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  1. Re:Nuclear submarines on Small Nuclear Power Plants To Dot the Arctic Circle · · Score: 1

    We've got several centuries' worth (at current usage levels) of uranium in our "waste storage sites", if only they'd construct breeder reactors to burn it.

    Only problem with that being that no one has yet designed and built a workable breeder reactor.

  2. Re:Ranting against "evil Russians" to commence... on Small Nuclear Power Plants To Dot the Arctic Circle · · Score: 1

    No, he's Checkov from Star Trek. As in "Where do you keep the nuclear wessels?"

  3. Re:Ranting against "evil Russians" to commence... on Small Nuclear Power Plants To Dot the Arctic Circle · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't Death Valley be underwater, as it is now below sea level?

    Exactly. He's investing in future lake front property.

  4. Re:whatcouldpossiblygowrong! on Small Nuclear Power Plants To Dot the Arctic Circle · · Score: 1

    And, shit-howdy, if any Slashdot story ever cried out for the whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag, it was this one.

  5. Four Things on Apple Rejects Nine Inch Nails iPhone App · · Score: 1

    1) The poster should have waited until he knew what the actual story was before he made his post

    2) A lot of people are making comments here without knowing the whole story either.

    3) Trent Reznor is a musician, not the actual developer of the app and likely doesn't know the whole story himself.

    4) It's probably going to turn out to be a mistake/misunderstanding on someone's part, either the developer or someone at Apple and that the app will be approved eventually. It won't be the first time this has happened.

  6. Re:Psychology researchers are masters of the obvio on Parrots Can Dance · · Score: 1

    The same way most Amazon owners (my wife's bird is a Double Yellowhead) do--they drink a lot.

  7. Re:I'll stick to my r/c radio, thanks on Fly An R/C Plane With an iPhone · · Score: 1

    The same thing applies to flight sims--it's harder to make a sucessful landing in a sim than it is in a real small airplane, mainly because you can't turn your head and look out a side window.

    Back when I used to fly, I made hundreds of safe landings but I crash my computer sim one time out of five

  8. Re:Psychology researchers are masters of the obvio on Parrots Can Dance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My wife's parrot can whistle "The Happy Wanderer." As a matter of fact, he'll whistle it continuosly until you are ready to strangle him.

    Parrots are like a three year old child in a lot of ways, including repeating a good thing ad infinitum.

  9. No way this can be possible on Quantum Mechanics Involved In Photosynthesis · · Score: 1

    After all, if most people can't understand quantum physics, how can a fucking squash possibly...

    Oh, wait, never mind.

  10. Re:Obligatory comment from a native Los Angeleno.. on New Flu Strain Appears In the US and Mexico · · Score: 1

    Yeah, me too. But I live in San Diego so I know what carnitas are.

  11. Re:Yeah God Forbid They Actually Have to COMPETE on Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon · · Score: 1

    it's not like Apple hates CDMA. They went to Verizon before they went to Apple, and Verizon walked away

    I think you hit on the real reason Apple won't sell iPhones to Verizon right there. Steve Jobs doesn't appreciate being snubbed and has a well-known penchant for holding long grudges about things like that.

    And lest anyone think I'm an Apple-hater, I own three Macs and two iPhones (along with PCs running XP and Ubuntu).

  12. Re:transplant organs from pork to human... on New Flu Strain Appears In the US and Mexico · · Score: 2, Funny

    growing human organs in pig for transplantation

    That's it--no more liverwurst for me...

  13. Re:Obligatory comment from a native Los Angeleno.. on New Flu Strain Appears In the US and Mexico · · Score: 1

    Good one, but probably over the heads of all those Nortenos out there.

  14. Re:Breaking: Condition downgraded to "dead" on Stephen Hawking Is "Very Ill" In Hospital · · Score: 1

    As of 13:50 EDT, there is no report of Hawking's death on the NYT Web site.

  15. Re:Latency on Telepresence — Our Best Bet For Exploring Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've got just word for you, son: teledildonics.

  16. Re:Similar to Windows hate? on Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will · · Score: 1

    Forkin' A.

    I don't have a grad degree but I have a number of of college-level credit units in typography and everything I learned there supports what you've said.

  17. Prosciutto is not bacon on Cutting Steel With Flaming Bacon Weapons · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's ham. But I still have to wonder if the expensive imported varieties make a better thermal lance than the cheap, domestic product

  18. Re:I saw this. on Twitter Gets Slammed By the StalkDaily XSS Worm · · Score: 1

    It's okay--he has a band of pirates to protect him.

  19. Re:A machines helping hand on Voting Machines and 'Calibration Drift' · · Score: 1

    why does that remind me of Microsoft Clippy? :-)

    "I see you are trying to vote for 'Simple E. Malarkey.' Would you like help with that?" (Switches vote to opposing candidate...)

  20. Re:How about the followup? on Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat" · · Score: 1

    Must be a Linux app rather than BSD, I guess. Or maybe Apple just decided it didn't need to be included.

  21. Re:How about the followup? on Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat" · · Score: 1

    Last login: Tue Mar 31 19 20:59:59 on console Macintosh:~ gyro$ man tac
    No manual entry for tac
    Macintosh:~ gyro$

  22. Re:Uhhh on Anonymous Blogger Outed By Politician · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can you actually state any *laws* to that affect?

    I cant't cite any state laws but the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld the right to anonymous speech as part of the right to free speech.

  23. Re:And nothing of value was lost. on Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered · · Score: 1

    in Europe (or at least where I live) there are 348576384756876 different, conflicting coding standards for infrared messages

    These things are much more sophisticated here in the U.S. We only have 348576384756871 different, conflicting coding standards for infrared messages.

  24. Re:Laser on US Pentagon Plans For a Spy Blimp · · Score: 1

    Large gas-filled object [...] with a not overly-thick skin

    Sounds like Rush Limbaugh to me...

  25. Re:What? on Walter Bright Ports D To the Mac · · Score: 1

    It is a refreshing change to find that windows doesn't even make the minimum grade for people to bother attacking it.

    Windows sucks!

    Sorry, but someone had to do it...