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  1. Re:Why bother with either on Barnes & Noble Adds Google Play Store To the Nook · · Score: 1

    Both are fine for reading, and neither really strains your eyes, sucks battery, or is hard to read in sunlight like a tablet.

    FTFY.

  2. Re:Following best architectural design practices on Following Best Coding Practices Doesn't Always Mean Better Security · · Score: 1

    No, no, no. Car analogy, puhlease!

  3. Re:Interesting... on Meet Drone Shield, an Ambitious Idea For a $70 Drone Detection System · · Score: 2

    little credit card readers that attach to your phone via headphone jacks.

  4. Re:does it support the HOSTS file? on Mozilla Launches Firefox OS 3.0 Simulator · · Score: 1

    Didn't getting root on some of the early Androids involve tapping each of the four corners?!

  5. Re:Pink Elephant on Putin Reportedly Comments On T-Platform Supercomputer Flap · · Score: 1

    To be fair, he may have mixed it up with the elephant in the room.

  6. Re:This research needs independent verification on Condensation On Your Beer != Good · · Score: 1

    Okay, you're the control group. Now cover yourself in condensation and get in the fridge.

  7. Re:As I'm a teetotaler... on Condensation On Your Beer != Good · · Score: 4, Funny

    And yet you felt compelled to post. What's that about?

    Stuff that doesn't interest me happens all the time. If I had the same compunction to comment on all of them I'd never get anything done.

    Or is this another case of Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own a Television?

  8. Duh on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 1

    So, sorry kids. Don't try any extracurricular science projects on school grounds, especially if they could result in anything resembling an explosion.

    It sounds like the article is trying to be sarcastic, but that seems like perfectly reasonable advice to me.

  9. Re:a chemical explosion in a school bathroom is ok on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 1

    This won't be a popular post

    Damn straight. You can't just come in here waggling the truth in our faces like Jack the Biscuit. Where do you people get off?!

  10. Re:What science? on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 1
    Also this:

    The other most common question about her story is what kind of chemicals she was mixing. Lauderdale says she doesn't know.

    Yeah, science experiment my singed eyebrows. Stupid kid does stupid thing, tries to weasel out of it, as kids (and weasels) do. Happens to be black.

  11. Re:Ob. XKCD on The Balkanization of Chatting · · Score: 1

    It means in real life, you're an unoriginal hipster doofus.

    Better that than a belligerent turd.

  12. Re:The bloody ignorance on Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study · · Score: 1

    If you handle a gun, your priority is safety. Your safety and that of others. That is your first priority and the [only] priority.

    If that was really true, we wouldn't have cars or guns (or adventure playgrounds). Everything's a compromise, really. Not that taking your eyes off the road to check your phone isn't one of the stupidest things you can do while in charge of a car.

  13. Re:Maybe our universe is a 'matter bubble' on Does Antimatter Fall Up? · · Score: 1

    Picture a banana. Are you picturing it? Okay, now forget it, because it's nothing like that.

  14. Re:Neat on OpenStreetMap Adds Easier Reporting of Map Problems · · Score: 1

    Nice... just used it to correct a couple of errors in my neighborhood.

    If only it actually worked that way...

  15. Re:Wasted, totally wasted, or blotto on Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study · · Score: 1

    But she weaves and drifts while driving. If she were texting, it would be bad.

    As opposed to the weaving and drifting?!

  16. Re:one more distraction while driving on Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study · · Score: 1

    The head of NPR or the popular science magazine is up its ass.

    And you are...?

  17. Re:What does this have to do with time? on Physicists Attempting To Test 'Time Crystals' · · Score: 1

    A crystal's structure repeats through space - the bit at x+1 looks just like the bit at x. This thing's structure repeats through time - at t+1 it will look identical to how it did at t.

  18. Re:True on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 1

    Slavery has been shown over and over to be a poor economic system.

    I thought it was working quite well (for the owners) until a few people realised it might be just a little bit shady, morally.

    Workers work better when well treated.

    Would the increase in productivity outweigh the increase in spending the employer would have to make (decent food, accomodation, wages, etc)? And yes, before any morons jump in, I am playing devil's advocate, and no, I'm not advocating slavery.

  19. Re:Don't flare, sell it. on EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak Estimates Further Divides Fracking Camps · · Score: 1

    The gas producers have no reason to leak anything.

    They do if it's not worth their while fixing what to them may be a minor leak.

  20. Re:Quite interresting on Experiment Will Determine Dinosaur's Skin Color · · Score: 1
    Right, well, my original mildly facetious comment seems to have attracted frothy-mouted vitriol, so I'll try again.

    No need for spectacular skin if feathered and probably need for colored skin if not feathered.

    I'm not sure about your logic. Tigers have stripey pigmented skin despite being covered in fur. Polar bears have pigmented skin despite being covered in fur. There's also an assumption that a feathered dinosaur would be covered in feathers, when they may have only had them on limbs or in prominent places for display purposes.

  21. Where to start... on How To Promote Stage Comedy In a Geeky Way? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    why is this guy doing niche fairs and not HBO specials?

    Maybe because you're not the ultimate arbiter of what's funny and what isn't.

  22. Re:Fool speaks the truth on Lawyer Loses It In Letter To Patent Office · · Score: 1

    That figure by itself is meaningless. There's no ideal percentage that they should be rejecting. Did the study go on to examine a large sample of accepted patents, and find a significant percentage of those to have been unwarranted?

  23. How to write a bloody awful headline on EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak Estimates Further Divides Fracking Camps · · Score: 1
    EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak Estimates Further Divides Fracking Camps

    (EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak) Estimates (v.) Further Divides Fracking Camps - nope...
    (EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak Estimates (n.) Further) Divides Fracking Camps - maybe...
    (EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak Estimates (n.)) Further Divides Fracking Camps - could be that too...

  24. Biggest? Really? on Indiana University Dedicates Biggest College-Owned Supercomputer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Computers used to be a lot bigger.

  25. Re:Here's an idea on Nearest Alien Planet Gets New Name · · Score: 1

    So we can't name any gas giants?