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  1. Re:Some day... on Plants Communicate Using Fungi · · Score: 2

    Of course, there's no way to tell if it's been fertilized or not without cracking it,

    Of course there is; haven't you ever heard of candling eggs?

  2. Most relevant part here: on How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped? · · Score: 1

    I've been using either a Samsung Stratosphere or a Samsung Stratosphere 2 from September 2012 to the present.

    So, not only have you been using it for almost a year, you got the next model of it! Whatever reasons there might be for Samsung to straighten up, you're certainly not supplying any of them.

  3. Re:Not until Anti-Aliasing isn't a thing on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A sharp edge contains infinitely high frequencies, so even a very high resolution display will produce aliasing,

    But once it's aliasing invisible to the human eye, anti-aliasing becomes pointless.

  4. Re:Not until Anti-Aliasing isn't a thing on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    I have trouble reading your writing, but there's no resolution where aliasing isn't an issue.

    Then, once again, why aren't printed books anti-aliased?

    Higher resolution will eliminate some artifacts which people call aliasing, but not all of them.

    Yes, it will. If you've got enough resolution, you can eliminate all aliasing artifacts.

  5. Re:already passing it on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    Indeed, I use 1.5 glasses for reading, and 2.0 glasses for my phone.

    I use 6.0 glasses for my iPhone. Don't want to be downlevel, you know.

  6. Re:KFC: Keyed Field Communication on ByteLight Unveils NFC Alternative Called Light Field Communication · · Score: 1

    It's finger-linkin' good!

  7. I guess the National Football Conference will have to step up its game now that it has competition.

  8. Re:All fine and good. on Government Study Finds TSA Misconduct Up 26% In 3 Years · · Score: 1

    Because in "What does", "does" is a helping verb, a very common construction in English grammar. "What does he drive?" "What does he eat?" "What does he wear?". The only different here is that the main verb is, by coincidence, the same word as the helping verb, only doing different duty: "What does he do?"

  9. Re:Exactly! on A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School · · Score: 1

    Well, insofar as they're trying to avoid another XP, as a OS that people are attached to and are uncomfortable moving away from, they're doing an awfully good job.

    Actually, no, they're doing an awful job. Win 7 is becoming the new XP.

  10. Re:America the beautiful on Obama Praises Amazon At One of Its Controversial Warehouses · · Score: 2

    While the pay might be middling, Amazon warehouse jobs are full time jobs with benefits, including paid leave (and health care, if you have to see a doctor on your sick day).

  11. "We want a review, but don't review our actions" on MIT Releases Swartz Report: Instead of Leading, School Was 'Hands-Off' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Because we're not doing a review to correct any possible problems, we're doing a review so that we can tell people we did a review and didn't find any problems.

  12. Re:Shrimp, Lobsters, and Crabs are Insects on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Didn't use to be that way. They got turned into gourmet items in a process that rather reminds me of Discworld's gourmet muddy old boots. In colonial Massachusetts there was a servant strike; one of the concessions made to return peace was a contract stating, among other things, that the servants would not be forced to eat lobster more than three times a week.

  13. Re:Pathogen bypassing our immune system on Natural Affinities of RNA Components Could Have Led To Life · · Score: 1

    HIV isn't "something completely different". It's a retrovirus. They've been around for uncounted millenia. That's his point. Something that's been evolving that long can, on very rare occasions, pull that kind of trick out of its hat. Something created by scratch in a lab with only a few year's development? Not so likely.

  14. So, basically, it's powerpoint + youtube? on Book Review: Present Yourself - Using SlideShare To Grow Your Business · · Score: 1

    I don't want to live on this planet any more.

  15. Need a little more Sense and Sensibility... on 55,000 Sign Twitter Abuse Petition After Jane Austen Campaigner Threats · · Score: 1

    ...and little less Pride and Prejudice, I think. Perhaps if we tried some Persuasion...

  16. Re:Ahh, EMACS on "Feline Herd" Offers Easier Package Management For Emacs · · Score: 1

    As long as people keep sticking new widgets into EMACS, I imagine.

  17. Re:Wonder if it can be weaponized. on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    "Intercontinental Ballistic Catapults" even more so.

  18. Re:Wow on Massachusetts Enacts 6.25% Sales Tax On "Prewritten" Software Consulting · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not a new tax. 6.25% is the general sales tax in Massachusetts. This is just a ruling clarifying, "Yes, it applies to you guys too."

  19. Ahh, EMACS on "Feline Herd" Offers Easier Package Management For Emacs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Truly, it would be the world's most perfect operating system, if only it had a decent text editor.

  20. Re:It's a trap on NASA's Garver Proposes Carving Piece Off Big Asteroid For Near-Earth Mining · · Score: 1

    "The chair recognizes the gentleman from Vesta."

  21. Re:Yeah, sure on NASA's Garver Proposes Carving Piece Off Big Asteroid For Near-Earth Mining · · Score: 1

    It's worth more if you've seen the movie to understand my comment, however.

    And which movie would that be?

  22. Translation on Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts · · Score: 1

    The system dependency, which is the standard deviation of the 500-hPa geopotential height averaged over the globe, increases with time. However, its fractional tendency, which is the change of the standard deviation relative to the value itself, remains nearly zero with time.

    In other words, they all gave different answers, but each one was equally certain that *it* was right.

  23. Re:On the other hand on Hackers Using Bots, Scripts To Lock Down Restaurant Reservations · · Score: 1

    we currently have processes in place to prevent duplicate reservations and combat reservation fraud.

    But this isn't duplicate reservations. Nor does it appear to be reservation fraud; nobody's said anything about third-party sale of the reservations. It's just people automating the process of getting a reservation.

  24. Re:And the memory said... on Researchers Implant False Memories In Mice · · Score: 1

    To which the reply will be: SQUEAK.

  25. Re:Huh. on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 1

    choose a charger that is certified for safety (e.g. UL, CE, MEPS, RCM, C-Tick. I guess the closest Chinese equivalent are CCC, CCIB, CCEE).

    And how exactly do you do that? The certification logos on the charger are going to be worthless; the counterfeiter will just put those on right along with the Apple logo.