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  1. Re:Skin is very porous. on Researchers Make Spiders Produce Silk Strengthened With Graphene · · Score: 1

    FTFY&H: Similarly if you laid in a bath of alcohol, with a oxygen mask, for long enough, you could get drunk by the body absorbing alcohol through your skin.

  2. Re:amazing on Intel Moving Forward With 10nm, Will Switch Away From Silicon For 7nm · · Score: 1

    Yes you do, you just don't think about it, but your brain needs to process a bazillion stuff just to keep you alive, and that doesn't even account for the massive amount of processing that goes into processing memes with cat pictures. The main difference is that your CPU was designed to handle a couple of large tasks really fast and your brain evolved to handle a truck load of small ones in parallel.

  3. Re:From Experience on "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon · · Score: 1

    I have backups, I don't worry about disaster I worry about something like BadUSB giving me an extra backup in Russia.

  4. Re:Chromium on Chrome 38 Released: New APIs and 159 Security Fixes · · Score: 1

    Yeah because everyone uses their browser only as a toy so can use an alpha version all day long.

  5. Re:Offline editing on tablets would be very nice, on Google Shifts Editing From Drive to Docs and Sheets In 'Confusing' Switch · · Score: 1

    The two new apps are also for android. For now it they have kept the drive app functionality intact, but I think they will remove it on the next update

  6. Coherence on Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    So this means we will have an open skype protocol really soon right?

  7. Re:IonMonkey, JagerMonkey, TraceMonkey, SpiderMonk on Firefox 18 Beta Out With IonMonkey JavaScript Engine · · Score: 1

    I would prefer a more efficient lower level intermediate language, common to every browser that could be targeted by more languages.

  8. Re:Prior Comments on Unity Criticism on Ask Mark Shuttleworth Anything · · Score: 1

    I don't understand what you mean by window went. You are talking about minimization? The reason the dash shows by default nowadays?

  9. Re:Unity? on Ask Mark Shuttleworth Anything · · Score: 2

    Usability testing instead of guess work?

  10. Re:Prior Comments on Unity Criticism on Ask Mark Shuttleworth Anything · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Don't let your girlfriend near Windows 8... Or Mac OS... Or elementary... Or any other OS that doesn't follow Windows 3.11 conventions.

  11. Re:The Y2K bug was REAL on NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 · · Score: 1

    My a suggest using a different bank?

  12. Re:Sounds improbable on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that there are already databases with DNA profiles collision between unrelated individuals, I bet the probability of a collision in a such a small region is astronomically higher.

  13. Re:In other news.. on Microsoft Sponsors Linux Foundation Event · · Score: 1

    Most of the other versions of Windows are retarded, not lobotomized.

  14. Re:In other news.. on Microsoft Sponsors Linux Foundation Event · · Score: 1

    When did Microsoft shave 3gb from Windows RT?

  15. Re:In other news.. on Microsoft Sponsors Linux Foundation Event · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they also have a stand alone versions, that has only a lobotomized version of windows.

  16. Re:In other news.. on Microsoft Sponsors Linux Foundation Event · · Score: 1

    HyperV is a bare metal hypervisor, it doesn't run on Windows. I don't know how good it is because I've never used it.

  17. Re:/check_calendar on Microsoft Sponsors Linux Foundation Event · · Score: 1

    They want to sell HyperV, nothing new here.

  18. Re:In other news.. on Microsoft Sponsors Linux Foundation Event · · Score: 5, Informative

    HyperV. Microsoft wants to sell it.

  19. Re:Everyone loves a winner. on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obama is slightly less likely to do things like starting a WW3. Besides that in most of the world Obama would be seen as a right wing politician, so do your math to find where that would put Romney.

  20. Re:It's MS ignoring users, Yahoo&DNT want user on Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track" · · Score: 1

    The DNT standard was based on good faith of all parts, and it's better than the previous situation in which you had to use drastic measures to opt out of tracking. If browsers turn the flag on by default, websites will just ignore it and you will be right back where you started.

  21. Re:So on Linux Foundation Offers Solution for UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    We are pretending that uefi doesn't have cryptographic functions to help with this?

  22. Re:Facebook has products? on How Noah Kagan Got Fired From Facebook and Lost $100 Million · · Score: 2

    Technically you are the supplier and your attention the product.

  23. Re:Uhhh well a different view... on Free Font Helps People With Dyslexia · · Score: 1

    I read that in the sense that everybody can get distracted some times, but you only have ADHD when you get distracted so easily it affects your capacity do many things.

  24. Re:I'd leave my wifi open on Nebraska Sheriff Wardriving, Sending Letters About Unsecured Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    In some places you are legally responsible for what people do with your internet connection.

  25. Re:U.S. law still applies on File-Sharing For Personal Use Declared Legal In Portugal · · Score: 1

    Portugal doesn't extradite portuguese citizens, it's a constitutional matter.