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  1. Re:Relax on A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook · · Score: 1

    It might be that not _all_ people you will supposingly meet on such a party will think on these terms.

    A fair bunch of them could be under the same predicament as you, not really appreciate most of facebook's policies, possibly be of the opposite sex, and may very much so enjoy using sex toys.

  2. And he did very well in excluding it on Brain-Scan Lie Detection Rejected By Brooklyn Court · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wouldn't be sure to trust this brain energy pattern recognition for a verdict- as far as I am concerned, it is much better to cut loose someone that _might_ be guilty, than to convict someone that is not.

  3. No porn; there has been a hearing on this on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor · · Score: 1

    This was no porn. As the Senate heard, this was a CLASSIFIED about a CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED, that in lack of CLASSIFIED it was necessary to CLASSIFIED the CLASSIFIED before the CLASSIFIED could become CLASSIFIED.

    Isn't it clear now?

  4. Re:The "tanning" gene ! on Aphid's Color Comes From a Fungus Gene · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine of all those green people posing as magenta people.

  5. The Butterfly Effect on "Lost" and the Emergence of Hypertext Storytelling · · Score: 1

    .. just to mention one.

    I have noticed that many people expect publicity when they combine words together that had not been widely combined before (like 'hypertext' and 'storytelling'). Personally, I think this is a lame practice, but I am not surprised as I've seen over and over again marketing and media people engaging (and competing) in it.

    Personally, I so far enjoy the LOST story- I think it got its considerable publicity because back on when it premiered, all these 'survivor'-like big brother reality shows were under the spotlight, and not because it featured 'hypertext storytelling' (tm). People just saw a plane crash, surviors, pretty ladies, a set of interesting flashbacks, and no sign of soap opera & scifi and/or supernatural (those were introduced later).

  6. Bridge what gap? on Blurring Lines — Dual Core Atom To Lift Netbooks · · Score: 1

    You're getting something really attractive in the $600 range for better-performing notebooks

    I'd rather get a really attractive netbook in the $300 range- I am not interested into 'bridging the gap' between netbooks and notebooks.

  7. Re:Not testable on Life's Building Blocks Found On Asteroid 24 Themis · · Score: 1

    If a rock 100 odd km across has organics and water what in the world make anyone think that a rock over 6000 km in diameter formed from the same primordial material would have have none?

    because the primordial material that they formed from is not necessarily homogenized; as an example, objects that form beyond the 'snowline' (sufficiently away from the stars/protostars radiation for water to be solid) will contain more so-called volatiles.

    And there is more; gravitational instabilities cause planetary migration, which in turn may cause further gravitational instabilities, resulting into collisions that re-distribute material (and planets) and may very well hurl towards the 'inner' solar system a massive number of previously behind-the-snowline formed objects (thus possibly rich in volatiles) causing a 'catastrophic event'-- in this solar system's case, this is nicknamed the 'Late Heavy Bombardment', a situation currently undergoing research to figure out whether it is something common to be expected in planetary-forming regions-- a 'stage', if you will (and, in a case of a system that now escapes my memory, thought to have been captured on a telescope).

    On the LHB itsself, what ballistics confirm (with some tolerance on constraints) is that such an event possibly occured; futhermore, most of the water would stay on an Earth-sized planet, but not on a Mars-sized one

    I am not sure what 'leading theory' you are refering to, but there is a belief (almost verifiable by simulations) that initial stratification of the volatiles in the proto-planetary-or-whatever disk is the reason that the inner planets are rocky and the outer ones are not. As far as I know, the theory for planetary formation is far from complete, as there are many parameters interplaying, and some still untackled issues (to the best of my knowledge, there as of yet no computer simulation that "manages" to form km-sized particles from mm-sized particles).

  8. Re:Why So Much Focus on Cows? on The Mystery of the Missing Methane · · Score: 1

    ... but the vega-hippies still would complain

    Actually we dumped all hippies in a place called "Sanaf Aran Siskh' oh" millenia ago; they complained too much.

    --

    Microsoft car: We have noticed you are in the process of crashing. Would you want your airbags deployed?

  9. Re:Planetary thinking detected. on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    Actually, they'd probably find the metals under our crust to be useful.

    What if they're not after metals? What if they're after living beings?

  10. Re:This passes for thesis research these days? on Hacking Big Brother With Help From Revlon · · Score: 1

    Oh yea. By far. I've seen much worse.

    Not sure what you mean by 'that $100,000 education', but if you are refering to fees that students pay, this is not always the case- some pretty awesome Universities/institutes out of the US of A (yes, there IS life out of 'merickuh) have no fees at all. And some will actually compensate you for being a student.

    Now, some of them (usually 'low caliber' ones) will push their students for publication of papers, just so that some lazy-ass supervisor will be able to publish his/her own name on a paper for the Nth time that year- you see, in the academia your paper may get more credible according to how many times it has been cited on other papers. Unfortunately this sets forth a kind of publishing frenzy that inevitably lowers the standards and, especially on IT, you can appear to be a genius (by mere 'bodycount' of your publications) while you can well be, in fact, a douche.

  11. 2 obvious ways around this.. on Hacking Big Brother With Help From Revlon · · Score: 1

    .. would be a DROP DATABASE statement literally On Your Face, or a 'Groucho Marx' set. (now THAT would be hilarious)

  12. Re:What's The Point? on Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    The point is (at least one of them) making them damn hard to forge. I've seen 3D ribbons like the one described in TFA, a feature that chalenges one's perception a bit with the way it waves on and about (at least until you get used to it) and really stands out.

    The € bills don't implementet it, but it is my understanding that there are other mechanisms in place, much more subtle-- magnetized ink, miniscule amounts of radioactive isotopes on the big bill(s), and a bunch more that I shouldn't mention.

  13. Re:Wish we had 'em. on Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    Then work for 'em, boy.

  14. Re:Speech interface on Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts · · Score: 1

    .. I can type way faster than I can talk..

    .. which is good for you, but maybe not the case for everybody- the question here is spicing up the shell, not oral activities --eating or otherwise =P

  15. Re:I guess? on Fatal Flaw Discovered In Invisibility Cloaks · · Score: 1

    Depends on the size and type of warhead

    Indeed. It has to be a nanometer-sized warhead

  16. Speech interface on Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts · · Score: 1

    I've added some speech recognition (Computer! Terminal.)- crude, but mostly works. Also I find it extremely efficient for mass-image manipulation, combining my rendered frames to a video, backing-up, and (I love that one) grepping & awking. Plus, usage of sleep & beep (^G) are only limited by your imagination.

  17. Re:bankers take on the grounded flights on Volcanic Ash Heading Towards North America · · Score: 1

    This joke is old. Awesome, but 4 days old. Actually, it was posted on the thread where I posted "it may happen to you too", and I mention that the cloud may soon hit north America. I also included nice satellite pic links. But no, no points for me. Although I DO use linux, you insensitive clods. Now I'll start using car analogies. You understand that In Soviet Russia this would NEVER happen. Let me fix that for me: I'll start acting like the comedian.

  18. It can happen to you too on Iceland Volcano's Ash Grounds European Air Travel · · Score: 1

    Iceland being more or less halfway between the main continents of the western civilization, means that the northen part of the american continent may be affected directly (directly, as in visible ash on the sky, and stuffed in the engines); see this animation http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/dmi_foelger_asken_fra_grimsvotn (text in danish) from the Danish Meteorologic Institute for an event of little over 5 years ago. Unless you want to start using zepellins all over again, I suggest you, for one, welcome your Icelandic overlords.

  19. sat imagery on Iceland Volcano's Ash Grounds European Air Travel · · Score: 1

    A nice picture here: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/iceland-volcano-plume.html Check also the official UK advisory with 'affected area' maps http://metoffice.com/aviation/vaac/vaacuk_vag.html

  20. Re:Capitalism on Russia Doubles Price For Launching US Astronauts · · Score: 1

    You did not see that comink?

  21. Re:3...2...1... Wake up! on iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked · · Score: 1

    Practically impossible, yes, unless you get approval from the apple store. Nothing else is implied here (can't say the same for your nickname)

  22. Re:No ads please on iPhone OS 4.0 Brings Multitasking, Ad Framework For Apps · · Score: 1

    If it's successful expect Android to follow suit.

    You mean lawsuit?

  23. Re:Pardon my pedanticism... on Grounded Russian Nuclear Sub Photographed With Sonar · · Score: 1

    Photongraph, not 'photograph'

  24. Re:3...2...1... Wake up! on iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked · · Score: 1

    Oh, and if you only need to "deploy" over a few machines, or within your organization, you don't need no steekin' approval.

    You really see yourself running your custom apps in a bunch of iPads as a triviality?

  25. Re:3...2...1... Wake up! on iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked · · Score: 1

    Develop? Maybe. Deploy? Not 'till Apple clears 'ya