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  1. So... on New Method for Random Number Generation Developed · · Score: 1

    This is where all those scratch monkeys went.

  2. Re:Nothing changes but stupidity in public schools on School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Still legal, for a short time.

    However, the Obama we-hate-fat-kids panel will soon fix that loophole.

  3. Probably social engineering on US Inadvertently Enabled Chinese Google Hackers · · Score: 3, Funny

    The chinese probably called up Googles secretary, and talked her into giving them their password (ChuckNorris).

  4. Next, the google hardware on Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy · · Score: 1

    Next google will release their new keyboard and mouse.

    Under every key on the keyboard is a small piezoelectric generator, and the mouse ball operates small electric generators. When enough power has been generated from user actions, it is automatically emailed to a secret google account (stolenpower@google.com). Then all the power is sold to a secret government agency in order to operate their black electric helicopters.

  5. How many likely customers? on New Linux-Based Laptop For Computer Newbies · · Score: 1

    you want to introduce millions of people to computing for the first time.

    Ok. How many people out there have never seen a computer before? Besides newborns, and valley girls, how many people have not used a computer before?

  6. A cheaper solution on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 1

    Instead of trying to muck around with using cables to do something they weren't designed to do, why not just buy some WIFI gear? You will get supported equipment, you don't have to screw around with soldering irons, you'll get faster access (100+mb versus 10-mb), and don't have to worry about what to do if any of the hard to find equipment ever fails.

  7. Re:I Don't Think This Was Well Thought Out on Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change · · Score: 1

    You can buy a regular light bulb that will last a couple of years for half a buck; or you could be forced to buy a floresent bulb for 18 bucks that might last 5 years, flickers like crazy, doesn't work when it gets cold, but uses 1/4 the power, and you'll have to deal with hazardous waste disposal when it quits.

    It may sound energy efficient, but a light that doesn't work outside in the cold, is pretty much useless during the winter, when you need the exterior lights the most.

    But, of course you'll buy the florescent bulb, because the government has banned the regular one. You don't get the choice. Yup, the USA has a federal law that bans regular bulbs in a few years.

  8. Re:I Don't Think This Was Well Thought Out on Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change · · Score: 0

    many of which are full of not just inaccuracies, but sometimes outright lies. I'm sure they have the odd good point in there, but it's impossible to tell the agenda based propaganda from the valid arguments, which is actually quite ironic

    Are you talking about the Global Warming articles, or the Anti-Global Warming articles?

    If you are going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on something like Global Warming, then it would be nice to base it on actual data that hasn't been heavily modified. If they want us to believe them, then they should make their programs and raw data available for peer review. What little has been seen of the programs include such intresting items as "fudge factors" in the code. The data is unavailable (they couldn't find any space to save 4 floppies worth of data, so they threw away all copies).

    Right not, it should be the Global Warming crowd that needs to prove the case. All they have at this point is a religious movement, and the science is only as good as it is for the "intelligent design" movement. Why should we need any "counter evidence" when we currently don't have any evidence to counter?

    Give us the programs and data so any high school science student can run the programs and get your results, then let "real" programmers look over the code for stupid mistakes, and real scientists check the data for stupid errors, then we might be on the way to science. All we have right now is "The dog ate my homework".

  9. 150,000 mines on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 1

    There's more than 150,000 mines, and they're only going to clean up 70 of them? What's the big deal? That's less than .05%! Think of the children of the puffer fish!

  10. Isn't that on Comcast Shoots For New Image, Rebranding As Xfinity · · Score: 1

    Isn't that name already in use for one of those wonder cars. Wasn't it in one of those car commercials that never mentioned what they were selling, and never even bothered putting a picture of their vehicle in the ad?

    Are we going to see commercials with his and her outdoor bathtubs advertising for this new company name?

  11. Re:I'm not holding my breath on Does Microsoft Finally Have a Phone Worth Buying? · · Score: 1

    Well, MS has been working on Windows for much longer, and it still sucks.

  12. Re:improved compatibility with open standard on OpenOffice 3.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be funny if OpenOffice supported OOXML, and MicroSoft had to write their code to be compatible with the OO version.

  13. Mating on Bark Beetles Hate Rush Limbaugh and Heavy Metal · · Score: 1

    "We found we could disrupt mating, tunneling and reproduction," Hofstetter said. "We could even make the beetles turn on each other, which normally they would not do."

    I wonder if this works on Democrats as well as it does on bark beetles. Maybe this is the real reason why they hate Rush Limbaugh so much. Keep it up Rush, we may have found a way to handle the population explosion!

  14. Does this mean.. on Bark Beetles Hate Rush Limbaugh and Heavy Metal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this mean that bark beetles are Democrats?

  15. Take the opportunity on What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy? · · Score: 1

    Take the opportunity to teach the children in science classes what appears to be the most important lesson about science that teachers have been hammering into the kids for many years: Science is boring. Make sure that they have to do many hours of calculations for a 30 second chance at looking through the telescope. Afterwards, make them write a 6 page essay about the experience, and how it effects global warming and the snail darter. Pound it into them that there is nothing intresting about science. Go on for hours about how you only got 15 seconds when you were younger. Then tell them the long boring details about how you make your own aspirin in the chemistry lab.

  16. Finally on Sony Announces First 3D Blu-ray Disc Players · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, a 3D blue-ray player! I keep losing my 2-dimensional player when the wind blows it under the couch. It's impossible to see from the side, since it is infinately thin, so I have to move the couch to be able to see it from the top or bottom. They should have made them 3 dimensional in the first place!

  17. Re:I've seen the Beta! on Iran Suspends Google's Email Service · · Score: 1

    Did it have the "one-click" assassination squad button?

  18. What every kid wants to do on What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy? · · Score: 1

    Do what every kid wants to do with a large magnifing device: you burn ants! It's a great daytime activity, and gives tham a chance to release their aggressive tendencies. Gets them outside burning calories, cutting down on clildhood obesity, unless they start eating the ants.

  19. Re:Options. on What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy? · · Score: 1

    Calculate the rotational speed of the moon?

  20. That book on Linux Foundation Announces 2010 "We're Linux" Video Contest · · Score: 1

    you know, at least half of the videos are going to end with a Rod Serling like quote

    "That book, how to serve the Linux Community, it's a cookbook!"

  21. Re:similar story with Fedora and hard drives on Microsoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Batteries · · Score: 0

    Windows trains people to ignore messages, simply by bombarding them with constant warnings. In order to get anything done, you have to click on messages to allow you to run non-Microsoft programs, you have to click more to get past the windows update messages, messages to install anything, messages to get to certain web sites, messages for this and that. You end up not bothering to read them so that you have time to actually use the computer, and most people don't understand the messages anyway. By bombarding the user with constant useless messages, they don't notice when something is actually seriously wrong.

  22. In related news on Microsoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Batteries · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umbrella Corp says that its virus is not causing people to turn into zombies. However, we were unable to get more information from their spokesman, as he was killed by zombie dogs.

  23. Obviously, this is on Signs of Water Found On Saturnian Moon Enceladus · · Score: 1

    have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus.

    This is obviously leackage from one of those space aliens, coming here to steal all our water.

  24. Re:The pendulum swinging on Signs of Water Found On Saturnian Moon Enceladus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What they don't want to tell you about their proof, is that it consists of a large pile of empty plastic bottles, with pictures of mountains on them. However, the labels translate to "city tap water" instead of "pure artisian spring water", so they are obviously not from an intelligent civilization.

  25. Windows7? on IBM Releases Power7 Processor · · Score: 1

    Is Power7 designed for Windows7?

    Please, don't let it be!