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  1. Re:sweet on Plasma Device Kills Bacteria On Skin In Seconds · · Score: 1

    I want plasma bog roll.

  2. Re:Resistance? on Plasma Device Kills Bacteria On Skin In Seconds · · Score: 1

    Hence why the alcohol hand washes don't create superbugs either - it just kills them wholesale, and developing an immunity to it is highly unlikely.

    Now, if they could just do something like this that would kill viruses. We all know someone using Purel like it's going out of fashion because they think it's protecting them against H1N1... What if we actually had something that could (aside from hand-washing, of course)?

  3. Re:Okay, I know this is off-topic... on Plasma Device Kills Bacteria On Skin In Seconds · · Score: 0

    Um, guys? The Fifth Element was LOVE? HELLOOOOOO?

    Nerds... Jeez.

  4. Re:New wheels, same cycle.... on Facebook Putting Batteries On-Board Its Servers · · Score: 1

    Thanks a lot, guys... Now I lost my train of thought!

  5. Re:On board batteries fine, but 277 volt? on Facebook Putting Batteries On-Board Its Servers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could you dumb it down a shade?

  6. Re:News to me on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh. You're THAT guy.

  7. Re:Google Earth? on Possible Meteorite Leaves a Crater In Latvia · · Score: 1

    Or, say, if the picture was taken any time after they started working on it. By chance.

  8. Google Earth? on Possible Meteorite Leaves a Crater In Latvia · · Score: 1

    If this is in fact a hoax, would it be possible to see the hoaxers preperations on the crater through Google Earth? I doubt that the satellites scan that region enough, but it's worth a shot...

  9. Re:Yes there is... on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    On every computer in the world... except for the one your aunt will call you to troubleshoot six years from now.

  10. Re:Why is OS/2 mentioned twice in the article? on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    I couldn't even get the 3-1/2" disk to fit in my 8088, that's how slow it was!

  11. Re:What about the "CSI Effect"? on Lawyer Demands Jury Stops Googling · · Score: 1

    I would define them as the law does - Randomly selected taxpayers from the area in which the trial will take place.

  12. Re:What about the "CSI Effect"? on Lawyer Demands Jury Stops Googling · · Score: 1

    The purpose of having twelve folks is to (attempt to ) eliminate prejudice and ulterior motive - not to have some sort of cumulative intelligence.

  13. Re:Score (-1) Off-topic on Lawyer Demands Jury Stops Googling · · Score: 1

    Qualify and justify all you want, but do remember that the English language has always been a low tongue, owned and directed by the proletariat - regardless of the rules.

    People don't care where quotation marks go, or don't, they don't care whether or not it's spelled 'theater' or 'theatre', 'fibre' or 'fiber', or even whether cursive writing has a place in our society. Is it 'through', or 'thru'? Is it 'wherefore' or 'why'? If the majority of people use it, it becomes de facto, de rigeur, and de way it is - sucks to your assmar.

  14. Re:What about the "CSI Effect"? on Lawyer Demands Jury Stops Googling · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and he's probably still a judge somewhere in West Virginia.

  15. Re:What about the "CSI Effect"? on Lawyer Demands Jury Stops Googling · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'll take twelve less-intelligent peers than one intellectual elected official any day.

  16. Great moments in court history... on Lawyer Demands Jury Stops Googling · · Score: 2, Funny

    "This verdict is written on a cocktail napkin. And it still says 'guilty'... And 'guilty' is spelled wrong!"

    "I'm not wearing a tie at all."

  17. Re:Score (-1) Off-topic on Lawyer Demands Jury Stops Googling · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just because your sense that what's correct is what's current doesn't mean it is.

    See, my language is evolving right before your eyes.

  18. Re:Score (-1) Off-topic on Lawyer Demands Jury Stops Googling · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Languages evolve. Just because your sense that what's correct is what's current doesn't mean it is. It will change, and in hundreds of years, will be seen as we fee olde englifh now. You can't stop the bum's rush.

  19. Re:This would be wonderful on A Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    From the Wikipedia article on 'Vacuum':

    a perfect vacuum with gaseous pressure of exactly zero is only a philosophical concept and never is observed in practice.

    also:

    Upright designs usually employ a rotating brushroll or beater bar, which removes dirt through a combination of sweeping and vibration.

  20. Re:This would be wonderful on A Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    The Universe has a foamy head?

  21. Re:This would be wonderful on A Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    Vacuums contain material, dude. My Dyson is almost full.

  22. Re:This would be wonderful on A Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    The speed of light is actually the speed of energy, so if gravity waves are energy, then it will be at or slightly below the speed of light. Otherwise, if it's matter-based, then its maximum speed would be about the speed of sound. I believe.

  23. Any armchair physicists here? on A Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    So, stop me if I'm way off base, but might it be impossible to detect gravity waves? If a gravity wave is a change in the gravitational constant of a finite space, then wouldn't that affect the mass, and the space-time qualities of a sensor within that space, rendering its observations relative, and useless?

    Or does my thought experiment lack a certain... Knowledge?

    Thanks!

  24. Re:Microsoft's reply on Google Offers Scanned Books To Rival Stores · · Score: 1

    Twix! They're all Twix!

  25. Re:ipod touch on Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera For the iPod Nano · · Score: 1

    And you're ugly.