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  1. Re:Why not just call them "non-believers"... on Skeptics Would Like Media To Stop Calling Science Deniers 'Skeptics' · · Score: 1

    But that wouldn't be carbon neutral.

  2. Re:Who cares on Did Alcatraz Escapees Survive? Computer Program Says They Might Have · · Score: 1

    You can get fake papers if you are not 'in the system'. But if your photo/fingerprints are already in a database (an arrested or convicted criminal, for example) that fake ID can more easily raise an alarm.

  3. Re:Who cares on Did Alcatraz Escapees Survive? Computer Program Says They Might Have · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unless they lived out the rest of their lives in isolation;

    This was 1962. Living under an alias, with no SSN or ID (or a fake) was considerably easier than it is today.

  4. Re:Not a cargo ship on New Cargo Ship Is 488 Meters Long · · Score: 1

    It's a ship if that affects in which countries it can be registered.

  5. The local weather reports ... on Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland · · Score: 1

    ... should get rather more interesting. What with yet another radar source available to paste up on their screen.

  6. Solved! on Curiosity Detects Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars · · Score: 1

    The bovine abduction mystery.

  7. Re:Rover detects mysterious farts. on Curiosity Detects Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rover

    There ya go, blaming the dog again.

  8. Already on YouTube on Webcast Funerals Growing More Popular · · Score: 2

    Most of them include the deceased's last words, "Hey! Watch this!"

  9. Re:Check your math. on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    Yeah right. Did they put the Grand Mufti on a megaphone outside the cafe?

    The bit about pig food means: We aren't going to discuss who is reading the right verses. You come out now or we've got something we can do to you or your remains that keeps you out of heaven and those 72 virgins. There may be alternatives I haven't thought of that would have the equivalent effect and won't squick the general public out as much.

  10. Stop bitching .... on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 1

    .... about wasted money. Is there anything else we can do with it?

  11. The real problem on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    Los Angeles is full. No more building permits.

    If it was a water or sewer system, the health department would slap a moratorium on permits. Transportation is just another utility. It's all used up. No more.

  12. In related news ... on Govt Docs Reveal Canadian Telcos Promise Surveillance Ready Networks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... a grateful Chinese intelligence service thanks Canadian telcos for their assistance.

  13. Re:Check your math. on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1 of them is committing this crime.

    In the name of his religion.

    What they need is a local Imam to get on a megaphone and tell this guy that this is not in keeping with Islam and that he (the Imam) will personally supervise his body being fed to pigs if he doesn't come out RIGHT NOW.

  14. Cabs block traffic, cause jams on French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber · · Score: 4, Funny

    How will we know the difference between their protest and normal traffic?

  15. Re:Brews for nerds on No More Foamy Beer, Thanks To Magnets · · Score: 1

    So, an infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second one orders half a beer. The third, a quarter. The fourth, an eighth. Etc, etc. After a few more, the bartender stops them and pours two beers.

    "You guys ought to know your limits."

  16. Re:Morons on Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site · · Score: 1

    Do you really think their message would have been seen nearly as much if they had done this with Photoshop?

    I think the number of people that would see this message live while flying over the Nazca plain is vanishingly small. The audience is the readers of various press publications.

    Yeah. Someone would have outed them for using Photoshop. But their comeback would be, "You didn't expect us to actually trample a fragile ecosystem to get our message out." And that would have been worth something. As it stands; they get the Bozo award.

  17. Re:Bring back the 60s on Computer Error Grounds Flights In the UK · · Score: 1

    hand me down software from the US from the 1960s written in a language called Jovial.

    Who's laughing now?

  18. Re:This is an overreaction on Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site · · Score: 1

    What we are seeing is a rare opportunity

    Not really. There have been many opportunites to observe Greenpeace acting like a bunch of self absorbed twits.

  19. Re:Man-made on Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site · · Score: 1

    they go out of their way to let you know these "designs" are "man-made"

    As opposed to having been made by aliens like the Egyptian Pyramids.

  20. Morons on Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They could have achieved the same thing with Photoshop.

  21. Don't let the door ... on 'Revolving Door' Spins Between AT&T, Government · · Score: 1

    ... hit you in the nuts.

  22. All of it? on Possible Dark Matter Signal Spotted · · Score: 1

    The decay of sterile neutrinos is thought to produce X-rays, so the research team suspects these may be the dark matter particles responsible for the mysterious signal coming from Andromeda and the Perseus cluster.

    Would these sterile neutrinos be all the dark matter that models hypothesize? Or only one subset of it?

    Unless the decay rate is very low, the x-ray flux from something that makes up the majority of the matter in our universe could cook everything nearby.

  23. Re:Why is this funny? Do condoms prevent rape? on Julian Assange Trying To Raise Nearly $200k For a Statue of Himself · · Score: 1

    You can commit rape with, or without a condom.

    But if it is consensual conditional on the use of a condom and then none is offered, or it breaks and you don't pull out when prior authorization is rescinded .....

  24. British Porn Filter on Computer Error Grounds Flights In the UK · · Score: 2

    ... probably figured that "landing an airplane" was a euphemism for one of the prohibited acts.

  25. Re:Betteridge on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 1

    No, IT workers should not be exempt from being paid OT. If they work as self-directed professionals, then yes they can be. But right now, management wants it both ways: Treat IT people like assembly line grunts. But don't pay them OT anyway. Because there is a blanket exemptionin place.