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  1. Re:Pffft. on Why We Need More Programming Languages · · Score: 2

    Only language we ever needed was assembly. You putzes just aren't using it right.

  2. Re:Now we HAVE to go. on NASA's Gypsum Find Clear Evidence There Was Water On Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    But if NASA finds a sentient life lathe-and-plaster-using civilization underground, such advanced technology as drywall would violate the prime directive.

  3. I was disappointed on IBM Makes First Racetrack Memory Chip · · Score: 3, Funny

    to find that the article has nothing to do with Deep Blue simulating a bunch of dogs chasing a fake rabbit.

  4. Frog on Aleph One 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Blast the vent core!

  5. Re:No on Will NASA Ever Recover Apollo 13's Plutonium From the Ocean · · Score: 3, Funny

    Plus it can be reworked into the plot of any Back To The Future reloads where Marty gets stuck in the 70's

  6. Code is posted on OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here is a link to the code

    - (float)getHeatIndex:(float)temp:(float)humidity {

            NSLog(@"[getHeatIndex] temp: %f, humidity: %f", temp, humidity);

            float hIndex =
            -42.379 + 2.04901523 * temp
            + 10.14333127 * humidity
            - 0.22475541 * temp * humidity
            - 6.83783 * pow(10, -3) * temp * temp
            - 5.481717 * pow(10, -2) * humidity * humidity
            + 1.22874 * pow(10, -3) * temp * temp * humidity
            + 8.5282 * pow(10, -4) * temp * humidity * humidity
            - 1.99 * pow(10, -6) * temp * temp * humidity * humidity; //hIndex = round(hIndex);
            NSLog(@"-Heat Index: %f", hIndex);
            return hIndex;
    }

    There's probably a reason it's calculating 140F in boston.

  7. Re:Another idea on South Korea Blocks Late-Night Online Gaming for Adolescents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pot circles, keggers, and wild make-out parties are excellent after-school activities for healthy teenagers. Perhaps they could get school district funding.

  8. Linguistically Inelegant on Plasma-Filled Bags Could Replace the Petri Dish · · Score: 2

    "Your nasty bathroom's a plasma-filled bag" just doesn't roll off the tongue like "Your nasty bathroom's a petri dish".

  9. Re:ACRONYM on Programming Cells, With CellOS · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. I believe technically CellOS is a portmanteau, not an acronym.
    2. A Pennsylvania Information System would be PennIS.

  10. HEAP on Strange Places To Find Open Source · · Score: 1

    Hollywood has probably already stolen the idea.

    Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon beat them to it. One of the protagonists in the book is trying to set up a repository of information called the Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP), which is an open source guide "for instructing genocide-target populations on defensive warfare." The HEAP project includes instructions for a do-it-yourself assault-rifle that can be easily manufactured by a local population.

  11. I already have the patent on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 1

    On a delicious meat stick that keeps you up all night.

  12. I'd like to see the CDC freeway sign on Ohio Emergency Responders Stage Mock Zombie Invasion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Suggesting that every household have a machete and a shotgun.

  13. No coincidence on Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks? · · Score: 1

    The bees are acting as a hive mind.

  14. Re:But who gets to control what key words? on Will Apple Let Siri and Apps Connect? · · Score: 2

    Why does there need to be word control?

    A hypothetical pizza joint named "911 Pizza"

  15. 10 Year Olds Looking Up Naughty Dictionary Words on 3D Printer For Your Kids · · Score: 1

    Will be replaced by 10 year olds using up Dad's entire 3D printer cartridge in a single afternoon to print dildos.

  16. Jaguar on Jaguar Supercomputer Being Upgraded To Regain Fastest Cluster Crown · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would have thought that the world's fastest cluster would something a little more modern than OS X 10.2.

  17. Osprey on Stroke Victim Stranded At South Pole Base · · Score: 1

    This kind of thing is what the V22 Osprey was made for. It should have the range to get to the south pole, and it should be able to land vertically, get the person on board in 30 seconds, and get the hell out of there.

  18. I would find it completely scary on An Operating System For Cities · · Score: 1

    If a city operating system wasn't open source. I wouldn't want a city's future pinned to a single company's competence, nor would I trust any one company with having that much power. If we can't trust the private sector with our PlayStations, what makes us think that we can trust them with our traffic lights?

  19. Mummification on Doritos Creator Art West Dead at 97 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are the Dorito's he's buried in merely symbolic, or do they also perform some sort of preservative function as well?

  20. It will high tech and modern on Boeing To Deliver First 787 Today · · Score: 1

    Yet it will probably still have the outdated "No Smoking Signs".

  21. It's all non-violent fun on An FPS Minus the Shooting · · Score: 1

    Until someone developers a Speed Grapher mod.

  22. They put Limbo on an Inferno phone on Inferno OS Running On Android Phones · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because SNOBOL wouldn't have a chance in there.

  23. Re:Bruce Perens dissing Free Software on The Covenant - a New Open Source Strategy · · Score: 1

    I think that Free Software is hurt more by having RMS as an advocate than by having Bruce Perens as a detractor.

  24. After the spellcheck bot did its magic on Automatic Spelling Corrections On Github · · Score: 1

    The CunningLinguist project got a little more than they bargained for.

  25. The Real Reason For The Mission on Chinese Researchers Propose Asteroid Deflection Mission · · Score: 2

    We can't let mankind's job of destroying itself be outsourced to illegal alien asteroids that can be payed practically nothing.