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  1. Re:If Obama were a dinossaur on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 1

    Thats OK, because many of the Climate Change deniers don't believe in dinosaurs either (Since their bones are older than 4004BC)

  2. nabled by default on Firefox 22 Released, Boosts 3-D Gaming and Video Calls · · Score: 2

    " WebRTC, the open source browser-based communications API, is now enabled by default. "This technology makes it possible to place and receive video calls from a mobile or desktop browser or share live video, files and images with friends and family."

    This doesn't sound very convenient - there are times that I am "browsing" when I don't want a video call suddenly interrupting me.

    Luckily I don't have a webcam on this PC

  3. Pre History? on NSA Releases Secret Pre-History of Computers · · Score: 0

    What do you mean Pre-History?

    According to Wikipedia: Prehistory means "before we had written records,"

    So while the written records of these code breaking computers may just recently have been declassified, its not like they didn't exist, and of course there were 'computers' before that (Hollerith punched cards, and of course Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace)

  4. Re:When did bitcoin(tm) become a currency on California Sends a Cease and Desist Order To the Bitcoin Foundation · · Score: 4, Funny

    "There are lots of commodities that trade so far above their intrinsic value that they are fiat."

    Like Ferraris ? I think the company is still owned by FIAT

  5. In Soviet Russia Google mines YOU!

  6. Re:hand writing on Introducing the NSA-Proof Crypto-Font · · Score: 2

    Even better, a Doctors hand writing - the NSA will have to hire pharmacists or RN's to read it.

  7. No US $ on Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Halts USD Withdrawals · · Score: 1

    But can you withdraw Euros, or Pounds (Sterling) or Yen or Lunies ?

  8. Caesars Gamblers on Data Miners Liken Obama Voters To Caesars Gamblers · · Score: 1

    Gamblers were loyal to Caesar? I must have missed that part in my sttidies of ancient Rome.

    (Or is this about a later Roman Emperor rather than Julius, Augustus or Tiberius...

    BTW I remember John Hurt's acting as Caligula in the British miniseries I Claudius - I am sure he will make an excellent Doctor.

  9. Re: How t f on Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton · · Score: 0

    It does in the Southern Hemisphere (I was born 'across the ditch' from the West Island)

    I thought the the Native people of Canada were called "First Nation" (except for the Eskimos who are called Inuit )

  10. How t f on Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton · · Score: 3, Funny

    "an aboriginal woman who died at age 24 ;

    How did an Aboriginal woman manage to travel all the way from Australia to Canada 400 years ago ?

  11. Re:what're they doing on the commercialization par on ISPs To Censor Porn By Default In the UK By 2014 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ""hate sites" (basically anything not PC)"

    Like Apple?

  12. Wat ? on Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle · · Score: 0

    as in Angkor Wat

  13. Re:Do not understand this. on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 1

    Surely a 1 character text field could cover all the types
    M & F for the 'traditional' genders
    B = bisexual G = Gay L = Lesbian
    T = Transexual (was F, now M )
    t = transexual (was M now F )
    N for none (neutered?)
    R = Robot

  14. Re:Error in summary ? on Don't Panic, But We've Passed Peak Apple (and Google, and Facebook) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can you see the government bailing them out (as they did wall street and the car makers?
    Thats what 'too big to fail means

  15. Or... on World Population Could Reach Nearly 11 Billion By 2100 · · Score: 1

    Climate change could cause drought and famine in many 3rd world countries where most of the growth is happening, and we end up with half that population

  16. WTF are Arisols ? Do you mean aerosols ?
    or perhaps arseholes/assholes

  17. Re:It's so breathless! on Mobile Devices Will Outnumber People By 2017 · · Score: 2

    "Right this moment, there are more ears of corn in use than there are people on the planet. Will we be eating them, or will they be eating us? "

    Climate change will take care of that, most of the land now growing corn will be in drought

  18. Re:email leak on Scientists Explain Why Chairman of House Committee On Science Is Wrong · · Score: 2

    " Vegan bakeries?"

    It can't be economica; to ship baked goods across 26 lightyears, and it wouldn't be very fresh by the time it got here.

  19. Ultracold Atoms on Phenomenon Discovered In Ultracold Atoms Brings Us a Step Closer To Atomtronics · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is this a new low power CPU family from Intel?

  20. Flew? on Asteroid Passes (Just) 65,000 Miles From Earth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "as it flew over the Southern Ocean of Tasmania, Australia"

    At 65,000 miles out, its not flying. (its in orbit around the sun)

    And the southern ocean does not belong to Tasmania, or even Australia

  21. Neanderthals had on World's Oldest Tumor Found In a Neanderthal Bone · · Score: 1

    Car insurance from Geico, but no health insurance.

    (Until the implementation of ObamaCare of course)

  22. Wink? on Google Patents Frowns and Winks To Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 2

    Nudge Nudge
    Wink Wink
    Say no more!

  23. Missing from headline on Lowest Mass Exoplanet Ever Directly Imaged. Probably. · · Score: 1

    Lowest mass exoplanet directly seen from the Earth

    We don't know what aliens have seen orbiting other stars...

  24. Which Doctors? on Julian Assange Says Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen Are "Witch Doctors" · · Score: 4, Funny

    As opposed to David Tennent , Matt Smith, and now John Hurt who are Who Doctors...

  25. Re:Hate group on In France, a Showcase of What Can Go Wrong With Online Voting · · Score: 1, Informative

    Napoleon Bonaparte was a hell of a lot worse than Sarkozy,

    Napoleon wasn't President, he was Emperor
    (You don't vote for Emperors)