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  1. Ain't no thing but a chicken wing. on SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes · · Score: 1

    "Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it."

    'That boy is about as sharp as a cue ball.'

  2. Hmm.... on Pluto's 3 Moons and a Probe to Study Them · · Score: 0

    What happened to the one they sent to URANUS?

  3. Charity calendars on Women's Institute Consulted on Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    "Some members have stripped naked for a charity calendar but now the Women's Institute has been charged with addressing a more serious matter: how to handle thousands of tons of radioactive nuclear waste."

    I have "radioactive nuclear waste" I need "handled." Please book me for all your next charity calendars. Thanks.

  4. Re:Spam on How Darwin Managed His Inbox · · Score: 1

    On another note, I have never received any spam through snail mail...Oh wait.

  5. The first thing that springs to my mind.... on The Nokia N90, $900 Camera Phone Reviewed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "My god...$900"

  6. Re:As far as I can tell on Significant FBI Abuses of the Patriot Act · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It's not latin, but somehow I think this is more appropriate:
    "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
    -James Madison
  7. Re:My thoughts whenever something like this comes on Navy Sued for Sonar-Blasting Whales · · Score: 1

    Can you mention one whale in the history of mankind that has had a record in the top ten?

    What about Free Willy??!

  8. Matrix on Cyborg Cells Sense Humidity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Saraf speculates that similar devices could one day be made that take greater advantage of living organisms, perhaps even using bacteria's energy systems to power electrical devices.

    Now all we need is intelligent machines, a war, and a Neo.

  9. Re:I don't believe Sonar hurts whales on Navy Sued for Sonar-Blasting Whales · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "I was personally involved in an investigation over the death of a dozen beak whales off of the Canary islands...Guess who got blamed for these whales beaching themselves? In the end, it was determined the whales beached themselves trying to get away from the shipping traffic, not the Sonar."

    Are you talking about this?

    FTA:
    "Last year 14 beaked whales were stranded during an international naval exercise off the Canary Islands. They appeared on beaches four hours after the sonars were turned on."

    I don't know about "definitive proof" but lets look at our options. Maybe the sonars in some way affected the beachings, or there happened to be a flotilla of shipping traffic due to the heavy volume of canary purchases at ebay.
    It's also mentioned in this article. The Nature article they both refer to is entitled "Gas-bubble lesions in stranded cetaceans" if you can get your hands on it. They are, however, cautious to reach any blatant conclusions without sufficient evidence. Also here's some background information on acoustic sensitivities of marine life from NRDC. Sorry, but these "government haters" are trying to save marine life from being trampled by our preparations for armageddon.

  10. Re:A bit off-topic on Tropical Storm Alpha Sets Naming Record · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why are storm names female?

    They scream when they're coming and take your house when they leave.

  11. Re:Could sperm cells be used instead? on FDA Approves First Brain Stem Cell Transplant · · Score: 1

    Now that would be a whole new take on "branfucked."

  12. Re:Yikes, this is kind of scary on FDA Approves First Brain Stem Cell Transplant · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the Brave New World.

  13. Re:Identity problem on FDA Approves First Brain Stem Cell Transplant · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had a problem with this as well. You are esentially injecting a foreign substance into a developing brain--"immature neural cells that are destined to turn into the mature cells that makeup a fully formed brain." They have a different DNA so how this affects the body's response to these cells is questionable. The immune system might think these cells are some form of a threat to the body and so it would try to kill them. On the other hand, if they develop into functioning brain cells, how will the foreign DNA neural cells function with local DNA cells? The inserted neural cells will be able to produce the enzyme necessary to "help dispose of brain cellular waste," but how will that help the brain cells that can't produce this enzyme? The may as well still die so you will have this "foreign brain" in somebody else's body. Frightening.

  14. Re:EU on EU-wide Music Licensing Policies Published · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Only in Europe you would only have a few of states that actually understood the president. Language barrier is a hard obstacle to overcome, not to mention cultural, ethnic and religious differences. The only reason EU exists is because of economic reasons. It's like trying to get the Noah's ark animals to produce the entire works of Shakespeare in Mongolian.

  15. Re:This will make things better... on EU-wide Music Licensing Policies Published · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile in the US...

  16. Re:Bill Gates Goes to College! on Bill Gates Is Coming To A College Near You · · Score: 1

    Kinda lame. Ends up just being a sales pitch for Good Ol Bill. Funniest part is seeing him actually get slapped...oops :)

  17. Re:Dogfood? on Mozilla Lightning Plans to Unify Mail & Calendar · · Score: 1

    dogfood: n
    Interim software used internally for testing. "To eat one's own dogfood" (from which the slang noun derives) means to use the software one is developing, as part of one's everyday development environment (the phrase is used outside Microsoft and Netscape). The practice is normal in the Linux community and elsewhere, but the term 'dogfood' is seldom used as open-source betas tend to be quite tasty and nourishing. The idea is that developers who are using their own software will quickly learn what's missing or broken. Dogfood is typically not even of beta quality.

  18. Grand Opening of Eddie Bauer... on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 1

    ...in my apartment, all hot women are free to protest.

  19. Re:Open ended on U.S. Withholding Satellite Data · · Score: 1

    Well they're about to get a hell of a lot of "keystrokes and data"...

  20. Re:keplerian elements on U.S. Withholding Satellite Data · · Score: 1

    You mean like the wmds we found in IRAQ?

  21. Re:What 60s GUIs is he talking about? on How Heraclitus would Design a Programming Language · · Score: 1

    I believe that back then they were called punch cards.

  22. Re:Do we really need it ? on TCPA Support in Linux · · Score: 1

    If that binary is modified, it can no longer access the sealed storage.

    This is good news for data corruption. All your data is fscked.

  23. Re:Was. on Xanadu: The Forgotten Hypertext · · Score: 1

    must...keep...trying