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  1. Microsoft fighting zombies? on Microsoft's Vigilante Investigation of Zombies · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not a moment too soon! With Halloween on Monday and everything, this comes at a perfect time to save my brain. I'll still lock my doors though.

  2. I'm still waiting... on Two Megapixel Cameraphone Shootout · · Score: 1

    for a phone with a lens mount (for my... uh... pocket sized lenses?)!
    And when will we get cell phones that come with tripods?

  3. 65536 ought to be... on Blue Gene/L Tops Its Own Supercomputer Record · · Score: 1

    32 bits of processors should be enough for anyone!

  4. Re:Yeah right on Navy Sued for Sonar-Blasting Whales · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You play like you practice.

  5. Re:We got what we deserve... on Congress Pays You $3 Billion to Keep Watching TV · · Score: 1

    So, you'd rather the libertarian get... 6% of the votes? And then the democrats win by 2% (or whatever) instead of the republicans (which, as a libertarian, are closer to your beliefs) winning by 3.5%?

    or, if you're of the other leaning....
    s/libertarian/green/g
    s/republican/temp/g
    s/democrat/republican/g
    s/temp/republican/g

    (numbers made up on the spot! (assuming the 50/50 split in dems/reps) but you get the picture with whatever the real numbers are)

  6. Re:Tax Email? on Senator Wants to Keep U.N. Away From the Internet · · Score: 1

    Just you wait until they raise it. Besides, who is going to collect it?

    Why do they need to tax it? I already pay for my internet connection, as well as paying for the domain that my email comes from.

    Give me some good logical reasons for a tax to be put on my email? Not 'it will stop spammers', but real reasons why it should be taxed.

  7. Tell that to... on Does OSS Make The FCC Irrelevant? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    ...is making it possible for anybody to use the airwaves without interfering with anybody else.

    Tell that to my microwave.
  8. Re:Four Millenia -- Four Millenium on Four Millennia Old Noodles Found In China · · Score: 1

    You mean Four-Millennia-Old, that's the adjective form. Otherwise, it would be "four years old", but it's not an adjective in that case ('years' is a noun, and it's a noun phrase).
    So, yes, the headline is 'wrong' technically, but headlines are usually abbreviated forms of sentences/phrases anyway.

  9. Re:Wireless Radio on Linksys Debuts Cordless Skype Handset · · Score: 1

    It's called a power cord, you insensitive clod!

  10. Re:good programmers on Java Urban Performance Legends · · Score: 1

    Use XOR.

  11. Anonymous fish? on Autonomous RoboFish at the London Aquarium · · Score: 1

    Fish with no identifiable markings? or perhaps they've scrubbed off their VINs?

    Another thing that comes to mind is... now all they need to do is invent little tiny floating photocells attached to battery packs (with power terminals on them somehow) and introduce 'robo-plankton' to recharge the fish!

  12. It's not fossil fuels... on Running out of Hurricane Names · · Score: 1

    causing global warming. It's the decline of pirates: http://www.venganza.org/piratesarecool4.jpg

  13. Re:$1 Billion and No Solution on Panel Challenges NASA Over Shuttle Safety · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ROCKET launches. And thats it. We too can launch ROCKETS. The shuttle is NOT a rocket.

    Even the most advanced cargo rockets we have now cannot carry something as large as the shuttle. Let alone people AND cargo.

    Someone else mentioned that russia hasnt had a fatality since 1971, but all the soyuz missions do is launch people (or supplies), they dont launch both, with a nice big arm, and a huge bay for storing large things that simply will not fit anywhere else.

    Get a clue people, the shuttle has no suitable replacement as far as other space programs go.

  14. Re:This Just In! on Google Files to Sell 14.2 Million More Shares · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, they had to find a more cost effective means of transporting things between Earth and the Google Copernicus Center.

  15. Great... on Laser Surgery Goes Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now we're going to need tin foil sunglasses to protect us from "free trials" of LASIK from spam?

    The first eye's free!

  16. Re:Blatant ripoff on Microsoft Testing Rival to Google's Start Page · · Score: 1

    Do you really want ANYONE patenting a blank page, with a logo and a text box? I mean, come on...

    or maybe....

    Do you work for the patent office?

  17. Re:what's an ounce of alcohol? on Kegbot: The Future of Robotic Drink Service, Now · · Score: 1

    pints are related to the oz.
    An oz is 1/16 of a pint.
    However, the total weight of your drink is not important, you can take one oz of alcohol and dillute it with a pint of whatever else (something non alcoholic) and I would imagine as far as kegbot was concerned, it would only be one oz.

    Beer/etc/etc is not 100% alchohol, so thats why it limits you to only a couple of oz's of the stuff that 'matters' as far as being tipsy is concerned.

  18. Re:Cooling problems? on Researchers Create 3-Dimensional Chips · · Score: 1

    No. (assuming cube chips, everything else is similar, just more variables): SA = 6*x^2 V = x^3 Same reason cells are small, diffusion just doesn't work on larger cells. However, chip makers could create more interesting geometries for chips (think heatsinks on motorcycle shaped), then they could create a happy medium between Volume and surface area. Either that, or they could create chips in donut shapes, or whatever other fun geometries. There are ways around the heat problem.

  19. Re:Sometimes, A watch isn't good enough on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To · · Score: 1

    They already have watches that synch with the atomic clock (just like those desktop clocks).

    So, duct tape one to the side of your PC, or laptop, or cell phone, or anything else 'modern' people use as watch substitutes.

    Personally, I'll keep my watch on my arm, so it's there whenever I need it, no matter what I'm doing, in the same place so I can look at the time without having to think.

  20. Re:"make" hydrogen? on New Way to Make Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    No, it's the creation of hydrogen.

    Much like the water produced in Cellular Respiration is NOT the same water that went in (well, the water that comes out is not a subset of the water that went in, as obviously the quantities are different).

  21. Re:Canada vs. Google on Googling May Break Copyright in Canada · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but do you really want a Canada Beta (Or I guess it would probably be called Canoogle or something, right?) for the next 400 years?

  22. Re:Obviously flawed on Study Shows One Third of All Studies Are Nonsense · · Score: 1, Funny

    I heard that 68% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

    [insert mindless banter and 30 seconds here]

    Oh, did you hear? 46% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

  23. I know this is slightly off topic... on Conquering the LaGrange Points? · · Score: 1

    but, did anyone else open up that first link and see Bill Gates in a space suit?

  24. In other news... on Open-source Licensing: BSD or GPL? · · Score: 1

    Which color is better? Green or Red? Film at 11.

  25. Re:That's great.... on Google to Release Firefox Toolbar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except that find button isn't linked with what I just searched for, which really is nice.
    Often I find myself searcing for a technical spec, or whatnot, and I want to get to the part that I JUST saw in the little google preview blurb, since I know that's what I need. This just saves me from having to do anything but click the word on the tollbar.