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  1. Re:Wow, 8 year old book reviews! on The Making of the Atomic Bomb · · Score: 1

    Actually, what I would do if I planned to bomb anywhere (which I don't), would be to place 2.5 kilograms of plutonium oxide crystals into a small box, which I would then place into a somewhat larger box, which would also contain a sizeable quantity of nitroglycerin-based blasting gelatin (7% nitrocellulose), rig it up with a few detonators, find out where you live, and leave it right on your doorstep.

  2. Re:Wow, 8 year old book reviews! on The Making of the Atomic Bomb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, it probably would be nearly impossible for an ignoramus like you to do it, but someone like me would probably find it fairly easy.

  3. Re:Wow, 8 year old book reviews! on The Making of the Atomic Bomb · · Score: 1

    By the way, when I said megatonnes, I actually meant kilotonnes.

  4. Re:Wow, 8 year old book reviews! on The Making of the Atomic Bomb · · Score: 1

    Actually, once the required materials were obtained, it would be fairly easy to construct, say, a small 15-megatonne device, since it's basically just crystals of some fissile material surrounded by high explosives.

    Although, a suitcase nuke probably wouldn't work, since the 15-megatonne device would weigh about a ton.

  5. Re:Why? on America's Army on Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    "A dollar spent on brainwashing is better than a dollar spent on product improvement."- The Dilbert Principle

  6. Re:And what happens when on Robot Pharmacists · · Score: 1

    I don't think that this is likely to happen,since as they said in the article: "it's calibrated to recognize the size and shape of each type of pill." (Hopefully) this means that it should recognise the viagra pills (whether it actually recognises what they are is actually irrelevant, as long as it recognises what they aren't, ie heart medicine), and then throws it away (we just have to hope that they don't understand the concept of practical jokes.)

  7. Re:Naah... on FTC Moves Forward With National Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    I think that it would probably be better to send them a couple of goatse links, and if they still don't get it, start sending lemonparty links, and set your filter to exclusive.

  8. Re:My CDR is really slow... on Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's real maths, all right, it's just that it happens to be a counting system used by politicians called 'bollocks', in which anything + adequate funding = anything else

  9. Re:Continuing the First Post Quest, DBZ style on Web Zeitgeist · · Score: 1

    Buu make you dead!

  10. Re:Stopping Piracy: the easy way on Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy · · Score: 1

    The only real way to stop piracy is to make EVERY piece of software open-source, since then, no one will bother buying pirated software, and software companies could still make profits, just look at Red Hat.

  11. Re:I FIGURED IT OUT!!! on Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy · · Score: 1

    They were running at 40x speed. Sounds more like a 600 CD interchanger to me.

  12. Re:So how do I stand if I am using a 2X burner.... on Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy · · Score: 1

    Well, I calculated the mean speed of the burners they were using to be exactly 2.698717949x, so you're probably over the RIAA threshold. Wait... Do you hear sirens?

  13. Vital statistics on Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy · · Score: 1

    The mean speed for the burners was exactly: 2.698717949x The highest number of 40x processers they could have was: 10.525The secret service was founded in 1865 in order to combat counterfeiting, before the FBI was founded The secret sevice's presidential protection role was formalized in 1913.

  14. Re:wow ! on Smart Mobs · · Score: 1

    I am, aren't I?

  15. IN DEMOCRATIC BRITAIN on Smart Mobs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jokes are supposed to be funny.

  16. Re:wow ! on Smart Mobs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (Insert humour here)

  17. Re:Speaking of the RIAA... on EverQuest/Sony Fights Code Wars With Latest Expansion · · Score: 1

    Personally, I think that it would be a lot more secure if they were to write the entire code in Brainfuck, since it would be very difficult to hack a program consisting almost entirely of angle brackets.

  18. Re:I donated blood yesterday.... on Face Transplants On The Way · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but don't you need your brain in order to live?

  19. Re:WHERE ARE THE AIDS LINKS? on EverQuest/Sony Fights Code Wars With Latest Expansion · · Score: 1

    And how exactly is this relevant?

  20. Re:Read The Manual! on When Personalization Runs Amuck · · Score: 1

    But I always thought that the whole point of having fish is that you always have something to throw at anyone you don't like.

  21. Re:Read The Manual! on When Personalization Runs Amuck · · Score: 1

    Or you could turn it on and off repeatedly, I'm sure that eventually it will reset.

  22. Re:Small form factor MB's on Review of the New Shuttle XPC Chassis · · Score: 1

    I suppose you would

  23. Re:I donated blood yesterday.... on Face Transplants On The Way · · Score: 1

    Isn't donating your brain the same as donating your entire body, since you'd just be transferring you conciousness into someone else's body, and theirs into your body?

  24. Re:Reminds me of this guy... on Face Transplants On The Way · · Score: 1

    Please, kill me now!

  25. Re:Small form factor MB's on Review of the New Shuttle XPC Chassis · · Score: 1

    But only if you can actually use them, unfortunately. Can you imagine playing Quake 2 on one of those?!