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  1. Re:What's with all of the interest in pi? on What Pi Sounds Like · · Score: 1

    e's applications are much more interesting, but I guess pi has the better marketing plan merely because everyone's heard about pi in high school.

  2. What's with all of the interest in pi? on What Pi Sounds Like · · Score: 1

    e is the cooler number, by far.

  3. Re:With schools no longer having text books on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 1

    It's even more critical than that. For half of my classes, the homework is only posted on the Internet. One of them even requires you to scan your homework and upload it.

  4. Re:The way of things on Two-Thirds of US Internet Users Lack Fast Broadband · · Score: 1

    I live in a major metropolitan area, and I still get terrible speeds for inflated prices.

  5. Re:A quick google search on The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw · · Score: 1

    I understand why you'd want the screwdriver, but why would you want to replace them with Philips screws?

  6. Re:I'll be first to say WTF on Polynomial Time Code For 3-SAT Released, P==NP · · Score: 1

    You can express it as an infinite geometric sum (0.9+.09+.009+...+9/10^(-n)) that converges at one

  7. Re:I'll be first to say WTF on Polynomial Time Code For 3-SAT Released, P==NP · · Score: 1

    Any rational can be expressed by its terminating decimal notation (if it has one) and its repeating decimal notation

  8. Re:Women get the short end of the stick on Scientists Find Tears Are the Anti-Viagra · · Score: 1

    I guess the same reason we didn't serve blacks in restaurants a few decades ago. I mean, who would give up their money? They have the same US Dollars!

  9. Re:Decriminalize it on Pot Grower's Privacy Challenged · · Score: 1

    Hey, Nancy R. Sup?

  10. Re:Me suspects many dead cats on Chicago Using Coyotes To Fight Rodents · · Score: 1

    Does this apartment have internet?

  11. Re:Google? on Facebook Inbox Throws Blow At Google... No Flinch? · · Score: 1

    You also have to pay Yahoo to use a desktop email client. Gmail does that for free.

  12. Re:HTPCs are for geeks on Hulu Plus Now Available To All — But Be Warned · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure Mac Mini + Apple Remote + Front Row is pretty simple for non-geeks.

  13. Re:As soon as they ... on Why 'Cyber Crime' Should Just Be Called 'Crime' · · Score: 1

    In that case, let's make manslaughter the same as 1st degree murder. After all, intent doesn't matter, only results, right?

  14. Re:*Citation Needed* on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 1

    So resident aliens, even if they've been lawfully living here for decades, paying the same taxes that you pay, should have no say in the progress of the country?

  15. Re:Decriminalize not legalize on Facebook Billionaire Gives Money To Legalize Marijuana · · Score: 1

    Do you realize that it's much easier for kids to get pot than it is for them to get alcohol?

  16. Re:I think people really need to understand this on Facebook Billionaire Gives Money To Legalize Marijuana · · Score: 1

    You do know that methamphetamine can be prescribed, right?

  17. Re:"appear"... "virtually"? on Non-Embryonic Stem Cells Developed From Skin Cells · · Score: 1

    You do know that the majority of the embryos were gotten from IVF treatments, right?

  18. Re:Common sense on You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that Bill Gates still had the support of daddy's money...

  19. Re:Seattle COL on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    It's not my fault small business owners don't know how to file their taxes.

  20. Re:What the hell? on The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally · · Score: 1

    Your city doesn't have a Chinatown?

  21. Re:Not new on The Vending Machines of the Future · · Score: 5, Funny

    The last time I saw one of those, this happened.

  22. Re:Profit? on The Vending Machines of the Future · · Score: 1

    Just like they do it now: taking your money and not giving you anything!

  23. Re:Finally on Filmmakers Resisting Hollywood's 3-D Push · · Score: 1

    Sound generally doesn't give me a headache, unlike 3-D.

  24. Re:needs control group on Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files? · · Score: 1

    A call to the BSA would have been a fun way to say goodbye.

  25. Re:Seriously? on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    When I'm old I'm not going to be looking so hot, anyway.