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Comment Telepathy (Score 0) 22

by dimethylxanthine on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @06:19AM (#39866063) Attached to: <em>Open Research Computation</em> Closes Before Opening

I once had a girlfriend who was a telepath. She dumped me before we even met. -- I'll be here all week :)

Comment The question is... (Score 1) 241

by dimethylxanthine on Monday April 23, 2012 @06:32AM (#39768911) Attached to: Geologists Say UK Shale Deposits Hold Vast Energy Reserves

Will we have enough oxygen to burn it all?

Comment Serenity in murder? (Score 0) 164

by dimethylxanthine on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @08:08AM (#38723042) Attached to: Statisticians Uncover the Mathematics of a Serial Killer

Thats just messed up. Why not get off by taking up skydiving, mountain biking, or bungee jumping off the Macau tower? He must have had a pretty f*** up upbringing (in addition to genes the somehow didn't checksum). Oh yeah, in Soviet Rusia it would be hard to leave the USSR or even know about such "bourgoise" activities...

Comment Re:Watch out Indonesia (Score 0) 346

by dimethylxanthine on Saturday January 14, 2012 @09:02AM (#38696654) Attached to: Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges In India

And those convicted wrongfully. As is often the case in Russia and the ex-Sovit block. *sigh*

Comment Re:Just curious (Score 0) 365

by dimethylxanthine on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @04:48AM (#38445832) Attached to: HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials

Answer in TFA. But I also suspect it's because it will be the hardest and most stringent FDAs out of the way, which will facilitate certification with other FDAs (and their respective counterparts) around the world while opening up the US as a large HIV market right off the bat.

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Turn a "why" into "why not".

Comment Re:US Says... (Score 0) 181

by dimethylxanthine on Friday October 21, 2011 @02:49AM (#37788144) Attached to: China Says Its Internet Policies Are Open and Clear

What?! The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your eneMY! (c) RATM

Comment Thankfully (Score 0, Insightful) 217

by dimethylxanthine on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @12:35AM (#37523306) Attached to: Apple Denied Trademark For 'Multi-Touch'

Considering a near three-decade long history of Multi touch RnD (starting with University of Toronto, followed by Bell Labs and Xerox, et al...) a patent awarded to apple would be quite a spit in the face of everyone who made the technology possible in the first place.

Comment No. (Score 1) 261

by dimethylxanthine on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @12:01AM (#37523158) Attached to: Should College Go Online?

Want social skills and the joy of direct human interaction, sports, walking to class [or bars] and having [even if occasional] sex lost to digital sensory stimulation, abscence of physical activity and a severe vitamin D deficiency?

Thanks, but me and my kids will do it the old fashioned way.

Comment Backyard? (Score 0) 182

by dimethylxanthine on Monday September 05, 2011 @02:01PM (#37309640) Attached to: See a Supernova From Your Backyard

Why bother with the backyard if most /.'ers can do it from the basement?

Submission + - Pacific Island of Niue to Mint Star Wars Coins (stuff.co.nz)

Submitted by

dimethylxanthine

on Thursday August 11, 2011 @11:29PM

dimethylxanthine writes: "Niue residents will soon be able to choose from several collections of Star Wars themed coince, including a set featuring Darth Vader, Princess Leia, Obi-Wan, R2-D2 + C3PO, Yoda and Han Solo / Chewbacca. While legal tender with a denominations of $2NZ, the coins will be minted from 1oz pure silver and as such not for daily use by most people — "No one is going to go buy an ice-cream with them", as New Zealand Mint spokesman Chris Kirkness put it. A total of 7500 will be minted, so coin collectors should be thiking about finding a transport for this pacific island, which is far far away from most places before November, which is when the coints will go into production."

Comment For an hour??! (Score 0) 201

by dimethylxanthine on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @02:08PM (#37035256) Attached to: DARPA Set To Blast Falcon Mach 20 Test Flight

I though it took the Shuttle 20 minutes to reach LEO...?

Comment Anyone feel like.... (Score 0) 117

by dimethylxanthine on Sunday August 07, 2011 @02:24AM (#37012534) Attached to: Office 15 Development To Go JavaScript, HTML5 For Extensibility

an MS Office+JS / VIM+Lisp flamewar? :-)

Comment Re:My guess - (Score -1) 231

by dimethylxanthine on Thursday August 04, 2011 @11:16AM (#36986072) Attached to: NASA Briefing on New Mars Finding This Afternoon

A slight typo - I think you mean Unobtainium. You think NASA is spending all this cash to send Lego figures to the outer planets to find methane (that won't even burn on Mars). No no no no no no, no! They're after a much bigger fish. Ooooh, fish?

Comment Re:Hint (Score 0) 123

by dimethylxanthine on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @10:45AM (#36883620) Attached to: 8GB of Data Stolen From Italian Cybercrime Unit

In Soviet Russia the government listens to no one

Comment Hint (Score 1) 123

by dimethylxanthine on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @03:56AM (#36880836) Attached to: 8GB of Data Stolen From Italian Cybercrime Unit

Hey, maybe it's the kids' way of saying they're in search of a job. If I were the italians, I'd sit down with them and see what they can do for the (Italian|American|NATO... ) govt - as they can obviously do quite a bit and clearly more than their employed, university educated cybersecurity "specialists". 2c/

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