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Comment Re:Here's who I'd pick. (Score 1) 290

by An anonymous reader on Monday May 05, 2008 @07:52AM (#23298946) Attached to: MacGyver Film In the Works?

If only I had mod points. :-)
SLJ as Mac: "Does anyone have a Mother Fucking rubber chicken, so I can disable this Mother Fucking bomb!?!"

Submission + - Mac Loses to Windows in Year's Vulnerability Stats (zdnet.com)

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eldavojohn

on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @12:00PM

eldavojohn writes: "In what will likely come as a shock to many readers, a ZDNet blog shows stats claiming (via secunia.com) that shows in average flaws per month OSX averaging 20.25 while XP & Vista combined averaged 3.67. Is this report card accurate or is this a symptom of one company turning a blind eye while the other concentrates on its own flaws?"

Submission + - Does Active SETI Put Earth in Danger? 3

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Ponca City, We Love You

on Thursday December 13, 2007 @07:30AM

Ponca City, We Love You writes: "There is an interesting story in Seed Magazine on active SETI — sending out signals to try to contact other civilizations in nearby star systems. Alexander Zaitsev, Chief Scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, has access to one of the most powerful radio transmitters on Earth and has already sent several messages to nearby, sun-like stars. But some scientists think that Zaitsev is not only acting out of turn by independently speaking for everyone on the entire planet but believe there are possible dangers we may unleash by announcing ourselves to the unknown darkness. "We're talking about initiating communication with other civilizations, but we know nothing of their goals, capabilities, or intent," says SETI researcher John Billingham. This ground has been explored before in countless works of science fiction most notably "The Killing Star," a 1995 novel that paints a frightening picture of interstellar civilizations exterminating their neighbors with relativistic bombardments, not from malice, but simply because it is the most logical action. Billingham urges a broad, interdisciplinary discussion of Active SETI. "At the very least we ought to talk about it first, and not just SETI people. We have a responsibility to the future well-being and survival of humankind.""

Submission + - Leonard Nimoy to play Spock in next Star Trek movi 1

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mcgrew

on Friday July 27, 2007 @09:19AM

mcgrew writes: "The AP (via the Chicago Tribune) is reporting that Leonard Nimoy will 'don his famous pointy ears again' in the next Star Trek movie, due out Christmas of next year.

"This is really going to be a great movie. And I don't say things like that lightly," Nimoy told a gathering of 6,500 fans Thursday at Comic-Con, the nation's largest pop-culture convention.

He greeted the crowd with a Vulcan salute.

Nimoy was joined by the newly named young Spock, "Heroes" star Zachary Quinto, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Nimoy.

Both Spocks were introduced by the film's director and co-producer, J.J. Abrams.
I've lost track, is this an even numbered Trek movie or an odd numbered one?"

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