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  1. Re:Become a porn secret santa on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Does he live in Redmond, by any chance?

  2. Re:Military in the administrative sense? on China's New Military Space Stations Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    It is interesting that they'd see some value in building two manned stations.

    R&D

  3. Re:China is the real enemy on China's New Military Space Stations Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    China in the 2000's could plausibly go on the rampage a bit like Japan in the 1930s.

    They are running out of time to meet that deadline...

  4. Re:"Great news?" on YouTube To Block Music Videos In the UK · · Score: 1

    Like Rick Astley?

  5. Re:The Moon: A Ridiculous Liberal Myth on ISS To Become Second Brightest-Object In the Sky · · Score: 1

    That publication is from the 1970s.

    Oh, and:

    God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
    Gen 1:16

  6. Re:Moore's Law on 24x DVD Burners Hit the Market · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, Mythbusters had to use rotational speeds that were several times what a real drive will do. 300x or so?

    How new/high quality were the discs they were testing? A disc coming from a fresh cakebox is likely to do better than an old disc.

  7. Re:Moore's Law on 24x DVD Burners Hit the Market · · Score: 1

    The faster yuo burn the more "sloppy" the burning is on the disk.

    The same could be said of typing...

  8. Re:Good reason to get shut on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    I think I might have a sister, but I haven't gone up to ground level for a few decades so I could be wrong.

  9. Re:How many bones on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 1

    Curious. Your post prompted me to have a conversation with Eliza, copied here:

    You: How many bones are in the human body?
    Eliza: Does that question interest you?

    You: yes
    Eliza: You are sure?

    You: ye
    Eliza: Please go on.

    You: It does interest me
    Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?

    You: I need to know how many bones are in the human body
    Eliza: Why do you want to know what many bones are in the human body?

    I typed: I have a biology paper due tomorrow\
    ELiza heard:
    You: why do you say your vagina
    Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?

  10. Re:Lojban on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lojban allows for ambiguity, but in such a way that the listener can recognize that the statement is incomplete.

  11. Re:That's pretty cool. on NASA's Kepler Telescope Launched Successfully · · Score: 1

    So single or dual-generation colony ships are feasible if you go fast enough, but the journey is even more one-way than the Altantic crossing to the British Colonies. At least relativity would make trans-planetary governance difficult, preventing humanity's eggs from being kept all in one basket.

  12. Re:Why not? on Windows 7 Kill Switch For IE Confirmed — For More Apps, Too · · Score: 1

    Would someone care to explain the Troll mod?
    Preferably the mod himself...

  13. Re:Before people say that Illinois is stupid on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 1

    #3 is the problem with Pluto with its orbit crossing Neptune once the time gets right and Neptune gets to close it will just Suck up Pluto and not the other way around. So even it Pluto was the size of the earth if it was where Pluto is now it wouldn't be considered a planet.

    I think Charon is a more pressing issue than Neptune...

  14. Re:Before people say that Illinois is stupid on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 1

    Claim that it has more in common with e.g. Neptune than with Makemake? If so, they're WRONG

    Considering that Makemake is a boulder and Neptune is a cloud, one could argue that Earth has more in common with Makemake than Neptune.

  15. Re:Too right! on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 1

    There was plenty of consensus before they stepped in.

    There are a half-dozen other objects that are in the same ballpark of Pluto in terms of size. Including Charon (which is big enough that their center of gravity is above Pluto's surface). If Pluto is a planet, so are they. Problem is that these objects are more easily labeled as large asteroids.

  16. Re:No Case Under US Law on Timetable App Developer Gets Nastygram From Transit Sydney · · Score: 1

    Those are murders that have been identified as such. It can't account for murders successfully rigged as suicides or accidents). What is the "accidental" death-by-being-crowded-off-the-platform rate?

    (Entirely tongue-in-cheek)

  17. Re:I would say the latter... on S3 Linux Driver Outperforms Its Windows Twin In Nexuiz · · Score: 1

    IOW, it's possible that the Windows drivers perform better on other games.

    Like Nethack.
    Although more seriously: Actually testing whether Windows drivers perform better on other games is rather unfeasible. True 1:1 comparisons are limited to games that exist onto both platforms (Doom, Nexuiz, BZFlag...). Anything else starts depends on the quality of WINE.

  18. Re:Why not? on Windows 7 Kill Switch For IE Confirmed — For More Apps, Too · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can get this same sort of thing in linux using the ln.

    For Debian-based systems, just drop the relevant .deb in /var/cache/apt/archives/

  19. Not Cthulu? on ISS's Node 3 Might Be Named "Colbert" · · Score: 1

    n/t

  20. Re:Linux users are steers and queers on America's New CIO Loves Google · · Score: 1

    rejected by women

    There, fixed that for you

  21. Re:Not a source on Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads · · Score: 1

    I'd much rather keep them on the web than on my sidewalk.

    Because you are on the web more, right?

  22. Re:Mozilla Foundation Must Sue! on State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe · · Score: 1

    Look at the state of their servers now. The best defense is a good offense...

  23. Re:Very smart indeed on State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe · · Score: 1

    Steps 2 and 3 would force Step 4 to be "Replace fried servers". I don't see the Profit in that.

  24. Re:MOD PARENT UP on State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe · · Score: 1

    Ten hours after the story went live, the /Skills page now shows a 404 and the main page shows a Runtime Error.

  25. Re:Another reason on State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe · · Score: 1

    I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.

    Beyond the Sword?