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  1. Re:What makes this a gigafactory? on Tesla and Panasonic Have Reached an Agreement On the Gigafactory · · Score: 1

    I imagine Terafactory would only cause more confusion between tera and terra.

  2. Re:First "OMG the common sense" post on Judge Frees "Cannibal Cop" Who Shared His Fantasies Online · · Score: 2

    I would think the fantasizing, "I am going to have to use the database to find someone who fits these parameters" would be the fantasy, and actually using the database to find someone who meets the target requirements would be the overt act.

  3. Re:Noah's Ark Story on New Evidence For Oceans of Water Deep In the Earth · · Score: 1

    I imagine if anything the Zanclean flood is more likely the root of the Noah story aside from the timeline mismatch.

    I'm not saying it was aliens... but it was aliens.

  4. Re:Progenitors? on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 1

    Unless of course it had a radius about 4 times that of earth.

  5. Re:Fictitious forces are still very real on New Car Can Lean Into Curves, Literally · · Score: 1

    But, the comic says centrifugal force! It doesn't say anything about inertia and the normal force. And everything I read in a comic is true.

  6. Re:Free MOVIÃ$ on Web Browsing Isn't Copyright Infringement, Rules EU Court of Justice · · Score: 2

    So you add a browser extension where you click on a torrent link it starts loading the movie in the browser. Brilliant!

  7. Re:Ye Gods, an Ad on Crucial Launches MX100 SSD At Well Under 50 Cents Per GiB · · Score: 1

    I think maybe the idea is that in 5 years when it wears out the new tech available will be so much better you'd want to replace the drive anyway.

  8. Re:Why? on Solar Roadways Project Beats $1M Goal, Should Enter Production · · Score: 1

    Are you referring to the estimate from 2010? Other than that I can't find any numbers.

  9. Re:Why? on Solar Roadways Project Beats $1M Goal, Should Enter Production · · Score: 1

    Oh cool, they put out a cost analysis? I hadn't thought they were putting it out until July.

  10. Re:I'm so excited on Huawei Successfully Tests New 802.11ax WiFi Standard At 10.53Gbps · · Score: 1

    How about the Dewalt DW616?

  11. Re:Sorry on ANTVR - China's Answer To Oculus Rift Is Raising Funds · · Score: 1

    Who are you talking about? The NSA?

  12. Re: Pretty much on Congressmen Who Lobbied FCC Against Net Neutrality & Received Payoff · · Score: 1

    That is an interesting idea. Split up the district's vote by however many people are in the district, and whatever parts aren't used directly by the people, gets used by the representatives vote. Or that could be displayed to the representative before they themselves vote to inform them of what the constituents want.

    Then when it rolls around to re-election, you can see how often they voted against their constituents wishes in favor of the lobbyist.

  13. Big data found her? on Opting Out of Big Data Snooping: Harder Than It Looks · · Score: 5, Informative

    It doesn't say big data still found her anywhere in the article. She made no mention of evidence that they had, despite the Uncle sending a congratulations message on Facebook.

    Was there more to story than just the article on Time where she said her measures weren't able to keep the information private?

  14. Re:Africa, eh? on Racing To Contain Ebola · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's where the ancestors of everyone hail from.

  15. Re: Farmville! on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    Yes: Van Eck Phreaking

  16. Re:tl;dr on How Tutankhamun's DNA Became a Battleground · · Score: 1

    Jaffa were genetically altered humans made to have pouches to incubate baby Goa'uld. Straight up humans are required to actually 'host' a Goa'uld, and human babies born to Goa'uld hosts share some of the genetic memory of the Goa'uld parents if the implication was that Mitt Romney was evil due to sharing the Goa'uld DNA, then no it wouldn't be Jaffa.

  17. Re:Value on Blizzard To Sell Level 90 WoW Characters For $60 · · Score: 1

    There really isn't a difference based on race, any given zone is the pretty much same for a Charr as it is for an Asura etc. Also of note, after level 30 things converge, and all 5 of your characters would be going through one of three options for Vigil, Whispers or Priory. And then after that, those funnel into the Pact.
    That said, completing, even if not in their entirety the starter zones for other races is a good/easy way to level, as the XP scales with you, and it's a good way to get skill points while starting.
    But for the record, doing multiple characters like that isn't always the best way to get a feel for a character, as a number of them you don't even really get a feel for until after level 40 when you unlock the second tier of traits. I found doing one at a time works better for me, then when you do go back to the newb zones, it will have been long enough ago that repeating it isn't as bad either.

  18. Re:Frog is boiling.... on Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches · · Score: 2

    Whatever they 'find' in the house.

  19. Re:Still abusive on Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS · · Score: 1

    Then VAC won't be running.

  20. Re:obligatory xkcd... on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 1

    Of course this one is also relevant.
    http://xkcd.com/1022/

  21. Re:The Problem on Marc Andreessen On Why Bitcoin Matters (And A Critique) · · Score: 1

    Yes, infinity is always shrinking, but luckily there is still plenty of infinity left. You just keep dividing the remaining bit coin values, which now have more value themselves, and whatever of those that get lost in the future are smaller than the 1 you lost earlier. That's the beauty of infinity.

  22. Re:It would work on Hacker Took Over BBC Server, Tried To Sell Access On Christmas Day · · Score: 1

    Well a children's bedtime story should have slapstick shouldn't it?

  23. Will it blend? on A Flood of Fawning Reviews For Apple's Latest · · Score: 4, Funny

    But the question we all want to know the answer to is: will it blend?

  24. Re:The "eight fundamental emotions" on Text Analyzer Reveals Emotional 'Temperature' of Novels and Fairy Tales · · Score: 2

    That is a rather limited way to look at satisfaction. Relief, catharsis, vengeance, schadenfreude, comeuppance to name a few could all be descriptive of something satisfactory, but might not cross over into joy so much.

  25. Re:Retroactive Evidence ;) on Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1

    Well, a 50 cal bullet is a WMD then.