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  1. Re:Who else misses Building 20? on MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Buggy $300M CS Building · · Score: 1

    You forgot ISP and MITERS.
    Building 20 is dead. Long live Building 20.

  2. Re:I Almost Hate to Defend It But... on MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Buggy $300M CS Building · · Score: 1

    I have been inside it and it's awful. It's unfortunate, but he succeeded in bringing a (cavernous) alley indoors,
    nevermind the asinine door placements, floor interconnections, and "you can't get there from here."

    As for Stata, no, I would suspect that it was not until they got a big name architect that people were willing to
    plunk down their fat wallets. You should consider that Stata was built during a major capital campaign where the
    emphasis was on feature architecture and not practicality, else they would have maintained Building 20.

  3. Re:Asinine on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 1

    Actually, DDT isn't as safe to use indoors as you think. Setting aside conservation of matter,
    there was some research awhile back indicating that it does affect humans.

  4. Re:Protest Vote on Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal · · Score: 1

    Not that I endorse them, but if centrism is all you're after then go Union '08.
    Stunts like this are merely a mockery, not that the staus quo ain't either.

  5. Awful summary on Leopard Upgraders Getting "Blue Screen of Death" · · Score: 1

    It conflates two issues, BSOD and lag. I was about to lmbaste Mac users for stupidly confusing the two,
    but after checking the article it was only the submitter and editor.

  6. It's unfortunate and all, but if you were an informant would you really use an account readily traceable to you?

  7. Re:Don't forget, no net neutrality on Vonage Settles With Verizon for at Least $80M · · Score: 1

    You forgot taxes. They love paying their fair share of taxes.

  8. Re:If you live in 2 countries. on Valve Locking Out Gamers Who Buy Orange Box Internationally · · Score: 1

    No no, they're not that greedy. It's not "immoral" arbitrage on your part to buy the expensive American version
    and use it elsewhere.

  9. Re:For what? on Bridgestone Shows Off Ultra-Thin, Full-Color e-Paper · · Score: 1

    power consumption

  10. Re:cost effectiveness on The Story of Baikonur, Russia's Space City · · Score: 1

    Nope, shuttles must be overhauled after each flight.

  11. Re:Charge by weight on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    They already do this, it just happens to be in a few large increments
    (exceed the 50-60 lb limit per bag, can't fit in a single seat) as
    opposed to a linear per ounce rate.

  12. Re:Roast Roach on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 1

    Could it be because the smaller the animal the less developed the nervous system?
    Or that in many instances, the smaller the animal the more of them there are?

  13. wtf mate? on Australians Running On-Line Poll Based Senators · · Score: 2, Informative

    What the hell is that subject supposed to mean?

    Here's a better title:
    New Australian Party Backs Internet Opinion-poll Driven Candidates

    Now, internet aside, how is that any different from business as usual?

  14. Re:fundamental problem solving on Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Or they could put it (or other redirected fundage) towards building some decent space-based solar installations.

    IMHO lunar stations are the only way to go; 99% of your raw materials are right there.

  15. Re:Sorry on Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov · · Score: 1

    This always strikes me as the grossest incomeptence/misunderstanding of the internet.
    There is no real reason to require hostnames except for separation of services/load-
    balancing, which should probably be hidden from the user anyway. The use of a protocol
    specific domain name is just redundant.

  16. Re:who really cares, when does ca.mx go live? on Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov · · Score: 1

    Others might argue that they (the most populous and entrepreneurial state)
    lost most of the rest of the country (to backwards thinking) a long time ago...
    an old saw cuts both ways.

  17. Re:Who is fooled? None on Virtual Robots Fooled By Visual Illusions · · Score: 1

    In other words, people *are* being fooled. Your justification of why it's not an illusion is precisely the
    definition of an optical illusion: the mind "misapplying" heuristics to situations for whch they were not developed.

  18. Re:Former MIT faculty on Olin College — Re-Engineering Engineering · · Score: 1

    >which is all that counts toward MIT tenure
    Besides being up to the department to decide where to place the emphasis, within the the limits of Institute policy,
    this is an overly broad generalization. I only know of three tenure cases personally, and in at least one of them
    teaching over research was most definitely not a problem. Nobody understands what the hell happened with the second,
    and the third being the recent BE prof. is also a complex mess.

  19. Re:College is more cost than gain now, on average on Olin College — Re-Engineering Engineering · · Score: 1

    WTF are you smoking? There was no professional moving company involved. Students and alumni moved the cannon.
    They just happened to have put in a modicum of effort to lend credence to their social engineering, while
    working in a few subtle jokes. http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2006/mitcannon/

    For instance, the "moving company"'s name is "How & Ser." & is a ligature of et, latin for and. Read aloud,
    How et Ser becomes Howitzer.

  20. Re:Can it get any worse for MIT? on MIT's SAT Math Error · · Score: 1
    Unless you were aiming to speak with a forked tongue, you may want to select
    your words more carefully in the future.

    fac.ile \--le-\ \-{l)-le-\ \-*l-n*s\ aj [MF, fr. L facilis, fr. facere to
          do - more at DO] 1a1: easily accomplished or attained 1a2: SPECIOUS,
          SUPERFICIAL 1b: used or comprehended with ease 1c: readily manifested and
          often lacking sincerity or depth 2: mild or pleasing in manner or
          disposition 3a: READY, FLUENT 3b: ASSURED, POISED - fac.ile.ly av -
          fac.ile.ness n You probably meant sense 3, but sense 1 is quite common. this is one of those wonderful/
    dangerous words in English that is its own antonym.
  21. Re:As if SAT scores really matter on MIT's SAT Math Error · · Score: 1

    Each department determines their own graduate admissions requirements. I would imagine that the GRE does not map
    well to (their perceptions of) what determines a good philosophy student; other than maybe the poorly contrived
    written analysis test.

  22. Re:jesus christ people... on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    They could look like anything, eh?

        Oh my god! The bitch has got a cellphone! On the ground! NOW!!!

        That giant basketball player has crutches and the foam pads look like putty!
        He's even got his hand wrapped around some kind of dead-man switch! DIE!!!

    Clearly the solution is for airports to be a mandatory nudity zone.
    It'll also make the caity searches that much easier.

  23. Re:Art or not... on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    No, she did not "choose here venue." She's been wearing the cheesy thing for a week,
    going about her routine. It just so happened that yesterday she went to pick someone
    up at the airport.

  24. Re:Also, manyMIT people are dumb in that specific on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    I have a job to do and milestones to hit. I don't need that juvinile(sic) bullshit. Then perhaps you should do a better job vetting new hires.
  25. Management stupidity aside on Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore · · Score: 1

    the kid ain't too bright either... aren't all the necessary details on the course's syllabus?
    Besides which, ISBNs aren't unique identifiers in an adequately meaningful sense for this
    purpose: any minor change in the book can result in a new number for the same content.