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  1. Re:Think of the positives! on Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie · · Score: 1

    Ah geez. I was going for humor here.

    Oh. No worries, then. I don't always catch the subtle ones.<shrug>

    The answer I was expecting was "The guy sitting in front of Peewee Herman."

    <facepalm> Wow. :-)

  2. Re:Could that possibly be any more misleading? on Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped · · Score: 1

    Isn't that basically what the "Corepirate Illuminati Nazi" poster does? (Speaking of which, I haven't seen them in a while. It's been a nice break) It's kinda interesting the way they try to connect their incoherent rant with the topic of the article. It's tricked me a couple times, at least until I get to that signature phrase above.

  3. Re:Picky, picky, picky on Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Well said.

  4. Re:So do I... on Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped · · Score: 1

    Here, you can share mine; I didn't catch it either.


    Whoooosh!

  5. Re:So do I... on Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped · · Score: 1

    You'll have to wait in a bit of a queue...

  6. Re:Think of the positives! on Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie · · Score: 1

    Well, the AC GP asked if there had EVER been a murder in a theater. Supplying one example was sufficient evidence for that.

    You want a second person? Here are two through four (funny what a few seconds of Googling can turn up). The article doesn't say whether they were shot in the back of the head or not. Also, there were apparently three others injured.

    HTH. HAND.

  7. Re:Think of the positives! on Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie · · Score: 1

    mutter, mutter, mutter...

    HERE!

  8. Re:opposing piston, opposing cylinder engine on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 2, Informative

    You present a coherent and well-reasoned explanation of the materials considerations in an internal combustion engine. Unfortunately, your base assumption is indeed flawed. Metals are typically much stronger in tension, in practice.

    The problem is buckling. The metal is so flexible that a slight lateral disturbance can cause an axially loaded member to collapse. To prevent this, the member is made much thicker than you would need just to support the compression.

  9. Re:A little more on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't you mean C:\DOS> ?

  10. Re:What is the point? on New York Judge Rules 6-Year-Old Can Be Sued · · Score: 2, Funny

    A jury of her peers, right? Can you imagine trying to get a dozen four-year-olds to sit still for ten minutes, much less through a whole trial?

    And then there would be the potty breaks, the snack breaks, the "he looked at me funny" breaks, the "she's touching me" breaks... yeah, I would also say go for a jury trial. That would be hilarious.

  11. Re:Luxury! on Time To Rethink the School Desk? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Feh.

    We didn't even have a building. We held school out in the open; under a tree if we were lucky. And no writing materials either: we just scrawled our equations, diagrams and other lecture notes in the dirt. And that was good enough for us.

    --Aristotle

  12. Re:Clueless on Pay Or Else, News Site Threatens · · Score: 1

    You read them? That seems like a masochistic way to obtain kindling; loading the articles should have been enough.

    Alternately: This is /.! You never RTFA, much less 100 of them!

  13. Re:Students will complain on Colleges May Start Forcing Switch To eTextbooks · · Score: 1

    Because everyone who signs up for a given course has a "book fee" automatically assessed at the start of the term. It doesn't stop piracy, per se, but it does ensure that the publishers get some cut for every student that "officially" uses the book.

    And don't for a minute think that these will be some friendly, DRM-free versions.

  14. Re:Phone Theft. on Facebook Introduces One-Time Passwords · · Score: 1

    Heh. Too bad for them my phone only has chess and tic-tac-toe installed. :-)

  15. Re:Nothing like the real mouse... on Gaming Mouse Changes Shape For a Custom Fit · · Score: 1

    Yeah... I think I'd name mine OHellNo.

  16. Re:If you have quad damage on Inventor Creates Flotation Device Bazooka · · Score: 1

    Of course, but you do have to be mindful of splash damage.

    I see what you did there.

  17. Re:Up to 150m you say? on Inventor Creates Flotation Device Bazooka · · Score: 3, Informative

    See, the problem with your invention is that it doesn't involve shooting a floaty-grenade launcher. Back to the drawing board with you!

    ;-)

  18. Re:Deal with it on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    1080 vertical pixels is all that you should need.

    NO! I want my 640k vertical pixels, dangit!

  19. Re:Turn that frown! on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 2, Funny

    :-(

    And then?

  20. Re:Rrelativity is involved on Rube Goldberg and the Electrification of America · · Score: 2, Informative

    His piece of iron has lots of MOVING electrons. The don't just sit there and slosh about the nucleus; they are in constant motion. When that motion becomes coherent (mostly moving the same direction, or rather with a similar angular momentum vector) you have a net electric current. It's just that the circuits are on an atomic scale.

    HTH

  21. Re:OH COME ON on Methane Survey Reveals Mars Is Far From 'Dead' · · Score: 1

    Personally my home is surrounded by 100 ft tall oxygen producers with lots more on the ground.

    Sounds like a nice place to live. :-)

  22. Re:Press release on NASA Creates an Alien's Eye View of Solar System · · Score: 1

    To add to what Flash Modin said: next time you have a chance*, note the orientation of the Milky Way in the sky. That's essentially the galactic "equator," and it doesn't line up with the ecliptic (the solar system's "equator"). So we have at least one example of a solar system that doesn't share its angular momentum vector with the galaxy.

    *Assuming you live in an area where you get such chances, of course.

  23. Wait a minute... on Microsoft Rumored To Buy Second Life · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't that imply they had a first?

  24. Re:where on the periodic table? on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    Putting e+ and e- memory together causes a matter-antimatter reaction and releases all magic smoke particles inside your neighborhood

    FTFY

  25. Re:Don't Eat That! on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 1

    So my copper wok is the best of both worlds?