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  1. "Asteroid impacts, massive volcanic flows, and now on Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs? · · Score: 1
    disease-carrying insects"

    "When it's not one thing, it's another. It's always something"

    Roseanne Roseannadanna, c 1978

    (OMG, it's been thirty years!)

  2. Re:The rovers on Mars Asteroid Impact More Likely Than Before · · Score: 2, Funny

    A calculation using Murphy's law suggests direct impact on Spirit with a sub-orbital bounce to Opportunity.

  3. Joe Sixpack sez: on FBI Prepares Vast Database of Biometrics · · Score: 1

    "I don't do anything wrong, so I have nothing to worry about; this is for the criminals and terrorists"

  4. Re:Age of Empires III Asian Dynasties on What Is Your Game of the Year? · · Score: 1
    Great game, even w my lowlier card.

    They have an older version for the Pocket PC; took me a week to uncross my eyes.

  5. Re:Desktop Tower Defense on What Is Your Game of the Year? · · Score: 1

    Should be regulated by the FDA

  6. Re:Card Activation is not necessary on The Evolving Face of Credit Card Scams · · Score: 1

    The Sears card is now run by the Organized Crime Division of Citibank. Better to use AMEX, they'll take care of any problems immediately; I learned the hard way also.

  7. Re:Steer the Earth on Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    If you shoot them at populated areas you'll be solving bigger problems at the same time

  8. Re:Reason on Computer Software to Predict the Unpredictable · · Score: 1

    This is the BS-A-Tron! Hundreds of units are in use at all levels in government and business.

  9. Re:But what does that mean? on Time Dimension To Become Space-like · · Score: 1
    This is of course the "block universe"

    There's a write up and interesting links at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_universe This one from SciAm is worth a couple of minutes or cm http://urgrue.org/lib/mysterious-flow.html

  10. Re:Heh on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 1
    Actually when you took my car you stole it and it is theft, your intention is immaterial.

    Returning it will be a mitigating circumstance, and you could have an amazing explanation that would make me drop the charges, but it's unlikely.

  11. Re:But a little PAIN has never HURT anyone, right? on Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun · · Score: 1
    Eye damage comment

    1/64" (.0156") is about 3/4 of the thickness of normal people's corneas (~.020-.023") (http://archopht.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/119/1/23.pdf, + a little ciphering).

    If it affects nerves to that depth, it could partially cook a cornea, instant cataracts.

    Of course a) this has been thoroughly tested and b) would only be used on evildoers; so, a) it would not be really a prob, or b) it would never matter to decent law-abiding citizens.

  12. Isn't it precious on Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History · · Score: 1
    Maybe we'll get real lucky, and both Greenland and Antarctica will defrost,:

    plant corn,

    make ethanol

    get rich

    spend the money, in beautiful KC Beach

  13. Re:Sovreignity rights on Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History · · Score: 1
    If it went through US waters the BS-A-Trons would be spewing Tera-reasons why it should *not* be international waters.

    Also why Halliburton should be in charge, and charge a hefty toll.

  14. Re:Happily Everquest After on Don't Dismiss Online Relationships As Fantasy · · Score: 1

    When, or if, you understand this was very wrong and not at all funny you will have taken a step up from the 13 year-old mind.

  15. Re:Haven't I seen this somewhere... on Some Moray Eels Have Two Sets of Jaws · · Score: 1
    Freaky real life duplicating freaky scifi.

    The second set of jaws grabs and pulls the victim further in; in Alien* their purpose is not clear beyond being scary. Probably the same function, laying the case for interstellar convergent evolution, or common ancestry... It'd be interesting to learn how they came up with the detail in the films

    And btw, why do aliens in movies not have clothes? Flying saucers, ray guns, specialized cow scalpels, but not one pair of shorts or shoes.

  16. Re:Good, another movie I don't need to watch on Wachowski Brothers and the Speed Racer Movie · · Score: 1

    IIRC the pigeons were initially fed randomly, where they associated their coincident behavior to the food reward.

  17. Re:Focus is a tool on Wachowski Brothers and the Speed Racer Movie · · Score: 0, Troll
    I use the same method to stand a car on its roof.

    Kidding aside, this egg trick is attributed to Columbus.

  18. Backdoors... on How Microsoft Beat Linux In China · · Score: 1
    It's a great Trojan horse for the US to get the Chinese to use MS, assuming correct the widespread belief that Windows et al have backdoors accessible to MS and the US govt.

    Mess with us and watch your whole country stop.

    A resigned Chinese may utter the obligatory: "I, for one, welcome our new MS overlords"

  19. Re:It might be legal but.... on Verizon Copper Cutoff Traps Customers · · Score: 1
    After hurricane Wilma, both the phone and cell towers died out, approximately after 3-4 days without power.

    We got power, phone and cell after a week, but some people were w/o power for weeks, not sure what happened to their phone/cel.

    HellSouth, now part of ATT.

  20. Canadian Islands on Russia Claims Large Chunk of North Pole · · Score: 1
    The N of Canada is full of little Canadian islands, each surrounded by a 200 mile economic zone, standard claimed by all countries. (Where it bumps against someone else's they use the middle)

    There's oil under those waters

    The US has already come up with some "hey no so fast there" rationale to get to it. Let's hope there are no WMDs or bloodshed.

  21. Start by simulating the stock market on Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator · · Score: 1
    Know what people will buy or sell

    Get rich

  22. fanatics in Florida on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    now write "AIPAC" fifty thousand times

  23. Re:Good. on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    Notice that given the opportunity they trade the joy of the rusted cage for the horrors of our each man for himself society.

  24. Poor little Fidel (w/ obligatory) on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1
    Another PR note used for news by lazy reporters, keeps colostomy-boy in the public eye.

    Whether "allowed" or not, these will be pirated as are Windows, Hollywood movies, etc. with not a peep from Mr. Softie, *AA, or anyone else.

    It'd take the dumbest /.er five minutes to figure out how to get US goods into any of these "embargo" countries, and a day to implement given the readily available resources.

    Needless to say, it's been done and functions very smoothly, thank you very much.

    "Nothing to see here, move along"

  25. Re:If you want to..... on 800 Break-ins at Dept. of Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    You must agree that "Homeland Security" sounds nicer than "State Security" - we have better spinners