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  1. The real news here on Kansas Adopts New Science Standards · · Score: 4, Informative

    The board also rewrote the standards' definition of science, specifically limiting it to the search for natural explanations of what's observed in the universe.
    The previous board had redefined "science" as not being limited to "natural explanations". That is: the supernatural has a place in science.

    Maybe we should go back to calling ourselves "natural philosophers" rather than "scientists".
  2. Re:Ion Engines on Hayabusa To Begin Long Journey Back to Earth · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they'd used Opteron, it'd be home already.

  3. Re:OT: Simile - comparisons for the layman on New Accelerator Technique Doubles Particle Energy · · Score: 1

    You just picked a bad article. Try metaphor or analogy. Those articles are quite good.

  4. Re:States Rights Trashed Again on Sen. Ted Stevens Introduces "Son of DOPA" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just goes to show that the GOP is no longer the party of smaller ^W constitutional government.
    There. Fixed that for you.

  5. Re:Typical science on Cancer Drug Found; Scientist Annoyed · · Score: 1

    You mean how Charles Goodyear accidentally invented the vulcanization process. One of my favorites too.

  6. Re:Hmm... on NASA World Wind 1.4 Released With Trailer · · Score: 1

    I can see you've never spent much time using Microsoft tools. "Written using .NET 2.0" means that is COMPILES using the .NET 2.0 tools, which the "Written using .NET 1.4" no longer does.

  7. Re:who knew on Carbon Nanotube-Based NVRAM In 2-3 Years? · · Score: 1

    ENIAC's tubes were in parallel.

  8. Wow, can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these? on Supercruncher Applications · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Looking at his examples (Search, Ecommerce, Software-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Fraud Detection) I have to think "wow, single point of failure". Lots and lots of fault-tolerance needed to put all your eggs in one basket like that.

  9. Re:Obligatory. on DRAM Almost as Fast as SRAM · · Score: 1

    ...and their wives might, too

    Nah, not so much any more.

  10. I'm sure it'll get more traction... on VeriChip Implants 222 People With RFID · · Score: 4, Funny

    When it becomes part of the hardware required to run Vista. That way, a generation of PCs later, everyone will need an implanted RFID chip.

  11. Re:An even bigger hole... on "Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design · · Score: 1

    No, the sad realization is that there's Yet Another audio codec that needs to be researched, downloaded and installed. Happens once a week, it seems.

  12. Re:Reaction on When Malware Attacks Malware · · Score: 1

    They've raised the alert level to "mauve".

  13. Re:A New Variation of Life... on When Malware Attacks Malware · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, the rival malware attacks are Germany and the Soviet Union and the Windows PC is Poland. Mac would be England and Linux is the United States. If this was a World War II scenario.
    You were a math major, right?

  14. Makes sense on Sign Language Via Cell Phone · · Score: 3, Funny

    I often use sign language to people using cell phones while they're driving.

  15. Re:I like Isaac Asimov 's interpretation better... on New Universes Will be Born from Ours · · Score: -1
    Best. Short. Story. Evar.

    And AC said "Let there be light".
    And there was light.

    And, given the Anthropic principle, probably not all that far from the truth.
  16. Re:Compression on EMI May Sell Entire Collection as DRM-less MP3s · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it is a good step. Selling MP3s for cheap online, and selling FLAC on CDs is a win/win for everyone. We'd get the "songs" we want for our iPods, and the "albums" we want for our audiophile rigs.

  17. Re:Germany, for one on Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions · · Score: 1

    You continue to be a deliberate and evil liar.

    It was Nazi Germany who started the policy of "area bombing", most famously at Guernica, in April 1937. The RAF strictly did not perform strategic bombing until they reversed that policy the day AFTER the Nazis destroyed Rotterdam in the Blitz of Rotterdam in May of 1940.

    But you knew this. You're just a liar.

  18. Re:Germany, for one on Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions · · Score: 0, Troll

    Denying the Holocaust isn't "freedom of speech", it's a hateful lie, and you are a hateful liar.

  19. Re:Germany, for one on Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions · · Score: 0, Troll

    > There, you must believe in the Holocaust.

    You shitstain.
    There is no "belief" in historical fact. (only) Fifty year old historical fact with reams of photographic evidence and pilles of bodies, bones, hair and tooth fillings.
    Instead of this kind of thought crime nonsense we're discussing here, I say we take scum like you out and give THEM a little taste of the Holocaust.
    Maybe after maggots like you are out of the gene pool, we won't have to worry about criminal "intentions".
    Die before your time.

  20. "Bonjour for Windows" on Apple's Windows Apps Not Ready For Vista · · Score: 1

    Can't say I've heard of it, but I do like the sound of it.

  21. Well duh on Did Gates Fib About H1-B Salaries? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course Bill wants to import workers so he can pay them the same money he'd have to pay native-born workers. Duh!

  22. Meteorologically speaking... on Harvard Physicists Make Light Dance · · Score: 1

    Hau's team stopped light for one-thousandth of a second. Atomically speaking, "this is an amazingly long time," Hau notes.


    Head asplodes...
  23. Re:Lame on DNA-rainbow, A New Vision of Human Chromosomes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mendeleev notwithstanding.

  24. Re:How many times?! on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    > You can't legislate stupidity!

    No, but stupidity can legislate.

  25. How about the death penalty on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    for those idiots walking along, staring at their cell phones and not looking where they're going? Often also seen dragging their briefcase on wheels behind them, so the rest of us can trip over it. And then they stop dead in front of a revolving door to fold it up, or at the top of a flight of stairs to unfold it. ARRRRGHGG!!