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  1. profit / disaster ?! on Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed · · Score: 1

    1. order thousands / millions of "Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries"
    2. take nuclear fuel out
    3. google "how to make atom bomb"
    4. refer any of those results
    5. make an atom bomb
    6. deploy
    7. profit / disaster ?

  2. Re:Good news everybody! on Growing Power Gap Could Force Smartphone Tradeoffs · · Score: 1

    Apple (No User Serviceable Parts) Marketing Department

    that is a great idea. how about "No-User-Chargeable", "No-User-Usable", etc. huh?

  3. Re:Good news everybody! on Growing Power Gap Could Force Smartphone Tradeoffs · · Score: 1

    iPhone -- you can't remove the battery

    carry another iPhone. fixed. :)

  4. Re:What a good idea on Google Brings Chrome Renderer, Speedy Javascript To IE · · Score: 1

    I was about to say this. just did / for kernal found this post. :)

    just wondering, wouldn't gtalk / chrome be enough to reinstall a new operating system in place of windows ?!

  5. 'If Apple is BMW, you can be Porsche.' on Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off · · Score: 1

    Have you ever looked at an open source project, and exclaimed "Holy Porsche"?! Never, right?

  6. I don't care... on Is Typing Ruining Your Ability To Spell? · · Score: 1

    In India (south), even in last century, people used to write into palm leaves with a needle. I can not do that now, and I don't care. you will forget to type in couple of decades, when mind-computer interfaces become commonplace. Will you worry about your typing then ?

  7. Re:Wrong Side on Medieval UK Battle Records Released Online · · Score: 1

    cattle to steal

    this is a way to start war. cattle then, oil now.

  8. don't drop it down on Using WiMAX To Replace a Phone? · · Score: 1

    I will be able to use my netbook as a cell phone

    if you carry your netbook wherever you go, then chances are high for you to drop it down. is your netbook that tough ?! :)

  9. suppose, we have better batteries... on ARM — Heretic In the Church of Intel, Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    then, who cares about ARM. 10 years battery life for ARM based processors, 1 year for x86-based. :)

  10. Come, Let us all learn English, and on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    build "tower of babel" :)

  11. Re:English thinking? on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    I'm Russian, and computer languages with Russian keywords look very awkward to me.

    That is because, may be you started coding with English. Everything will be fine, once you are used to it. :)
    PS: I am not a Russian, and I haven't seen non-English code so far.

  12. not because of ... on Experimental MacRuby Branch Is 3x Faster · · Score: 1

    languages (?!) are getting faster and faster, because of more memory and faster processors ? right ? :)

  13. luck matters on Homemade PDF Patch Beats Adobe By Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    sometimes you got to be lucky to fix some kind of bugs. sigh.

  14. Re:...and then there's APL on Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python · · Score: 1

    APL has been called a "write-only language".

    write-only..? how about execution..? ;)

  15. to empty a file on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    echo > file

  16. 1 cm in 20 pico secs..? not so fast..?! on New Type of Particle May Have Been Found · · Score: 5, Interesting

    an unknown particle with a lifetime of about 20 picoseconds was produced in the collision, traveled about 1 centimeter

    That is 16000 times faster than light..!

  17. exascale supercomputer? what for? on Saudi Arabia Begins To Realize Supercomputer Ambitions · · Score: 3, Funny

    to do alternate energy researches..? ;)

  18. How to find a way into iPhone? on Apple Bans iPhone App For Competing With Mail.app · · Score: 1

    How about submitting hello world app which could transform / upgrade itself into mail client, music player, browser, etc. :)

  19. What is missing? on Stanford To Offer Free CS and Robotics Courses · · Score: 1

    an affordable e-reader.

  20. behavior and walk on Shadow Analysis Could Spot Terrorists · · Score: 1

    the word that means behavior in tamil (a south indian language) is nadaththai, which is derived from nada (walk).

  21. cameras to "hear" on AI Could Power Next-gen CCTV Cameras · · Score: 1

    ... cameras to "hear" violent sounds and react ... what if the same sound is used to fool these CCTV Cameras..? hm..!
  22. Alien Life - God on Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible · · Score: 1

    Alien Life Plausible - is it because, it does not contradict belief in God.

  23. flying car must not hit another flying object on It's Not a Flying Car - It's a Drivable Airplane · · Score: 1

    I am just wondering, isn't it really impossible, in principle, to make a flying car in such a way that it must not hit another flying object?

  24. Re:Possibilities... on Xerox Demos Self-Erasing, Eco-Friendly Paper · · Score: 1

    the world said, "congratulations, Xerox! You've just invented the carbon paper!", when they invented photo copier machine. :)

  25. how about one ethanol appliance for the outlets?! on Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End · · Score: 1

    ethanol appliance for every home?! Perhaps, they could build one ethanol appliance for the outlets. People dont want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!