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  1. Re:Okay. on Bacteria Used To Fix Cracked Concrete · · Score: 1

    Thanks, you can keep your pedantic medal -- you earned it.

  2. Re:Okay. on Bacteria Used To Fix Cracked Concrete · · Score: 1

    The Romans invented concrete.

    That's only 1600-2200 or so years ago.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/several -> several is more than two.

    IMO "several hundred" was correct.

  3. Re:I'm torn on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    My land line is a VOIP phone.

    When the power goes out, assuming that the cable company's POP doesn't go down too, I have broadband and phone for as long as the UPS that the cable modem and telephone adapter are on has juice..

    Unfortunately my wireless land line phone isn't also on the UPS.

    Not sure any of that matters; I've got a cell phone, and actually the land line's days are numbered.

  4. Its sad really... on Cooks Source Magazine Apologizes — Sort Of · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's sad when steals something that doesn't belong to them.

    Sadder still when they whine about being too busy to take a phone call or reply to email in a timely way when the owner tried to contact you. This is the 21st Century, on the internet; we don't wait two or three days for people to get back to us.

    And the saddest thing of all is an editor who can't spell "it's" correctly in the very first sentence of their lame explanation for having stolen something.

  5. the truth! on Did Microsoft Alter Windows Sales Figures? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since I'm a shareholder -- by virtue of mutual fund shares in my 401k and IRA accounts -- I want to know the truth.

  6. Re:Why... on Hidden Debug Mode Found In AMD Processors · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They did.

    It's all documented there in the silicon.

    It's not their fault you didn't read it.

    Or that you don't have the tools necessary to read it.

    Or that you're not intelligent enough to read it.

    But once they document it in, e.g. human readable form, then they might be afraid that they'd have to support it in this and all future generations of their chips. Perhaps they don't want to be constrained to always supporting those particular features going forward.

  7. Re:Better on Factory To Make Biodiesel From Chicken Fat · · Score: 1

    Funny, I haven't ever noticed that any of the times I've been through the south.

    But then I don't eat at KFC, Popeyes, or Chic-fil-a.

  8. In other news--- on World of Goo Dev Wants Big Publishers To Build Indie Teams · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Big publishers want devs to shut up and get back to work.

    That said, many of the R&D departments at companies I've worked for are 0.56% R & 99.44% D.

    Although I worked in the Advanced Development group for one company where all we did were prototypes and researchy projects. Some of them actually made it into product. I think that might be the exception though. Typically though that company bought its innovation and then we had to integrate it.

    I think the lesson is: if you want to innovate, start your own company, starve for a while before you either go broke or get bought. That seems to be what World-o-Goo-guy seems to be saying too.

  9. Another name might be Vigilantes? on Real-Life Gadgets For Real-Life Superheroes · · Score: 1

    If I go out looking for trouble, does that make it premeditated when I assault some ne'er do well?

    Good intentions aside, and all that.

  10. Re:Real men heat their nuts and dont care.. on Is Your Laptop Cooking Your Testicles? · · Score: 1

    knocked

    So, did you get a boy or a girl?

    If you got a girl, then maybe the heat did affect them.

    That's if you believe the research that claims that X chromosome sperm is more resilient than Y chromosome sperm.

  11. Re:Better on Factory To Make Biodiesel From Chicken Fat · · Score: 1

    Undoubtedly.

    Although after recently taking a vacation in South Africa, I can tell you that our low sulfur diesel exhaust smells a lot better than whatever it is they're burning there.

  12. There goes the neighborhood on The Queen Joins Facebook · · Score: 1

    I'm of the opinion that FB has jumped the shark; if I wasn't sure before, I am now.

  13. Re:Rockmelt? WTH? on Andreesen Offers New Browser 'Rockmelt' · · Score: 1

    It's not that bad. Look at it this way: one of the darts could have landed on "ass" and the other on "wipe".

    Something tells me that if they had, they would have thrown the darts again.

  14. Re:watch it on the big screen via your PS3? on Hulu Plus Now Available To All — But Be Warned · · Score: 1

    Your being redundant...

    No, I'm not, and that's you're or you are, and not "your"

    AFAIC a PS3 is a game console, not a general purpose computer; even more so since Sony has removed the ability to boot to Linux.

    With a GP computer already in place buying an overpriced game console just for Hulu Plus would be doubly redundant. Royal you using an overpriced game console.

  15. watch it on the big screen via your PS3? on Hulu Plus Now Available To All — But Be Warned · · Score: 1

    Well, no, but I can watch normal Hulu on my big screen TV via the computer that's connected to it.

    I saw that my Sony TV already had a "Hulu Plus -- coming soon" item its set of selections.

    But I don't think I'm in a big rush to to sign up for Hulu Plus. As it is I barely watch Netflix; my wife watches it more than I do.

  16. so many questions on Scientists Overclock People's Brains · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Any observation or correlation to right-brained, i.e. left-handedness?

    How did the subjects perform with a slightly higher current?

    And when they cranked it to 11?

  17. Re:Nice, but... on Microsoft Open Sources F# · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Almost seems like their thought process is:

        "We aren't going to get more resources in-house to continue developing it. Maybe if we throw it over the wall we'll get something (for free) from the Community."

  18. Re:Who pays 11+ USD to go to a cinema? on Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie · · Score: 2, Informative

    Who goes to a cinema anymore?

    My wife and I do.

    The last time we went was three weeks ago -- tickets were $8 each. The theater we went to serves beer, and they had a special on one of them -- I guess they were trying to finish off the keg -- $2 for a beer.

    Went again two weeks ago, no special on the beer, so that was $5 this time, but tickets were still $8.

    Yeah, we could wait for the DVD, but by the time it's out on DVD I've probably already forgotten about it. Getting out of the house can be a good thing -- it's definitely an impulse thing.

  19. Will she go down on you in a theater? on Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apologies to Alanis Morrisette.

  20. Re:Did you misunderstand? on Stopping Malaria By Immunizing Mosquitoes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There isn't enough money to give everyone a $2 mosquito net treated with an insecticide.

    Where will they get enough money to buy, distribute, and vaccinate everyone?

    What do you want to bet that after Big Pharma gets through, the vaccine will cost way more than a net.

  21. Re:good luck with that on Stopping Malaria By Immunizing Mosquitoes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    patience

    English is tough stuff.

  22. Re:Statistics work both ways.... on Annual US Intelligence Bill Tops $80 Billion · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Isn't it obvious?

    OP is a Republican and Feinstein is a Democrat. A California Democrat as well. And a woman.

    I expect he wants bipartisan cooperation too, but he's disappointed that the Dems are cooperating about as much as the Repubs did during the Bush years.

    Boo hoo.

    Go ahead, mod me a troll. See if I care.

  23. Re:How many sagans is that? on The Galaxy May Have Billions of Habitable Planets · · Score: 3, Informative

    5x10^-1sagans.

    sudo mod me funny

  24. Re:Aren't we over Facebook yet? on Facebook Adds Friend Stalker Tool · · Score: 1

    The best it can do...

    Or has ceased being interesting so now they're resorting to pulling ever greater stunts to try to lure people back in.

    I look forward to some day in the future when my great grand children ask me where I was when man first landed on the moon and when Fonzie jumped the shark. And I'll say, "I was glued to the TV screen." And then they'll ask me what a TV screen is.

  25. Re:Aren't we over Facebook yet? on Facebook Adds Friend Stalker Tool · · Score: 1

    Mark Zuckerberg, is that you?