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  1. Isn't fusion moot? on Odds-on Science · · Score: 1

    Even high-school freshmen can build a fusion reactor.

    I sure hope that bookie specified over-parity fusion, or I am going to make some easy money.

  2. Unfortunately... on Mars Odyssey Begins Overtime · · Score: 4, Funny

    It will not be eligible for overtime pay.

  3. Re:how hot? on New Solution For Your Transistor BBQ · · Score: 1

    What if the chips didn't have physical interconnections?

    Silicon radio interconnects could let these chips run very hot.

    I think these two things combined will be huge in the next few years.

  4. Re:typical bad science journalism on New Solution For Your Transistor BBQ · · Score: 5, Informative

    The chip itself isn't lighter, but the cooling equipment required can be much smaller, making for much lighter and rugged devices that use those chips.

    But yeah, that article was pretty light on details.

  5. Re:how hot? on New Solution For Your Transistor BBQ · · Score: 1

    You know those tiles on the bottom of the Space Shuttle?

    Silicon Carbide baby.

  6. Charcoal? on New Solution For Your Transistor BBQ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Think knife-sharpener.

    Silicon carbide is really hard stuff.

    It's not quite diamond, but with a hardness of 9.25, you could use your SiC processor to grind real axes and not just figurative ones in flamewars.

  7. Summary. on An Objective Review of UnixWare 7.1.4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dear SCO,
    It was a better effort than we expected of you.
    However, it still sucks.
    Respectfully,
    NewsForge

  8. Besides... on Judges Junk Jailcam · · Score: -1, Troll

    The guards don't want any webcams catching them going Abu Gharib on the prisoners.

  9. Soda profiling. on Know Your Enemy, 2nd Edition · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Set up soda machine in office.
    2) Track Mountain Dew purchases.
    3) Use data to identify potential "troublemakers".

  10. The real alien DNA on Should SETI Be Looking For Lasers Instead? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    is in our mitochondria.

  11. Re:But on Privacy Concerns Moving Into The Mainstream · · Score: 2, Informative

    They can't invade your privacy unless you let them.

    Really?

  12. What a tiny card. on Taiwanese Firms To Launch a 2 Terabyte Memory Card · · Score: 4, Funny

    Smaller than many stamps.

    I wonder if anyone has tried to send a memory card like this underneath a postage stamp.

    It's not like the card couldn't hold up to the rigors of the Postal Service.

  13. Re:Might it be possible... on Deep Green - A Pool Playing Robot? · · Score: 1

    Thank you very much for the clarification. I wish every reply to my posts could be as erudite.

  14. Might it be possible... on Deep Green - A Pool Playing Robot? · · Score: 1

    to use genetic algorithms to improve the robocue efficiency?

    Maybe toss in a little fuzzy logic for good measure.

  15. I agree. on Are We Alone in the Universe? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gas giants are no proof of intelligent life.

  16. Whoops, try this URL instead. on Virgin Accuses Apple of Abusing Monopoly · · Score: 1

    Pot, meet kettle.
    /damn parser

  17. Talk about abusing Monopoly. on Virgin Accuses Apple of Abusing Monopoly · · Score: 1

    Pot, meet kettle.

  18. I don't see it as such a bad thing. on Licensing Computer Techs As TV Repairmen · · Score: 0

    For $55, you get to say that you are a licensed computer repairperson.

    It would make one stand out amongst competition.

    That seems like a good deal to me.

  19. I wonder how long it will take... on Lawyer Sues Yahoo for Message Board Name-Calling · · Score: 4, Funny

    Till the name "Stephen Galton" is Google bombed with the word "shyster"?

  20. Ground Control to Major Tomsky. on Soyuz To The Moon? · · Score: 0

    Does the trip include a return ticket?

  21. What you say? on iRobot Cofounder Helen Greiner Interviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    She's invented an autonomous robot that sucks on command?

    Oh, it's a vacuum cleaner.

    Someday, someday...

  22. Don't forget these papers. on Top 100 Papers in Physics Ranked · · Score: 1, Funny

    Without these, many discoveries in physics wouldn't have been possible.

    Seriously, have you taken a look at the Berkeley Physics Department?

  23. Double-take on Steve Jobs Undergoes Cancer Surgery · · Score: 5, Funny

    While he is recuperating, Tim Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations, will run the company.

    Am I the only one who read the word "run" as "ruin" on first read?

  24. Re:Whoa on Aerial Robotics Competition · · Score: 4, Informative

    She is.

  25. Grass-root urban surveillance on Aerial Robotics Competition · · Score: 1

    I won't trade privacy for security...but I might trade it for a remote control voyeur-bot.