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  1. Features I'd like to see... on The Importance of Portal · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see the ability to shoot a new portal while halfway between the two, cutting you in half. If you can back up fast enough (not likely) you won't die.

  2. Isn't that how they make ball bearings? on Solar Cells Crystallized Out of Molten Silicon · · Score: 1

    And Quaker State?

  3. Re:Alpha Mom '07 on Defending Games For Adults on National Television · · Score: 1

    If they want to be alphas and play with wii's they can be alpha cocksuckers for me.

  4. Alpha Mom '07 on Defending Games For Adults on National Television · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Someone should create a game where you get to be a self centered, busy bodied cunt, where you ruin the lives of your children by smothering them with attention and activities until they can't think on their own. You could rate their alpha skill level at how long it takes the grown children to move out of the basement.

  5. Watch out for falling FAIL. on Wal-Mart's Faltering RFID Initiative · · Score: 1

    Bonk

  6. What does pr0n mean? on What Your Favorite Web Sites Say About You · · Score: 1

    And does it matter what kind?

  7. Re:tag this whocares on Underground Mac Community Foils a Coup · · Score: 1

    12 frames of animation that was looped very well so the male was in a perpetual thrusting motion
    Sounds like something I remember from high school called Mandy Video. It fit on a 3.5 floppy. I kept mine with the file attribute set to hidden, locked in a footlocker in my closet. I'da been beaten had my mother ever found it. I did catch the computer lab teacher and one of the baseball coaches watching it after school one day.
  8. Re:Can you say "class action" ? on Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents · · Score: 1

    The question would be who could be a party to the lawsuit. Could someone that's not a customer but peered BT's to Comcast customers seek damages? All that would be needed for proof would be a peer's IP belonging to Comcast. Right?

  9. Re:Favorite color, favorite number...? on Pink, Blue, and Bad Science · · Score: 1
    I looked up arbitrary just to be sure.

    Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle
    Yep, just what I thought it meant.
  10. Re:Favorite color, favorite number...? on Pink, Blue, and Bad Science · · Score: 1

    Chinese with heinz ketchup.

  11. Favorite color, favorite number...? on Pink, Blue, and Bad Science · · Score: 1

    It's all arbitrary anyway. That said, I like pastel black and the number eleven.

  12. Re:A435 is old standard on Pitch Perception Skewed By Modern Tuning · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Idle curiosity, how much would a tunning a 35ish year old upright Kawai that hasn't been tuned in 20 years cost? It's always lived in a climate controlled space and isn't terribly out of tune that I know of.

  13. Re:Why just binary? on IBM Develops Technology That Could Store Data In Atoms · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing. You could go trinary with XYZ alignments. Or if it had a vector in one of those three, bump it up to base-6. BUT if you could determine the multitude of directions possible referencing a key atom, the limit would again be at the discreetness of the detector as it is now with the read/write head.

  14. Re:Might want to check with NVE Corp. on IBM Develops Technology That Could Store Data In Atoms · · Score: 1

    But matter has more subatomic properties than spin by which data can be stored.
    There's always more than one way to skin a cat.

  15. Re:really crappy sci fi on IBM Develops Technology That Could Store Data In Atoms · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, as long as Windows doesn't crash the universe...

  16. Reminds me of that guy from Reno 911 on NASA Employees Fight Invasive Background Check · · Score: 1

    that they keep having to arrest/un-cuff/whatever that's always in a compromising position and saying not to judge him because they don't know him and as a US American it is his right to do whatever he wants in private with other US Americans if they so choose to and such. Thank you.

  17. Re:A Simple Greeting: on How To Address A Visit from MPAA Senior VP Rich Taylor? · · Score: 1

    Well if you're going to take that mindset...
    Nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

  18. How will this affect hardware architecture? on Seagate to Offer Solid State Drives in 2008 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Am I safe in assuming SATA transfer rates are sufficient to handle a SSD?
    Will it move choke points elsewhere on the system?
    I'd like to know what other practical benefits such would have other than lower power consumption and durability.

  19. Re:How will we protect ourselves? on Homeland Security Commissions LED-Based Puke-Saber · · Score: 1

    No! I think he's on to something! I was reading something in a beyond tomorrow mag about this new technology called 'polarization'. Apparently you can filter the amount of sunlight using it. I don't know exactly how it works, but it has something to do with really headdy physics. Something about light being a particle AND a wave. I bet you could not only cut the amount of light, but filter certain colors. But that all is of course theoretical.

  20. Re:Nah this is not correct either. on New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions · · Score: 1

    That's not entirely accurate. The gravitational constant is mainly referred to in mathematical terms. The Earth's gravitational field varies depending on a number of things. BUT the variation is sufficiently small over the planet that your cited 9.86 ms^2 figure is acceptable for his impending splatter.

  21. Re:Nah this is not correct either. on New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions · · Score: 1

    Just because the people who penned the bible included some logically derived conclusions doesn't validate the rest of the book.

  22. Re:Nah this is not correct either. on New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions · · Score: 1

    More likely DBC, Design by Committee.

  23. Re:Nah this is not correct either. on New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions · · Score: 1

    Ah, the oft' spoke about angry, vengeful and HUNGRY god. It all makes sense now.

  24. Re:This theory isn't trying to explain the K-T eve on New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions · · Score: 1

    Now get off my lawn!

  25. Re:Huh. Better get to work! on New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions · · Score: 1

    I'm sure he installed the NOSMOKE patch.