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  1. Re:Great! on Easily-Captured Asteroids Identified · · Score: 3, Funny

    If the Kerbal Space Program has taught me anything, it's that all space problems can be mitigated with the clever use of more rockets.

  2. Re:They brought back Clippy on MS Office For Android: Pretty, But Woefully Incomplete · · Score: 1

    Oh don't tell me you don't feel a little bit of nostalgia for the lil' guy.

  3. Re:Typical Microsoft approach on MS Office For Android: Pretty, But Woefully Incomplete · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mathemagics, apparently.

  4. Re:Terrified, I'm sure... on Def Con Hackers On Whether They'd Work For the NSA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, it's one thing to be righteously fighting for principles against the Man, but it's a whole different ball game when you got mouths to feed. Or an fresh, empty resume to build. Or a mountain of loans to pay. Then you can't be so picky when trying to secure a decent source of income.

  5. Re:oh motherjoans on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 0

    And is just as credible as the NRA. So your point is . . . ?

  6. Re:The Romans found out about lead on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mercury. It's denser than lead, and can pass through many materials very easily, including metals.

  7. Re:time on NASA's Curiosity Rover Celebrates One Year On Mars · · Score: 1

    Our clocks tick ever so slower than Mars, but only by a negligible amount in terms of counting birthdays. IIRC from a default frame of reference, a clock in a gravitational field will tick slower as the gravitational field increases in strength. And we have Mars beat pretty well in terms of gravity.

  8. Re:Who can convince me it was worth it? on NASA's Curiosity Rover Celebrates One Year On Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oblig - oh come on. This one's too obvious: http://xkcd.com/1232/

  9. Re:Ahem on The Case of the Orca That Killed Its Trainer · · Score: 1

    I did. By definition of every dictionary I checked, homocide encompasses when a human kills another human.

  10. Re:Ahem on The Case of the Orca That Killed Its Trainer · · Score: 0

    The definition of homicide means when both the killer and the person being killed are humans.
    Citation: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homicide
    Many more citations: https://www.google.com/search?q=definition+homocide&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

  11. Ahem on The Case of the Orca That Killed Its Trainer · · Score: 1, Informative

    "There's an interesting read at National Geographic by Kenneth Brower that probes the case of Tilikum, the homicidal killer whale,.."

    Homicidal . . . I don't think that word means what you think it means.

  12. Re:No easy fix on New JavaScript-Based Timing Attack Steals All Browser Source Data · · Score: 1

    Or just port the browser over to Java. Then the attack can't tell between a slow link, or the obnoxious garbage collector kicking in. :P

  13. Re:Regarding this story: on Utah Set To Exempt NSA Datacenter From Power Tax, After All · · Score: 1

    I said something to that effect in my first post. Don't talk down to somebody about missing something when they have addressed it.

  14. Re:Regarding this story: on Utah Set To Exempt NSA Datacenter From Power Tax, After All · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It generates government revenue, paid for by government revenue plus overhead. So . . .

  15. Re:Regarding this story: on Utah Set To Exempt NSA Datacenter From Power Tax, After All · · Score: 1

    To be fair . . . what exactly would adding a hefty tax to a government agency's bill accomplish? Other than saving the federal government from sending money to the state, but it's already doing that with the building and personnel itself.

  16. Re:Subj on Battle of the Media Ecosystems: Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apparently it means "a garden with walls slowly being built around it"

  17. Re:Not the best place on Duke Energy Scraps Plans For Florida Nuclear Plant, Forced To Delay Others · · Score: 4, Funny

    The problem is that the Great lakes are infected with dangerous invasive species that build up and block water intake systems. It's very expensive to stop a nuclear plant to clean the buildup of Canadians in the pipes. And you run the risk of the plant employees getting infected with ideas like universal healthcare.

  18. Re:Java and Latency on Using Java In Low Latency Environments · · Score: 2

    And always get interrupted by that obnoxious garbage-cleanup crew.

  19. Re:People need to use txt files more on CouchDB: Roll Your Own, Or Go With a Service? · · Score: 1

    Most of my work and studies were in scientific computing, and from my experiences the overall attitude and workflow is different than usual business software development.

  20. Re:Pray on Queen's WWIII Speech Revealed · · Score: 1

    Because in the event of an all out nuclear war, praying will be about as effective against an atomic blast as against an oncoming tidal wave, and everybody knows this.

  21. Re:Teapot Tempest? on Samsung Offered StackOverflow Users $500 For "Organic" Publicity · · Score: 2

    Hells yeah, I'd tech-whore myself out too for $500.25 . That's almost two-months rent! I would even advertise Windows 8.

  22. Re:People need to use txt files more on CouchDB: Roll Your Own, Or Go With a Service? · · Score: 1

    I first learned about databases when I was taking a class on set theory (bio/math major); relational databases were casually mentioned in the relational algebra topic. Up till that point, I had just thought of databases as dumbed-down versions of spreadsheets. After messing around with sqlite and python for a couple afternoons, I fell in love with SQL.

  23. Re:Hosted is usually a bad idea on CouchDB: Roll Your Own, Or Go With a Service? · · Score: 1

    The best way to get around that is to cache every possible permutation of the webpage . . .

  24. Re:People need to use txt files more on CouchDB: Roll Your Own, Or Go With a Service? · · Score: 1

    noob, real pros use access!

  25. Re:nature and consumers on GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It · · Score: 2

    The majority of a plant's genome comes from [parasitic] vectors, not from beneficial mutations to the plant (the grey area being whole-genome duplication). And fish *are* animals. You're welcome.