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  1. Re:Some physiologists on What Will It Take To Run a 2-Hour Marathon? · · Score: 1

    What are your thoughts on Santa?

  2. Re:Time and Distance are not measured the same way on What Will It Take To Run a 2-Hour Marathon? · · Score: 1

    float UsCityWeight (UsCity c) {
      return CityPopulation(c) * Average_Weight_of_European_Human * 2.5
    }

      ? :P

  3. Re:Journalists have less time... on How Spurious Wikipedia Edits Can Attach a Name To a Scandal, 35 Years On · · Score: 1

    Hardly; it's spoon-fed to them by the 'news' organisation up the chain.

  4. Re:Research on How Spurious Wikipedia Edits Can Attach a Name To a Scandal, 35 Years On · · Score: 1

    Am I correct in paraphrasing your position as "You get what you pay for" ?

    It's binary, either it's accurately-reported or it's not; there are no shades of grey, no matter how little *you* want to pay.

  5. Re:Research on How Spurious Wikipedia Edits Can Attach a Name To a Scandal, 35 Years On · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps someone should make a few Wikipedia edits to implant the recently-discovered fact that 'journalists are generally lazy'. How long would it be before these implants are referenced?

  6. Re:Stupid move, celebrity on Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos · · Score: 2

    Is this a deliberate attempt to invoke the Streisand Effect?

  7. Re:In other news on Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos · · Score: 2

    Error: Could not parse car analogy.

  8. Re:What's so hard about using the time-honored on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: 1

    lol

  9. Absolute nonsense. Moodle is for managing online instruction with students and grades and instructors. Just because you know a word doesn't mean you should say it.

    Using that logic, just because you know how to sling an insult, doesn't mean you should.

  10. Re:First.... on Ask Slashdot: Multimedia-Based Wiki For Learning and Business Procedures? · · Score: 2

    First one to suggest SharePoint gets shot

    ..then slowly fed into a wood chipper.

    Rather that than be forced to *use* SharePoint.

  11. Re:First.... on Ask Slashdot: Multimedia-Based Wiki For Learning and Business Procedures? · · Score: 1

    First one to suggest SharePoint gets shot

    Lol. Thanks for the warning.

  12. Umm on Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe · · Score: 1

    If the ruling is upheld, Apple could owe billions in back taxes

    iPhone 6S in 3, 2, 1.....

  13. Re:They're solar. on Facebook To Start Testing Internet-Beaming Drones In 2015 · · Score: 1

    Stop blowing on the vapourware!

  14. Awesome on Facebook To Start Testing Internet-Beaming Drones In 2015 · · Score: 1

    Now goatherds in the middle of nowhere will be able to buy V!@gra via spamail.

    More generally, the marketeers must be creaming themselves over the market growth opportunities.

  15. Re:Android sells one and Half Billion every day on Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days · · Score: 1

    In 2010, a group of eighteen attempted suicide together with fourteen successes. Since then they've taken measures to contractually oblige employees to continue living and installed anti-suicide nets to catch (pun intended) those who aren't swayed by contractual terms.

    These conditions make your quoted figures somewhat artificial.

  16. Re:Android sells one and Half Billion every day on Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days · · Score: 1

    Well then, Apple should be applauded. In the context of their extremely reasonable pricing (considering the cutting edge nature of their products compared to those of competitors and the significant costs incurred by manufacturing overseas), it's a testament to their fairness that their (indirect) staff are not driven past the point at which manufacturing rate would be negatively impacted by their staff's reluctance to continue living.

  17. Re:Android sells one and Half Billion every day on Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days · · Score: 1

    How do they score on the ratio of iPhones sold to factory-worker suicides?

  18. Re:It's a bad sign on U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data · · Score: 2

    Once again, I've got to disagree at a basic level with this reasoning. This is a cog in the machine of disempowerment; the belief that consensus is needed. The will of one mind is enough to keep am ideal alive and effect change.

  19. Re:It's a bad sign on U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data · · Score: 1

    And that there is the problem: "We are powerless should should not care. "

  20. Re:It's a bad sign on U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hint: they do realize but don't care. Shame doesn't mean anything to the wolves - that's for the sheep.

  21. Re:It's a bad sign on U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Amerikkka; land of the free; free as in slavery, not as in beer :P

  22. Re:In a strange coincidence... on Net Neutrality Comments Surge Past 1.7M, an All-Time Record For the FCC · · Score: 1

    Ahhah - funny one - that would only be the case if voting meant more than leg exercize.

  23. That'll take the issue-thank-you-for-your-feedback-then-discard-message bot ages to process those.

  24. Re:Wrong Title on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 1

    Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Finds She Lied On Her Routine Background Check To Protect Herself From Others' Biases. NSF Follow-Up By Lying About Their Reasons For Dismissing Her.

    Further amendment.

  25. Re:How about making it more fun? on Changing the Rules of a 15-Year-Old Game: Quake Live Update Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    hello?