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  1. Is ET on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ready for the world's religions?

  2. Re:Confirming the obvious. on Rosetta Code Study Weighs In On the Programming Language Debate · · Score: 1

    A study recently found that "Duh" is far more succinct than "You're telling us something we already new", and "No shit sherlock" applies greater annoyance at the repetition of redundant information.

  3. Re:Dust? on "Big Bang Signal" Could All Be Dust · · Score: 2

    Yes.

  4. GRB's necessary for advanced life, perhaps? on Astrophysicists Identify the Habitable Regions of the Entire Universe · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, it might very well be that without galactic ray radiation shaking up the DNA mix every now and then we'd all still be pond scum right now.

  5. STEM on When Scientists Give Up · · Score: 2

    The problem is that we don't have enough people graduating with STEM degrees. All the smart people people at Fox news know this.

  6. Big Government on Net Neutrality Is 'Marxist,' According To a Koch-Backed Astroturf Group · · Score: 1

    Acting as if they invented the Internet; they've been trying to take it over since the 70's.

  7. Never let the truth on Is "Scorpion" Really a Genius? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Get in the way of a good story.

  8. Considering the success of Microsoft's Mobile IP on No RIF'd Employees Need Apply For Microsoft External Staff Jobs For 6 Months · · Score: 1

    It's akin to someone's 80 year old, 400 lb grandmother barricading herself in her house with a shotgun to prevent 20-something horny frat boys from taking advantage of her body.

  9. Europeans bring lattes on their 180mph trains on The Improbable Story of the 184 MPH Jet Train · · Score: 1, Troll

    Americans bring jet engines on their 180mph trains. Conclusion: Americans are so much more bad ass than Europeans. Now get off the track that runs through my lawn, you socialist hippie.

  10. Re:Unfortunately on With New Horizons Spacecraft a Year Away, What We Know About Pluto · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Exploring Uranus would reveal it contains lots of methane gas.

  11. Re:Moral of the story on Tor Project Sued Over a Revenge Porn Business That Used Its Service · · Score: 4, Informative

    Especially when you are majoring in criminal justice, a field known for having the policy that any bit of dirt found on you can and will be used by someone who wants to hurt you with it.

  12. And nothing of value on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 0

    Was lost

  13. I'm going to make some comment on Google Demos Modular Phone That (Almost) Actually Works · · Score: 3, Funny

    about sex toys, and then I will see child posts with links that made me wish I never did.

  14. How many were fired who made the crucial decisions on GM Names and Fires Engineers Involved In Faulty Ignition Switch · · Score: 1

    And how many were fired believing that doing the dumb stuff their superiors told them to do would let them avoid being sacrificial goats because higher chains of command would take responsibility? Suppose I should RTFA...

  15. On odd-numbered days of the month on Why NASA's Budget "Victory" Is Anything But · · Score: 1

    The Media is supposed to publish stories about NASA's plans for humans reaching Mars in 10 years. On even-numbered days of the month The Media is supposed to publish stories about NASA being underfunded and cutting programs to send small robots to it. Jeez, Slashdot, get with the program.

  16. Apologies to Tom Lehrer on Star Within a Star: Thorne-Zytkow Object Discovered · · Score: 3, Funny

    rubidium, lithium and molybdenum

    And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium and bismuth, bromine, helium, beryllium and barium. These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard--there may be many many but they haven't been discovered.

  17. Re:Classic NYPD objections too on How Open Government Data Saved New Yorkers Thousands On Parking Tickets · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, dictators say the same thing about free election tallies...

  18. Re:Classic NYPD objections too on How Open Government Data Saved New Yorkers Thousands On Parking Tickets · · Score: 2

    Fire hydrant pun intended?

  19. Re:I love Cox. on Cox Promises National Gigabit Rollout; Starting With Phoenix, Las Vegas, Omaha · · Score: 1

    It's not the size of the Cox, it's how you manage your input/ouput.

  20. Talk about on US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the pot and the kettle.

  21. His books take place in medieval settings on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    So is it really so surprising he's using DOS?

  22. Unacceptable Behavior on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why can't he just shoot at road signs like most normal people?

  23. Thought experiment on What Happens To All the Universe's Hydrogen? · · Score: 1

    Given an infinite number of chemistry classes with an infinite number of science teachers holding an infinite number of matches to an infinite number of balloons filled with the universe's finite supply of hydrogen, I'd say we'd have 10 years left before the stuff's all gone and the universe is a giant swimming pool

  24. Alas, poor arithmetic on Experiment Suggests Monkeys Can Do Basic Math · · Score: 1

    I bet those bastards have known all along exactly how many typewriters they need to write Hamlet.

  25. Economic Threat on Criminals Using Drones To Find Cannabis Farms and Steal Crops · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This will lead to thousands of drug enforcement pilot jobs getting offshored to afghanistan where militants can remotely fly drug search drones around England for 100th of the price of a guy in a Cessna.