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  1. It's easy on Mounting Evidence for Water on Mars · · Score: 3, Funny

    mars# mount /dev/evidence /mnt/water

  2. Script Kiddie Hitmen on Superbowling · · Score: 2, Funny
    Supposedly sports gambling sites are being threatened with denial of service attacks if they don't pay protection money

    I visualize Joe Pesci sitting in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant, hacking in VBScript.

  3. The Mirth Mobile on Worst Cars Of All Time Rated · · Score: 1

    The AMC Pacer is a great car! Is the licorice dispenser standard equipment?

  4. Re:Is there REALLY anything wrong with Fission pow on Mine The Moon For Helium-3 · · Score: 1
    Perhaps a nuclear power plant that produces power but doesn't actually have a reactor?

    We had one of those in Sweden. The R4 reactor in Marviken ended up being run on oil.

  5. Re:Can someone find real numbers? on Lie Detector Glasses Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Don't follow this link, lest your browser disintegrate in a shower of elementary particles!
    http://www.topfx.com/cgi-bin/mixmaster.cgi?layoutu rl=polygraph.org&contenturl=antipolygraph.org

  6. A polar bear! on NetBSD Announces Logo Design Competition · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Because polar bears eat penguins, right?

  7. Re:All your base belong to US on Giant International Fusion Reactor Draws Nearer · · Score: 1

    Why would you need to guard it? It will not become a hydrogen bomb if you blow it up. It is just a research project. It is not an interesting target for a terrorist (unless he works for an oil company).

  8. Re:2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 19... on Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! · · Score: 1

    Unless it is prime numbers ...
    2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 ...

  9. xpilot on Multiplayer Linux Games · · Score: 3, Interesting
  10. The NOC list? on Build Your Own NOC · · Score: 1

    I thought you had to steal that from the computer in Langley?

  11. "Think of your project as your home." on Myths About Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    I wish I could think of my home as my project. Then maybe I could reach the kitchen without mountaineering equipment.

  12. Been done before on Personal SUV of the Sky · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Fun cube facts on Rubik's Cube Comeback · · Score: 1

    I once saw someone on TV who could solve it with his/her feet.

  14. Re:Sounds like on Memory Activity LEDs · · Score: 2, Funny

    So this is what those things in Mr. Data's head are?

  15. Bah! on Disney Completes Dali Animation · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wake me up when Disney starts collaborating with H. R. Giger.

  16. Re:Morse code on the cell phone on FCC Ponders Removing Morse Code Reqs for Amateur Radio Licenses · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but with morse code you could enter text without looking at the display. You could even put the phone in your pocket and hold a conversation without anyone noticing, like in "Casino".

  17. Re:morse code will always be important! on FCC Ponders Removing Morse Code Reqs for Amateur Radio Licenses · · Score: 1

    Or tell the air force pilots not to destroy the 747 you are on (and have nearly reacquired from the terrorists.)

  18. Morse code on the cell phone on FCC Ponders Removing Morse Code Reqs for Amateur Radio Licenses · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If I knew morse code, I would like to have a cell phone that understood morse code. I'm sure entering SMS messages would be a lot faster that pressing 1 three times for "c" and so on. The phone would need just a single button!

  19. Re:The network administrators... on Microsoft Worms Crash Ohio Nuke Plant, MD Trains · · Score: 3, Informative

    I once did a laboration on an research reactor that was controlled by a computer running Windows. I think it was NT 3.5. Hopefully it isn't connected to the internet.

  20. Do all those pieces actually exist? on The Star Wars Alphabet Project · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry for acting like an old fart, but wasn't Lego more fun when there was a limited number of different pieces in a limited number of colors? Nowadays, the sets consist of like three large custom-made painted pieces that you put together in ten seconds. The point of Lego is that you can build anything from a few simple parts.

  21. Re:Call me a stick in the mud... on Universal Alphanumeric Postal Code Proposed · · Score: 1

    Yeah, with GPS coordinates, the task of being a mailman is reduced to the simple traveling salesman problem.

  22. Re:Nitrous Oxide and Rubber? on Flight Testing Of Burt Rutan's X Prize Entry · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a hybrid: half rocket engine, half rubber band attached to a propeller.

  23. Re:Wow. on Game of Life in Postscript · · Score: 1

    The advantage PS has over PDF is that it is a lot easier to use for a programmer that wants to add a print feature to his program. PDF is a binary format with strict rules. A PDF file is littered with references to byte indices, so you need a good library to take care of all this book-keeping. Writing such a library is not easy (I have tried) and Acrobat Reader doesn't help much help debugging it, with error messages like "document error [14]" Anyone know of a decent open source PDF library?

  24. Re:Reverse Disassembly on Famous Last Words: You can't decompile a C++ program · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's a tautology and we can't have none of that crap.

  25. Re:Gee Flat on Inside Microsoft's New F# Language · · Score: 1
    but it's the same as a Db (D flat)

    In other words, C# is an inferior version of D