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  1. Re:Well then... on Solar Storms Could Bring Northern Lights South · · Score: 1

    Sorry, latitudes.

  2. Re:Well then... on Solar Storms Could Bring Northern Lights South · · Score: 1

    Southern Europe is roughly between the longitudes of Milwaukee and Memphis.

  3. Re:Esperanto on Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet · · Score: 1
  4. Re:I have to deal with this all the time.... on The Right's War On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The only way this would be possible is if the American conservative is now so far to the right that they make even the most notoriously right-wing party of all time look liberal.

  5. Re:Why is OSS A Criteria? on Best Open Source Genealogy Software? · · Score: 1

    I think it's an issue of OP not understanding the difference between free and open source.

  6. Re:Cut YouCut on 'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget · · Score: 2

    But we NEED a mach 8 railgun!

    How else are we going to stop the terrorists?

  7. Re:Cut YouCut on 'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here's an article from Wired.

    It doesn't directly mention NSF, but rather specific scientific research which can be construed as frivolous.

  8. Re:Actually, I'd say it's worse than that on Why Special Effects No Longer Impress · · Score: 1

    This is why the car chase from Death Proof is probably the best one in recent years.

    The problem is that not many directors have the say-so or even the desire to direct a real car chase.

  9. Re:We can fix that. on Study Suggests Saturn's Rings Made By Ancient Moon Death Spiral · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that this is more applicable, in this instance.

  10. Re:In my day we used 14.4kbps dial-up modems... on 68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband · · Score: 1

    You act like you have to be old (and had to have been aware of /.) in order to have had 14.4kbps.

    I'm 23 and I remember being ecstatic to upgrade to a 28.8kbps modem.

    Also, I've been here for less than two years.

  11. Re:Solar powered eh... on Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets · · Score: 1

    Shocking!

  12. Re:D-pad on Gamers Abandoning DS, PSP In Favor of Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Fuck the world?

  13. Re:Sad day on Empire Strikes Back Director Irvin Kershner Dies at 87 · · Score: 1

    Did you make sure it was poorly worded, and that is contained small technical errors and misrepresentations of the article?

    Otherwise, it will never make the front page.

  14. Re:Foxconn dorm doesn't look so bad on Google Preparing To Launch G-Town · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, but you probably had the ability to choose whether you would attend that university, live in that dorm, or leave campus.

  15. Re:Is this story for real? on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You obviously don't know me.

    However, unlike the iPhone, my alarm clock does adjust itself for daylight savings.

  16. Re:Quick Canada Lesson on CRTC To Allow Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1

    Neither of your facts refutes mine, or even disagrees with mine.

  17. Re:Pat down, or molest? on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    You're right. That is a stupid question.

    Please read the second word of GP's post.

  18. Re:Wanna check my balls? on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    But someone trying to sneak explosives onto the plane in their anal cavity will go through the scanners, and probably won't be caught.

  19. Re:Quick Canada Lesson on CRTC To Allow Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1

    Australia may have a lower population density than Canada, but Australia has a much higher urban population percentage.

    That is, about 8% of Australians are said to live in rural areas, while 19% of Canadians do.

  20. Re:More players = More money on Are Games Getting Easier? · · Score: 1

    If these are all lemmas, then what is the theorem they lead up to?

  21. Re:A Rather Terrible Analogy, There on Are Games Getting Easier? · · Score: 1

    Look, good against remotes is one thing. Good against the living? That's something else.

  22. Re:Wow on WikiLeaks Releases Cache of 400,000 Iraq War Documents · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's a reason why The Daily Show often tops the polls as the most trustworthy news source on television.

    It's because they're upfront with the fact that Jon is liberal, and also they're upfront about their agenda: to tell dick jokes and poke fun at the absurdity of the system - often by using dick joke.

  23. Re:Oh, snap! on Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life · · Score: 1

    Or rather, they don't lose money on account of the negative press from people who think that the engineer deserved the money.

  24. Re:Tatooine? on Astronomers Find Planets Around Weird Binary Star · · Score: 1

    Yes, but until we find better means of interstellar travel, it's really quite a Trek to get out there.

  25. Re:But Linux on the desktop is dead. on Ubuntu 10.10 Multitouch Support Demo · · Score: 1

    Just look at the device. It's a laptop with a swivel screen, so of course it has a physical keyboard.

    That said, it would be nice to see how it would implement a software keyboard for when you don't want the hassle of turning the device back into a laptop.

    Ubuntu is