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  1. Hypothesis testing on The Voynich Manuscript May Have Been Decoded · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hypothesis: The manuscript is anagrammatic Italian.
    Corollary 1: The manuscript should contain appropriate letter frequencies for said language.
    Corollary 2: The manuscript should contain all relevant letters.
    Conclusion: Neither Corollary 1 nor 2 are true, thus hypothesis is rejected.
    ...
    ???
    ...
    Add to the annals of the internet.

  2. Re:Wishful thinking on After 35 Years, Another Message Sent From Arecibo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If this transmission stimulates even one young person to do that calculation for themselves, or to otherwise conclude that it's a foolish waste of money, it will have been money well spent.

  3. The market on Closed Captioning In Web Video? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As a social libertarian, you should know that the market drives companies to produce closed captioning, so as to expand their viewing audience. If you're referring to free content on the web, you don't have very much leverage to convince them to spend the extra resources.

  4. Re:Easy on NASA Tackles Ethics of Deep-Space Exploration · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sex raises some interesting questions:
    What about space pregnancy?
    ...
    Do they have coat-hangers and back-alleys in space?

  5. Flawed. on Sport Is Unrelated To Obesity In Children · · Score: 1

    The parameters are flawed. By only fitting a kid with an accelerometer, they're essentially saying that running ten miles is equivalent to bobbing gently for an hour. Surely all fatty's spirited waddles to the fridge are messing with the data.

  6. Take that, Status Quo! on Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Those of us with brains have known for a great while that the anthropocentric model of global warming was a load of hooey, but if we dare to present papers on the subject, we are inevitably ostracized from the scientific community. I'm glad to see some Russian scientists have the yaichki to push forward with scientific reasoning.

  7. Alternatively... on 500-in-1 Electronics Kits? · · Score: 1

    You could do it the proper way, buy yourself a DC power supply, a whole bunch of breadboards, and a bunch of basic components.
    You'll spend not much more money but you'll have the makings of a pro lab-bench.

  8. Evolution on Avoiding the Word "Evolution" · · Score: 1, Troll

    In a related story, President Bush declared today a 'crusade' on the word, saying "we will rid the world of the evo-luters".

  9. nope on Fuel Efficient Five-Gear Rocket Engine Designed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Last time I checked, the reason IC engines use transmissions is because they're only efficient in a dreadfully small window (1000-10000 rpm). Less than 1000rpm, you're not producing enough power to overcome friction. More than 10,000 and the whole thing goes boom. This range is even smaller for diesel engines and even greater for performance engines... but for rockets it's essentially infinite. (Relativity notwithstanding) I mean, there are no physical barriers to stop you from spraying hot gases from the business end of a projectile...

  10. In Soviet Russia on The Return of Toys · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, toy return you!

  11. Re:WTF was she thinking? on Woman Wins Right to Criticize Surgeon on Website · · Score: 1

    She asked for an "endoscopic browlift" and sues for malpractice because her eyebrows are now unnaturally high... I love America.

  12. wii-mote on Manhunt 2 Confirmed for Wii · · Score: 5, Funny

    So now I can brutally murder innocent civilians with seemingly innocuous objects in six degrees of freedom.

  13. Re:930 freaking $$$ on Blu-ray/HD DVD Disc Sales Numbers Revealed · · Score: 1

    You've clearly never bought an automobile in Denmark.

  14. Re:sum zero gain on Water From Wind · · Score: 1

    Intro chem: the vapour pressure of a gas is proportional only to temperature. Therefore, if we remove water vapor from the air, the vapour pressure decreases, and liquid water (from the oceans or otherwise) evaporates to achieve equilibrium.

  15. youtube on Verizon Can't Do Math · · Score: 1

    Come on people, we don't need a video on this thing. As a user on limited bandwidth, this is the type of bloat I expect from Microsoft.

  16. No flavour? on The Soda Situation - Succulent Drinks w/o the Sweets? · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding, diet drinks are much sweeter than their sugar counterparts. The difference is that diet drinks have a very slight aftertaste (I no longer notice) and less "bite" than regular sodas. In related news, aspartame has been cleared as not carcinogenic by the FDA.

  17. OMG on Open Source Dress for Success University Opens · · Score: 0, Redundant

    OMG pwnies!!

  18. OMG on Microsoft Blogger Robert Scoble Goes to Google · · Score: 1

    Tweflth post!!!!11

  19. Re:color me ... on Game Previews Just Game Marketing? · · Score: 1

    ...sarcastic.

  20. Who isn't? on Toronto to Become One Huge Hotspot · · Score: 1

    Maybe it would be more efficient to say who is not going to be one giant hotspot.

  21. Re:Ah, the first robot in the Mile High Club on Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests · · Score: 1

    I don't think it was that kind of robot.

  22. Perfect for France. on Robot Piloted by a Slime Mold · · Score: 0

    This sounds like the perfect technology for France.
    The robot army can just hide in the corner 'til America arrives to bail them out.

  23. Next Great Flying Experience on Rocket Racing Gets Its First Team · · Score: 2, Funny

    It might just be their "next great dying experience" as well.

  24. Re:What's the difference... on Court Rules Burning Porn = Making Porn · · Score: 1

    The problem is that modern judges are still very old-fashioned and know little or nothing about technology.
    The judges I know still insist on using their Smith-Corona typewriters circa 1985. If a lawyer tells them that there is a fundamental difference between a CD-R and a CD-RW and a hard drive in terms of "making a copy" he will probably believe them.

  25. Re:Security on Buy Vista or Else · · Score: 1

    My parents still use 98SE, which ends up being significantly more secure because very few people are out there still coding spyware and viruses for Win98.