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  1. Re:Wow. on Humans Have Been Eating Cheese For At Least 7,500 Years · · Score: 1

    -1 Eww.

  2. Re:More tubes required. on US Security Classifications Needs Re-Thinking, Says Board · · Score: 1

    And how do you think those pneumatic tube systems work? I'll give you a hint - it involves valves, screens, and pumps.

  3. Tautology Club on US Security Classifications Needs Re-Thinking, Says Board · · Score: 3, Funny

    So a board tasked with finding a way to revamp our security classification system came to the conclusion that our security classification system needs a revamp?

  4. Re:Did we really need a study for this? on Brain Disease Found In NFL Players · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Did we really need a study for this? on Brain Disease Found In NFL Players · · Score: 3, Interesting

    BS; I used to get wrapped around the neck or face all the time while being tackled. You don't get impacts to the head (except from the ground), sure, but you do get it yanked, squeezed, clawed, and kicked. And nothing is worse than a large ruck collapsing and the weight of five or more large men pinning your head to the ground - that happened to me three times in the same game once. I couldn't see straight afterwards. It's true, though; you do see a lot less head trauma injuries in rugby (they are still there, though), thanks to the you-must-wrap-while-tackling rule. There is a corresponding increase in joint dislocation and ligament injuries, though, from my anecdotal experience. Tradeoffs.

    The point of football helmets has never been to protect the brain until just recently. It's been to protect the skull, the ears, the face, all the cosmetic stuff. But the brain? Nope. There's a new generation of helmets out there that are supposed to be better, but nobody wears them yet because, well, they're incredibly ugly. But with the increasing focus on concussions in the NFL this year, including the number of high-profile players who've been knocked out, I think we'll see them start to be adopted as early as next year.

  6. Re:And this slashdot article... on Adobe EULA Demands 7000 Years a Day From Humankind · · Score: 1

    Hyperbole? Hey, man, he's just asking questions.

  7. Re:AWYW? Do you mean AMA? on Interviews: Ask What You Will of Eugene Kaspersky · · Score: 2

    What's wrong with AHA?

    It'll be gone

    In a day or two!

  8. What's... on Interviews: Ask What You Will of Eugene Kaspersky · · Score: 2, Insightful

    your favorite brand of vodka?

  9. How many times do I have to aks you guys to spell "missile" preperly?

  10. Re:Buy Windows version on Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version · · Score: 2

    Be careful when you phrase things that way. You could crash the Swedish stock market!

  11. Re:Executive Order in 3... 2... 1... on That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill · · Score: 1

    "sneak it in quietly" is what they just failed to do.

  12. Re:Sigh on USPTO Head: Current Patent Litigation Is 'Reasonable' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nearly all the lawyers I know are quite unattractive. I am decidedly against baring them in public, office or no.

  13. Re:Cue the hatred of hip hop artists on Brain Scans of Rappers and Jazz Musicians Shed Light On Creativity · · Score: 0

    Aww, look. He's angry that people don't like or understand the thing he enjoys, so we should all stop enjoying the thing he doesn't like or understand.

  14. Re:With supporters like these.... on Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts · · Score: 1

    This is ideology. It's intellectual filth. It's a mind cancer. You get two sides attacking each other in a fog of hypocrisy so dense you wonder how they can even keep moving.

    Yeah. Someone should punch those stupid hypocrites in the mouth.

  15. Change! on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 1

    The Twinkie is a symbol of steadfastness, of resistance to change. No matter the environment, it remains obdurate and unimpressed. The recipe has not changed in decades. This must be Obama's first step towards his promises of change! Next targets: the McDonald's french fry and The Legend of Zelda.

  16. Re:Cropdusters? on Getting Small UAVs To Imitate Human Pilots Flying Through Dense Forests · · Score: 1

    Well, before the UAV can pray, they have to give it a soul. I hear that's pretty difficult.

  17. Re:I'm loath to ask: on Vegetative State Man 'Talks' By Brain Scan · · Score: 5, Funny

    *beep beep* "Yes, yes? I knew it. Euthanize him, boys!"

  18. Re:I thought metric solved these issues on Fukushima Ocean Radiation Won't Quit · · Score: 4, Informative

    A petabequerel is 10^15 bequerels. Someone didn't check when they copy-pasted the paragraph out of the article. Metric doesn't solve negligence.

  19. Re:Who prints a 60 page PDF? on Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort · · Score: 1

    No, he could not "email to the people at the polls", young whippersnapper. Try reading my post, or TFA, again, and you might understand why. I say "might", because your reading comprehension hasn't seemed to be up to par thus far. Never hurts to keep practicing, though.

  20. Re:Who prints a 60 page PDF? on Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort · · Score: 2

    First off, he had to print it, because he wasn't the one making the calls. He was supposed to take the list with him to the polls, cross off people who'd voted, then hand the list off to someone else who would then call the people who hadn't voted yet.

    But assuming that wasn't the case, and he just wanted to print it out: I print pdfs, especially the big ones. I like being able to flip back and forth, I like being able to write notes in the margins, and I like having my reference materials on my desk so my monitor can be used for other things. I realize there are commands to do all these things without printing, but I find them annoying and not an improvement over physical pages. Of the things that seemed to go wrong, failure-to-print wasn't something that struck me as particularly alarming.

    On the other hand, I realize that my affinity for physical paper means that it's my responsibility to keep my printer working, and I'm not going to get mad at someone else if I can't print.

  21. Re:Isn't that a bit of the fox guarding the chicke on Judge To Review Whether Foreman In Apple v. Samsung Hid Info · · Score: 3, Funny

    So has Hurricane Sandy. Perception is not the issue.

  22. Re:It only requires the will on Germany Exports More Electricity Than Ever Despite Phasing Out Nuclear Energy · · Score: 0

    So what you're saying is, the Germans are an example of the Triumph of the Will?

  23. Re:Dead giveaway on Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby' · · Score: 5, Funny

    The email is a dead giveaway that they dont have shit on the person who leaked it. If I were the person that leaked it, I would be rejoicing right now.

    But you would have guessed that that would be my reaction - you would have counted on it! So I can CLEARLY not choose the wine in front of me!

  24. Re:Good for him on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 1

    Its supposed to make it hard to win an election by pandering and populism

    Is it really? If so, it's doing a heckuva job. Instead of making it hard to win by pandering, it makes it so the only way to win is by pandering - but to a very select group of people. Whatever Florida wants every four years, Florida gets. Whatever Ohio wants, Ohio gets. Tyranny of the minority at its finest.

  25. Re:Keep calm and love astronomy. on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 2

    I don't think you understand the word "since".