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  1. Re:What I've said all along on Genetic Convergent Evolution: Stunning Gene Similarities Among Diverse Animals · · Score: 1
    What am I missing? I assume the GP meant

    Isn't it a genetically proven fact that all human women share the same common female ancestor?

    Which part of the Misconceptions list disproves that notion?

  2. Re:New feature on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 3, Insightful

    HDCP!=HDMI

  3. Re:But can it run Crysis? on Tiny $45 Cubic Mini-PC Supports Android and Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    You've abused an apostrophe. Prepare to die.

  4. What's Collobora when it's at home? on SUSE's LibreOffice Core Team Moves To Collabora · · Score: 1, Funny

    Michael Meeks has announced that the core of SUSE's LibreOffice team is moving over to Collabora

    Is that in French Polynesia?

  5. This shouldn't be a problem on Team Oracle Penalized For America's Cup Rules Violations · · Score: 1

    As long as they post details of their modifications so the community can incorporate them into their own yachts, I don't see what the problem is.

  6. Re:Is it possible... on Team Oracle Penalized For America's Cup Rules Violations · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to give a negative fuck about something?

    You cared enough to post instead of just moving along to the next article. Sorry if this one didn't interest you, your lordship, I'm sure the editors will try harder to please thee next time.

  7. Re:The only thing cool about this article... on Team Oracle Penalized For America's Cup Rules Violations · · Score: 1

    You could scale this up but there are powered foils for actually moving cargo.

    And passengers.

  8. Re:SLS = Space Launch System on Chris Kraft Talks About The Decline of NASA · · Score: 1

    Should Look Subject

  9. Re:Die size? on Intel Launches Core I7-4960X Flagship CPU · · Score: 1

    But is it technically correct?

  10. Re:SLS = Space Launch System on Chris Kraft Talks About The Decline of NASA · · Score: 1

    Are you really hypothesizing that there is anyone who knows who Chris Kraft is, and/or cares in the least what he thinks, who doesn't know that?

    No, I'm not. Are you really hypothesizing that only those people who already know who Chris Kraft is could, even should be interested in this story?

    Apparently the editor didn't think that, at least, since they patronisingly dumbed it down for us morons:

    a recent interview with Chris Kraft, founder of Mission Control

  11. SLS = Space Launch System on Chris Kraft Talks About The Decline of NASA · · Score: 1

    Editors, it's never a bad idea to define less-than-ubiquitous acronyms.

  12. Re:I hate to sound like *that* commercial on John Scalzi's Redshirts Wins Hugo Award for Best Novel · · Score: 1

    ...but it's really science fiction or fantasy

    They're for science fiction works and fantasy works.

  13. Re:Sci-Fi? on John Scalzi's Redshirts Wins Hugo Award for Best Novel · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Hugos are for science fiction and fantasy.

  14. Re:Fight it if you want to. on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    s/owner/owned/, my bad.

    s/owner/owned/
    s/rule/rules/
    s/do/does/
    s/contains/find/, unless the drive is in a superposition of containing and not containing compromising stuff

    Brought to you by the Pedants' Society and the letter H.

  15. The real question on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    Why should we listen to this one woman?

  16. Re:Seems technically simple... on US Uncorks $16M For 17 Projects To Capture Wave Energy · · Score: 2

    Doesn't seem like it would have too many moving parts or require elaborate engineering.

    That's probably because you've spent a grand total of about two minutes coming up with your idea. The solution to the tidal energy problem is not going to come from a Slashdot AC, sorry.

  17. Re:Failed technology on US Uncorks $16M For 17 Projects To Capture Wave Energy · · Score: 1

    "Remember that the free surface is neither ocean nor air and that man cannot walk upon it nor will equipments remain stable in its presence. So design your equipments that they tarry not long and that they need neither servicing nor repair at this unseemly interface." - MIT/U.S. Navy ocean engineering expert.

    Are you sure that wasn't said by a wizard?

  18. Re:Where is the innovation? on Apple Now Relaying All FaceTime Calls Due To Lost Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    Punching holes in NAT is a fucking nightmare

    I thought it was just a case of getting both parties to attempt to send packets to each other on an agreed UDP port - that's how I thought Skype did it anyway.

  19. Re: no.maybe.yes? on Dotless Domain Names Prohibited, ICANN Tells Google · · Score: 1

    www.uu-uu-uu.dot.org

  20. Re:A question of cost. on Raspberry Pi, Smart Highways Win World's Biggest Design Prize · · Score: 1

    How is someting that takes a non-renewable resource to produce a plastic non-biodegradable container better for the planet than a piece of paper soaked in ground up fenugreek seeds?

    Possibly because, for the very reason that it is non-biodegradable, that plastic container will last you a decade or more.

    How do the resources required to make and deliver one plastic container weigh up against the resources required to keep someone in the middle of a third-world country in Freshpaper - which doesn't keep things as fresh as an airtight container does - for 10 years?

    What is wrong with your thinking and comprehension skills?

    What's wrong with your ability to disagree constructively without descending to insults?

  21. Re:A question of cost. on Raspberry Pi, Smart Highways Win World's Biggest Design Prize · · Score: 1

    If you have an issue with what appears to be a perfectly sound and simple scientific experiment with a clear conclusion, why don't you post about that instead of content-less ad hominems?

    And, to quote another AC who you presumably think has no idea what they're talking about:

    What part of "Reusable airtight containers seem like a better way to save the world." is hard to comprehend?

  22. Re:What's the worst that could happen? on Romanian Science In Freefall · · Score: 1

    You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!

    I've got a bad feeling about this.

  23. Re:A question of cost. on Raspberry Pi, Smart Highways Win World's Biggest Design Prize · · Score: 2
    Reposting from an AC further down (it all sounds a bit snake-oil to me, too):

    Consumer Reports covered Fresh Paper a few months back, and from their testing, determined an air-tight container performed better.

    https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2013/06/claim-check-fenugreen-freshpaper/index.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDR20j0aTUY

  24. Neil DeGrasse Tyson may be right - now, but... on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not possible. Space is dangerous.

    So was crossing the atlantic in a boat. So was heavier-than-air flight. So was getting into space in the first place. So was going to the toilet in the middle of the night 100 years ago.

    It's expensive.

    So was... well, you see where I'm going with this.

  25. All we know so far is that the MTV producers liked the act.

    They say they liked it.