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  1. Re:Random chance more likely on Physicists Find Clue as To Why the DNA Double Helix Twists To the Right · · Score: 1

    It seems more likely than the electron decay postulation (though butterfly effect and all, I guess). It's not unlike the whole "toilet flushing in the opposite direction in northern/southern hemispheres" urban legend where it turns out that other factors far outweigh the Coriolis effect.

  2. Re:Which side is upwards? on Physicists Find Clue as To Why the DNA Double Helix Twists To the Right · · Score: 1

    And then a step to the right?

  3. Re:Pay cash on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    That *can* work but everyone who's found themselves pinched in that trap thought it wouldn't happen to them.

  4. Re:Competition on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the government's been pumping out money like crazy and suppressing interest rates also.

  5. Re:is that an iPhone in your pocket? on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 1

    Depends on the depth of the pockets. My razr rests flat against my thigh, well below the bend.

  6. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery."

  7. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    All good until they come to your house or place of work and tow it away anyway.

    There are easier ways to steal a car.

  8. Re: Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    It depends how it's wired. If it interrupts the starter power or solenoid line, it will stop it. It's quite possible that the installation instructions for these devices explicitly says it's not for use on self-restarting vehicles but the guy at the salesroom just bought a bunch, threw them at his mechanic and told him to install them. Similarly, it would be possible to miswire these so that they did stop a running vehicle.

    I'm more inclined to believe that these complainers are just lying though.

  9. Re:Who wrote that - Android already has encryption on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 1

    I hope they make it work properly this time. I turned it on and it was unreliable and so I turned it off and still had problems for months until I found the hidden file they hadn't deleted.

  10. Re:Beyond the law? on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 1

    What if it's encrypted without a password but using a non-standard encryption algorithm?

    No need to answer that, really.

  11. Re:Maybe if they didn't abuse on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 2

    Exactly. They made their bed, now they have to lay in it. Or lie in it (which is more their style)

  12. Re:Wisdom on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 0

    Statists gonna state.

    (Let's see if that flies again for some more mod points ;) )

  13. Third World Problems. on Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina · · Score: 1

    Round here, $2M is what politicians blow on nose candy of a Friday night.

  14. Re:This has been discussed for so long... on Outlining Thin Linux · · Score: 1

    Heh, how *not* to get an open source project rolling. I tried working with someone who was like the person who wrote that spec. By the time he'd changed everything I'd written, he may as well have written it himself. And that was just for a version of "true".

  15. Re:But...but... on PayPal Integrates Bitcoin Processors BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some people say the same about Bitcoin too.

  16. Re:One real prediction in science fiction on Sci-fi Predictions, True and False (Video 1) · · Score: 1

    Much closer to the internet:

    http://www.baen.com/chapters/W...

  17. Re:This has been discussed for so long... on Outlining Thin Linux · · Score: 1

    I'm usually happy with the command line but I used this and floppyfw to create a reasonable facsimile of a Checkpoint firewall as a substitute while it was in transit.

  18. Re:This has been discussed for so long... on Outlining Thin Linux · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Traffic is up? on The Raid-Proof Hosting Technology Behind 'The Pirate Bay' · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I wonder if the EULA was left in the pirated material whether that could be used to insist on MBA in the case of being caught for said piracy.

  20. Re:Good. IndieGoGo should do it too on Kickstarter Lays Down New Rules For When a Project Fails · · Score: 1

    Hence Kickstarter.

  21. Re:Jokes aside on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Jokes aside on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 1

    Wireless charging is very lossy and not needed anyway in order to make a device waterproof.

  23. Re:Also... on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 1

    I also believe that there's an egg boiler that has a metal container that surrounds the egg. The theory being that the microwaves heat the water but not the egg directly (which can have quite explosive consequences). On the other hand, I have seen gold edging on dishes cause arcing, presumably because the metal is not actually continuous.

  24. Re:If you're not smart enough to realize this is B on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 4, Funny

    Haha, too true. No way Apple is this advanced. Now, my Samsung, on the other hand, charges a treat. Just don't run it on full power as that overclocks the CPU and causes instability.

  25. Stocks & IPOs on Is Alibaba Comparable To a US Company? · · Score: 1

    It all went wrong when government tax policies caused companies to stop giving dividends and rely on growth in price to reward investors. It makes it tricky to judge value and means you're relying on "greater fool" strategies instead of sound investment practices. Throw in inflation, pushing prices up and you have a recipe for disaster (in fact, valuing stocks that way allows for much more inflation than they'd otherwise be able to get away with since they can just keep dumping money into the stock market and everyone thinks they're better off. Until the correction).