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  1. Re:Fictional rules will be no help on Stephen Hawking Thinks Aliens Likely · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, now I get it. Jesus didn't rise from the dead. He was just beamed back to his mother ship. And the Star of Bethlehem was that ship arriving before they got the cloaking device ironed out.

    That makes so much more sense.

  2. Re:These papers deserve some study on Darwin's Private Papers Get Released To The Internet · · Score: 1

    Yes these papers and Evolutionary theory in general could use some more study on your part.

    The only thing (for the recent past and foreseeable future) derived from monkeys is more monkeys.

    If you intended to say that we and monkeys are derived from a common ancestor which, most likely, more closely resembled a monkey than us, I'm with you. ...

    Or were you just making a joke about Homo sapiens slashdotiens?

  3. Re:No April Fools articles this year. on New 20" iMac Screens Show 98% Fewer Colors · · Score: 1

    6 bits per channel, so 18 total bits (6*3) vs 24 total bits (8*3)

    I was confused at first as well until I worked out the common factor in the discrepancy.

  4. Re:Did anybody notice... on Paul Krugman's 1978 Theory of Interstellar Trade · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mm, yes. "Theory Capital and Travel Light-than-Faster" From what I can remember, the paper backwards just reads "Paul is dead" over and over again.
    This could be off of course, the last time I read that paper was around 10 years from now.

  5. Re:Bad ISBN on Mac OS X Leopard Edition: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1, Funny

    7, 8, 0, 5, 9, 6, 5, 2, 9, 5, 2, 9 That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!

  6. Re:Rural area on Google Interested in Wireless Bandwidth Balloons · · Score: 1

    Cool, so they must be running Portal on Reality now!

  7. Re:Journeyman on Writers Strike Officially Over · · Score: 1

    Pfft, Journeyman was great until they abandoned the hints that the time travel was the work of some scientific research group and brought in the psychic and some "rare" passing of a comet on the birthdays of the two travelers. Ignore the Deus Ex Machina (heck leave that research group to be just an investigation of the travelers) and you've got a great plot about the time travelers and how they seem to be dwindling.

    I think what got me about the psychic was that they brought it up just like they always are.
    Skeptic - "I don't believe in psychics."
    Believer - "This one is different because of X."
    Skeptic - "She got lucky."
    Psychic - "I just made a prediction that unlike all my others is actually relevant and mysterious."
    All - "Wow! That explains everything."

  8. Re:Tungusta "disaster"? on Chance for a Tunguska Sized Impact on Mars · · Score: 1

    haha, "The Tunguska Boom of 1908"

    Gah, even Ghostbusters got it right.
    "You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross-rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909[sic]!"

  9. Re:I don't get it on Fair Use Worth More Than Copyright To Economy · · Score: 1

    He asks "permission" as a sign of respect, not because he has to.

  10. Re:Thank goodness! on Mac OS X Leopard is Now Officially Unix · · Score: 1

    You don't open the Preferences or Settings much do you...

  11. Re:How about on Exhaustive Data Compressor Comparison · · Score: 1

    Here you go:

    4630b6d609b92a872f85e959c103c8468c291691 403

    (I should note that this is sha1, not md5)

    happy decompressing

  12. Re:Microsoft should worry until... on Why Microsoft Should Fear Apple · · Score: 1

    Yeah! Then we could refer to them as "Mac Clones"!

  13. Re:They'll keep it tasteful... I hope on Lucas, Ford to Start Filming New Indiana Jones Film · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that what the knight actually says is that he occasionally forgot to drink from the cup. Ya know, "wake up, drink" can get old after a while and I'm sure he tried to mix it up with drinking games he lost or sleeping in on Sunday (shhh). The cup has to stay behind the seal, but the power of the cup was not affected.

  14. Re:Easy upgrade from Dapper on Ubuntu 6.10 is Out · · Score: 4, Informative
  15. Easy upgrade from Dapper on Ubuntu 6.10 is Out · · Score: 5, Informative

    gksudo "update-manager -c"

  16. Re:You know how this goes... on Paypal Agrees to Consumer Protections · · Score: 2, Funny

    Almost...

    In Soviet Russia, YOU take money from PayPal!

  17. Re:Ha! on Possible Hole in Black Holes · · Score: 1

    Oh c'mon. It has to count for something that Contact supports the theory of the Universe being composed of a large series of tubes.

  18. Re:How about SPAM? on EU Considers Taxing SMS Messages, Email · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The same way we currently handle people that let others walk in their unlocked door, rummage through desks for large quantities of stamps, envelopes, and paper, and then send bulk spam complete with a forged return address.
    The guy wises up and gets the home builder, or himself, to fill in the gaping cracks or finds a better more secure house.

    Maybe taxing e-mail is the solution to spam. It smartens up Joe Average or enrages him to the point that something is done about it.
    It sure is a shame that e-mail is so cheap that no one really cares about its abuse.

    I suppose another method of mail hijacking would be spoofing a USPS "account". I'm sure that must be a federal crime.

  19. Re:What's the big deal..... on New MythTV Based PVR Available · · Score: 1

    The FCC requires FireWire on every cable box.
    This is the first link I found:
    http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/fcc-requires-firew ire-on-all-cable-boxes-015708.php

  20. Re:My theory... on Why Game Movies Stink · · Score: 1

    hmmm, so that's why my proof is failing...

    1) Steal underpants
    2) ?
    3) Uwe Boll

  21. Re:Trojan Man? on First Mac OS X Virus? · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's this thing called reading the article... oh, right.

    It's a "JPEG" because the author was clever enough to paste the icon of a JPEG onto the executable.
    If the user is root, or possibly admin, the script writes files in /Library/InputManagers. If you aren't it does the same in the user Library.
    No kit, just a prompt.

    http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php?showtop ic=102379 as linked from MacRumors has a really good writeup on what is going on.

  22. Re:You could always do this, whats the big deal on Verizon Blesses Phone-As-Modem Plans · · Score: 1

    ...couldnt use the modem because I needed the phone, but ALSO needed to go online so I used my other phone.

    You went online with your cell as a modem instead of a phone because your land line was in use as a phone and not a modem.
    I don't quite understand the logic, but whatever works for you.

  23. BttF on Western Union Ends Telegram Services · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now how am I going to hear what Doc has been up to?!

  24. Re:The "Any" key on What Should People Understand About Computers? · · Score: 1

    Precisely why it should be the name of such a book.

    People that know nothing about computers either don't think it's funny because they're looking for that key or they do think it's funny because they just found it.

    People that know about computers don't think it's funny because of the previous people asking for help to find it or telling repetitive jokes about it.

    Maybe "The Search for the Any Key - A Manual for the Computer Illiterate".

    I'm actually surprised this niche isn't filled by an Idiot guide, or similar.

  25. Re:OverHyping will kill it on New Technology Could Kill WiMax? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Overcoming the moving target problem solves the remote population problem.
    Packets are stored on a bus, car, truck, plane, whatever that's leaving the remote area and offloaded as soon as the next connected population is encountered (duplicates on other cars, etc are discarded as soon as recognized). Responses are likewise loaded on the next available transports and offloaded at the destination as they arrive.

    Finally, a world useable example of that "tape loaded station wagon" situation.

    Of course, if these could be powered by watch batteries then they'd surely be powerable by a solar cell.