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  1. Re:I think I've seen this movie before on 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning · · Score: 1

    Mammoth fur - ugh... Imagine saber tooth tiger hail balls...

  2. Global Warming! on 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning · · Score: 2

    Well, obviously the melt of the ice age and all the the global warming problems since then were started off by Woolly Mammoth farts and now they want to bring them back?

  3. Re:Debian Minimal Install on Ubuntu's Mir Gets Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu is for users who don't quite know what they are doing yet. It is somewhat like religion - eventually you grow up and move on.

  4. Re:LOL on Neil Young's "Righteous" Pono Music Startup Raises $1 Million With Kickstarter · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yah, well, obviously you are not an electronic engineer and don't understand sampling, filtering and audio signals.

  5. Re:Double blind tests? on Neil Young's "Righteous" Pono Music Startup Raises $1 Million With Kickstarter · · Score: 2

    14kHz? I'm rather much younger than Young and I can't hear the diff between MP3, CD or vinyl on my old fashioned high power hifi anymore. HiFi is for young whipper snappers only...

  6. Double blind tests? on Neil Young's "Righteous" Pono Music Startup Raises $1 Million With Kickstarter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I challenge any 68 year old rocker to a double blind test to hear the difference between MP3 and Pono.

  7. Re:Hmmm... on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    You can use par2 or rsbep to protect your floppies against bit rot.

  8. Re:If you want to hoard bits... on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    Par2 or rsbep to the rescue.

  9. Re:Hmmm... on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    Obviously hard sectored, single sided.

  10. Snip... on Volkswagen Chairman: Cars Must Not Become 'Data Monsters' · · Score: 1

    There may be a market out there for innovative use of side cutters on antenna wires.

  11. Occam's Razor on Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    The simplest explanation is that the MtGox executive stole the bitcoin.

  12. Re:Where are the sulfates? on Impact Crater Origin of Mars Meteorites Discovered · · Score: 1

    Well, clearly, the Hittites harvested the sulfate salts from the Meridium Planum and sold it to the Shergottites, much to the dismay of the Stalagmites, so that may explain it...

  13. Re:Fools on Fedora To Have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" For Contributors · · Score: 1

    Meet me. I have on occasion not only read FLOSS code, but also contributed.

  14. Smartphones on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 1

    Geez, do your private stuff on your own phone. Why waste your time with the cripple company systems?

  15. Re:I have your conversion right here... on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I've been running XP virtual machines since about 2002 - so, about 12 years. However, lately I have very little use for it and I can't remember when last I booted Windows.

  16. You can still get such engines - used in Formula 1 of course.

  17. Re:not Russian on Russians Suspected of Uroburos Spy Malware · · Score: 2

    Yup, imagine how time wasting and frustrating it would be to insert Cyrillic lettering in strings in your typical UTF8 programming language. So I don't buy that Rusky argument at all.

  18. Re:why the surprise? on Oil From the Exxon Valdez Spill Still Lingers On Alaska Beaches · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Eventually, something will eat the oil. Oil is basically archaia bacterial poop originally made deep under ground.

  19. There is no dark matter on X-rays From Other Galaxies Could Emanate From Particles of Dark Matter · · Score: 0

    There is no dark matter. The weight of the visible galaxies were estimated wrong.

  20. Russia gave the Crimia to Ukraine as a bribe to get them to join the Soviet Union. Of course they now want to take it back.

  21. Re:How does the crash play out? on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    Pay the loan with a credit card, wait 3 years, then declare bankruptsy. It doesn't take much genius to figure that out.

  22. Credit cards to the rescue on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    So, pay the student loan with a credit card, then declare bankruptsy... Who said credit cards are bad?

  23. Monster Cables on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    I think that Monster cables is the geek version of Whole foods...

  24. Re:Joy of joys! on Tor Is Building an Anonymous Instant Messenger · · Score: 0

    It looks like they will be re-inventing Sloshdat Beta!

  25. Living fossils - imperceptible evolution on Horseshoe Crabs Are Bled Alive To Create an Unparalleled Biomedical Technology · · Score: 1

    What is more remarkable, is that these creatures have been around for hundreds of millions of years, almost unchanged. They only seem to have grown tails over this period.