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  1. Re:Open source? on Tycho Deep Space: a DIY, Open Source, Manned Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    I figure that problem will eventually fix itself.

  2. Re:A scary proposition on IBM Watson To Battle Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    Why are you just sitting there, letting this happen. Quick! Go patent machine developed patents. Or, more accurately an algorithm to develop patent-able algorithms.

    Whether such a device satisfies a turning test is left as an exercise for the examiner.

  3. Re:Oblig. on New All-Sky Map Shows the Magnetic Fields of the Milky Way · · Score: 1

    What's a astronogist?

  4. Why bother? on HP's Strange Obsession With WebOS For Printers · · Score: 1

    They already run netBSD.

  5. Re:I wonder on Drug-Resistant Superbugs Sweeping Across Europe · · Score: 1

    No, ass-rainbows are from the pop-tart toting kitten.

  6. Re:Valuable lesson in currency... on Value of Bitcoin "Crashes" · · Score: 1

    Furthermore...

    Gold is an industrial metal. I.e. it has value beyond its "intrinsic" value (whatever the hell that means). I, for one, don't want the value of my currency to be impacted by the success of widget manufacture. Similarly, as a widget manufacturer, I don't want the price of my goods to be affected by currency speculators. The chromium and nickle markets are irritating enough as it is. (Chromium and nickle are primary components of stainless steel. The price of SS is directly related to its proportional content of these metals)

  7. Re:I need them on Company Offers Creepily-Realistic Masks of Clients · · Score: 1

    They will attache the one they can see.

  8. Re:hack saws, chain saws, apples, oranges on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 1

    There's an app for that.

  9. All suspects are GUILTY! on FBI Leaves Cleared Names On Terrorist Watch List · · Score: 1

    Otherwise, they wouldn't be suspect.

  10. Re:The punchline on Japan's Richest Man Outlines Renewable Energy Plan · · Score: 1

    Show me a energy industry that does not receive public subsidy.

  11. Re:Other words of wisdom I was given... on Former Google CIO Suggests 'Do Dumb Things' · · Score: 1

    I'd rather be good than lucky. But I will take luck where I find it.

  12. Re:Australian version on Australia Bans New Mortal Kombat · · Score: 1

    I love that one.

    The competitive binge drinking mini-game is the best.

  13. Re:It's simple on Sony's War On Makers, Hackers, and Innovators · · Score: 1

    A free market requires *informed* consumers

    Silly boy. The market isn't there to serve YOU. It is there to fill corporate balance sheets. If an ill-informed customer base improves profits, the market will shift to conditions that promote an ill-informed customer base.

  14. Yes, but does it run NetBSD? on Researchers Create Computer That Fits On a Pen Tip · · Score: 1

    Is there anyone working on a port?

  15. Re:TNG Commands ... on Talking To Computers? · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

    Now I will go find a spoon and try to gouge out my mind's eye.

  16. Re:What does this bring to the table on iPad Newspaper From News Corp Rumored in January · · Score: 1

    It makes Rupert Murdoch more money. Oh, you meant, "how is it better for the customer?" Does that actually matter?

    You make a salient point that I believe most of the other posters have missed.

    How does this improve the experience for advertizers?

  17. Re:FFS on Why Anonymous Can't Take Down Amazon.com · · Score: 1

    So long as the former doesn't exceed the latter, I don't see a problem.

  18. Re:A red satellite?!? on Rogue Satellite Shuts Down US Weather Services · · Score: 1

    Wolverines!

  19. Re:Servers non-responsive on Blizzard Launches Third WoW Expansion, Cataclysm · · Score: 1

    It definitely has the play feel of Classic Wow.

    Classic WoW? Sounds more like classic UO.

  20. Re:Viral on Blizzard Launches Third WoW Expansion, Cataclysm · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, if your boss knows your in-game avatars... you deserve what you get.

  21. Re:When I click on the enemy, on Video Games Found To Enhance Visual Attention · · Score: 1

    Me not that kind of orc.

  22. Re:No engineering? on Shadow Scholar Details Student Cheating · · Score: 1

    Cheating in engineering will only get you so far. Early courses are generally large enough that a certain percentage of cheating will go unnoticed. As you reach your upper graduate coursework, it will become cleaer who learned the earlier material and who relied upon others.

  23. Re:No engineering? on Shadow Scholar Details Student Cheating · · Score: 1

    That does make it difficult to stand on. I am guessing the post-grad must have had small feet.

  24. Re:Obvious Explanation on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 1

    Brute-forcing the password can be time consuming.

  25. Re:All Korean classrooms? on A Robot In Every Korean Kindergarten By 2013? · · Score: 1

    PUT DOWN THE PENCIL, YOU HAVE FIFTEEN SECONDS TO COMPLY.

    (I can't believe no one thought of this reference yet. Damn kids these days, don't know their classics)