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  1. Tastes Like on Scientists Create Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    Tastes like chicken. Everything strange is supposed to taste like chicken.

  2. You try it on Scientists Create Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    no one has yet tasted the artificial meat
    You try it
    I don't want to try it.
    Hey, I know. Lets get Mickey to try it. He hates everything.
    Sorry, but he died from eating pop rocks while drinking a coke.

  3. If they insist on Should You Be Paid For Being On Call? · · Score: 1

    If they insist on using that firefighter analogy, then you should bring a large fire axe with you whenever they call you in. They insisted that you need to bring it in order to get paid, didn't they?

  4. Re:The Parent Isn't a Troll on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 1

    To me, those graphs show that over a period of time, we can expect the climate to experience rapid warming

    To me, those graphs show that fairies come out at night to paint the flowers.

    If the data is crap and the programs are crap, which is what the release of these documents show, then you can tell NOTHING from them. Crap in means crap out. Until you can get valid data, and process it in acceptable ways, you have nothing. What little is known of the programs that process the now missing data, is that they either include fudge factors or work on pre-mangled data, in order to force the results to their desired goal.

    Until you get good reliable data, and work on it with accepted and proven methods, then all you have is crap. I can write programs to generate whatever graph I want from any random data set. Heck, I can just ignore the data set and generate the graphs anyway. It appears that all they used the data for was to add noise to their graphs.

    The current "Global Warming" propaganda is more of a religion than science. If you are going to make major alterations to business practices for this, then you should also make changes for the poor little faries that spend all night painting flowers.

  5. In other news on LHC Reaches Over One Trillion Electron Volts · · Score: 1

    In other news, the Earth has been consumed by an artificial black hole. The mice are not amused at losing a second one.

  6. Re:Still no nefarious behavior from where I sit on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 1

    Had someone actually wanted to retrieve data off of those 9-track tapes, they probably would have been unsuccessful anyway since magnetic tape degrades with time and tar files don't have any error correction built in.

    Unless those tapes were 100 or more years old, they would probably have been perfectly readable. Magnetic tape does not degrade rapidly if it is stored decently. Unless your storage closet was extremely hot and humid with an arc welder operating nearby, then the tapes would probably be readable 50 years later. Magnetic media isn't as horrible as you seem to believe, excepting 3-1/2" floppies of recent manufacture. These floppies don't survive being stared at for three seconds.

    Is anyone arguing that humans are NOT responsible for 280 ppm going to, what is it now, 385 ppm of CO2 over the past 150 years?

    Yes, that is one of the arguments. Is the CO2 increase caused by warming, or is warming causing the CO2 increase. If you look at the data, the CO2 increase follows the warming increase. Does cause follow effect?

  7. Virtual Murder on Man Arrested For RuneScape MMORPG Online Robbery · · Score: 1

    Is she going to be given the choice of:
    1. Virtual lethal injection. (virus)
    2. Virtual firing squad. (One of those FPS games seems relevent).
    3. Virtual hanging. (Obama's good at this. Just ask any banker)
    4. Electricution. (Throw her computer into the bathtub)
    5. Virtual stoning. (tetris)
    6. Bore them to death . (Make them read the entire health care bills, from both houses)

  8. Amuminum Ice on New Aluminum-Ice Rocket Propellant Tested · · Score: 1

    Isn't ice just the frozen liquid. Therefore, don't they just have to keep the aluminum from melting? Should be pretty easy, with the melting point around 1200F. I think you can buy pretty good frozen aluminum (renolds wrap?).

  9. New acronym? on KDE Rebrands, Introduces KDE Plasma Desktop · · Score: 1

    It's now to be known as the KDEPDXFCE?

  10. Re:SYNERGY! on KDE Rebrands, Introduces KDE Plasma Desktop · · Score: 0

    A sparkling drop of synergy?

  11. Re:Seriously? on Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy · · Score: 1

    They should have been suspicious when they were offered the option of barbeque or sour cream.

  12. We do that? on Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy · · Score: 1

    The chips were then sold to Naval Sea Systems Command, the Washington, D.C., group responsible for maintaining the US Navy's ships and systems, as well as an unnamed vacuum-cleaner manufacturer in the Midwest.

    Naval Sea Command is an unnamed vacuum cleaner manufacturer? You learn something new every day here on SlashDot.

    Isn't it a bit hard to sell something without a name, though? How could you ask the salesperson for it? "I want one of those vacuums that don't have a name." "The Midwest one or the African one?" "I want blue, no yellow!"

  13. Does it handle on Magento Beginner's Guide · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does it handle getting your share of Obama's stash? He's giving away all that money from his own stash, so you should have an easy way of handling that.

  14. Re:Why don't they get some Cell CPU boards on US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s · · Score: 1

    And, having purchased the complete system instead of the board, they save $6300 on each CPU included in the cluster. Plus, when they are done with the system, a lot of Air Force kids are going to have a great Christmas.

  15. Re:Amazing! on US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s · · Score: 1

    Were there any hacked PS3's included. That could be part of the problem.

    For some reason, that weird robotic hand, that we found in what looked like a battle field, has also started acting odd. Almost like it has a mind of it's own. We better check the reverse engineered drivers when we get a chance. Maybe we'll find something useful to do with it, instead of just having it make rude gestures..

  16. Obviously on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Too bad it isn't phone calls. They might be more intresting than meeting reminders:

    Him: Guess where I'm calling from.
    Her: Huh?
    Him: I'm calling from ythe plane. I'm on the plane, and calling you. It's a phone, on the plane.
    Her: How stupid.
    Him: Hold on, we're about to fly through a buil.....
    Her: Hello? Hello?

  17. Fermi-based? on Nvidia's DX11 GF100 Graphics Processor Detailed · · Score: 2, Funny

    I assume they mean the scientist Enrico Fermi. So, did they dig him up, or is this one of those Jesus fingerbone type of thing, where there are more fingerbones than there are chickens? Did they use the whole Fermi, or are there only specific pieces of him that work? Whatever the case, there must be a limited number of cards that can be built, since there is a finite amount of Fermi.

  18. Re:enjoy your police state on Inside England and Wales' DNA Regime · · Score: 1, Troll

    Just wait for the health insurance bill to pass. This will give the Obama administration access to everyones health records, DNA, as well as another 1/6 of their salary. He will have the capability to deny you and your family health care for whatever reason he wants.

    So be sure to vote for the "right" candidates (democrates only), obey their rules (you must weigh the correct amount, no smoking or drinking allowed, popcorn is forbidden, no meat, etc). Or you can become a democratic senator, and the laws will not apply to you. You can even drown someone, and nobody will ever care.

  19. Re:who watches the watchmen on Inside England and Wales' DNA Regime · · Score: 1

    The aliens, who are using the DNA samples to create a tasty snack food.

  20. Re:Excellent! More awards! on Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort · · Score: 1

    So, he bashed American students in this speach? That's how he "earned" his previous prize. Did he call the American children the stupidest kids on Earth? That would be sure to earn him these prizes!

  21. Re:Naming? on Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean, his anti-stem cell research policy where he shrunk the previous administrations budget of $0.00 to several millions. Is that the anti-stem cell research policy you are talking about? I guess you would have been much happier if he just kept the previous administrations spending level on this research.

  22. Re:Keriorrhea on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    The idea isn't to explain your symptoms accurately to your boss. The idea is to make sure that they NEVER question you when you want to call in sick. A few of these extremely descriptive explanations of your explosive diarhea, and they'll never ask what's wrong ever again.

  23. Re:post on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    These "symptoms" you talk about, are they supposed to be unusual?

  24. Newsgroups? on Patent Issued For Podcasting · · Score: 1

    Does this patent cover newsgroups? I think that would be prior art.

  25. Re:Why not? on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    You mean, he's going to bash America? That seems to be the best way to get one.

    Look at the others who got one. Algore for blaiming global warming on the US, Carter for a speach bashing the US, Barock for blaiming all the worlds problems on the US (and George Bush), Yasser Arafat for blaiming Palestines problems on the US, ...

    If you want a Nobel, you must bash the United States, otherwise, forget it.