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  1. Re:Hollow Men on Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who let the dogs out!!??

  2. Re:I hope they're removed, on Barr Sues Over McCain's, Obama's Presence on Texas Ballot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or maybe something crazy like, oh... lets see... one set of laws that covers how federal elections should be run, maybe passed at a federal level. You know, like other civilised countries have.

  3. Re:That was an intelligently designed decision on Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns · · Score: 1, Troll

    Actually science still can't explain where DNA came from or for that matter science cannot explain matter. The big bang was a theological idea used to give scientists a starting point. That they don't believe in what caused that starting point is moot. I would love if Evolutionists would reconsider their views but for them it is the Holy Grail and a religion. I don't dispute evolution as in "Survival of the fittest" and change over time and adaptations. I reject it as an explanation for the source of all matter, dna, and life. It doesn't tackle those subjects yet you always see those lumped into evolutionary discussions.

    The only people who always lump all that other stuff into evolutionary discussions are creationists.

  4. Re:Collectively stupid? on New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal · · Score: 1

    Even the largest tree has leafs.

    No, it has leaves.

  5. Re:dumb people lose money, not freedom on Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat · · Score: 2, Funny

    "(But I do have the good sense not to throw a dingo on my barbie)"

    Quite right. Dingo's are best pan fried, with some garlic, shallots, cream and white wine. Thylacines were the preferred choice of fauna for the BBQ, but the demand led to their extinction. Tasmanian Devils make a poor substitute.

  6. Re:The photo/camera finish was totally inconclusiv on Timing Technology Behind Olympic Record Results · · Score: 1

    The cameras used by the officials in swimming are under the water, so they don't have to deal with splash obscuring the swimmers hands. Those images are not released to the media.

  7. Re:Not just a joke on A Hidden Loop In the Carbon Cycle Discovered · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/08/05/2324476.htm

    Wild untouched forests store three times more carbon dioxide than previously estimated and 60% more than plantation forests, a world-first study of "green carbon" and its role in climate change shows.

  8. I wonder... on Chinese Restaurant Suffers Large Translation Error · · Score: 1

    if it was this restaurant

  9. Other end of the spectrum on IOC Admits Internet Censorship Deal With China · · Score: 1

    Is anyone else surprised at how keen the Chinese authorities are to report on terrorism related events, such as the bus bomb, or the 'foiling' of 2 potential terrorist attacks? I mean, how long did it take them to admit anything to do with SARS, or bird flu, or *anything* that happens in China that might imply things aren't so wonderful as they would like? Yet, all of a sudden, we hear about terrorist plots. How does something like that happen in a country so controlled as China?

    I expect we will see this being used as the excuse for increased security crackdowns.

  10. Re:Wow on ABA Judges Get an Earful About RIAA Litigations · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you have hookers, why screw the pony?

    Unless...

  11. Re:It's not the heat, it's the stupidity. on HP Shatters Excessive Packaging World Record · · Score: 1

    It takes more energy to recycle a plastic bottle than to make a new one.
    So, so far we're feeling good for no reason. And that's fine too. But if you want to feel good while being stupid and wasting your time, maybe *heroin* is for you.
    -- "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" Recycling

    That assumes that you are using the plastic to make another plastic bottle. What about where you make something else out of the plastic that doesn't require the same amount of processing vs having to make new plastic?
    How much petroleum is used to recycle a plastic bottle vs making a new one?

  12. Only the start... on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 1

    Imagine how their campaign will take off once McCain learns to use email and the intarweb

  13. Re:Vista... Microsoft's "New Coke" on Making the Switch To Windows "Workstation" 2008 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The Arch Deluxe was the best McDonald's sandwich ever" - baricom

    "You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you" - groucho marx

  14. Re:Other games that have been banned in Australia on Australian Ban On Fallout 3 – Why? · · Score: 1

    You can't, unless you get permission from the AG's department.

    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=608705&cid=24148509

  15. Re:Other games that have been banned in Australia on Australian Ban On Fallout 3 – Why? · · Score: 2, Informative
  16. Re:Obviously given to the wrong employees on Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    "But there are many messages a boss might send after hours (perhaps just because he is working late, and that includes sending emails) that don't require any action until the following day.

    In which case I will action it when I read the email after I get to work the next morning.

  17. Every day, in every way... on Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head · · Score: 1

    The world is becoming more and more like a Philip K. Dick novel.

  18. Re:What on earth would they do with this computer? on Dead At 92, Business Computing Pioneer David Caminer · · Score: 1

    From TFA

    "The finished LEO, which had less than 100,000th the power of a current PC, could calculate an employeeâ(TM)s pay in 1.5 seconds, a job that took an experienced clerk eight minutes."

    Thats a 320 times increase in speed. Plus less likely to have manual processing errors. And that is for every pay run.

  19. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    Thanks for enlightening me. It is now obvious to me that the same 2nd-amendment-supporting, lifetime-NRA-membership-holding, from-my-cold-dead-hands-proclaiming 'patriots' would be just the sort of people to go to Syria, Iran, al Qaeda or Russia for support.

  20. Don't need to open VNC port in the firewall on Persistent Terminals For a Dedicated Computing Box? · · Score: 1

    First, make sure VNC only accepts connections from its localhost. Then port-forward the VNC port in your ssh session and connect your vnc client to the forwarded port on your client's localhost.

  21. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    My bad. I can now see how wrong I was to assume that the US Government, whilst putting down an armed uprising of the citizenry, would not stand in the way of the right of the military-industrial complex to sell its wares to those same armed citizenry. That would be just plain un-american.

  22. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    "Unless it's in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Lebanon..."

    Afghanistan - against USSR, supported and armed by the USA, against USA, see Iraq.
    Iraq - supported and armed by Iran, Saudis, anyone else with an interest in beating up on the USA
    Vietnam - supported and armed by USSR and China
    Lebanon - supported and armed by Syria, et al

    Exactly who would provide the same support and materiel to guerilla fighters in the USA?

  23. Re:Then STOP releasing the product! on Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Hear, Hear!

  24. Damn on Odysseus's Return From the Trojan War Dated · · Score: 2, Funny

    I had March 25th in the sweep.

  25. Re:iSCSI? on Data Center In a Shoe Box · · Score: 1

    or OpenFiler?