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  1. Re:Tax payer money at work on Virtual Reality Gaming System Tests for Telepathy · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree strongly:
    Today we know there isn't any mechanism for that.
    All we "know" today is that what we DO understand DOESN'T explain telepathic communication. I suppose if you were working on the idea that we know everything, you could have some basis... But come on (and this isn't just some lame "truth" philosophy talking here) you can never "know" for certainty that something doesn't exist. The most cutting edge science right now is still trying to prove what DOES exist (dark matter, gravity waves...)

    Who knows what we don't know yet. That's why it's called "what we don't know"

    Also, just pulling up a theory and misapplying it doesn't prove your point. Where was it written that telepathy was "without a physical channel"? You're the only one to say that, and throwing out that unfounded assumption makes your wiki_link irrelevant.
  2. Re:Low content on Short Film About CERN's Large Hadron Collider · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our new beer-volcano/stripper-factory overlord

  3. Re:teh (fat) US-ians on MySpace #1 US Destination Last Week · · Score: 1
    FYI: Just google the phrase "this letter does not fixate on a single topic or subject" and you can find this pretty easily on blogspot http://foxhunt.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_foxhunt_arc hive.html

    Where did I find this? On an ANSWER forum? The Democratic National Committee's speeches? A letter from Marx?

    None of them. The above letter is actually an *auto-generated* complaint from this website: http://www.pakin.org/complaint/

    Granted, I typed in Bush under the "company" box rather than the box to complain about a person (which is why it writes "Bush sticking its proboscis" instead of "his"), but still, it's eerily similar to the daily frothing at the mouth rants that Leftists spew out about the President. Is this how war protesters write their speeches? By using auto-generators?

    I wouldn't put it past them, considering that they've been repeating the same things over and over again, that they are flailing for originality.
  4. Microsoft job listings on Hack in the Box Meets Windows Vista · · Score: 5, Funny

    I myself think it's interesting that there are actually "penetration engineers" at Microsoft.

    Makes sense, after all. I've always kinda felt like MS was giving it to us all up the ......

  5. Re:Gold? on Gold and Helium Combine for Needle-Free Injections · · Score: 1

    Well, now you can poop gold-coated DNA.

  6. Re:Gold? on Gold and Helium Combine for Needle-Free Injections · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure this is gonna be WAAAY less gold that that. To a lot of scientists, if you can see it, it's a lot.

  7. Re:What a babe on The Energy of Empty Space != Zero · · Score: 1

    I think what you mean is "if make-up gets you hot"... because it certainly made her hot(or hotter)

  8. Re:How do we use it? on The Energy of Empty Space != Zero · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ummm... I'm not sure where exactly you think the Sun is.....

  9. Re:This machine is way cool but.. on Another Ornithopter Takes Off · · Score: 1

    I'm not entirely sure you understand the difference between the concepts of "donation" and "print names on the wings". See, the latter is usually refered to as "sponsorship".

    And the concept here is hardly fuel economy. Think about how many /. nerds read this article, and if that ornithopter was developed "in collaboration with XYZ Corp." that would be great for their image. I feel like there are a good few firms that might like to be a part of that.

  10. Re:Aloft for about 14 seconds... on Another Ornithopter Takes Off · · Score: 1
    Yah, this guy clearly did it all for the fame. The Toronto Star, this guy has really hit the big time now.

    Aloft for about 14 seconds...
    Oh, and tell Orville and Wilibur to screw off... 12 seconds, ptttth. Clearly nothing will ever come of these "flying machines"
  11. Re:Hey editors, you got it right for once... on Another Ornithopter Takes Off · · Score: 5, Funny
    A slashdot article that is
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    5) Not about SCO, Apple, Google or Mr. Bill
    Ironically enough, I'm not entirely sure you read TFA, because they clearly mention "a remote-controlled ornithopter, which they called Mr. Bill"

    Huh, well 4 outta 5 ain't bad
  12. Re:Can't wait!!! on Another Ornithopter Takes Off · · Score: 1

    Shakes on a plane

  13. Re:My solution on OfficeMax Drops Mail-in Rebates · · Score: 1
    I would have more fun changing the system...
    How's that going for you?
  14. That's so sad... on NASA's $73 Million Water-Finding Trick · · Score: 3, Funny

    From TFA: NASA astronauts visited the moon during the late 1960s and early 1970s under the Apollo program but have not returned.

    Those astronauts, who sacrificed so willingly, sitting up there all alone on the Moon for thirty years...

  15. Re:Supercomputer Accessories on Japan's New Supercomputing Toy · · Score: 1

    That's a little concept we like to call "visual horsepower", as opposed to "actual horsepower".... seems only logical that the same thing should apply to supercomputers

  16. 59 terra flops on Japan's New Supercomputing Toy · · Score: 1

    IANAE of supercomputers by any means, but to me it seems that the first 57.3 terra flops makes adding the other 2.15 terra flops rather superfluous. Isn't that like DuctTaping an Estes-C onto a Saturn V?

  17. Hypercolor on Car Paint Changes With Temperature · · Score: 1

    I'm clearly not the first to post about the parallels with 80's T-shirt technology, but....

    I think it's interesting that the Hypercolor wikipdeia article

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercolor

    makes specific mention of pH opening and closing lactone rings. If I'm not mistaken this is the exact same color-changing technology that made "colored bubbles" possible (previously mentioned TWICE on /.)

    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/1 7/2250259&tid=159&tid=14
    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/2 3/0638216&tid=159&tid=14

    Apparently that color-changing science should not have been NEARLY so elusive as it was to the guy in his kitchen. Now real scientists have applied it to every body and their brothers' Supra, sweet.