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  1. Re:eh... on Google Donates $2 Million To the Wikimedia Foundation · · Score: 1

    download wikipedia and mirror it elsewhere if Google does buy...

  2. Re:Photoshop without patent problems! on Photoshop 1.0 Recreated On iPhone · · Score: 1

    how do patents work in america?

  3. Re:And this is how we die on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    I'd be embarrassed to be a student there, but I passed the ELPE test.
    Considering 20% of that 30% are international students (I work at admissions), it isn't really that bad if you consider them ESL...

  4. Re:Because on Why Has No One Made a Great Gaming Phone? · · Score: 1

    I'm not opening a laptop in a crowded subway train 8:30 in the morning to play a sudoku game on my way to work.

    Newspapers are bigger than laptops.
    You get the idea.

  5. Re:xna on Novell Bringing .Net Developers To Apple iPad · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't.

  6. Re:Perfect explanation on Neurons Created Directly From Skin Cells · · Score: 1

    > Some become suicidally depressed.

    [citation needed]

  7. Re:Marketshare gains misleading... on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 1

    Others would think of doing that with an onclick event, not a href attribute containing javascript.

  8. Re:Uh oh... on CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time · · Score: 1

    what is 4chan?

  9. Re:Use fascist GPOs on German Government Advises Public To Stop Using IE · · Score: 1

    huh? In our untrusted zone, IE can't:

    - run

  10. Re:A stinging lesson on German Government Advises Public To Stop Using IE · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Superpowers on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    3. ...

    4. Pay everyone...

    5. ???

    6. PROFIT!

  12. Re:Cryo! on NASA To Cryogenically Freeze Satellite Mirrors · · Score: 1

    Carbon monoxide overdose is another way. You basically fall asleep and your brain dies from lack of oxygen. This is super cheap.

    I didn't quite like the smell of the smoke that comes with it. It took me three whole bags of charcoal to kill myself, but I guess it was all worth it.

  13. Re:Summary wrong on Golden Ratio Discovered In a Quantum World · · Score: 1

    proving without the use of limits! you must be a god here!

  14. Re:What is the magic word. on Acer Recalls 22,000 Notebooks Due To Burn Hazard · · Score: 1

    Gosh, that Italian family at the next table sure is quiet

  15. Re:Ninja pirates. on Scientists Turn Wood Into Bone · · Score: 1

    No effect on global warming if you send them up the cloud.

  16. Re:Not the case on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    how far down the line would you stop caring? Say if you get a reaction at 1mg of peanuts, or 1ppm, or 1ppb...

  17. Re:Own fault on Monty Wants To Save MySQL · · Score: 1

    oooh right I get it now!

  18. Re:On the other hand... on At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    as ipv6 uptake accelerates

    ipv4 uptake will dramatically decelerate

    Which one happens first?

  19. Yes on Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? · · Score: 1

    We trust our developers as much as we trust our admins. Actually, I trust our developers more than our admins, but the admins already have the highest privilege.

  20. Re:Does a bigger brain really mean higher IQ? on Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ · · Score: 1

    more potential = more percentage of those with bigger brain with said IQ so yes, unless the brain's structure is seriously different (which ... in this case ... you may guess it isn't) IQ will be expected higher than that of us.

  21. Re:Open Office is there on MS Issues Word Patch To Comply With Court Order · · Score: 1

    We didn't have so many computer users a decade ago, nor did we have technology so advanced.

    People could just change whatever they liked and others would imagine they were just "another printing problem". With paranoid antiphishers out there, you can't do that today.

  22. Re:Result on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    I don't know? How long did you need to use an iPhone 3G before its battery blows up?

  23. Re:Yes, Santa hates Linux on Does Santa Hate Linux? · · Score: 1

    No he doesn't. He just mailed me a wrapped kubuntu CD.

  24. Re:heat can be used to power stuff on Body Heat Energy Generation · · Score: 1

    The news here is how small the heat gradient we're working with.

  25. Re:Users of alternative e-book readers rejoice. on Amazon Kindle Proprietary Format Broken · · Score: 1

    somehow they spelt "loss" just fine. "loss" is a good way of remembering where it came from: "lose".