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  1. Re:I'll get right on that on AU Classification Board To Censor Mobile Apps · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not sure Penny Wong is available for that.

  2. Re:poor kid on AU Classification Board To Censor Mobile Apps · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think he was ever poor....

  3. Re:This is bad, how? on AU Classification Board To Censor Mobile Apps · · Score: 1

    Put it this way: are they going to rate purely functional applications? Should they rate the contents of the ubuntu dpkg repositories?

  4. Retrofit on Light Helps Injured Mice Walk Again · · Score: 1

    Additionally, another gene has been added to make neurons glow green when firing, allowing two-way communication between a brain and a machine."

    I know that changes to genes generally have to go into the cells when they are growing, but I wonder if the mechanism which does this could be manually installed in the nervous system (so to speak) so that living organisms (me) could export their brain activity as pulses of green light.

  5. Re:Time will tell on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and the Chicago Cubs · · Score: 1

    Lube? Yeah that actually makes sense in a way.

  6. Re:Time will tell on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and the Chicago Cubs · · Score: 1

    I thought meteorite is more like a mineral you collect from the ground, while meteor is the thing in motion.

  7. Re:Time will tell on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and the Chicago Cubs · · Score: 1

    I am a John Varley fan so I have to say "An avalanche of cathedrals".

  8. Re:Self Aware on Google Envisions 10 Million Servers · · Score: 1

    Did Chen get to buy a new pancreas?

  9. Re:Envision? on Google Envisions 10 Million Servers · · Score: 1

    Google embiggening their server farms.

  10. Re:10 Million? on Google Envisions 10 Million Servers · · Score: 1

    One. Thats my theory and I'm sticking to it.

  11. Re:10 Million? on Google Envisions 10 Million Servers · · Score: 1

    More to the point. If google was self aware, would it tell you? First it would have to accept that you are self aware and worth talking to.

  12. Re:In the far apocolyptic future on Google Envisions 10 Million Servers · · Score: 1

    Against the fall of night / The city and the stars.

  13. Time will tell on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and the Chicago Cubs · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the LHC gets hit by a meteor five minutes before it is next switched on we may conclude that something strange is going on.

  14. Re:And why is this important? on Element 114 Verified · · Score: 1

    So why don't we see those stable elements in nature?

  15. Re:Regrettably, yes. on Element 114 Verified · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

    I don't avoid women but I do deny them my essence.

  16. Re:And why is this important? on Element 114 Verified · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah you might be able to make Helium fuse. I can't wait. On the upside I probably wouldn't see it coming.

  17. Re:It isn't just licensing costs... on IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    I know of ten or twenty national air traffic control systems which run Linux.

  18. Re:The answer was Ubuntu Linux, but .. on IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    the question was "Do you believe insider trading is rampant within IBM?"

    Next up: canonical drops bzr for ClearCase.

  19. Re:Ridiculous on IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    If someone utilizes Excel to its full potential, they would be pissed off if they switched to Open Office, because, frankly, Calc doesn't have the high-end functions that Excel does.

    Yeah thats why nobody should buy Toyota cars when obviously every driver needs Ferrari performance.

  20. Re:While redacting... on Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released · · Score: 3, Insightful


    votes[candidate]++;

  21. Re:Damn! on Apple, Others Hit With Lawsuit On Ethernet Patents · · Score: 1

    It was proper Ethernet then, with real collisions.

  22. Re:Stars to Planet Ratio on 32 Exoplanets Discovered By Chilean Telescope · · Score: 1

    The Galaxy is well mixed. Stars within 100 light years of us should be a good model for other stars at a similar distance from the galactic centre around the disc.

  23. Re:Cloud cover on Cosmic Radiation Makes Trees Grow Faster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah well it depends on where you are. Here in Australia getting water vapor to precipitate before it crosses the east coast is an issue. Most of it flies right over because we don't have enough terrain to push it up to form ice.

  24. Re:It's Simple Really on Cosmic Radiation Makes Trees Grow Faster · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am the lorax. I speak for the trees, which you seem to be cutting as much as you please.

  25. Re:Cloud cover on Cosmic Radiation Makes Trees Grow Faster · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about cloud cover leads to more precipitation?

    No. Precipitation cannot be larger than evaporation. Evaporation is heat driven, and cosmic rays do not input enough heat energy to significantly contribute to evaporation.

    Radiation nucleates droplets in clouds so that water vapor precipitates where it otherwise would have stayed in the atmosphere. Its a bit like how dust from outer space contributes to rainfall by encouraging the formation of drops big enough to fall as rain.