! on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure technology has advanced to the point that aiming is no longer an issue.

    Hey! We haven't quite manged to piss off the whole rest of the world yet.

  18. poor Dave on Give The Onion a Pulitzer Campaign Gaining Steam · · Score: 2

    Poor Dave Barry, finally gets a movie made from one of his stories, and it turns out his farce about a stolen atomic bomb finally makes it to theaters mere months after 9/11.
    And it had Tim Allen in it.

  19. Re:Tweet first on LulzSec Debunks UK Census Hack · · Score: 1

    LulzSec == namefag

    Only Anonymous is anonymous.

    That means that your not LulzSec just because you say your LulzSec. But as long as you remain anonymous, your part of Anonymous.
    capisce ?

  20. meanwhile in non-bizarroland: on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    If there were any justice in the world, this guy would go in to rob the bank trying to get caught and end up getting away with $75,000.

  21. Re:the application of force indicates you have fai on Review: Green Lantern · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that the movie isn't as stupid as the marketing makes it appear? That's reassuring. About the movie at least.
    Kind of makes me wonder about the people selling the film and the audience they're trying to reach.


    And the way theaters are gouging for tickets these days, and moving action movies to the shoebox-size screens their second week, and with premiums they charge for IMAX & 3D, I'm not about to plunk down my $$$$ on something that the marketing makes me think it's merely dumb, glossy and loud.
    Star Wars episode IV cost $11 million to make in 1977 (~$40 million 2010 dollars). Is this movie five times better than that?!!

  22. the application of force indicates you have failed on Review: Green Lantern · · Score: 0

    I dunno, from the movie previews, looks like the only way dumb American hotshot pilot cowboy can imagine solving problems is with a bigger gun.

    Looks dumb, glossy and loud.

  23. Re:Fucking Capitalism on AP Investigation Concludes US Nuke Regulators Weakening Safety Rules · · Score: 1

    If we're going to have fission power (and we will need it), we need to remove the MBA's and accountants from control.
    Put the engineers and scientists in charge.
    Hell, maybe we should hand it all over to the Navy.

  24. EVILDOERS BEWARE! on Soldier Re-Grows Leg Muscle After Experimental Procedure · · Score: 1

    we've just witnessed the genesis of a superhero : axolotlman!
    newtman?
    crayfishman?
    starfishman?...
    honestly, axolotlman is the best of the bunch, it sounds cooler and it's just weirder.

  25. they're called "Fnords" on LulzSec Teams With Anonymous, In Operation AntiSec · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's the kind of lizard they're referring too.

    More likely the kind that a heroic dose of LSD revealed to Hunter S. Thompson in the lobby of the Mint hotel.
    Noted political theorist Lyndon Larouche exposed the Queen of England as being one of them. And nobody cared.

    That's not a metaphore, man.