> this isn't particularly useful in itself, but the new techniques they had to develop to solve it are important. Wiles' Fermat proof is a paramount example.

Congratulations E4bp4, you are Top Gene - Master.

There has been no war here. It was the Pax. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression.

Maybe you should conduct your own Swine Flu Challenge, like Maddox. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=swine_flu

Or the much less popular companion: The Database Guide to Manga How to understand Manga in SQL statements. I don't see how the plot would come in.

Keanu for Data, Costner for Spock. Ya know, so they could appear in the same movie simultaneously. Cuz that's the people want.

You don't think it's noteworthy that a vat of liquid nitrogen can only trump a hobbyist with early access by 0.3 GHz against 6.7 GHz?

Biden recommended the withdrawal after YouTube refused to give him their "number".

Herzog Zwei? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog_Zwei

Plus, you'd be on the MOON, man, ON THE MOON!

...who watched the video and suddenly expected the USS Enterprise to appear from the center of the light?

I was all ready to criticize something called a Skycar for looking too much like a mini-plane, but lo and behold, it sure does look like a car, so much so that I couldn't believe it flew even a hundred feet without plummeting from the sky, that is, until I saw the parachute contraption and wasn't quite as impressed, a thought with which I decided to conclude this run-on sentence.

It must be hard to push the tiny Alt and tiny Tab buttons simultaneously to swap between each OS. I know! They should make it so that, instead, you can push the tiny Shift and tiny Tab buttons instead, so that one OS runs in a window inside the other! The only drawback being a debilitating hit in performance.

I'm going for Offtopic: How many of you not only don't RTFA, but don't even read the Slashdot article summary, and only grep the Comments for the "Funny" tag?

How about "boredom of life in an insane asylum"?
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