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  1. Re:What did I tell you? on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Fair comment :-)

    I'll return my copy Physics for Pedants tomorrow.

  2. Re:What did I tell you? on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 5, Funny

    A spelling mistake in a reply to a spelling mistake is probably exotic enough to power a small unicycle. -> They lose their quantum spin

  3. Re:Unfortunately, UK has become Uncle Sam's lapdog on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Yes, every 4 or 5 years we get a choice between 3 self-serving millionaires who all went to the same school. We should have picked the OTHER faceless clone. Thanks so much for pointing that out, It's lucky that America invented Democracy to help us out.

  4. Re:Rules on EA Sues Zynga For Copying Sims Game · · Score: 1

    If Zynga loses for stealing ideas then Gameloft are in deep sh..

  5. Re:who posts on Holy iPad Slayer! Company Releases World's First Christian Tablet · · Score: 1

    ......and trolling anonymously is healthy and constructive? It could be that we're both losers....but I'm the loser who doesn't see an Ipad as elitist. Some people (such as I) have fine motor skill issues and find Keyboard/mouse hard to use.

    If you're purely on an anti-Apple troll however, I have an Android tablet too......but as much as I want it to be as good as an Ipad, it just isn't. Not for partisan reasons, it just isn't :-)

  6. Re:who posts on Holy iPad Slayer! Company Releases World's First Christian Tablet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Engraving is free........much like being a penis

  7. Re:who posts on Holy iPad Slayer! Company Releases World's First Christian Tablet · · Score: 1

    It's funny you should say that. This is from the receipt for the Ipad I ordered in March.....

    Personalised iPad with Wi-Fi 64GB - Black (3rd generation) ..
    Engraving

    Jeebus salvabit nos
    Splodge 2012

  8. Re:So how many frames will this get in Crysis? on D-Wave Announces Commercially Available Quantum Computer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would imagine that operations are instant. Unfortunately all the data gets sent to an identical 'you' in a parallel universe.......

  9. Re:It's a good thing the military is still funded. on White House Wants Devastating Cuts To NASA's Mars Exploration · · Score: 1

    There'll be no science until America has shot at every desert in the world. They're sneaky, encroaching everywhere. Surely this is more important than the expansion (and possibly salvation) of mankind?

  10. Re:Slow to Grow? on Google's First Employee Departs · · Score: 1

    Croesus was the rich one. :-)

  11. Re:Just make it clear: is it an ad or not? on How Much Stuff Can Timothy Jam Into His New Hoodie's Pockets? (Video) · · Score: 1

    What kind of nerd would buy that anyway? There's no special pocket for my inhaler!

  12. Re:Science fiction is not about the future... on The Science Fiction Effect · · Score: 2

    Actually, if you read Asimov in chronological order, the computer 'evolves' throughout the books. It progresses from an entity akin to a mainframe, through to an 'Internet-type' structure and beyond. It posseses the sum of human knowledge and records of every action-reaction ever noted. So, Uncertainty Principle notwithstanding, it had a good basis for reasoned conjecture.

    When It was at school I was thrown out of my Commerce class for being a smart-ass, asking 'the wrong questions'. I was relegated to the library for 2 hours a week for the rest of the year. That's where I discovered Asimov et al. Reading those caused me to look things up, to question the science behind them. The more I knew, the more I wanted to know. 30 years later I still want to know......that's why I'm here. To me there are no 'wrong questions'.

    My kids use technology but they have no idea how or why it works, just as long as it does. That's sad. They can name 150+ Pokemon but have little clue what binary is, or why it matters.

    We've come closer to Asimov's vision within my lifetime

    If you're interested - The question that really infuriated my Commerce teacher was 'Why don't we just treat every business, regardless of size as an individual and then have a blanket flat-rate income tax?'. I still have no idea why that annoyed him. Thinking outside the box wasn't really encouraged at my stuffy Grammar school.

  13. Re:Rafale F16 on India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France · · Score: 1

    But I don't know why they didn't go with the Typhoon. It looks marginally better. The wing load is higher, the thrust, speed, and climb is better, and it super cruises faster.

    The Typhoon doesn't come with garlic bread

  14. Re:Priorities on The Gang Behind the World's Largest Spam Botnet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Destroying this botnet could have detrimental effects on men with tiny penises worldwide!

  15. Re:Sigh on 3,500 Year Old Florida Tree Dies of Natural Causes · · Score: 1

    Apparently the tree has been involved with Tweets for thousands of years.......

  16. Re:Really? on Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    So in the future we may see a last-words quote like 'Shit he's wearing mirrored sungla.....'

  17. Furniture shock on DHS Sends Tourists Home Over Twitter Jokes · · Score: 1

    Ok, here's a life lesson. Never read Slashdot immidiately after waking up. I read the headline, it didn't click what 'DHS' was so I put it into google uk. Bleary-eyed I clicked the top link http://www.dfs.co.uk/ My first thought was that they've really overstepped their authority........