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  1. Re:Where did this come from on 4chan Declares War On Snow · · Score: 1

    Correct, but I believe you missed the "here, here" vs "hear, hear" pun ;)

  2. Re:Where did this come from on 4chan Declares War On Snow · · Score: 1

    Pardon?

  3. Re:Further Lessons on Gawker Source Code and Databases Compromised · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One benefit of having a domain is having forward all for %.com@domain.com. That way you can see which sites got compromised or which accounts got onsold. They can be easily blocked too.

    Still, I do prefer using throwaway email accounts, or not signing up if the content is readily available without registering.

  4. Re:And the obvious question on Diabetic Men May Be Able To Grow Their Own Insulin-Producing Cells · · Score: 2

    The Catholic church simply will not stand for this!

    "CHILDREN:
    Every sperm is sacred.
    Every sperm is great.
    If a sperm is wasted,
    God gets quite irate.

    GIRL:
    Let the heathen spill theirs
    On the dusty ground.
    God shall make them pay for
    Every sperm that can't be found."

    Etc...

  5. Re:Rouge satellite on Rogue Satellite Shuts Down US Weather Services · · Score: 1

    Ahh. Well played, sir. I shall "whoosh" myself ;)

  6. Re:Rouge satellite on Rogue Satellite Shuts Down US Weather Services · · Score: 1

    Their isn't?

  7. Re:slow news day? on Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages · · Score: 1

    I assumed he thought Justin Bieber was the kid who single-handedly created a singing career by releasing songs of Government documents on his site wikileaks.

  8. Re:What did we learn FTA? on Report Finds More Aussie Gov't Workers Misusing Internet · · Score: 1

    Gov't jobs here IMO are usually on par with the levels of draconianism of private industry if not more lenient. The inneficiencies are generally from the bureaucracy, so there is usually ample time to goof off while waitingfor requests to go through.

  9. Re:Well Fuck on Apple Patents Glasses-Free 3D Projector · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, because it's Apple, you won't even be able to watch porn on it ;)

  10. Re:When I grow up on Special Master Appointed In Jammie Thomas Case · · Score: 1

    Shadow Minister is just a minister who is not in power. The Minister of Finance, for example, is from the Party that forms Government, where the Shadow Finance Minister would be the oppositions Finance Minister. It does sound cool though (but not in the context you described).

  11. Re:Settlements are not precedent on Special Master Appointed In Jammie Thomas Case · · Score: 1

    But then there is the counter-suit for Libel and Slander.

  12. Re:Slashdot violates this patent on USPTO Lets Amazon Patent the "Social Networking System" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Exactly what I was thinking. Friends and Foes infringes on this patent. Having said that, the fact that they only applied for a patent after these types of systems were already built should stop it from being enforceable right? Prior art?

  13. Re:Facebook Code on Newsweek Easter Egg Reports Zombie Invasion · · Score: 1

    Oh, if you knew my life experiences. I could write a whole series of rather sorted books...

    Oh my! Are you seriously going to start writing Phonebooks? Or *gasp* Dictionaries? The horror! Did you perchance mean Sordid?

  14. Re:Inertial Dampeners??? on Inertial Mass Separate From Gravitational Mass? · · Score: 1

    Around here Damper is what you eat by the fireside...

  15. Re:BP has no right to do this! on Studies Prove BPA Can Cross Placenta To Fetuses · · Score: 1

    BP.... Poisoning the other Gulf? The Gulf of Uterus?

  16. Re:give it a rest on Australian Police To Investigate Google Over Wi-Fi Scanning · · Score: 1

    They want to pass this data on to CSIRO so they can sue the manufacturers for Wi-Fi Patent Infringement.

  17. Re:Wait, what? on Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss · · Score: 1

    To make the extrapolation far more interesting perhaps?

  18. Re: hold both sides of the screen... on Sony Unveils Flexible OLED Thinner Than a Hair · · Score: 1

    First thing that came to mind when you mentioned wrapping around with an 80um thick screen: Paper Cut. Ouch!

  19. Re:Summary of comments so far on Sony Unveils Flexible OLED Thinner Than a Hair · · Score: 1

    Yes, but is that Imperial or Metric Candelabras? ... and how many Candelas is one of these Candelabras? Putting pettiness aside for a minute, where did you find the peak luminance spec of the device anyway? It wasn't in TFA, or in the article that TFA linked to. Google gave me this but I couldn't see anything that Sony has verified or released regarding this.

  20. Re:That's awesome on Sony Unveils Flexible OLED Thinner Than a Hair · · Score: 1, Insightful

    But that would require using both hands to hold both sides of the screen... Where is he going to get another hand from?

  21. Re:Also: Jaundice! on Cutting Umbilical Cord Early Eliminates Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    My daughter was born and was expected to have severe Jaundice due to an Rh-D isoimmunisation of my wife (due to mismatching bloodtypes of baby Rh+ and Mother Rh-) and she was also expected to require a blood transfusion (we had managed to avoid needing a transfusion in utero somehow).

    She did not have the cord clamped down very quickly at all (at least 3 minutes after birth), though gravity was not much of a factor though. She did require the Biliblanket for 4 weeks after birth, but she didn't have to be taken away to neo-natal care at all, and she never left our side for that time.

    I wonder now if the fact that the cord wasn't clamped immediately may have helped her to beat all expectation that she would require a blood transfusion.

    Either way she was a fighter.

  22. Re:Won't see 1000x for a few years. on Titanium Oxide For High-Density Optical Storage · · Score: 1

    I had One of these. The old XT/8088. 4.77MHz, up to 640KB RAM (ought to be enough for anybody right? OK I only had 128 KB), 10 MB HDD. I think we had a CGA card in it...

    It was working until somebody threw it away while I was at Uni. Oldest I have now is a AMD K6-2 333MHz PC... running on a PC-Chips board of all things... and yes... still works.

  23. Re:Apple topic? on Google Releases Chrome 5.0 For Win/Mac/Linux · · Score: 1

    I pick Linux. Do I win something?

  24. Re:So, What Is PLATO? on Where Were You When PLATO Was Born? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I love Wikipedia and Google, but it is a Platonic love...

  25. Re:And how is it used? on Random Hacks of Kindness · · Score: 1

    Couldn't find any reference to it on their site. I hope they are going to cover that at the actual event.