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  1. Re:Science Fiction Results on A Sunshade In Space To Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Wasn't this done in a 'Highlander' movie

    Anything past the first Highlander movie has no business being called a Highlander movie. In fact, being there can be only one movie, i suggest we find the directors of the other three, and chop their heads off.

    as well as 'The Matrix'

    No, that was a shady idea to grab power from human plants because of pollutions.

    both with great results? :)

    That's because they had only a shade and only pollution. Perhaps if we use both (which is the actual suggestion), it would work.

    Just get a Hollywood director to make a movie named "The Many Shades of Global Warming" where humankind lives in happiness. Then you can quote the idea as cannon.

  2. Moo on Ask a "Star" of HBO's Voting Machine Documentary · · Score: 1

    Hugh, if we gave a complex polygon to look at, and put you back into the documentary, would Cable decoders showing the documentary go into an endless loop?

  3. Moo on Venus's Surface May Be 1 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    The title of this story reminds me of Moses May Have Been an Apache and Other Actual Facts

  4. Moo on Surprises in Microsoft Vista's EULA · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have the best comment *ever* about this story.

    I'll post it as soon as Microsoft oks it.

  5. Re:Who cares about channel four ads? on Google Ad Revenue To Top UK Broadcaster's · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When the Simpsons was on BBC2, they fit two episodes in a half hour slot.

    In the words of Raplh Wiggum, "That's unpossible!".

    US shows of late take about 22 minutes (down from 25 some years back). Two 22 minutes episodes do not fit into a half-hour. So, either they snipped parts of the show (e.g. 1 min of intro, 2 min of credits, and 4 minutes randomly) or it wasn't in a half-hour.

  6. Moo on Microsoft Considers Pulling Out of China · · Score: 1

    Microsoft gives in to pirates? Bill Gates must not be in control.

    Will the rampant piracy, it makes me wonder if Microsoft could make money there.

  7. Moo on Researchers Find Clue to SIDS Early Detection · · Score: 1

    Neat.

    Let's hope they baby this idea, before it dies an early death.

  8. Moo on Bomb Explodes At PayPal Headquarters · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Paypal is so kewl Paypal iS dA bOmB!

  9. Moo on Bot Nets Behind Recent Spam Surge · · Score: 1

    It need sot be said again and again.

    ISPs need to block anyone below them being used for spam, whether it be individuals, or another ISP. Then spam will stop. Period.

  10. Moo on Google Winning By Losing? · · Score: 1

    Q: What is google's product anyway?
    A: *shrugs* Search me.

  11. Moo on Antarctic Microbes Could Live on Mars · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our new Martian virii overlords.

    DISCLAIMER: I mean this only if they exist. Should they not exist, i still hold allegiance to my three-headed Venetian overlords, and support their attempt to make Earth more like their atmosphere so they can live here in peace.

    DISCLAIMER: I mean this only if the Venetian can make it here. Should they not be able to make it here, i still hold allegiance to the People's Republic of China, and believe that China is the center of the world.

    DISCLAIMER: I mean this only if the People's Republic of China does not filter this comment. Should they filter this comment, i still hold allegiance to the Republicans, and believe that dubya is the second only to his father.

    DISCLAIMER: I mean this only if the Republican's pay me off. Should they not pay me off, i still hold allegiance to the Democrats, and believe that Hillary is our best chance at survival in the new millenium.

    DISCLAIMER: I mean this only if the Democrats give me a ride to the voting booth. Should they not give me a ride to the voting booth, i still hold allegiance to Oprah's Book List, and believe she is the greatest thing since Jerry Springer.

    DISCLAIMER: I mean this only if Oprah's Book List arrives on time this month. Should it not arrive on time this month, i am availible for alleigance. I have a very supportive and flexible belief structure. Please email me for details.

  12. Re:Moo on Viral Videos That Really Are Viral · · Score: 1

    Breaking news: The guy who shot the guy who shot the guy who shot the guy who shot the guy who shot the guy who shot the guy who shot the guy who shot the guy who shot Alfalfa was caught.

    Reporter: Why did he do it doc?
    Doc: Probably for fame. He didn't know how to write a good virus.

  13. Re:One can hope on Will the U.S. Lose Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1
    The U.S. has a fine history of coming up with a really nifty idea and developing it to the point that it's useful, and then totally screwing it up to the point that someone else has to come in dominate the market in that particular field.

    I'm in middle of writing my magnum opus which shall be in the form of a Slashdot Message titled "The Re: Public"

    The message will play to this theme, with its protagonist SuckerTease, and he will make a motion on removing things like the Internet from US hands by proposing that all think tanks are held in common areas, and nascent ideas will be removed from thier creators immediately, so the idea will bear no mark of its creator. Then, the idea will be put in the foster care of a different think tank, and in this way, all ideas shall serve the public well.

    Here is a snippet where SuckerTease is talking to GawkOn:

    I want you, I said, by way of parallel, to imagine a supposititious idea which is brought up in great wealth; it is one of a great and numerous think tank, and has many flatterers. When it matures into a hypothesis, he learns that his alleged are not his real creators; but who the real are it is unable to discover. Can you guess it he will be likely to react towards its flatterers and its supposed creators, first of all during the period when it is ignorant of the false relation, and then again when it knows? Or shall I guess for you?

    If you please.

    Then I should say, that while it is ignorant of the truth it will be likely to honour its father and its mother and its supposed relations more than the flatterers; it will be less inclined to neglect them when in need, or to do or say anything against them; and it will be less willing to disobey them in any important matter.

    It will.


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    After this enlightening discussion with GawkOn, SuckerTease will suggest that all American think tanks be matched under the close eye of the UN, making sure that only the best ideas come forward.

    It's really a fascinating idea, i'm suprised noone thought of this thousands of years ago.

  14. Moo on Viral Videos That Really Are Viral · · Score: 2, Funny

    Videos infected with viruses, video at 11.

  15. Moo on Motorola Develops Bare-Bones Phone · · Score: 1

    The next version of the phone, should have a camera on it. And, to keep it cheap, it will have just one pixel.

  16. Moo on The BEEginnings of the Bee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The famed Buzzasaurus.

    And watch out, that thing can STING!

  17. Moo on Galactic Traffic Patterns · · Score: 1

    This stuff rocks so hard, is has stars going around my head. That such light objects, are so heavy, shows the gravity of the whole thing, yet it makes music better than a gala xylophonic experience, and makes us realize that noone would have sold our system for anything else.

  18. Re:Moo on Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law · · Score: 1

    It may surprise you to learn that martial law and habeas corpus are infact not the same thing.

    In practicality, they indeed are.

  19. Moo on Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law · · Score: 3, Interesting
    It seems to allow the President to impose martial law on any state or territory,

    Actually, the Constitution allows that, in Article 1, section 9.
    The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.


  20. Moo on HTML to be 'Incrementally Evolved' · · Score: 1

    1) Make a new proposed Standard.
    2) Hope everyone accepts it.
    (everyone rejects it)
    3) Modify current standard to force people to accept it.

    What's the point of a proposed standard if they won't accept rejection?

  21. Moo on The Web 2.0 Conundrum - How Much Control is Too Much? · · Score: 1

    Back in the day, noone normal used Flash. Why? Mostly because it crashed Netscape quite often. The other reason was the lack of control the user had. As such, i don't install Flash on my browsers. Even today, and i am happily without those annoying ads. Though, if i really want to see something on YouTube i'll fire up IE on my other computer which has it installed. (*hangs head in shame*)

    People just gave in at some point. It's what companies have going for them. Just stop using Flash, or other nasty user-control-limiting plugins, and eventually they'll give more control to the user.

  22. Moo on Depressed? Net-based Treatments Can Help · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Alot of depression is actually lack of sleep. Seriously. If someone is depressed, and they go to sleep, they will usually be happy. I'd even venture to say that the vast majority of depression cases would be cured, if they went to sleep for eight hours a night. Though, real results are seen after a week or two (as the body gets used to the rythem).

  23. Re:He invented Hungarian Notation on Microsoft's Charles Simonyi to be 1st Nerd in Space · · Score: 2, Informative

    Parent post is an AC.

    Anyway, in case your interested.

  24. Re:He invented Hungarian Notation on Microsoft's Charles Simonyi to be 1st Nerd in Space · · Score: 1

    Actually, Hungarian Notation is a good thing, and he should be thanked for that. The misuse of it, however, is to put the type in, and that is where things went bad.

    I have some links in my JE on the subject.

  25. Moo on Gore Pushes for Private Investment in Space · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Don't forget, this is Al Gore. He invented space (just before some other network).