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  1. Re:As noted on Hack-A-Day... on Oldest Computer Music Unveiled · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes I believe I covered that when I said "Though the description could have been better".

  2. Re:As noted on Hack-A-Day... on Oldest Computer Music Unveiled · · Score: 3, Informative

    LTFA (Listen to etc...) The first song starts out as "my country tis of thee" but ends with a lick from Baa Baa Black Sheep... so, though the description could have been better, the computer DOES play the song in question.

  3. Generations! on NASA Plans Probe to the Sun · · Score: 1

    ..just don't put any trilithium on it k?

  4. Overlords! on Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our citrate metabolising bacterial overlords!

  5. Um... on Object Defies Categorization As Planet or Star · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats no moon...

  6. RTFA on Google Accidently Revealed As eBay Critic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For all of you saying this was Google's mess up... please RTFA:

    The Australian competition watchdog has accidentally revealed Google as the anonymous source of a submission that is highly critical of eBay's proposal to force its users onto the PayPal payments system.

    Google didn't mess up, the watchdogs did.

  7. Re:Go look up the definition of Ancient... on Authentic Viking DNA From 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons · · Score: 1

    Er, maybe not modern times ..but not ancient.

  8. Re:Go look up the definition of Ancient... on Authentic Viking DNA From 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons · · Score: 1

    Wow corbettw, thats a lot of yelling in the wind. Yes, its a long long time ago. However, the literal definition of something that is Ancient is if it came from before the fall of the western roman empire. Period. Before that was ancient times, after that was modern times. That definition doesn't change as a few more years go by.

  9. The unknown... on Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed · · Score: 5, Funny

    That helicopter is probably some sort of god or devil beast to that tribe now... Thats how religion works you know. You see something you don't understand, (try to) kill it, worship it.

  10. Go look up the definition of Ancient... on Authentic Viking DNA From 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wait... so 1,000 years old is ancient? And here all along I thought the western roman empire ended in 476 AD, not 1008 AD. Time to re-write those history books.

  11. Shirts! on Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quick... someone start making shirts that say:

    <a href="link"><img src="picture"></a>

    ... its about time those DeCSS shirts got replaced.

  12. Re:First computer bug on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone find it interesting that one "Grace Hopper" reported that... dangerously similar to Grass Hopper... its an entire insect conspiracy!!!

  13. Drugs get Copyrights ya? on Folding@Home 2.0 - An Online Protein Folding Game · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From TFA: "Baker has high hopes that the game will speed up the sometimes tedious business of structure prediction. But the part of the game that excites him most is scheduled to debut this fall, when gamers will be able to design all-new proteins. Novel proteins could find use in any number of applications, from pharmaceuticals to industrial chemicals, to pollution clean up. With the ability for any person with a computer and an internet hookup to start building proteins, Baker thinks the pace of discovery could skyrocket. âoeMy dream is that a 12-year-old in Indonesia will turn out to be a prodigy, and build a cure for HIV,â he says." ...But will that 12 year old get to own the copyright and sell it to the drug company and make billions? Or will the drug companies just steal it and keep the money for themselves...

  14. Thats great but.... on Researchers Develop Self-Cleaning Clothes · · Score: 1

    What about those of us who sit behind a computer in a basement all day letting our pizza spill on to our shirts?

  15. Wrong decimal place? on RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they ment $15

  16. Wii? on Bluetooth Prosthetics Help US Marine To Walk Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    So... can we expect Nintendo to make a Wii soccer game for him?

  17. He's Special... on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    He could just go to the Special Olympics and whomp everyone else there.

  18. D2 M3 C3 A1 on Hasbro Using DMCA on Facebook Game Apps · · Score: 3, Funny

    DMCA doesn't apply to Scrabble... you can't use abbreviations in scrabble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble#Acceptable_words Unless DMCA falls under the 'regularized' provision... then they should have put a Z on the end to get the triple word score and have 57 points instead of 9

  19. mmmm porn on Toshiba Uses Cell Chip In Consumer Laptop · · Score: 1

    "Toshiba had four demos running... Demo 3... scans all your movie files, recognizes faces, and creates thumbnails of those faces. You can then click the thumbnails to watch scenes with those faces in, or compile them in a separate playlist."" ...my oh my, this will make those hundreds of gigs of porn so much easier to watch.

  20. Re:Ah, free cyber-squatting on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 1

    I Agree... everyone search for slight variations of common domains so they get registered, then email all the companies you searched for and let them know someone is squatting... get some lawsuits going.

  21. Well... on The Ahn'Qiraj Tailgate · · Score: 1

    If you want to see the event soon and you're on a realm thats 50% or less done... make a char on the number 2 server now and get it up past level 10 or 15 before they finish.

  22. hmmmm... on Trojan Exploits Unpatched IE Flaw · · Score: 1

    "redirect surfers onto porn sites."

    This doesn't sound like such a bad trojan afterall.

  23. Old news... on Fast Robot Prototyping · · Score: 1

    " See how to build a fast and easy prototype that can be disassembled, reconfigured, and reassembled."

    They're called legos....

  24. Re:Fuck the record execs. on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To the above three posts, from reading the /. post, aren't the specific performances in question ones that were given by the BBC symphony for free? Thus, don't they have the right to release them for free?

  25. Its about damn time.... on Rumor Control on the PS3's Pricetag · · Score: 1

    ...that someone put visualizations on a game console for playing CDs, dunno why they didn't do it sooner.