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  1. Re:Welcome to February on SciFi Channel To Air A New Galactica Series · · Score: 1

    Felgercarb!

  2. Re:CFCC on World's First Linux Computer In A CF Card · · Score: 1

    So a Beowulf Cluster of them would be A Beowulf Cluster Compact-Flash-Card-Format Computer (ABCCFCFC)

  3. Pool Playing Robot on Deep Green - A Pool Playing Robot? · · Score: 1

    OK, I'll start the game:
    Marco!

  4. Imagine /. Without Beowulf on 10 Years of Beowulf Clustering · · Score: 2, Interesting
    In pointing out Beowulf clustering, I might have started the "Imagine a Beowulf cluster..." catchphrase.

    I'm somewhat sorry.
    Now go and cluster something.

  5. Re:well it depends... on Are Job Perks Coming into Vogue Again? · · Score: 1
    Is it "free as in beer" or "free as in speech"? :)

    How does one answer that question if there is a company producing public domain products and provides free beer?

    On the other hand, some things one does not question.

  6. Re:How much? on Human Powered Helicopter · · Score: 1
    about $29000 Canadian

    The price will go down as they start making production quantities for sale to all those commuters who live three blocks for work.
    ...or when the Canadians inherit the Earth.

  7. Thinking Outside The Box on Human Powered Helicopter · · Score: 0

    The room will be falling for four minutes.

  8. Re:torrents? on Olympics to Have Live Online Coverage, But Not For Americans · · Score: 1

    I forsee a great disturbance in the torrents...

  9. Re:In RE: "Mayo Jar" on Lawyer Sues Yahoo for Message Board Name-Calling · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'll regret knowing that we're using the Source Open Contents 'Verting System. This was reverse engineered from basic science and is compatible with all containering systems. To protect against usage patents, the system randomly chooses what tool to use to open the top, side, or bottom of the container. After the contents are spread, dropped, sprayed, or condensed on the sandwich the container is destroyed in multiple ways so as to make its opening method be in an unknown state. Any legal papers will vanish when they arrive in the legally undefinable area around each sandwich.

  10. Duck! on Lawyer Sues Yahoo for Message Board Name-Calling · · Score: 1
    subjected to name-calling (such as shyster)

    Ooohhh... Shouldn't have said that....

  11. Re:It Must Be Late on Dr Who, Daleks Kiss And Make Up · · Score: 1

    Rather than the original headline's implications, I prefer the images of Dr. Who, Daleks, KISS, and whomever is getting the Makeup.

  12. Re:Watch for self-interest too on The World's Largest Environmental Experiment · · Score: 1
    If you'd do the effort to click on the original link above, there are several links scattered in the article. If you want the original research, try looking at references at the bottom.

    Here's the hard part: Hold down that left mouse button and highlight what you think might be the title of the paper. Then let go of that mouse button.

    After a nap, try Control-C to copy the title. Go to Google and use Control-V to insert the title. Put it inside quotation marks ("). Click Search.

    Altitude dependence of atmospheric temperature trends: Climate models versus observation.
    Disparity of tropospheric and surface temperature trends: new evidence.
    Impact of urbanization and land-use change on climate.

  13. Re:No really. on DEFCON WiFi Shootout Winners Set A Land Record · · Score: 1
    Maybe you have metal mesh in your plaster, or a lot of metal in cinder blocks.

    You might gain a greater radius of coverage if you put an AP high in the house. And hang some metal around the edges of the attic so the signal can be reflected down into the rooms.

    Or hang your AP under a balloon, in the center of a parabolic antenna aimed down at your house.

  14. Re:Oh Crap!! on Net Addiction Gets Finnish Soldiers Out Of Army · · Score: 1
    Now I am am going to get locked up and forced to take medications. Please don't tell anyone.

    Take two BFG an hour.

  15. Good for shopping on HP Releases Linux-Based Notebook · · Score: 1

    Great. I've used Toshiba because of pretty good Linux experience with their laptops, but now HP moves to the top of the list. And I won't have to reformat the Microsoft partitions as the first step.

  16. Re:Watch for self-interest too on The World's Largest Environmental Experiment · · Score: 1
    Look at the research, it is in several places.

    You may have trouble finding it on IPCC pages, as the IPCC states it is interested in human-caused warming. So be careful what you look for from them too.

  17. Re:They're paying $500 per user. on Telstra Used Linux To Get Microsoft Discounts · · Score: 5, Funny
    Mod parent down he's claiming that microsoft doesn't cost a ton of money!

    That depends upon the weight of Australian Dollars and whether it is a metric ton.

  18. Re:Not just iron on The World's Largest Environmental Experiment · · Score: 1
    Ask for support of all claims.

    Remember to ask for support of claims that the temperature history resembles a hockey stick, that there is significant warming, and that climate simulations show how the real world behaves.

  19. Re:Looked at N. America lately? on The World's Largest Environmental Experiment · · Score: 1
    I'd guess that tree farms probably aren't nearly as good at carbon-fixing

    But what happens to the carbon?
    The carbon locked in a tree farm's wood gets harvested. If it becomes building material and is sealed inside a wall then that carbon has been removed from the atmosphere. If a tree falls in the forest and rots, some of that carbon is released to the atmosphere.

  20. Re:He's Dead, Jim. on Living Without a Pulse · · Score: 1

    Definitely a neon label. Flashing neon.

  21. All I Needed To Know I Learned From The Headline on Lockheed Replaces 10,000 Solaris Seats with Linux · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Lockheed Replaces 10,000 Solaris Seats with Linux"

    Great. Which Lockheed aircraft have these seats?

  22. Re:He's Dead, Jim. on Living Without a Pulse · · Score: 3
    "CLEAR!!!!!!!!!!!" "ZZZZAPP!!!!" /dies

    Why would he die?
    Running electricity through where his heart used to be would not affect the insulated pump.

    However, there should be a label: "Normal blood pressure 90 psi. Check oil every two years. Turn off this switch before autopsy or burial. Press red button before vigorous exercise."

  23. Re:radar vs. ground on Probe to 'Look Inside' Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Maybe they'll send up a neutrino observatory and image the rock with a Macroscope.

  24. Re:So NASA is using movie names? on Probe to 'Look Inside' Asteroids · · Score: 4, Funny
    • Spiderman: Space elevator construction.
    • Catwoman: Space elevator climbing.
    • Fahrenheit 9/11: Testing of temperature measurement and conversion methods.
    • Dude, Where's my Car?: Examination of Apollo lunar relics.
    • I, Robot: Self-controlled self-directed probe searching for Philosopher's Stone.
    • Control Room: Simulator of Control Room.
    • The Day After Tomorrow: Government daily project scheduling research.
    • Dodgeball: Moving Earth out of the way of asteroids
    • Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle: Dual mission to test gas giant atmospheric fueling.
    • A Home At The End Of The World: Antarctic Mars outpost simulation.
    • The Hunting Of The President: Annual NASA budget approvals.
    • Man On Fire: Launch pad safety testing.
    • The Manchurian Candidate: Racing China to the Moon.
    • Maria Full of Grace: Space burial missions.
    • Natural Disaster: First mission to film an Earth-impact asteroid.
    • Natural Distaster: Final mission to film an Earth-impact asteroid.
    • Raising Helen: Launch of perfect mission to Trojan orbits.
    • Sleepover: Concurrent artificial hibernation experiments.
    • The Stepford Wives: Mission combining best of human and robotic technologies.
    • The Story of the Weeping Camel: Lunar water extraction mission.
    • Super Size Me: Food production from carbonaceous asteroid.
    • The Terminal: Orbital spaceport.
    • Thunderbirds: Rescue squad.
    • Troy: Gold extraction mission to asteroid.
    • Van Helsing: Orbital assembly of probe from pieces of old probes.
    • The Village: First Lunar maternity ward.
    • White Chicks: Underground lunar aquatic recreation facility.
    • White Heat: Mercury rover mission.
    • Little Black Book: Mission scheduling system.
    • Alien vs. Predator: Mission to make two asteroids collide.
    • We Don't Live Here Anymore: Probe to document effects after first Earth impact asteroid.
    • Without A Paddle: Experiments in zero-gravity propulsion by astronaut in large enclosed space.
    • Exorcist: The Beginning: First mission to hold an umbrella between warming Earth and the Sun.
    • Remember Me, My Love: Archive library mission before first Earth-impact asteroid.
    • Bright Young Things: Meteors caused by human space debris.
    • The Brown Bunny: Lunar coprolites.
    • Hero: NASA lobbyist.
    • Vanity Fair: Satellite whose primary instrument is a telescope which examines its own reflection on terrestrial smooth surfaces.
    • Last Life In The Universe: Ongoing reality show on NASA TV
    • The Cookout: Automated management of rotation for the cooling of space habitats.
    • Head In The Clouds: NASA mission statement.
    • Taxi: Rutan outsourcing
    • Shall We Dance: Phobos/Deimos sampling mission.
    • Flight of the Phoenix: International Space Station emergency escape plan.
    • After the Sunset: Post-terminator tracking probe.
    • Terminator 2: Second post-terminator tracking probe.
    • House of Flying Daggers: Saturn ring fly-through mission.
    • The Woodsman: Android to be sent ahead of manned mission to prepare site and then await discovery.
    • Proof: Global temperature measurement mission.
    • Fat Albert: Orion drive test using proven "Fat Man" technology.
    • Are We There Yet?: Mission status monitoring system.
  25. Do It Right on Probe to 'Look Inside' Asteroids · · Score: 1, Funny
    I'd prefer a mission where the inside of an asteroid is examined by taking it apart.

    How many grad students can fit in a Space Shuttle cargo bay?