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  1. Re:Chemical properties on Six Atoms of Element 117 Produced · · Score: 5, Informative

    Study it for a minute. The chemical properties you speak of are largely represented by the columns. Super-heavy elements would be in the middle, in their own 'new' columns.

    Wikipedia actually has an article about it:

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

  2. Re:Unique ID on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can even link the source:

    http://dilbert.com/fast/1995-01-19/

  3. Re:Scumbags on A Year's Further Research On an Espionage Network · · Score: 1

    It's the Chinese. They left traces pointing to China so you would suspect that it was someone else.

  4. Re:CmdrTaco drags big brass ones along the ground on iPad Review · · Score: 1

    I was wrong anyway, 'dark chocolate' isn't particularly regulated, and it might be as much as 55% sugar (most places require a certain amount of actual chocolate in stuff called chocolate...).

  5. Re:Pound and a half and its too heavy? on iPad Review · · Score: 1

    If you are made of money and itching to destroy them, skeet seems like it would be more fun than throwing them in the water.

  6. Re:Designed Obsolescence on Blu-ray Proposes Incompatible BD-XL and IH-BD Formats · · Score: 1

    I would suggest none.

    Unless you really really need your movies in high resolution.

  7. Re:Pound and a half and its too heavy? on iPad Review · · Score: 1

    They are imaginary. You dismissed his complaint, I was simply pointing out that making it lighter wouldn't necessarily make it any worse, and would probably make it better.

  8. Re:Pound and a half and its too heavy? on iPad Review · · Score: 1

    Okay, now come up with any sort of reason where an equivalent, lighter device is worse.

    Remember, equivalent. So durability and such aren't reasons. This one doesn't make a very good paper weight, so that doesn't count either.

  9. Re:CmdrTaco drags big brass ones along the ground on iPad Review · · Score: 1

    As opposed to all the sugar-free, nutritious candy.

    I suppose dark chocolate comes close to that. Oh well.

  10. Re:CmdrTaco drags big brass ones along the ground on iPad Review · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course, the latest iPod has more space than a nomad and wireless.

  11. Re:Ok, really? on Microsoft Sues UK's Datel Over Controllers · · Score: 1

    They are design patents, which are somewhere in between patents and trademarks

  12. Re:Innovation! on Microsoft and Apple Rumble Into Middle Age · · Score: 1

    The mainstream and business media both fawn over Gates just as much as Jobs. Tech media probably favors Jobs.

  13. Re:Microsoft is all about business on Microsoft and Apple Rumble Into Middle Age · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is actually the more profitable company, and measuring cash flow, is around 50% larger.

    People are a lot more excited about Apple though (and apparently think it will be able to continue to grow quite a lot).

  14. Re:Tell that to these folks... on Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs · · Score: 1

    The study focused on young men today (attitudes towards smoking have shifted quite a lot over the last 50 years), and it also drew conclusions about the groups, not about the individuals.

    So a list of historical individuals is pretty unrelated.

  15. Re:I trust Woz on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 2, Informative

    He described a case where unintended acceleration occurs.

    He did not describe a case where uncontrollable acceleration occurs (in his case, the acceleration is halted by simply tapping the brakes).

  16. Re:Only Apple on iPad Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    I didn't buy one of those either.

    (I've considered buying a Sony Reader Pocket, but the uses I would have for it don't quite justify the price...)

  17. Re:Disregarding core competencies always ends badl on Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google · · Score: 1

    They've actually made money on "Entertainment" (which includes stuff like Zune) the last 2 years.

    I don't think they have made money overall on the XBox and friends, but they aren't continuing to lose money.

  18. Re:Yahooooooo!? on Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google · · Score: 1

    Something's pent up.

  19. Re:Probably 500 lines of actual game play code on Multi-Platform App Created Using Single Code Base · · Score: 1

    They are not open sourcing the runtime, but it is available for free.

  20. Re:So what on Obama Faces Major Online Privacy Test · · Score: 1

    It isn't. I was mostly replying to the word 'guarantee'.

  21. Re:Transaction Tax would fix this on What the Top US Companies Pay In Taxes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Steve Forbes backs the Fair Tax because it is very fair for him. The people that astonish me are the ones who think they would be getting a tax cut under the Fair Tax, but really, they would pay quite a great deal more (There are a rather uncomfortable number of people who have no idea what the difference is between their maximum marginal tax rate and effective tax rate).

  22. Re:End-to-end encryption. on Obama Faces Major Online Privacy Test · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That only assures your privacy to the extent that the person on the other end is trustworthy.

  23. Re:Internships should always be paid on Regulators Investigating Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the problem companies are largely outside of the technology sector.

  24. Re:Blood at the Scene on Twins' DNA Foils Police · · Score: 1

    It is as good as any other circumstantial evidence.

  25. Re:Holy crap that's a lot on US Mobile Data Traffic Usage Exceeds Voice · · Score: 1

    You are overstating things more than a little bit. Something like 1/2 of people do not have any regular access to portable communications, and many of the rest of us find current pricing quite unattractive, so we are limited to communicating over voice within a more limited region.