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  1. Re:Um, first observed in 1887 - well before shuttl on Noctilucent Clouds Likely Caused By Shuttle Launches · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thank you, Calvin's dad.

  2. Aphasia on Swearing Provides Pain Relief, Say Scientists · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've heard of people who are left unable to speak (due to a stroke or other brain trauma) still being able to curse and swear like sailors. This does seem to indicate that swearing is linked to something more than just the speech center.

  3. Re:Anyone Else Notice Pandora Lately? on Experimental Fees Settle Royalty War For Internet Radio · · Score: 1

    How so? My stations are playing the same kind of music they've always played. In fact, they seem to have picked up some new artists lately, which is nice.

  4. Re:What about public domain music? on Experimental Fees Settle Royalty War For Internet Radio · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They don't need grounds. They can bankrupt you just by filing the suit and dragging out the proceedings.

  5. Work it out in your head on How Heavy Is a Petabyte? · · Score: 1

    What's the storage capacity of a human brain? We know how much THAT weighs, on average.

  6. Worthless humans... on LucasArts To Re-Release Old Games Through Steam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd love an updated version of Day of the Tentacle.

    That is all.

  7. He would say that on Symantec Exec Warns Against Relying On Free Antivirus · · Score: 1

    If people stopped paying for Norton, how will they be able to keep up the under-the-table payments to virus writers?

  8. How about a compromise? on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Personally, I rather like the way many cellphones handle this: show the letter that was typed for a moment and THEN mask it. This allows you to spot typos and correct them without having to blank the field and start over.

  9. Re:Miss on Beamed Space Solar Power Plant To Open In 2016? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Changing electrical energy into thrust? You got it. Space agencies have been using it for years. And, as an added bonus, it makes a neat blue glow when you do it!

  10. Re:USA never liked the iranian govt on Researchers Find Gaps In Iranian Filtering · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you really, honestly believe the CIA is competent enough to organize a nation-wide rebellion?

  11. Re:You don't even know you're missing it. on One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night · · Score: 1

    Obviously you hadn't eaten enough trail mix yet.

  12. High-efficeiency incandescent bulbs on Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient · · Score: 5, Informative

    But it doesn't matter (at least to those of us in the USA), because in 2014 incandescent bulbs will be banned.

  13. Re:An alternate theory on Why Our "Amazing" Science Fiction Future Fizzled · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Today, even a poor man today can purchase strawberries in the dead of winter. And they are larger, sweeter strawberries than any that could be had at any other time in history. Magic.

  14. Re:I can see it now on Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? · · Score: 1

    I'll second this. This extension has changed the way I use the browser, and for the better. If Mozilla really hates the way the default tabs function, they need to start looking at Tree Style Tabs for a replacement.

  15. Re:first post! on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    I was waiting for Spock Prime (as he was credited) to vanish at the end like Marty McFly. Apparently there are multiple, simultaneously existing timelines in Star Trek. The fact that Spock Prime is still around means that all the events of the original Star Trek universe, including Next Generation, Voyager and DS9 happened and will (paging Dr. Streetmentioner!) continue to have happened.

    Alternatively, the timeline will still be resolved in a future movie, but I kind of hope not. I'd love to believe there's a universe where Nemesis never happened.

  16. Re:Good, but on Reviews: Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Having watched tons of nature documentaries, my first thought in that scene was that the "there's always a bigger fish" monster was protecting its kill from a potential rival. The really cringe-y part for me was when it clumsily fell down the ice cliff after Kirk. What's that klutzy in nature? ... maybe it was a BABY giant red cloverfield/crayfish monster.

  17. Re:Huh? on World's First X-Ray Laser Goes Live · · Score: 1

    But would it be X as in Xavier? Or X as in xenophobe?

  18. Re:The one question we all want to know. on World's First X-Ray Laser Goes Live · · Score: 3, Funny

    On the upside, if you manage to reassemble yourself from that state, you'll get a nifty blue glow and no one will arrest you for running around naked all day.

    Ha ha! Dangly parts.

  19. Re:Similarity on Ancient Ecosystem Found In Ice Pocket · · Score: 1

    Because, if you actually read the linked page, you'll see that the rust-colored streaks show up even on accurate color images. The false-color ones are clearly marked as such.

  20. Re:How did it first appear? on Ancient Ecosystem Found In Ice Pocket · · Score: 1

    Like the nice, safe, warm, possibly sulfur-filled depths of the ocean beneath Europa's frozen surface?

  21. Similarity on Ancient Ecosystem Found In Ice Pocket · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A red streak, huh? Looking at the picture, it's sort of a orange-red rust color. A rust-colored streak in the middle of a bunch of ice. What does it remind me of? Ah, yes.

  22. Re:Capcom's doing this? Oh christ no. on Early Look At the New Bionic Commando · · Score: 1

    And the main character will open his mouth when he jumps, like he's screaming.

    Oh wait, the Bionic Commando dude can't jump. Well, that's one worry less!

  23. Achievement unlocked a day late? on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    I hope so.

  24. No worky on Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately I just tried to log in to my bank account via lynx, and it just silently brings me back to the top of the page whenever I try to put in my username.

    Ah well.

  25. Achievement unlocked on IE 8.1 Supports Firefox Plugins, Rendering Engine · · Score: 1

    thank you.