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  1. Re:Wrong Math on How Good Software Makes Us Stupid · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. .95 * 6 = 5.70

  2. Re:A Christian's take on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    You are not working with facts, you are working with theories, and they do not belong in a science class.

    And how exactly do you propose to teach science without scientific theories?

  3. Re:Laziness on Google To Challenge Facebook Again · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who finds it somewhat unsettling to click "Login" and be logged in instantly without even entering any information? I mean, that just seems weird.

  4. Re:Tim Cavanagh on Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Charities? on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 1

    ...only two of these barbaric practices were stopped.

    What? Religion is still quite common, and I know people who get stoned all the time!

  6. Re:Love the spin on 22 Million Missing Bush White House Emails Found · · Score: 1

    Those are some pretty lofty expectations.

  7. Re:you nerds on The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza · · Score: 1

    As long as the cuts are somewhat uniform, the two largest slices should be vertical.

  8. Re:Old on New WoW Patch Brings Cross-Server Instances · · Score: 1

    I don't think WoW would have any problem supporting every player on the same 'realm', but the client might have some problems. From my experience, most of the players are concentrated in the major cities (Orgrimmar, Undercity, Stormwind, Ironforge, Shattrath, and Dalaran). I play[ed] on a low-population realm, so other servers might be completely different. I guess it doesn't really matter for the sake of the argument. Anyway, even with the low population on my realm, the major cities consistently killed my FPS; I could not imagine having every bored player in the entire game hanging out in Shattrath. Plus, the chat channels would be even more clogged. On my server, there's always off-topic chat going on in trade (and that's about the only thing really), with every player it would be impossible to read anything before it gets scrolled away.
    WoW just isn't designed for large amounts of players in the same place. It would require a complete overhaul to both the server and client sides to keep the game even remotely playable with the huge amounts of players that this would entail. It's just not feasible.

  9. Re:Old on New WoW Patch Brings Cross-Server Instances · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked (which was about a year and a half ago), you could have characters on as many servers as you want, until you hit the 50 character limit. I don't think they would change this as it would create lots of problems if you already had characters on more than ten servers, so I'll assume they didn't.

  10. Re:Is this related to this wormhole .. on LHC Reaches Record Energy · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be slightly elliptical due to gravity, or does the rocket's power simply outweigh gravity enough to make it insignificant?

  11. Re:One time comcasts DNS servers were down... on How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?) · · Score: 1

    Verizon returns ad-riddled yahoo searches instead of NXDOMAIN:
    http://wwwwz.websearch.verizon.net/search?qo=www.dfgdsfasdfasdf.com&rn=KGStLXJazkT6isZ&rg=
    And all of the links that are supposed to show you how to opt out (you have to change your DNS servers) have been giving 404 errors for months.
    See for yourself, all the links on this page are broken: http://www.verizon.net/central/vzc.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=vzc_help_contentDisplay&case=dns_assist&partner=verizon&product=dsl
    Now, I have no problem changing my DNS servers by myself but not informing anybody on how to opt out seems a bit fishy.

  12. Re:define:-searches are not redirected on Google Launches Dictionary, Drops Answers.com · · Score: 1

    However, if you google a word it will give a link to its definition next to your search terms.

  13. Re:More to it... on "Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison · · Score: 1

    I've done data recovery, it takes a lot less than a year for deleted files to degrade.

    Not necessarily. Depending on the usage patterns, it could take even longer. I've found files that were deleted well over a year ago when doing an undelete. Files won't spontaneously degrade from a hard drive under normal conditions; they will sit there until they are overwritten.

  14. Re:Scientology as a force for good? on Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well... it's better than vista.

  15. Re:automated tool for locating cells? on Sprint Revealed Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times · · Score: 1

    1: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ before ‘if’

  16. Re:News to me on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how often this happens, as it only happened to me once, but text messages can be delivered to the wrong number.

  17. Re:Just don't take any calls on After 35 Years, Another Message Sent From Arecibo · · Score: 5, Funny

    These guys must be loaded. Would you believe the rates they're charging for interstellar calls?

  18. Re:Good for apple on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    A restaurant may not necessarily be owned by the public, but it still is a public establishment in that anybody can come in and eat and they shouldn't have to breathe in smoke while doing so.

  19. Re:Risk vs Reward? on Intel Says Brain Implants Could Control Computers By 2020 · · Score: 1

    2 + 2 = 4.999999999999925772

  20. Re:So, the question is... on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    I don't think Mark Cuban has a trillion dollars just lying around.

  21. Re:How does one go out of business... on URL Shorteners Get Some Backup · · Score: 1

    So, shorten URLs using a different format for every website? Brillant!

  22. Re:are you upside-down in an ARM now? on FreeCreditReport.com Wins 1,017 Domains By UDRP · · Score: 1

    ...$100,000 per year; this is only $10K per month...

  23. Re:Still, it validates the technology on LegalTorrents Launches Copyright-Compliant Tracker · · Score: 1

    When I buy a cat, it's not "piracy" to let it procreate and give or sell the kittens, even if I'm reducing the potential profits of the cat breeder.

    We'll see what the Feline Breeding Association of America has to say about that.

  24. Re:Web Logs? on Maryland Town Tests New Cryptographic Voting System · · Score: 1

    But what if the eavesdropper has installed eye tracking software on my webcam and analyzes which code I look at? Clearly the system is flawed and will not be anonymous enough.

  25. Re:US vs UK... on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    I've never used a vacuum cleaner that sounded anything like a hot chord.