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  1. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics". on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    Ah, screw it... use google images and search for "suicide bomb vest". You won't find any cell phones there, but you might find a few that look very similar to her shirt!

    I guarantee that you won't. They will all have explosives, and none of them will have blinky lights.

  2. Re:Who wrote this headline? Off base I'd say... on Democrat Win May Be Good News For Internet Policy · · Score: 1

    It's also used improperly once in the article.

  3. Re:So... on Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years · · Score: 1

    I was responding to someone who misunderstood the OP. They were trying to discredit the OP through a misinterpretation, and I attempted to reword it in a way that showed their misinterpretation. Maybe it was more redundant than informative for people who understood the OP properly, but apparently that wasn't everyone.

  4. Re:So... on Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years · · Score: 5, Informative
    'recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia.'
    Not quite. They have solid data for 400 years, and less solid data for several millennia past that.
  5. Re:CNN had a different figure on Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years · · Score: 1, Informative
    'recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia.'
    The data is most solid for 400 years, but it also supports a timeframe of several thousand years.
  6. Re:In a sense both are right on Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe · · Score: 1

    It's only flamebait if he expected the Pope to flame him. And it's not a stupid question, it's the type of question that some scientists face every day. What would you do if the concept you've been researching, working on, and devoting your life to for decades sudenly is proven completely wrong? Religion is untestable, so it will never actually happen for the Pope, but it is still an interesting question. Especially when compared to the Dalai Lama's answer. His answer is, ideally, what a scientist's answer would be.

  7. Re:Lord Forbid... on Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe · · Score: 1

    All states (and DC) make exemptions. I didn't say there was a federal mandate.

  8. Re:Lord Forbid... on Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about payroll taxes, but churches do not pay property taxes in the US.

  9. Re:atheist on Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe · · Score: 1

    "Reasonable". Nobody sould believe everything anybody says.

  10. Re:In a sense both are right on Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Carl Sagan knew all that (except maybe the WoW analogy). It was a hypothetical question, like "what would you do if gravity just suddenly disappeared?" Answer: I would very probably die of suffocation as the atmosphere explosively decompresed off of the surface of the planet. "it's not even possible" is not an answer, it's a response; and it's a response designed to avoid giving an answer.

  11. Re:Just a misunderstanding? on Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe · · Score: 1

    The largest number doesn't exist. That's comprehensible.

  12. Re:The Pope on Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately many people want to peg all Christianity as literal interpretation of the Bible. Such a stance provides a convenient way to dismiss Christianity as "asserting" certain events (i.e. creation in six days) that is inconsistent with science and thus dismissing the whole idea of a creator existing.
    No, you misunderstand. They're the ones who get called out because they're the ones saying the stupid stuff. If you're a resonable Christian and you find that arguments against Biblical literalism don't apply to you, then you're right! They don't apply to you. It's bad luck that they go by the same "Christian" label that you do, but you'll just have to realize that arguments against them aren't necessarily directed at you.
  13. Re:Bah! on World's Largest Pyramid Discovered in Bosnia? · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, they're perfectly ordinary people. It's just that there are 6.0221415 × 10^23 of them.

  14. Re:Sure... on Misconfigured Webserver, Threats to Call FBI · · Score: 1

    Connecticut didn't elect him Governor.

  15. Also: on Misconfigured Webserver, Threats to Call FBI · · Score: 1

    "Click on my name to send an email"

    Really?

  16. Re:Not another underground labyrinth start! on Elder Scrolls Oblivion Gold · · Score: 1

    You're right. They all start with the character as a prisoner, but in Morrowind you don't have to fight your way free.

  17. Re:Not another underground labyrinth start! on Elder Scrolls Oblivion Gold · · Score: 2, Informative

    Tradition. All the Elder Scrolls games start like that. And I don't think in this particular game you're fighting the giant bats and rats in the normal prison, but in a secret passage that Patrick Stewart shows you.

  18. Re:3rd person option on Elder Scrolls Oblivion Gold · · Score: 1

    It does, but due to the number of trees and bushes in the forests, it is reccommended to switch to first person when in the woods.

  19. Re:I'm a little confused. on Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests · · Score: 1

    But it takes power to separate the hydrogen and oxygen in the first place, which puts it in the same place as the elevator, but still using orders of magnitude more power. Nothing has no environmental impact, but the elevator has much less than rockets.

  20. Re:I'm a little confused. on Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests · · Score: 1

    Compare it to a Titan rocket, or the Space Shuttle. That's how it's environmental, no matter how it gets its power.

  21. Re:more evolving and changing business models on Search Engines Leech Value from Web Sites · · Score: 1

    You could say the same thing about playing cards. Anybody can make playing cards with the standard fronts - the only intellectual property involved is the ace of spades and the back of the card. The only ways to differentiate them is quality of manufacture and price. Some companies specialize in expensive, high quality cards. Others make super cheap decks. They all make profits, or they'd go out of business.

  22. Re:Good news on Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel in March · · Score: 1

    Not quite. Why are all the DVDs in 16:9 then?

    So they can put "widescreen" on the cover? You should check whether they are actually cropping the top and bottom to make widescren DVDs. They did that for Babylon 5 in at least one incarnation.

  23. Re:When will the rest of the world sign on? on Apple Adds New TV Shows To iTunes · · Score: 1

    Well, the idea is to make sure viewers help fund BBC, so I'd assume some of the iTunes fee would go to the BBC. Which it would anyway.

  24. Re:It depends on Amazon's Mechanical Turk · · Score: 1

    If you have a bank account.

  25. In the meantime... on Transcoding in 1/5 the Time with Help from the GPU · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anyone have any transcoding software recommendations? Nero for some reason keeps losing audio sync after a few minutes of video.