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  1. Re:Is it just me? on Opera Developer Comes With Address Bar Speculative Prerenderer Feature (opera.com) · · Score: 1

    I think he's talking about the drop down that guesses as you type. It can be quite annoying when you're trying to see something on the page as you type.

  2. Re:What if the universe is much much bigger on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I didn't say it was synonymous. And you conveniently dropped the 'at least' part.

  3. Re:What if the universe is much much bigger on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It's entirely possible the size of the global universe is infinite. I remember reading somewhere that based on current models and measurements of the flatness of space that the global universe is likely at least 10 times larger than the observable universe.

  4. Re:Look harder on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    //It was quickly realised that this dipole was the result of our Galaxy moving at 600 km/sec with respect to the CMB radiation//
    source

  5. Re:Please state the street and number. on Singapore Launches World's First 'Self-driving' Taxi Service (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Get your ass to Mars.

  6. Re:The only reason I got a SoundBlaster. on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Doom Story? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I worked at Creative Labs back then. Once a week or so, they would let us stay after the place closed so we could play Doom on the network.

  7. Re:Why does that bother you? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    A few of the big name schools make money from their football programs, most lose money.

  8. Re:Is ET on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a War of the Worlds where religion defeats the aliens instead of germs and the aliens all drink kool aid and sacrifice themselves to a comet, or something.

  9. Re:Maybe the aliens are just as religious on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    However, while only 4 percent of the general Indian population said they never attend religious services, 19 percent of Indian scientists said they never attend.

  10. Re:Unified Experience Across Devices on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Just run setver

  11. Re:AI is always on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    Most people don't learn anything new after they're programmed either. Hence, half the population of the U.S. believes Noah's flood actually happened.

  12. Re:Meh on Online Skim Reading Is Taking Over the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    You didn't even skim it?

  13. Re:Its called evolution.. on Online Skim Reading Is Taking Over the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    Online Skim Reading Is Taking Over the Feline Brain

    Better title.

  14. Re:Just got here on The Ultimate Hopes For the New Cosmos Series · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Try Soylent News
    ... is people!

    I believe it has more nerd, which is kind of like veal.

  15. Going for one sentence on Psychologists: Internet Trolls Are Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic · · Score: 1, Troll

    Internet trolls are narcissistic, psychopathic and sadistic

    Watch me watching myself dancing to Justin Bieber.

  16. Re:American poor on Your 60-Hour Work Week Is Not a Badge of Honor · · Score: 1

    In order of status/pay and words like that it probably goes something like*

    hourly (black market worker)
    daily (gray market worker)
    weekly (working poor)
    bi-weekly (working poor leads)
    monthly (working supervisors)
    quarterly (management)
    whenever (masters of the universe)

    *List was hastily made and likely contains hyperbole, generalizations, logical fallacies, and jest.

  17. Re:Can't say I didn't see this one coming. on Venezuelan Regime Censoring Twitter · · Score: 1

    Apologies, my tone was a little off-key, not trying to attack and I could have left out that last line. I was just wondering whether it is ever the case that the government cannot seize property and assets. Ultimately, I suppose those in power can always exercise that power until the people get fed up and replace it with another power. Take it as a random rant that those with more power can ultimately take what one has. I shouldn't have directed it towards you.

  18. Re:No one is proud of overwork on Your 60-Hour Work Week Is Not a Badge of Honor · · Score: 0

    Ok, is that irony?

  19. Re:Happy Saturday from The Golden Girls! on Psychologists: Internet Trolls Are Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic · · Score: 3, Funny

    For once, this may actually be on topic. Still a troll, but not off topic.

  20. Re:Can't say I didn't see this one coming. on Venezuelan Regime Censoring Twitter · · Score: 1

    Once the government can start ceasing[SIC] private assets "for the greater good,"

    Apparently in America, football is for the greater good. Good luck keeping your home or business if an NFL franchise decides it's a good place to put a stadium. Oh and you'll get to help pay for the stadium through your local taxes too. You might be compensated but you don't get to set the price. Ask a business owner who's been displaced if he was fairly compensated for the business that's been his family 50 years. Ask the 70 year old couple that lived in the same house their whole lives if there is any compensation worth moving in their twilight years. If you think you truly own anything, you're deluding yourself.

  21. Re:Dumbest thing is on 'CandySwipe' Crushed: When Game Development Turns Nasty · · Score: 3, Informative

    Game mechanics can't be copyrighted.

  22. Re:who cares? on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    Apart from reading that could be said of most subjects.

  23. Re:How is presenting all theories a problem? on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    There are probably well over 10000 creation myths. How exactly do you picture this class that teaches all sides without regard to scientific merit? How much time do you give to the 'earth sits on a giant turtle' theory? How much time do you give to the creation myths of the Cherokee, the Choctaw, Creek, Australian aborigines? And at the end of the day, all you have is 10,000 stories and 1 scientific theory. Let's skip the stories and just teach the science.

  24. Re:And? on Can Commercial Storage Services Handle the NSA's Metadata? · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you can't trust an NSA contractor, who can you trust?

  25. Re: Shutup about the beta already! on Microsoft Building an 'Xbox Reading' App For Windows 8 · · Score: 0

    /. has had changes in the past. And in the past, people protested and complained. I would think, let them try something new. /. should like updates.

    I think differently about this one. /. has changed over the years but it has always been about the comments. Lots of people like to monetize things, hence why Dice now owns /. But in the years I've been on /. it was always about the community. This time it's about the audience.

    If comments are destroyed, that will ruin /. The BETA protest will do no more harm than the GNAA, APK or any other troll. It's been a while since there was a good one anyway.

    I'm still using Classic as well, but *why* BETA sucks does not bode well for /.