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  1. Re:Second amendment on Rail Guns Closer to Reality · · Score: 1

    Plasma IS matter. Perhaps you meant solids into plasma? :)

  2. Re:OOOOHHH PLEASE!!!! on Windows Nearly Ready For Desktop Use · · Score: 1

    No cfdisk or even fdisk? If all else fails, download an burn the most recent Knoppix, boot it up, and cfdisk or parted your heart out.

  3. Re:Toddler Bowls on Television Reloaded · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hee hee. You've got one too, huh? :)

  4. For the first time? on Internet Explorer's Share Dips Below 90% · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, even before it was writte^H^H^H^H^H^Hcopied from Mosaic, it had 90% market share? That's AMAZING! :)

  5. Re:I hope not... on Broadcast Flag 2 - Electric Boogaloo · · Score: 1

    The Fed's what?

  6. Vonnegut? on Time Travelers' Convention · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Anyone else find it amusing that the quote at the bottom of /. is currently from Kurt Vonnegut? :)

  7. Re:Tried and true on Last Titan Launch from Florida · · Score: 1

    Titan's WHAT might be '50 year old technology'???? Titan's guidance systems? Titan's software? Please either specify or watch your use of the posessive. ;)

  8. Re:Seems a little silly to me. on Unintended Consequences of Using GPL Fonts · · Score: 1

    ipso fatso? Is that latin for "beer gut"? :)

  9. Re:Marillion? Not only that.... on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 1

    Actually, I like their music, but the voice of their lead singer grates on me. His voice is to "technically perfect" as to prevent anyone understanding what he's saying. Typical DT lyric:"aaabbingaa hwaaaaaaaaayayaa hhhoooooohuuuuuuhhhhhh. . ."

  10. Re:Marillion? Not only that.... on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 1

    It's a Linux-themed podcast. One of the participants is somewhat obsessed with Marillion ergo the joke. Obscure, sure, but at least it gave me a break from making DreamTheater jokes. ;)

  11. Re:Marillion? Not only that.... on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 1

    Christ, what is this, LUGRadio? ;)

  12. The inevitable question on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 2

    Are there any F/OSS apps we non-Mac users can use to play with this? I'm a HUGE NIN fan, but I don't use Macs. Nothing wrong with them, I just have tons of legacy hardware. Still, major kudos to Trent for giving us such a gift.

  13. What'll they think of next? on Platform-Independent Real-Time Speech Technology · · Score: 5, Funny

    VOIP-over-sneakernet?

  14. Re:C# may take over this market on Windows Cluster Edition · · Score: 1
    Gosh, if only I could declare a multidimensional array in c++.

    Maybe something like int x[3][236][5];

    That'd be great.

  15. Little-known irrelevant fact on Google Building Tech Center Near Portland · · Score: 5, Funny
    The Dalles was a point along the oregon trail.

    CmdrTaco has cholera.

    Found 32 pounds of food.

    You broke a wagon tongue.

    Ah, those were the good old days.

  16. Re:Turing away from Landmines? on College Students Turn Away From Landlines · · Score: 1
    Immaculate? Where did YOU go to school? At Augustana in Rock Island, IL, USA, we left burn marks. After one prank, grass died in 2 concentric circles, and didn't come back until the following summer, after 2 reseedings.

    I doubt the dean would have noticed a few blast craters.

  17. Re:Turing away from Landmines? on College Students Turn Away From Landlines · · Score: 1
    I was thinking they meant the students were undergoing a cessation of their use as an educational tool.

    I can just see a cluster of co-eds walking across the quad, when one trips a mine and half the group flies into the air in a flurry of legs and papers.

    Might be a bad thing to see on a campus tour. Enrollment would certainly suffer. "Our largest problem here at MIT is one of attrition due to casualties. . ."

  18. Torrent? on Images of Ocean Floor Show Effects of Tsunami · · Score: 1

    If anyone managed to grab the ppt, please either post a torrent or let me have it and I will.

  19. I feel a great disturbance in the POTS. . . on SBC and AT&T Boards Vote to Go Ahead · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...as if thousands of people all dialed 911 at once. . . and got a busy signal.

  20. Re:Blazar detection on Blazing Speed: The Fastest Stuff In The Universe · · Score: 1

    What's the point? Asteroids can be moved/diverted/destoryed with sufficiently advanced tech. How do you stop a planet-sized wad of superheated gas traveling at .999999 c? About the only thing I can imagine, and I question whether it would work, would be to put a sufficiently large mass in the blazar's path. Let the mass absorb the ludicrous quantity of energy. The hitches are both finding a way to move that much matter and hoping the obliterated mass doesn't smack into the Earth. . .

  21. Re:Michael Powell on Michael Powell to Leave FCC · · Score: 1

    I thought that was Michael Ellis.

  22. Good News/Bad News on Michael Powell to Leave FCC · · Score: 1
    I'm glad to see him go, but I just hope the next person will be better.

    Sorta like when Darth Ashcroft left. You never know who'll get appointed Chancellor next. . .

  23. I'll save you all the trouble. . . on More Linux Portable Media Players On The Way · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What about OGG support? That's the single killer feature for me.

  24. Re:remember? on NASA Prepares to Launch Comet-Buster · · Score: 2, Funny

    fopa? Try faux pas. Funny. That's sort of like fumbling over the pronunciation of "pronunciation". :)

  25. Large Vessels on Coast Guard to Track Ships Using Buoys · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are we talking about the carotid and the jugular, or pieces of pottery? I'm confused.