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  1. Christmas Vacation on Researchers Report Breakthrough In Ice-Repelling Materials (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall Clark Griswold working on just that type of spray on material.

  2. Alice is always one side of the alice->bob secure messaging.

  3. Re:IMSAI 8080 on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    I was spoiled in that I never had to load from cassette. However, I did have to load basic from paper tape (!) which took forever. By the time it was loaded, I had lost interest.

    That computer ran static RAM. I remember that we got a dynamic RAM board, but it was ridiculously unstable and failed most of the time. Years later, in the mid 90's, I was working on a system that had dynamic RAM without an automatic refresh circuit. I could literally watch the capacitors lose their charge and the memory go off into space. Another lesson learned about dynamic RAM.

  4. IMSAI 8080 on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    S-100 based system that my dad built; H-19 terminal, 48k of RAM, later updated to 56k. For those of you that have seen WarGames, that's the one.

  5. Re:Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    19 people with box cutters killed 2,753 people in New York City.

  6. Cygnus on Cygnus Spacecraft Makes Historic Rendezvous With Space Station · · Score: 4, Funny

    They were delivering a large red robot with spinning knives for hands.

  7. Re:Sounds like people need to fix thier names on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 1

    William Gates III.

  8. Re:"unpopulated" on NASA Astronomers To Observe Hayabusa's Fiery Homecoming · · Score: 1

    Well, if it isn't, it will be.

  9. Re:What's your definition of possible on Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All · · Score: 1

    Dude, where's my car?

  10. Re:1,000 years? on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    Paper covers rock. Rock beats scissors.

  11. Re:Can we put one of these factories on a ship? on Transforming Waste Plastic Into $10/Barrel Fuel · · Score: 3, Funny

    The US is invading the pacific garbage patch...it's occupants deserve freedom.

  12. Re:"controlled nuclear explosion" on Vicariously Tour the National Ignition Facility · · Score: 1

    Red hole?

  13. Re:Targets! on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hit womprats in my TI-99/4A, which had only 32K.

  14. Johnny Five said it best on New Neutrino Detector Being Built In Minnesota · · Score: 1

    No Nova! No disassemble!

  15. Dr. Evil's Clone on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Dr. Evil's clone is a little, well known scientist.

  16. Re:djb has an alternative? on DNSSEC Advances in gTLDs; Bernstein Intros DNSCurve · · Score: 1

    With blackjack and hookers?

  17. Skynet? on Botnets As "eWMDs" · · Score: 1

    Maybe Skynet. For now, it's just a series of tubes.

  18. Re:Sort of like generic database access layers? on Generic VMs Key To Future of Coding · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's VMs all the way down! Or is it turtles...

  19. Re:Google Maps on Tunguska Impact Crater Found? · · Score: 2, Interesting
  20. Re:There were no injuries on Serious Magnet Failure at CERN's New Accelerator · · Score: 1

    My floppy disks!

  21. Obligatory... on ReactOS 0.3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I've been running this in a virtual machine on Windows and haven't seen anyx938U#Jklx j *** NO CARRIER *** Well, I guess I was wrong. At least Windows allowed me to save what I had previously typed, and Windows is so stable tha83jkJKLEv &#j3kR *** NO CARRIER ***

  22. Re:Which words? on Scientists Unveil Most Dense Memory Circuit Ever Made · · Score: 1

    English also has a few words that take up one character.

  23. Formula for procrastination on Formula For Procrastination Found · · Score: 1

    E=TBD

  24. Did this myself on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 0

    I did this my rerouting the main deflector through a positronic matrix. Zero latency, baby!

  25. Re:Huh? on Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early · · Score: 0

    In Korea, only Soviet Russian memes are crushed by old people.