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  1. Re:I don't understand. on FCC Lets Wireless Devices Use Empty TV Channels · · Score: 1

    also more educational and with less deception

  2. Re:FSCK on Ext4 Filesystem Enters Experimental Kernel Tree · · Score: 1

    sometimes the extX force you to do an fsck before it'll mount, let's face it, it's not as sophisticated as other more advanced fs

  3. Re:American Obesity on Changes in Earth's Orbit Linked to Extinctions · · Score: 1

    I ate it since it's been almost one hour since breakfast without a snack

  4. they're cartels - another mafia on Ballmer Sounds Off · · Score: 1

    you obviously haven't had to deal with the goons of the thugs that run these cartels and have congressmen in their pockets to pass laws to take away the people's rights and further line their pockets.

  5. distribution on Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks · · Score: 1

    "distibution" is the proper term. "distro" for the geeky. Version is a release of softwaere at a point in time.

  6. Re: Engineering Food at the Molecular Level on Engineering Food at the Molecular Level · · Score: 1

    just pay the required royalties so you can cook and digest legally

  7. Re:What? on Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student · · Score: 4, Funny

    Polish guy goes to the optometrist. Optometrist tells him to read the chart which starts with letters S-L-Q-W-J-Z-B-X etc. etc.. Polish guys stares and jaw falls open. Optometrist says, "what's wrong, you can't read the chart?". Polish guy goes "read it? I went to school with the guy!"

  8. Re:Experts?? on Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student · · Score: 1

    things are so bad we can no longer make objective measurements of software standards. QED

  9. Re:I am horrified... on Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student · · Score: 1

    you gotta be kidding, the only language with worse design on planet earth than Perl is Perl 6

  10. Re:Solutions on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    regimes crumble much faster when they're nuked

  11. south korea was first to verify on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    south korea confirmed magnitude 3.6 quake at time of test, abcnews says

  12. Re:*gate has been common usage for 30+ years on Youths No Longer Predominant on MySpace · · Score: 1

    you're obviously a gateaholic

  13. Re:The Truth on Youths No Longer Predominant on MySpace · · Score: 1

    yes, the applicable definition is "sexually mature and attractive". In the past used mainly of desirable young women, but also used by those of other orientations now.

  14. Re:The Truth on Youths No Longer Predominant on MySpace · · Score: 5, Funny

    can't be Congress, they rotate in a fresh crop of nubile young pages every semester

  15. Re:1.2/2.2 c/kwh???? on Is Backyard Wind Power Worth It? · · Score: 1

    you buy more of anything it gets cheaper. If you consumed 3000A at 480VAC they'd give you a better deal too.

  16. Re:Not a Good Business Model for Enterprise on Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive? · · Score: 2, Funny

    and the KB won't have an unintelligible Hindi accent to its english

  17. Re:#12 on Ten Geek Business Myths · · Score: 1

    doesn't matter, what they do have is money. also, they'll want 80% or more of the action in return for their money: they will own your butt.

  18. Re:and if on Your Life On a Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    heh, I say 20 years tops. might even be used to inject thoughts into people's heads without their consent or knowledge.

  19. Re:Sounds like the birth of a fetish... on Power Suit Promises Super-Human Strength · · Score: 1

    indeed, that's why I thought "BS" when I read their proposed application of patient ambulance. What they really want to do is to make an EVA unit for giant robot fights. Big O!

  20. ho boy, have you missed the train on China Claims Successful Fusion Power Test · · Score: 1

    d00d, the smallest solar cell powering an LCD calculator produces more net power than the largest fusion reactor. think about it.

  21. Re:Containment? on China Claims Successful Fusion Power Test · · Score: 4, Insightful

    or even more accurately, Tokamaks have been consuming far more energy than they put out for over 30 years. But governments still throw billions at them rather than use already operating fusion reactor in the sky.

  22. Re:and if on Your Life On a Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    actually, there are technologies being experimented with right now for recording neural signals, interacting with neurons, mapping the brain....it's the next logical step to what we're doing now.

  23. Re:and if on Your Life On a Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    oh, you don't own any photographs? Anyway, the idea would be to let someone else experience something significant just as or close to how the original person experienced it. Heck, maybe this would end war and human brutality. or make for new entertainment and art forms.

  24. Re:and if on Your Life On a Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    might not work like that, could maybe re-experience the sensations and thoughts of a past time yet still be processing the real world. I'll predict this will be tried and be close enough that p0rn will be taken to the next level. oh yeah, and all other performance art.

  25. Re:This oughta be interesting on Valley Firms Push California Oil Tax · · Score: 1

    well, we're talking about an imagined reality where no oil company does business in california. in that case, there would be enormous demand. I then proposed a new economic market which takes advantage of the fact that oil is a commodity good.