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  1. Re:How they were detected on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 1

    I think the joke is that there is no joke. It's inoffensive and goes nowhere.

  2. Re:Cutting room floor on Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time? · · Score: 1

    Denver's offensive line.

    Yeah, the original version of Take Me Home Country Roads is an f-bomb fest.

  3. It worked on you, didn't it? on Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time? · · Score: 1

    Since talking about the commercials has become almost as popular as the game itself, here's a place to do just that.

    Exactly what the advertisers want.

  4. Missed headline opportunity on Sound System Simulates the Roar of a Rocket Launch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sound system simulates strident sonics of soaring space ships

  5. Re:'Radiation Free' on Ultrasound Technique Provides a New Radiation Free Way To Visualize Tumors · · Score: 1

    Is that "surely" in the sense of "I know absolutely nothing about the subject"?

    In case you hadn't noticed, radiation can also cause cancer! That alone should have clued you in to the fact that it's a little more complicated than your first-grade understanding of medicine.

    Still, you keep brushing your teeth with radium toothpaste if you think it'll help you live longer.

  6. Duh on Can Wolfram Alpha Tell Which Team Will Win the Super Bowl? · · Score: 1

    But while Wolfram Alpha can crunch all the historical data it wants, and that data can suggest one team will likely triumph over another

    I could've told you that without any data.

  7. Re:Why unlikely? on Astronomers Investigating Unknown Object That Hit the Earth In 773 AD · · Score: 1

    Posting to draw attention to parent.

    What's the calculation there? Is it anything do with the Poisson distribution?

  8. Re:I love ARM on ARM Researching Novel Chip Memory · · Score: 1

    MOV PC,R14

    Ahhh... that's the stuff.

  9. My list on First New Generic Top Level Domains Opening · · Score: 1

    .slash .dot .www

    www.doubleu.dot

  10. Re:"But it's right." on How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved · · Score: 1

    you cannot state that this hypothesis is absolutely, definitely correct.

    That's your theory.

  11. Re:If you get Hawkings to shut up on How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved · · Score: 1

    every famous theorectical physicist you ever heard of has produced provably false and bad models

    Or so everyone used to believe. ;)

  12. Re:I always thought... on How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved · · Score: 1

    In the Standard Model, black holes are singularities.

    Really? I always that the presence of the singularity is what causes the black hole to be, but they're not actually one and the same.

    Comological Doctor AC agrees here.

  13. Re:Solved, my ass on Russia's Dyatlov Pass Incident May Have Been Explained By Modern Science · · Score: 1

    Have you got a better theory? And it's still only a theory:

    Russia's Dyatlov Pass Incident May Have Been Explained By Modern Science

    American film and television producer Donnie Eichar believes he has solved

  14. "keeping people safe" on David Cameron Says Fictional Crime Proves Why Snooper's Charter Is Necessary · · Score: 2

    keeping people safe.

    This is the big problem. You can't keep people safe and there's on need to strive to do so to the absolute. You can keep them safer, and the trick is to strike the right balance between their security and their freedom.

    If only there was some apposite quote from an elder statesmen of a bygone age...

  15. Re:Peak "platform" on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 3, Funny
  16. Headling is wrong on Now On Video: GCHQ Destroying Laptop Full of Snowden Disclosures · · Score: 1

    GCHQ Destroying Laptop Full of Snowden Disclosures

    As the summary actually makes clear, one of the interesting about this incident is that the Guardian editors opted to destroy the laptop themselves, instead of letting GCHQ do it.

  17. Re:Oh my god, it's full of information on How the Web Makes a Real-Life Breaking Bad Possible · · Score: 1

    I got +5 Funny for that? Yeesh. Easy crowd.

  18. Dumbest headline question ever on When Cars Go Driverless, What Happens To the Honking? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When Cars Go Driverless, What Happens To the Honking?

    It Will Stop.

    Next?

  19. Re:Fish antibiotics on Animal Drug Investigation Reveals Pet Medication Often Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    Honestly I hadn't thought that far ahead, but I know you can go online and find information.

    Today you can.

  20. Re:well... on Israeli Group To Attempt Moon Landing · · Score: 1

    But then how will everyone know that he's just blindly copy-pasted a couple of paragraphs from the ohhhh nevermind.

  21. Headline correction on Former Dev Gives Gloomy Outlook On Linux Support For the Opera Browser · · Score: 1

    Former Dev Gives Gloomy Outlook On Linux Support From the Opera Browser

    FTFY. Linux will always be there for Opera to run on, if it wishes to.

  22. Re:Yet this is exactly what Ray Kurzweil wants to on Startup Out of MIT Promises Digital Afterlife — Just Hand Over Your Data · · Score: 1

    Actually I knew he was dead, but are there no privacy/consent implications? Remember when Geordi fell in love with that hologram chick, or the real woman's reaction when she found out about it a few seasons later? (maybe you don't watch TNG; but that was pretty much the pertinent plot)

    And what if, one day, these kinds of simulations become complete enough to be considered sentient? In a book I recently read, a dying father wanted to do something similar for his son - create a partial simulation of himself that continue, in some ways, to be the father he wouldn't be around to be.

    The project failed because, in part (as I recall), the simulation wasn't stable or complete enough not to suffer a mental breakdown after a few hours. And there's a lot of negative public reaction to experimentation on the simulations.

  23. Re:Yet this is exactly what Ray Kurzweil wants to on Startup Out of MIT Promises Digital Afterlife — Just Hand Over Your Data · · Score: 1

    Who's joking?

  24. Re:Seriously, how stupid is this? on The Scent Rhythm Watch Tells Time By Releasing Fragrances · · Score: 1

    Cutting the day into 4 pieces?

    Sssshuuuutuuuup. You'll awaken the mummified corpse of Gene Ray.

    Actually, he seems to have moved a little beyond harmless eccentricity:

    Children will be blessed for Killing Of Educated Adults Who Ignore 4 Simultaneous Days Same Earth Rotation.

    Adults Eat Teenagers Alive, No Record Of Their Death.

    All that inappropriate capitalisation. It's like reading Slashdot headli-

    Oh. My. God. He's here.

  25. Re:Obligate fish story... on It's Not Memory Loss - Older Minds May Just Be Fuller of Information · · Score: 1

    Obligate fish story...

    Wrong but right.