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  1. Re:Clean water first??? on Making Ice Without Electricity · · Score: 1

    or keeping samples of biological material fresh for discerning things like the cause of an outbreak, or criminal guilt. it would make researchers jobs easir if they didnt have to bring a freakin fridge to a site.

  2. Re:Hrm. on Making Ice Without Electricity · · Score: 3, Funny

    In San Diego, we just take our beer to the beach and talk to the nearest bikini. Instant freeze.

  3. Bush says.. on Locked-Out Journalists Turn To Podcasting · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I suggest we go in there, drop a few EMP bombs, throw a few ICBMs (to remind the world we still have 'em), and go in there and LIBERATE THOSE JOURNALISTS!

    I hear there's oil, too. LET'S ROLL!!

  4. Re:Amateurish on Technology Behind Plasma Displays · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Cut "pendantic". Italicizing "usually" will bring more emphasis to your point, and keep attention of the reader at the same time. Cut "of this", as you are replying to the original text, so the reader assumes which text, and it becomes redundant. Choose a word other than laden, as it is used to often with the word "cliche". Also, you need not admit in text that you don't read many of the websites, as the quality of your provided link, here reflects that.

    Thank you.

  5. Re:wow.. editors.. really.. on Sri Lanka Declares an Open Source Week · · Score: 1

    uhhhh, I never gave reason for you to assume that. The media, slashdot included, have been all in a stink for the last year about jobs being "stolen" by individuals in India, among other places (rural areas supposedly, according to yesterdays news), in order to avoid expensive costs of highly decorated management and employees. However, jobs are slowly trickling back as people are finding they are under trained, it's hard to train someone who is far away, and their communications abilities leave something to be desired. Lot's of complaints about the last one.. soooooo, if you know anything about comedy (trolling is when you try to provoke someone through shock or anger, comedy is when you try to make someone laugh, thus the FUNNY tage MODERATORS), then you would know that current events put in a short pun when a mistake is similiar to said current event.. this is called FUNNY.

    I will take your advice on the geography book, 'cause I need to get to work on finding my next vacation spot, however, I suggest you buy on DVD: The Marx Brothers, Mr. Show, The Jerk, Young Frankenstein, Real Genius, anything by Eddie Murphy, anything by Monty Python, anything by SNL that happened before the 80s, and Cartoon Network after 12pm.

  6. wow.. editors.. really.. on Sri Lanka Declares an Open Source Week · · Score: 3, Funny

    AN Open Source Week. Seriously.. are we outsourcing editorial work to India, too?

  7. Re:that sucks on Crunching the Math On iTunes · · Score: 2

    that has to be the shortest troll ever.

    he said _I_ can't tell you.. not _tell me_.

    but good job on the two character troll.

  8. This is GREAT news! on Denver Airport Automated Baggage System Abandoned · · Score: 2, Funny

    When's the opening of the electronica club that is replacing it?

  9. I am POSITIVE it will work on NSF Ponders New And Improved Internet · · Score: 1

    .. and it will be the best funded network EVER, what with all those 36 dollar fees they've been taking from me nightly.

    oh.. gotta go deposit my check to get back out of the red.

  10. they might on Sony Describes DS As Gimmick · · Score: 3, Interesting

    when a country is entertained and will readily buy things such as blood pudding, jellied eels, Spotted Dick, liver and lights, and kidney pie, I am willing to wait and SEE if they will buy it, as opposed to assuming I know what they will do.. they've already suprised me in soo many ways.

    I think the psp is great, and I will buy one.. I am just waiting for movies I actually LIKE.. I'm more of an indie / forien flick kinda guy. So x-mas will tell me when or if I should buy.

  11. Re:im skeptikal... on New Security Ideas From Intel · · Score: 1

    not to mention attacks using lots of devices and interference to keep the system busy trying to keep people out.

  12. Re:Move on NASA! on Water Flowed Recently on Mars · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think you understand.. if we get non-terrestrial life and it's genetic code, the results will be the biggest discovery of the last 100 yrs (leaving out quantum physics and atomic energy).. for instance.. we get to see if it also has a "handedness" in the formation of its molecules. check this:

    " The crucial biomolecules of life - such as amino acids, RNA and DNA - are chiral. In order for these polymeric molecules to replicate themselves, their individual components have to be of one kind, either right- or left-handed.

    "It is generally agreed that you need homochirality - either all left-handed or all right-handed - for life to get off the ground," Bonner said. "Therefore, a preponderance of one handedness must have evolved in prebiotic times."

    The scientists, however, cannot explain how this happened because they have never succeeded in creating chiral molecules of only one kind in laboratory experiments that simulated prebiotic conditions.

    Since chiral molecules are necessary to breed new chiral molecules, how did the first ones come about? "


    from http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/93/930210Arc3 408.html

  13. Re:Suggestion on Only NFL Game This Year Gets Lukewarm Response · · Score: 1, Funny

    just got one. what type of port does it plug into? I can't seems to find USB or firewire.. HELP!

  14. hmmm.. I dunno.. on Super Door of the Future · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about someone carrying a glass panel?

    guess you could turn sideways..

    will it recognize my imaginary friend walking beside me? I'd hate for my children to go insane cause they saw their uncle bobbins refused entry.

  15. Re:Other than on Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered · · Score: 1

    Other than in video games, thusly improving your hand/eye coordination?

    no.

  16. Re:Becoming a god on Scientists Creating Life From Scratch · · Score: -1

    I'm bored.. might as well say something random about this. You must work under the guidelines of the scientific method if you are going to refuse arguments based on a lack of logic. Under those working structures, you must agree that we have no known system under which live magically springs forth from inanimate matter. The amino acids in the test tube trick was not done with what we believe the atmosphere mixture WAS, or even could have been, but with what would work to get the much needed results. That is not how one does an experiment.. tweaking variables until you get the desired hypothesis.. you make a hypoth, then test its validity. The mixture that was eventually found to work is not one that would have led up to the current state, as it was basically acid rain. Did the Miller/Fox experiment prove that life could eventually have arisen in some ancient sea struck by lightning? No, their results actually weakened the case. The mixture of amino acids and other simple chemicals produced is not correct for producing life. All known life uses amino acids which are exclusively of the "left-handed" form.

    Now seeing how hard it is to create life giving elements.. ponder on this. If you see something that is hard to make work, like, a lock that is hard to open without the proper combination, aren't you _logically_ going to assume the easiest explanation is most likely answer? I believe so, cause that's one of the rules of logic. So seeing as how life is so danged hard to create, for now, we must assume the simplest explanation is the correct one.

    Now.. if something intelligent, like say, another civilization created us humans.. who created them? Chicken and egg..

    and looking at the data, and using _logic_, tells us that the universe has not been around forever, but had a definite beginning.. so that rules out infinite civilizations creating one another.

    so where does that leave you?

    show me some logic, magician.

  17. Re:Biohacking on Scientists Creating Life From Scratch · · Score: 1

    making fun of people who can't pronounce words properly? ummm.. no. Leet speak came from BBSs back in the 80s.. there were regular open invite BBSs, and there were ELiTE, or Underground BBSs that required invitation from someone already onboard, or proof of your being ELiTE, usually requiring your finding the number on another elite system, and filling out an application which consisted of tests.. usually asking your to define LEET words or acronyms.

    so yeah. you're wrong.

  18. Re:Hmm... on Video Tombstones · · Score: 3, Funny

    even FUNNIER would be a montage of Jenna Jamesons life, then the current state of her implants.

  19. oh God bless them, those kooky spookies on New, Faster Attack against SHA-1 Revealed · · Score: 4, Funny

    I repeat the saying I've heard comes from inside the NSA: "Attacks always get better; they never get worse."

    And THAT kind of forward thinking, gentlemen, is why we're number one over here in the good ol' U.S. of A. So glad we spend money in all the right places.

  20. Re:Was it Einsteins wife? on One Hundred Years of E=MC2 · · Score: 1

    Why not? Ben ignored / abondoned all of his family except for his son, who worked with him on most of his major findings.. including political ones. If you didn't have a whole lot of social bullsh*t, except for womanizing, I bet you'd get a lot done too. ESPECIALLY if the only focus you had was a helpful son and women to impress. Studies have shown that scientific men just "happen" to do their best in their early to mid twenties just as they are meeting / courting their first wives.

    so tell me again why he couldn't do this if, say, an egytian, Imhotep, who designed the first pyramid, the Step Pyramid of Saqqara, is considered by historians to be the first genius, a brilliant physician and surgeon, as well as, a healer could do it 5 thousand years ago?

  21. Re:Aren't all media reports of internet viruses on ZOTOB Not Quite as Bad as Expected? · · Score: 4, Informative

    hsync and vsync value hack in the early days of heculese and cga cards, initiated with ASM code. and all those moderators who modded overrated need to learn more about hardware.

  22. Re:Aren't all media reports of internet viruses on ZOTOB Not Quite as Bad as Expected? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nothing compared to the Turkey Virus.. did a report on it in the early 90s. In the eighties it showed a pretty picture of of a turkey while focusing most of the cathode rays at a central point, causing the tube to burn out, and in several instances, catch fire. There was even a deadly house fire attributed to it. Deadly computer virus in the 80s.. beat that.

  23. Re:From the desk of the President on U.S. Broadband Access Falling Behind · · Score: 1

    wow, I bet you're a load of fun at parties.

    I must do no such thing, as it was not a critique, but obviously a joke.. note the "funny" moderation, and not one of, say, "interesting," or "insightful."

    so now, you give me a rational argument as to why I should give you a rational argument on a joke.

    jeez. go to a protest with _your_ anger.. I'm gonna continue with jokes on the internet.

  24. Re:From the desk of the President on U.S. Broadband Access Falling Behind · · Score: 2, Funny

    can't portray him TOO closely, or it's a federal crime. since everything else was accurate, I figured the signature should be off.

  25. From the desk of the President on U.S. Broadband Access Falling Behind · · Score: 2, Funny

    FW: WHITEHOUSE.GOV FROM TEXASPLAYSCHOOLRANCH.TX

    Now listen here you com@#$@S=-ASDmies^h^h^h^h^h^hliberal media puppets, everything is just fine, on schedule, an@$#JJJ@#$J&_d we're even ahead of schedule on most points. Why even the white@#$((___house network, where I am communicating from now, is wired to mindblowing speeds. Have fa&@*(&(ith, America.

    Yours,

    G.