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  1. Re:Can slashdot cause flu? on Google Can Predict the Flu · · Score: 1

    Hypochondriacs in nerd-enhanced areas, that is.

  2. Save some for taxes on Raising Doubts About Australia's Broadband Upgrade Plan · · Score: 1

    But if the government encourages faster Internet speeds, the government-required filtering equipment has to be bigger and more expensive in order to handle the larger amount of data. So it only makes sense to spend less on filtering by using slower Internet connections.

  3. Well, maybe we know... on Australia's ISPs Speak Out Against Filtering · · Score: 4, Funny

    Zero comments. Maybe this post is being filtered in Australia.

  4. Re:11111111 on Can the US Stop the Illegal Export of Its Technology? · · Score: 1

    NaN NaN NaN NaN
    NaN NaN NaN NaN
    NaN-NaN-NaN
    Goodbye!

  5. Re:11111111 on Can the US Stop the Illegal Export of Its Technology? · · Score: 1

    They'd better get cracking on the paperwork for another bit for the next biennial period.

  6. Backslash! on PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just make sure they name it a backslash in the documentation, not a slash.

  7. I'll take the bomb for the win. on Soaring, Cryptography, and Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    Think about gliders versus nuclear bombs? I think the nukes win.

  8. ... or I'll digitally sign a ticket! on F-Secure Calls For "Internetpol" To Fight Crimeware · · Score: 3, Funny

    Stop, I'm an Internetpol polinetwork interperson!

  9. Re:Windows on Earth? on DIY Live Photos From ISS · · Score: 1
  10. Windows on Earth? on DIY Live Photos From ISS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Windows on Earth? I thought the Microsoft license forbade such a large use. Well, it will be interesting to see what breaks.

  11. Musically lame on Microsoft's New Programming Language, "M" · · Score: 1

    So they've gone from C-sharp/D-flat to just humming? Well, the learning curve is flatter.

  12. BRAINNNNNNS on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now that it hit, zombie party at CERN!

  13. Re:Asteroid? Why not meteor? on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

    If a comet is on the ground, we call it a glacier.

  14. Re:Think in four dimensions on Birth of a New African Ocean · · Score: 1

    And after the ocean stage, it will be a mountain range when the edge collides with another continent. So why isn't this article called "Birth of a New African Mountain Range"? How shortsighted.

  15. Computer detected, thus... on Computer Detection Effective In Spotting Cancer · · Score: 1

    "Computer Detection Effective In Spotting Cancer"
    I detect computers in my room, thus that means there is cancer in my room? Ick.

  16. Re:What Has Changed? on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 1

    then why is my "750 GB" hard drive only registering 698 GB?

    You've configured 52 GB swap? :-)

  17. Re:That would be bad on Another Way the LHC Could Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    About how big of a crater would 700,000 liters of liquid helium make?

    Well, if it ignites, because that would be a nuclear fusion fire... it would be about as big as Earth. Well, if it's "burning" densely enough for the triple-alpha process to make carbon and much of it converts. Otherwise, if I'm reading the charts right, helium fusion consumes energy rather than generates it, although it emits gamma rays so there would be something interesting going on in the neighborhood.

  18. Get it while it's hot! on Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Of course water is warmer... since the last glacial period... since the Little Ice Age... Oh, but recently oceans and atmosphere have been cooling. Well, there's still that free gas available at the moment - got a funnel and some pipe?

  19. Ocean pollution on Tsunami Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 3, Funny

    OK, so after we surround every body of land with these things, tsunamis will go around all the obstacles and keep going around and around the planet. So how many tsunamis going around and around does it take to make an ocean useless?

  20. The signature is... on World's Oldest Rocks Found · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The signature on the old rocks reads "John McCain".

  21. Welcome to the Egress on Microsoft's Mundie Sees a Future In Spatial Computing · · Score: 4, Funny

    So would one enter this virtual 3-D world through the previously mentioned Internet Filtering Lobby?

  22. Re:Try that in the US on Man Attempts To Cross English Channel With Jet Wing · · Score: 1

    In the US he only has to worry about clearance. If I were him approaching Britain I'd be on the lookout for Spitfires.

  23. Re:This is evidence of life. on Naphthalene Found In Outer Space · · Score: 1

    Mothballs repel moths. Mothra's in the other direction... or hiding on Earth.

  24. Overly constrained on Inside the DARPA-esque Singapore Military Bot Contest · · Score: 1

    "How does a robot differentiate between friend and foe?"

    My, my, aren't we picky. Well, if you're really arming most kinds of robots, because they can't see they can't differentiate, thus it's not relevant to them.

  25. Re:First? Not a chance on 3M Launches First Pocket Projector · · Score: 1

    It's in his shirt pocket so his avatar is imaged on his neck.