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  1. Re:When is something well-known enough to not cite on The Most Highly Cited Scientific Papers of All Time · · Score: 1

    Except for basically every journal in biology...LaTeX is very rare there, and most journals require submission in Word/RTF

  2. Re:Here we go again on Utilities Should Worry; Rooftop Solar Could Soon Cut Their Profit · · Score: 1

    Why would you need to worry about directional shifting? Pump water up in one pipe, release water down in another pipe that contains a turbine. No directional shifting necessary. There was a nice article on NPR the other day about a Spanish island doing exactly this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/paral...

  3. Re:Can we regrow the source plant? on The Earliest Bird To Sip a Flower · · Score: 2

    Nope. Pollen = plant sperm. There would not be enough genetic material to successfully recreate the plant without the female gametes (notwithstanding the fact that after 47 million years the likelihood of enough surviving DNA is very small)

  4. Re:OOXML or Excelception on Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets For Important Work · · Score: 0

    Last time I tried saving to CSV in Excel, it saved the value to which the formula evaluates, not the formula itself.

    Perhaps there's a reason that a formula wasn't saved in a Comma Separated Value file?

  5. Re:just like homeopathy on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 1

    And poecilids (i.e., mollies, swordtails, and mosquitofishes), embiotocids (i.e., surfperches), and a few other groups...

  6. Re: they see me trollin... they hatin' on Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    sudo apt-get install woosh

  7. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 2

    That, or they're from Vermont...but probably a little of both

  8. Re:Fiber optic cables are direct analogs to roads on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    Depends on which side you're on...

  9. Re:Government Involvement on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    Name one administration in the last 50 years that hasn't.

  10. Re:An important distinction on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    The system won't lock them up for that, since it's not a violent crime.

    Neither is smoking a joint....but how many people have been put in jail through the "War on Drugs"?

  11. Re:What would they store? on Memory Wars May Herald Mobile Devices With Terabytes of Capacity · · Score: 1

    Except that the trend in most mobile phones is to remove MicroSD slots...

  12. Re:Armageddon on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 2

    You say that like it's a bad thing....

  13. Re:Advice from you, troll? No thanks. on IRS Can Read Your Email Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    Some people take up shuffleboard in their old age, others take up trolling at /.

  14. Re:$24 on Jammie Thomas Denied Supreme Court Appeal · · Score: 1

    Unless, you know, he's playing his own songs.....

  15. Re:Nothing To Worry About on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 1, Funny

    What a great idea! How much do you plan on buying? You can probably scoop it up for pennies per gallon....

  16. Re:I really keep forgetting about ChromeOS on Why Google Needs To Launch the Chromebook Pixel · · Score: 1

    Seriously...this is crazy annoying.

  17. Re:More Info Please... on Ancestor of All Placental Mammals Revealed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Technically what we'll have is a good snapshot of current genomic diversity, from which we can infer the ancestry of that snapshot. We have some pretty good inferential methods, but each and every phylogeny that you see is simply a hypothesis of evolutionary relationships.

  18. Re:I really keep forgetting about ChromeOS on Why Google Needs To Launch the Chromebook Pixel · · Score: 1

    I actually use Firefox on Android, and it WILL run on older hardware. Many standard addons work as well. The biggest problem seems to be that a lot of mobile sites are coded with the assumption that the viewer is using Webkit, so on some sites I wind up having a better experience with the full site than the mobile one.

    Like Slashdot? The mobile site is terrible...

  19. Re:Weaponized on Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk · · Score: 1

    You just have to throw them hard enough....

  20. Re:YES! And I can prove it... on Do Solo Black Holes Roam the Universe? · · Score: 2

    And here I thought it was hip to be square... I guess I should stop taking life lessons from Huey Lewis :-(

  21. Re:Confused someones dmced the plot on Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright · · Score: 2

    According to the Berne Convention (which the US is a signatory to), all images created by citizens of member states have implicit copyright unless otherwise noted as in the public domain.

  22. Re:Still don't want one on Apple Unveils New iPad · · Score: 1

    Walk in?

  23. Re:Some dumbass on Apple Store Artist Raided By Secret Service · · Score: 1

    Maybe he really wants a job with Sony...

  24. Re:"An offer you cannot refuse" gamut on MS Wants Laws To Block Products Made By Software Pirates · · Score: 2

    This proposed law would instantly make Microsoft billions. If done right, companies would have to prove their supplies didn't use pirated products in order to not get sued.

    And this right here is the problem. The burden of proof should not be on the company...the burden of proof should be on Microsoft.

  25. Re:Funny on ARM Powered OLPC XO-1.75 Laptop Is Faster Than X86 · · Score: 2

    You had it and MIPSed Anonymous!

    FTFY