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  1. Problem solved on NASA Tackles Ethics of Deep-Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    Vacuum sucks

  2. New Submarine Cable on New Submarine Cable Planned Between SE Asia and US · · Score: 1

    ...allowing servicemen aboard US Submarines to receive the same lousy cable TV service from Comcast that you get.

  3. Global Swarming on Cell Phones Aren't Killing Bees After All · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this mean Al Gore won't be able to plug Global Swarming as a problem?

  4. Re:Dangerous precedant on Student Arrested for Writing Essay · · Score: 1

    No, just the one's that are teletyping the terrible crimes that they are going to commit.

  5. Re:Dangerous precedant on Student Arrested for Writing Essay · · Score: 1

    After the fact assessment of a horrendous shooting incident -> Wish there had been an arrest

    Doesn't seem like such a dangerous precedent anymore, does it?

  6. Outsourced on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 1

    Most mathematics jobs at the higher level are being outsourced to countries like India anyway.

  7. That's no Law... on Does Moore's Law Help or Hinder the PC Industry? · · Score: 1

    186,000 miles per second, That's a law.

  8. Quite a Journey on The World's Longest Tunnel · · Score: 1

    Arne Saknussemm Excavation Company has been consulted

  9. woo hoo on Vonage Admits They Have No Workaround · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Boo hoo Boo hoo hoo!

  10. I hope branding counts on A Review of the Top Four External Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Hopefully its the brands and not these specific models, as I have Iomega, LaCie, and Western Digital external drives, but in different models. My latest purchase was a 320 GB Iomega, but the 2 LaCie's are pretty new as well.

  11. Re:In Soviet Russia... on LED Forty Years Older Than Thought · · Score: 1

    The one dated earlier (RE: Dear Albert) must've been a comment that orginated in Soviet Russia, as it appears LATER in list, but is dated EARLIER.

  12. In Soviet Russia... on LED Forty Years Older Than Thought · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... The LED lights you up.

  13. Re:My money on Live spam-catching contest at CEAS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well let's just find out, just what is your gmail address, hmmmm?

    ;)

  14. Cooking Oil? on Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I always thought there were some server administrators better suited to a vocation that required them to say, "You want fries with that?"

  15. Re:Free Ringtones on Utah Bans Keyword Advertising · · Score: 1

    Well the free Pr0n would be a lot easier to browse too if it weren't for all the sites that wanted you to pay for it. ...and all those d**n pop up windows. grrrr.....

    :)

  16. Free Ringtones on Utah Bans Keyword Advertising · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you've ever tried to find true "Free Ringtones" you'll probably have an idea of the frustration that lead to this sort of law. It took me along time to identify Audacity 123 software, QualComm Purevoice software, BitPIM software, and a data cable as a means to create real free ringtones for my phone. Virtually every link to free ringtones had you buying a service are getting "free" ringtones only if you signed on to buy others. This is false advertising, and is an area that makes the internet useless. Again that what make the Internet the most useful (powerful search and association capability) brings it to its news for some intended purposes. Just banning the use of the word free in advertising would help. Though this would probably be impossible to implement and enforce.

  17. Carbon-offset on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 3, Funny

    I used my saved energy as a carbon offset to burn additional energy.

  18. Re:Pork. on Astronaut to Run the Boston Marathon From Space · · Score: 1

    I know you're post was, presumably, intended to be funny (or maybe not), but the way to use the least oxygen is to stay still, and let your muscles slowly atropy. One of the necessities of prolonged space travel is the need to keep in shape, if for no other reason than to be ready for the eventual return. This kills two birds with one stone, so to speak.

  19. Dr. Evil's Giant Magnet on Space Debris Narrowly Misses Airliner · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fortunately work has already been begun on Dr. Evils's Giant Magnet

  20. Deliverance on Semi-Identical Twins Discovered · · Score: 1

    Well that explains a lot.

  21. OK, I Give on Organism Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex · · Score: 1

    Helen Thomas?

  22. Re:Indeed? on Slobs Found To Be More Productive Than Neatniks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dude (shaking head), People with Anorexia HAVE a disorder, they aren't necessarily organizing things in a disorderly fashion.

    As for me I'm set, I'm pretty messy

  23. Adapter on Gadgets You Backpack Around the World With? · · Score: 1

    Electrical Current Adapter
    with universal plugs

  24. the 2003 power outage on Unlimited Wireless Plans Coming · · Score: 1

    When we had the great power outage in 2003, our land phone lines continued to work, but the cell phones were hosed. My wife's greatest concern has always been the reliability of the land lines, even though they too can go out. This is probably the last main reason we haven't switched to all cellular or at least to cable phone.

  25. Go to the ends of the earth for employees on Is Computer Science Dead? · · Score: 1

    As commercial software products have matured, it no longer makes sense for organizations to develop software from scratch.

    ...not unless they can outsource the work to India or China or some other low cost provider.

    "Some companies go to the ends of the earth for their people... and usually find that they can get them there at a substantial savings."