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  1. Re:In other news ... on Microsoft Issues Advisory For Internet Explorer Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    And how are you supposed to get it if you don't have a browser?

    wget?

  2. Re:Written by a Woman? on Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if you head read the article you would have noticed that the female presence suppressed the stress response in the mice when the male was present. So I can only conclude you didn't. Anonymous cowards don't need to I suppose.
     

  3. Re:Written by a Woman? on Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research · · Score: -1

    They controlled for the thing they thought of. This is how bad epidemiology starts.

  4. Written by a Woman? on Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research · · Score: -1

    That's a very gender biased writeup.

    "Male odor"?

    The point is that males and females have consistently different odors in some way leading to a systematically different response by lab rats. You could just as well say it is the female odor that is breaking things. In reality it is a difference in response to different stimulus.
     

  5. Re:How is wget practical for most? on Microsoft Issues Advisory For Internet Explorer Vulnerability · · Score: 2

    >For a median user

    There's only one median user. We should find him/her and show him/her how to do it.

  6. Re:In other news ... on Microsoft Issues Advisory For Internet Explorer Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    C:\>wget
    'wget' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
    operable program or batch file.

    C:\>

  7. Re:In other news ... on Microsoft Issues Advisory For Internet Explorer Vulnerability · · Score: 2

    >How else are you supposed to download Chrome or Firefox on Windows?

    wget.

    Oh no. That's Linux.

  8. Re: Actually it's both. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    So if you dig a hole in the ground, have you wasted your time?

    Or are you confusing topological definitions with more useful definitions that can distinguish between a teapot, a doughnut and a straw?

  9. Re:Straws don't make good siphons anyways. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    With your finger on one end of the tube under water, as you bring that end out of the water, it is atmospheric pressure pushing on the surface of the water in the bucket that keeps the water in the tube. If you did it in a vacuum, the water could run out of the tube as you raised it.

    If you plugged both ends of the tube, atmospheric pressure would not be relevant.
     

  10. Re:Speed reading on Why Speed-Reading Apps Don't Work · · Score: 1

    >Reading speed shouldn't be forced. It should be enabled. For example, by using short sentences, simple words and sufficient punctuation.

    Or a good book.

  11. Re:Simple on Why Speed-Reading Apps Don't Work · · Score: 1, Funny

    16 words a second? That's three times faster than a 300 baud modem.

  12. Re:Straws don't make good siphons anyways. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    Yes.
     

  13. Re:i got hit by this on HP Server Killer Firmware Update On the Loose · · Score: 1

    >don't you think that is a bit silly comment to make?

    That was the intent.

  14. Re:i got hit by this on HP Server Killer Firmware Update On the Loose · · Score: 2

    You're running Windows on a server?

    The world is a stranger place than one can imagine.

  15. Re: Actually it's both. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    Are you a policeman?

  16. Re:Straws don't make good siphons anyways. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Perhaps we need a new improved kind of atmospheric pressure that runs on bunnies.

  17. Re:Actually it's both. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    It would be pedantic to accuse you of being pernickity.

  18. Re:Straws don't make good siphons anyways. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'll resist the temptation to carry on with the bad puns and innuendo, but....

    u-tube plonked in water in an elevated bucket, one end outside the bucket.

    1) You suck on the dry end. Water moves up to the apex of the tube.
            It's atmospheric pressure pushing the water up the tube as your sucking reduces the pressure in the tube.

    2) Water keeps moving around the bend, past the apex.
              It's a combination of your sucking and momentum that keeps the water moving.

    3) The water reaches a point lower than the surface of the water in the bucket. You stop sucking.
              It's the gravity (or the water seeking a lower energy state in a gravitational field) that keeps the water moving through the tube.

    So all things are having an effect, which makes sense. Atmospheric pressure doesn't magically stop happening just because gravity is having a stronger effect.

     

  19. Re: Actually it's both. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    I wasn't using the topology definition. There's no gravity or atmospheric pressure in topology.

  20. Re:Actually it's both. on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 5, Funny

    >A straw with a hole in it cannot siphon.

    A straw has two holes in it.

    A straw with only one hole can't siphon.

  21. Re:Illegal in some countries on Anonymous' Airchat Aim: Communication Without Need For Phone Or Internet · · Score: 1

    >Overt abuses like the GCHQ shutting down a news paper, and destroying its computer hardware because it suspects (without evidence, or trial) that the hardware contains US and/or British classified documents?

    It didn't shut down the Guardian and it didn't destroy it's hardware.

    They demanded the hardware. The Guardian said "No, we will destroy it first to protect our sources". So GCHQ said "Fine, we'll attend so we can be sure it's been destroyed.". The Guardian then did the destroying.

    It still looks stupid, but the 'who did what' of this story has been all back to front.

  22. Re:Consumers have no clue... on The $5,600 Tablet · · Score: 1

    The guy who designs the hole in the top of potties.

  23. Re:Bullets? on The $5,600 Tablet · · Score: 1

    The EVEN BETTER trick is to be in places where people aren't trying to shoot you, so you can spend more time playing Steam games.

  24. Re:Oh noes, I can't drive X miles on Will the Nissan Leaf Take On the Tesla Model S At Half the Price? · · Score: 1

    4 Umbrellas while riding a bike might add a little drag.

  25. Re:What's the cost to use a real rng vs psudo on NIST Removes Dual_EC_DRBG From Random Number Generator Recommendations · · Score: 1

    "Anonymous Coward tells people not the use the secure RNG available to them". What could possibly go wrong?