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  1. Snake eats tail on Sony Marketing Man Tweets PS3 Master Key · · Score: 1

    Sony sues itself for DMCA violation.

  2. Re:Stop wasting food on Spinach Could Be Used For Hydrogen Fuel · · Score: 1

    They're not talking about food this time.

  3. Re:VI vs AI on RoboEarth Teaches Robots to Learn From Peers · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, that's what people have been saying for 50 years and it hasn't happened. AI people now talk about the bootstrap fallacy.

  4. Jobs? Purpose? on Sputnik Moment Or No, Science Fairs Are Lagging · · Score: 1

    OK, once we prepare all these young scientists, what are they going to do, besides work at Home Depot and Mcdonalds?
    Do we need a superabundance of engineering and scientific talent to salve our national pride, or can we actually point to lucrative careers after all the effing work of learning? Get back to me when American scientific talent can hitch its hopes to careers and causes.

  5. Re:I know EXACTLY what sign *I* was born under! on Stars Remain In Their Usual Places; People Panic · · Score: 1

    Girl at a party asked me my sign. I took one look at her and said, "stop."

  6. Refund? on US Scraps Virtual Fence Along Mexican Border · · Score: 1

    Now that the project's canceled, can we get a refund? Or do we end up with a cardboard box of expensive, custom junk?

  7. Re:Soon, no more call centers on Jeopardy-Playing Supercomputer Beats Humans · · Score: 1

    But you can't talk to it, you'd have to type. So maybe a chat support tech...

  8. Collapse? on Social Security Information Systems Near Collapse · · Score: 1

    What does it look like for a computer system to "collapse?" Suddenly no longer able to process a single transaction?

  9. Re:Occam's razor... on Free Radicals May Not Be Cause of Aging · · Score: 2

    I don't know all the answers to salorie restriction

    (smacks forehead) wow... my boss isn't being cheap... he wants me to live longer.

  10. Re:I have no idea.... on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Nobody wants to work in a cube. It's just cheaper that way.
    If you're in a start-up, there's the excitement of doing things on the cheap, but it gets old fast.
    My job doesn't pay the greatest, but I have a real office with a window and a door.

  11. Re:Danger Will Robinson! Danger! on NASA Solar Sail Lost In Space · · Score: 1

    The pain... oh, the pain!

  12. Obilg John Lennon on China Blocks News Websites In Protest of Nobel · · Score: 1

    If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
    you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow.

  13. Re:Nothing new here on George Lucas to Resurrect Dead Movie Stars? · · Score: 1

    Marlon Brando in "Superman Returns"

  14. Re:Sorry, no "dirty tricks" campaign here... on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 1

    Step 8: Profit!!!

  15. Retirement Age on Aging Reversed In Mice · · Score: 1

    In other news, retirement age has been raised to 250, though term limits are still an open question.

  16. Cats invented humans on Oxford Scientists Say Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because they got tired of their old toys.

  17. Re:From the No-shit-sherlock department on Oxford Scientists Say Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats · · Score: 1

    In soviet russia, cat trains you.

  18. Re:For the Love of God, serve on a jury on eJuror Will Lead To New List of Jury Duty Excuses · · Score: 1

    Your jury of peers are full of the most easily manipulated people. People who are malleable and submissive, often the un-educated.

    Whenever I'm up for jury duty, people keep telling me that the attorneys never pick people in the sciences because they're harder to manipulate.

    Is there any truth to that?

  19. Goodfellas on Long Takes In the Movies, Antidote To CGI? · · Score: 1

    Nice long shot of the young mobster and his girlfriend walking to the restaurant, skipping the long waiting line, manuvering through the kitchen, and to their just-placed table five feet from Henny Youngman.

  20. Re:No big surprise here. on Saudi Arabia Bans Facebook · · Score: 1

    The atheists that created soviet Russia told everybody they couldn't, in the name of the state. This was before they'd heard about the Streisand Effect.

  21. Re:Now that you know how fear works on Dissecting the Neural Circuitry of Fear · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As someone who's struggled for decades with irrational and useless phobias, I really wish my fear had an off-switch. I would've gotten a lot more enjoyment out of life, and saved a lot in therapy bills and medications. It's an adaptation that kept our ancestors alive, but now it's mostly baggage.

  22. Airplane Contrail? on Mystery 'Missile' Identified As US Airways Flight 808 · · Score: 1

    Didn't this appear to rise from the Pacific? How would a plane, flying high over the Pacific and heading to Phoenix, produce a contrail that rises from the Pacific heading west?

  23. Energy for the tree? on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    OK, so while the tree's giving off light, can it still make sugars etc and feed itself?

  24. Open Source Solution? on IE6 Addiction Inhibits Windows 7 Migrations · · Score: 1

    Firefox/Chrome plug-in that emulates IE6?

  25. Re:I would've been first but... on DOS Emulator In and Out of App Store · · Score: 1

    abort, retry, fail?