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  1. No. on The Fastest Camera Ever Made Captures 100 Billion Frames Per Second · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No... no it isn't. And no you can't. And no they won't.

  2. Re:what a showboat on Stan Lee Media and Disney Battle For Ownership of Marvel Characters · · Score: 1

    No, Rebellion (owner of the Judge Dredd universe where the Stan Lee character appears) does. I hope you were actually being serious but I'm not going to stake my life upon it.

  3. Re:WTF is Legos? on Lego Ends Shell Partnership Under Greenpeace Pressure · · Score: 2

    I came here to say the same thing. It's surprising how angry it makes me to hear idiots fart all over this simple grammatical concept. I want to just let it go... but I can't.

  4. Re:kill -1 on Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd · · Score: 1

    Well why don't you get right on that, then... Let us all know when you're done, because there are a lot of laptops that don't suspend and resume correctly on Linux.

  5. Re:Traditional crimes on Accused Ottawa Cyberbully Facing 181 Charges Apologizes · · Score: 1

    For the small group of people who appreciated it... totally worth it.

  6. Re:Change of diet in the Eskimo population? on "Eskimo Diet" Lacks Support For Better Cardiovascular Health · · Score: 1

    10 lbs immediately? That's one hell of a pizza.

  7. Re:Not much of Van Gogh's DNA on Ear Grown From Van Gogh DNA On Display · · Score: 2

    Even worse... The ear wasn't grown at all. A pile of cells were grown and then sculpted into an ear shape - making this a complete non-story.

  8. Re:Get 10% less fuel economy with E10... on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    Another mistake: given that 1.4 volumes of ethanol has the same energy content as 1 volume of gasoline (71.4% as much energy per volume), it follows that E10 should be 2.7% less energetic than pure gasoline, not 7.1% less.

  9. Re:Get 10% less fuel economy with E10... on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    Although the gist of your post is right, and I agree with you, your math contains errors. If gasoline costs $3.74 per gallon and ethanol costs $2.33 per gallon, then E10 costs $3.59 per gallon. If the price of E10 is $3.83 per gallon (as per your post), then the price per mile should have been 15.83c. If the price for E10 is actually $3.59, it's 14.8c per mile.

  10. Re:Is it a plague or more like the common cold? on Facebook Is a Plague That'll Burn Out In a Few Years, Says Study · · Score: 1

    I like Facebook, but I really don't like the fact that I now have to pay money to sent a message to a stranger. I don't like the fact that companies routinely pay money to send spam to me. I'm now in a situation of being ready to leave but waiting for a reasonable alternative to appear.

  11. Re:massless photons vs black hole on Scientists Create New "Lightsaber-Like" Form of Matter · · Score: 1

    Thanks for attempting to explain this concept in layman's terms. I appreciate it very much. So from what I understand, the ants never actually reach the north pole of the orange because time at the singularity gets slower and slower from the reference point of the universe outside the event horizon, and that's why they can't cross the centre of the gravity-hole and come back out the other side?

  12. Re:massless photons vs black hole on Scientists Create New "Lightsaber-Like" Form of Matter · · Score: 1

    A black hole bends space so tightly that if light gets too close (the event horizon), it gets sucked in. That's why we refer to it as a hole.

    This still doesn't make sense to a non-physicist like me. You haven't explained why the photon can't just go into the curved area of space and straight out the other side.

  13. Re:Well, he's not afraid his company might fire hi on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 0

    I hope they remember to put that antisocial personality disorder on your public record.

  14. Re:Most retarded thing I've heard today on "Choice Blindness" Can Transform Conservatives Into Liberals - and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    Clearly it isn't the same, because if you had "sampled" the entire comment before you responded, you would have read the part about reaching a near-unity portion, you would have got a different result!

  15. Re:Hope the Auth Servers are Running! on StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Released · · Score: 1

    You actually can't trade your games in the sense that you can give someone a game you're finished playing. You can only trade games on Steam that have never been installed ('opened') by anyone.

  16. Re:Immaculate bulimia on Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you could pump it directly into a hungry person's stomach.

  17. Re:Impact stresses on Artificial Muscles Pack a Mean Punch · · Score: 2

    I've been watching athletes do the long jump without a pole for many, many years.