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  1. Re:Info library for the ages stored in organisms? on Artificial DNA Replicates and 'Evolves' · · Score: 4, Funny

    My codes says "Be sure to drink your ovaltine"

  2. Re:This just in on Pioneer Anomaly Solved · · Score: 2

    You mean slower? Cause that's what happened in this case.

  3. Re:Vegas huh? on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 2

    And it would only be that document that you wrote which would be protected. In this case the performance was observed and someone reverse engineered it themselves so any copyrighted description Teller may have made is irrelevant.

  4. Re:Vegas huh? on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 4, Informative

    You missed an important part:

    (a) Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Works of authorship include the following categories: ...

    The choreography itself can't be protected, only a particular performance of it that has been recorded on some medium.

  5. Re:Not hacking on 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies · · Score: 5, Funny

    First, you use a made-up word...

    Care to give an example of a word that is not made-up?

  6. Re:Security on When Big Brother Watches IT · · Score: 1

    I think if we are talking about a company that is using this sort of monitoring software it is safe to assume it is a rather large company.

  7. Re:If It Is Fact ... on Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    No, that doesn't describe all NASA employees, past or present. NASA employs many climate scientists who's opinions on climate change would be credible.

  8. Re:Different people with different brain organizat on Intelligence Map Made From Brain Injury Data · · Score: 2

    People also have different physical strengths and weaknesses, but we still have the same muscles in the same areas. It would be reasonable to assume the brain is the same way until we have evidence that suggests otherwise.

  9. Re:Because Hybrids Don't Pay For Themselves on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 1

    It's not *my* hypothesis that the sound dampening is ineffective.

  10. Re:questionable units on BOSS: The Universe's Most Precise Measurement · · Score: 1

    Why? Would you also say it's questionable to measure the pyramids of Egypt in meters?

  11. Re:Because Hybrids Don't Pay For Themselves on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... and loads of heavy and mostly ineffective sound deadening are burdening the modern car.

    Why do auto makers include so much ineffective sound dampening material? Seems it would be a no-brainer to leave it out if it could make a difference in gas mileage.

  12. Re:Better Email Blocking on Good News: A Sustained Drop In Spam Levels · · Score: 1

    Is that supposed to make Google sound evil? Cause it doesn't. Even if it was their only motivation for blocking spam, which is unlikely.

  13. Re:This is what happens on Samsung Employees Conspired To Sell AMOLED Tech; 11 Arrested · · Score: 1

    You would have a point of AMOLED was an eldritch term. It's not.

  14. Re:Error My Ass on NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call · · Score: 1

    How is the rain relevant? Do criminals like getting wet in the rain more then non-criminals?

  15. Re:15 Minutes on Neil deGrasse Tyson Outlines a Plan For Saving Earth From Asteroids · · Score: 2

    Yes, 15 years usually is more then a decade ;-)

  16. Re:Show me, don't tell me on NOAA Study: Radiation From Fukushima Very Dilluted, Seafood Safe · · Score: 1

    If you're going to post the same comments a dozen times it ought to be a good one. This one is not, it's just stupid. What's the point? Stuff in water spreads out over time, no kidding. Is this supposed to prove something?

  17. Re:Homeopathic? on NOAA Study: Radiation From Fukushima Very Dilluted, Seafood Safe · · Score: 1

    The placebo effect only goes so far. People treating themselves with placebos are not going to seek real treatments which could potentially save their lives. I'd consider that real harm.

  18. Re:We see the same thing with education on Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? · · Score: 1

    You really think that not being payed enough is the reason why a nurse would ignore a crying bleeding child? I really doubt that, this nurse would be a poor nurse no matter the pay. Good doctors and nurses choose their profession because of a desire to help people, anyone doing it just for the money is going to be bad at it.

  19. Re:Emigration vs Immigration control on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 2

    The article is dated March 26. If it's an April fools joke, they screwed it up.

  20. Re:Abstraction on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    But British accents have undergone enormous amounts of mutation as well. In some ways, they have made more changes than American English since Victorian times.

    So, while Americans associate a British accent with what should be appropriate for medieval times, because they're living where the language was spoken during medieval times, the accent being used is still anachronistic, and just as inappropriate as a Jersey accent.

    That may or may not be the case, but it's irrelevant. We're talking about entertainment. People think an British accent is more appropriate for a medieval setting and so that makes it more appropriate.

  21. Re:It'll save $11 million a year? on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, the Costcos in SoCal are cash-only

    Not all of them. In fact not any of them that I've been to, I always use my card.

  22. Re:This is actually kind of frightening... on Google Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street Addresses · · Score: 1

    What is your point? Who cares where a street sign is from? None of them are private information. And you're wrong about US street signs, they vary regionally but the majority tend to be white on green. And we were talking about house numbers anyway, or so i thought. How is any of what you wrote relevant?

  23. Re:Obvious on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1

    I see why people should try to get more fiscally conservative social liberals winning elections, but what are the advantages of using the Democrat party for that? Wouldn't it make more noise and sense, to use a party whose very platform includes those two things?

    Since when does the Republican party platform include social liberalism? Sounds to me that fiscal conservatism and social liberalism fit better as a whole with the Democratic party.

  24. Re:I don't think so. on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1

    ...but if you ignore the idiot wing of the right, (believe me, there's one just as bad on the left)

    I would argue the idiot wing of the left is not as bad as the idiot wing on the right. Not because they are lesser idiots, but because they have almost no political influence whereas the idiot wing on the right has a frightening amount of influence on American politics.

  25. Re:A source of new info for ads? on Google 'Account Activity' Jumps Into Personal Analytics · · Score: 2

    I opted-in, and yet my web history still says it's disabled.