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  1. Physics meets Beavis and Butthead on Black Hole Particle Jets Explained · · Score: 1

    bh: heh heh... he said expelling mass ... uhhhh heh heh heh...

  2. More drug analogies on Bill Gates On the GPL — "We Disagree" · · Score: 4, Funny

    He must know a lot about the drug business. If you get them hooked on a free sample, you can charge whatever you want, and your users end up "stealing" to get their fix in the end!

  3. mechanical turk on Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just hire out cracking it to a mechanical turk service, and log their results to a database. Before long, you'll have a system capable of monte-carlo guessing at a high rate of accuracy. The computer doesn't need to know much about the image to make an educated guess with a large enough data pool of previous solutions.

  4. who's paying the tribute? on Cybersecurity and Piracy on the High Seas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If financial institutions pass the costs onto their customers, then aren't the customers paying the "pirate tribute"? Also, on an unrelated note, I sure hope that Pirates of the Carribean 4 is rated "ARRR!"

  5. Re:I thought it's a joke on IBM's Pilot Program For Internal Use of Macs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Another interpretation of these results is that IBM is still bitter about the dos and os/2 issues from way back, and they're finally gearing up to give the big blue finger to Microsoft.

  6. Good grief on Flowers' Smell Not Traveling As Far · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    With the glut of environmental decline stories, I'm left to wonder if there's anything left that's NOT wrong with the environment!

  7. 200K is not that cold on Nanoclusters Break Superconductivity Record · · Score: 1

    .."is" 200k in Soviet Russia... in the summertime! aaa ha ha ha!

    (note: this is the variant of the ISR joke where you insert something and then "is this something in soviet russia... in the summertime! AAA HA HA HA)

  8. Re:Code Reviews and Coding Conventions on Google Shares Its Security Secrets · · Score: 1

    Everyone has rules like that, it's enforcing them zealously that actually produces good code by preventing bad code from entering the codebase. It doesn't work if you don't enforce it 100% of the time, because one shady procedure can be the one that is targeted for an attack.

  9. Only a terabyte? on MyLifeBits to Store Every Moment of Your Life · · Score: 1

    Ha, maybe a terabyte could store everything about YOUR life...

  10. Re:Does it matter? on Internet Black Holes · · Score: 1

    I thought thats what google's cache and wayback were for, why not just use the google toolbar ? There's probably a wayback plugin for Firefox out there somewhere also.

  11. Some people's identities are worth more... on Your Identity Is Worth Less Than $15 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If your bank account can clear a 6-figure check, then the ability to access that money must be worth more than 1k, right?

  12. Drinking blood may actually help? on Alligator Blood May Be Source of New Antibiotics · · Score: 1

    So in this rare circumstance, the weird ritual of drinking your enemies' blood to "gain their strength" may actually do something? That is too weird to be made up!

  13. Re:Dawkins may may a renowned evolutionary biologi on Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    I'll backup the 'plenty of atheists' for you: based on the current world population, and the often quoted statistic that 95% believe in a higher power, that yields 330,111,208 atheists worldwide. Seems odd that Dawkins would get special treatment just for that, so obviously he's famous for more than being just one out of a 330+ million strong group.

  14. Origin of life on Meteorites May Have Delivered Seeds of Life On Earth · · Score: 1

    So I'll guess at the scientific origin of life: take the two most organic, chemically active elements and collide them. A meteor hit into the ocean and landed against an undersea volcanic vent. Even if we have no evidence that this is how life formed, just imagine all the chemical reactions and elements that came together when this (statistically likely) happened (at some point in the past).

  15. But does Wifi work out of the box? on Granular Linux Distro Preview is Worth a Look · · Score: 1

    If you have to manually setup Wifi with all that driver mapping crap, then it's still not friendly enough.

  16. Large enough sample set? on Identify and Verify Users Based on How They Type · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't think a username is enough of a sample set to determine a typing pattern. Wouldn't you need to copy down a paragraph of text to have any chance of determining patterns in typing style? I.e. at the very least, "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy sleeping dog" type stuff to hit all the characters?

  17. In Soviet Russia... on Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Found In Omega Centauri · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, baby supermassive black holes turn out to be you!

  18. Re:Only the 4th ammendment? on Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Execution for treason creates a person a special albeit infamous place in history (i.e. John Brown). Personally, I'd rather Bush be a forgotten and shamed chapter of American history versus some kind of martyr for his causes.

  19. Re:Only the 4th ammendment? on Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's the exact opposite... that scrap of paper IS our government. For them to say that a particular law doesn't apply to a particular government action is completely ridiculous. If anyone should be held to the laws there, it's the government itself, which is supposed to be defined by that document.

  20. of course shes not using it on World's Fastest Net Link 'Used To Dry Laundry' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    can you imagine what would happen to the overall internet speed if any of us had a 40gb connection? talk about slashdot effect...

  21. Wikipedia, beacon of literacy on The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 0, Troll

    Makes sense... if anyone goes to Wikipedia and sees "Hillary iz dumb!!!LOL1BBQ", we know that her official campaign stance is that she's dumb!!!1LOLBBQ

  22. Re:Translation: 11-year old's parents get him a jo on 11-Year-Old Becomes Network Admin for Alabama School · · Score: 1

    Did you even read that thing? It says:
    "the FLSA sets 14 years of age as the minimum age for employment"

    so therefore an 11 year old cannot legally be employed for anything... doh!

  23. Translation: 11-year old's parents get him a job on 11-Year-Old Becomes Network Admin for Alabama School · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Translation: his mother works at the school, and his dad's a civil engineer, no surprise that they'd have something to do with this. Child prodigy stories always gloss over the part you'd really want to know about, like how anyone in the administration figured it would be ok to have a minor sign contracts. Obviously he's not really the admin, his mom is, and he's just doing the work or something like that. An 11-year old isn't legal to work, there are these pesky child labor laws in this country (duh).

  24. In other news... on Stroustrup Says C++ Education Needs To Improve · · Score: 2, Funny

    Profs. Einstein and Hawking are upset that people don't know more phyiscs, James Gosling is upset that people don't code better Java, and Picasso is upset that more kids don't take art class.

  25. Sex sells on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 2, Informative

    The barista is smiling to get more tips and sell more drinks, and that's all. Don't trust any interest from an employee on the clock in any way.