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  1. I can't be the only one who remembers pointcast. on Facebook Patents the News Feed · · Score: 1

    how is this any different than pointcast? I wonder if they are still around.

  2. Whatever on Free Netbook From Microsoft, Then Things Got Weird · · Score: 1

    Wipe hard drive. Start over. Don't worry about how you got the computer, just enjoy. end of story.

  3. Wooden Carts on The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook · · Score: 1

    This is like saying that we should use those medieval wooden carts to ship packages across the US. PHP works in many places where cpp fails to deliver (no pun intended with relation to my previous statement).

  4. Re:Last time I checked... on Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is that in an airport search and siezure is not governed by probable cause. You can refuse a search, but they don't have to let you onto the plane.

  5. finely ground flour behaves like sand as well on Researchers Discover That Sand Behaves Like Water · · Score: 1

    I've known that finely ground particles of solids can behave like water for about 5 years now. My dad owns a bakery, and whenever we clean our mill, we end up with some superfine flour that was caught in a separator mechanism. When we loaded it into a plastic trashcan for the first time, we discovered that if we kick the trashcan, the flour will squirt out in response to the flexing sidewall, similar to what water would do in the same circumstance. Also, the finely ground flour would always form an almost completely flat surface no matter how much we tried to pile it up. I had always assumed that this was not news to the scientific community. Apparently we weren't just screwing around when we played around with the stuff, we were doing college level physics research on fluid dynamics. My thought on the subject has always been that the air around the fine particles of flour was causing the flour particles to behave like a colloidal suspension, instead of a collection of solids. I always thought that it was the air that causing the particles to behave as a fluid, because the air is a fluid. Furthermore, the company who made our mill, skiold, apparently knew about particles behaving like fluids because they use a unique rotary pump to move the flour through the last portion of the mill.

  6. Re:Arrest TSA officials for Child Porn.... on Freshman Representative Opposes "TSA Porn" · · Score: 1

    It's important to realize that the definition of porn requires some sort of sexual act, or sexual pose to be in frame, so a fully nude photo does not qualify as pornography if is is not sexually provocative.