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  1. Re:Decisions, decisons on Comcast Launches Streaming Service and Unveils Pricing For 2G Fiber · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the uplink speed is on that. Likely only 10Mbit.

  2. Re:In SI Units on NASA's New Horizons Focuses On Pluto's Largest Moon Charon · · Score: 1

    Short buses or long buses? Buses with hoods, or the type with the flat front?

  3. Re:Teaching the science of homeopathy. on University of Toronto: Anti-vaccine Homeopathy Course Is Fine · · Score: 1

    The tap water has also been supremely diluted, so it must be the strongest medicine in existence according to the homeopathic methodology.

  4. Re:Critical look at bullshit on University of Toronto: Anti-vaccine Homeopathy Course Is Fine · · Score: 1

    Because giving poisons to people, no matter how diluted doesn't stack up vs a chalk pill.

  5. Re:Critical look at bullshit on University of Toronto: Anti-vaccine Homeopathy Course Is Fine · · Score: 1

    http://borderlands.wikia.com/w...

    Claptrap would be ashamed to be lumped in with the likes of homeopathy, herbology, accupuncture and the use of cannabis.

  6. Re:Against Vaccines or About Against Vaccines? on University of Toronto: Anti-vaccine Homeopathy Course Is Fine · · Score: 1

    Homeopathy has an actual definition. If their beliefs don't match up with that, then they don't believe in homeopathy. Homeopathy is the dilution of a poison to levels where it is undetectable, which is then given as a "cure". This has been proven time and again to not have any more effect than placebo, so it is considered by all scientific approaches as bunk.

    If you don't believe me, Wikipedia has a nice description with links to relevant citations.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Re:Oh, FFS people... on J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity · · Score: 1

    If we showed LGBT in the right percentage, they would never appear on the screen.

  8. Re:USA white bread break it down on J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity · · Score: 1

    The Ewoks spoke Tagalog, so it is more likely to call them Filipino, but I guess that doesn't fit how they act/look.

    http://www.pinoyexchange.com/f...

  9. Re:Never heard that one before on J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity · · Score: 1

    FYI, I know that the Ewoks at least spoke Tagalog (Filipino), so it is entirely possible that the other species were speaking other obscure languages.

  10. Re:quick fix on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I would like to point your attention to this post a little above yours:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

    If we can't laugh at our race, where does that leave all the country of origin jokes? Are we not allowed to laugh at polocks? Are we not allowed to laugh at Irish, or French, or whereever?

  11. Re:yes thats it, pander to another industry on SpaceX Rocket Failure Cost NASA $110 Million · · Score: 1

    Did NASA ever truly launch rockets without private companies? Saturn was a partnership with Boeing, and the shuttle was Boeing/Lockheed and some others. So what is the difference now?

  12. Re:as always.... on SpaceX Rocket Failure Cost NASA $110 Million · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My curiosity is who at NASA is responsible for the insurance not being bought. Does a private company hold NASA responsible for failed launches (when they were launching), or is it the private company's responsibility to buy launch insurance?

  13. Re: Hooray! on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... =/= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Bumblebees are larger and usually fuzzier. That is like mistaking hornets for bees, they are different.

  14. Re:quick fix on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Wow, can't take a damn joke?

  15. Re: Surely this is simply a natural, normal proces on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Sensitive much? I don't believe I said anything in that sentence that should indicate that I doubt that the climate is changing, or that humans likely are the cause. I also didn't type anything to indicate that I think we shouldn't study the changing climate to see what effects it will have on our society. I was just wondering if this same thing would happen without the man made climate impacts (slower change). Likely the answer is no, they bees would have had time to adapt and migrate with a slower changing climate.

    As far as Ag goes, they should be fine as honeybee =/= bumblebee and moving colonies of honeybees around to farms is actually not a terribly big deal.

  16. Re:Repeat after me: on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    It must be psychosomatic just like in humans, since it seemed to happen before the antennas were hooked up as well!

  17. Re:quick fix on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How do you Africanize a honeybee? Paint all the yellow portions of the bee black?

  18. Re: Surely this is simply a natural, normal proces on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    The question is, if humans never existed, would the bees have died out anyways as the climate would eventually change by the same amount as we are coming out of an ice age.

  19. Re:Support and copyright ... on Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers · · Score: 2

    Clearly he can't be an asshole as that is the absence of space, not the muscle around the absence.

  20. Re:Well of course it did on Adblock Plus Reduces University's Network Traffic By 25 Percent · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be the exact opposite of the findings? After all, it is ad networks that carry most of the Internet's malware.

  21. Re:If neither party is willing to foot the whole b on Adblock Plus Reduces University's Network Traffic By 25 Percent · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the monthly costs between Amazon (no commercials), Netflix (unfortunately starting commercials), and Hulu (lots of commercials) compare in this way.

    http://www.digitaltrends.com/h...

    According to this site, Netflix with no commercials (starting commercials sometimes for their own things, before or after the show, not during) costs almsot exactly the same as Amazon and Hulu:
    http://www.businessinsider.com...

  22. Re:Adblock? Pffff... Use HOSTS on Adblock Plus Reduces University's Network Traffic By 25 Percent · · Score: 1

    With a total reduction in network traffic of 100%!

  23. Re:For the anime fans - on Lifting the Veil On Pluto's Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, we should be able to see the tunnels of the Bugger's forward operating base. For those of us that are Sci-fi fans.

  24. Re:Frozen on Lifting the Veil On Pluto's Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    By the new definition of planet, the Earth is technically not a planet, nor is Jupiter, as they have neither of them cleared their orbit. The Earth has small objects in its orbit, and Jupiter has the trojan asteroids. So that is two fewer planets, that should make the astronomers that redefined planets more happy. Since it was a union of astronomers (star studiers) that changed the definition, and a small percentage of them at that, why do we listen to them, when planetary scientists such as the guy in charge of New Horizons disagree with them?

  25. Re:Mercury switched = pin ball tilt switch on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    Breaking and Entering is a legal term. The breaking refers to breaking the plane of the property boundary, not breaking things to gain entry.