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  1. Re:Only one word is appropriate: on Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town · · Score: 1

    Maybe what the Outback needs is a nuclear reactor to be quickly built there.

  2. No Linux? on StarCraft II Beta Signups Open · · Score: 3, Funny

    No Linux, no interest. I won't make my machines susceptible to zerg infection in order to play.

  3. Re:"World of Fight" on Spurned Chinese Publisher May Create WoW Knockoff · · Score: 1

    Well, someone's likely to end up in court with a world of pain.

  4. What does the building look like? on Battle Lines Being Drawn As Obama Plans To Curb Tax Avoidance · · Score: 1

    Does that building bear any resemblance to a police box?

  5. What's the URL? on Google Mows With Goats · · Score: 1

    So what is the GoatView URL?

  6. Re:Yeah, but it was okay... on Tsunami Hit New York City Region In 300 BC · · Score: 1

    A noun, a verb, and 300 BCE.

    Yeah, that's about $2.50 in American money, right?

  7. Publish and be damned! on Chicago Tribune Reporters Don't Want Readers' Pre-Approval · · Score: 1

    Yeah, wouldn't want anything to be changed, as the present system works so well. Better keep up the tradition of deciding to publish the same bad articles.

  8. Re:Well.. on FTC Backs Off Red Flag Rules Again · · Score: 1

    Some delay is good. It's the worst Capture the Flag server ever.

  9. Re:California Environmental laws! on Tiniest Lamp Spans Quantum, Classical Physics · · Score: 1

    He must have been referring to the cueing of scientists to apply for funding, and the resulting queue of funding applications.

  10. Put it over there on A Look Into the FBI's "Everything Bucket" · · Score: 1

    Is this a bucket or a "Raiders of the Lost Ark" warehouse?

  11. Re:Intel AMD on Intel Faces $1.3B Fine In Europe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And the headline says that Intel is fine in Europe. I know what Facebook is, but I don't know what "Intel Faces" is, but it's kind of expensive.

  12. Wrench, crescent wrench, crescent hammer. on Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss · · Score: 1

    He's right. At least the simple methods should be taught along with examples of when those fail, skim over some more advanced tools, and teach how to find the right tool for the job. Otherwise you'll encounter pinball machines that don't accept coins for a while because they're doing a bubble sort of all the games ever played (stored on a 500GB disk) so they can show the top score.

  13. The Government, Improving. on What Kind of Data Center Can You Build With $500M? · · Score: 1

    As this is a government project, for that much money they can buy ten laptops with the required three-button Teflon-ball mice and ergonomic anti-Teflon mousepads.

  14. Re:So let me get this straight... on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 1

    I'm quite familiar with gardening, and do use the proper bugs for them. I'm just following the law of unintended consequences. I said biting lice (which eat feathers and hair), while you're describing sucking lice; biting lice usually need hosts and I'd rather not find out if they can survive in warm mats. And do you really treat your gardening wood chips with pesticides and fungicides to make them last longer?

  15. Re:So let me get this straight... on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 1
    Naked sheep might object to using wool. And does sheep feed grow better with wool mats, so the technology can be used to raise a larger number of sheep so more wool mats can be made?

    Don't forget to order pesticides for the new crop of clothes moths, carpet beetles, cockroaches, and biting lice which eat hair or wool. And field crickets like damp places to hide, but they'll eat the plants instead of eating the mat.

  16. Re:Unicode support on Russian Manned Space Vehicle May Land With Rockets · · Score: 1

    I wonder what his hovercraft is filled with, then.

  17. Speech to text on Crowd-Source Translation Software For Free Content? · · Score: 1

    For speech-to-text, an obvious place to start is with the long-aged ViaVoice engine. If you can figure out how to buy it, as the page for that info is empty or broken.

  18. Re:My "big idea" on Crowd-Source Translation Software For Free Content? · · Score: 1

    Yes, you do need to know an intermediate language. It's the language which you use to identify the exact meaning of the original. It's called transfer-based machine translation. The computer will have rules to emit facts, concepts, and actions into various languages, but you have to define the components so it understands them. You'll need to know exactly how to define that meaning to "arbitrary precision", and to do that you have to use a language (whether represented as text or graph images). You'll have to use a specific language and it doesn't matter whether the representation is "run (verb)", "run (v)", "run is a verb", "run (v):rapid motion on foot", or "run -> p(3) * 2a + node(18)b".

  19. Put it right here on EFF Sues Apple Over BluWiki Legal Threats · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And now we're discussing it.
    Please attach subpoena as a reply.

  20. Who is the Surgeon General? on US Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu · · Score: 1

    Who is the Surgeon General? Why can't Obama's advisers advise him of a good Surgeon General nominee, who then can advise the President about a health emergency?

  21. It's a society on Cybersquatting and Social Media · · Score: 1

    The fact that some people need/want to be registered on 120 social networking sites at once means that something's horribly wrong here.

    It's a society of media.

  22. Tubes everywhere on Cops To Start CrimeTube To Report Offenses · · Score: 1

    Apparently the Internet is a bunch of tubes, dudes.

  23. The Realm vs China? on Hundreds of Thousands of Chinese Black-Hats · · Score: 2, Funny

    Following the tradition, I did not RTFA, but I did read the ad on this article. Cisco is advertising something called "The Realm" and illustrating it with some superhero types. Can't those guys take care of China for us? Cisco, save us! And make a reality show of it for our enjoyment.

  24. Re:If we cared enough to make the hard choice on NASA Moon Launch May Be Delayed After 2020 · · Score: 2, Funny
    We choose to go to the Moon not because it is easy,
    but because we might get there someday if we have extra money left over from the meetings, all those Earth-navel-watching things, and paying companies to invent stuff that they can sell. Yeah, we'll get there someday.

    You know, if we can send a man to the Moon, maybe we can send a man to the Moon.

  25. InDenverTimes story about this on Paid Online News Venture Fails To Get Subscribers · · Score: 1

    Maybe InDenverTimes' own story should have been linked: "INDenverTimes provides update"