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  1. Re:I've got mine on pre-order. on Port-A-Nuke · · Score: 0

    +1 Insightful Popular Mod Point (not redeemable)

  2. Re:hydrogen cars? Helium Blimps! on Hydrogen Fuel Cells Running On Sunflower Oil · · Score: 0
    could you imagine a building full of people speaking with high pitched helium voices all day?

    A staff meeting at Disneyland, Mouse Division!

  3. Re:more evidence... on Mars Rovers Find More Evidence of Water · · Score: 0

    George W Tumbleweed? Who he?

  4. Re:You mean DIGITAL zoom on Need A New Retina? Look No Further · · Score: 0

    That's why all products prefixed 'Turbo' can be had for next to nothing these days....

  5. Re:Not quite curved on a cricket ground.... on Projecting Video On Curved Surfaces · · Score: 0

    This was actually designed as a distorted font for road markings which actually appears to be standing upright on the road. It was declined by the powers-that-be for some unknown reason, but was snapped up by the ad-monkeys.

  6. Re:Legal implications on Living Without a Pulse · · Score: 0

    That's in the other half of the world...

  7. Re:Backups on Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds · · Score: 0
    I believe that the US Patent Office stores all their records in an old mine

    I believe that the US Patent Office throws all their records down an old mine...or possibly a toilet. WORN storage at it's best, if the current crop of patent crap is to be believed.

  8. Re:boo. Article gets a thumbs down. No, the finger on Quantum Computing Using Traditional Transistors · · Score: 0

    Chill out! Maybe to " minus more than 400 degrees Fahrenheit." - perhaps? :->

  9. Orrin Hatch is a new euphemism? on Copyright Bill could Stifle Innovation · · Score: 0

    As in "bend down and take it up the Orrin Hatch!"

  10. Re: Obligatory George W. Bush reference... on Let the Mindgames Begin · · Score: 0

    Damn! An elephant...!

  11. Re:because rockets are only used by terrorists... on Disney Launches Fireworks With Compressed Air · · Score: 0
    Surely there is some sort of metal component to the payload that would make this possible.

    What goes up... *ouch*

  12. Re:I wonder if you have to ... on Electric Armor Tested For Light Armored Vehicles · · Score: 0

    Hoorah! :)

  13. Re:fix? on Fingerprint Scanners Still Easy to Fool · · Score: 0

    Just for interest, when did the mean human body temp change from 98.4 to 98.6 F? Did I miss the memo?

  14. Re:there's a book like that... on Electric Armor Tested For Light Armored Vehicles · · Score: 0

    "The Forever war" by Joe Haldeman

  15. Re:I wonder if you have to ... on Electric Armor Tested For Light Armored Vehicles · · Score: 0

    Blimey! Rocket Robin-Hood I thought I had dreamt that....!

  16. Re:Yeah, But on New Class of Genes Discovered · · Score: 0
    females have a more pronounced season of going into and out of heat. Get an extra furrowed forehead to better protect vision during rainstorms and intense heat on veldt. Get large hairy ears to better pick up on approaching predators..... I would call this the Teletubby gene...

    I would call it the Ferengi gene...

  17. Re:Hmm... BUT!!! on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: 0
    "Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time..."

    " Reboot, damn you Windows %&^*@^%"!!!!! "

  18. Re:Self-boiling? on Bacteria Live Happily in Nuclear Waste · · Score: 0
    Um... "self-boiling?" Does that mean that it will boil of it's own accord?

    It means that if you jump in you will boil yourself. *heh*

  19. Re:Yeah right on Insurance Industry Warned of Nanotechnology Risks · · Score: 0
    Just like when the pope comments on preservatives

    I thought all popes were full of preservatives..?

  20. Re:how unfortunate on Doctors' Neckties Transmit Germs · · Score: 0
    Here are some reasons to wear a tie:You'll appear more professional

    Isn't this tantamount to fraud - caveat emptor, I suppose...

  21. Re:Windows on HPC? on In The Works: Windows For Supercomputers · · Score: 2, Funny

    The point is that Microsoft can probably work very hard to castrate the gui windows out of Windows(tm) and end up with smallish kernel or micro-kernel architecture. With Internet Explorer.

  22. Re:Word just in from the oil industry on Manure-Powered Generators On The Rise · · Score: 0

    Who runs Bartertown?!?!?

  23. Re:Duuude... on SCO Caught Copying · · Score: 0
    nor do I enjoy watching the government throw around the phrase "intellectual property"...

    Guess this means the govt don't own much then?

  24. Re:Hrm... on IT Outsourcing Need Not Threaten Our Future · · Score: 0

    and mass production was first used by Elias Whitney, for I think, making muskets... or one of his other things.

  25. Re:Do you have a problem w/ food service technican on IT Outsourcing Need Not Threaten Our Future · · Score: 0
    My friend made a comment about food service technicians once. ONCE.

    And then the salmonella struck and he spoke no more...