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  1. Please proofread your posts. on Seagate Releases 6TB Hard Drive Sans Helium · · Score: 1

    > over it's last 4TB drive.

    over its* last 4TB drive.

            it's = it is

    Learn this.

  2. Re:Well, what with horseshow crabs? on Ancient Shrimp-Like Creature Has Oldest Known Circulatory System · · Score: 1

    Horseshoe* crabs.

    http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203...
    Look under circulatory system.

    Sure, they have circulatory systems, but has a fossil one been found where a circulatory system can be detected? I don't know.

  3. It did "a whole lot of thinking"? on Ancient Shrimp-Like Creature Has Oldest Known Circulatory System · · Score: 1

    A primitive brain like that can't think.

  4. Please proof your post on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 1

    > passengers share of gas

    passenger's* share of gas

            passengers = more than one passenger

  5. OK. Challenge accepted. on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1

    1. What if - on the event horizon of black holes - when particles and antiparticles are created, only the antiparticles are sucked into the black holes and the particles (matter) is able to escape the event horizon?

    Over time, (a crapload of time), there will be a surplus of particles in the universe.

    2. Also, we can only see the universe as far as light has traveled to us since the universe started.

    We don't really know its extent. What if antimatter and matter are compartmentalized in different regions of the universe, with only a smattering of "the other" in areas where one is prevalent?

  6. Re:Ah, antimatter on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1

    Or where there is lack of matter and lack of antimatter.

  7. Why? on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1

    Because it's all we've got.

  8. Please proofread your post on How To Build a Quantum Telescope · · Score: 1

    > excluded form the fun

    from* the fun.

  9. Please proof your posts and post title on Book Review: How I Discovered World War II's Greatest Spy · · Score: 1

    It's World War II's Greatest Spy

    Please don't forget the apostrophe in the name of the book you are reviewing. That's just bad.

  10. Re:ESL on AWS Urges Devs To Scrub Secret Keys From GitHub · · Score: 1

    If that is true, it's pretty pathetic.

    How can people be allowed in if they don't show a basic competence with the very basics of the language they are supposed to converse in?

  11. Re:Liberals are still butthurt... on In the Unverified Digital World, Are Journalists and Bloggers Equal? · · Score: 1

    Well, I also agree with your point, but I stand by mine.

    The problem, as I see it is that "opinion" and what is called "news opinion" has been blurred with what is "news".

    In that case, people can spout opinion all they want while the look like news people and then corporations make money on the creation of infighting in society who feel this opinion is real and accurate.

    The companies and people who do this perform a great disservice to society.

  12. When Faux News Opinion counts as "News", yes.

  13. It's not a phobia. It's a dislike or a revulsion. on Getting Misogyny, Racism and Homophobia Out of Gaming · · Score: 1

    People need to stop using the term, homophobia, since this is not a fear.

    What people are attributing to the term, is a dislike or a revulsion. Case in point. I hate brussels sprouts, I dislike them in my presence and am repulsed when they are on my plate.

    They gross me out, yet I am not afraid of them. Therefore, I am not -phobic of brussels sprouts.

    What we have is a dislike, a revulsion and a gross out. The same with what people are using homophobia to apply towards those who are gay.

    Face it. People aren't afraid of the people or their desire for the same gender, they are simply grossed out and repulsed. They dislike the behaviour and the desire one would have for their same gender.

    This is called a dislike. This is not a phobia.

    Save the root word, phobla, for actual persistent fears, such as
    Claustrophobia
    agoraphobia
    suriphobia
    arachnephobia
    vaccinophobia

    and of course,
    anatidaephobia

  14. Umm on AWS Urges Devs To Scrub Secret Keys From GitHub · · Score: 0

    > the users files

    Um, that should be "the user's files".

    users = more than one user

    How the poster can have problems with the difference between possessive and plural and still be allowed to use a computer is beyond me. Aren't you supposed to learn fourth grade English before you get to college?

  15. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. on MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet · · Score: 1

    company's* pension funds

            companies = more than one company

    Learn this.

  16. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. on MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet · · Score: 1

    it's*

            it's = it is
            its = the next word or phrase belongs to it

    here's

            here's = here is or here has
            heres = not a word in English

    Learn this.

  17. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. on MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet · · Score: 1

    And one in here's.

  18. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. on MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet · · Score: 1

    And you forgot an apostrophe in your last one, so here it is, '.

  19. Re: Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 2

    Certainly seems like short term thinking. The author's focus is on the punishment for the action, nothing about what happens after to the criminal and how this affects society as that person has to re-enter society.

  20. Re: Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    Well, it seems like the concept is "the criminal must be punished for their crime" in this article the poster links to.

  21. Re:it's on A Call For Rollbacks To Previous Versions of Software · · Score: 1

    Correct.

    For the amount of times I have to type this to show people, I generally just address the direct issue.

    Thank you though.

  22. Re:Rollback? I hate iOS 7.x. on A Call For Rollbacks To Previous Versions of Software · · Score: 1

    Next on Nancy Grace: "iPhone Torture Cabal Nabbed in Software Company. They left phones unplugged for days while they starved to death. Public stoning at noon. Bring your own throwing rocks."

  23. Well, well. on Flash Is Dead; Long Live OpenFL! · · Score: 1

    Just like before when I saw Macromedia let Flash kill Director and Shockwave.

    Damn shame. It was such an awesome product.

    FYI, Director's Lingo looks a whole lot like today's Lua.

    Cheers to those of us who helped make it and those of us who took it and used it to start a great career.

    I miss Director.

  24. Re:Alternate solution: on A Call For Rollbacks To Previous Versions of Software · · Score: 2

    This is a GREAT idea for my grandmother!

    Oh, wait.

    Even if this was something she was inclined and able to do, Apple locks it down for market share and security.

    OSS is great! But it can be modified by anyone capable for good means or bad.

  25. Re:not even close on A Call For Rollbacks To Previous Versions of Software · · Score: 2

    But you CAN'T try out the software first. You can't try it out and see if it works for you or not.

    There is no back switch. There is no test drive. The user has little choice.