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  1. Re:Painful... on Neil Gaiman Book "American Gods" Free Online · · Score: 1

    There's a bit more required than that. This page contains javascript that causes each page to be loaded only when it is first visible. Any pages that haven't been loaded by scrolling past them, do not show up in Page Info.

  2. Re:Pine? HA! on A $1 Billion Email Gaffe · · Score: 1

    Telnet? That's for sissies. Real email users use butterflies.

  3. Re:$5 Canadian?? on Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing · · Score: 1

    Where have you been for the past 4 months? The Canadian dollar reached parity with the US dollar on September 20th last year. It closed above parity a few days later, and peaked at around $1.08USD on November 7th. It's been no more than a few cents above or below parity since then.

  4. Re:Newton on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well yeah, but it still makes for a funny mental picture.

  5. Newton on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's also capable of propelling ships in reverse at speeds of up to Mach 3.

  6. Re:Obligatory tasteless Polack joke. on 14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set · · Score: 2, Funny

    Long ago, when sailing ships ruled the sea, this captain and his crew were always in danger of being boarded by pirates from a pirate ship.

    One day while they were sailing, they saw that a pirate ship had sent a boarding party to try and board their ship. The crew became worried, but the Captain was calm.

    He bellowed to his First Mate, "Bring me my red shirt!"

    The First Mate quickly got the Captain's red shirt, which the captain put on. Then he led his crew into battle against the mean pirates. Although there were some casualties among the crew, the pirates were defeated.

    Later that day, the lookout screamed that there were two pirate vessels sending two boarding parties towards their ship. The crew was nervous, but the Captain, calm as ever, bellowed, "Bring me my red shirt!" And once again the battle was on!

    The Captain and his crew fought off the boarding parties, though this time more casualties occurred.

    Weary from the battles, the men sat around on deck that night recounting the day's events when an ensign looked at the Captain and asked, "Sir, why did you call for your red shirt before the battle?"

    The Captain, giving the ensign a look that only a captain can give, explained, "If I am wounded in battle, the red shirt does not show the blood, so you men will continue to fight unafraid." The men sat in silence. They were amazed at the courage of such a man.

    As dawn came the next morning, the lookout screamed that there were pirate ships, 10 of them, all with boarding parties on their way. The men became silent and looked to the Captain, their leader, for his usual command.

    The Captain, calm as ever, bellowed, 'Bring me my brown pants!!!'

  7. Re:but what actual facts do we have? on Does Active SETI Put Earth in Danger? · · Score: 1

    Alex! Alex! You're walking away from history! History, Alex! Did Chris Columbus stay home? Nooooo. What if the Wright Brothers thought that only birds should fly? And did Galoka think that the Ulus were too ugly to save?

  8. Re:Things We Cannot Change on Does Active SETI Put Earth in Danger? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    - Could the cavemen have anything we want?

    Of course they do... Cavewomen.

  9. Re:Best eBook read ever on The Cult of Kindle · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Two old-school ones that should be included... on Twelve Game Music Tracks Worth Keeping · · Score: 1

    The summary mentioned the Portal ending song -- "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton.

  11. Re:Chrono Cross on Twelve Game Music Tracks Worth Keeping · · Score: 1

    Just so you know, Nobuo Uematsu wasn't involved in the Chrono Cross soundtrack; that was Yasunori Mitsuda.

    [citation needed]

  12. Tasers on UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture · · Score: 1

    If tasers are outlawed...
    only outlaws will have tasers.

  13. Re:Loaded headline on George Takei Now an Asteroid · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Maybe, but its namesake definitely is.

  14. Imagine... on Know How To Use a Slide Rule? · · Score: 1

    It's a mechanical analog computer, you say?

    Well then... imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!

  15. Charles Stross on 10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime · · Score: 1

    The cameras aren't for solving crime. They're a line of defense against the Great Old Ones.

  16. Re:J.T. wrong on firearms on Thompson and 2K Come To Blows Over Manhunt 2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unfortunate choice of URL.

  17. Re:4GB limit on PSP-Slim Hands On · · Score: 1

    Replying to your aside...

    Google for "Double Expand Memory Converter".

  18. Re:AACS? on AACS Revision Cracked A Week Before Release · · Score: 1

    Except I didn't read closely enough to see that you wrote "new there" instead of "new here". Doh.

  19. Re:AACS? on AACS Revision Cracked A Week Before Release · · Score: 1

    Personally I only think those comments are truly funny when applied to a poster with a uid of four digits or less.

  20. Re:suggestion on Sun to Make Solaris More Linux Like · · Score: 1

    According to that link, and from what I remember reading earlier, the current release of Sun Studio 11 for Linux doesn't actually include compilers; it uses GCC.

    The "Sun Studio Express" product, like "Solaris Express", is a prerelease of the next version of the product, and it does indeed include Sun CC for Linux. But it's pre-release, alpha/beta quality software.

  21. Re:Jeez... on Mercury May Have Molten Hot Magma at its Core · · Score: 1

    Certainly not to "Molten Hot Magma". An oxymoron is a compound phrase consisting of two or more components that are opposite in meaning, like "Jumbo Shrimp".

    Molten Hot Magma gets the Award of Triple Redundancy Award.

  22. Re:Slashdot Post Title Generator on Quantum Dot Recipe May Lead To Cheaper Solar Panels · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Science doesn't know yet. That's why it's mysterious.

  23. Slashdot Post Title Generator on Quantum Dot Recipe May Lead To Cheaper Solar Panels · · Score: 5, Funny

    #!/usr/bin/perl

    my @firstwords = ("Quantum", "Solar", "Mysterious", "Ancient", "Lovecraftian");
    my @secondwords = ("Dot", "Nanotube", "Lubricant", "Artifact", "Octogenarian");
    my @thirdwords = ("Recipe", "Formula", "Scripture", "Rumour", "Box", "Thingy");

    my $firstword = @firstwords[int(rand($#firstwords + 1))];
    my $secondword = @secondwords[int(rand($#secondwords + 1))];
    my $thirdword = @thirdwords[int(rand($#thirdwords + 1))];

    print "$firstword $secondword $thirdword May Lead To Cheaper Solar Panels\n";

  24. Re:I wonder how the sun would look... on Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 1

    Your post made me really hungry and I couldn't figure out why until I realized that I thought you were talking about a place with huge dim sum in the sky.

  25. Re:5x the mass = impossible gravity on Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 1

    It's not as bad as you think. The exoplanet's diameter is 1.5x that of Earth, and since gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two objects, the surface gravity on the exoplanet isn't five times that of Earth's. The article says 22 m/s*s versus Earth's 9.8m/s*s.

    It's not a stretch at all to think that life could have evolved there under those conditions.