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  1. Re:Toner. on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 1

    Decades ago an SF story described sending a puff of carbon black through a screen and toward the lunar surface. Basically, silk-screened spray painting of a logo.

  2. Re:Interplanetary pollution on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 2, Funny
    I imagine there are side effects of using the sun as a dump (maybe increasing the mass)

    The Sun has over 99 percent of the mass of the Solar System. You could drop Jupiter in it without bothering it. Although it might be bothered if you dropped in the project's Environmental Impact Statement.

  3. Re:Interplanetary pollution on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 1

    I think it's more likely he was eating a peanut butter sandwich and drinking carbonic acid.

  4. Re:In all fairness on Embedded RTOS Maker Raises Linux Security Issues · · Score: 1
    Microsoft can at least assure that they know where their coders spend their workdays, and can submit their programmers for higher-level government background checks if need be.

    It is a relief that they can identify so well exactly who is creating the code which requires so much patching. Obviously if they know who worked there, their code should be trustworthy, no matter how poorly it is behaving on every government desktop.

  5. Re:Open source is much better than closed souce on Embedded RTOS Maker Raises Linux Security Issues · · Score: 1
    I dispair of ever having a story accepted.

    Maybe you don't spiel your submissions in a way which will get them accepted.

    (A good pun is heard too fine.)

  6. Re:How to control it... on Scotts Testing Genetically Modified Grass · · Score: 1
    If we can modify grass to resist weed killer, who says we can't also make it vulnerable to something environmentally friendly like cooking oil?

    You mean something like corn oil, which is produced by grass?

  7. Re:How to control it... on Scotts Testing Genetically Modified Grass · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, the horror!
    Entire towns covered with perfect grass!
    Golfers playing through neighborhoods!
    Geese in every front yard and in every pot!

  8. Justification on Listen to the Sky · · Score: 1

    It's Art! Art, I tell you!

  9. Sing Along... on Listen to the Sky · · Score: 1

    The sky is alive with the sound of ringtones
    With tones they have rung through a thousand movies
    The cloud fills my sky with the sound of ringtones
    My heart wants to blog every tone it hears

  10. Modern Piracy on Microsoft Authorized Refurbishers · · Score: 1
    It's simpler than threats. Nightly people buzz up to a ship, climb up the side or stern, then steal anything they can pull off, or use as much violence as they want on the crew. Or hold the crew for ransom, or steal the whole ship.

  11. Kosher? on Auto-Censoring DVD Player · · Score: 1
    automatically scans movies and censors them to make them kosher

    It kills the movie in accordance with Jewish law?

  12. Lawyer Label on Asteroid Impact Simulator Available · · Score: 1

    Of course, with this game: Kids, don't try this at home.

  13. Re:Everytime I run it on Asteroid Impact Simulator Available · · Score: 1

    You win by finding the size of rock which kills only you and not your neighbor, then the size which kills your state, and the size which kills your continent. Then estimate the frequency of such impacts.

  14. Supernatural on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1

    Notice supernatural does not mean very natural?
    It doesn't seem natural.

  15. Re:I'm not sure if I understand on Air Canada Sues Over Misuse Of Employee Password · · Score: 1
    The airline alleges Lafond's identification number was used 243,630 times between May 15, 2003, and March 19, 2004, to access the website.

    It is interesting that they only refer to the quantity of usage, and not the content.

    Do they have records of what information he accessed, or are they merely implying that a lot of usage means nefarious usage?

  16. Stole Free Stuff on Air Canada Sues Over Misuse Of Employee Password · · Score: 1
    He should be arrested, prosecuted, and jailed. He stole.

    Why am I not seeing responses from those who say "Information wants to be free"?

  17. Re:UNIX-ish desktops? on Insider's Look at High-Tech High-Speed Navy Vessel · · Score: 1
    I found a little more info.

    What might that navigation system be?

    The phrase Joint Interoperable Mission Planning and Rehearsal System is found by Google only in this document. There is a Joint En-route Mission Planning and Rehearsal System (JEMPRS), but no hints of its platform.

    The COMBATSS site doesn't have much info. Another site mentions an HP Unix workstation with COMBATSS. And the COMBATSS Platform Equipment doesn't sound like a description of MS-Windows. Using Mozilla as an interface is mentioned in the original article, which doesn't reduce the possibilities much.

  18. Re:Usability on Why We Need a Second Moore's Law · · Score: 1
    My laptop is in need of renewal

    I'll be glad to recycle it.

    a pound to a pinch of shit

    Make up your mind what the price is.

  19. Re:Human hampster wheel/windmill thingies...? on Why We Need a Second Moore's Law · · Score: 1
  20. Re:What do they mean "efficiencies"? on Why We Need a Second Moore's Law · · Score: 2, Funny
    Computers get twice as fast every 18 months!
    • Wait 18 months for your application to respond.
    • Hope your system software does not double in size every 12 months.
  21. Re:Getting it home on For sale: Eurotunnel Tunnel Boring Machine · · Score: 1

    It can be an easier trip if you cut the corners, slice through the hills, widen the narrow spots. If the road is difficult, aim and turn on the grinder.

  22. Re:Imagine... on For sale: Eurotunnel Tunnel Boring Machine · · Score: 1
    You don't need a cluster of them, just drive this one home from Europe via Boston. They do say you have to transport it, and it can move itself.

    The Big Dig seems like just the place to add another tunnel.

    Maybe you can sell all the extracted material to the Netherlands. They have a big hole to fill.

  23. "Lensman" books on Best Sci-Fi Space Battles? · · Score: 1
    The silver screen has trouble showing something a fraction of what is in a good mind's eye.

    E.E. "Doc" Smith wrote decades ago the ultimate Space Police series. The Lensmen were the good guys buzzing around in inertialess ships. The battles and weapons just keep getting bigger and bigger. Fairly early in the series there are things such as a fleet flying in cone-shaped formation so they can fire all their weapons forward, producing one huge cylinder of coruscading destruction. And I won't spoil your reading enjoyment by describing what they do with planets.

  24. Re:Could be good for geeks... (not their wallets) on Mogi Location-Based Mobile Gaming Hits Japan · · Score: 3, Funny
    I appreciate the humor of the suggestion, but the marketting concept is also too obvious to overlook. Monsters/experience points/encounters in specific stores/bars/etc.

    Less obvious is someone else placing an object: To get Isansti Cup: Enter Bank Lobby - say "At Entian His Isansti Cup!" and tell the nearest teller to give it to you.

  25. Re:It won't spread. on Mogi Location-Based Mobile Gaming Hits Japan · · Score: 5, Funny
    Problem: Players being directed to locations away from criminals.

    Solution: Steal a game phone. Follow directions to locations where you can steal more phones.