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  1. Re:Wow on Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's pretty cool, in a geeky sort of way.

    I wish I could see it... but I don't think the environment would be terribly friendly to my sensitive skin.

    Break out the SPF 15000000 and put it on with a trowel.

  2. Re:He never seems to learn... on Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M · · Score: 1

    That's odd, but they left the stick in place?

    Wouldn't you?

    Only after wrapping it in barbed wire.

    And putting it back in sideways...

  3. Re:It would be more cool if it on Melting Memory Chips In Mass Production · · Score: 1

    Steam computing... awesome! Then we need a way to get the "chuga-chuga-chuga" sound out of it as the work load increases. Oh Oh!, and a little steam whistle when an application unloads from memory.

  4. Cooking May Have Made Us Human??? on Cooking May Have Made Us Human · · Score: 1

    I would think that at best it might make us tender...

    OK, succulent if you use the right equipment.

  5. Re:Sure... on AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks · · Score: 1

    I found both XP and standard Ubuntu to be perfectly acceptable in terms of responsiveness and performance.

    Right but that's exactly what the educators don't want. There is way too much freedom involved in Ubuntu or even XP. They want to be able to track/disable the hardware, restrict the installation of applications, and be able to monitor children in the bathtub... At least glance at the summary, will ya?

  6. Summary Title on Ballmer Admits "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile" · · Score: 1

    I think the Summary Title would have been better with some of Blamer quote...
    Ballmer Admits "Didn't get the full release desired."

  7. Re:License missing on Google Serves a Cease-and-Desist On Android Modder · · Score: 1

    Okay, so how does this apply to this situation? Only someone using their Android with a drool-proof shield wrapped around it could possibly think that the CyanogenMod ROM came from Google.

    Hey, where do I get one of those drool-proof shields?
    It would be handy when looking at m.xnxx.com, I mean sales figures... yeah, charts and graphs and stuff...

  8. Re:Education on Up To 9% of a Company's Machines Are Bot-Infected · · Score: 1

    That's why you need to have a diverse network infrastructure, like we used to have in the 1980s and even most of the 1990s.

    We had Solaris, Xenix, SCO's OpenDesktop, HP-UX, AiX and Windows NT on our workstations. Our backend was VMS and even OS/360 at one place I worked.

    Jeez, diverse network infrastructure... we just called it a cluster fuck.
    And you always end up with one person that is the king of kludges.

  9. I feel so bad... on Finding the First Trillion Congruent Numbers · · Score: 1

    I read a headline saying "Finding the First Trillion Congruent Numbers" and I'm ashamed to admit I had no idea they were missing...

  10. copyright all you want... on Malaysia Seeking to Copyright Food? · · Score: 1

    The seeds for the grains are all already patented.. so fuck a bunch of copyright... Hard to make the intellectually copyrighted food without the physically patented hardware, the non-reproducing seeds.

    Oh, maybe we could get a licensing wars going too! No, you can't use our proprietary wheat, corn, rice, soy, or whatever because you have previously released your recipes as open source!

    So, then we get an open source program from an Heirloom Seed program going and the big ConGloms say we can't use any of their fertilizers or insect control methods and...
    oh crap
    someone wants the baker to pay a royalty anytime a passer-by smells the fresh baked bread...

    Jeez that's all so depressing...

  11. Don't you just hate that? on Jack Kirby Heirs Reclaim Marvel/Disney Rights · · Score: 1

    You're all primed to absorb some juicy intellectual property and it happens...

    Merger Interruptus!

    Well nothing to do now but head to the bathroom with a nice young DC Comics release to get a little... release...

  12. Re:But... on Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect · · Score: 1

    I wish I could play that ominous Jaws sound (cello solo) so that the doppler effect makes it get faster in tempo instead of higher pitched.
    A block away... duhna.......duhna - duhna....
    thirty feet away... duhna-duhna-duhna-duhna!!!
    maybe need radar and selective speakers to send the right signal to everyone... and get a ticket for noise because it's not gonna be any good unless it's loud enough to scare them back onto the sidewalk... sigh...
    One can dream.

  13. Re:What a great fiction! on Facebook Will Shut Down Beacon To Settle Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    Sadly, things like PGP and interest in ECHELON reports seem to have become less popular among geeks. I wonder why. Sure, one might trust PGP less when there are ways to get around it or compel you personally to give up the key, but it's odd that people suddenly have zero passion for the technology.

    It's not that there is no passion for it, it's that many people feel (correctly or not) that they have nothing to hide... and some of them sometimes think that the people that espouse encrypting everything would like to not stand out so much in their own activities (like encrypting everything). If there are twelve pink cows in a herd of a thousand, it's pretty easy to see them, and you just HAVE to wonder why in the hell they are pink.

    Many of us understand that there is no real anonymity, only an escalating race of people that need to hide things against (a lot of well funded) people that want to know what they have to hide...
    If you have time for that more power to you, I don't.

  14. Re:What?! on Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay · · Score: 1

    That's like a bitch slapping her pimp.

    With a 75 million dollar tire iron...
    Everyday...

  15. Re:Brain... locking... up... on Microsoft Files Suits Against "Malvertisers" · · Score: 1

    I need a shower after reading that... I don't think I will ever truly be clean again.

    format, rinse, repeat.

  16. Re:What? on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 1

    Um, you forgot the top of the line RV (a REAL recreational vehicle). A nice example is featured on the Terrawind website, along with some other interesting stuff like speed boat sports cars...
    http://www.terrawind.com/terrawind.htm

  17. Re:gotta wonder how far this search will go on First Rocky Exoplanet Confirmed · · Score: 1

    ...it insinuates that we have a lot of work ahead of us.

    Yes, if the place has oil we need to build supertankers to travel the stars!
    Of course, the first barrel will very expensive... so we'll just skip that one and get the rest of them instead.

  18. Re:Way of the Dodo? on Scientists Clone Oldest Living Organism · · Score: 1

    So can we have our Dodo bird back?

    Why not? There's room for all the creatures of creation... right next to the mashed potatoes.
    Looking forward to that Flintstone's size rack of ribs too!

  19. Re:Party permits on Steve Ballmer Directing "House Party 7" · · Score: 1

    Your link to information about the SCOTUS ruling against "a state law banning marriages between any white person and any non-white person" does not seem to relate to "bylaws and city ordinances regulating conducting businesses in homes"... did you post the wrong link?

  20. Re:"Hate" speech is Free Speech on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 1

    I agree.. I think we ought to encourage MORE people to speak their minds to make it easier to figure out who the bigots, racists, and just plain jerks are.

    In Arizona they can also wear loaded handguns in most public situations. Nothing says nutball like some guy in the produce department of the supermarket wearing a couple of six shooters... yes, tied down old west style... of course, if he does say something unconventional most people don't comment on it.

  21. Re:Wow. on IBM Patents Tweeting Remote Control · · Score: 1

    Oh that poor kid... how will he/she rebel when the time comes, go out and buy a copy of "Windows Whatever Deluxe" and leave it running for Mom to discover?

  22. Re:EPIC FAIL on Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold · · Score: 1

    in all fairness, .cx wasn't yet available.

    and goatse was still up close and personal...

  23. Re:Perfectly Legal on Dad Builds 700 Pound Cannon for Son's Birthday · · Score: 1

    If you can hunt deer with a 4" cannon, more power to you. Most deer in West Virginia are killed by SUVs.

    So you make a cannon shell with tiny headlights and a horn blaring... the deer should jump right in front of the thing.

  24. Re:"Shut down" a wind farm? on Wind Farms Can Interfere With Doppler Radar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Won't they run backwards when the weather sucks?

  25. Re:Doesn't cause panic on 10.3.9 on The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    Sadly I couldn't get my Mac OS X 10.3.9 (PowerPC) machine to panic with the C code.

    Try letting it see you use an Android phone while simultaneously unwrapping a new Zune media player...

    Sorry, I should probably let my meds kick in before I post in the mornings...