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  1. How I keep things cold on NASA Universe-Watching Satellite Losing Its Cool · · Score: 1

    Several years ago I got the idea to use my wife's feet as a heat sink for an overclocked CPU. Once I solved the issue of frost buildup on the chip, it worked great.

  2. That SOB! on Gene Mutation Caused 2009 H1N1 Virus Spread · · Score: 2, Funny

    Holy Cow! I work with Gene. I never thought he was capable of something like this.

    Just goes to show you never really know someone.

  3. Re:Sounds like most "1st Gen" tech. on Just One Out of 16 Hybrids Pays Back In Gas Savings · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. I believe plug-in hybrids are the best vehicle for the near future, but they are more of an incremental improvement, not a radical improvement over existing cars.

    Correct, which is why it will be the 3rd and 4th gen hybrid that will be the game changer. Would you like to change your reply to "Yes and Yes" now? :-)

  4. Sounds like most "1st Gen" tech. on Just One Out of 16 Hybrids Pays Back In Gas Savings · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Think of today's Hybrids as the equivalent of the first iPod. "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." It's the 3rd and 4th gen of these vehicles that will blow everything else out off the road, in a matter of speaking.

  5. Pretty soon... on Google Envisions 10 Million Servers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pretty soon, Google will BE the Internet.

  6. Limited scope on Robotic Prostheses For Human Faces · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unless science can find another part of the human anatomy that is problematic when limp, this probably won't get off the ground.

  7. 212 posts and no one asks the obvious... on Spiraling Skyscraper Farms For a Future Manhattan · · Score: 1

    ... what's the threshold for number of occupants before they blast off?

    /no, I will not explain the reference.

  8. Plot for Simpson's ep? on World's Fastest Net Link 'Used To Dry Laundry' · · Score: 1

    Frink gets called in to help fix the internet connection of a Swedish girls dorm.
    Frink: Well here 's your trouble, you've got panties and bras all over your Web-o-Max 40Gb/s equipment, glaavin"

  9. Restoring my faith in /. on Child-Suitable Alternatives To Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Seeing the beat down the OP took restores my faith in Slashdot. Nice to see some common sense around here.

  10. Life imitates art. on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I suppose PitchBot 9000 was just a modified Howitzer?

  11. Re:I feel sorry for a lot of you on What Was Your First Gaming Experience? · · Score: 5, Funny

    What you say is true. The sword cuts both ways though. They were in sitting in their own poop when we were in the arcades playing great games like Tron and Joust, and we'll be sitting in our own poop when they are playing the new Nintendo Holodeck.

    Actually, we may have gotten the short end of the stick here.

  12. Re:The Mass of a Hole? on Largest Black Hole Measured · · Score: 1

    "What exactly is the mass of a hole? Besides a donut hole."

    Well, I've read comments here over the years that prove the existence of Mass Holes.
    Now I suppose we just find those users and weigh them.

  13. Repent Ye! Repent Ye!! on Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Delete thy Pr0n and believe, for the end cometh nigh!

  14. Greatest headline ever? on Ch-Ch-Chatting With the South Pole's IT Manager · · Score: 1

    I misread the headline as "Ch-Ch-Chatting with South PARK's IT Manager", and I thought "If the IT manager has crutches and a speech impediment, this is the greatest headline ever."

  15. Re:If you have one clock... on Playing With Atomic Clocks At Home · · Score: 1

    If you fill your garage with clocks, where will you park the DeLorean? /Get back, Marty //guitar riff goes here

  16. Support systems on Internet Uses 9.4% of Electricity In the US · · Score: 1

    So everything in my building is support for the Internet? Seems like I might use the AC for something else than cooling a PC that has net access.

  17. Obligitory on Review of Amazon's DRM-Less Music Download Store · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I don't know of any other download service that could top the Amazon MP3 store."

    Bittorrent?

  18. RIAA math is being used on False Ad Clicks Cost Google 1 Billion Dollars A Year · · Score: 4, Funny

    From TFA "Google does not charge its advertisers for clicks it determines to be invalid. For example, if 10 out of 100 clicks were excluded Google would not charge its advertisers for the invalid clicks, cutting into the company's revenue."

    Someone is counting invalid clicks as lost revenue, rather than counting them as, well... invalid? Who at the Googleplex used to work in the music/movie industry?

  19. Supersoakers... on How To Address A Visit from MPAA Senior VP Rich Taylor? · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...full of ferret pee.
    Then offer to pay his dry cleaning bill. No need to be a jerk about it.

  20. Familiar somehow... on Star Wars Fan Puts Himself in Carbonite · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have altered the fiberglass replica from the original casting. Pray I do not alter it further.

  21. Next step on New Nanoparticle Could Provide Simple Early Diagnosis Of Many Diseases · · Score: 1

    Sounds good. Can't wait till we invent a salt shaker that can detect the hydrogen peroxide for quick, mobile diagnosis!

  22. Re:Sing... on MTV to Invest Over $500 Million in Video Games · · Score: 1

    No mod points, but +1 Clever to you, sir.

  23. I'm in the money! on Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sweet! Can I get my $80K a year job back doing HTML for a dotcom?
    It's 1999 all over again, baby!

  24. That answers that on Game Tunnel's Final Independent Game Review Panel · · Score: 1

    Wow. A front page story, up for over 12 hours and the comments, including this one, are still in single digits.
    No one cared when they were around, and no one cared when they left.

  25. TTIWWP on Winnie Wrote a Math Book · · Score: 3, Funny

    This tread is worthless without pics... of hot, math using girls. /whaddaya mean, wrong website?