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  1. Re:Fungible on Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x · · Score: 1
    On the other hand, "pop culture" is not fungible, so basically OPEC can't get laid without us.

  2. What about the "series of tubes" version? on Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only · · Score: 1
    Not that I believe every newsflash I see, but didn't adobe announce recently that within some vague timeframe, future versions would be browser-based? How does that jibe with this new Windows-Only "feature"?

  3. I've switched domains... on Alternate Baseball Universes · · Score: 2, Funny
    I've switched domains to operating systems and can now say that it took 42 googleplex simulations before I found a parallel universe where Vista doesn't suck. As you would expect, that's also the only parallel universe that had Steve Jobs throwing chairs.

  4. And I paraphrase... on The Arthur C. Clarke Gamma Ray Burst · · Score: 1
    Any gamma-ray burst sufficiently powerful enough to be named after Clarke is, to me, indistinguishable from magic.

  5. Re:What's really going on here on A Step Towards Proving the Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1
    In short, this is an important advance in automorphic forms, but it is so technical that it doesn't belong on SlashDot.

    I got your less technical automorphic form right here. Schwingin!!!!

  6. Re:I have already solved this! on A Step Towards Proving the Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1
    I would say that you solved it anonymously, and were too much of a coward to display it.

    In the interest of full disclosure, I am a paid troll for Tyrell Corporation, and think I may be a replicant.

  7. Stocks Fluctuate on JP Morgan's Insider Trading How-To On Wikileaks · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Human nature, not so much.

  8. Re:A Better Idea on The Army's $10M Spy Bat Still Too Big · · Score: 0
    Precisely my point. Bat-Shit-Crazy times are these.

  9. A Better Idea on The Army's $10M Spy Bat Still Too Big · · Score: 0
    1. Instead, how about aluminum baseball bats? They're cheap enough and we have millions of youth who already own one.

    2. Reinstate the draft, lower the age of service eligibility, and let terr'ist heads roll.

    3. After a 100 years of this, we can smelt the bats into plowshares.

    4. Profit!

    Don't like my idea? Rats, foiled again.

  10. Smack Down Time on AI Researchers Say 'Rascals' Might Pass Turing Test · · Score: 0
    Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.

    That hurts.

  11. The Soundtrack of Our Lives on Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth · · Score: 0
    Jimmy Eat World.

  12. The map is not the territory. on Hi, I Want To Meet (17.6% of) You! · · Score: 0
    Spammers! Read the parent post and get a clue. I've responded to zero spam in 15 years, but you keep sending it to me... ;^)

    The map is not the territory. Long-term relationships in matters of the heart are established (and torn asunder) by the chaotic, irrational, and essentially unknowable forces of genes and memes in an ever-changing (and often hostile) environment. On the other hand, the idea that a new social-networking statistic will change anything displays just the type of naivete that some women find attractive in an IT professional.

    My parents were married for over 60 years when my Mother died, so long-term you could say that it didn't work out.

  13. Rush's other request was for... on Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes · · Score: 0
    Grey Poupon.

  14. A tale of the tape(worm) on 'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes · · Score: 0
    White Hat, Beaming: "My worm is shorter than your worm. No, wait..."

  15. Presidential Tipping Point on Titan's Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth · · Score: 0
    Bush says when the price of oil hits a Brazilion dollars a barrel, it will become cost effective to git-er-done.

    Note to myself: re-read The Sirens of Titan

  16. Re:Just rename it. on Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible · · Score: 0
    Your solution is Cobraic, but not all that pythonic.

  17. Re:We are living through history, folks on The Next 25 Years in Tech · · Score: 0
    We are living through one of the most exciting and important parts of history in the entire time-line of our species.

    Call it the Quickening, or the Singularity, it would seem that it will ever be so.

    I was back home recently for a funeral and met a woman who had come to Nebraska as a child in a Conastoga Wagon and lived to fly in a jet, see a man on the moon, and, if she lives another year, seeing a (pick one: man of color/woman) elected president.

  18. Re:Maybe it's just me... on MySpace Private Pictures Leak · · Score: 0
    Given our current Pop Culture, it is just you. ;^)

  19. Re:How are they logged? on Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws · · Score: 0
    You raise an interesting point. For reasons that are probably more related to being a child of the sixties, I never SEND reports to Microsoft when the modal dialog box appears.

  20. Plan B on Command Line Life Partner Wanted · · Score: 0
    Good luck Dude. If this little shell game of yours doesn't work out, there's always the Eunuchs environment.

  21. I'm speechless on Researchers Work To Perfect Computerized Lip Reading · · Score: 0
    And will remain so...

  22. Frist Prst on ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ur...

  23. Re:The heck with headphones! on Material Turns All Surfaces into Stereo · · Score: 0
    Warning: If, while wearing stereo honeycomb condom, erection lasts more than four hours, call your doctor.

  24. Is Timmy in some kind of trouble? on Boeing 787 May Be Vulnerable to Hacker Attack · · Score: 0

    I can see the made for TV movie of the week now... The pilots in the cabin can't land the plane so air traffic control talks Timmy in seat 42C through the hack as he lands the plane safely using a ThinkPad from some Marketing VP in first class.

  25. Re:Bleak futures. on A Bleak Future For Physical Media Purchases? · · Score: 0

    Cleaning my basement today and in about an hour I sold on craigslist two CRT 19" monitors for $5.00 each. I have a box of zip 100's, maybe 100 in all that I doubt is worth a double sawbuck (ten dollars.) All media is damned and we're all doomed to re-copy it all over and over again.