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  1. At Last With The Power Of Fusion on North Korea Announces Achieving Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    The people of North Korea will have enough light to read Shakespeare in the original Hangul.

  2. People should be more afraid on Creating a Better Facebook · · Score: 1

    About what happens if Google ever goes under and their gmail messages are sold to corporations who want to mine them for compromising information.

  3. Re:Other uses for this technology on Lidar Finds Overgrown Maya Pyramids · · Score: 1

    LIDAR could be used to find Waldo and Jimmy Hoffa.

  4. Fill, baby fill! on Hundred-Ton Dome To Collect Oil Spill · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why don't they just collect all the oil in Sarah Palin's big empty head?

  5. Re:I'll say it... on US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where's da' Creme Filling?

  6. Space Program on "Digital Universe" Enters the Zettabyte Era · · Score: 5, Funny

    - 1 zettabyte / 1.44MB floppy disk = approx 694,444,444,444,444 floppy disks.

    - 694,444,444,444,444 * 3.5 inches per disk = 2,430,555,555,555,550 inches if you laid the floppies end to end.

    - 2,430,555,555,555,550 inches / 63360 inches per mile = 38,361,040,965 miles

    - 38,361,040,965 miles / 2.7 billion miles to pluto = approx 7 round trips to Pluto via floppy disk.

    In conclusion: Don't kill NASA yet, President Obama. We've found a way to get to Pluto!.

  7. Re:Differnt phones for different folks on The Shortcomings of Google's Open Handset Alliance · · Score: 1

    Gratuitous car analogy: Why should a teenager who drag races want the same brake-on-the-left-gas-pedal-on-the-right setup as a bus driver?

  8. This is why Apple needs power on Apple May Face Antitrust Inquiry · · Score: 2, Funny

    But many OHA members are developing proprietary user experiences, which they are not contributing back into to Android—as is standard for open source projects—for fear of losing competitive advantage in the marketplace.

    Your choice:

    Apple's Brave New World where proprietary is done right and trains run on time vs. everyone else's scattered proprietary banana republics where trains barely run at all and each has a different gauge of track.

    I'll take walled garden built in Cupertino that keeps out the chaotic evildoers from Taiwan.

  9. Re:I wish the .99 gimick would die in a fire, now on Apple Raises E-book Prices For Everyone · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing

    Human Psychology prefers .99

  10. Re:Your Secret Crush on Apple on Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash" · · Score: 1

    Because of the 50 person limit. It means that Apple becomes the de facto gatekeeper of free speech rights on the iPhone.

    Yeah, because the 50 person limit on unapproved apps violates botnets' right to free speech.

  11. MFS on FAA Says No More Minesweeper Or Solitaire In Cockpit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does the ban apply to Microsoft Flight Simulator?

  12. FLOSS, movies, and Godwin's law. on Why Making Money From Free Software Matters · · Score: 1

    As a discussion comparing Free Software and the movie industry grows longer, the probability of someone introducing a Free Porn movement where Richard Stallman is an actor approaches one. When this happens, the thread should immediately be killed.

  13. And then the sudden realization hit on Economy Tanked While Government Surfed Porn · · Score: 3, Funny

    that "Fanny May" was not a porn star.

  14. Microcosm on IBM Creates World's Smallest 3-D Map · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Perhaps the Earth we live on is in actuality someone's really tiny 3D map.

  15. Re:Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's even more ironic that the prohibition against depicting Mohammed was originally (IIRC) to prevent him from being idolized and treated like a deity.

  16. Re:At least the new tech is small on True Tales of Tech Hoarding · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he's referring to Bernoulli Disk Technology where the drives spun on a cushion of air.

    I haven't heard of them being the size of washing machines, though.

  17. Re:I do not get it... on The iPad As In-Car Entertainment System Killer · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you need an alternative to the fistfight that breaks out in your backseat when you pass the Shoney's informally hosting the local VW Beetle owners club.

  18. Re:Seriously? on Will Adobe Sue Apple Over Flash? · · Score: 4, Funny

    After having to mess with J2ME, Qtopia, Symbian, and all the other idiots who basically put the iPhone where it is today, I find being forced to use XCode and Objective-C instead of other tools akin to being being forced to only fuck supermodels instead of lunch ladies.

  19. If left up the crowd on Crowdsourcing the Department of Public Works · · Score: 2, Funny

    they might fill the drug dealers with asphalt and chase the potholes out of the neighborhood.

  20. Re:Wanted! on How To Find Bad Programmers · · Score: 1

    Pre-iphone, putting words such as "Cocoa" and "Objective-C" on your resume caused HR to expedite it to a trash can. "Your last work experience was this 'Cocoa' thing? Where did you work, Starbucks?" It was really hard to be a career Objective-C developer.

    I know your post was meant to be funny, but that HR departments acknowledge the existence of Objective-C is a sign of progress.

  21. Re:Still not sensitive enough... on Yoctonewton Detector Smashes Force Sensing Record · · Score: 1

    If it's a weak attractive force like gravity, then if you had a really large, billion solar mass supermassive Linux nerd you'd have inescapable attraction.

  22. Re:Cold war is over! on Obama Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine · · Score: 1

    If we're fighting the CIS shouldn't we be using EMP and Jedi and force multipliers?

  23. Fountain of Youth on Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs · · Score: 1

    There's nothing hotter than a golden browned 18-year old beach babe sucking on a cigarette.

    There's nothing uglier than the same girl after 25 years of excessive smoking and tanning.

  24. Re:Remarkable, though... on Next iPhone — Front-Facing Camera, A4 Processor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ads cost millions of dollars. Rumors cost nothing.

  25. Victorinox on Self-Destructing USB Stick · · Score: 4, Funny

    When are they going to make a USB Stick with a corkscrew? I might just need to recover with a bottle of wine after my thumb drive destroys itself.