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  1. Re:GPS more accurate than radar? on GPS Used As Defence In Radar Speeding Case · · Score: 1

    Ah yes that would be one of the newer more advanced models.
     
    They obviously measure brownian motion now, too.

  2. Re:Permanently genetically modified organisms on GMOs Perfected Down to the Chromosome Level · · Score: 1

    Oh come on. Historical hybrids take years to produce. Decades. Centuries.
     
    They dont appear overnight, into the global environment and onto your plate and into the foodchain before people even know what new name to give them.

  3. wily terrorists on LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists · · Score: 3, Funny

    wily terrorists can easily defeat this lame attempt at security.
     
    All they have to do is predict these random numbers ahead of time... Using a dice.

  4. Re:evesdropping requirements on Google Planning New Undersea Cable Across Pacific? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Theres no need to damage the fibre to tap it. Just create a small tight bend and allow some of the light to leak out:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DvaubDDbss

  5. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics". on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The chemical sensors in most airports are super-sensitve and can pick up minute amount of explosives or accelerants in the air, or from luggage.

    I worked at a UK airport a few years ago installing telecom cabling. One of the engineers had been working in the airport police shooting range and a drill bit had picked up some cordite from the air after he had been drilling through one of the walls.

    Passing through security later in the day to go airside, his installation tools were swabbed and the spectrometer flipped out like a fruit machine jackpot. Even though he had a full airport pass and had been background checked, He was taken to one side and had some explaining to do.

  6. Re:anyone else hear that on Another Man Dies After Marathon Gaming Session · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whats the problem?

    He'll just respawn back at the entrance.

  7. Re:ahem.... are you sure? on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 1

    I gave up asking any detailed questions at PC world long ago. I stick to asking price details that's it.

    Though they're not uniquely dim. I was in Maplin UK electronics last year - the electronics hobby shop. A customer came into the shop and asked a question about fuses.

    The staff guy behind the counter turned around and without any embarrassment or self-consciousness whatsoever shouted into the back 'Dave! How many Milliamps in an Amp?'.

  8. Re:what's he wearing? on Help Find Steve Fossett · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yo mammas so fat when she got lost and they found her on google earth.

  9. Re:Wow! What an innovative idea! on New Way of Extending Satellite Life Saves Millions · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should just put guns on the satellite. When the satellite passes overhead any ground-based fuel tanks it can blow them up, and the spaceship fuel tanks will fill up again.

    I thought everybody knew that.

  10. Re:We got some flyin' to do on Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America · · Score: 1

    A crash of an airplane that has Nukes is handled differently then a run of the mill aircraft crash

    Yes. Ive heard that its because the resulting smithereens are much, much smaller.

  11. Re:And lo the beginning of the IP Cold War... on Allofmp3 Restarts Business · · Score: 2, Funny

    Were talking about the RIAA here.

    If you think nuclear war or an invasion of the North Pole is more important than copyright, youre smoking crack.

  12. Re:Call me paranoid, but.... on Legal Music Streaming Site Launches In France · · Score: 1

    Youre right. Get Ackbar on the horn.
     
    Something smells fishy and its not his feet.

  13. Re:The real religious explanation on Ape-Human Split Moved Back By Millions Of Years · · Score: 1

    Damn. You started off so well....

  14. Re:What's the point? on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 1

    Evolution and creationism are not equal and opposite competing theories. Evolution is a framework with verifiable evidence and structures to support it. Creationism has NONE.

    NONE!
    NO.EVIDENCE.

    Furthermore, the weaknesses and gaps in evolution theory DO NOT STRENGTHEN the creation hypothesis. The creation hypothesis cannot stand on its own merits.

    "When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong." [Dawkins]

  15. Re:Believe in evolution? on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 0, Troll

    Intelligent Design is a hypothesis, not a theory.

  16. Ive seen this its awesome on Another Way To Erase Memories · · Score: 2, Funny

    I used this jamming machine once and it was ideal for erasing my short term memories.

    Its also perfect for erasing short term memories, and it also erases short term memories.

  17. Re:Oblig... on 3D Animations In Mid-Air Using Plasma Balls · · Score: 2, Funny

    You own Google?

  18. Re:Original on Voltron Headed For The Big Screen · · Score: 1

    I must be much younger, but it sounds like my 80s favourite - Star Fleet and their flying robot Dai-X

  19. Re:You wouldn't believe it, but... on Space Hotel to Open in 2012 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Worse than that, none of the electrical sockets are compatible. Its worse than travelling to Europe.

  20. Re:To use a farkism on DARPA Semifinalists Selected · · Score: 4, Funny

    Frogger.

  21. Re:MSN does some weiiiiiird things... on MSN Censors Your IM · · Score: 1

    That Microsoft crackden 'feature' is one big pain in the ass! Damn. The hassle Ive had with that fucking policy. How do you turn it off?

  22. Re:house music all night long on "Crowd Farm" to Collect Energy? · · Score: 1

    Yes, its the energy used to make raw copper into wire thats expensive.

    Luckily, engineers have just developed a new energy source for that - using exercise bikes..

  23. Re:private sector on NASA Contractors Censoring Saturn V Info · · Score: 1

    Hes talking about that Egyptian attempt 6000 years ago

    -and been watching too much Stargate.

  24. Re:Anonymous, not Anonymous Coward. on AC = Domestic Terrorists? · · Score: 1

    26 = 0,
     
    For reasonably small values of 26.

  25. Re:It's hard to believe on High-Tech Squirrels Trained to Conduct Espionage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Squirrels are IDEAL for this kind of work.
     
    Everybody knows they can keep secrets.