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  1. The points don't matter.... on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 1

    That's right, the points don't matter, just like a comb to Colin Mochrie.

  2. A useful program... on Microsoft leaks Zune Details in FCC filing · · Score: 1
    AutoHotKey is a useful program for changing key bindings on Windows systems. Like the parent says, this is how you can make the Windows key useful. I set:
    • Windows + X to open Firefox
    • Windows + C to start a command prompt
    • Windows + L to bring up the calculator
    as well as several others.
  3. How about this? on The Trouble With Rounding Floats · · Score: 1
  4. Rambus in Violation of Monopoly Laws on Rambus in Violation of Monopoly Laws · · Score: 1

    Five seconds later, Rambus throws a fit and kicks the monopoly board across the room!

  5. For example... on Big Mother Is Watching · · Score: 2, Funny

    Overprotection does indeed leave children underprepared. For example, the parent's parents always corrected his spelling and broke apart his run-on sentences. Now look. For shame, overprotective parents...for shame.

  6. Full circle... on Microsoft to Charge for Office Beta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the good ol' days, lesser-known start up companies would pay beta testers for their valuable input.

    In recent years, people could beta-test software (such as GMail, Windows, and IE7) for free.

    Now we are paying to become the beta-testers!!

  7. Welcome! on Astronomers Awaiting 1a Supernova · · Score: 3, Funny
    They mention the star by name many times in the article. Did you actually read it?
    Welcome! You must be new here!
  8. A corollary... on Why Popular Anti-Virus Apps 'Don't Work' · · Score: 1
    1. Firefox with popup blocker
    A corollary to step one is to install the AdBlock extension to block ads before Firefox gets the chance to download them.
  9. Pong! on What if Game Graphics Never Aged? · · Score: 1

    Does this mean I cam make my paddle look like Serena Williams??

  10. Re:Drawback ? on Bacterial DVD Holds 50TB · · Score: 1
    FWIW I did not get the jorb. Just as well, I like the one I'm at better.
    It doesn't help that everyone knows you drink Listerine, Coach Z.
  11. For the scientists... on Vermont Launches 'Cow Power' System · · Score: 1
    Set up a generator at the White House! The Bush Administration emissions could power the entire planet!
    Here are some sample emissions for the scientists!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_6B6vwE83U
  12. Re:MY PIECE OF S**T CAR on Shuttle Launch Success · · Score: 1
    Once it caught on fire, and darn near well exploded. I had to pop the hood right quick and jump on there and take a good p*** on the fuel rail which was on fire...
    I hope you missed the wires connecting the battery! That is the last way anyone wants to be electrocuted.
  13. Either that, or... on Another Microsoft Exec Joins Google · · Score: 1
    More people leaving MS and oining Google means more google greatness
    Either that, or Google becomes more and more like Microsoft, at which point all Microsoft affiliates begin to chant "resistance is futile; you will be assimilated"!
  14. It's not the same... on Google Antitrust Suit May Go Forward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Irrelevance does not equal suppression of first amendment rights. If it did, then I would have been gagged years ago.

  15. But what about...? on Futurama Returns · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Okay, so all of the original actors have signed up. But what I'd like to know is if all of the original writers have signed up.

  16. Re:If you're going to pay for something.. on 17 Online File Storage Services Tested · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Except that if a fire took out your office, your carefully installed harddrive would be gone too.
    How is the risk of a fire at the location of iBackup's servers less than that of a fire at your office?
  17. Dilbert on The Living Dilbert? · · Score: 1

    Was I the only one who was hanging on the edge of his seat, carefully reading each word of the summary in complete suspense, to be disappointed to find that only in the second to last word of the paragraph was Dilbert mentioned? =)

  18. Re:Pretty scary. on Social Engineering Using USB Drives · · Score: 1
    Is that correct?
    Why, yes! =)
  19. Pretty scary. on Social Engineering Using USB Drives · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's pretty scary how the thumbdrives were plugged into company computer systems. You'd think the employees would know better. They work at a credit union, a literal gold mine of personal information that should be carefully guarded. I admit I would have had the same reaction as the parent and would have instantly jumped at the opportunity for free flash memory. But I would have tested the thumbdrive on an isolated computer at home first and definitely not on a computer which could possibly reveal other people's sensitive information to the world.

  20. Re:Math isn't dead on Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1
    Lots of people think that high level math is just advanced adding and subtracting.
    I know exactly what you mean. Whenever I mention that I'm a math major, most people instantly think that I like numbers and do a lot of arithmetic in my spare time, as if I cuddle in bed with my scientific calculator. On the contrary, most of the proofs I read/write do not mention numbers at all. It's much more abstract than that and unfortunately I don't know if the general public will ever understand that.
  21. Re:This is... on Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are actually 8 problems now. I added the Twin Prime Conjecture via one mighty edit to the Wikipedia article!

    Just kidding, of course. ;)

  22. Re:The proof is due to Perleman on Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the Wikipedia article:
    In June 2006, the Asian Journal of Mathematics published a paper by Cao Huaidong of Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and Zhu Xiping of Zhongshan University in China, which has filled in the details of Perelman's work, thus "putting the finishing touches to the complete proof of the Poincare Conjecture", according to the Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau.
    Huaidong and Xiping "filled in the details", meaning that some important details must have been missing from Perelman's work which they were able to provide.
  23. Re:This is... on Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    Six more to go actually...

  24. This is... on Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is one of the Millennium Prize problems! One down, seven more to go!

  25. For the uninitiated... on Bellagio Fountains Recreated with Mentos and Coke · · Score: 1