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  1. Re:Something doesn't make sense here. on Doubts About Future GPS Reliability · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um, they're in orbit?

  2. I think I'm still OK on Doubts About Future GPS Reliability · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use one of these as my GPS.

  3. Re:I'd like to send this on NASA BlueMarble: Next Generation · · Score: 1

    Please do not speak to me, as I'm obviously posting "troll" and "flamebait" messages, simply using a quintessential specimen like George Bush as an example of a "self-absorbed, egotistical asshole".
    The moderators are correct: these people do no need, nay, do not care about the whole "you are here" thing.

  4. I'd like to send this on NASA BlueMarble: Next Generation · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    To every self-absorbed, egotistical asshole I know (George Bush, etc.) with a note that says:
    YOU ARE HERE

  5. Re:Shields up!! on Solar Flares Shield Astronauts from Cosmic Rays · · Score: 1

    Why? Electrons won't jump across a vacuum?

  6. Shields up!! on Solar Flares Shield Astronauts from Cosmic Rays · · Score: 1

    So how about I use the cheap solar energy to run a Van de Graff generator and put about 167TeV into a metal shell around my ship?

  7. Re:Finally... on Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms to Anyone Under 18 · · Score: 1

    Oh.my.God
    An insightful comment from an AC.
    I only wish more people would get to read it.

  8. Re:A New Pseudo-Unit! on Interview With Gary Edwards of OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    Then the nano-lacto-expiration would be the length of time between when the light changes and the cab driver behind you honks his horn.

  9. Re:Gary Edwards on Interview With Gary Edwards of OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    Not even close. Bob Eubanks.
    He did look like Eddie Munster, though.

  10. Re:good public motivation on Another Taikonaut Launch This Week · · Score: 1

    You won't be.
    Nor will your Great-great-great-great-great grandchildern.

  11. I swear on Another Taikonaut Launch This Week · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read "Take Out Naut".

  12. Re:Chinese connection? on CND Government Demands Widespread Tap Access · · Score: 1

    What you're saying is that the most spies China has in one nation are in Canada.
    The nation that has the most spies in Canada is France.

  13. Re:Who's going to bomb Canada anyway? on CND Government Demands Widespread Tap Access · · Score: 1

    Shuttup and think of the children.
    Thoughtcrime will be punished.

  14. Re:Damn. on Creators of Massive Botnet Arrested · · Score: 0

    It won't compile with the comma in there.

  15. I loved this part on Interview with Sun's Florian Reuter · · Score: 2, Interesting
    > As Kevin Kelley said in a recent Wired article, the Internet is probably going to become the first form of artificial intelligence.

    Genuine stupidity perhaps, but artificial intelligence???

    Riiiiiiight.

  16. Re:Robots and cars on Fast Robot Prototyping · · Score: 4, Funny
    You misquoted it.

    Build a man a fire, and you'll keep him warm for the night.
    Set a man on fire, and you'll keep him warm for the rest of his life.

  17. It's just FUD on Red Hat CEO Szulik on Linux Distro Consolidation · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Since Red Hat (for whatever reason) has had the lions share of the US corporate Linux market up to now, they have to spread a little FUD, as Novell has greater corporate name recognition than Red Hat. If I'm a PHB C?O, which distro do I use and buy support from? Hmmm, I've HEARD of Novell...

  18. You don't have to be paranoid - but it helps on You Need Not Be Paranoid To Fear RFID · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Already the scenes from 2002s movie Minority Report, where your retinas are scanned and "personalised" advertising is beamed at you, seems quaint. Now we know you'll be RFID scanned, and up-sold on the shoes you're wearing, as the brand, size and age of your shoes will be instantly known. And cash won't help, because RFID chips will be in that too.

  19. Re:Firefox : free but as buggy as IE on Taking On Software Liability - Again · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Blow me.
    I went to McDonalds the other day and ordered a Quarter Pounder, and they put cheese on it!!
    I'll sue!! McDonalds should sue their own employee!!
    Again, blow me.

  20. Re:i'm sure... on Leonardo Da Vinci's Personal Notebook · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Only +1 funny for that? Thers's no justice in the world (expecially on weekends).
    d00d: that's hysterical.

  21. It's like they always say on Apple Upgrades Mac mini, Doesn't Tell Anybody · · Score: 4, Funny

    YMMV

  22. I went the other way on Moving from a Permanent Position to Contract Work? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Hell, I gave up and went the other direction (contract to employee) during Clinton's first year in office. Paying Social Security at 1.5 (then) times the rate everybody else was, paying 2.5 times what everybody else was for medical insurance, getting audited anually by the IRS for a chintzy office-in-home deduction, expected to amortize computer equipment over FIVE YEARS, fer chrissake...

    Feh!! Good luck to you. You can have it!

  23. Re:Largest DB Vendor in the world on Oracle Acquires Innobase · · Score: 4, Funny
    Terabyte Oracle Database
    Terabyte SQL Server Database
    Terabyte DB2 Database

    Everybody sing!
    One of these things is not like the others!
    One of these things just doesn't belong!
    One of these things is not like the others!

  24. Re:That's the way it goes on HBO Attacking BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Maybe not, but it's immoral!! errr...
    Never mind.

  25. Re:Quid novi? on HBO Attacking BitTorrent · · Score: 1
    "Abusus non tollit usum" == "Wrong use does not preclude proper use".

    Interesting. Not sure what it's supposed to mean, but interesting. Is this one of those Latin phrases that has a long-standing legal meaning? Like "per stirpes"?