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  1. Swirly thing alert! on Outer Space has a Smell · · Score: 1

    ISS Science Officer Don Pettit reports in his journal that outer space gives off a smell best described as "a rather pleasant sweet metallic sensation." "I hate to go all technical on you, but... all hands on deck, swirly thing alert!"

    "Where?"

    "It's not on the radar yet - but I can smell it."

    "Nothing here."

    "Nothing on long-range. Sir, is it possible you could have made a mis-smelling?"

    "Listen, butter-pat head, my nostril-hairs are vibrating faster than the springs on a Spaniard's honeymoon bed! I'm telling you, there's something out there!"

    "Don't get your double-helix in a strict! No one's questioning your nasal integrity."
  2. Traffic Lights on the Information Superhighway? on Comcast Defends Role As Internet Traffic Cop · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Comcast argues that it should be able to direct traffic I like traffic lights
    I like traffic lights
    I like traffic lights
    No matter where they've been
    I like traffic lights
    I like traffic lights
    I like traffic lights
    I like traffic lights
    I like traffic lights
    But only when they're green
  3. The remaining 50% on 6% of Web Users Generate 50% of Ad Clicks · · Score: 5, Funny

    The remaining 50% are made up of people who just gotta punch that monkey!

  4. Pardon me? on US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is the only reason why Bush cares so much that Congress grant this immunity instead of just issuing his own Presidential Pardon for the telecoms that he can't pardon them for ongoing and future violations?

  5. Re:So look at it, take it apart, spend a few minut on Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device · · Score: 1

    Comma abuse... isn't nearly... as bad... as ellipsis... abuse....welcome datacomp

  6. Re:The Internet Creates on Internet "Creates Pedophiles" According to "Expert" · · Score: 2, Funny

    With a name like cthulhu, it should be expected that nightmares will follow suit. And the name smuckers is taken, but unused.
  7. Re:* Stops download of newest Firefox * on Serious Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.12 · · Score: 1

    This SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK for the vast majority of users. The slashdot effect notwithstanding, we are not the vast majority of users here.

    You should try NoScript yourself before pontificating about preconceived flaws.
  8. Re:Memory Usage / No Script on Serious Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.12 · · Score: 1

    I also tend to have as many as 20 tabs open, but usually only one window. I find I have to kill -9 firefox daily when it suddenly decides to eat up 100% of processor time. I've had it take three or more seconds to render an additional line of text on a site when scrolling when I didn't kill it at the first sign of trouble.

  9. Re:A Mathematician on The Grammy In Mathematics · · Score: 1

    Tom: Uh, how'd you restore the recording?
    Buzz: Kevin Short and Jamie Howarth were the real heroes here. They restored the recording using this.
    Man 1: Hey, what is that?
    Man 2: It's mathematics!
    Everyone: Yay!
    [Rolling Stone magazine cover: "E Pluribus Mathematicus"]

  10. "Roxanne" Challenge on Hostile ta Vista, Baby · · Score: 1

    from the title-could-have-been-worse dept. Really?

    [throws a dart]

    Give me 20 something-worses.
  11. Re:Oh No!!! What About The Great New Reaility Show on Deal Reportedly Reached In Writers' Strike · · Score: 1

    But seriously they aren't going to get rid of American Gladiators, are they? You took the tongue right out of my cheek.
  12. Re:Seriously.. on U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't you need a legal declaration of war for that?

  13. Re:A quarter _BILLION_? on OpenID Foundation Embraced by Big Players · · Score: 1

    Could you explain in more detail how using OpenID to verify to a mailto: URI would work? Setting up an auto-responding script?

    I have not researched the mechanism of OpenID, only pointed out that their site referenced URIs, which the wiki defines as a superset of URLs, and did not on the same page offer a declaration of what subset of URIs they actually support. By that omission, I thought it a fair reading that all URIs are supported.

    The only thing I can see necessitating them to use the vague term URI instead of the specific term URL is RFC 3305 (referenced in their OpenID RFC) which basically says, screw the differences between URI, URL, URN, URC, etc. and just call everything a URI.

    So, fuck it, I don't really care that much about it to argue about it further other than say yeah, of the whole set of URIs they only support a tiny subset of URLs: http and https and these new XRI(TM)s, and probably really only a tiny subset of them as well. (Hard to tell when things like table 5 persistently presents itself partially off the left of my browser window regardless of window size.)
  14. Re:Brainstorming broken? on Install Copyright Filters on PCs, Says RIAA Boss · · Score: 2, Funny

    RIAA: I want you to filter out all the copyrighted music. You do know which ones are copyrighted?
    PC: All of them?
    RIAA: Good boy.

  15. Re:Another argument for variability of "constants" on Galaxy Sans Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    IANAAP, but I believe that in order to see our own galaxy as a "light echo", we'd have to be travelling faster than the speed of light. I'm not a jet pilot but I have heard a "sound echo" without traveling faster than the speed of sound. For a "light echo" you only need to look in a mirror or at a sufficiently strong gravitational lens.

    I think what you're thinking of is a "future echo".
  16. Re:Seriously.. on U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border · · Score: 2, Informative

    Police state anyone? Things are getting worse and worse. When they do that at the state border, then you're talking about a police state. Are you seriously suggesting (since this is only happening at the national borders) "police nation" as a more accurate and palatable term?

    You should look up "police state" in a dictionary sometime.
  17. Re:A quarter _BILLION_? on OpenID Foundation Embraced by Big Players · · Score: 1

    According to the OpenID site it uses a URI, which includes "mailto:" URIs.

    For AOL IDs, its "openid.aol.com/screenname".

  18. Pick Two on Best Laptop for Going Around the World? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rugged, light, cheap: pick any two.

  19. Goldfinger meets Underpants Gnomes on Fifth Cable Cut To Middle East · · Score: 1

    "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."
    -Auric Goldfinger Four times, ???.
    Five times, profit!

    Of course, if there's a sixth cut, I'll revise:

    Four times, OMG!
    Five times, WTF?
    Six times, BBQ!
  20. Re:Atari 2600 controller on Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    Mine kept breaking the plastic insert that hit the contacts on the board. Decathalon was a killer for them. And those tiny keychain games in an Atari stick? Broke it the first day. And it didn't have the authentic version of Yars' Revenge.

    Or do you mean the paddles? I've never had one of those break, but then I didn't have any games they worked with, other than making tanks drive faster in Combat.

  21. Re:Phones (back when the phone company owned them) on Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made? · · Score: 5, Funny

    And their armored cousin, the public pay phone, was no slouch either. Trust me, you don't want to lose one of those in the toilet.
  22. Re:Awesome! on Three Parents Contribute to Experimental Human Embryo · · Score: 1

    Twins meets Junior?

  23. Re:asexual reproduction - sexual reproduction ? on Three Parents Contribute to Experimental Human Embryo · · Score: 1

    You're correct, this study was replacing faulty DNA. But if it's just a segment that is faulty, why replace everything? Because it's easier to put your CPU (nucleus) into a new motherboard (cell) than to find and fix the fault in the old motherboard (mitochondrial DNA).

    It's gonna suck for those tracing maternal ancestry through mitochondrial DNA unless both women's mito-DNA become public record.
  24. People are people on NASA Wants "People People" for Astronaut Core · · Score: 1

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              Depeche Mode
              People Are People
              Some Great Reward

          People are people so why should it be
          You and I should get along so awfully
          People are people so why should it be
          You and I should get along so awfully

      So we're different colours and we're different creeds
      And different people have different needs
      It's obvious you hate me though I've done nothing wrong
      I've never even met you so what could I have done

        I can't understand what makes a man
        Hate another man help me understand

          People are people so why should it be
          You and I should get along so awfully
          People are people so why should it be
          You and I should get along so awfully

        Help me understand
        Help me understand

      Now you're punching and you're kicking and you're shouting at me
      And I'm relying on your common decency
      So far it hasn't surfaced but I'm sure it exists
      It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fist (head to your fists)

        I can't understand what makes a man
        Hate another man, help me understand

          People are people so why should it be
          You and I should get along so awfully
          People are people so why should it be
          You and I should get along so awfully

        I can't understand what makes a man
        Hate another man, help me understand
        I can't understand what makes a man
        Hate another man, help me understand
        I can't understand what makes a man
        Hate another man, help me understand
          (People are people)
        I can't understand what makes a man
          (Why should it be?)
        Hate another man, help me understand

  25. Working Class in Space on NASA Wants "People People" for Astronaut Core · · Score: 1

    "The best thing to do is just to freeze him. Stop the goddam disease. He can get a doctor to look at him when we get back home."

    "Right."

    "Whenever he says anything you say `right,' Brett, you know that?"

    "Right."

    "Parker, what do you think? Your staff just follows you around and says `right,' Just like a regular parrot."

    "Yeah, shape up. What are you, some kind of parrot?"

    "Right."