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  1. Troll! on A Traffic Control System For Molecules · · Score: 2, Funny

    Halt, troll molecule!
    Get under that bridge!

  2. Re:Good job... on First Ever Wild Grizzly/Polar Hybrid Shot · · Score: 5, Funny
    Apparently it couldn't stop bullets.

    It did stop bullets.

  3. Re:Unlawful Comabatants? on MIT Media Lab Fashions · · Score: 1
    I actually meant you switch to your own uniform so noone can accuse you of being a spy

    Helping the enemy and not being in the enemy's uniform is traditionally used as proof of being a spy. A chameleon garment which has the ability to simulate enemy uniforms might in itself be considered a spying tool, although being seen in fake uniforms before changing back to your own uniform would surely be fatal.

    ... an age-old custom prevailed: if you were caught in your army's uniform, you were a prisoner of war; if you were in disguise, you were a spy and could be hanged.

    Military designers would surely use such technology to create "camouflage" garments which can be used to hide a soldier, and perhaps could also emulate one's own uniform. Spy agencies might use such technology to create full chameleon garments which can emulate many uniform designs, but a spy would be operating under different rules than would soldiers.

  4. Re:Unlawful Comabatants? on MIT Media Lab Fashions · · Score: 1
    So my question is why not use this kind of material to create a uniform which matches the enemy's uniform and if you think you are about to get captured flick a switch and switch to full uniform.
    Voila, you are shot as a spy.
  5. Re:You could... on Mirror Jams on Venus Express Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    OK, so just send it to Jupiter to cool off and swing past Mercury to warm it up. Repeat until the mirror works again. Or did someone neglect to mount the Orion Drive on the probe?

  6. Re:Production Issues? on Alcohol Powered Muscles · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously the solution is grain production robots.

  7. Fraternity Research! on Alcohol Powered Muscles · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I thank all those fraternities who researched this topic for a long time, so we can have well-muscled robots.

  8. Re:Simple on Human and Machine Readable Handwritten Language? · · Score: 1

    OK, I got "S" and "W" from python just fine. Having trouble wriggling it around to form "H". It's easier when it's dead but then the python doesn't last as long.

  9. Re:Uh.... on Human and Machine Readable Handwritten Language? · · Score: 1
    "Try writing in someone's name on them."

    OK... "Anonymous Coward".
    No problem.

  10. Unfair! on Captain America vs. The Patriot Act? · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I'm not a WMD, my only power is in gaining /. Funny mod karma!

  11. Re:Oblig. on Software Options for Operating a Mid-Sized Hotel? · · Score: 1

    Isn't the term for the field "hospitality industry"?

  12. Re:Make one yourself on Carrying Your IT Equipment With You? · · Score: 1

    Apparently if you can grab some vanvas you'll learn something and know something.

  13. Re:Center of the earth on World's Largest Pyramid Discovered in Bosnia? · · Score: 1

    Silly Iron?

  14. Re:not very... on FBI Releases Secret Subpoena Information · · Score: 1
    No, not very secret.
    without asking for a court's permission. From the article: "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court,
    And they asked for a court's permission without asking for a court's permission?
  15. This already exists on Test Drive Your Dream Job · · Score: 1

    "Hi, I'm your intern this week."

  16. Not Vigenere Cypher? on Judge Creates Own Da Vinci Code · · Score: 1

    Doesn't seem to be a Vigenere cypher with the key "in reading HBHG and DVC".

  17. Proximity coding on Judge Creates Own Da Vinci Code · · Score: 1

    Or, looking at the characters after the marked ones: "cashicyremebassterhsesuearraui?" (no word shown after (f) in above comment).

  18. Re:Yes! on Fake Scientific Paper Detector · · Score: 1
    I submitted a half-dozen of the documents I've written over the last few years (mostly business reports of one sort or another) and never got a score higher than 35% for any whole document.

    WOULD.. YOU.. LIKE.. TO.. REWRITE.. A.. DOCUMENT?

  19. Re:How did it get there? on The World's Deepest Dinosaur · · Score: 1

    For Slashdot users, it is
    3.564857e-22 parsec per year.

  20. Re:Wow on The World's Deepest Dinosaur · · Score: 3, Funny
    Just put my knucklebone somewhere nice please

    Hey, Marge! They had knucklebones! The Slashdot users were dinosaurs!

  21. Astronomical Commute on Leaving Early May Cost You Time · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He neglected to include astronomical factors. At some times of the year he may be experiencing sunrise and sunset slowdowns, as drivers slow due to glare from the sun being directly in front of them. The spring period when he noticed a slowdown in the evening could be due to driving nearly directly west (he did not describe his route, but his house is to the northwest). My guess is that on his drive home he uses the major road toward the west which has a few curves in it, with drivers being bothered by the sun just after each curve.

  22. Re:Here comes the chorus on Breaking the Visa Backlog · · Score: 1

    Well, at least they're not speeding things up by using offshore outsourcing of visa processing.

  23. This Sex Thing Is Old Hat on New Internet Regulation Proposed · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if I'll be able to view my family's web site after I put on a rating for the genealogy information. It shows in there that people are making babies all over the country.

  24. Re:Huh? on Most Primitive Snake Fossil Discovered · · Score: 1
    Does "most primitive" = oldest?
    Want a coelacanth? Primitive but you can get one that was alive quite recently.
  25. Re:T Rex May Have Been A Pack Hunter on Pack-Hunting Dinosaurs Found As Large As T-Rex · · Score: 1
    " Some researchers have proposed that the juveniles may have been the pursuit predators of a pack of hunting T rex."

    ... to swallow the T rex which swallowed the cat which swallowed the mouse...