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  1. Re:The solution is simple really on Google Brazil Pressured to Give Up Names · · Score: 1
    There isn't one person in this country that hasn't committed some crime or another, be it jay walking, dancing in a bar without a cabert license (nyc)...

    To clear, must the individual or the bar have the cabert license? 'Cause I heard that "life is a cabert" and a license would seem to confuse the issue...

  2. G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate on Ever-Happy Mouse Sheds Light on Depression · · Score: 1
    Scientists have bred a strain of mouse that's permanently cheerful, in hopes of better understanding and treating depression in people.

    The environment is stable. It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works...

    Ahh... life imitating art. Serenity now!

  3. Privacy? Get your own car! on Teen Creates Device to Track Speeding · · Score: 1
    ...so as to minimize invasion of the teen's privacy.

    Privacy? While driving a car the parents probably paid for, under the parents insurance. If the kids want privacy, let them buy their own car and pay their own insurance... and rent too! geeesh.

  4. Spell check this: "moron" on Geologists Angry About New 'Pluton' Definition · · Score: 1
    IAU head Owen Gingerich is quoted as saying that he was only peripherally aware of the definition, and because it didn't show up on MS Word's spell check, he didn't think it was that important."

    Ya, 'cause Word's spell check is the authority on all things spelt.
    Try a dictionary, Wikipedia, or fucking Google, moron.

    batholite
    n : large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified
    deep within the earth [syn: batholith, pluton, plutonic rock]
  5. Bad Nibbler ! on Dark Matter Exists · · Score: 4, Funny

    A steaming pile of Dark Matter was found on the sidewalk and traced back to Nibbler's litterbox. Bad Nibbler!

  6. Search contents... on AOL CTO Shown the Door · · Score: 4, Funny
    Maureen Govern has resigned from the company. Is this an appropriate penalty for releasing 20 million keyword search results...?

    AOL probably found her keyword searches for: "CTO", "fortune 500", "availability", "resume"...

  7. Re:Valuable metals? on Closer to Deducing the Origin of the Moon · · Score: 1
    People calculating the costs of getting things off of and onto Earth use metric, not archaic.

    Or meters instead of feet to get things onto Mars...oops.

  8. Re: Neither's good enough - weight. on Are Plasma TVs the Next BetaMax? · · Score: 1
    Why should I pay about twice as much as I would for a CRT when the quality's not as good?

    Weight.

    My 32" CRT died shortly after my spouse. It was huge, awkward and weighed about 160 lbs. I wanted something that I could handle on my own. My 40" LCD weighs 65 lbs and gives me 32" in 4:3.

    Besides, for most things LCD or plasma are excellent, or my vision isn't good enough to notice the difference anyway :-)

  9. Re:Stop That on Physicists Control the Spin of a Single Electron · · Score: 1
    It makes the electrons dizzy.

    Furthermore, it makes the molecule wobbly, and then, due to the Uncertainty Principle, they can no longer find the damn thing...

  10. Feasible? Doesn't matter... on Are Liquid Explosives on a Plane Feasible? · · Score: 1
    It doesn't matter if the plan was actually feasable. No one's allowed to bring liquids on a plane anymore. They don't have to actually destroy a plane or kill anyone to ruin our way of life/travel.

    Shoe-bomber boy couldn't even get the damn thing lit and current X-Ray machines can't detect show bombs anyway (according to recent news), yet we all have to removed our shoes and get them scanned.

    If someone figures out how to put liquid explosives into their bladders, or solid explosives into other body cavities, we're all screwed... Not that anything will explode or anyone will die, just no one's getting on the plane.

  11. Bad day for Sea World... on Apple Warns Companies About 'Pod' Naming · · Score: 1
    Now Sea World and marine biologists everywhere have to rename all their Orca groups (pods).

    So long and thanks for all the fish...

  12. Re:Tools - Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster on How Do I Make Sense of Microsoft Access? · · Score: 1
    How Do I Make Sense of Microsoft Access? That about covers it.
  13. No, but soon... on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1
    Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans

    Judging from our pop culture I'd have to agree, but I'm sure we'll be evolving sometime soon. [ maybe after the mid-term elections :-) ]

    I'm reminded of the Ask.com commercial where the guy says, "without tools, we're just..." and the orangutan (wearing pants) says, "animals in pants?".

  14. Isn't backdating ok if done properly? on A 'Witch Hunt' in Silicon Valley · · Score: 1
    IANAL, but I beleive that backdating is not actually illegal. Not recording / charging it properly against earnings is, however, and I think this is really the problem.

    Any experts out there?

  15. Duke Nukem Forever... on The Greatest Software Ever · · Score: 1
    The best software is that which exists unwritten...

    [Damn, I'm feeling Zen tonight.]

  16. Re:Grieving Time? What they meant to say... on RIAA Wants to Depose Dead Defendant's Children · · Score: 1
    Plaintiffs therefore request a stay of 60 days to allow the family additional time to grieve.

    I believe that "grieve" was quoted to imply that wasn't plaintiffs' motivation at all. I'm sure they wanted the 60 days to regroup and prepare to depose the children.

    How can you tell when a lawyer is lying? His lips are moving.

  17. Central sites? on Interview with Sun's Tim Bray and Radia Perlman · · Score: 1
    Radia thinks that having central sites where people can register is key to making the Web scalable and more secure.

    Central sites?
    Hmm... I thought Sun's slogan was, "The network is the computer".

  18. Re:All Your Cars Are Belong To Us on Hoboken, NJ vs. Giant Parking Robot · · Score: 1
    A garage full of trapped vehicles means other cities are less willing to buy your product. It means the citizens are going to resist any further business being done with your company. It is detrimental to your business.

    Yeah, the city has a three year contract with them now, but what do you think will happen at the end of those three years?

    I agree, but how many salesdroids and execu-bots care about three years from now. All their sales bonuses and stock options will be cashed out by then...

  19. Re:All Your Cars Are Belong To Us on Hoboken, NJ vs. Giant Parking Robot · · Score: 1
    Ahh... Capitalism.

    Actually, I was being sarcastic...
    Your subsequent points are well made though.

  20. Jobs is a Magician? on Has Steve Jobs Lost His Magic? · · Score: 1
    Do Blaine and Copperfield know about this???

    Perhaps Steve has lost his MoJo, or is simply also bored with the current products.

  21. Re:All Your Cars Are Belong To Us on Hoboken, NJ vs. Giant Parking Robot · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ...not an example of bad coding, it's a bad design...

    I'd say it's a rather good design - for the vendor. What gives them more leverage, an empty garage or a garage full of trapped vehicles?

    Ahh... Capitalism.

  22. In future news... on Moon's Bulge Explained · · Score: 1

    Explorers from the Japanese Moon base, excavating the "bulge", have uncovered a large, black, granite slab of some sort. Asked about the possibility of un-earthing other pieces (so to speak), a researcher was quoted as saying, "no, it looks farily monothlic". We hope to have film at 11 pm.

  23. Re:Now, get Sinise. on Matt Damon as Kirk in Star Trek XI? · · Score: 1
    Ahhh, I can hear it now.
    Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor, not a ...
    • Shrimper
    • Crimminalist
    • Astronaut
    • Casino Thief
    • Physicist
    • Dead President
    • Policeman
    • 23rd Century Arms Dealer
  24. Bandwidth commodity trading on On Entangling and Testing Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Informative
    This may be the rational against neutrality:

    From: Rude Awakening
    Bandwidth commodity trading--or the trading of financial instruments that allow carriers to hedge against future dips or upswings in the price of bandwidth through forward-selling and forward-buying--is indeed stalled, according to Tony Craig, executive chairman of Arbinet-thexchange. "There's no underlying physical delivery model with integrity upon which contracts can be based," Craig said. "That doesn't exist in the bandwidth world."

    Ditching the neutrality model will allow the telcos to make more money based on trading bandwidth and futures. Even more scary:
    From: Making bandwidth a commodity: Reality or just a good idea?
    One company in the bandwidth exchange arena is Enron Communications, which is trying to recruit support for the model from service providers. Following the lead of its parent company Enron Corp., which helped transform the natural gas and electricity industry into a commodity, Enron Communications is planning to revolutionize the way bandwidth is exchanged.
    While Enron may be out of the picture, an idea they wanted foster must be met with some suspicion...
  25. Re:It doesn't make sense on Why Have Movies Been So Bad Lately? · · Score: 1
    if the opposite were true then Firefly would still be on TV

    Frelling hallelujah (I'm also a Farscape fan). Unfortunately, I think a lot of people didn't get Firefly because FOX screwed over the series showing it out of order, and/or because it didn't fit into their expectaions of what it "should" be -- rather than excepting it for what it was. It was a superbly crafted, written, acted, photographed, and scored production. If one gets over trying to pidgeon-hole the series, and simply watched and listened, I think they would find something very enjoyable.

    I, of course, am hooked and find something new on each viewing and have found listening to the commentaries enlightening as to many details I missed. That is interesting. Let's hear something like that about your average TV show / movie.

    Anyone who doesn't believe me, I challenge you to get the DVDs (hell the entire series is only $50.00) and watch and listen. If you don't agree with me after that, well just remember that I can kill you with my brain.