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  1. Re:93% of Programmers Think You're Wrong on Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics · · Score: 1

    Congratulations on being an idiot.

  2. Re:They're called digital cameras on Polaroid Lovers Try To Revive Its Instant Film · · Score: 1

    What does waxing have to do with "proper" car maintenance? Additionally, the amount of time spent doing essential maintenance to a car probably comes out to less than an hour a week even if you do everything yourself.

  3. Re:Why so negative. on US Nuclear Sub Crashes Into US Navy Amphibious Vessel · · Score: 3, Informative

    Quiet diesels? Have you ever been in a diesel engine room? Evading submarines is also pretty low on the design priority for LPDs, as evidenced by the fact that they went with diesel engines over almost any other propulsion option. Diesel plants are many times noisier than gas turbine plants, and significantly louder than even a conventional steam plant. Amphibs still get diesel engines because they get good fuel economy compared to the other options.

  4. Re:Outta my yard on Mouse or Trackball? · · Score: 1
    The best mouse pad that I've run across is a thin microfiber pad that forms a suction with the desk beneath it. It grabs most of the dirt away from the mouse and I can just clean the mouse pad off every year or so.

    http://www.centraltradingagency.com/MicroTracker-M ousepad?sc=11&category=403

    Compusa also tends to carry it.

  5. Re:Never saw it coming! on Activation Problems in iPhone Paradise · · Score: 1

    I've got news for you buddy. AT&T was bought out by Cingular, not the other way around.

    Basically, the bad-guy in this story is SBC. Cingular was formed as a joint partnership between SBC and Bell South (something like a 60-40 split respectively). SBC had Cingular buy out AT&T Wireless. Later, SBC bought out Bell South. After another period of time, SBC bought out AT&T itself but decided to go with the AT&T name for greater recognition. Any changes that might have coincided with an AT&T absorption have less to do with AT&T and more with SBC feeling emboldened by the lack of competition.

  6. Re:Do sea levels change differently around the glo on Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater · · Score: 1
    While different oceans do indeed have different levels at any given time, that is purely due to the tidal force of the moon. Canal locks are not used because the water level is different on different sides of the canals, but because the land between the two bodies of waters is elevated enough that it is impractical to dig the canal at water level the entire way.

    Check out these articles for more information:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_locks

  7. Re:Old News But New Perspective on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 0
  8. Re:Old News But New Perspective on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not sure where you get your information from, but University of California police officers are state police. They have the same authority that other state police officers (such as highway patrolmen) have to arrest or detain.

  9. Re:Old News But New Perspective on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've never been tazed, but from what I have seen in videos where people are tazed for training purposes, you regain almost full control within a few seconds of the tazer turning off. I do feel that it would have been more appropriate for the UCPD to carry/drag him out than taze him, but I also feel that his utter defiance of their repeated command for him to leave the building makes him at least equally to blame for the incident.