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  1. Re:Interferowhatsjiggy? on Chu's Final Breakthrough Before Taking Office · · Score: 1

    'No difference was measured. this implied that no aether existed.'

    Not quite; that is one hypothesis. Another is that the earth is the centre of the universe. The maths of dynamics, however, becomes a real mess.

  2. Re:Food for thought on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We also have to deal with the inevitable PETA protests.

  3. Re:Not technical on Personality Testing For Employment · · Score: 1

    Disgusting! Dog should be roasted.

  4. Re:Comet viewing can be incredible... on Comet Lulin Is Moving Closer To Earth · · Score: 1

    'I was in the Navy, out at sea (probably Atlantic) ...'

    So, you were a navigator?

  5. Re:hang it on your wall? on ASCII Art Steganography · · Score: 1

    Back in the 60s we had Snoopy on his doghouse. But we had real women in place of pictures; it was the 60s after all:)

  6. Accessories? on NVIDIA Offers 3D Glasses For the Masses · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it come with Aspirin?

  7. Re:TXT? PDF? Wha? on Researchers Hack Intel's VPro · · Score: 1

    "Trusted Execution Technology" should be TET, making this ...

    (wait for it) ...

    The TET Offensive!

  8. Re:Hmmm... on FreeBSD 7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    '... saying that Michael Jackson is a black man.'

    Er, do you mean Michael Jackson, the beer and whiskey guy, or Michael Jackson, the software development methodology guy?

    'Cause neither are black.

  9. Re:Non-profit? on Universities Patenting More Student Ideas · · Score: 4, Funny

    I misread the title as: "Universities Pirating More Student Ideas".

    After reading the blurb, I believe that I didn't misread the title after all.

  10. Re:c'mon ppl,this is really sad,please hold the jo on Majel Roddenberry Dies At 76 · · Score: 1

    Er, you do realise that her death is posted under "Entertainment"?

  11. Re:Origins and uses on 2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form · · Score: 1

    'Computers are programmable, this only solves the problems it was designed to solve.'

    It's the same with (digital electronic) computers; they can only solve a finite subset of Turing Machine problems.

  12. Re:I worked in one of these bunkers for 6 months on Canadian Nuke Bunker To Be Converted Into Data Fortress · · Score: 1

    Whoosh right back:)

    Since they will be unemployed, they will make use of unemployment insurance!

  13. Re:I worked in one of these bunkers for 6 months on Canadian Nuke Bunker To Be Converted Into Data Fortress · · Score: 1

    '(If there is a nuclear war going on, why exactly do we need offices for the Unemployment Department?)'

    Who is going to be employed following a nuclear war?

  14. Re:I remember our planning in DND on Canadian Nuke Bunker To Be Converted Into Data Fortress · · Score: 1

    '... would destroy all urban centers beyond useful measure.'

    So, it's not all bad, then.

  15. Re:Terrorism? on NSA Is Building a New Datacenter In San Antonio · · Score: 5, Insightful

    'Why are so many Americans so certain that everything their government does is an attempt to oppress them? '

    Six thousand years of historical evidence about governments.

  16. Who Protects the Internet? on Who Protects the Internet? · · Score: 1

    No one, it is to be hoped.

  17. Incitement? on Studios' Oz Power-Grab Revealed · · Score: 1

    '... the studios seek to force the ISPs to become 'police, judge, and executioner'...'

    So, the studios are inciting the ISP to commit a felony?

  18. Re:Citation needed on CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads · · Score: 1

    Prince Edward Island, a province of Canada, has limitations on the area of land owned modulo activities carried out on that land (farming, leasing, e.g.).

  19. Re:Terrorists act suspiciously? on Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection" · · Score: 1

    'Those who act suspicious know what they are doing is wrong.'

    No, they know what they are doing is against the law.

  20. Re:what is a nuclear family on Oldest Nuclear Family Found Murdered In Germany · · Score: 1

    He has a whole brain cell?

  21. Re:"Propaganda" on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 1

    ...by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.

    'Mandatory community service?'

    It's actually called slavery and just Obama's way of getting back at the whites.

  22. Re:Please Don't Stop on (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? · · Score: 4, Funny

    '... is there any reason the VIM story ran first than the Emacs one?'

    Emacs was still loading when it came time to run the story.

  23. Re:Such a high bar ... on Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista · · Score: 2, Funny

    '... doesn't a slug outperform Vista?'

    No, Vista produces a great deal more slime.

  24. Re:So what is Sprint providing its customers? on Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet · · Score: 1

    I may not be be a networking engineer, but I know an internet when I see one.

    (Hey, it works for pron and so-called community standards!)

  25. Re:Ivy League on Researchers Decentralize BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Well, you show me your 'thing' and I'll kill it!