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  1. Re:Ah now I see... on One of the Coolest Places In the Universe · · Score: 1

    We will have succeeded in finally making a black hole small enough to fit in your pocket*

    *As measured before collapse.

  2. Re:The end of one-handed surfing? on Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction · · Score: 1

    People with secretaries don't typically work in a cubical.

  3. Re:Nothing new here on HP Shatters Excessive Packaging World Record · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I understand many businesses actually fold papers on purpose before packing them in envelopes. I guess they have the silly nothing that such folding doesn't leave the document unreadable and useless. Go figure, we can't all be as wise as HP.

  4. Re:It's not the heat, it's the stupidity. on HP Shatters Excessive Packaging World Record · · Score: 1

    Oh yes. Googling "Recycling is bullshit" is sure to return accurate and unbiased results :-/

  5. Re:Crazy on HP Shatters Excessive Packaging World Record · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Free advertising about how wasteful and inefficient they are. Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. For dell.

  6. Re:My view on To Stet Or Not To Stet, That Is the Question · · Score: 4, Funny

    I do not think egalitarian means what you think it means.

  7. Re:Radiohead: Business Model Superheroes on Radiohead Open Sources Music Video · · Score: 1

    You should be ashamed. Why didn't you download the album for free first, then give them what you though it was worth later?

    A fool and his money...

  8. Re:The moderation is going to hurt on this comment on Radiohead Open Sources Music Video · · Score: 1

    I'm seeing them in August for the first time. Can't wait!

  9. Re:The moderation is going to hurt on this comment on Radiohead Open Sources Music Video · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there's some real good bluegrass. Also don't forget the outlaw country guys. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings.

    Sadly Nashville and Pop country sucks so much it deters people from finding the real country.

    BTW, I'd never heard that Jennings quote before. Fuckin' awesome.

  10. Re:The moderation is going to hurt on this comment on Radiohead Open Sources Music Video · · Score: 1

    Yeah, In Rainbows is extremely accessible. So was the album before that, Hail to the Thief. It seems the OP hasn't come out from their rock since Kid A/Amnesiac were released almost a decade ago.

    And regarding Kid A/Amnesiac, they are certainly less accessible, but still quite enjoyable if you give them a chance. Kid A in particular took a few spins for me to get into. I don't think Radiohead were ever trying to be weird to impress the critics. In fact if you listen to any electronic music I don't think you'd even find it all that weird, it's just a long way from the grunge rock of Pablo Honey.

  11. Re:3 Radiohead on Radiohead Open Sources Music Video · · Score: 1

    So it's more like "pretty much like Metallica, but with a different attitude."

    Are you kidding me? Do they have to actually refuse to take money in order to be different enough for you? Good luck finding a musician like that.

  12. Re:Drive to conditions on GM Researching Windshields For Old Drivers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Using technology to compensate for human frailty is asking for trouble

    So we should get rid of the engine then, right?

  13. Re:eh? on UK Mobile Operator O2 Leaks MMS Photos · · Score: 2, Informative

    I still get 40 results. And google isn't real time, if the pictures were taken down from the servers that wouldn't change the search results right away.

  14. Re:Shut down before it could damage itself? on Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save Itself · · Score: 1

    Allowing it to hurt itself would have violated the second law since the program controlling it are orders it needs to follow and they say not to hurt itself.

  15. Re:Mix it up a bit? on Fallout From the Fall of CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    For instance, you have 100 items in your limited database -- if you require two things be identified at once, there's 10,000 items in your answer space.

    But that's not 10,000 items in your answer space, that's still just different permutations of the same 100 items that need to be identified.

  16. Re:Not surprising. on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 1

    It's strange, though - how do they answer the question "how many eyes do you have?"

    Mu. Without a concept of numbers I'm sure there's no way to express to them a question of "how many".

  17. Re:Not surprising. on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 1

    From the link you gave it looks like English does have a word for the day after tomorrow, overmorrow. Apparently it wasn't too useful though since no one uses it anymore.

  18. Re:Different skill sets needed on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    i've wondered sometimes what would happen if we took a gaggle of chimps and removed all predators and ensured a good food supply. Maybe they'd take up painting with berries.

    It's been done, you've just described the zoo down the street from me. I'm not sure if the Chimps have done any painting yet, someone needs to set them up with some brushes and canvas maybe.

  19. Re:Nice to see GSM technology still around on OpenMoko In Stores On July 4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course we're also fans of bureaucracy and corporate malfeasance so it'll take even longer than it would in a sanely managed geographic region of similar specifications.

    Yes, I believe that's what he's getting at.

  20. Re:dark energy? on Huge Lenses To Observe Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    Not an astronomer and deeply unhappy with this stuff which strikes this ex chemist as being very phlogiston or caloric or aether.

    It should, but so what? Any physicist will tell you that dark matter and dark energy are just placeholders for things that they don't understand. Just because we know phlogiston, aether, and caloric don't exist now doesn't mean the people who came up with them were doing bad science.

  21. Re:$12 a month versus $50 a month on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 1

    What, wireless doesn't work in your bathrooms?

  22. Re:Nooo! on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People do want health care, they just don't want to pay for it until they get sick at which case they go to the emergency room and we end up paying for them anyway. Saying that there are people who actually prefer not being able to go to a doctor is ridiculous.

  23. Re:Sure on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Damn, all this talk about poisons is making me hungry.

  24. Re:Some data 4 U on OMG Did U C What U R Paying 4 Texting? · · Score: 1

    There is a bit of a difference. When you send a letter, the letter is being carried by 1 network--the post office/fedex/ups, etc.

    You're assuming the letter is being sent to an address in the US.

  25. Re:Seriously on Geomicroblogging, Buzzword or Reality? · · Score: 1

    Be sure to tell us all about it on your geotibialfracturemicroblog.