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  1. Just ask on Feds Question Big Media's Piracy Claims · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just ask the RIAA for their data on piracy. They should have accurate information.

  2. Re:Please let me use the same password on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: 1

    If someone can say "that's what I use on my suitcase", your password is too easy.

  3. Re:Funny from coming from someone at Microsoft on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: 1

    It only makes sense where you have several people sharing accounts, and a fairly high turnover of personel.

    Without sharing, you'd only need to remember to disable the accounts of exiting employees, and periodically double check that all accounts had active employees attached to them.

    With constant password chanbges, you end up with everyone telling each other the "intresting" new passwaord they came up with, and terminals with passwords on post-it notes stuck to them.

  4. Re:Please fix your systems! on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: 2

    Change your password to "I cant remember it", then see the fun when someone needs to get into your account.

  5. Also needed on Professor Says UFO Studies Should Be Taught At Universities · · Score: 1

    We seriously need to be able to calculate the impact on Global Warming that is caused by these UFO's. We need to force them to buy Carbon Offsets to make up for the damage they are causing the enviornment! They probably don't even use florescent lights! They had better be getting at least 35 miles to the gallon too!

  6. Re:Not to sound overly nationalist on 5-Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why isn't the U.S. leading in this area?

    It might be the high taxes, high labor costs, invasive government regulations. It could be the chance that Obama might suddenly decide to either take over your company, or send his minions around to destroy it because you made a profit one year out of the last ten. Anyone who makes a profit is evil, and must be destroyed.

    If you make the envionnment bad for a large employer, they are likely to prefer creating jobs in a country that doesn't go out of it's way to destroy you. Higher and higher taxes, regulations based on bad science (more taxes), required limits on who you can hire, ...

  7. Hey on How To Find Bad Programmers · · Score: 1

    Why are you looking at me?

  8. Re:Sensitivity verses practicality on Yoctonewton Detector Smashes Force Sensing Record · · Score: 1

    This was obviously designed by a girl who had a brother that bothered her on car trips with the "I'm not touching you" scheme. Now she can prove he was.

  9. Not good until on Solar-Powered Plane Makes First Successful Flight · · Score: 1

    It's not good until it can also be driven on the roads. I WANT MY FLYING CAR.

  10. Re:Earthquake relationship ? on Geomagnetic Storm In Progress · · Score: 1

    Yes. I just watched the movie 2012. Very scientific tribute to plate techtonics and neutron interactions causing some dude to be ground up in some gears used to close a door that were completely jammed by a power cable.

  11. Barsoom on NASA Mars Satellite Snaps 1st Public-Picked Photos · · Score: 1

    I want pictures of the ancient martian cities. And the mostly naked martian girls.

  12. Re:Those two groups will NEVER get along! on House of Commons Finds No Evidence of Tampering In Climate E-mails · · Score: 1

    If only scientists and skeptics had some sort of common ground, maybe these kinds of conflicts could be avoided.

    Maybe it would work better if there were some scientists, instead of Global Warming Preists.

    Thou shalt have no theory over me.
    Thou shalt not create any competing theory, least ye be shriven of funding.
    Thou shalt smite down any who oppose me, least ye be smited by them.
    Thou shalt impose me on thine children, least they learn scientific theory.
    Thou shalt fudge the data, casting out all that which oppose me.
    Thou shalt claim all evidences as proof of me being caused by the hand of man, including earthquakes, warming, cooling, snow, rain, thunder, lightning, and Dancing With the Stars.

    Thou shalt keep my commandments holey, least ye shall fail thy needs in coveting thy neighbors economic remittances.

  13. Re:Public schools on Stand and Deliver Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's also about what the schools really want to push:

    If Dick has 4 apples, and Jane has 7 apples, should the factories, owned by greedy evil cigar smoking individuals, spewing out tons of cancer causing toxic greenhouse gases every day, be shut down?

  14. My licenses on AMD's 12-Core Chip Cuts Software Licensing Costs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will I need to buy more SCO licenses for this one chip? This could get expensive.

  15. Re:Random question about light: on A User's Guide To the Universe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Batteries are charged up from the electric grid, and they are designed to provide only the lighter, faster electrons from the top of the generators. Periodically, then will connect to the bottom of the generators to clean out all the large, slow electrons that have accululated in the bottom. This is when you get the brownouts, as the fat, slow electrons generate slow photons, which shift the colors down to the slower, browner colors of the spectrum.

    The battery makers know about this secret, so on days when they are draining the generators, the battery makers switch to alternative power sources, such as solar power, so you don't have to worry about brown flashlights. Solar power doesn't have this problem, because the atmosphere filters out most of the fat electrons. This is what causes the Aurora Borealis, the fat photons hit the atmosphere, and explode. The smaller ones don't hit as hard because they are lighter, so they don't explode. When your battery is almost out of power, you will see that the fat electrons at the bottom of the battery start to come out, and your flashlight will dim.

  16. What type of engine on How Do You Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars? · · Score: 1

    Is a mini-cooper some kind of SUV? Are we exporting global warming to Mars?

    By the way, what type of nuclear engine are they using. Maybe something like this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion
    Scroll down to the picture of the two engines parked by the parking lot. They actually built a hanger for the plane that these things were going to power. It is now a very large office building.

  17. Re:email? on College To Save Money By Switching Email Font · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since it is a smaller, lighter font, you can save a lot of money by not needing such large hard disks to store them.

  18. Re:Next in the programme.. on Journalism Students Assigned To Write On Wikipedia · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh! Oh! Oh! I know this one.

    Mention Algore or Brocko Bamma in a bad light, and your garma goes from excelent to negitive in one post!

  19. Re:Terry Pratchett is having a good laugh!!! on Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea · · Score: 1

    Couldn't someone invent a "vehicle for going under water without drowning" device and check it out?

  20. Re:Wait - what? on Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea · · Score: 1

    You know that Al Gore is very seriously concerned about the rising oceans, since he recently bought beachfront property.

  21. Re:HEY now. on Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea · · Score: 1

    With "global warming", it's about predicting what will happen after it has happened. Predicting the past, falsifying data, ignore any problems with the theory, and call your opponents very bad names. That's how you prove Global Warming.

  22. Re:Just one more reason why Global Warming rocks! on Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sorry, but you cannot win a Nobel Prize unless you can say "America sucks". That's all that was necessary for Carter, Algore, and Barock to win one.

  23. Another quote from the famous on BC Prof Suggests Young Children Need Less Formal Math, Not More · · Score: 1

    Math is hard - Barbie

  24. Re:Altimeter on Balloon and Duct Tape Deliver Great Space Photos · · Score: 1

    Also how hard would it be to make one of these to carry a person? If Virgin Galactic is going to charge $200,000 to carry someone to the edge of space, wouldn't it be cooler to ride a balloon to space and then parachute back to earth?

    If those reality TV people can make a fake UFO to carry off their kid (or not), it can't be all that hard.

  25. Another low tech solution on Balloon and Duct Tape Deliver Great Space Photos · · Score: 1

    If you want to play with this kind of thing, attach a cheap digital camera to a kite. Set it for video recording (so you don't have to hack in some kind of repeating timer), and launch the kite. You'll proably see a lot of swaying of the camera (play with different mounts), but you should be able to get some intresting photos of the area. It wont be 22 miles, but even a couple hundred feet can be intresting.