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  1. Must be doing something right on Telcos Want Big Subsidies, Not Line-Sharing · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the big telcos hate it, I like it.

  2. Re:So can any astronomers explain ... on Dark Energy, Life Searches Make Strange Bedfellows · · Score: 1

    This phenomenon is in no way unique to astronomy. Or even science. Or new. It happens to all data and it always has. (Cuneiform anyone?)

  3. Re:Question the source on Netbooks Have Higher Failure Rate Than Laptops · · Score: 1

    How many pounds in a grain?

  4. Re:Better Tha-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-an CGI on 1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics · · Score: 1

    Tha-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-an!

  5. Re:Radar Guns... on Radar Beats GPS In Court — Or Does It? · · Score: 1

    'incurrently' is a perfectly cromulent word

  6. Re:chests? on Communicator Clothing · · Score: 2

    No. No it has not. Please turn in your nerd badge at the airlock.

  7. You keep using that word. on Honda's Answer To the Segway · · Score: 1

    I do not think it means what you think it means. Perineal, not perennial. And 500 words about crotch-crushing from a non-defect in a prototype that is not going to be mass-produced?

  8. Re:Then Dell is doing it wrong. on Dell Says Re-Imaging HDs a Burden If Word Banned · · Score: 1

    Changes should be tested.
    There should be more than one image - the number of targets drives is not relevant. Whining about hardships caused by completely predictable changes is bullshit.
    It's inconceivable that their system is so inflexible that a change like this breaks it. Sounds like a lie perpetrated on Microsoft's behalf to me. So is Dell stupid or lying?

  9. Then Dell is doing it wrong. on Dell Says Re-Imaging HDs a Burden If Word Banned · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How is Dell's poor management of their imaging system anybody else's responsibility? 'Extensive testing' is just code for 'we are a bunch of conniving lazy ass middle managers who depend on our outsourced technicians to tell us what to do.'

  10. Prefuckingposterous on Company Awarded "The Patent For Podcasting" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is nothing in this that even approaches the reality that anyone except an IP lawyer works in. FFS.

  11. Re:Cosmic Fireworks...how about the close observer on Cosmic Fireworks Display Seen Inside Helix Nebula · · Score: 1

    Won't someone think of the alien children?

  12. Re:mega fail. on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 1

    In that scenario, someone will have to make that claim on behalf of the deceased.

  13. Re:Most Complete Topographical Map of Earth Comple on Most Complete Topographical Map of Earth Complete · · Score: 1

    No. But 'complete map most complete' is. As you have almost intuited, the summary headline is free of meaning.

  14. Re:What? Again? on Sci-Fi Writers Dream Up Ideas For US Government · · Score: 1

    Not confidence-building. If it was done casually and with fewer buzzwords and less self-congratulation all around and not under any official auspices, I would be less appalled. As it is, it makes me a little sick to my stomach.

  15. Re:Taxpayers money being well spent on US Army Will Upgrade To Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Seattle?

  16. What? Again? on Sci-Fi Writers Dream Up Ideas For US Government · · Score: 1

    The last administration already did this with results ranging from tedious to risible. Then it was the usual suspects: Larry Niven, Drake, etc, I think. I can't be bothered to read the article to see who it was this time.

  17. Re:Oh, hello, this is the UK. on Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras · · Score: 1

    You should be more careful what you ask for. Please enjoy this bushel of Bushes as much as we have. I threw in a Barbara for free.

  18. Re:You all got your ratios wrong on New Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record · · Score: 0

    I live in a spacecraft you insensitive clod.

  19. Re:My sympathies lie... on User Charged With Taking ISP Tech Hostage · · Score: 1

    Your sympathies are corroding the commonsense terminals of the universe. Please stop.

  20. Crap summary of feeble article. Pass. on Toshiba Launches First Cell-based Laptop · · Score: 1

    Worse than usual. I know less than before I read it.

  21. Re:That music was terrible on Iron Sky Trailer · · Score: 1, Troll

    It was modeled on the music of the 30s and 40s of which Icelandic time-traveling elf?

  22. Music in teaser not cogent on Iron Sky Trailer · · Score: 1

    Not only was the music track in the teaser desperately dull, it had nothing to do with the visuals. Lame.
    I like a good space Nazis communal movie as well as anyone else but don't forget to tell a story!

  23. Re:Well, what did you expect? on Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    Is there a sign in the unlocked gym that says 'members only' ?
    Is there a sign on the equipment that says 'members only' ?

    Just because your parsimonious universe lards itself with greedy owners doesn't mean that my universe is not built entirely out of manna and coupons.

  24. Cool, but a surprise? on Rings Discovered Around a Moon for the First Time · · Score: 1

    Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
    And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
    And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
    While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
    - Augustus De Morgan

  25. Re:Are those liquor bottles? on A Look at Microsoft's Security War Room · · Score: 1

    The "Security Response Support Device" on the counter is disguised as an espresso machine. Of course, If I was trying to solve a crisis, I really would not want some screeching steam foamer and a debate about fat/non-nonfat, caf/de-caf, foam or not, how many shots, flavors, temperature and all the other coffee-jockey jibber jabber. In fact, I want a toady and/or monkey to go get me a coffee and a fucking Danish!