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  1. Re:The Future of Science on Gambling Could Reveal Which Scientific Studies Are Worth Their Salt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The scientists become less attached to the MBAs than to lab rats, which should eliminate some experiment bias.

  2. Short attention spans on $70k Salaries Didn't 'Backfire'; Gravity Payments' Profits Have Doubled (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    I am very suprised no one's every run a study on this

    It's been a century... but really? No one... like a certain automotive manufacturer in 1914... http://www.forbes.com/sites/ti...

  3. Catching more flies with honey on $70k Salaries Didn't 'Backfire'; Gravity Payments' Profits Have Doubled (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been the American business model for years, though it only works if you keep exporting vinegar in the long run.

  4. Darwinian sales techniques on How Amazon's Monster Erotica Book Ban Shaped CloudFlare's Censorship Stance (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They obviously had to make way for the censorship fetish porn, such as the above summary.

  5. Re:MenuChoice and HAM (1992) on The Weird History of the Microsoft Windows Start Button · · Score: 2

    And then offstage a Xerox representive coughs, walks onstage, announces who he is, punches each one in turn, and storms off, pissed.

  6. Re:Simplified version on Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? · · Score: 1

    Whereas it does imply the "not yet sufficiently tested" category. Untestable relies on whether or not suitable, feasible, practical, and affordable testing methods are yet known. Theoretical physics overlaps the philosophy realm until certain kinks get worked out.

  7. Re:She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    Except that pornography is offensive to about 50% of the human race.

    [Citation Needed]

  8. Re:That just shows my point on Comcast Brings Fiber To City That It Sued 7 Years Ago To Stop Fiber Rollout · · Score: 1

    Since you seem unfamiliar with reality, here are some useful links for you.

    http://www.pouet.net/

    http://modarchive.org/

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

    With a bit of cleverness, very impressive graphics and music can be conveyed using a tiny amount of storage space. Haste makes waste.

  9. I know the ability to count the nose hairs of each actor certainly makes or breaks a show being enjoyable for me.

  10. Re:nvidia/ATI should keep their new stuff propriet on NVIDIA's New GPUs Are Very Open-Source Unfriendly · · Score: 3, Funny

    Intel continued to sell these to Atom users years after they should have been killed.

    Killing the Atom users seems relatively merciful rather than continually being sold Intel video cards...

  11. Re:I'm gonna go out on a limb. on Cannabis Smoking Makes Students Less Likely To Pass University Courses · · Score: 1

    Did the student population who committed murder and then received a lobotomy, so they could no longer commit murder, show the same increase in test rates as the population sample that could no longer purchase cannabis?

  12. Re:Managers need an algorithm for that? on Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You · · Score: 4, Insightful

    - Have they been turned down for a raise when they've demonstrated they're consistently making the company more money than when they were first hired?

  13. CSI: Cyber the drinking game on Why CSI: Cyber Matters · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anytime someone holds up a device and is able to determine the bugs in its source code by visually inspecting the device, take a shot.

  14. Re:Star Wars? on Boeing Patents Star Wars Style Force Field Technology · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Best takeaway from Star Wars and Star Trek? on Boeing Patents Star Wars Style Force Field Technology · · Score: 1

    Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams

  16. Re:Yup, DLC is why i didnt buy it on SimCity's Empire Has Fallen and Skylines Is Picking Up the Pieces · · Score: 1

    As evidenced by how much better most games were per dollar spent in the floppy and CD offline era.

  17. Something is rotten in dandmark.

  18. Re:Stomp Feet on Verizon Posts Message In Morse Code To Mock FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, using Verizon's logic, Verizon should be paying the postal service extra to deliver their snark to the FCC rather than arriving in a timely fashion like say, transmission at a speed agreed upon in a contract between a service provider and customers at each end. And the postal service should be permitted to raise the price for certain customers based on increased quantity of mail sent over some arbitrary amount that can only be interpreted as "too much / we want more money / your speech isn't as free as the other customers'. "

  19. Re:Maybe there's another reason behind this... on Microsoft Finally Allows Customers To Legally Download Windows 7 ISOs · · Score: 2

    And after installing a new hard drive after a crash, and finding out the thumb drive backup has gone missing / gone through the wash / doesn't actually complete a reinstallation?

  20. Re:Bigger Markets on Google Reverses Stance, Allows Porn On Blogger After Backlash · · Score: 4, Funny

    That moment when you realize that fervor, hysteria, and blue balls all describe the same condition.

  21. Wrong game, but right analogy. on Microsoft's Goals For Their New Web Rendering Engine · · Score: 1

    Microsoft rebranding themselves as the Spartans after being the Morganites for so many years seems weird. Linux would probably be the Gaians, BSD the University, and Apple the Believers.

  22. Re:Huh? on Obama Says He's 'A Strong Believer In Strong Encryption' · · Score: 1

    You can want to keep something that someone else can make non-existant. Neither the affordable care act, nor an insurance company dropping policies in anticipation of it or as the result of it, prevents a person from wanting to keep a plan that he or she likes. It's the same kind of weasel words that you'll find in almost any given commercial, promises nothing useful, and can be mistaken for meaning almost anything at all from the listener's angle.

  23. Re:SOE employees ..... on Layoffs Begin At Daybreak Games · · Score: 1

    Smedley didn't get canned, the cancer persists.

  24. It's just the metadata for a DDoS attack, not an actual attack. Nothing criminal about it.

  25. Re:What a WASTE of time on One Man's Quest To Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake · · Score: 5, Informative

    Words and Grammar CHANGE. Enough people use the word AINT, it gets imported into the language.

    You've spelled "ain't" wrong.