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  1. Re:A leap year issue? Are you SERIOUS? on Azure Failure Was a Leap Year Glitch · · Score: 1

    > Expect lawsuits from customers...

    I'm sure it's covered by the TOS. That's an area where they DONT make mistakes.

  2. Re:What is it with Microsoft and Leap Year? on Azure Failure Was a Leap Year Glitch · · Score: 1

    > Your post is not anti-Microsoft, so you must be a shill.

    It's anti-Java and therefor anti-Oracle. That makes it ok.

  3. Re:28 days on Azure Failure Was a Leap Year Glitch · · Score: 1

    When I was on salary (back in ancient times) the deal was that I got $10,000/year (I said ancient times) paid out in 12 equal installments. Yes, the pay periods varied in length. So what?

  4. Re:Same Story / Different Day on Azure Failure Was a Leap Year Glitch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, we knew it was a Microsoft product so we knew they bought it from someone.

  5. So it's a heckler gun. on Speech-Jamming Gun Silences From 30 Meters · · Score: 1

    Hecklers will find it useful.

  6. Re:"Suborbital"? on Commercial Suborbital Balloon Flight Facility Takes Shape · · Score: 0

    Whoosh.

  7. "Suborbital"? on Commercial Suborbital Balloon Flight Facility Takes Shape · · Score: 0

    Call me when you've got orbitial balloon flights.

  8. Re:Grammar check: collective nouns on Iran's Cardboard Khomeini: Now Available As Malware · · Score: 1

    Ah, but this not a mere "malware". It is a "Malware".

  9. Re:What an ass on Torvalds Calls OpenSUSE Security 'Too Intrusive' · · Score: 5, Informative

    If I understand correctly this in effect would be giving that user root priviledges.

    You don't. The whole point of sudo is that it gives you fine-grained control over the privileges of each user.

  10. Without knowing the algorithm... on What The DHS Is Looking For In Your Posts · · Score: 1

    ...and thus how the pharases are used in combination there's no basis for judging the list "stupid" or otherwise.

    (Knowing that it is from the DHS, on the other hand...)

  11. "...forced to make phone calls..." on Australia's Telstra Requires Fibre Customers To Use Copper Telephone · · Score: 1

    How does that work? Do you have a daily quota and a fine if you don't meet it?

  12. Re:I am a little confused on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    > I thought nothing travels faster than light?

    Correct. Therefor something else is happening. We'd like to know what.

  13. Re:Better than wikipedia? on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    They seem to use signals from GPS satellites to synchronize the creation and detection events, but I wonder why?

    Because that is what metrologists, astronomers, and geodists have been successfully using for clock synchonization for decades.

  14. humans are able to perceive audio up to 20 kHz... on Fraunhofer IIS Demos Full-HD Voice Over LTE On Android · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Only those who have not had high-intensity hoot and thump music piped into their ear canals for the last ten years. Most twentysomethings won't be able distinguish HD audio from a 1940s telephone. They'll buy it anyway, though.

  15. Re:What's the big deal? on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    There's nothing magical or about photons and relativity doesn't require that they travel at the universal speed limit, does it?

    Yes. It does.

  16. Re:Poor Quality Assurance does not boost confidenc on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    > I don't know why CERN stepped in to issue a press release...

    Because CERN handled the timing at their end and that seems to be where these problems occurred. It was a joint experiment.

  17. Re:Poor Quality Assurance does not boost confidenc on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    > ...then call in the reporters...

    So they should keep their activities secret untill they are certain of their results and then publish, just to protect the reporters from making asses of themselves? Bullshit.

  18. Re:Poor Quality Assurance does not boost confidenc on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    What impossibility did anyone involved in the experiment ever claim?

  19. There is no hope for FTL neutrinos. on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 2

    There is a glimmer of hope for interesting new physics.

  20. One cannot copyright a term. on MIT Lecturer Defends His Standing As Email Inventor · · Score: 1

    He most likely registered the mark EMAIL as a trademark. "Word" marks are always registered in all caps. They still apply to usage in other fonts and in lower case.

  21. Re:Headline is wrong on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    What subsequent tests were those?

  22. Re:Einstein on demonstrating relativity wrong... on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    Einstein had something else in addition to confidence. He had a sense of humor.

  23. Re:I don't understand on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    > "I don't understand".

    This is clear. This is very, very clear.

  24. Re:I love the 'Faster than light neutrino' story on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    > ...a significant subset of the population doesn't understand ... science.

    We call those people "journalists".

  25. Re:Headline is wrong on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    A good portion of quantum physics appears to fail the "logical impossibility test" as well...

    What part might that be? Note that I referred to logic, not "common sense" or "intuition".