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  1. Re:Fake holiday. on What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts? · · Score: 1

    It's been around for a few hundred years, so it's really not a fake holiday.

    In America perhaps, but in many countries it has been commercially forced upon the population for the last 25 years or so.

  2. Re:Limit permissions and seek alternatives? on Adobe Warns of Reader, Acrobat Attack · · Score: 1

    I've been using PDF-XChange Viewer for a while now and I like it. It has a lot more features than Sumatra.

  3. Age of life on New Hubble Ultra Deep Field In Infrared · · Score: 1

    I guess that at an age of 600 million years there was no life yet in the universe. I wonder at what age life may first have existed, and at what age intelligent life could have evolved. One could imagine a series of 'life bubbles' outside of which no life (or intelligent life) is to be expected.

  4. Re:Why surgically? on Intel Says Brain Implants Could Control Computers By 2020 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    when someday nanobots will build an interface directly inside the brain?

  5. Re:Other People's Money on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    He's probably offering them a million worth in stocks.

  6. Re::O on Light Helps Injured Mice Walk Again · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess you will find an average of one ball per mouse.

  7. Re:Umm... no. on Italian Scientists Put Robot Spiders In Your Colon · · Score: 1

    They will make you an offer you can't refuse.

  8. Re:and in related news.... on Italian Scientists Put Robot Spiders In Your Colon · · Score: 1

    Please don't mention frogs in this topic.

  9. Re:but on Feds Ask IT Execs To Throw Away Cellphones After Visiting China · · Score: 1

    But what if they're using a Chinese font?

  10. So are multi page articles on Happiness May Be Catching · · Score: 1

    Catching, I mean.

  11. Re: Read about the Turtles on Incorporating Human Behavior Into Wall Street Mathematical Models · · Score: 1

    Quote from the website: "The Turtles became the most famous experiment in trading history because over the next four years, they earned an aggregate sum of over $100 million dollars."

    Read about them here:

    http://originalturtles.tradingblox.com/story.htm/

  12. Re:What about the Asian guy? on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    Many Vietnamese refugees (Vietnamese boat people) went to communist countries in the 1970's.

  13. Indifference on A Hypothesis On Segway Hate · · Score: 1

    Do you also have a "Hypothesis On Segway Indifference"?

  14. Re:"to bully, insult, and deceive limitlessly" on Even More Restriction For German Internet · · Score: 1

    When I saw the title of your post, I thought you were going to say that the government thinks it's the only one who has the right to bully, insult and deceive limitlessly.

  15. Orion's Arm on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Visit Orion's Arm for an idea what populating the galaxy might be like.

    http://www.orionsarm.com/

  16. Best second language on The Best First Language For a Young Programmer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Best second language is assembler. To learn to understand what that first language is actually doing.

    what we do is craftmanship, not engineering

    Sometimes I consider the best programs as works of art too.

  17. Re:Really on Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad · · Score: 2, Funny

    And to think I was looking for a 4000x3000 raw bitmap photo of Halle Berry
    She would easily fit on a 4000x1500 bitmap, you insensitive clod!

  18. GREYCstoration on Choosing Better-Quality JPEG Images With Software? · · Score: 1

    Run the free GREYCstoration algorithm on both images, subtract results from original, and pick the one most similar to the original: http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration/

  19. Re:Not satisfied with polluting Earth on Ulysses Space Mission Finally Coming To an End · · Score: 1

    It's impossible to pollute the universe because everything belongs in it anyway.

    All we're doing is rearrange some of its particles, and so far it doesn't seem to mind.

  20. I don't want to pay twice on Dutch Gov. Wants To Tax Online Media To Fund Print · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm already paying for my morning newspaper, why would I need to pay for it again via an ISP tax?

  21. Re:I thought we all agreed that the French... on Earth Could Collide With Other Planets · · Score: 2, Funny

    Give a geek a model, and he'll fret for a day. Teach a geek to model, and he'll have major news media fretting forever...

    There, fixed that for you. Because:
    Give a man a model, and he'll have a great time with her.

  22. Re:O.o on String Theory Predicts Behavior of Superfluids · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know, but I do have a theory how 7of9 would look in a string.

  23. Re: That's easy on Towards Artificial Consciousness · · Score: 1

    Just wait for it to ask: "I can has cheezeburger?"

  24. Re:What is is NSFW? on Drive-By Download Poisons Google Search Results · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just scroogle it.

  25. Re:No problem for Macs, really on Adobe Confirms PDF Zero-Day, Says Kill JavaScript · · Score: 1

    I had to install it to e-file my state taxes

    I had to install it just to print out a DHL address sticker.