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  1. Re:I want to see the fishies! on NASA Gets $75 Million For Europa Mission · · Score: 2

    Well Mars is a lot closer, and better understood.

  2. Re:Better than Boxee Box? on Roku Finally Gets a 2D Menu System · · Score: 1

    To allow you to stream from your own network storage install PLEX media server on the computer hosting your stuff, and install the PLEX app on your Roku.

  3. Re:Good for Google on Google Pledges Not To Sue Any Open Source Projects Using Their Patents · · Score: 2

    Microsoft placed C# and the CLI under it's Community Promise umbrella, which is basically the same thing as the Google promise.

  4. Re:oh no on Political Pressure Pushes NASA Technical Reports Offline · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bullshit right back at you. Sure you won't win, but the government doesn't prosecute you if you run as a third party candidate.

  5. Re:With good reason on Sarah Brightman's ISS Trip In Peril · · Score: 1

    Right. Because rich guys are getting a free ride to the ISS.

  6. Re:Haters Gonna Hate on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    So what happens when the GC kicks in?

  7. Re:My first thought on Defcad.com Wants To Be the Google of 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    Moon Unit Zappa.

  8. Re:Why? on IBM Designing Superman Servers For World's Largest Telescope · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the Wikipedia entry:

    "Suitable sites for the SKA telescope need to be in unpopulated areas with guaranteed very low levels of man-made radio interference. Four sites were initially proposed in South Africa, Australia, Argentina and China.[16] After considerable site evaluation surveys, Argentina and China were dropped and the other two sites were shortlisted (with New Zealand joining the Australian bid, and 8 other African countries joining the South African bid):"

  9. Re:Win/Win on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 2

    What if both of them were pointing at the other and saying "he did it!"

  10. Re:didn't shoot himself in the head? on NIH Neuroscientists: Junior Seau Had Brain Disease Caused By Hits To the Head · · Score: 1

    I heard it on NPR this morning. I may have misheard, or the report was inaccurate.

  11. Re:didn't shoot himself in the head? on NIH Neuroscientists: Junior Seau Had Brain Disease Caused By Hits To the Head · · Score: 2

    Seeing that he donated his brain to science before he killed himself, I think that's a fair assessment.

  12. Re:It's even in the same paragraph this time! on NIH Neuroscientists: Junior Seau Had Brain Disease Caused By Hits To the Head · · Score: 1

    Why are you assuming that people who are for ending football aren't against ending boxing as well?

  13. Re:I need new glasses. on Humans Have Been Eating Cheese For At Least 7,500 Years · · Score: 1

    Not sure about sub-Saharan Africa, but North Africa produces a lot of cheese.

  14. Re:Fahrenheit? on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 1

    How is Celsius worse than Fahrenheit in this situation?

  15. Re:Downside? Sounds like a perfect weapon system on The Downside of Warp Drives: Annihilating Whole Star Systems When You Arrive · · Score: 2

    Excellent! Now can get the military to spend money on researching FTL.

  16. Music Video on Singer Reportedly Outbids NASA for Space Tourist's Seat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now she can re-shoot "I Lost my Heart to a Starship Trooper" .... in space!

  17. Re:SHIT GOLD BRICKS on Super Bacteria Create Gold · · Score: 2

    In other news, bacteria to be renamed after Tywin Lannister.

  18. Re:Standard Scientology practice on Church of Scientology Enlisting Followers In Censorship · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how you got psychopathic from my statement. I'm an atheist and as such I see that the core belief tenants of Scientology are no less ridiculous than those of other religions. Scientology is to Judeo-Christianity is as pulp scifi is to fantasy, stylistically different but equally unlikely.

    So some governments have classified them as a cult. So what? Christianity was classified as a cult once upon a time as well. All religions that I'm aware of start off as small cults. True, the leadership of Scientology have done some very detestable things, but what religion isn't guilty of this at some point of its history?

  19. Re:Standard Scientology practice on Church of Scientology Enlisting Followers In Censorship · · Score: 2

    I would argue that many religions scam their followers in one way or another. Religions have been monetized before and used as tools to promote politics.
    The fact remains that (despite the intentions of the leadership), avid followers of Scientology don't think that they are scammed, and truly believe in what they are told, just like other avid believers of other religions.

  20. Re:Standard Scientology practice on Church of Scientology Enlisting Followers In Censorship · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why? They are both based on belief of the metaphysical and the scientifically un-provable.

  21. Re:A Microsoft story? on Microsoft Relents On Metro-Only Visual Studio Express · · Score: 1

    To be honest, I'm seeing as much Apple bashing as I see Microsoft bashing here in /.
    Now Google on the other hand can't seem to do any wrong.

  22. Re:WTF? on Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic · · Score: 3, Informative

    BYOD = Bring Your Own Device, i.e. devices that are owned by employees and brought with them to work.

  23. Re:IPV6 is BROCCOLI!? on After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    Boil it?! Heavens! Just steam it a bit. Boiling takes out too much flavor and nutrients. Steaming keeps all that and gives broccoli a really nice radiant green color and a good crunch to boot.

  24. Re:proof? on No Intelligent Aliens Detected In Gliese 581 · · Score: 1

    That's another one of those pessimistic tropes people like to bandy about. The inevitability of us eradicating ourselves. We've never ever been on the brink of extinction by our own volition. Even if we did detonate every single piece of ordinance we have, enough pockets of humanity will survive to insure survival of the race. It'll be rough for a while, but the human race is very resilient. The only time we were near extinction is the theorized event some 70,000 years ago, when according to genetic research we may have been down to as little as 2000 individuals. This was probably due to a severe drought of some kind, and not of our own engineering.

  25. Re:proof? on No Intelligent Aliens Detected In Gliese 581 · · Score: 1

    Hyper violent compared to what?

    We like to paint ourselves as this war like savage race when we don't even have a point of reference. Whatever is out there may very well be as violent as we are, if not more so.