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  1. Good points about NJ on Missing Lab Mice Infected With Plague · · Score: 0

    --highest income state in the USA --we are in the top 5 states in terms of peach, blueberry, and cranberry production. --we were smart enough not to vote for GWB -- in both elections -- we cheerfully pay our full share of auto insurance. There is a lot more, but I don't want to upset the goobers next door in Pennsultucky

  2. Re:fast vs. slow spreading... on The Next 50 Years of Computer Security · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a cure to me.

  3. The next logical step on Hydrogen Stored in Safe High Density Pellets · · Score: 1, Funny

    would be to figure out a way to extract and ignite the hydrogen upon impact. Then we could shoot these from a gun. It would be a really neat and new way to kill people.

  4. The sea won't rise.... on Ice-Free Summers Coming To Arctic · · Score: 2

    because we continue to pump seawater into oil wells to make them more productive. As the wells produce less, they require more water to increase the pressure to extract the oil. For the moment (my "moment" I mean the next 100 years) it's a beautiful 0 sum equation. Once we run out of oil (100 years), and the greenhouse gasses decrease (75 more), and the polar caps reform (yet another 75), we will be looking at all sorts of new real estate..... Oh yeah, COBOL will still be around.... :)

  5. Re:The slow death of aviation on Denver Airport Automated Baggage System Abandoned · · Score: 1

    Seems unlikely to me that when kerosene runs out the aviation industry will die. Didn't someone just put a vehicle into space-- on fuel comprised of rubber and hydrogen peroxide? When you say mankind will not innovate his way around the inevitable oil shortage (by stating the airline industry will die), you remind me of the patent office commissioner who said (in 1899) the patent office was unnecessary because everything had been invented already

  6. Re:Good luck to them on New 'Pentop' Computer To Help Children Learn · · Score: 1

    Leapfrog "computers" are very popular at libraries. My daughter checked out nd completed the entire set of leapfrog learning modules over a period of time. I bet between libraries and educational institutions alone they will be successful.

  7. cross platform? on Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?) · · Score: 1

    Google is pretty good at linux internally, but a lot of the consumer software (eg Picasso) is windows only

  8. I wonder... on Vietnam Medic Makes Homemade Endoscope · · Score: 1

    if he'll use it and see that hot babe that's always at the business end of a webcam......

  9. In the USA on Super Door of the Future · · Score: 2, Funny

    This door would open completely 99% of the time.....

  10. Re:Cafeteria on Google Files to Sell 14.2 Million More Shares · · Score: 1, Funny

    Creating perpetually in-Beta applications that don't run on Linux.

  11. You forgot "E" on Henrico County iBook Sale Creates iRiot · · Score: 1

    e. All of the above.

  12. I've had this for years on Fiber Optics Bring the Sun Indoors · · Score: 1

    It's called a window people. It magically transmits light from outside to inside.

  13. Newsflash!! on Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    The mean temperature of Earth increase by 5 degrees Celcius last year. The printing presses required to print 500 trillion dollars were identified as the source of the heat. An unexplained wave of deforestation was also cited.

  14. Blackbird anyone? on France and Japan Planning New Supersonic Jet · · Score: 1

    Wedid this in the 60's. Cool experiment,but as you say completely impractical. Nothing to see here,move along....

  15. Re:VPR Matrix on The Laptop Supply Chain · · Score: 1

    Lemming 1 calling lemming 2 black......

  16. Obligatory Apple Acronym.... on Apple Switching to Intel · · Score: 1

    Another Poorly Positioned Lenovo Emulation

  17. IBM hardware to the rescue on Linux and OpenOffice save Microsoft Presentation · · Score: 1

    What's so unusual about that?

  18. In a related study on Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters · · Score: 1

    it was learned you are 80% likely to have an afro-american child if you belomg to the NBA....

  19. Your post makes one clear point on The Problem with DHS's Plan to 'Buy American' · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that you hold quite a few degrees in BS.

  20. Re:Capital spending with no business focus on Technology Paradise Lost · · Score: 1

    If you listened to vendors, you needed multiple redundant 64-way Sun boxes .....

    My startup's hardware was dictated by the VC!! It's not *all* our fault....

  21. yes it will on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 1

    would you pay more for a flower rown in the rainforest, over the same species grown in a greenhouse? No...because they are identical in every way....

  22. IBM on Microsoft 'under attack' On All Fronts · · Score: 1

    EOM

  23. I passed it through my ebonics translator... on Judge Denies SCO's Ex Parte Motion to Adjourn · · Score: 2, Funny

    now it's crystal clear: The court declines ta adjourn da hearing. Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED dat SCO'sEx Parte Motion ta Adjourn da April 21, 2005 Argument on SCO'sMotion ta Amend Its Complaint iz DENIED. In addition ta hearing SCO'sMotion ta Amend its Complaint an' SCO'sMotion ta Compel da Deposition o' Samuel Palmisano at da April 21, 2005 hearing, da parties iz hereby NOTIFIED dat da court will also hear argument regarding da parties' Proposed Scheduling Orders and git Sheniquah's ass back ova' heeah.

  24. How about background jobs? on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 1

    Windows needs the ability to submit jobs fro the forground to the background, and nohup and all that other good stuff.

  25. Re:retarded on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 1

    As a New Yorker, you want me to put my 4 kids where? I agree with the general premise, but generalizations are always a bad thing.