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  1. Re:I have already faced my worst nightmare on US Switch To DTV Countdown Begins · · Score: 1

    Hell, I've got cable (TW in LosAngeles), and my wife thinks theres something wrong with the new LCD TV. I get stutters, posterization, and picture freezes.

    And that's on both std def (2-whatever) and HiDef channels, using an HDMI cable.

  2. Come on... on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows that the most useful element is Ducttapium!

  3. Re:assuming a trend on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 1

    Sequencium

  4. Re:Serious Question: Why do Germans outperform? on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 2, Funny

    Watch it!! This isn't a Serious Screenplay.

  5. Re:Oh come on. on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 0

    Yep. When I was at UCSC back in '84, we all wanted a course in ....

    wait for it ....

    VAX Assembler.

  6. Math and Alcohol don't mix... on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 1

    Please don't drink and derive.

  7. Re:It's so obvious on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 2, Funny

    On top of that, it's a heavy element as well. Cowboynealium is perfect.

  8. Dear G-d, No! on Futurama Rumored To Return On Comedy Central · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just think of the horror... Everyone you meet in this cowboy universe is CowboyNeal!

  9. Re:Babel on Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, that one language was Brainfuck.

  10. Re:Welcome! on How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial? · · Score: 1

    I would vote for Kodos.

  11. Re:I know on How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ah... the ZZ Top approach....

    Warning them that we've got legs, and we know how to use them!

  12. Re:There are Constitutional rights here on 9th Circuit Says Feds' Security Checks At JPL Go Too Far · · Score: 3, Informative

    From USConstitution.net:

    Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution.
    The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

    Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People.
    The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

    Or to translate:

    Amendment 9: You still retain all your rights, even if we didn't mention them here.
    Amendment 10: If we didn't talk about it here, the Feds can't do it.

  13. Re:Non-Intel support on Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River · · Score: 1

    In many embedded situations, the power budget rules everything.

  14. Re:Yuck on Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Those of us who have hard real-time requirements need something like VxWorks. Or if you have ARINC 653 requirements, etc....

  15. Re:Non-Intel support on Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River · · Score: 1

    Because a Pentium class processor is so much more power efficient than the equivalent PPC.

  16. Re:One wonders what they'll call the next discover on "Colossal Magnetic Effect" Could Lead To Another Breakthrough In Storage Tech · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't there be a "Mega" in there somewhere?

  17. Re:Anyone even using VS 2008 yet? on First Look At Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, but you do get an add-in for FireFox... no questions asked!

  18. Re:TR shot themselfs in the foot with this lawsuit on Zotero Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 1

    Unless they were blocks that were exiled from Krypton to the Phantom Zone.

  19. Re:That's retarded on Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Alan Bean had brought up a timer for the Hasselblad, and they were going to take a picture of the two of them next to the Surveyor.
    But he couldn't find the timer in the equipment box, until just before liftoff, so it never got taken.

    Just imagine what the conspiracy theorists would have done with that picture!

  20. Now the US ISPs and Wireless Telcos will on Canadian Regulator Says No To New Internet Regs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Blame Canada!

  21. Re:That's Pretty Funny... on Russia Launches Anti-trust Probe of Microsoft · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yiddish, actually.

    A better equvialent is "nervy gall".

    Chutzpah is when you murder your parents, and then throw yourself on the mercy of the court because you're an orphan.

  22. Re:Sounds good... on Download Taxes As a Weapon Against File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    That's how the feds got Al Capone.

  23. Technically on GM's Hummer Brand To Be Sold To a Chinese Company · · Score: 1

    The military version is not a "HumVee", but a HMMWV (High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle).

  24. Re:Uhm... on Last.fm Strongly Denies Sharing Data With RIAA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just make sure you don't get the estimate from some quack.

  25. Re:Guest account with Fast User Switching. on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 1

    Goldfish in a blender?

    My brother-in-law's band wrote a song about that.