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  1. Re:FREE: Leftover HE electrons on Decades-old Scientific Paper May Hold Clues To Dark Matter · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll bet there are hidden charges.

  2. Re:Typical Rosetta on Rosetta Takes Stunning Self-Portrait 10 Miles From Comet's Surface · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least it didn't pull a duck face.

  3. Re:Any suffiently advanced tech... on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 1

    Patent pending ;-)

  4. Re:Not so much, maybe. on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 1

    If it were my special laundry machine then of course I would be the one to remove the $1000 note. Naturally I would give you back your $1.

  5. Re:Any suffiently advanced tech... on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 1

    Despite the fact that I agree wholeheartedly with everything you say, there is a part of me that would love to see you eat you words if it turned out to be genuine. So many great inventions were delayed for years by common sense and scepticism.

  6. I would love this to be true. on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Two reasons really. First because the thought of a group of sceptical experts scratching their heads in disbelief is too delicious to resist, but mainly because it would mean that the undesirable element who spend so much time stealing copper wire to sell on the black market would be stymied by the drop in the value of copper. I guess they would resort to stealing nickel.

  7. Really? on Snowflake-Shaped Networks Are Easiest To Mend · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wouldn't a snowflake shaped network be susceptible to rapid meltdown?

  8. Liquid Helium? on How Bird Flocks Resemble Liquid Helium · · Score: 1

    That's very cool.

  9. Re:What the hell... on Evidence of a Correction To the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    That's what I first though. Nice to know I was precisely in the same ball park as you.

  10. What the hell... on Evidence of a Correction To the Speed of Light · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...is "more or less exactly" ?

  11. Come on Slashdot, keep up! on Microscopic View of How Leaves Repel Water · · Score: 1
  12. Many hands on How LEDs Are Made · · Score: 1

    make light work!

  13. Whole new meaning to "Printer Jam" on Cambridge Company Unveils 3D Printed "Fruit" · · Score: 1

    Boom tish!

  14. Re:Yes, but... on Cambridge Company Unveils 3D Printed "Fruit" · · Score: 2

    Nope! Apple got there first and will sue the pass off of any other fruit-based companies who infringe.

  15. Re:ewww on Cambridge Company Unveils 3D Printed "Fruit" · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's brilliant! I can't wait to get some 3D printed fruit so I can make a purée.

  16. At last we have the proof on Solar-Powered Toilet Torches Waste For Public Health · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bill Gates does indeed believe the sun shines out of his ass.

  17. Re:11000m for the other 95% of the world. on Submarine Tech Reaches For Deep Ocean Record · · Score: 1

    ....which is a little under 2 leagues

  18. Re:11000m for the other 95% of the world. on Submarine Tech Reaches For Deep Ocean Record · · Score: 1

    6000 fathoms you insensitive clod!

  19. Re:Simplify Media on Google Starts Testing Google Music Internally · · Score: 1

    Yep. I used it for a long time and it was pretty good. I was very pissed of when it was killed off, not least because it wasn't a free app. OK, it's not like I paid a fortune for it, but still... Anyway, I have since switched to Subsonic and it's working a treat.

  20. Impressive. on Kinect's AI Breakthrough Explained · · Score: 4, Funny

    Training just three trees using 1 million test images took about a day using a 1000-core cluster

    Trees have traditionally been trained in Entish, which although reliable, is such an un-hasty language.

  21. Expensive way to prove a theory on Houston, We Have a Family Reunion · · Score: 1

    Having just read about the Twin Paradox my brain is hurting too much to think about it. Go read it yourself.

  22. Re:Unicorns? on Unions Urging Actors Not To Work On Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1

    I actually read it as "Onions Urging Actors Not To Work On Hobbit Movie" and nearly cried.

  23. Oh great! I can see the endless text messages now on Bloomberg Reports Facebook Building Android Smartphones · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Your wife just commented on a picture posted on your secretary's MMS
    kjsmith and 6 other lawyers like this

  24. Re:Let me see if I understand this correctly on How Your Brain Figures Out What It Doesn't Know · · Score: 1

    OIC. Thanks. Would you mind if I paraphrased that in my sig?

  25. Let me see if I understand this correctly on How Your Brain Figures Out What It Doesn't Know · · Score: 4, Funny

    The ability to introspect about self-performance is key to human subjective experience, but the neuroanatomical basis of this ability is unknown. Such accurate introspection requires discriminating correct decisions from incorrect ones, a capacity that varies substantially across individuals. We dissociated variation in introspective ability from objective performance in a simple perceptual-decision task, allowing us to determine whether this interindividual variability was associated with a distinct neural basis. We show that introspective ability is correlated with gray matter volume in the anterior prefrontal cortex, a region that shows marked evolutionary development in humans. Moreover, interindividual variation in introspective ability is also correlated with white-matter microstructure connected with this area of the prefrontal cortex. Our findings point to a focal neuroanatomical substrate for introspective ability, a substrate distinct from that supporting primary perception

    Nope.