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  1. Re:Warrantee on Philips Releases 100W-Equivalent LED Bulb, Runs On Just 23 Watts · · Score: 1

    What's the point of a warrantee when you can't establish the date of purchase? Unless you buy the whole housefull at once, it's too much paperwork burden to be worth it. I know this is /., but how many real people log their CFL purchases and installations?

  2. Re:Give this guy a Nobel on Low Oxygen Cellular Protein Synthesis Mechanism Discovered · · Score: 1

    A good place to start are the words to two-time Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling: "Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud."

    Ah, the good old "appeal to authority". Always a sign that someone's talking out of the wrong orifice.

  3. Re:Don't Be Silly on NASA Boss Accused of Breaking Arms Trade Laws · · Score: 1

    Well, it is Illinois. They technically don't have a government, only competing factional interests, like Somalia.

    Ah, so is that what they meant when they called it a "failed state"?

  4. Re:finally an excuse to bomb canada on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know, Canada never did get the thank-you note for that.

  5. Re:US, nobody gives a shit on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 2

    That sounds too much like socialism

    Well, hell, it is May Day!

  6. Homer's quartet, the "Be Sharps" did it first, with "Baby On Board"...

  7. Re:Biogas not well suited for Bloom Boxes on Apple's North Carolina Data Center Will Feature Biogas Generators · · Score: 1

    "Biogas" usually meant from sewage/manure processing until the landfill gas promoters appropriated the term. But putting such boxes at datacentres makes no sense: it wastes the heat they produce. After all, if there's one thing a datacentre doesn't need, it's more low-grade heat. Instead, they should put them someplace where the heat can be sold even in midsummer, and then connect to the datacentre via private wire (if the grid isn't reliable enough for them).

  8. Re:I actually agree with the BPI on UK ISPs Ordered To Block Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    For clarity, is "once" more than the usual "never"?

  9. Re:Reaction Engines Ltd, SABRE Engine on Key Test For Skylon Spaceplane Engine Technology · · Score: 1

    Nah, it's not that USA leaders are short sighted. Just that they work in a different industry: shearing the sheep on Wall St.

  10. Re:Out of control on Will IBM Watson Be Your Next Mayor? · · Score: 1

    Think of it as cars versus jets... People are far more afraid of the one that they're considerably safer in.

    People can deal with the possibility of becoming a crispy critter. It's the possibility of becoming a crispy critter John Doe that they have trouble with.

  11. Re:Where does all the money go? on Harvard: Journals Too Expensive, Switch To Open Access · · Score: 1

    Erm ... where do you find an editor who works for free?

    Allow me to introduce you to Web 2.0

  12. Re:Not all idle power is waste on Most Game Console Power Draw Comes From Time Spent Idling · · Score: 1

    The only alternative is diesel oil.

    I had a device that used that, but I sold it. All it could run were driving simulators.

  13. Re: Canadian Beer on Canadian Bureacracy Can't Answer Simple Question: What's This Study With NASA? · · Score: 1

    The whole thing about microbreweries is that they are micro. Local consumption is all they need. If you haven't met the brewmaster, it may not meet the criterion. Certainly if they can afford advertising and "distribution" they're too big.

    Try the real stuff.

  14. Re:Unicorn ponies on Physicists Detect Elusive Orbiton By "Splitting" Electron · · Score: 1

    I have unicorn ponies for sale. Males only, 9-12 hands in blue, pink and rainbow. Some have been ridden but most not. Horns are as-found. Pls reply at the usual email for the sale and delivery info.

    ILL TAKE TWO!

    If regular unicorns fart rainbows, do gay unicorn ponies fart plaid? Inquiring minds want to know!

  15. Re:Fantasy on Physicists Detect Elusive Orbiton By "Splitting" Electron · · Score: 1

    Cocaine? Nah, it has to be lsd that they synthesised.

    Nah, I can't be synthesised, nor even synthesized.

  16. Re:C-30 your next on Canada: Police Do Not Have Power To Wiretap Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    s/emply/employ/

  17. Re:C-30 your next on Canada: Police Do Not Have Power To Wiretap Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    Assassination for failure to properly emply the apostrophe? Now that's what I call a grammar Nazi!

  18. Re:Specious use of percentages on Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Spoken like someone who never did his high-school physics labs on wave-particle duality. The atmospheric CO2 doesn't absorb much of the sunlight, but it scatters a lot of it. The scattering is wavelength dependent, so longer (infrared) wavelengths radiated from the surface are preferentially bent back downward more than they would be if the partial pressure of CO2 was lower.

  19. Re:Those damn battery packs... on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 1

    If the makers really want hybrids to sell, they'll find a way to control that risk. I'd go for it if I could get a battery warranty as part of power train coverage. I'd want about 10 year/200,000 km to match competitively priced gasoline models. What is nuts is expecting customers to eat that risk with zero control or visibility into the design life.

  20. Wait a second... on Yahoo Layoffs Begin, CEO Sends Employees Apologetic Letter · · Score: 2

    ...if Yahoo had employees, why could I never get a human answer to an email?

  21. T Wrong FA on Scientists Build World's Most Sensitive Scale · · Score: 1

    does however link to T Real FA at http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnano.2012.42.html/, the paper in Nature Nanotechnology. So yes, it is in a near-vacuum. They're looking at changes in the resonance frequency of the nanotube as a gas molecule impinges on its surface.

  22. Re:Why "Diagnosis Increase" Is Specious on CDC Reports 1 In 88 Children Now Affected With Autism In the US · · Score: 1

    It isn't better, just more diagnosis. Just google "Allen Frances DSM-V" for the opinion of the man who chaired the writing of DSM-IV on what's happening to diagnosis.

  23. Re:Autism is bullshit on CDC Reports 1 In 88 Children Now Affected With Autism In the US · · Score: 1

    Some people also believe in faries and vampires. One of the best things I've seen on this dates to 1887, in Popular Science. http://books.google.com/books?id=tyoDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA841&ots=q-UT8wqLWR&dq=%22evidence%20as%20well%20as%22%20vampires&pg=PA841#v=onepage&q=%22evidence%20as%20well%20as%22&f=false/

  24. Re:Since when can Facebook pass laws? on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    Wait, you mean they log out sometimes? ;-)
    There's a reason people talk about political "power", not "energy". The integral over time doesn't count for squat. It's all about how many votes you have at the critical moment. Therein lies the danger in social media. US elections can be swayed by tiny numbers of voters in the right place. For all the noise about Diebold machines, smart phones and social media are the danger. They are the means to sway those tiny numbers by getting some of the hypnotized^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ADD voters to do something different than they otherwise would have on their drive home from work: stop and cast a ballot based on a transient bit of pure fiction.

  25. Re:Since when can Facebook pass laws? on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    Barbara, please understand that many Americans still can't spell draught correctly, though they are finally learning to make some halfway-decent beer.
    But as to your question, anyone in a position to speak from or censor half a billion mouths during an election campaign should be able to sway congress in the blink of an eye, should they choose to do so.