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  1. Re:Contextual instructions on Robotic Ecologies · · Score: 1

    Open the garage door, HAL! I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

  2. Re:Wherever you go, there you are on Blizard Sues Virtual Gold Seller · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to cyberspace as a virtual utopia? People start to inhabit it.

  3. Re:Outsource Math?? on Ramanujian's Deathbed Problem Cracked · · Score: 3, Funny

    Silly, it's between Illinois and Ohio.

  4. Re:Uhhh Hello Earth to Detroit on Ford Airstream Electric Concept Car · · Score: 1

    "Sorry but does America actually make anything anymore? /sarcasm"

    You just answered your own question...

  5. Re:You never met an australian I take it on Australia To Legalize VCR Recording and CD Ripping · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do they have the metric system? Do they know what the f--- a quarter pounder is?

  6. Re:You never met an australian I take it on Australia To Legalize VCR Recording and CD Ripping · · Score: 1

    Burger King better not find out they swiped their logo...

  7. Tsk tsk... on The Funniest Places for Hardware Stickers? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you know a benchmarked kettle never gives output?

  8. Definitely on Balancing Use Between the Keyboard and Mouse? · · Score: 1

    At work it is much easier to use keyboard shortcuts, because even though some of the software we use for writing reports don't allow even simple functions like cut and paste via a right-click, the keyboard shortcuts (i.e., CTRL-X and V) will work.

    Of course, we also use software that won't allow word wrap over multiple lines. I think that cost extra.

  9. ...and another thing on The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    ... if you were to volunteer yourself as a fuel source. Hoi. Speaking of embarrassing.

  10. Re:Big deal. on The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    Dare I think the method of extraction would be painful and/or embarrassing.

  11. Re:A bit off-topic on Tropical Storm Alpha Sets Naming Record · · Score: 2, Informative

    Female names started in 1953. Male names didn't show up until '79. Way back in the past it was named after the partiuclar Saint's Day in which it showed up. Ref: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/reason.html "History of Hurricane Names"

  12. Re:Divert power to forward shields! on Quantum Link Reverse Engineered · · Score: 2, Funny

    Technobabble? Sounded perfectly logical to me...

  13. Re:I, for one... on Google Plans To Destroy Unindexed Information · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google search reveals: 23,900,000 for "Jesus"... 6,410,000 for "Beatles"... 251,000,000 for "Google". 'Nuff said.

  14. Re:Well... on Hitchhikers Guide Movie Might Become a Trilogy · · Score: 1

    Same here. It could be said the movie is nothing like the book, but the book was nothing like the radio series, or the text adventure computer game, or any other incarnation that Adams came up with. In the story line, Adams even made the Guide itself nothing like the Guide (ie, Guide Mark II). So I went into it not being "disappointed" it was not actually the book.

  15. Re:Sweet! on Time Travelers' Convention · · Score: 1

    Technically, you only need one Time Traveller's Convention.

    (Apologies to Cat and Girl)

  16. Re:So does it suck, or not? on Telegraph Reviews Hitchhiker Movie, Approves · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought he was from... Wales. (Hides)

  17. Re:Pretty lights! on Bionic Leg for the Commercial Market · · Score: 1

    Just replace "bionikleggen" with "machine" as per where I found it. I had to Google for it m'self.

  18. Re:Pretty lights! on Bionic Leg for the Commercial Market · · Score: 1

    ACHTUNG! Alles touristen und non-technischen peepers!

    Das bionikleggen control is nicht fur gerfinger-poken und mittengrabben. Oderwise is easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowen fuse, und poppencorken mit spitzensparken.

    Der bionikleggen is diggen by experten only. Is nicht fur geverken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseenen keepen das cotten picken hands in das pockets, so relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights.

  19. Uh-Oh on William Shatner Pitches 'Starfleet Academy' Show · · Score: 1

    Just promise me Shatner doesn't try to play Kirk...

  20. Re:When are we getting machine code natural langua on "English" Not Threatened By Webspeak · · Score: 1

    Good Brian Regan impression. You beat me to it.

  21. I suspect a cover up on How to Spackle and Plaster a Black Hole · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought if it was small enough you could just use a dab of toothpaste. Worked in my apartment for our posters. Sshhh... don't tell my landlord.

  22. Re:Good Use for Importing Stationary Objects on Automatic 3D Reconstruction of Scenes · · Score: 1

    Wait... a... min-- you me-- (bites lip)

  23. Re:Good Use for Importing Stationary Objects on Automatic 3D Reconstruction of Scenes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree nothing beats the Real Thing. "Museums" was a poor choice of word. Any space a person cannot normally get to, whether it be because of security or fragility or locality, would be an ideal canidate to be "shared". The realtor idea was a good one. Of course, Once the 3D model is generated, and once it becomes something I view, then it becomes an output system to me. My space is not interesting enough to generate a 3d model...

  24. Good Use for Importing Stationary Objects on Automatic 3D Reconstruction of Scenes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Educationally, people could truly "walk around" in a virtual museum. This is lightyears ahead of QuickTime VR(?) where one simply can rotate about one point and zoom in or out.

    It's only going to work on stationary scenes, as that sleeping fellow showed us. Basically, anything from the Real World you want to "import" into VR will be much easier to do.

    If anyone likes FPS, you could model a map based on real scenery.

    Most inventions and technology came into being before people found a use for it. It just seems pretty darn cool if nothing else.

  25. Re:Tsunami on Study Points to Sixth Sense in Humans · · Score: 1

    "Neh. Needs garlic."