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  1. Re:Fireworks in 3...2...1... on Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments · · Score: 1

    Ouch... he must be reeling from that one.

  2. Re:Fireworks in 3...2...1... on Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments · · Score: 1

    The church of Satan IS atheist.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Satan#Beliefs

    This one sticks out like a sore thumb though:

    Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires.

    The rest just seem to read like a manifesto for acting like a dick whenever you want, but with just enough caveats that they can point at and say "No, see, we're not complete cunts, actually."

  3. Re:Fireworks in 3...2...1... on Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments · · Score: 1

    The main reason we need marriage to have legal standing is to simplify ... divorce.

    I'm gonna let you think about that for a while.

  4. Re:Fireworks in 3...2...1... on Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments · · Score: 1

    To add , truly equal treatment under the law means marriage shouldn't even be regulated

    Children? Those otherwise without the mental capacity?

    That said, when gay marriage was first being touted in the UK a few "commentators" blustered about how this led, strictly and immediately, to the possibility of people marrying their siblings or children. Gasp!

    But then again, why not? If two elderly sisters have no-one else in the world, why shouldn't they marry and have all the financial benefits of the situation?

  5. Re:11 times the size of Jupiter? on Massive Exoplanet Discovered, Challenges Established Planet Formation Theories · · Score: 1

    If it's 11 times the diameter

    It's not - it's 11 times the mass.

  6. Re:Those games were cool in context on The Quest To Build Xbox One and PS4 Emulators · · Score: 2

    Sorry if it annoys you that I still enjoy Zelda, but I'm not sure what you expect me to do about it.

  7. Re:magnets on New Superconductor Theory May Revolutionize Electrical Engineering · · Score: 1

    Get a login, earn some karma and do it yourself, you lazy git.

  8. Not size - mass on Massive Exoplanet Discovered, Challenges Established Planet Formation Theories · · Score: 1

    It is 11 times the size of Jupiter, and that's what makes it a most singular discovery.

    Oh dear. Do we have to have the talk again?

  9. Singular discovery on Massive Exoplanet Discovered, Challenges Established Planet Formation Theories · · Score: 1

    It is 11 times the mass [FTFY] of Jupiter, and that's what makes it a most singular discovery.

    Much as I enjoy the Sherlockian prose, every time we discover a new most massive planet, it's going to be a singular discovery.

    The missing context here is: how massive was the previous recorder holder?

  10. Re:And it's name is... on Massive Exoplanet Discovered, Challenges Established Planet Formation Theories · · Score: 1

    But seriously. The coincidence of this timing is just... amazingly awesome.

    What, discovering a planet - presumably a gas giant, not a rocky world like Gallifrey - 11 times the size of Jupiter a couple of weeks after a TV show featured a planet a few times bigger than Earth?

    Yeah, wow. It's like they knew, or something.

    They're discovering planets at a rate of about one every two days now (probably more, that was just based on a list I found for 2013) and most of those would be much closer in size to Gallifrey. All, in fact, since this one is the biggest we know of.

  11. Correction on eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy · · Score: 1

    Amazon drones are Christmas marketing ploy

    FTFY.

  12. "Biased"? on Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking · · Score: 1

    How do they measure bias in this case? Don't you have to have a definable "neutral" point to measure bias from? How would you do that?

  13. Re:Time to Scale back on Computerisation on Air Traffic Control "Telephone Glitch" Delays Hundreds of UK Flights · · Score: 1

    This wouldn't -- no counldn't have happenned in the days before computers.

    And we wouldn't have all these Tesla fires holding back the adoption of the electric car if we'd just stuck with horses and carts.

    Also, without the internet paedophiles wouldn't have easy access to kiddy porn. Won't someone (else) puhlease think of the children?!

    What we should see is decentralised systems run using independent computer systems.

    Got much experience of ATC systems?

  14. Re:Yeah, but... on The Climate of Middle-Earth · · Score: 2

    Unlike the degree Fahrenheit and degree Celsius, the kelvin is not referred to or typeset as a degree.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin

  15. Re:Human error on About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors · · Score: 1

    Ah! I misread your "pre-relaunch" as "pre-launch." Apologies.

    Replacing "have" with "had" in the summary and title does put a rather different spin on things.

  16. Re:Write limits on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    I probably write at least 100GB per day on my hard drives if I factor in OS and application pagefile/cache.

    You probably don't.

  17. Re:Human error on About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors · · Score: 2

    The 25% error rate in so-called 834 transmissions is a "preliminary" estimate of the website's performance between its launch Oct. 1 and Nov. 30

    0.77% is just for the past week.

  18. From the Department of the Bleedin' Obvious on Need Directions? Might Not Want To Ask a Transit Rider · · Score: 1

    According to new research, drivers, walkers, and bicyclists will generally provide us with more useful directions than transit riders.

    Well, bugger me with a fishfork, I never would've guessed.

    Wait, is this to do with cognition and active navigation, or is just that transit riders are douchebags?

  19. Re:Human error on About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors · · Score: 2

    An estimated one in four user applications sent from HealthCare.gov to insurance providers have errors introduced by the website

  20. Creative? on Create Your Own Bullet Time Camera Rig With Raspberry Pi · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A team of extremely creative people

    Extremely creative? Not really.

    Raspberry Pis achieved the Hollywood's 'frozen time' effect at a much lesser cost.

    And much lower quality! And without doing any of the time consuming post-processing that's required for an actual film!

    I still think it's cool - or I expect I would if the site was working - but go easy on the hyperbole.

  21. Re:About to on Two Supermassive Black Holes About To Embrace · · Score: 1

    We see two black holes.

    Not one.

    Therefore they haven't coalesced yet.

    The light takes 3.8 billion light years to get here, so they may well have already* coalesced.

    *for a value of "already" that unique to our reference frame.

  22. Re:FSVO "about" on Two Supermassive Black Holes About To Embrace · · Score: 1

    The whole thing will just appear to freeze.

    Doesn't it also become unobservable at the same time? Err, when I say time, I mean... uh...

  23. Re:Only in this reference frame.... on Two Supermassive Black Holes About To Embrace · · Score: 1

    It's not at all theoretical. It's how reality works. It isn't any less true just because we can't anything bigger than a subatomic particle anywhere near such a reference frame at the moment.

  24. Re:Sad state of the Android Market on FTC Drops the Hammer On Maker of Location-Sharing Flashlight App · · Score: 1

    1) Use DroidLight. It's by Motorola, but it works on non-motorola phones too. It requires no permissions.

    The ability to control the flashlight is a permission.

    It also, perhaps for non-nefarious reasons, requires the "Take pictures and videos" permission.

    My Samsung Galaxy SIII Mini, for what it's worth, came with a home screen widget called "Assistive Light" which turns on the flash instantly, unlike every single app I tried, all of which took seconds.

  25. That's why they made soundcards

    There are myriad sensible reasons why one might not want their soundcard on.

    and also the system tray can hold notifications.

    Besides the obvious situation of when your monitor is off, did you even read what you quoted?

    or to tell you that you have a message from one app while another is at full-screen

    The systray is no good in that situation, is it?