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  1. Re:he is headed for Apple? on Co-founder Joy to leave Sun · · Score: 1
    is it possible he is headed fro Apple?

    By George, that is a 'fro in the photo ...

  2. Re:I read it! on Bacteria Powered Batteries · · Score: 1

    There's a call from Tom Ridge for you on line 1 ...

  3. Re:Al-Jazeera on Bacteria Powered Batteries · · Score: 1

    But which link is more gratuitous?

  4. Re:I wonder What Skeletor Looked Like before... on Skulls Gain Virtual Faces · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like this.

  5. Re:And California? on Power Outages Strike East Coast · · Score: 4, Funny
    Okay, can anyone tell me exactly what an "illeagle immagrant" is?

    I think that they are some sort of migratory waterfowl ...

  6. Re:So what's the difference? on Friendster Fights Fakesters · · Score: 1
    Moving on, imagine if someone walked into a bar wearing a giant Oscar Meyer Weiner costume, immediately he would become the topic of conversation and a good number of people would approach him and become his "friend".

    Does this work better than being dressed as a giant cucumber?

  7. Re:Pre-emptive post on Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo · · Score: 1
    Take this beyond what is possible with modern day science... brain in a vat.

    You mean my brain is NOT in a vat?!?! Nooooooooooooo!!!

  8. Re:Stem cell research on Playing God with Monsters · · Score: 1

    293 cells are virus transformed - so they are fine for research, but medically useless.

  9. Re:It's not uncommon on Chimera Twins Story · · Score: 1

    A photo of Blaschko's lines is here.

  10. Y chromosome on Chimera Twins Story · · Score: 1

    The Y chromosome is pretty screwy in its own right.

  11. Re:I have a few #1 hits on Google... on Tiny Sites Aren't Small Potatoes · · Score: 1
    This part of the page might have helped your Google index:

    The Big Box Invasion
    While not literally part of Christiana Mall, big boxes have popped up on the land adjacent to the Mall. These big puppies include Circuit City (pushers of the idiotic DIVX system), Costco, Dick's Sporting Goods, and a few others. Personally, I wish BJ's Wholesale moved in instead of Costco. I think it'd be cool to see the massive Dicks and BJs as you walk into the mall to get screwed...

  12. Re:Impressive. Next project? on Build a Rotisserie Scanner With Legos · · Score: 1

    Thank You!

  13. Re:Seems odd on Maine Completes Largest To-Scale Solar System Model · · Score: 1

    And the moon is a fiberglass covered golf ball ... with real craters.

  14. Re:Wardriving in the subway! on Intel's 'Personal Server': The Handheld Killer? · · Score: 1

    Hopefully it will have some sort of key or "off" switch ...

  15. Cuecat on Barcodes: The Number of the Beast · · Score: 1
    From the Cuecat link:

    If you have a Cue Cat, save it. The patents and technology created by DigitalConvergence will again be available for business and consumer use.

    If you are looking for a Registration code or To be continued...

    Do you share this dream?

    I think that if you scan this one with a Cuecat, the world might end ...

  16. Re:You're wrong on Positively Fifth Street · · Score: 1
    I don't think tht a computer that we will ever see could possibly take into account the wide ranges of expression, bluff, etc. that a real game entails.

    I guess that's why Data had so much trouble with poker. On the other hand, being a Betazoid might be an advantage.

  17. Re:News for Nerds on Positively Fifth Street · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's Blackjack. If you can ignore all of the gaudy ads on the site ... there's a lot of useful info here.

  18. Re:Obsolete Joke on The Rights of GM Humans · · Score: 1
    Evidently this joke was obsolete in the last century as well.

    And then I had to explain to some folks at work that there were computers that could run off floppies and that didn't have hard drives.

    I guess I'm officially an "old fogey" in training ...

  19. Re:Does Star Trek teach us nothing! on The Rights of GM Humans · · Score: 1, Funny

    Corinthian Leather is from GM cattle?

  20. Re:Pennies? on How Would You Move Mount Fuji? · · Score: 1

    Make a triangle with a stack of two on one of the vertices.

  21. Mighty Mouse vs. Superman on Comparing Sci-fi Starship Sizes · · Score: 5, Funny
    You're right, that's just silly.

    Superman is far greater than Mighty Mouse.

    I don't know about that - on a Power per Gram ratio, Mighty Mouse beats Superman ...

    Plus, MM has a better theme song ...

  22. Re:Don't look a gift grant in the mouth on OpenBSD Lands $2 Million In DARPA Money · · Score: 1
    Do you honestly believe that Theo is taking millions of dollars just so he can say "I don't like the war"? Of course not.

    Do I believe that he enjoyed seeing his quote in the press? Absolutely.

    I just found the initial quote to be a bit disingenuous ... he's "in bed" with the US DoD whether he wants to believe it or not.

  23. Re:Don't look a gift grant in the mouth on OpenBSD Lands $2 Million In DARPA Money · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Actually, I think that he was just using this as an excuse to publicize his opinions about the war:

    The DARPA grant enabled Mr. de Raadt to add the equivalent of four full-time developers to supplement the work of about 80 volunteers. And although he's happy about the extra support for the project, he's nervous that critics may get the idea he's working for the U.S. military.

    "We're not doing anything for them. They just fund us to do what we do," said Mr. de Raadt, a 35-year-old graduate of the University of Calgary's computer science program. Mr. de Raadt is no fan of the U.S. military at the moment. He calls the war in Iraq an oil grab. "It just sickens me."

  24. Re:I don't know what you're smoking.... on DNA, Fifty Years To the Day · · Score: 1

    I'd be hard pressed to call prions alive - they actually are misfolded versions of single, native proteins. Prions can impart "information", since they propagate by inducing normally folded proteins to misfold, but calling them a living thing is a bit of a stretch.

  25. Slashdotted already on GTA: Sin City Announced · · Score: 1

    I can't believe that GTA-Sin City is already slashdotted!