Comment Re:Soviet Russia jokes overload (Score 1) 320
The hard part is making the Nietzsche jokes.
Comment Re:Einstein replied "Check your measurements, son" (Score 1) 1088
I got 99 problems, but faster than light travel ain't one
If you're going faster than 299,792,458 m / s, check your measurements, son.
Comment Retailers are shaking in their boots (Score 3, Funny) 126
... Because I know when I walk down the Champs-Elysees in Paris, what I really want to be doing is looking at the world through the screen of my smartphone! Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?
Even better: sell t-shirts that appear blank but display hipster slogans when viewed through an AR app.
Comment Re:Crappy, crappy film (Score 1) 225
I get your point, but there really aren't any huge OMG special effects in Star Wars related to the force. Stuff moving without being touched? A dude grabbing his neck and pretending like he's getting choked? The most famous force moment is done completely through dialogue ("These aren't the droids you're looking for").
Star Wars special effects were all things like space ships and planets blowing up.
Comment Re:I'm going to issue my own Fiat currrency (Score 1) 403
BTW, I'm not even sure if Fiat is still making cars
Yeah, but they're called Chryslers now.
Comment Re:Google thinks people shoud use their os, shocke (Score 0) 645
You're being tortured, you just don't know it.
Actually, Sergey is a bit behind the times, linguistically. He should have said that Windows is conducting enhanced interrogations on users.
Comment Unwillingness? (Score 3, Insightful) 335
I was unpopular in High School, but I question whether that was because I was unwilling to conform, or because I had absolutely no idea how to do so.
Spielberg, I imagine, was in a similar position, unless he discovered a method of magically becoming a goy.
Comment Re:$130mil? Wowzers~ (Score 3, Insightful) 529
I'm not sure I understand you. Are you advocating a targeted $10 per barrel tax only on oil drilled from ANWR? That seems silly, plus you must be aware that taxes on oil production are a political non-starter. It would be easier to get environmentalists to agree to drilling than to get the GOP to agree to taxes. And I don't even want to think about the economic distortions that would accompany taxing one area of production but not others...
On the other hand, it kinda sounds like you're calling for the Federal government to get into the oil drilling & selling business.
Comment Re:Right Now It's a 7 (Score 4, Funny) 673
My nuclear meltdown scale goes to 11.
It's one worse.
Comment Re:Can someone please... (Score 1) 172
McEliese isn't "immune to attack even by quantum computers," it's immune to one specific form of quantum cryptanalysis.
Submission + - Android Gains Momentum with 100,000 Apps on Market (industrygamers.com)
donniebaseball23 writes: The iPhone platform remains incredibly popular with more than 300,000 apps on the Apple App Store, but Google's Android marketplace is gaining steam, writes IndustryGamers, and it hit an important milestone this week: 100,000 apps. "Is this enough for Google, with Apple so far ahead and a new challenger entering the fray in the form of Windows Phone 7? Developers are just starting to get used to working with Android, with Rovio’s Angry Birds having 2 million copies downloaded within four days.
Submission + - Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles (theatlantic.com)
Pickens writes: "The Atlantic reports that a power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile, temporarily offline on Saturday. The 90th Missile Wing, headquartered there, controls 150 Minuteman III's. According to people briefed on what happened, a squadron of ICBMs suddenly dropped down into what's known as "LF Down" status, meaning that the missileers in their bunkers could no longer communicate with the missiles themselves. LF Down status also means that various security protocols built into the missile delivery system, like intrusion alarms and warhead separation alarms, were offline. The cause of the failure remains unknown, although it is suspected to be a breach of underground cables deep beneath the base, according to a senior military official."
Comment Re:There are no laws... (Score 1) 133
That's no moon!
Comment What about Defcon? (Score 4, Informative) 103
The same talk -- or at least a very similar one, by the same people -- is scheduled to be given at Defcon. Anyone know the status of that? I doubt Defcon is very susceptible to outside pressure, but since the speaker does business in Taiwan he may be reluctant to defy them.
Comment Re:Because it's in the upper-left? (Score 1) 267
I informally studied the habits of websurfers at my websites with Google Analytics. I found that for almost every page, the most clicked link was whatever I put at the top left.
My hypothesis was that our eyes were just drawn to any graphic at the top left, no matter what it was, and so we'd click on it.
Alternate hypothesis: all those people were trying to click the back button, but missed.
