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  1. Re:What's the rush? on The Future of Science Revealed! · · Score: 1

    Well... I guess we need to keep the physicists employed somehow.

    Otherwise, they'll be working on things like doomsday weapons and re-animating dead cats...

  2. I'll be convinced... on More on Statistical Language Translation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...when it's able to translate stuff like:

    "Shaka, when the walls fell!"

  3. To be fair... on Microsoft Research Projects Showcased · · Score: 1

    ...Microsoft researchers have been publishing a great deal of material in the programming languages/compilers field.

    Microsoft has had quite a few PLDI papers; I think they won the best paper award in 2001, so they are at least contributing to compiler research.

    There's also a POPL paper here and there.

    Of course, with all those big names there, they should be doing something like the Manhattan Project for CS.

    Maybe they are?

  4. Aaaaaah! Rosebud! on Decipher · · Score: 1

    It's the sled, dammit!

    BTW, Bruce Willis is dead!

  5. One of two things will happen... on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 1

    ...either:

    1) We'll turn into The Culture, or...

    2) We'll make great pets!

  6. Cherry 2000! on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 1

    Honey, can you go get me a Pepsi?

  7. Re:Not entirely true on MIT, Boston College Refuse DMCA Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    > (and really, of Boston schools, BU has the share of weapon related defense grants)

    Wrong.

    See MIT Lincoln Laboratory - it's awwwllll government and weapons stuff...

  8. Re:Chance or Design? on SETI Gains Respect, NASA Funding · · Score: 1

    > Why couldn't he have been "Ugly bug-eyed monster from Proxima Centauri incarnate" or "Betazed incarnate"?

    Well, at least now there's an explanation as to why Jesus always knows how I'm feeling...

  9. This simplest solution... on Hormel Sues Over SpamArrest Name · · Score: 1

    ...would be to rename it to "chili".

    You could even have your ChiliFilter categorize your incoming mail by "bean number"!

    For example, "three-bean chili" = MORTAGES CHEAP!

  10. What I think happened... on World's Deepest-Diving Unmanned Submarine Lost · · Score: 1

    "Release the Kraken!"

  11. Re:Ah yes... on Pure Math, Pure Joy · · Score: 1

    He could.. but it wouldn't fit in the margin...

  12. Worst spoiler of all... on Yoda, Gollum Take MTV Awards · · Score: 1

    ...no matter how many times you see it, the damn ocean liner hits the iceberg and sinks every time!

  13. Huh? on Spaf's Farewell, Ten Years Later · · Score: 1

    I've seen quite a number of Carmack postings...

  14. Re:You Smartasses Missed the Error on Another Breakthrough in Prime Number Theory · · Score: 1

    Unless, of course, your wife's grandfather's name is James Harris...

  15. A/S/L? on Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well?

  16. Re:Escalation on When Sysadmins Go Bad · · Score: 1

    Mmmmm... you know this coffee has a little "wang" to it...

  17. Re:Albert on Einstein Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Yup. Einstein showed up at one of Feynman's presentations (not sure if it was his dissertation) while Feynman was at Princeton.

    Talk about pressure!

  18. Re:Disney losing money... on Spirited Away Still Has a Chance · · Score: 1

    >It appears that since the Lion King, every Disney film has been either kids only, or failed to get very popular and gone to video/DVD quickly.
    >This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the quality of the entertainment either.

    It has everything to do with the fact Katzenberg left.

    Think about it.

  19. Re:Grow up on Slack · · Score: 1

    Nice to see a representative of America's executive community making an appearing, being the paragons on honesty and virtue that you are...

  20. Re:A little black box on Cringley Asking for 12 Month Predictions · · Score: 1

    Or maybe Sir Clive Barker will come back and amaze us with a new, shiny little bronze box with etchings on all of its faces and a laughing man with pins in his face who will smash Win, OSX, and Linux into oblivion?

  21. Re:Don't click on Slashdots link... on Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense · · Score: 1

    Wow! Thank you Sir!

    With the remaining monies, I can now go to a movie!

    By myself!

  22. I guess... on Microsoft Buys Rare · · Score: 1

    ...Rare's development process can be summarized by a simple phrase:

    "Stop N Swap"!

  23. Re:Can we on Self-Cleaning Glass · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the poop hole...

  24. Oh... on ChronoSpace · · Score: 1

    ...I thought the name of the next game was supposed to be "Chrono Break"?

  25. Re:Learnt a new word.... on Negative Refractivity for Optical Computing · · Score: 1

    Brilliant, they transduced amplitude modulation via the concavity of that oversized beverage conveyence.

    I mean, that is some clever PLASMONIC GOYVIN!