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  1. Possible tomfollery. on DoCoMo Starts Cell Phone Smart Card Trial · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Guy 1: Hey, can I use your cell for a second. I need to call home.

    Guy 2: Sure, why not. My night minutes are free anyway.

    Guy 1: *Swipe* Thanks.

    Guy 2: Hey, did you just buy movie tickets?

  2. Re:Tell them! on A Mars Mission's Greatest Challenge: Radiation · · Score: 1

    Yes, similar except with microcraters, no clay minerals, no water, billion year old glass spheroids (which would be broken up by water on Earth) and evidence of exposure to radiation that could not be produced on Earth. Other than that they are pretty much the same.

  3. Re:Tell them! on A Mars Mission's Greatest Challenge: Radiation · · Score: 1

    Explain the hundreds of pounds of moon rocks returned to Earth which have been independently verified thousands of times (many times by labs outside the United States).

  4. Tell them! on A Mars Mission's Greatest Challenge: Radiation · · Score: 1

    You should write to them. I bet those 70 year old men would like to know that they died of radiation exposure decades ago!

  5. Re:Yeah, make fun of it on A Mars Mission's Greatest Challenge: Radiation · · Score: 2, Informative

    Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would like a "word" with you.

  6. It's a conspiracy on A Mars Mission's Greatest Challenge: Radiation · · Score: 4, Funny
    Every sensible person knows that a space craft that is shielded enough, and large enough to allow a human to survive outside our magnetosphere would be too heavy to reach escape velocity. That is why a human has never left Earth's orbit... Apollo indeed!

    I've done the math. It would take shielding 100x stronger than the stuff I use to build the hats that keep the psychotronic weapons from affecting my brain!

  7. Re:Ok... on Microsoft, USO Links Troops Worldwide Via Xbox · · Score: 1

    We already give huge amounts of money on food and water and electricity for various countries. I don't think that a few bucks for X-Box live are poorly spent. I do however believe you are against the soldiers being comfortable, but you are unwilling to say that. Otherwise why would you want money used to make them comfortable reallocated to another purpose which receives many magnitudes greater funding.

  8. In other news... on WSIS to Consider Internet Governance Under U.N. · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Celine Dion to Consider Pop Music Governance Under Canada.

    McDonald's to Consider Fastfood Governance Under Mayor McCheese.

    Mexico to Consider Nevada Governance Under France.

    George Costanza to Consider Jerkstore Governance Under they're running out of you.

    In Soviet Russia U.N. to Consider Internet Governance Under WSIS.

  9. PARENT HAS REVOLUTIONS SPOILER INSERTED! on The Blind Men and the Elephant · · Score: 1

    That was actually pretty funny.

  10. Just don't buy it. on DRM From the Viewpoint of the Electronic Industry · · Score: 1
    If something has DRM that you find to be unacceptable just do not buy it. Of course the problem you will have with this is that others who do not care will continue to buy it, and losing you as a customer will probably not be the companies biggest concern.

    This is the wrong way to think. You shouldn't have any say in what people buy besides what you vote with your wallet. It is very democratic, you see?

    If people generally don't care about DRM the sales of the crippled product will not be affected. If they do care then the sales will drop, and DRM will be redesigned or removed. The only possible problem anyone could have with this is that they want a greater say in the matter than "Joe and Jane Six-Pack" as the typical consumer is usually referred to here.

  11. Re:Best troll in a long time on NASA Debates How And When To Kill Hubble Telescope · · Score: 1

    Actually the origin of the term would suggest that he is sitting in a slowly moving boat with his fishing line out behind it waiting for a newb to bite.

  12. Does it really matter? on Second Life Recognizes IP Of User-Created Objects · · Score: 2, Funny

    The only thing that could really exists outside of Second Life is textures, and from what I've seen Second Life needs as many textures as it can get its hands on (it has horrible graphics).

  13. Well... on Killing Cancer With a Virus · · Score: 3, Funny

    When you cure cancer you can release the cure under the GPL, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

  14. He's a diabetic. on Fugitive Hunter's Bin Laden Fistfight Shenanigans · · Score: 1

    He's a diabetic who is basically clinging on to life. It won't be much of a fight unless the player character is a little old lady.

  15. Um... Ogg Vorbis? on Comparing Online Music Offerings · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you rip with AAC in iTunes it attaches no DRM to it at all. Also AAC > OGG.

  16. Well, this is obvious. on Sci-Fi Channel Looks for LGM in NASA Files · · Score: 1, Funny
    Can anyone say "publicity stunt?"

    Sure, I knew ya could.

  17. The iPod tastes like fluffy caramel. on iPods are for Audiophiles · · Score: 5, Funny
    Says Phillips, 'Dynamics were impressive, imaging was nuanced and detailed, and the frequency extremes sounded extended and natural.'"

    What typical audiophile fluff. Why don't audiophiles ever give any opinion that is actually backed up with data. Oh yes, because if they might find out the oxygen-free 00 gauge speaker wire that they paid $10,000 for doesn't make the music taste anymore like caramel than the normal stuff.

  18. Seems obvious. on Clearspeed Makes Tall Claims for Future Chip · · Score: 1
    I wondering if this is too good to be true.

    I thinking it is!

  19. What? on Even Grues Get Full · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They are giving the comics away. Look at the friggin website! Do you want them to give actual physical books away? If so, I hope you never try to run a business.

  20. Umm nope, it isn't the solar cells... on New Solar Cells 20 Times Cheaper · · Score: 1

    The price comes from the Gee-Whiz Factor (TM).

  21. Re:Another argument against patents on New Solar Cells 20 Times Cheaper · · Score: 1
    Okay, in your unlikely conspiracy scenario it gets developed, bought by the oil companies, held back for 17 years, and then becomes public domain.

    Without patents this is what would happen: Person or persons would like to start a company that makes cheap solar cells. Person or persons realize that if they produce these cheap solar cells they will have to spend money. They then realize that without patent protection another company will start selling their product and be able to undercut them because this other company does not have any development costs to recoup. Person does not develop solar panels, and in 17 years we still don't have these solar panels. Slashdotters say, "Sell support to recoup development costs," while drinking tang in their parents basement.

  22. Re:Well then, on Turn Your GBA Into A Game Console · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, I destroyed it like 2 days before the GBA SP was announced. So the "give-up in despair" option seemed best.

  23. No way, no how! on Turn Your GBA Into A Game Console · · Score: 1

    I already killed one GBA when I tried installing an afterburner. Never ever ever ever ever again! (I think I moved the canned air too close to the LCD and the extreme cold killed it)

  24. ob Austin Power's quote: on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates: Why make billions when you can make... millions!

  25. Re:NOTE TO MICROSOFT: on Xbox - Borrowing Nintendo's First-Party Model? · · Score: 1

    Yes because a consistently profitable company with five billion dollars in their coffers needs to be bought out to survive.