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  1. Re:Spellcheck FFS: "sophisitication" on Robot for India's Moon Mission by IIT Kanpur · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah, I know, Taco thinks it gives a feeling of immediacy, gritty reality. I get a feeling of gritty immediacy when I eat tacos, too.
  2. Re:space "waste"? No, it's not. on Robot for India's Moon Mission by IIT Kanpur · · Score: 2, Funny

    I do hope it will last very long. And if possible, take some pictures of one of the Apollo mission sites. Heck, they can do that here on a sound-stage somewhere!

  3. Re:So what! Windows already has this. TRUE! on VM Enables 'Write-Once, Run Anywhere' Linux Apps · · Score: 1

    He's just really good at putting in-line comments in his code-- er... sentences.

  4. Re:Public roads on New Jersey Sues YouTube Over Crash Video · · Score: 1

    (That's not to say that I think that the NJTA's actions weren't absolutely idiotic.)

  5. Re:How?! on New Jersey Sues YouTube Over Crash Video · · Score: 4, Funny

    Put sieves with the right-shaped holes in the tubes. Empty periodically. Easy.

  6. Re:Public roads on New Jersey Sues YouTube Over Crash Video · · Score: 1

    Dangerous argument, as things like public libraries and some health clinics (in addition to the obvious case of government agencies) are also funded by tax dollars. You want your reading habits and medical records out and around?

  7. Re:Microwave on What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? · · Score: 1

    True. However, if it's a modern microwave, it should have at least two other door-is-open-prevent-user's-eyeballs-from-melting switches hidden away; if it was built quite a while ago, I wouldn't screw with it :)

  8. Re:The day will come... on Smithsonian 'Toned Down the Science' In Climate Change Exhibit · · Score: 1

    Probably has 900K Hindus shaking their heads to this day. 900K should be enough for anybody.

        (NOT meant in a deprecatory way... at least to Hindus!)
  9. Re:Solvents on Surprising Further Evidence for a Wet Mars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps "ought to". But that doesn't bode well for glass bottles holding ammonia solutions.

  10. Re:Not exactly on Sunken Treasure Worth $500 Million Found Off England · · Score: 1

    What will you say, "it masses 7.3 tonnes?" It may be because I'm a physicist, and spend far too much time around people who DO say things like this, but yes. To my mind, using "masses" in this way doesn't sound funny at all. This terminology is, of course (as anyone who's taken an introductory physics class has been told over and over again), technically more correct than saying it "weighs 7.3 tonnes".

          However, I AM annoyed when physicists automatically correct anyone using "weight" or "weighs" like this, and try to only make the point five or six times to a given class in a semester. ;-)
  11. Re:$1.65 tillion? on Why Web Pirates Can't Be Touched · · Score: 1

    I hope the shit goes hard in the bastards I don't know why, but that phrase really strikes fear into me. Oh---we're talking about the RIAA? MPAA? Ah, then it's more of a happy fuzzy feeling.
  12. He was overheard to mutter... on Judge Doesn't Know What a Web Site is · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Heh. Totally pwned that prosecutor. ZOMG! Ponies!"

  13. Re:Quite Right on Harvard Prof Says Computers Need to Forget · · Score: 1

    God knows I've posted stuff on here I wish I hadn't No, he forgot too.
  14. Re:Best Headline Ever!! on Lucas To Make New Live Action Star Wars Films · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the article:

    Some in the crowd screamed as he splashed loudly into the Han, followed about a second later by his pole. If ever there was a place for a disturbance in the Force, that's it.
  15. Re:International disquiet on Deadline For Saying "No" To National ID · · Score: 2, Funny

    You goddamned Italians!

  16. Re:In other words on The Human Mutation · · Score: 1

    Everyone and everything on this planet is a mutant from an earlier (read "simpler", but anyone with a slight amount of evolutionary sense knows that's not technically true) life form. I'm not saying it's GOOD, it's just not necessarily BAD.

  17. Re:Absolutely Disgusting on Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home · · Score: 1

    The Aus government is working it's way to being a U.S. state. Sweet. So when I say I live in the Southwest, some smartass is sure to ask, "Is the beer as good as they say?". I guarantee you that's not the case at the moment.
  18. Re:What about limited copyright? on You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source · · Score: 1

    Maybe seven years is too short. Perhaps ten years is better.

    How many of us use Windows 98 anymore still? How many think it should become public domain next year? Oh, pleeeeease make it seven years! That way I can use WinMe for free!
  19. Re:It's all about presentation. on Bill Gates' Management Style · · Score: 1

    Gates was CEO until 2000.

  20. Anything with a spellchecker! on What's The Greatest Web Software Ever? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, wait. Wrong place for THAT.

  21. Re:Better than the original on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 1

    Chinese are good in building in best way. I'd love to hear your reasoning. Yes, the Great Wall is quite a feat. However, when I visited several years ago, the (admittedly extremely small) portion I saw was crumbled and "fixed" up for tourists in an egregiously offensive way. Much of the tourist attractions there were like that (Forbidden City, etc. Only the Summer Palace seemed impressively built to me).
          My Chinese colleagues all say that they'd much rather NOT buy most Chinese goods (except food---I have to say that authentic Chinese food is the best in the world, almost regardless of what it is, or what style it's in) because of their poor quality. Plumbing, especially, and electronics.
  22. Re:Zippo on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The giant will ignore a mouse nibbling at his ankle only for so long.... Of course, when dealing with China, it can be a little ambiguous as to who is the giant and who is the mouse.
  23. Re:Obligatory Simpsons reference on IBM's Snowflake Microchips · · Score: 1

    Huh. Sorry for the "troll" modding. I thought it was pretty funny, and apropos.

  24. Unscheduled landing?!? on Steve Jobs Personally Resolves Customer Complaint · · Score: 1

    I'm sure this has been said before, but what a fantastic way to totally screw every other passenger on that flight.

  25. Soldier's ?!? on Soldiers Can't Blog Without Approval · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Someone prematurely punctuated. There are pills for that now.