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  1. Re:why 520 days?! on Volunteers Wanted For Simulated 520-Day Mars Trip · · Score: 1

    That is part of the experiment:

    "Today we measure the effects on the crew as they watch a ship zoom by, launched after their ship and reaching Mars many months before they do".

  2. Re:Tennis racket on MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Indoor Robocopter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...dark alley...

    Don't forget your night vision goggles, unless you are good at hitting things with your eyes closed.

  3. Re:Gentoo?? on MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Indoor Robocopter · · Score: 1

    Once Microsoft starts developing and deploying these, you'll learn to run and hide when you hear helicopter sounds.

  4. Re:Not chasing me down a dark alley on MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Indoor Robocopter · · Score: 1

    How good is your bat at protecting you from a stun gun or bullets being administered by an object that is hovering ten feet away?

  5. Re:And ST is being picked on.... on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fyi, Zoic Studios was responsible for the effects in both Firefly and BSG, which is why they both looked so good :-)

  6. Re:*readies his version of IDA* on Microsoft Readies Ad-Supported Office Starter 2010 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just wait until the ads get hacked, or the DOJ makes them advertise Linux/OpenOffice as part of a settlement.

  7. Re:GOOD MORNING SLASHDOT !! on Microsoft Readies Ad-Supported Office Starter 2010 · · Score: 2, Funny

    In my experience, people who say they are satisfied rarely are.

  8. Re:Resigning Issue... on Avatars To Have Business Dress Codes By 2013 · · Score: 2, Funny

    What if my religion believes that all forms of torture are wrong? Heck mine could even be clothing optional, so just be glad my tie is the only article of clothing I left at home.

  9. Re:Resigning Issue... on Avatars To Have Business Dress Codes By 2013 · · Score: 1

    If you really want to know, the real reason I live in the Southwest is so I don't have to wear a tie, but can get away with a bolo tie instead. Seriously, these need to catch on, because they suck so much less than a regular tie.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_tie

  10. Re:Some More Names to Consider on What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't forget Animal Farm.

  11. Re:More efficient? on Cooking May Have Made Us Human · · Score: 1

    Unless of course we are able to produce a wide variety of enzymes that allow us to digest a greater range of foods than other (competing) animals.

    Take the Neanderthals for example; it would appear they were exclusively meat eating. Not so hot when there isn't much meat around.

  12. Re:BIOS on New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just for the record, I'm posting to prove I am not on crack today.

  13. Re:The cops need a warrant... where is the problem on Secret GPS Tracking Now Legal In Massachusetts · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or if we use a car analogy, they could attach a gps tracker to your car while you aren't looking.

  14. Re:Why is OS/2 mentioned twice in the article? on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 5, Funny

    At 1920 screen resolution...

    Weren't screens made up of a 10x10 array of clay tablets back then?

  15. Re:mice? on Girls Wired To Fear Dangerous Animals · · Score: 1

    Don't forget plague . The state I live in (New Mexico) has both!

  16. Re:Will be added to you tax ... on Trust an Insurance Company's "Drive-Cam?" · · Score: 1

    At least until the jaywalk riots of 2010 anyway.

  17. Re:sick on Pain-Free Animals Could Take Suffering Out of Farming · · Score: 2, Funny

    If your servers screamed every time you had to reboot them, would you so willingly install Microsoft software on them?

  18. Re:seriously? on Japan Plans $21B Space Power Plant · · Score: 1, Troll

    It depends; how well would something like this work as a weapon in an emergency? Dual use baby!

  19. Re:The beginning bit is probably tricky too on Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy · · Score: 1

    Which makes me believe that, while the outcome is less likely to be successful, we will more than make up for it in increased hot and sweaty zero-g action.

  20. Re:GREAT! on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nonono, now we can finally answer the age old question: can Mickey kick Wolverine's butt, all in eye watering 3D!

  21. Re:If they don't want them on FBI Investigating Mystery Laptops Sent To US Governors · · Score: 1

    My guess is, "return them to some company somewhere that screwed up an order".

  22. Re:Resale value of house? on Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC · · Score: 1

    Capping the line to the tank is really really important. Especially if you remove the tank.

  23. No problemo on Wired Writer Disappears, Find Him and Make $5k · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Post his picture in the general vicinity wherever his credit card transactions are, with the note "Have you seen this child molester?" underneath.
    2. Take pictures of him/give him the codeword in jail* a few days later.
    3. Profit!

    * Though I'm not sure how the whole secret word thing will work if a mob beats him to death.

  24. Re:TW/RR? on Comcast Seeking Control of Both Pipes and Content? · · Score: 1

    I haven't checked, but I am guessing comcast has more piles of $$$ available in addition to being more widespread (i.e. physical locationwise)?

  25. Patronizing on Sony To Convert Online Bookstore To Open Format · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...you might be able to patronize their bookstore sometime soon...

    Heck I can do that right now. Nice to see you joining the 20th century Sony!