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  1. let's avoid hyperbole, please on X-37B Secret Space Plane To Land Soon · · Score: 1

    Without the space program, we wouldn't have personal computers

    The construction of ICBMs was adequate impetus for the microminiaturization of electronics.

  2. Re:The real super secret space plane ... on X-37B Secret Space Plane To Land Soon · · Score: 1

    I asked for it at Benjamin Moore, and they couldn't find it. They said maybe it would come in on the next shipment with the striped paint and the paint-on holes.

  3. riasing to a higher plane on Once-Secret ACTA Copyright Treaty Approved By EU · · Score: 1

    No worries, citizen! You can upgrade your status by incorporation for a low fee. Then you too, can enjoy all of the rights, with none of the responsibilities of a living, breathing hoo-man being.

    Actually, I thought the entities we refer to as "corporations" were non-corporeal. So does that make them spirits?

  4. Re:Still work? on Apple 1 Computer Sells For $210,700 · · Score: 1

    Bill Cosby advertising

    oh yeah? Well my old computer had Alan Alda shilling for it!

    just to settle the issue of celeberty microcomputer advertising:
    Bill Cosby < Alan Alda < William Shatner < Iassic Asimov
    hmmm, Leonard Nimoy should be in there somewhere, right? (what? no endorsements from DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei or Walter Koenig I smell parody potential! Come on, George!)
    and photographic proof Apple is out to turn you whole family GAY!
    Jack Black?!!!

  5. Re:Interesting Price on Apple 1 Computer Sells For $210,700 · · Score: 1

    well, their logo is the legendary fruit of the tree of knowledge.
    And it has a bite from it.

    (I'm assuming showing two bites didn't work from a design perspective?)

  6. what use is a baby? on Apple 1 Computer Sells For $210,700 · · Score: 1

    What can you do with an Apple I ?
    How about CHANGE THE WORLD.



    And you can't play "Breakout" on the Mona Lisa.

  7. solving the wrong problem... on One Giant Cargo Ship Pollutes As Much As 50M Cars · · Score: 1

    once again, it goes to show that Society doesn't have the fortitude to attack the problem from the right direction.
    sigh.

  8. with $20 you can buy many peanuts... on Crooks Hack Music Players For ATM Skimmers · · Score: 1

    see, if you carry the ballpeen hammer, you don't need the credit card...
    good luck getting on the plane with that, though...

  9. you dirty bastard on Kuwait Bans DSLR Cameras Use For Non-Journalists · · Score: 1

    Photosynth

    You'll be installing Microsoft Silverlight. It's small and fast.

    Anybody got some pointers for FOSS photogrammetry systems?
    goddamnit, can slashdot misinterpret allegedly valid html worse?

  10. kneejerk much? on Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 · · Score: 1

    He didn't specify how to get the population down to that level.
    Since some studies show that the birth rate drops as societies become more prosperous, maybe he's proposing to make us all rich. I could get onboard on that.

  11. you know somebody's going to say it... on Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    recession -> CO2 emmissions drop,
    so,
    mandate CO2 emmissions drop -> recession

  12. let's call a spade a spade on Utah vs. NASA On Heavy-Lift Rocket Design · · Score: 1

    crony capitalism = crapitalism

    As in "the crap always trickles down"

  13. PIGS IN SPAAAAAAACEEEE!!!! on Utah vs. NASA On Heavy-Lift Rocket Design · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey, wait, you're considering designs that don't mandate using boosters built by a specific contractor based in our state? That can't be legal.
    Too bad we can't vote to recall senators from other states.

    The pork must flow.

  14. can't find Ossama to the B Laden! on US Launches Largest Spy Satellite Ever · · Score: 1

    Up here in space
    I'm looking down on you.
    My lasers trace
    Everything you do.
    You think you've private lives
    Think nothing of the kind.
    There is no true escape
    I'm watching all the time.
    I'm made of metal
    My circuits gleam.
    I am perpetual
    I keep the country clean.
    I'm elected electric spy
    I'm protected electric eye.
    Always in focus
    You can't feel my stare.
    I zoom into you
    You don't know I'm there.
    I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
    My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove.
    I'm made of metal
    My circuits gleam.
    I am perpetual
    I keep the country clean.
    I'm elected electric spy
    I'm protected electric eye.
    Electric eye, in the sky
    Feel my stare, always there
    There's nothing you can do about it.
    Develop and expose
    I feed upon your every thought
    And so my power grows.
    I'm made of metal
    My circuits gleam.
    I am perpetual
    I keep the country clean.
    I'm elected electric spy
    I'm protected electric eye.
    I'm elected electric spy
    I'm elected. Protected. Detective. Electric eye.

  15. like robot == steel man, and he's taking our jerbs on Autonomous Audi TT Conquers Pike's Peak · · Score: 1

    I was born a steel driving man, parse that as you will... ;-)

  16. Re:I think Shakespear had it right on Anti-Piracy Lawyers 'Knew Letters Hit Innocents' · · Score: 1

    I didn't say "kill all lawyers", I said "kill all sleazy lawyers"...

    And does the concept of barratry apply to groups ?

  17. would you like grits with that? on Bacteria Used To Fix Cracked Concrete · · Score: 1

    as long as it stars Natalie Portman, I'm cool with that...

  18. Re:In Other News on Comparing Windows and Ubuntu On Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Bring back all the classics! (Except for Franklin...)
    How about Pineapple?
    How about a Banana Junior 9000 netbook? Gene Simmons never had a netbook as a kid!
    hmmm, I may have to get modding...

  19. "twice as big as you can imagine" on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    it's not a train, it's a unmanned missile the size of the Chrysler building!!!!

  20. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly, Hell has all the bureaucrats.

  21. fractional ownership for the win on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    No, this is all for the little people. Celebrities will just further flock to their G5's so they don't have to rub elbows with the hoi polloi at the gate. Invest heavily in concierge jet taxis.

  22. Re:Wasn't there a desktop friendly scheduler rejec on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    The name is a total misnomer. I mean, it's not ever legal brainfuck code. (I didn't know you could even write kernel modules in BF...)

  23. X-prize my ass! on Aerial Drone To Hunt For Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    I pledge 15 quatloos towards erection of the first permanent goatse on Mars!

  24. the Mars Vault was the toughest yet... on Aerial Drone To Hunt For Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    WTF is this /.?! More Mars stories on the front page than Apple stories?!!

  25. Where's Waldo^W John Galt? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    Why would these people care about what some lily-livered groundhog, who's afraid of their own shadow, have to say?!!!
    I'm sure they'll be building a liberterrarian paradise, unfettered by out-of-control government meddling into the people's affairs.

    And who cares about latency when beaming out video proof of just how awesome they are to the rest of the cosmos?!!!