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  1. Re:Blink on this issue? on Steve Jobs Weighs In On iPhone Programming Language Mandate · · Score: 1

    It is a children's program, but there were warnings to the parents about the specific episode before it was aired. Indeed, it's an episode I wouldn't want to have seen as a child.

  2. Re:This SOUNDS Like A Breakthrough! on Piezo Crystals Harness Sound To Generate Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    No, it's the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Never talk about the First Law.

  3. Re:The irony here is... on Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 · · Score: 1

    Fraud instead!

  4. Re:Get a gun. on Killer Apartment Vs. Persistent Microwave Exposure? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wait... if you're serving time for voluntary manslaughter, that means your strategy is NOT effective, since obviously the landlord did not do what you wanted him to do (otherwise, why shoot him?).

    He never said that he dealt this way with only *one* landlord, so your "*the* landlord did not do..." and consequently your complete conjecture about effectiveness is not guaranteed correct.

  5. Re:You can buy a serial-to-usb converter for $15 on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    And there still isn't a Windows serial terminal program that's half as good.

    Oh, come on. Putty using RS232 is at least *half* as good.

  6. Re:So you are saying on Xerox Sues Google, Yahoo Over Search Patents · · Score: 1

    I bow before you, oh master punner. Not many will (bother to) get your joke.

  7. Re:Oh My God, THE Roland Emmerich?! on Emmerich Plans Foundation As a 3D Epic · · Score: 1

    I Robot is a pretty decent film, and is true to a lot of Asimov's themes[BZZT]

    Hold it right there. Susan Calvin (which was hot in the movie!) holding a machine gun; sure, she held some kind of weapon in 'Robot Dreams' (part of the movie story, not 'I, Robot' collection) but under very different circumstances. Locating the Nestor (or whatever it was called in the movie) by starting to shoot the expensive robots (which should be the desperate solution), instead of outwitting it. Should I compare Will Smith's character and Elijah Baley as cops? I think not.

    Tragic. I am too bored to go on about describing the superficial resemblance between the movie script and Asimov's themes.

    The movie had a hero, quite content with himself, with whom supposedly the (average) audience could identify. Asimov's stories had heroes that could improve the audience if used as examples; those heroes were flawed, but nevertheless thinking and wishing to improve.

  8. Summer parties on Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos · · Score: 1

    Add a discoball in the mix and then you can have a mosquito-free Abba and Bee Gees night every night during the summer.

  9. Re:Huh? on Grateful Dead Percussionist Makes Music From Supernovas · · Score: 1

    The GP's presuming that the artist is spending a year dead for tax purposes was a great reference to a very funny piece of literature. Now, you might know that or you might not; in any case, your prefixing your post with "Just in case" does not absolve you from presuming the GP didn't know who the Grateful Dead are.

    All the available data do indicate that you haven't read the H2G2 series while in the same time they *do not* indicate that the GP didn't know GD.

    "dead for tax purposes". Google know how to use it?

  10. Re:Hewlett-Packard on IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated · · Score: 1

    Why does Hewlett-Packard have not one but TWO /8 IPv4 address ranges?

    I'm sure you mean "why was HP allowed to keep DEC's /8 network after DEC's sell-out-to-Compaq/merger-with-HP?"
    What should they do? Give such a valuable asset back to IANA saying, thank you, we've got enough IPv4 and we will spend lots of money to reallocate all the DEC/Compaq infrastructure's address assignments?

  11. Re:Just because the math works doesn't mean it's t on The End Of Gravity As a Fundamental Force · · Score: 1

    What's so hard to understand about human females? They want to enjoy the most with the least possible effort, just like human males, only females are bred with the conviction that they actually deserve it. That's all.
    Now on to something more challenging, please.

  12. Re:I've used both on Why You Should Use OpenGL and Not DirectX · · Score: 1

    If you're bored to provide a direct link to your other post, why should everyone else bother searching for it?
    See my general stance about life all over the internet.

  13. Re:Apples to Oranges on Why You Should Use OpenGL and Not DirectX · · Score: 1

    He also owns a really big truck.

  14. Re:Is that Windows 1.0 commercial real? on A Decade of Dreadful Microsoft Ads · · Score: 1

    Surely it seems so, if you're old enough.

  15. Re:Is that Windows 1.0 commercial real? on A Decade of Dreadful Microsoft Ads · · Score: 1

    Is it Weird Al Yankovic singing?

  16. Re:Python on How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? · · Score: 2, Funny

    tl;dr: Python is a great language to learn by, but so featureful that your kid may never give it up.

    You make it sound as if not giving up Python is a negative thing. Perhaps I can understand it if I change context:

    - My little brother wants to enter the world of relationships. Whom do you suggest he should get involved first with?
    - Natalie Portman.
    - Well, Natalie is a trap; he can get hooked on her and never want to move on to someone else.

    Nope. Still does not compute.

  17. Re:Focus group... on BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice · · Score: 1

    I thought women are a human's best friend. Now you imply they're the same species?!

  18. The mass-loss-less propulsion system on How To Build a Quantum Propulsion Machine · · Score: 1

    That's a mouthful. What's it going to be called by the space sailors? That's the real challenge.

  19. Re:Has anyone been able to see the report? on Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU? · · Score: 1

    Exactly my thought. So the limit-setting engineers thought in Celsius, while the hardware measures in Fahrenheit.

  20. Re:Only one way to find out for sure on New Evidence For Ancient Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    > Send a bunch of scientists to Mars for at least ten years.
    Sit back and enjoy the ensuing war with the multinationals.

  21. Re:Mars origin on New Evidence For Ancient Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    The word you were looking for is "soil": Mars soil. So, your native language has "earth" and "soil" as synonyms, and some strange capitalization rules?

  22. Re:In a related question on Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table · · Score: 1

    Save *which* torrent file? Giving your bittorrent client a magnet link means it searches for the torrent file through DHT to download it.

  23. A counter-attack to DHT on Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table · · Score: 1

    So what RIAA and others need to do, is buy big iron to create torrents with the same hash but useless content, and start spreading them around. The confusion that can ensue could be big.

  24. Re:except Windows 7 on Sneaky Microsoft Add-On Put Firefox Users At Risk · · Score: 1

    Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear? And WHERE ARE THE FRAKING MODERATORS when you need 'em? Parent is as insightful as can be.

  25. Re:Unintended consequeces on French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models · · Score: 1

    I believe that women do watch porn; they also watch the porn till the end, eager to know if at the end the lead couple gets married.