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  1. Re:Har-har-har! on Major Electronics Firms Support Ending Use of "Conflict Minerals" · · Score: 1

    At the end of the report, the reporter said they had yet to receive news of the rat they put on board as the first Congolese "being" sent to space

  2. Re:Hardly surprising on Major Electronics Firms Support Ending Use of "Conflict Minerals" · · Score: 1

    not to mention Congo's entry into the space age, with the Troposphere V rocket launch

  3. Re:Might sound harsh on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 1

    an easy rebuttal is:
    "You think the children need to be taught that freedom of speech does not exist in the United States?"

  4. Might sound harsh on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 1

    but a school employee who can't defend his free speech rights should not be working in a school in the first place...

  5. Re:Cool... on IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines · · Score: 1

    Hopefully this computer cat has been programmed to use proper grammar and spelling.

  6. Re:Mines a vodka and red bull... on Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks May Be Illegal · · Score: 1

    In certain circumstances I think certain combinations are appropriately banned, like liquor store / car dealership for example

  7. John Titor on Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers · · Score: 1

    used a time machine made with mini black holes, in case you guys have forgotten..

  8. How do they calculate the time needed on Researchers Neutralize Parkinson's Dopamine Killers · · Score: 1

    Really, I'm curious to know?

    I mean, if you find something really promising, don't you try to accelerate the testing?

  9. Cheaper solution on Vermont City Almost Encased In a 1-Mile Dome · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just cover all the streets with linear roofs

  10. Re:fresh install on an Acer Aspire one ZG5 on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    I have an AAO 150, and did the upgrade from 9.04... everything was fine except wireless as usual when I do a kernel update, but this time the usual madwifi fix did now work, and by all accounts the wireless should have been working.

    So I thought screw it, and switched to Crunchbang.

  11. Re:Machine translation replacing human translation on IT Snake Oil — Six Tech Cure-Alls That Went Bunk · · Score: 1

    It's getting closer.

    Not really.

    Someone I know attended the Machine Translation Summit, and from what I've been told, organizations who use machine translation still require a small army of "editors" to correct all the errors made by the machines (one organization was even heard saying that this type of "translation technique" has reached the point of profitability).

    This need is driven by the lack of competent human translators, and the surge in demand for translation services.

    Unfortunately, the law of offer and demand hasn't had much of an effect on translators' income levels, probably because people demand cheap services, so the field fails to attract talent in great numbers.

  12. Pirate Bay is closed? on Pirate Bay Closure Sparked P2P Explosion · · Score: 4, Informative

    Certainly does not look dead yet.

  13. Machine translation replacing human translation on IT Snake Oil — Six Tech Cure-Alls That Went Bunk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let's just say the technology is not quite there yet.

  14. how long until on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    the next Crunchbang release, then?

  15. I'll take four! on A New Robotic Hand That Can "Feel" · · Score: 1

    But instead of hands, I want pincers and instead of arms, I want tentacles.

  16. First, a clown goes to ISS on Gigantic Air Gun To Blast Cargo Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    now they're going to start sending human cannon balls too?

  17. Re:Relief Valve Necessary? on Students Take Pictures From Space On $150 Budget · · Score: 1

    I'd launch an Estes rocket with a MiniFig pilot in it.

  18. Re:I wanna look through the Hubble! on Hubble Releases First Post-Upgrade Images · · Score: 1

    It's not space, but you could probably, not without some difficulties, organize trips to this place instead as an alternative.

  19. Re:Alternatively on Looking For a Link Between Sci-Fi UFOs and UFO Reports · · Score: 1

    I'm a Star Trek fan, and there's an ugly woman at work who must be part Klingon and part Romulan. Poor thing.

    So she has pointy ears AND a goatee?

  20. Re:A slip? on Looking For a Link Between Sci-Fi UFOs and UFO Reports · · Score: 1

    Even if there were time aliens, they would also have to be space aliens, because our galaxy/solar system/planet are not static.

    I'll call em Space Time Aliens, or STAs for short.

  21. Re:And I'll be the first to say: on Scientists Learn To Fabricate DNA Evidence · · Score: 1

    And how many cops do you think have the education level of a biology undergrad AND have access to, and the specific knowledge to use the required lab equipment?

    I'm not saying it's impossible that a framing by cops could occur, it's just highly unlikely. It would probably require a whole corrupt police department that also has a lab on the premises.

  22. Re:So they "invest" $50 million on NASA To Invest In Commercial Crew Concepts · · Score: 2, Funny

    At least they'll get to name everything... the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks

  23. nice to see on Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant Two Months Ago · · Score: 2, Insightful

    that the liver transplant wait times are not that long...

  24. Re:They're smoking that wacky weed again. on 9th Circuit Says Feds' Security Checks At JPL Go Too Far · · Score: 0

    how are they supposed to keep the alien-built structures on Mars secret then?

    someone's got to be sitting at the photoshopping workstation... that person needs to be above-top-secret cleared!

  25. Re:Why upgrade? on Use apt-p2p To Improve Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade · · Score: 4, Funny

    AFAIK, women prefer men who have all the latest upgrades