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  1. Re:Interesting.. on Torvalds "Pretty Pleased" With Latest GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Slow news day? :)

    Reverse psychology? "Torvalds 'Outraged' With Latest GPLv3" wouldn't be interesting.

  2. Re:Chili? Russion? on Space Debris Narrowly Misses Airliner · · Score: 1

    Chili?

    That's the flaming version of Chile (the icy version, of course, being "Chilly".)

  3. Re:The top 10 things you don't want to see... on Leaked Microsoft Dossier on Journalist · · Score: 1

    Take out with extreme prejudice

    You misspelt "fucking kill".

  4. Re:Big Brother alive and well in the UK on Mind How You Walk - Someone is Watching · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why don't the brits use an article there?

    Hey, it's their language...

    Do you "go to bed", or "go to THE bed"? "Go to hell", or "go to THE hell?" etc.

    As a counter argument, why do (some) Americans say "I'm going to the mall; you want to go with?" Go with what, bells on?

  5. Re:Colorblind posters wanted on Single Gene Gives Mice Three-Color Vision · · Score: 1

    They' quite different for me, but my colour vision is probably akin to adjusting the colour temperature on your monitor. Except for extreme cases like the "colour blindness" tests, I don't notice any issues with my colour vision.

  6. Re:Colorblind posters wanted on Single Gene Gives Mice Three-Color Vision · · Score: 1

    Did you want colour blind test images, or people with colour blindness?

    I probably have protanomaly. Distinguishing red and green isn't a problem at all, but I do see different shades of red and brown to other people (e.g. cheap Rubik's cubes with a darker shade of red than the original look maroon to me.) On one occasion, a normal sighted birdwatcher pointed out a Scarlet Robin in a tree that I couldn't see until I looked at it through binoculars, when the bird "popped out" with it's bright red breast. Without binoculars again, I couldn't pick up the red until I got closer and reached my red detection threshold.

    On the test images linked about I see: 25, (20/29), (15/45), 56, spots, and (5). The numbers in brackets are where I can see something, but the number doesn't stand out clearly. The other test looks like a pale, but broken, 5 to me.

  7. Re:David v. Goliath? on Intel vs. AMD - Today's Generation Compared · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kudos to AMD: without you Intel's CPUs for sure would have costed $2500 a piece.

    ... and a choice between either a 32-bit Pentium 4 or an Itanium. AMD's greatest contribution was bringing 64-bit CPUs to the x86 masses - without abandoning 32-bit compatibility.

  8. Re:Could someone explain? on RIAA Balks At Complying With Document Order · · Score: 1

    Law firms tend to be fairly secretive about what they bill, and how long it takes them to do things.

    "For as long as the client is prepared to pay" is a secret??

  9. Re:RTFA, baby. on Gifted Children Find Heavy Metal Comforting · · Score: 1

    I'd say there might be some flaws in this "study". :)

    The author didn't listen to enough heavy metal?

  10. News? on Organism Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex · · Score: 1

    How is this news? The fact that bdelloid rotifers have remained asexual for over 40 million years is not news e.g. an article from 2000.

  11. Re:What does it do? on Google Snaps Up Stats Tool from Swedish Charity · · Score: 3, Funny

    The animated mapping of stats at http://tools.google.com/gapminder is a little more illustrative.

    So now it's lies, damn lies, and Pacman on acid?

  12. Re:Isn't that ..... on MS Security Guy Wants Vista Bugs Rated Down · · Score: 1

    remember that you can get Vista Ultimate for as little as $399.95.

    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

  13. Re:Assertion without facts in evidence... on Life with a Lethal Gene · · Score: 1

    There may be a hundred or so "dead" people currently in cryonic suspension.

    You mean a hundred or so frozen dead people, since there's no cryonic unsuspension process; ask Ötzi.

    You get old, you die; get over it, and enjoy it while it lasts.

  14. Re:news? on Caves on Mars? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    a lava tube would have the possibility of being sealed and an atificial atmosphere created for habitation.

    Given that lava tubes appear to be prime habitat for any potential life on Mars, pumping one full of toxic oxygen raises a few ethical issues.

  15. Re:I want more. on New Hydrogen Storage Technique · · Score: 1

    the problem is finding enough porn to keep the engine killing the kittens..

    The kittens have to be alive for the engine to purr...

  16. Re:Where is the water these bubbles came from? on Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing · · Score: 1

    He used the analogy that they were like bubbles in the water. Ok, where did the water come from?

    Which part of "analogy" did you not understand? Presumably you want to know where the "ether" that light waves wave in came from, too.

  17. Re:A towel!! on Gadgets You Backpack Around the World With? · · Score: 1

    Make sure you pack a towel. (and GPS!)

    If you fit it with one of these, you'll always know where your towel is.

  18. Re:I want more. on New Hydrogen Storage Technique · · Score: 1

    "...massive arrays of hydrogen fueled kitten engines could be the basis for a future energy economy."

    An engine that runs on kittens? Count me in!

  19. Re:AHA! on Why Exercise Boosts Brainpower · · Score: 1

    (Doesn't explain Stallone though).

    Growth hormones - he's facing court in Australia (delayed for six weeks) for illegal importation of 48 vials of Jintropin.

  20. OneCare? on Windows Live OneCare Can Eat Your Email · · Score: 2, Funny

    OneCare - from the same onomatopoeic geniuses that thought up the "Wang Cares" campaign?

  21. Re:Watch out on Microsoft Responds to DOT Ban on Vista, Office, IE · · Score: 1

    - BSA software audit in 5, 4, 3 ...

  22. Re:Genetics? No way on Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity? · · Score: 1

    Actually, for every 2 people that becomes an atheist, there's about 1 that finds religion.

    They're the ones that looked down the back of the sofa/couch, right?

  23. Re:Obligatory... on Purdue Unveils a Tricorder · · Score: 1

    On the plus side, if you get involved in any shirtless hand-to-hand combat with strangely humanoid aliens, you won't have to go looking for any styrofoam rocks.

    ... but only if you fight in slow motion. "It's inertia, Jim."

  24. Re:Things are way out of hand on Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia · · Score: 1

    "What if junior craws into the garage and starts the car because of what he done seen on teevee?"

    Junior doesn't need the keys - he's seen how to hotwire cars on TV, too.

  25. Re:Everybody knows on When Were the Americas Populated? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Measured by what metric?

    Yes; measuring in metric is the sign of all advanced cultures.