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  1. Re:Mystery Pits on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 1

    Haven't you read Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!? There was extensive use of IBM calculating machines in the Manhattan project.

  2. Re:Why so down? on 2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form · · Score: 1

    Good luck getting a copy of one of their books, though. Ptolemy III gave the Athenians a security deposit of 15 silver talents (think millions of dollars) so that the world's only copy of the complete works of Aeschylus, the greatest playwright of his day, could be taken to Alexandria, copied, and returned. Once it was there, he apparently decided it was worth 15 talents, and kept it. Because of him, most of Aeschylus's work is lost.

  3. Re:Jewtube? on Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Larry Page and Sergey Brin happen to be Jewish. In addition, YouTube recently responded to pressure from the Anti-Defamation League to remove content posted by Palestinian terrorists.

  4. Re:Wouldn't it be easier to just sell music? on Warner Music Pushing Music Tax For Universities · · Score: 1

    Have you not heard of Amazon.com, or is $.99 per track with no DRM too expensive for you?

    It's easy, it's cheap, go and do it.

  5. Re:God, please let this be true. on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled · · Score: 1

    In addition to the misattribution noted above, this version omits the word "gay" between "single" and "guy" in the fourth paragraph.

  6. Re:Define soul. on Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls? · · Score: 1

    Sir, I believe the word you want is "ephemerality," the quality or state of being ephemeral.

  7. Re:Tch tch on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    Get an account and adjust it yourself in Preferences > Index > General. I won't; all my clocks are set to UTC.

  8. Re:assembler? on Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    "Assembled" in that context is a passive participle modifying a noun.

  9. Re:Awesome! on Software Update Makes iTunes Accessible To Blind Users · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, many deaf people enjoy music. They experience vibrations from loud music in a way that you cannot, and appreciate rhythm. They also enjoy the experience of a concert; venues are required by law to provide interpreters for the deaf upon request.

    Beethoven, as we all know, continued to compose brilliant works even after he was completely unable to hear.

  10. Re:Doublethink on Adobe Flaw Allows Full Movie Downloads For Free · · Score: 1

    Is that you, MC Negro?

  11. Re:Doublethink on Adobe Flaw Allows Full Movie Downloads For Free · · Score: 1

    I should assume such. You are marked as a friend, so evidently I judged at some point that you are an intelligent man. Still, I don't see how you could infer from this article that Schneier endorses DRM. He calls Adobe's design "stupid" without going in to detail, and isn't mentioned again.

  12. Re:Doublethink on Adobe Flaw Allows Full Movie Downloads For Free · · Score: 5, Informative

    Schneier didn't write the article. He is only quoted briefly.

  13. Re:What do we do with all the Dairy cows now? on PETA Urges Ben And Jerry's To Use Human Milk · · Score: 1

    No need. If cows are not milked, the milk stays in the cows and spoils, killing them. I explained to a PETA supporter that cows need to be milked, and she said that we should milk cows, but the milk should be discarded.

  14. Re:content content content on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    You're right, I love those movies and saw two of them during their theatrical runs. I didn't think there really was a significant contingent of people who believe that all great movies have already been made.

  15. Re:content content content on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Yeah, when will the studios release more movies like The Godfather , Taxi Driver , or A Clockwork Orange ?

  16. Re:mockery of the education system on Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the -1 Redundant post by DuckInferno, which was the actual parent of Yttrium Oxide's post.

  17. Re:How about the debt? on Scott Adams's Political Survey of Economists · · Score: 1

    Double-entry bookkeeping has been used by everybody for 500 years. Increasing assets has essentially the same effect as reducing liabilities.

  18. Re:Truth rate this post on Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites · · Score: 1

    False.

  19. Re:What's the bench mark for "the test of time"? on Will Modern Games Stand the Test of Time? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would say that standard chess has actually become a much less interesting game in the past few decades. It may have been a rewarding field of study once, but these days, whoever has spent the most time studying what is already known about optimal strategies in the first 10-15 moves will have the upper hand. Competitive chess is a contest of memorisation, utterly dominated by machines.

  20. Re:My guess why they're computing offshore: No law on The Google Navy · · Score: 1

    Whoa, I used to jokingly tell people that Luxembourgish was my native language. I didn't think I would ever meet someone who spoke it.

  21. Re:Not NewEgg ... on Which Vendors Do You Trust For PC Parts? · · Score: 1

    The customer service rep is misinformed. I placed an order through Firefox on Linux last Tuesday.

  22. Re:Multiwave on Which Vendors Do You Trust For PC Parts? · · Score: 1

    It is also worth purchasing a good case (450W to 600W)

    Since when do cases have a power rating?

  23. Re:Multiwave on Which Vendors Do You Trust For PC Parts? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't an overclocked quad-core CPU provide even better performance?

  24. Re:Licensing on The 5 Most Laughable Terms of Service On the Net · · Score: 1

    A compression library would likely be licensed under the more permissive Lesser General Public License. Copyleft terms would apply to the library itself, but an application that uses it could be sold under any terms you choose.

  25. Re:Bring back the bunco squads on Smilin' Bob Not Smilin' Anymore · · Score: 1