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  1. Re:Shiny things? on Laser Weapon Shoots Down Airplanes In Test · · Score: 1

    But if they could hit it with a missile then why bother with a huge complicated laser in the first place?

  2. Don't use a mouse on IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines · · Score: 1

    It just sits there licking itself. Plus, you can't use a mouse with it.

  3. Re:Detects terrorists... on Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Or people who sweat even in the middle of February. I look forward to getting pulled out of line now every time I fly in the summer.

  4. Re:WTF? on Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software · · Score: 1

    "Air traffic control. This is Northwest 415, we are rolling on boss loot."

  5. Re:People without the Money Burn a Witch on Should a New Technology Change the Patent System? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wouldn't worry if I was them. Sick people can't move very fast and get tired easily.

  6. Re:What's next? on Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties · · Score: 1

    You also have to pay royalties to the band "The The".

  7. Re:First priority. on First Black Hole For Light Created On Earth · · Score: 1

    Talk about hype and abusing scientific termology. Their next project will be on solar cells titled "Generating free subatomic charged particles via a massive nuclear fusion source"

  8. Re:Efficiency on The Ultimate Limit of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    In the meantime just keep putting redundant statements in endlessly nested loops, etc.

  9. Re:Scalzi on Stross on ST on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    No, he should just reverse the polarity of the neutron flux. That always fixes things.

  10. Re:I'm grateful on Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing · · Score: 5, Funny

    They are just starved for attention.

  11. Re:What to do with our corporeal remains on A Geek Funeral · · Score: 1

    Bull. There is only one appropriate way to go, Viking ship funeral pyre.

  12. Re:Seriously? on A Geek Funeral · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to put his red stapler in the coffin.

  13. Cost savings idea on Porn Surfing Rampant At US Science Foundation · · Score: 1

    I recommend keeping porn on a local server to reduce the bandwidth used on their net connection.

  14. Re:usa on Idaho Tops America's Most-Spammed States · · Score: 2, Funny

    They estimate 5 to 6 million computers are comprimised. So that means that much of the spammers are sending spam to their own comprimised machines.

  15. Re:Oh goody. Youtube comments everywhere on Google SideWiki Brings Comments To Everyone · · Score: 1

    You forgot all the "Looking for dates! Got to www.spamforlife.com!!!!" or "Get v1gr@a!! Cheep! You long tool now!" ads that will clog every other comment. Very few sites ever maintain their comments.

  16. Re:Enough please on New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative · · Score: 1

    Where did I say I was against new ideas? I just said not all new ideas are automatically better ones.

  17. Re:Enough please on New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative · · Score: 1

    Change doesn't automatically equal progress. The wheel seems to still be around.

    Plus biking is more efficient than walking.

  18. Enough please on New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Stop trying to one-up the bicycle. It works, it is cheap and it is time tested.

  19. Re:No preparation on Schooling, Homeschooling, and Now, "Unschooling" · · Score: 1

    Easy, introduce them to websurfing at work.

  20. Re:too easy on Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin · · Score: 1

    Based on the bail amount this guy is considered more dangerous (or likely to flee) than most people charged with murder I read about. Ummm, ok.

  21. This test already existed on A Breathalyzer For Cancer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There is an easier way to detect lung cancer via sniffing someone's breath. Ask them how long and how much they smoke, sniff their breath. Cigarette breath? Cancer!

  22. Re:What Material Is the Pantacene Sitting On? on IBM Images a Single Molecule · · Score: 1

    Clearly this is a fraud perpretrated by a fanatical intro to chemistry teacher.

    Seriously though, maybe they cleaned up the background noise or maybe the tip (which they modified with carbon monoxide so it was "tuned") was extremely selective in how it responded to the substrate material.

  23. Re:Reduced Effort in World of Warcraft on Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net · · Score: 1

    Completely the opposite. You get the "no more instances can be started" (or some such msg) rejection when trying to enter. It means that the server is running as many instances as it can handle.

  24. Re:Reduced Effort in World of Warcraft on Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net · · Score: 1

    The main social activity on my server is struggling to get into instances, especially BC ones. I'd trade all the pretty new mounts and gimmickry for them to fix that.

  25. Re:I think I see the problem. on Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    They tried kicking it but that just got the experimentors too excited.