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  1. Re:Wow... on If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax? · · Score: 0

    Unless the IP within the comment is valued at $0.02. Then the tax would be much less. But that's just my two cents...how much do I owe?

  2. Re:Refreshing but... on Judge Makes Lawyers Pay For Frivolous Patent Suit · · Score: 0

    All of the insensitive clods?

  3. Re:where's the advantage? on Library of Congress's $3M Deal With Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about the General Error Reporting page? It says that it's for reporting technical problems....

  4. Re:Stallman is still around? on RMS Steps Down As Emacs Maintainer · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nope...now he's just working on his own dancing

  5. Re:While in soviet russia ... on Jack Thompson Served With Order to Show Cause · · Score: 0

    ... himself has been ordered to explain Jack Thompson ... You fail at the meme game...That was terrible!
  6. Re:Each pulse may be only a few million billionths on NIST Working On "Deathalyzer" · · Score: -1, Troll

    Time to learn your SI prefixes: milli = 10^-3. One millisecond = 0.001 second. One million billionth of a second would be 10^-15, also known as a femtosecond.

  7. Re:What is gravity? on New Science Standards Approved in Florida · · Score: 0

    Why sure they can! Walk outside of your lab with something (e.g., book, cat, priceless Ming Dynasty vase), hold it at arm's length from your body, release and observe gravity. Pick up your book/cat/pieces of vase, walk into the lab, and repeat. Presto!! Duplication in the lab!

  8. Re:It's not so much 'more vulnerable' on Encryption Could Make You More Vulnerable · · Score: 0

    'differently vulnerable' Is this like the Special Olympics for vulnerabilities?
  9. Re:Using Headlines to Trick People Into Clicking on Mega-D Botnet Overtakes Storm, Accounts for 32% of Spam · · Score: 0

    Let this be a lesson to all...friends don't let friends drunkenly post AC on /.

  10. Re:logic on Startup Claims to Make $1/Gallon Ethanol · · Score: 0

    Ethanol cannot be used in pipelines because A) it grows mold Ethanol grows mold?!?! When, exactly, was the last time you had a bottle of vodka go fuzzy on you?
  11. Re:How to beat IBM here... on IBM Patents Pricing Motorists Off Highways · · Score: 0

    Yes, but the cost of the road use associated with these commodities is incorporated into the cost of the commodities themselves. So why should someone have to pay for the roads twice, if they are not physically driving on them?

  12. Re:Factual Error! on Geekonomics · · Score: 0
  13. Re:Cloverfield Explanation on Cloverfield Discussion · · Score: 0

    Watch the video in the parent's link...the platform was on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

  14. Re:Corporate Image on CES 2008 Hall of Shame · · Score: 0

    Their MicroSD card and adapter at the bottom of page 3 is even better... Welcome to the world of Nanomicrons and Beyond!!

  15. Oblig. on The Role of Retroviruses in Human Evolution · · Score: 0

    I, for one, welcome our newly re-animated zombie retroviral overlords!

  16. Re:Good idea but... on The Arctic Doomsday Seed Vault · · Score: 0

    If humans have been wiped out, the packages should recreate an environment condusive to human life once more. What makes you so sure that humans as a species will evolve again? That's the thing about extinction....it's permanent. If whatever catastrophe that this vault is being built for eradicates human life, it will probably drive numerous other species into extinction as well.
  17. Re:how, exactly on Texas Science Director Forced To Resign Over ID Statements · · Score: 0

    Actually, some bacteria can become resistant over the course of its short life. Many antibacterial resistance genes are contained on plasmids; lots of different kinds of bacteria have mechanisms of transferring plasmids among individual bacteria, and they are also known to pick up and internalize extracellular DNA.

  18. Sweet merciful crap!! on USAF Launch Supersonic Bomb Firing Technology · · Score: 1, Funny

    from a weapons bay with a size approximating that of the U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber I'm sure glad that we have planes with weapon bays that can hold a f&@%ing B-1 bomber!!!
  19. Re:Not so easy on Bill to Require Open Access to Scientific Papers · · Score: 0

    If your home institution is a PLoS Institutional Member , the publication fees are discounted, and there are fee waivers available as well.

  20. Re:RTFM on Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Kind of like how irregardless is not an acceptable word by most major dictionaries?

  21. Re:Screw the interface... on Google Begins "Gmail 2.0" Rollout · · Score: 1

    I get plenty of spam offering to help with with my attachment size.....

  22. Re:As suggested by Mark Twain on The Evolution of Language · · Score: 1

    I think this has already happened

  23. Re:You know the drill... on Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released · · Score: 1

    Fine, but when will the kernel get around to supporting bukkits?

  24. Re:Coelacanth on Rate of Evolution Metrics Observed · · Score: 1

    Rate of morphological evolution != rate of molecular evolution. In addition, most molecular evolution will have no outward effect on morphology.

  25. This has been known for 15 years on Rate of Evolution Metrics Observed · · Score: 1

    at the DNA level, so it would make sense that it applies to proteins as well. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=46451