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  1. Re:Missing prerequisite on Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal? A Scientific Test · · Score: 1

    Historical nitpick: it wasn't Holmes, it was Potter Stewart.

  2. Re:What a load of rubbish on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 1

    Ozymandias of Egypt, by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

  3. OT: Your .sig on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 1

    Not anonymous; it was said by the psychologist Abraham Maslow.

  4. Re:I wonder.. on ACLU Sues Penn Prosecutor For Empty Threat of Child Porn · · Score: 1

    A case like that just happened in my community. The girl then constantly got text messages from strangers calling her a "porn queen", "slut", etc. — and in the end, she hanged herself.

  5. Re:Tsarkon Reports Obama bent on bankrupting USA on Researchers Demo BIOS Attack That Survives Disk Wipes · · Score: 1

    Old English. (It looks like an excerpt from Beowulf.)

  6. Re:Adapt on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks for the explanation -- for a moment, I was actually wondering what OpenOffice.org's parallelization mechanisms had to do with anything!

  7. Re:What a misleading headline- I'LL SAY! on Spider Bite Allows Man To Walk Again · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's also this page, which is part of a site all about spider myths.

  8. Re:Land vs. Sea evolution on 95M-Year-Old Octopus Fossils Discovered · · Score: 1

    Dragonflies and crocodiles are very similar to their ancestors of many millions of years ago.

  9. Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? on Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format · · Score: 1

    Want some more Koolaid??? (Google 'Jim Jones Koolaid' if you missed the reference)

    You seem to have drunk the Kool-aid Kool-aid!

  10. Re:Missed a lot... on A History of Storage, From Punch Cards To Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Jacquard.

  11. Re:The Crab Nebula wasn't born in 1054 AD on First Evidence of Supernovae Found In Ice Cores · · Score: 1

    Maybe not.At least, the Bad Astronomer has argued in the past that Cyberax's point really is valid.

  12. Re:From an evolutinary standpoint... on Steps Toward a Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    evolution is only "perfect" over an infinite time frame

    Even over an infinite time span, natural selection may not be perfect in dealing with an enemy which is evolving too!

  13. Re:Zsh has had these features for years on BASH 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    How about "The Balrog has wings, not just shadows in the shape of wings!"

  14. Re:What about Foxit? on Adobe Flaw Heightens Risk of Malicious PDFs · · Score: 1

    Right now it's windows only, unfortunately.

    I've had no trouble running it under Wine, though (and ditto for Foxit).

  15. Re:Oh gosh. on Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" · · Score: 1

    The rest is up for debate. In fact, in recent months many studies have demonstrated that it is likely that the largest source of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is methane from animals (primarily livestock like cows, pigs, sheep). Sure, that's because of human activity, too, but would you advocate cutting back on our food supply to (maybe) slow global warming? Because carbon taxes won't reduce methane.

    But raising fewer livestock wouldn't mean cutting back on our food supply, since we'd be using fewer crops to feed livestock.

  16. Re:Perfect! on Russia Aims Towards Mars · · Score: 1

    And only six years after we build them a new ballpark specifically to keep them in town, too! The ingrates!

  17. Re:Mercury on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 1

    If the mercury formerly included in vaccines did cause autism, then the incidence of autism should have dropped after the mercury was removed. It didn't.

  18. Re:1984? on False Fact On Wikipedia Proves Itself · · Score: 1

    There have been instances of respected newspapers using The Onion as sources, not realizing that fine news source is humor. The Onion must hate that, it would be like when you make a joke comment on slashdot and it gets modded as "insightful".

    Although it doesn't involve circularity, this is an instance in which the London Sunday Times printed "facts" from a spoof plot summary of The Lord of the Rings.

  19. Re:Little Ice Age on Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter · · Score: 1

    The year with snow in July was 1816, the so-called Year Without a Summer, caused (probably) by the Tambora eruption.

  20. Re:Even if they make it work... on Phantom OS, the 21st Century OS? · · Score: 1

    Perl, Python, Ruby? Sure, all will work, but have fun rewriting the interpreters themselves in Java!

    This has been done for Python and Ruby. I believe there was an abortive attempt to do the same for Perl a few years back.

  21. Re:Not that much simpler... on Phantom OS, the 21st Century OS? · · Score: 1

    What happens when a Phantom user runs out of disc space? What if they attach an eternal disc and want some things there, or in both places for safe-keeping? All of the sudden you find you need something that looks and awful lot like Finder or Explorer to manage graph persistence locations...

    Wow! Where can I buy one of these eternal discs? I hate losing data when my disc eventually goes bad!

  22. Pronouncing Russian space names on Soyuz 4/5 Made History 40 Years Ago Today · · Score: 4, Interesting

    FWIW, most of us English speakers are badly mispronouncing the word "Soyuz". James Oberg has an article on how to pronounce it and several other names associated with the Soviet/Russian space program.

  23. Re:WTF? on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    The 70000 B.P. event was the Toba eruption.

  24. Re:Well deserved on Terry Pratchett Knighted · · Score: 1

    This page (the Discworld Reading Order Guides) might be useful to anyone who wants to read the Discworld books, but doesn't know where to begin.

  25. Re:good! on The End of Individual Genius? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Einstein himself called Newton lucky because "there is only one Universe to discover and he did it."

    IIRC it was Lagrange who said that.