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  1. Re:So it's time to drill? on Life Possible On 'Large Regions' of Mars · · Score: 1

    It has been known for a long time that the formation of hydrocarbons does not require life: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia11001.html The red spots on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus is Methane. The gas giant planets are giant Esso stations in the sky.

  2. Re:Government responsible says, 'Look, commies'. on Was Russia Behind Stuxnet? · · Score: 0

    Aren't all hackers Romanian?

  3. Re:Life Adapts on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 1

    They may not like long pig though.

  4. It is Yule Tide... on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is actually no need to refer to the Yule Tide as christmas. Christians co-opted the holiday recently and atheists should just insist on the older term.

  5. Re:no no no on GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Award · · Score: 1

    .Because his server has a keyboard mouse and screen plugged into it. You seem to be like the Gnome 3 developers and forget that lots of other people prefer to do things *their* way.

  6. Re:Whaaaaa?? on Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa · · Score: 1

    Yes, well, no fine, but what the hell does 'irregardless' mean?

  7. Re:77,000 years? Bah! on Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa · · Score: 1

    Maybe god slept in them! We should build a church on the site and sell little bed copies to the pilgrims.

  8. Re:77,000 years? Bah! on Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa · · Score: 1

    ROFL... I live in Arabia and the spelling here is really special.

  9. Re:77,000 years? Bah! on Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa · · Score: 1

    The religious will always be with us. -- Herman the Hermit. Douglas Adams wrote about the Orange Catholic Bible that filled 50 intergalactic trucks. My only concern with that is that he probably underestimated it severely.

  10. Re:77,000 years? Bah! on Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa · · Score: 1

    You made me snort my Coke! I'm a South African American Canadian Arabian and I totally get the joke, but I doubt anyone not from there will find it funny.

  11. Re:Actually, this is good news. on Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    "Japan Canada Sweden Germany and the many other countries that have no nuclear weapons programs" Ya think? Every country with a nuclear power station can be safely assumed to have a few nuclear weapons hidden somewhere in a mine shaft.

  12. Re:Communications Skills on Two-Thirds of Lost USB Drives Carry Malware · · Score: 1

    A passel is a large number of something. It is a variant of the word parcel. So, the word is correctly used in this story.

  13. Re:" The company analyzed 50 USB sticks" on Two-Thirds of Lost USB Drives Carry Malware · · Score: 1

    No, 50 is actually a magical number where sets are generally considered to be statistically significant.

  14. Konquering the world on Chrome Becoming World's Second Most Popular Web Browser · · Score: 3, Informative

    I always liked KDE Konqueror browser, but never thought that it would supplant Firefox - albeit by a different name.

  15. Re:So Cool... on Voyager Probes Give Us ET's View · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool, so you must also be in your 60s or 70s and still running...

  16. Plutonium doesn't radiate. on Will NASA Ever Recover Apollo 13's Plutonium From the Ocean · · Score: 1

    Plutonium has a half life of 25000 years. It radiates a little more than steel. You can hold it in your hand, or even swallow a small piece of Plutonium. It will have no effect on you. The only danger a small piece of Plutonium presents is that it may be classed as a choking hazard to Americans.

  17. Re:The threat today is automated updates on Can Maintenance Make Data Centers Less Reliable? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely correct. My servers run for many years, till the hardware eventually fails, with zero updates and zero restarts. Don't fix it if it ain't broke.

  18. Contract on Ask Slashdot: Data Remanence Solutions? · · Score: 1

    You got to do what you were contracted to do. Shred the disks. Government security types will not accept compromise.

  19. ObmaBerry on Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? · · Score: 0

    You need to get an ObamaBerry from General Dynamics. However, it is not for sale to the average Joe Plumber.

  20. Re:The meek are inheariting the earth. on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Hmm, if it tastes like chicken, OK. If it tastes like pussy, then it may need more work...

  21. Re:Moo'nsantoo... on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 2

    If it cannot moo, then it isn't real meat...

  22. Re:This is obviously the future on Startup Testing Mobile Farmbots · · Score: 1

    Eventually, global warming will open up the tundra for farming. As the planet keeps warming up, it can sustain more life, which is fine until the next cooling cycle starts in 10,000 years or so.

  23. Much room for farm bots on Startup Testing Mobile Farmbots · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pruning and harvesting trees is a difficult problem to solve, but mathematically very interesting. After all, what is the best way to prune an apple tree or a vine? Ask two farm workers how to prune the same tree and you will get a long discussion with no definite answer, but there certainly is method in the madness, which could be reduced to a tree algorithm. This is the 21st century evolution of the the 20th century automatic harvesters for simple grain/grass crops.

  24. Re:Small 3D transistors on The Transistor Wars · · Score: 1

    Cooling pipes and 3D parts are nothing new really. High power thyristor switches have used cooling pipes for decades. There are fully electronic systems that can do DC to AC conversion and many other neat things on the Megawatt range used in the power industry.

  25. LabView on Ask Slashdot: Physical Input Devices For Developers? · · Score: 0

    ...and then when you done with your control panel, you can set up Labview to turn the hardware into software again...