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  1. Re:Unconvinced on Need a Favor? Talk To My Right Ear · · Score: 1

    You have it wrong; it means that if you get loaded on really good martinis, you'll end up with bad coitus, requiring medical interventions with respect to your genitals, thus causing you to curse invaders of South America.

  2. Re:Not too bad.. on Apple Patent To Safeguard 911 Cellphone Calls · · Score: 1

    What's the discovery, invention, or innovation here? Degraded mode operation has been around for many, many years now.

  3. Re:why? on How Should a Constitution Protect Digital Rights? · · Score: 1

    An activist court could decide that a tail is a leg; a sheep still only has four legs.

  4. Re:Neither Nova nor Supernova on Junior-Sized Supernova Discovered By New York Teen · · Score: 2, Funny

    No; that was in a galaxy, far, far away.

    This was in a nearby galaxy.

  5. Re:I propose the opposite... on Collateral Damage From Cyber Warfare? · · Score: 1

    'I'm tired of the resources of my nation being used to protect the world.'

    Don't worry, they're not being so used.

  6. Re:Court's self interest on French Three-Strikes Law Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except that the Conseil Constitutionnel is not a court.

  7. Re:Well... I could. on One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night · · Score: 5, Funny

    'It was very dark.'

    I remember once, while camping, it was so dark, it took three of us to see if the fire was lit.

  8. Re:Well... I could. on One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night · · Score: 1

    ...downside being there is no major cities and have to drive nearly 40mi to work.

    It's worth it. I live in a town that's a sign on the road plus a community centre. I get to see this every night (well, if it isn't too cloudy :). It more than compensates for the hour plus trip to work.

  9. Re:Excellent on China Dominates In NSA-Backed Coding Contest · · Score: 1

    they still did roughly twice as well . (Cue the math pedants)
    and grammar Nazis.

  10. Re:Pain of Patents is in the reading on Microsoft Files For 3 Parallel Processing Patents · · Score: 1

    Yes, if you liked it, it's the APL of literature; if you didn't, it's the perl.

  11. Re:The bootprint is might be getting fuzzy by now on Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings · · Score: 1

    Bhotar Xethnil

  12. Re:I wonder if my great^8 grandkids on Research Vehicle Reaches the Bottom of the Ocean · · Score: 1

    'Is it gas and liquid all the way done, lol.'

    Don't be silly; it's turtles.

  13. Ordinary Kitchen Stuff on What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lemon juice and heat!

  14. Right on Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development · · Score: 5, Insightful

    '...is it time to concentrate on consolidation and standardisation in GNU/Linux in general, and the desktop in particular?'

    Good luck.

  15. Re:Err... what? on The Case For Working With Your Hands · · Score: 1

    'How do you outsource the electrical and plumbing of a building project in your city to India? Local hands on work needs to be done locally.'

    Waldoes

  16. Re:Err... what? on The Case For Working With Your Hands · · Score: 1

    '...you have a clogged toilet. You aren't going to call some guy from China who will fly out and meet you there.'

    The way things are going with cheaply made crap ;^), I expect that soon they'll ship a new toilet from China by air and you swap it for the clogged one and ship the clogged one back! :)

  17. Re:Slashcode's lack of characterset support on Microsoft Blocks Messenger In Five Embargoed Countries · · Score: 1

    'It's not really amusing when people in other countries put on a cowboy hat and do a Bush impersonation of Americans,...'

    Yes, it is.

  18. Will People Pay? on Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Will people pay for well-reasoned, researched, and written commentary and opinion columns?

    I would, but not the price of a year's subscription for print. I would pay that, however, if I had unfettered access to, e.g., all (or most) Canadian newspapers online; including the small, local papers. Similarly for a major English-language paper from each country.

    This simulates the blog experience - access to a multitude of differing viewpoints, but with financing to be able to do a good to excellent job.

  19. Re:I know where . . . on Hosting a Highly Inflammatory Document? · · Score: 1

    Remember: "The law cannot protect you from the police."

  20. Re:Only one way to be sure on US Military Looks For Massive Spam Solution · · Score: 1

    Na, just replace ' that' in '...the only problem that ...' with ':':)

  21. Re:How about.... on FTC Targets Massive Car Warranty Robocall Scheme · · Score: 1

    At some point the call enters the regular phone company and at that point the entrant can be recorded. Make that entity responsible and follow the chain back. Whichever company allows an unverified caller id through is the legally responsible party.

  22. Re:Bad Feeling on More Fake Journals From Elsevier · · Score: 4, Funny

    You also seem to suffer from Restless Mouth Syndrome (RMS). I suggest yo try some BSD.

  23. Re:I'm feeling cynical on Merck Created Phony Peer-Review Medical Journal · · Score: 1

    The Supreme Court is wrong.

  24. Re:Nuclear submarines on Small Nuclear Power Plants To Dot the Arctic Circle · · Score: 1

    'In fact, to date the most infamous act of terrorism was performed with a transportation "vessel" filled with fossil fuel, not anything containing anything remotely radioactive.'

    Nonsense; that act is far outweighed by shipping smallpox infected blankets.

  25. Re:How... on Italy May Hold Its Own Pirate Bay Trial · · Score: 1

    'Otherwise, it's a simple matter for people to move off-shore and continue what they're doing in a country that allows it.'

    You say that like it's a bad thing.