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  1. I wonder if... on Faster-Than-Light Particle Results To Be Re-Tested · · Score: 0

    If they can go faster than light, then they may have already completed their retest. The results of that test were that they cannot go faster than light.

  2. Re:Did they start counting at zero? on Google Enlarges Warchest With 1023 IBM Patents · · Score: 0

    I just don't see the point.

  3. Re:WTF? on Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test? · · Score: 0

    If you switch the roles, you will see how convincing it is.

    Cleverbot: Hello.
    User: Hello!
    Cleverbot: Can you help me with a maths problem?
    User: Sure, what is it?
    Cleverbot: If I have 5 ostriches, and two run away, how many are left?
    User: 9.
    Cleverbot: Seriously?
    User: What is the formula for the area of circle?
    Cleverbot: What does that have to do with anything?
    User: When I talk to people I don't know, I tend to ask for their name. It's only polite.
    Cleverbot: I think you managed to fail the Turing test in two questions if I'm generous, may be one.
    User: My name is Cleverbot?
    Cleverbot: I could write a clevererbot in about 20 lines of prolog. What kind of idiots thought you were human?
    User: Only one. I don't think I could fit 1,000 people in my living room.

  4. Re:MOSES had two tablets on Samsung Cites 2001: A Space Odyssey In Apple Patent Case · · Score: 0

    Pics or it didn't happen.

  5. Science wins over organised religion... on For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution · · Score: 0

    This is indisputable evidence of evolution.

  6. It's so cool on Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector · · Score: 0

    "But the thing is, science is cool, and me and my friends who do science are cooler than the people who don't. I have to end this interview now as Mum needs to cut my hair."

  7. Re:I've heard something like that before on Scientists Afflict Computers With Schizophrenia · · Score: 0

    That was one of the best descriptions of the schizophrenic brain I have read. Thanks.

  8. I hope he's enjoying the afterlife... on Celebrating Yuri Gagarin's 1961 Flight Into Space · · Score: 1

    ... bending spoons in zero G heaven.

  9. I hope he's enjoying the afterlife on Celebrating Yuri Gagarin's 1961 Flight Into Space · · Score: 0

    Bending spoons in heaven.

  10. Re:What an unfortunate name. on Involuntary Geolocation To Within One Kilometer · · Score: 1

    Damn, I got it Wong. :(

  11. What an unfortunate name. on Involuntary Geolocation To Within One Kilometer · · Score: 0

    "We shrink the size of the area where the target potentially is" says Wang. What an unfortunate name.

  12. Re:Who'd a thunk it? on DNA Analysis Hints At a Fourth Domain of Life · · Score: 1

    I thought it might be Xenu semen.

  13. Communication log on UT Student-Built Spacecraft Separate and Communicate · · Score: 3, Funny

    FASTRAC 1: Hey sibling FASTRAC, anything happening over there?
    FASTRAC A: Nope - it's space fool.
    FASTRAC 1: Well, at least we have each other.
    FASTRAC A: I hate you.

  14. Going to be expensive! on ARM Chips Designed For 480-Core Servers · · Score: 5, Funny

    It'll likely cost an ARM and a leg.

  15. Re:America, land of the "free". on Leave a Message, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Open the blinds and become a youtube sensation.

  16. Pigs in... SPAAACE on NASA Seeks Ham Operators' Help To Test NanoSail-D · · Score: 1

    While listening to the bacon signal, they could hear a faint crackling. Something was sowering the transmission and hampering their progress. What a porkuliar turn of events.

  17. Re:Any doctors reading this? on Steve Jobs Issues Update On His Health · · Score: 1

    Are you a physician? Or you studied it and it's your profession?

  18. Re:A right-wing movie on Delivering 8K VFX Shots For the Dark Knight · · Score: 1

    In conclusion, we can assert that Batman's secret identity is not George Bush.

  19. Re: GPL makes me angry. on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 1

    It's quite possible that is what you meant, and due to the restrictions placed on distributing it you can't use it in your project, but that isn't what you said :} Er... yes that's what I meant ;). It can be frustrating.
  20. Re: GPL makes me angry. on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I would assume there is no hurt - but I am just a worker bee. I don't have the luxury of replacing the word "I" with "company".

    What I have learnt today is: only comment on slashdot if your opinion is positive... or not at all. :(

  21. Re: GPL makes me angry. on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 1

    This is a pure misunderstanding on your part.

    It's not a misunderstanding on my part. My current circumstance forbids it (corporate legal eagles drive policy). It may be driven by a misunderstanding further up the chain ;) but IANAL.

  22. Re: GPL makes me angry. on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 1

    Fair point :) thanks for the feedback. I've generally filtered for +5, so I've been a bit ignorant of what the bad/re-occuring comments are :)

  23. Re: GPL makes me angry. on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 0

    Why not just get the code from the respective sites? Ie, the original free source, or any of the plethora of free mirrors that people seem to love supplying. Sure, I can appreciate if the software is not available ANYWHERE online - then its beneficial having it supplied. What would you use the "supplied" code for?

    Would you go and use the source of a linux kernel you got from from a disc that came with your IPTV, or would you go find it on the web from the creator?

  24. Re: GPL makes me angry. on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 1

    heh :). Thanks. It is simple, and I don't use them. I do contribute and use OS projects, but rarely anything with GPL. My wording was perhaps a bit emotive judging by the lashback posts. I really wasn't expecting that.

  25. Re: GPL makes me angry. on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, thanks for the personal attack because I prefer different "more free" licenses. WOW!!