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  1. Re:Daylight Saving Time on A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones · · Score: 1

    What were the skies like? Did they have little fluffy clouds?

  2. Re:Daylight Saving Time on A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones · · Score: 3, Informative

    It already is dark on winter mornings *after* the clocks go back to normal so your argument is based in fallacy. You get about 17 days grace (assuming a high 40s to low 50s latitude) after the change before it is just as dark as it was before.

  3. Re:Daylight Saving Time on A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones · · Score: 3, Informative

    The simplest thing is to leave it alone. All this hand wringing "oh they'll go to school / come home in the dark" bullshit doesn't go away unless you have really dumb ideas like double "savings" time. Every bloody year there are the same bullshit reasons for having gone forward in the first place and how we should stay there.

    Lest it be forgotten the whole thing started as a crap solution to "farmers have to work in the dark" in fields where lighting wasn't available. This no longer applies. It was dumb then and to conflate with "think of the children" makes it worse.

  4. Re:Treaty of San Francisco on Taiwan Protests Apple Maps That Show Island As Province of China · · Score: 1

    Ugh you are talking like HK was a US territory. It was a UK territory that we gave back in 1997.

  5. Re:Isn't this what the Taiwanese believe as well? on Taiwan Protests Apple Maps That Show Island As Province of China · · Score: 1

    There's a repo on github that has SVG country maps with this petty squabbling about Indian controlled Kashmir (or is it China? Or how about Pakistan?). A suggested solution to someone complaining was to have the variants put up as well and then it is up to them how they get served.

  6. Re:No, just tricky on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 1

    For your first idea, if only there was somewhere nearby that was made of combustible material that could be collected using some kind of scoop...

  7. Re:Jesus FUCK - Learn to fucking SPELL! on UK Telcos Went Above and Beyond To Cooperate With GCHQ · · Score: 1

    That's what the Grauniad is famous for.

  8. Re:Nothing of Value on NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders · · Score: 1

    That would be because every time a story appears, especially here, and someone says it's the fault of Republicans / Democrats / whoever, the usual response from a fellow citizen is "it's YOUR fault because you voted them in". As if that were true. Nevertheless, those outside don't know who to blame and the only viewpoint given is that it is the fault of the populace. Therefore that is what is thought.

  9. Re:$2 Million as a bait on DARPA Issues $2mil Cyber Grand Challenge · · Score: 2

    Bonus being that the winner can then be arrested for hacking with a fine of $2 million...

  10. Re:Near Zero Information in the article on Dolphins' Hunting Technique Inspires New Radar Device · · Score: 2

    In this case the two pulses cancelled out the signal instead of the noise. Or the summariser is a relative of Foghorn Leghorn.

  11. Re:Please let the "Star Wreck" guys get in on this on 5-Year Mission Continues After 45-Year Hiatus · · Score: 2

    Additional: random coincidence. The new film was funded with help from Kickstarter, Pirk's ship in Star Wreck was called Kickstart.

  12. Re:Please let the "Star Wreck" guys get in on this on 5-Year Mission Continues After 45-Year Hiatus · · Score: 1

    This is probably why there had to be such attention to detail. Star Wreck had so much in it that any fan produced film even vaguely to do with sci-fi series is going to be compared to it.

  13. Re:One Gbps over copper wire? on BT To Test Huawei 1Gbps Broadband Over Copper · · Score: 1

    If there's a duct then fibre can be blown through. Insisting on laying a new duct is just silly and wasteful as it costs more.

  14. Re:One Gbps over copper wire? on BT To Test Huawei 1Gbps Broadband Over Copper · · Score: 1

    "Last mile" (normally less as mentioned in TFA) is normally suspended wire.

  15. Re:Evil, powerful men have enemies. on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    The term you're looking for is "lapsed"

  16. Re:Wow. on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 1

    The BBC had an interesting choice of vox populus last night. They chose one ignorant redneck hick from Bumfuck and asked him who was to blame for the shutdown. He said Obama. There was no opposing view put forward, just "S'all Obama's fault. A-herk".

    But that's the BBC for you. I had to explain to the wife what had actually happened.

  17. Frist! on 1.5 Meter Long Meteorite Fragment Recovered From Russian Lake · · Score: 1

    Oh, and that was bloody clumsy of them.

  18. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    s/when/even

  19. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Shingles is a variant of chicken pox and you can get it as an adult even if you had chicken pox (or when had a vaccination) as a child.

    I had measles, mumps, rubella (was generally called German measles back then) and chicken pox as a child. This was before the vaccines were available. I wouldn't advise catching them "naturally", but I also don't like the mental picture of a child being restrained and being stabbed with a hypodermic by order of a court.

  20. Re:tenses, motherfucker on Hubble Finds Sign That Habitable Planets Could Exist Beyond Solar System · · Score: 1

    We should get ready for the meteor shower that heralds the arrival of Kal-El.

  21. Re:Glad on BBC Unveils Newly Discovered Dr.Who Episodes · · Score: 1

    That's a particularly childish and petulant thing to have said as this licence payer wasn't alive in the 60s so never had the chance to see it when it aired. It is extremely doubtful that the prat who said it was either.

  22. Re:Enormous damage ? on Guardian Ignores MI5 Warnings, Vows To 'Publish More Snowden Leaks' · · Score: 1

    I noticed you posted AC. I have no such qualms:

    Andrew Parker, you are a lying fascist fear mongering cunt who should be locked up for crimes against humanity. Come at me, fucknuts.

  23. Re:Client-side Caching on Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks · · Score: 1

    If they're using Akamai (so aren't against CDN use) why the hell are they locally hosting jQuery, albeit an out of date one? There's absolutely no need to.

  24. Re:and maybe rape makes woman more likely to put o on More Evidence That Piracy Can Increase Sales · · Score: 1

    Also, rape is a criminal offence, copyright infringement is a civil offence. Big difference.

  25. Re:What are they hiding? on Unmanned 'Terminator' Robots Kill Jellyfish · · Score: 1

    The ultimate goal is to find the Lord of the Deep and then use the "rotating blades of death" as a more sensationalist headline described it.