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  1. Re:$1.3? $100k?! on Another NASA Hacker Indicted · · Score: 1

    But the thing is, govermental IT is different, especially military IT. They spend $100,000 on maintenance for 50-year-old carriers that have about the same chance as a snowball in hell's surviving to be returned into active service. The military probably spends $100,000 yearly on landscaping for Arlington Nat'l Cemetery.

  2. Re:Organic matter != life... on Organic Matter Found In Canadian Meteorite · · Score: 2, Informative

    My life sci 101 class teached me that organic compounds also usually have hydrogen. Apparently, more than half of all known compounds are organic, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound .

  3. Extra-solar life? on Organic Matter Found In Canadian Meteorite · · Score: 0

    Since the organic matter is older than the sun, this means that:

    1. Either there is extra-solar life,

    or 2. Stars can create organic material.

    But how would the ordinary life-forms that we know of survive deep space?

  4. Re:GIGO -- Garbage In, Garbage Out on Does Portable Music Have to be Compressed? · · Score: 0

    Weren't the old audiophiles the people who wouldn't accept anything but genuine musical instruments?

  5. Re:This guy hates freedom on Clinton Prosecutor Now Targeting Free Speech · · Score: 0

    Johnson was Impeachimated because they passed a law regulating the firing of Cabinet appointees, I think. He, being a belligerent person in the matter of Congress, fires his secretary of war immediately.

  6. Should they have one? on Napster Founder Crafting WoW Community · · Score: -1

    More like if, in some anomalous case, they are found to have a life, they will be exterminated and studied.

  7. Re:wow on The Wii Launches in Japan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Times Square Toys'R Us got 3,000 PS3's in the launch.

    Didn't stop it from selling out a day before, though.

  8. Re:And what do they expect *us* to do? on Plastic Packages Cause Injuries, Revolt · · Score: 1, Funny

    Phew; at first, I thought I was reading about some esoteric sexual fetish the involved clamshells and the cutting of dingly things with said clamshells, and the mutilation of the clamshells afterwards. And then, you would lick the clamshells. . .

    What?

  9. Re:What do other people do? on Plastic Packages Cause Injuries, Revolt · · Score: 1, Interesting

    There is now only one question left, for those whose pilgrimage have led them this long way through the endless tubes of the Internets:

    Where does one acquire these aviation snips?

  10. Re:I find that amusing on Third Place Is Fine By Nintendo · · Score: 0

    Super Mario was available at launch in Japan(see Wikipedia Wii Virtual Console article). As a sinister(the archaism, not the current meaning) person, I must profess my sudden love for these Nunchucks.

    There is only one more thing: They must make functional controller-weapon nunchucks. Only then can I trans-subciate.

  11. Re:Security of who? on Community Comments To Security Absurdity Article · · Score: 0

    We have Pretty Damn Good Security(cl) on most varieties of Linux, but we also have open source on Linux.

    Which leads to one obvious comment:

    I, for one, have already started worshipping my Secure Soviet LinuxLords.

  12. Re:South Korea is isolating itself on Microsoft Loses South Korea Patent Ruling · · Score: 0

    As a Genu-ine South Korean with the Genu-ine South Korean advantage, I'm afraid to say that the South Korean policy on the subject of North Korea has been around for quite a long time. We just found a fault in Microsoft; we still use a hell lot of American products. I recall, for one, that Windows still has a monopoly in the Korean market, as well as IE, in the realm of Microsoft alone. Granted, that sucks in other ways, but it's nothing to blame the current administration about. Recall that our centuries-old nickname is the "Hermit Kingdom"; we just want to live our lives, and have been wanting to live our lives for a dozen centuries.

  13. Re:1 Million Dollars? on Student Makes a Million Online, Gets Deported · · Score: 0

    Besides, the Yuan is pegged to the Dollar, with a little leeway for trading. Hence, cheap imports. Hence, fears about offshoring.

  14. Re:But... on South Korea's Home of the Future · · Score: 0

    As a person who has visited a model future home(I am, indeed, a Genu-ine Korean), I can say that indeed, you can play SC on it. All of the services(from voice mail on television[they translated baduk, or the Korean word for igo, some word for the game, go] to the blood insulin and sugar monitoring] are placed upon fragile GUIs on Windows machines, not embedded. The stated purpose was forward-engineering, but you can, indeed, play StarCraft upon it.

    The guide did, indeed, have no clue about the RFID controversy when I asked her about it. Neither did, indeed, out internat'l school guide. They just have better stuff in Korea; the keyboard-chair interface is lacking.

    Some interesting things they missed:

    -Blood glucose testing(the guide used rat blood, and the computer raised an alarm because they've been using the same blood for quite a few days)
    -Scarily changing decor(fish 'explode' into octopuses. Fish are common decoration in Korea, but not octopuses. Except in fish shops.)
    -A friggin' gigantic Roomba that automatically cleans while you're gone; maybe three feet tall.
    -Random sponsorship snacks(like an Orion cake box)
    -Auto-elevator, like that WSJ story. Of course, it didn't work, as the flat was in a 12-story, mostly non-demo building.
    -A little 3-d projector-thing with a disturbing little cartoon mascot. Lots of the commercial esthetic sense of Korea is based upon endearing mascots, which proceed to sell stuff. Mostly, they turn out as even-more-sold-out copies of Mickey Mouse. See Lotte Raccoon for details.

    What I saw was, of course, only a demo. The guy that got the lone RFID wristband had a cloying, unusual voice, so we got a very good view of the system's impracticalities, along with redundant features(voice control on doors with good doorknobs!)

    What I didn't see in the demo that was in the news thing: -The air quality thing, which could've been just glossed over by the guide. She mostly went in Korean, so I didn't get half of it.
    -Wardrobe mirror.

    Most of Seoul's population still lives in dingy old apartments in the East and South, and the extreme majority aren't very rich. Point of money, I guess. I could ask my grandma, but I don't think I need to pay for an int'l call to figure out that these are for early adopters only.

  15. Re:Depends on the type of games you enjoy on The Last Games You'd Play? · · Score: 0

    What you're talking about are cures for the gout; also, in addition, you must avoid all foods higher than, say, algae, on the evolutionary scale. 'Tis true; uraic acid is metabolized from DNA.

  16. Re:Silver is good on Regulating Nanotechnology In Cleansers · · Score: 0
    IANADBMFHSDFAAM(I am not a doctor but my family have been doctors for about a millenium)

    At post mortem examination multiple organs, including the skin, showed silver pigment deposition; he also had a gastric malignant neuroendocrine tumour.


    Not giving any opinions on the argyria fatality rate, but this clearly states that silver pigments were deposited in his organs. Cause of death is ambivalent from the abstract alone, but it's quite clear that the guy had argyria.

    Anyways, too many antibiotics are never too good for you, anyways, with drug resistance and so on. Anyways, silver is too heavy to be effectively transfered into bloodstream from digestion. Feel like injecting molten and/or colloidal silver anytime soon?
  17. Re:Efficient markets on Stock-Picking Computers · · Score: 0

    Frankly, I can't get my cows and sheep to have sex with each other and make little baby coweep, so I have to agree with you- it's quite impossible.

  18. Ph-eeezical impossiblity! on Wil Wheaton's GenCon SoCal Recap · · Score: 0

    The Geek's natural habitat does not include people whose gender begins with a 'Fe'!

  19. Re:This isn't a clash between science and religion on U.S. Classrooms Torn Between Science and Religion · · Score: 0

    Free speech only regards political speech. To use a SCOTUS(Supreme Court of the US; SCOTUS scholars use it a lot, nobody else) justice's trope, free speech covers flag-burning to burning oneself alive to shouting in the streets, but free speech does not cover, e.g., yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre.
    Was the teacher rebelling against an oppressive gov't? No, not really.

  20. Re:THIS is the freedom that they hate us for! on Egypt Arrests More Bloggers · · Score: 0

    Both the Avalon moving-thing and Henry VIII was waaaay out of the Dark Ages. Hell, Henry VIII was easily in the Renaissance. Both were in times of great strife within the Church.

    Any proof of the Church holding the inquisition against Rome's will?

    Anyways, Copernicus feared persecution for the heliocentric theory; hence, he published it on his deathbed. Galileo was put into house arrest for life. Both were also in the Scientific Revolution, which was pretty much what it means, literally- scientific revolution.

  21. Zonk has become a WoW ninja! on Blizzard Lawyers Visit Creator of WoW Glider · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Indeed, he must've. Why else would he have posted two WoW posts in some four hours, and then also discussed PC gaming in general?

    This leads, of course, to a simple question: What's Zonk's character name?

  22. Battle Hymn of the Republic, re-updated on Opening Zune Sales Flaccid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Zune;
    It is trampling out the storage where the Costless Tunes are store'd,
    It hath loosed the flaccid lighting of its terrible short release;
    Its songs are marching out.

    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    Its songs are marching out!

    I have seen it in the watch-fires of a hundred wary bands!
    They have builded it an altar in the circling doom and damp;
    I can read its righteous screen by the dim and flaring lamps;
    Its songs are marching out.

    (chorus)

    I have read a fiery gospel written in burnished rows of plastic;
    "As you deal with my develop'rs, so with you my grace will deal,"
    Let the Ballmer, born of spittle, kill the serpent with a chair;
    The Zune is marching out.

    (chorus)

    In the beauty of the birch, Linus was born across the sea;
    With a glory in his boxen that transfigures you and me;
    As he hacked to make boxes holy, let us code to make Windows free;
    While the Zune is marching out.

    (chorus)

    It is coming like the glory of the storm upon the farm-er,
    It is Horror to the drummer, it is Destruc'shn to the bass,
    So the world shall be its crypt, and the soul of Jobs its David;
    The Zune is marching on.

    (chorus)

    (if you're wondering why it's re-updated, go look at this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_Hymn_of_th e_Republic%2C_Updated

  23. Re:Destroy boron! on Should Google Go Nuclear? · · Score: 0

    An explanation: shininess is defined as the effect something has on one's eyeballs. Hence, the shiniest energy in the world would make one's eyeballs explode dramatically and instantly. Which is exactly what it would do if your eyeballs could see it.

    Also, this means that fusion is powered by exploding eyeballs.

    Explode your eyeballs for the Google Cause!

  24. Destroy boron! on Should Google Go Nuclear? · · Score: 0, Funny

    It is quite strange that this fusion-ninja should destroy boron to create the shiniest energy. In the world.

  25. Re:Microsoft Brand FUD on Ballmer Says Linux "Infringes Our Intellectual Property" · · Score: 0

    If it's impractical to change the codebase, then doesn't that mean they've closed it off, and, hence, that we should sue 'em?