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  1. Re:doubt it on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1

    Now, the pepper spray (it's not fracking mace, damnit!) incident

    Yes it is. Mace is a brand name, not just a tear gas spray.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_Security_International

    Mace first attracted attention during the early 1990s for its manufacture of the less-than-lethal defense spray Mace. Although most of the general public probably still identifies the company with its brand domination in the pepper spray industry

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_(spray)

    Chemical Mace is a tear gas ... Most Mace branded products sold today by Mace Security International are pepper spray rather than tear gas

  2. Re:Leave it to Zuckerberg on Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior · · Score: 1

    Install AdBlock Plus and add these filters.

    ||facebook.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
    ||facebook.net^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
    ||fbcdn.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.net
    ||fbcdn.net^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com

    Some Facebook apps might not work correctly unless you add more domain exclusions to these rules. In that case, add the necessary domains, each preceded by a tilde and separated by a vertical bar. You can tell which domains to add by loading the app, checking the blocked items, hovering over one that you want to allow, and looking at the domain listed under "Document source".

  3. Re:doubt it on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The video was a single continuous shot. Nothing was edited out of it, and anyone can tell this just by watching it, as I did. All your comment proves is that you're an idiot.

  4. Re:Right... on Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This implies that it was doing something that Facebook didn't want it to do.

    It was: Generating bad publicity.

  5. Re:This one didn't eat the crap it was selling you on Doritos Creator Art West Dead at 97 · · Score: 1

    Maybe he, you know, ate them in moderation like you're supposed to.

    And Aspartame? Since when is there Aspartame in Doritos?

  6. Re:To the contrary on Coffee-Powered Car Breaks World Record · · Score: 1

    How far does a pile of fuel get you? There's always a Starbucks closer than that...

  7. Re:Was this submitted by Billy Madison? on Coffee-Powered Car Breaks World Record · · Score: 1

    The previous record holder only went 47 MPH. While you might call that a "car", I wouldn't recommend taking it on the highway.

  8. It's more efficient... on Is Apple Moving iPad Production to Brazil? · · Score: 3, Funny

    They'll be produced by the brazilians!

  9. Re:Not really cracking the passwords. on Aussie Researcher Cracks OS X Lion Passwords · · Score: 1

    The dscl command might not allow you to change other users' passwords, but if dscl can modify the shadow file without the root password, what prevents something else from doing the same thing but allowing you to change any password?

  10. Re:faster than the speed of light??? on Faster-Than-Light Particle Results To Be Re-Tested · · Score: 1

    You'd be pushing its electromagnetic field with another electromagnetic field, and electromagnetic fields propagate at the speed of light.

  11. Re:Faster than light? on Faster-Than-Light Particle Results To Be Re-Tested · · Score: 1

    A shadow will certainly interact with a photocell in its path. Try covering the light sensor of a patio lamp with your hand.

    If a neutrino can be detected, it has to measurably interact with something.

  12. Re:Not really cracking the passwords. on Aussie Researcher Cracks OS X Lion Passwords · · Score: 1

    The more important part of this article is that under some circumstances, you can change the password of the logged in user without entering the current password.

    Could you change it back by replacing the original hash after you've done whatever you wanted to do to their system?

    Now, *that* is a big deal (the degree of which is subject to valid debate).

    Of epic proportions, I'd say.

  13. Re:1km^2 on MIT Working On Industrial-Scale Graphene Printing Press · · Score: 1

    Computer screens are always measured by their diagonal, so it's not as retarded as you seem to think (even if the terminology they used was horribly wrong).

    I scanned TFA to try to find out what was meant by "1-km square" and failed, though, so you do get credit for finding that.

  14. Re:gs, wg vs contract work on US Gov't Pays IT Contractors Twice As Much As Its Own IT Workers · · Score: 1

    BTW the female told me that Open VMS is not UNIX

    OpenVMS isn't UNIX, though many UNIX commands have been ported to it. What is OpenVMS? Which is better, OpenVMS or UNIX?

    OpenVMS was designed entirely within HP and specifically within the former Digital Equipment Corporation (DIGITAL). ...It was once certainly true that OpenVMS and UNIX were quite different. In more recent times, there are tools and C APIs on OpenVMS that directly provide or that easily support porting UNIX programs and commands

    its just an application that runs on a Microsoft Server!

    I assume they were running it in a VAX hardware emulator on a Microsoft Server. Although OpenVMS does natively support Intel Itanium-based servers, so it's possible that a Microsoft Server with the Itanium chipset could be repurposed to run OpenVMS.

    I only know what I see. This is what I see: you were ill-informed and ended up looking like a moron.

  15. Re:Really? on US Gov't Pays IT Contractors Twice As Much As Its Own IT Workers · · Score: 1

    A "string" is a series of bytes. Each byte contains 8 binary bits.

    "ASCII" is a character code. Each ASCII character contains 7 binary bits.

    Storing ASCII characters in a string leaves 1 unused bit in each byte. You figure it out, dumbass: what's the difference between an "ASCII" string and a "binary" string?

    Now, who needs CS 101 again?

  16. Re:Sane and Rational Problem? on Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons · · Score: 1

    There's actually artificial rennet that can be used in cheesemaking, but you'd still be stuck with the issue of milk production.

  17. Re:Einstein replied "Check your measurements, son" on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    not wasting my taxes on giant statues

    Somebody should tell that to Congress.

  18. Of course on US Gov't Pays IT Contractors Twice As Much As Its Own IT Workers · · Score: 0

    An employee costs much more than just their salary (benefits, employer matching social security contributions, taxes, and retirement). That alone could probably make up the difference.

    Also, a contractor works on an as-needed basis. If you don't have enough work for them or don't have enough money in the budget to pay them, you just don't hire them. An employee is much harder to get off the payroll (particularly a federal employee).

  19. Re:time travel.... verse 2 on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    I'd have thought he got one hell of an orgy, but I suppose that wouldn't fit the meter of the verse.

  20. Re:Fokkers? on Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons · · Score: 1

    Really... I was wondering what the dried goo that I pick out of my nostrils has to do with milk.

  21. Re:Sane and Rational Problem? on Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons · · Score: 1

    It gets better: rennet, the enzyme used to make cheese, is extracted from these slaughtered calves' stomachs. So if you're against the production of milk due to it causing the slaughter of newborn bovine then stop eating cheese, too.

    Um, I imagine if you're against the production of milk you're probably already avoiding cheese...

  22. Re:But... on Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons · · Score: 1

    There is no way anyone (FDA, USDA, etc) is going to let that go on for very long. What with them shutting down dairies for selling unpasteurized milk or cheese, or fining a family over $90,000 because they sold more than $500 worth of rabbits in a year, I'm surprised they haven't been shut down already.

  23. Re:so let me get this straight... on Vision Problems For Some Returning Astronauts · · Score: 1

    As long as you're not straining your eyes to try to figure out exactly what each letter is, you're fine. Get enough of them wrong and it's obvious that you can't see them well at that size and distance. Just say what it looks like and keep going until the doctor tells you to stop. It's unlikely that you'll guess enough letters correctly to trick the doctor into thinking you can see them if you really can't.

  24. Re:Weightlessness is a Bitch on Vision Problems For Some Returning Astronauts · · Score: 1

    you might like to do the sums sometime to work out how big it would need to be for the difference between perceived gravity at your feet and in your head to be close enough not to be noticed (say, within 0.05g)

    Why the heck would it need to be that precise? Especially since your feet would be the most affected. If you were topheavy it would be worse, but this will actually make your center of gravity appear lower. Your feet aren't that heavy... you could increase their weight by a lot more than 5% and not have a significant effect. Hell, you could increase their weight by a lot and it wouldn't feel any different than, say, wearing a pair of steel-toed boots.

    And even if it's noticeable - so what? Circulatory problems still wouldn't occur for such low differences. Your body is fairly resistant to higher-than-normal Gs (much more so than it is to negative Gs).

  25. Re:Really constructed? on Brain Imaging Reveals the Movies In Our Mind · · Score: 1

    It's also limited to the training data. Even if the brain activity can be accurately correlated to the closest training images, averaging 100 of the closest matches still has to come reasonably close to the actual scene for you to recognize it.