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  1. Pluto on First Direct Photo of Exoplanet Confirmed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's an irony in that we can now see extrasolar planets but we still can't get a really decent the smallest (dwarf)planet in our solar system.

  2. Re:How to blaspheme: a demonstration on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    "The only real question is whether you believe in the legend of Davy Crockett or not. If you do, then there should be no doubt in your mind that he died a hero's death. If you do not believe in the legend, then he was just a man, and it does not matter how he died."--Lt Worf

  3. Progress on Researchers Create Lung On a Chip · · Score: 2, Funny

    First I can't stick magnets to my hard drive. Now I can't smoke around my CPU. These new-fangled inventions are killing all my fun.

  4. I've got dibs on ICANN Likely Finally To Approve .xxx For Porn Sites · · Score: 4, Funny

    on fu.xxx

  5. Yak Protocol on Sending Data In Bursts of SMS Messages · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maximum carrying load of a Yak: 70kg
    Weight of a 32GB micro sd card. 0.5g
    Having your own 3rd world petabit network: priceless.

  6. Re:Oh Please on Developers Expect iOS and MacOS To Merge · · Score: 0

    According to Slashdot trolls, BSD is dying.
    Apple's OS is a BSD.

    Therefore we can logically deduce that Apple's been dying for the last 10 years.

  7. Primary Keys on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 1

    The article could be aptly renamed "40 reasons to use surrogate primary keys, and why natural keys are just asking for trouble."

  8. Evidence On The A4 on A Close Look At Apple's A4 Chip · · Score: 5, Funny

    A team of experts takes a look at the evidence on A4 in an attempt to determine its origins and the influence of recent Apple acquisitions in the area of chip design."

    The team of experts concludes the A4 was designed by Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Revolver.

  9. Re:Am I the only one who.... on SeaMicro Unveils 512 Atom-Based Server · · Score: 1

    When I first read the headline I thought "Wow--someone's just commercialized quantum computing!"

  10. Re:Sales Rep WIN on MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have the sales rep win than one kid with an oddball laptop that a parent swears is "perfectly good" cause a teacher to spend all his time doing tech support and have the entire class lose.

  11. Re:Something I was wondering on How To Destroy a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    If you were inside a black hole you'd probably see crazy stuff happening like the universe expanding at an ever faster rate and all your calculations about the total mass of the universe that are derived from observing velocities over periods of time would be way off.

  12. Re:just what need $30 adapters apple is may have d on MINI-ITX and the Future of PC Case Design? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines of a mobo limited to 4 usb 3.0 ports and 2 hdmi ports.

  13. WWAD (What Would Apple Do?) on MINI-ITX and the Future of PC Case Design? · · Score: 1

    I'd like them to bypass the futuristic sexy case nonsense and concentrate on getting rid of 30 year connectors that have no business on a minimalist form factors like Mini-ITX.

  14. Epson and HP on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 1

    A hundred years from now most things will come out of an inkjet printer. And then you have the real thorny question of what we'll do with the unemployed global masses of humanity when factories have been made obsolete. Not everyone can be employed making matter printers.

  15. Re:One of these has been around for a LONG time... on New Gadget Tells You When To Take a Break · · Score: 1

    Eventually they should make their way from tge early adopters to the mainstream.

  16. Re:What language for business logic? on Objective-C Enters Top Ten In Language Popularity · · Score: 0

    A sign of good application architecture is that it can stay the same even if the application is rewritten in a totally different OOP language.

  17. George Thorogood on The Race To Beer With 50% Alcohol By Volume · · Score: 1

    100 proof beer is like someone consolidating one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer into a single drink.

  18. Ironically on Berners-Lee Deconstructs a Bag of Chips · · Score: 1

    TBL uses nutritional information on a bag of potato chips as an example of effective communication at a conference in a country with epidemic obesity rates.

  19. Publicity Stunts on Steve Jobs To Keynote WWDC iPhone Announcement · · Score: 1

    Apple seems to lose their next generation iPhones in a manner similar to washed up celebrities who lose their sex tapes (that happen to be shot in high-quality HD video with the celebrity doing a remarkable job of staying in-frame).

    Just sayin'...

  20. DroidDraw on Are Googlers Too Smart For Their Own Good? · · Score: 1

    Are Googlers with 'world-class programming skills' capable of producing straightforward, simple-to-use programming interfaces for ordinary humans?"

    The mere existence of DroidDraw would indicate "no".

  21. Prediction Battle Prediction on Google Launches a Data Prediction API · · Score: 1

    I predict that within the next year someone's blog or the Wall Street Journal will feature a cage match between Google's Prediction API, a chimp with a dartboard, and a magic 8-ball.

  22. Postel's Law on Critics Say US Antimissile Defense Flawed, Dangerous · · Score: 1

    Dr. Postel says be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send.

    Dr. Postol says this does not apply to nuclear engagements.

  23. Re:It's not a prison... on Shall We Call It "Curated Computing?" · · Score: 1

    Modern western society tells property owners how they have build structures on their property using building codes, fire codes, etc.

  24. Re:I wouldn't mind seeing some factual correlation on Shall We Call It "Curated Computing?" · · Score: 1

    Guess what Objective-C was designed for?

    Unapologetically MVC systems where data and different types of user interaction can be entirely divorced from another while not screwing up the overall program logic that would be unchanging regardless of platform?

  25. Re:It's not a prison... on Shall We Call It "Curated Computing?" · · Score: 1

    By that definition every society is a managed freedom institution: you have a certain amount of freedom you have to surrender in order to obtain a certain amount of security. I surrender the freedom to punch someone in the face for no good reason in exchange for the security from being punched in the face by them for no good reason.