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  1. Re:Oblig. on Futurama Movie Set For November 27 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The show will return as a full-length, high-def film sold on DVD.

    But does it come in a convenient suppository format?

  2. Re:Sweet on Cheap Paint-able Solar Cells Developed · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is:

    We have to pave the earth in order to save it

  3. My niche publishing market is safe on Blogs Are Eating Tech Media Alive · · Score: 1
    Latex for fun. New book now out.

    No way the interwebs will take THAT away from me.

  4. Re:Lossy compression? on Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold · · Score: 1

    We don't say "Oscar Schindler saved Jews In WWII" and then say, OK, that data had 5 spaces in it, and 4 "S's," and if I remember the positions of the spaces and the S's, I could use less memory space to store this in my head, and then just think back through the algorithm I used to take the spaces and "s's" out and put them back in where they go, and I'll have the name again, and then sit there and carefully work out in our heads what the original data must have been after our compression methods. It doesn't work that way at all.

    We don't? Blast.

    Excuse me. I need to go rewrite 3 years of lecture notes.

  5. One of the three... on Politically Incorrect Observations About Human Nature · · Score: 1

    A female suicide bomber DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS their cherry-picked "evidence" for their theory. A woman does not become a suicide bomber because she cannot find a mate. In most of those countries, there are more men than women. A woman does not become a suicide bomber because she wants the 72 virgins.
    Maybe they were studying alegbra.
  6. After a lifetime in IT on Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT? · · Score: 1

    After a lifetime in IT, you go to Silicon Heaven

    (if you've been good)

  7. Re:Oh dear me no. on Glitch Has Users Fuming, Google 'Frantic' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Catastrophe doesn't begin to describe it. I had only just set up my personalised home page and Gmail account and this disaster happens with no explanation.

    Please would someone contact me at ';delete * from personalisedsettings;'@gmail.com if they have any news.

  8. Re:And I would have got away with it too.... on Google, Intel, Microsoft Fund Robot Recipes · · Score: 1

    You may think that a glowing red eye switched on by the evil bit is a fault light.

    But red on a robot is a feature

  9. And I would have got away with it too.... on Google, Intel, Microsoft Fund Robot Recipes · · Score: 2, Funny

    if I could only find a cheap supply of red LEDs for the eyes.

  10. Raising monkeys in a centrifuge on Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 1

    Dr Eric Reed has already carried out important preliminary work in this area

    But of course Congress cut our^whis funding, just when it was most vital for the future of humanity. And just as I^dthe research team was off to the Cricket World Cup on in^w^w^w^w^wJamaica - a leading world source of centrifuge compatible monkeys.

    Oh, science, I pity you for your vicious poltical masters.

    Won't someone please think of the colonists' children?

  11. Proposed name on Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 1

    "possibly habitable" ?

    I propose the colonists use the name WeMadeIt

  12. Transactional Intepretation rules on Quantum Physics Parts Ways With Reality · · Score: 1
    All these problems of observers, and reality and whether it's really real all go away if we make one very simple assumption: some particles can travel faster than light (and therefore backwards in time).

    Wikipedia gives a brief introduction> but the main paper is quite readable.

    To me it just seems right. The Copenhagen interpretation seems to be driving itself into an unsatisfactory corner. And which is more likely? We've got a tweisted view of it for 70 years, or the universe can do something unexpected with time travelling waves? Just that one little mental hurdle to cross, and everything else falls into place. No more spooky actions at a distance. No more photons knowing which slit was closed after they had gone past it.

  13. Re:Sweet on New Hydrogen Storage Technique · · Score: 1
    Quoth drinkypoo:

    There is NO reason to have a nuclear plant in your backyard.

    Drinkypoo, you are sorely lacking in imagination.

  14. Re:Stop listening to scientists! on New Mexico Might Declare Pluto a Planet · · Score: 1

    opportunities galore for landscape architects. (I hear Pluto is in a very secluded location, but could benefit from some remodelling, and possibly an ornamental pond or two).

    And a shrubbery! Fetch me a shrubbery!

  15. please don't READ THIS COMMENT on Subliminal Messages Might Actually Work · · Score: 5, Funny

    SO what the article is saying is that attentional load
    MODulates attentional responses to
    MEssage that are carrying an embedded message. I will not put
    UP with these shenanigans that are calcualated to
    INCITE us make a
    FOOL of ourselves.

  16. Bad computer! BAD! on Computer Foul-up Breaks Canadian Tax Filing System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Computer Foul-up Breaks Canadian Tax Filing System

    How long must we put up with these computers fouling up our systems? We've been taxing people for hundreds of years with no problems worth mentioning.

    Bring back trustworthy, reliable humans and we will have no more of these computer foul-ups.

  17. Re:Not worried about employment application data on How Safe is Your Employment Application Data? · · Score: 2, Funny
    when I passed a current colleague of mine. I just greeted him but I could see the questionmarks in his face

    One of your colleages was Edward Nigma?

    I'm not surprised you were looking for another job.

  18. Re:What? on Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme · · Score: 1
    The implication is that because the professor broke SHA 1 that my online bank account is going to be drained. Not likely.

    Yup, $23.71. You're right. Barely covers the cost of the CPU time.

  19. Fantastic news!! on PCI SIG Releases PCIe 2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a firmware upgrade, right?

  20. Re:I have one for you on 5 Strangest Materials · · Score: 1

    I'm still trying to work out the dynamics of the matrix.

  21. Full scale models on Firsthand Account of the Christie's Star Trek Auction · · Score: 5, Funny
    Full-scale models of the Enterprise-A and Enterprise-D dominated the front of the room.

    Full-scale? That must have been a large room.

  22. Re:Videotaped? on Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits · · Score: 1
    Nahhh, the World Chess Championships are all over it.

    http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=337 0

    World Champion and Grandmaster Kramnik alegedly goes 50 times during 1 game...

  23. Online Backup Storage on The Day Against DRM · · Score: 1

    So I can use Dreamhost to store my backups?

  24. Re:Funny as hell on 10 Terrible Portrayals of Technology in Film · · Score: 1
    None look for an IR signature that I know of, but the retinal pattern they're looking for is the pattern of blood vessels. Without blood pressure elevating the blood vessels above the surface of the retina, and blood making the vessels appear bright red, the pattern is very difficult to pick up. Also, without the socket to hold the eye in shape, the whole orb deforms which changes the shape and therefore the pattern, even assuming the scanner could pick it out without blood pumping through it.

    And I still say we need more empirical data. Stop making excuses...we're behind schedule on the weather machine as it is.

  25. Re:Sounds like GALE on Natural Language Processing for State Security · · Score: 1
    G.A.L.E. report for September 25, 2006

    Executive Summary

    Classication: Classified.

    CRUSH! KILL! DESTROY!

    End of report