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  1. Re:Joke #2 on Sea Life Wiped Out by Neutron Star Collision? · · Score: 1
    would there be any way to protect the planet?

    Quickly, hide behind the Sun!

    Hurry up, I said quickly!

  2. /.ing on Caltech Pranks MIT's Prefrosh Weekend · · Score: 1
    We suspect that some Jacks had been DOS-ing the site in order to cause it to overflow and shutdown we would like to say that DOS-ing is not productive, not funny, and is not in any way under the code of conduct of pranks or hacks, and is in fact quite illegal.

    Then they put it on Slashdot...

  3. Re:robocup on Camel-Riding Robots · · Score: 1
    Otherwise you might not find a human team which is willing to play against your robots ...

    Winning by default is a win.

  4. Re:42 is the answer on Google Delivering Factual Answers · · Score: 1
    I intentionally did not show quotation marks. If you put quotation marks around it, you get a "definition" answer pointing at Wikipedia. If you ask Google the question without quotation marks, you get the "answer".

    What is really interesting is what is attached to the Google "answer". It's not obviously relevant, unless you really know the background and you're really in on the answer.

  5. Re:Recent experience story on Is Obtaining a Windows Refund Still Difficult? · · Score: 1
    Maybe he lied about the ending. You'll have to read TFA to find out.

    By the way, the butler did not do it.

  6. Re:Your journey starts here on Is Obtaining a Windows Refund Still Difficult? · · Score: 1

    Generic laptop case?

  7. Bush on Google Delivering Factual Answers · · Score: 1

    Who is George Bush?
    Google does not answer.

  8. Re:Doesn't it seem a bit odd... on Sony Patents Matrix-Like Game Technology · · Score: 1
    When you put in a software patent, you actually KNOW HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT.

    But Microsoft has patented software...

  9. 42 is the answer on Google Delivering Factual Answers · · Score: 1

    You asked about 42.
    Perhaps you intended to ask: What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?

  10. Re:Doesn't it seem a bit odd... on Sony Patents Matrix-Like Game Technology · · Score: 1
    The movie makers used wires hooked up to the spinal cord at the base of the neck, not ultrasonics.

    Sony is patenting a process, not implementation. They're patenting the concepts, the same way one patents software.

  11. Blender: Six ways of labeling "puree". on Sony Patents Matrix-Like Game Technology · · Score: 1
    a technique for aiming ultrasonic pulses at specific areas of the brain to induce sensory experiences

    What about inducing puree?

  12. Splat! on Lunar Dust: A Major Worry for Moon Visitors · · Score: 1

    Before establishing a lunar colony, we'll have to go prospecting in the asteroids and find some with carbonaceous material. This material has various resemblances to kerogen, which under heat deep underground on Earth is converted to oil. Hit a colony site with such an asteroid. I believe the description in song is "put up a parking lot".

  13. "Lost and Desperate Housewives" on Google Experiments with Video Blogging · · Score: 1

    Watch slashdotting for creation of video blog: "Lost and Desperate Housewives".

  14. Re:Oh, no! on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 1

    The Doctor is dead! Long live the Doctor! Who?

  15. And another reaction.. on 95% of IT Projects Not Delivered On Time · · Score: 1
  16. Re:So lets see what happens ... on Robotic Nanotech Swarms on Mars... in 2034 · · Score: 2, Funny
    A 100 years later a huge fleet of warships from Mars controlled by a huge artificial AI comes back to Earth and obliterates it.

    Powered by a double redundancy drive?

    It is really, really artificial. We just have to have a man on Mars so it is manmade-manmade.

  17. Re:Deep fryer? on Computer Crash Reactions Examined · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously he didn't cover the laptop with breading first.

  18. Re:Past Winners with Spoilers on 18th International Obfuscated C Code Contest Opens · · Score: 1
    My favorite, many years ago, won "Best Abuse of the Rules":
    #include "/dev/tty"
  19. New GoogleNews notice on Google Begins Removing AFP From Google News · · Score: 1

    "The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program and no Frenchmen."

  20. Finally! on NASA Unveils Centennial Challenges · · Score: 1
    a light-weight, ultra-strength tether

    Finally, better materials for tetherball!

  21. LAN... on Internet Access 10 Kilometers High Up In The Air · · Score: 1

    Do you have to pay $30 to plug in, or is flight time LAN party time?

  22. Call me Ishmael on Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute? · · Score: 1
  23. How big? on Pentium M Goes SFF · · Score: 1
    toaster-sized desktop PC

    That's about a quarter the size of a microwave oven, kiddies.

  24. I can hardly wait on Holy LEGO Blocks, Batman! · · Score: 1

    I can hardly wait for the Lego Blocks version of this movie.

  25. Re:All the security in the world... on Hobbit Movie in Four Years? · · Score: 2, Funny
    "the high security planned for King Kong's pre-release screenings."

    I'll be impressed if it involves fifty-foot-tall gates.
    Or fifty-foot-tall Gates.