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  1. Re:well on BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies · · Score: 1

    Erm, dont you mean 40 billion for the games.

  2. Re:oblig Philip K. Dick ref on HTC Dream (Android) Video Emerges · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, but it runs on a blade. Geddit?! boom! cha!

  3. VIA... on VIA Quits Motherboard Chipset Business · · Score: 1

    Hey, couldn't they move into communications and call themselved VIACOM? ... oh, wait.

  4. Re:For the lazy.. on Cryptic Studios Releases New Star Trek Online Details, Trailer · · Score: 1

    Do you fancy captain Kirk then?

    ;-)

  5. Re:The earth is not flat... on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    ... My head eez not flat ...

  6. Re:Scientific community? on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 3, Funny

    using the bible to disprove the flat earth theory is like using spaghetti monsters to disprove unicorns.

  7. Re:Scientific community? on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    If you read it, the url is, in fact, named wrongly. They should have got the url www.manshouldneverfly.com.

  8. Re:The only problem in Star Trek games on Cryptic Studios Releases New Star Trek Online Details, Trailer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... another person is entitled to the proceeds of your labour ...

    No, that's capitalism. The majority of people in a capitalist society work for someone else and their efforts go into making a profit for someone else.

  9. Re:For the lazy.. on Cryptic Studios Releases New Star Trek Online Details, Trailer · · Score: 1

    Didn't Scotty wear a red shirt? I know the rank of "anymous alien fodder" was red, wasn't scotty chief engineer though? I never quit got my head round the colours and rankings especially as bones and spock both wore blue.

  10. Re:Perhaps a better solution... on Using My PC For Plain Old Telephone Service? · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... I mean, come on, this is slashdot, we'd come up with a remote controlled robotic flyswatter that runs Linux ...

    Could you do that? really? Can I order a beowulf cluster of them please? Please!!!

  11. Re:September 10th? on Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th · · Score: 1

    Erm, i suspect that may be the case.

  12. Re:September 10th? on Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th · · Score: 1

    just to be pedantic, a kilobyte is actually kB not KB.

    kb = kilobit
    kB = kiloByte
    K = Kelvin

  13. Re:September 10th? on Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th · · Score: 1

    Interestingly the section below that says:

    ... in the case of the kelvin, capitalizing also distinguishes the symbol from the SI prefix âoekiloâ ...

    which kind of negates the original whoosh!

  14. Re:A Talking Book? on Ask Literacy Bridge Founder About Charity, Education, and the "Talking Book" · · Score: 1

    Very true, but I think the hope is that as they learn to speak, they will learn to read too. I am asuming of course that the text is displayed at the same time.

  15. Re:A Talking Book? on Ask Literacy Bridge Founder About Charity, Education, and the "Talking Book" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Erm, who do they ask exactly?

    The whole point of the talking book is that there are not enough teachers around to ask.

  16. Re:reproduction on Viruses Infected By Viruses · · Score: 1

    My fault. I didn't really explain properly. They have the DNA that is the blueprint for themselves, but they do not have DNA that allows them to copy themselves. All they do is insert themselves into a cell nucleus and their DNA is inserted into the host's DNA strand and the host unwittingly replicates the virus as well.

  17. Re:reproduction on Viruses Infected By Viruses · · Score: 1

    Ring species are only two species where the intermediate species have not disappeared. The two species at either end are two definite species.

    The definition of species still holds. If two neighbouring species can interbreed then they are the same species. If they can't breed with the next neighbour along then they are not the same species.

  18. Re:Ice Dancing not a bad geek sport on New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 · · Score: 1

    ... I once saw an ice dancing photo of a girl geek -- the current Secretary of State -- proving that ice dancing is a geek sport ...

    Geeks have a secretary of state now? And she's a woman?

  19. Re:reproduction on Viruses Infected By Viruses · · Score: 1

    Humans and "higher" animals have all the DNA needed to replicate themselves. Viruses don't. Parasites may well hijack the host's energy resources but viruses hijack the hosts reproductive mechanisms.

  20. Re:reproduction on Viruses Infected By Viruses · · Score: 1

    ... The same issue occurs when trying to define where one species stops and another starts in animals ...

    er, ... no it doesn't. An animal is a member of a species if it can interbreed with other members of that species. See Google ad infinitum.

  21. Re:reproduction on Viruses Infected By Viruses · · Score: 1

    Oh no. Doesn't that mean that the future robot creationsists will, in fact, be correct?

  22. Re:reproduction on Viruses Infected By Viruses · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... I've never heard of a computer worm that can reproduce without actually having their code executed ...

    GGGP

    ... [viruses] are essentially static objects until they bump into a cell ...

    In other words until their code(DNA) is executed. Same definition applies.

  23. Re:iPhone Slider on iPhone Nano To Be Launched By Christmas? · · Score: 1

    ... "oh this is not Apple's fault, but your own" ...

    Actually, a friend told me his G3 used to come up with the error "it's not my fault" occasionally.

  24. Tribbles in the system again on Scotty's Final Mission · · Score: 1

    Maybe some tribbles got into the system.

  25. Re:ANOUNCEMENT on Yahoo Blocks Venerable Email List Over False Positives · · Score: 1

    How can the parent be modded off topic? It's completely on topic and actually quite funny.