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  1. Re:Whee. on Time Lapse of Endeavour's Final Ride · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Space is a medium, not a destination. Imagine discovering the new world in 1492, then spending the next two hundred years hugging the European coast. That's what we did with the shuttle.

  2. Whee. on Time Lapse of Endeavour's Final Ride · · Score: 2

    Now let's get on with a space program that crashes & burns less, and goes somewhere more.

  3. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on MIT Researchers Unveil Self-Assembling Robot Swarm · · Score: 1

    No worries, they contain strong permanent magnets and a colorful like toys. Thus, they'll be banned for the sake of the children within a couple months.

  4. Re:I'm not ashamed to admit on Asian Giant Hornets Kill 42 People In China, Injure Over 1,500 · · Score: 2

    At least the spiders can't fly. Yet.

  5. Re:School == Copying on California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum · · Score: 1

    I hear time travel is involved, so YMMV.

  6. Re:School == Copying on California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum · · Score: 1

    That particular plan has been copyrighted by one Lex Luthor.

  7. Re:Completely insane... on US Killer Robot Policy: Full Speed Ahead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Negative. I am a meat popsicle.

  8. Re:what exactly can you print on these? on What Will Ubiquitous 3D Printing Do To IP Laws? · · Score: 1

    If only this were true. There are probably HUNDREDS of songwriters and script writers whom I wish filesharing had forced into switching professions.

  9. Foreshadowing on To Boldly Go Nowhere, For Now · · Score: 1

    "...technology may radically change humans in the next century or so."

    As soon as I saw this, I knew the author would be dredging up Kurzweil.

  10. Re:I have no idea what StumbleUpon is on StumbleUpon Claims They've Stumbled Onto Profits · · Score: 1

    I thought there had to be more to it than that. I guess I've never been bored enough to resort to a "take me to a random website" button.

  11. Re:BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA on True Size of the Shadow Banking System Revealed (Spoiler: Humongous) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not hilarious, you just have to realize who controls the regulation and for WHOM the system is working. Hint: not you and me.

  12. Re:Hmm on It Takes 2.99 Gigajoules To Vaporize a Human Body · · Score: 1

    Or for the reality side, America's Next Top Shark.

  13. Neither, but I think both of those would also be legitimate anti-theft devices.

  14. Yeah, heh. I left out a "k" in there.

  15. My anti-theft device is a rusty 15-year-old vehicle with 190+ miles on it.

  16. Re:Seriously?!? on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    Someone has to be responsible for that audit trail. In this case, apparently it was Snowden.

  17. Re:Brilliant? on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    In short, there is an entire class of sysadmins that the NSA has no good way of keeping track of, and worse, they don't even necessarily know who they all are...

    They knew who enough of them were to deliver walking papers to 90% of them, didn't they?

  18. He missed one on Scottish Academic: Mining the Moon For Helium 3 Is Evil · · Score: 1

    The main reason mining the moon for Helium 3 is evil is because it's cruel to create an army of slowly-degrading Sam Rockwell clones to carry out the mining operation.

  19. "Buick" is a little vague... are we talking a 1975 Electra, or a 2012 Verano?

  20. Re:Nothing new on Silicon Valley's Loony Cheerleading Culture Is Out of Control · · Score: 2

    You forget the "crash" step.

  21. Re:One thing is for certain... on The World Fair of 2014 According To Asimov (From 1964) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying he's just seventeen and all he wants to do is disappear?

  22. Re:Which is it? on Open Source Mapping Software Shows Every Traffic Death On Earth · · Score: 1

    Pen is mightier, or...

  23. Drumroll... on New Drug Mimics the Beneficial Effects of Exercise · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..And I hear ARod is already being investigated for it.

  24. Re:Two Things on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was thinking about it more during lunch. It's not just a battery test which occurs every minute, it's the entire script he wrote, including the testing and the subsequent appending of that data to a file. That could amount to a significant number of drive accesses which normally wouldn't have happened, especially at night when it would have otherwise been idle.

  25. Re:Two Things on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 1

    Exactly. That latter part is what should be ruled out. I agree it shouldn't. But what if it does?