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  1. Re:Cost and environmental concerns? on Artificial Clouds To Cool Qatar World Cup Stadiums · · Score: 2

    Or they could simply play at night. When it is cooler.

  2. More interestingly on An App That Turns Any Drawing Into a Dress · · Score: 1

    I was thinking you could probably do something similar to this on a real model with a Kinect.

  3. I wonder when they're going to start on Texas Bill Outlaws Discrimination Against Creationists In Academia · · Score: 1

    with the Alchemy and Astrology classes too...

  4. Re:Dont mean to sound selfish on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 1

    No, all reactors properly shutdown with fail safes.

    Fail-safe systems fail by failing to fail-safe.

  5. Re:What a pity it wasn't Enterprise on William Shatner Wakes Up Crew for Final Discovery Mission · · Score: 1

    ...beam down Yeoman Rand and a six-pack.

  6. What a pity it wasn't Enterprise on William Shatner Wakes Up Crew for Final Discovery Mission · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then he could have woken them up with "Kirk to Enterprise".

  7. Yummy on Hummingbird-Size Wing-Flapping Drone Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Methinks it's time to dust off the crowbar again :)

  8. Re:Only applies to 'unnecessary' personal informat on Court Says California Stores Can't Ask Customers For ZIP Codes · · Score: 1

    I'm from Canada you insensitive clod. Our "zip" codes have letters in them, try finding those on the keypad on a pump.

  9. Re:Response from Another VP on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    They'll forever be known by me as "Sideshow Bing" now, thanks.

  10. It's a bit redundant though on 19-Year-Old Makes Homemade Solar Death Ray · · Score: 2

    I mean the focus is close enough that he could kill anything anyway by smacking it over the head with the reflector. Be nice if the focus was a bit further away.

  11. Re:Uh, no on Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Er, I live in Vancouver, BC you insensitive clod. What is this strange bright thing in the sky you are talking about?

  12. Re:Cassandra on Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row · · Score: 1

    I believe you :) There's a subset of coders who don't see anything wrong with "Select *" all over the place and I have a feeling this construct might chew up available memory real quick if a table has anywhere near this number of columns...

  13. Re:Take without permission, otherwise known as ste on New Cars Vulnerable To Wireless Theft · · Score: 5, Funny

    That would be "copyright infringement" right?

  14. Wireless Theft Aint nothin new on New Cars Vulnerable To Wireless Theft · · Score: 1

    In my old car I had the wireless stolen. I just put another one in.

  15. Re:any chance on The Smartphone That Spies, and Other Surprises · · Score: 2

    For sure, but then only "terrorists" would want one.

  16. Says something about the state of things on Twitter Gets Major Funding, Adds New Data Center · · Score: 3, Funny

    Consecutive articles on /. $30M for biofuel research, $200M for twitter. We're fucked, but at least we can tweet about it.

  17. Re:The most successful trolls on Angles On Anonymous · · Score: 0

    Don't call them "bunches of people who have never met" or the US Govt. will give them a name like Al Qaeda or something.

  18. "motility"? on Team Use Stem Cells to Restore Mobility in Paralyzed Monkey · · Score: 1

    Surely you meant "mojility".

  19. Spam anybody? on FCC Approving Pay-As-You-Go Internet Plans · · Score: 1

    Let me get this straight, an ISP could bill you for forwarding your email spam that you didn't want in the first place? Looks like they have zero incentive to do anything to prevent it.

  20. It's just a thought... on WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort · · Score: 1

    ...but without the traditional forms of media (TV, Newspaper) vilifying Assange and Wikileaks or providing a forum for said attacks, there wouldn't be that much of a hoo-hah about this. The traditional media is really shooting themselves in the foot though, because it shows really how much they simply are a government mouthpiece and just repeating the party line. If they had done their job in the first place, there really would be nothing to leak and none of this would be news.

  21. Re:window lol on Researchers Bypass IE Protected Mode · · Score: 1

    Sheeit man, I use it all the time, unless of course I'm on my own computer.

  22. Perhaps on Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too · · Score: 1

    That is why they have Insurance?

  23. Re:What is limewire? on RIAA Now Blames Journalists For Its Piracy Trouble · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but if you sound like an ignorant clod then people are less likely to believe what you say.

  24. Re:Science is confusing on Pumpkin Pie increases Male Sex Drive · · Score: 1

    ...there must be some other kind of stimulus that they're missing. Maybe the chick serving them pumpkin pie is cuter than the other girls. Maybe the pumpkin pie reminds them of their mothers? Hey Oedipus - want another slice of pie? Sproing!!!

  25. Re:one flaw... on Pumpkin Pie increases Male Sex Drive · · Score: 1

    Is that for the coats? Or the fucking? Or are you fucking on the coats? No wonder they leave early.