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  1. Re:What's missing? on Iran Threatens Legal Action Against Google For Not Labeling Gulf 'Persian' · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yet, a Google Maps search for the Persian Gulf takes you right to the unlabeled gulf, while searching for Arabian Gulf doesn't.

  2. Re:Why not post link to NASA website? on Watch How the Moon Was Formed · · Score: 1

    Because nobody is being paid to post links to NASA.

  3. Re:*THIS* is exploration on Bacteria-Killing Viruses Wield an Iron Spike · · Score: 1

    When farming was established, that left humans with free time. It's with that free time that we did all the myriad things we've achieved - from maths and the arts to social structure in modern Western society.

    Um, no. hunter-gatherers have much more free time than farmers. What farming gives you is a surplus of food, allowing a larger population and specialization.

  4. Winter? on Geohashing Conquers the South Pole · · Score: 5, Insightful

    staying there over winter

    It may be cold at the South Pole, but it's Summer there.

  5. Re:Not my experience on How Google Is Remapping Public Transportation · · Score: 1

    "Tourists to Swindon are no longer able to find a route there on the map; all three of them are very disappointed"

    Three? Ah, so tourism to Swindon is up this year.

  6. Re:s/First Female/Robyn Bergeron as/ on Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron First Female Fedora Project Leader · · Score: 1

    Lets try it.

    :i

    Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron First Female Fedora Project Leader<esc>

    :s/First Female/Robyn Bergeron as/

    Hmm, I get:

    Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron Robyn Bergeron as Fedora Project Leader

    Perhaps you should try

    :s/First Female/as/

  7. Re:Canada Has no Culture on Outgoing CRTC Head Says Technology Is Eroding Canadian Culture · · Score: 1

    Of course you're fortunate to have those options. Otherwise you'd have nothing good to eat!

  8. Re:Business as usual on No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 · · Score: 2

    t can be located above the '4' key on most keyboards...

    Well, on my Dell keyboards it's the F4 key (slightly offset), but on my HP and Sun keyboards it's F3.

  9. Re:Why so angry? on Russia Botches Another Rocket Launch · · Score: 3

    The summary reads like an angry teenager implying that they could do better.

    Because they can do better. Starting from the Soviet Union days, the Soyez launch systems had an amazing success record. All the problems they've recently point to a falling of standards. From the bottom of the page:

    But as a space launcher, the R-7, with upper stages, became the most successful in history. By the year 2000 over 1,628 had been launched with a success rate of 97.5% for production models.

  10. Re:Now these guys have some balls on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    The MiG-25 was obtained by the West after a Russian pilot defected, aircraft and all. It had nothing to do with a Soviet aircraft being in airspace without permission.

    Umm, how do you defect without leaving Soviet airspace? I somehow doubt he had permission to be in Japanese airspace.

  11. Re:seriously, how hard is this? on Obama Orders Federal Agencies To Digitize All Records · · Score: 1

    Google and it's users seem to be doing a pretty good job of utilizing free text to locate documents.

    Not quite. Google does a good job of utilizing free text to locate some documents. If all you want is instructions on how to fix your car or the date that an event happened, getting one good result is all you need. If you need to find every document an agency produced about the toxic effects of a chemical, then finding one good result sucks--you need (within certain error levels) every document.

  12. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) on SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby · · Score: 5, Informative

    Would it really hurt to follow standard practices and explain what the acronym is the first time it's used?

  13. Re:You Lose on Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier · · Score: 1

    Except studies have shown that for red light cameras some localities will shorten the yellow light timing to increase the number of tickets issued. So it's not quite as paranoid as it could be.

  14. No chair on Ask Slashdot: Ergonomic Office Environment? · · Score: 5, Interesting
  15. Ft. Meade? on Adobe Demos Photo Unblurring At MAX 2011 · · Score: 1

    Surely you mean Ft. Belvoir.

  16. Re:Easy to find when you know it is there. on Astronomers Find Three Exoplanets In Old Hubble Images · · Score: 1

    It allows a better calculation of the orbits, since there's a ten year difference in the images.

  17. Re:Hang on, on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    If I'm correct then the answer to this suit should be a very short "Fuck off, Troll"

    Please, this is the legal world. A simple "We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram" would be more appropriate.

  18. Need for exercise. on What's the Carbon Footprint of Bicycling? · · Score: 1

    While it's true that the production of food used as fuel for the biking (or walking) creates carbon emissions, you have to balance it against the need to exercise. So you should compare the carbon emissions for the driving plus the carbon spent on exercising at the gym to balance things out. (Of course, some people don't exercise, so you should add in the carbon emissions of the hospital stays after their heart attacks or strokes...)

  19. Re:Not Skynet enough on Iron Man-like Exoskeleton Nears Production · · Score: 1

    But can't you just skip the middleman (literally) and just have good ol' fashion killbots?

    Money. It's the cost of the Lotus Notes licenses that's preventing us from deploying killbots.

  20. Re:Where is the cash? on Former Nokia Engineers Fueling Finnish Startups · · Score: 1

    And more, it is not even part of Scandinavia. They speak a totally different language.

    Not quite. Some Finns do speak a Scandinavian language.

  21. Free? on Share Links, Become Extradited To the US · · Score: 0

    that helped users find free movies and TV shows, many of them infringing

    Is that like finding a free bike parked outside, you just needed a pair of bolt cutters to take it?

    If it's piracy, call it piracy. We can take it. Don't try to dance around it; having one thing obviously false makes the rest of what you're trying to say look suspect.

  22. Re:Last shuttle defecation coming up on Last NASA Spacewalk Marks End of Era · · Score: 2

    Okay then, it will be the last time the shit hits the fan on the shuttle...

  23. Time to rename the GNU Image Manipulation Program? on When Software Offends · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If we're going to rename software packages with sexually suggestive names, can we finally get a better name than GIMP.

  24. Warning: Spoiler on Sony Music Greece Falls To Hackers · · Score: 1

    In the Robin Hood stories, Little John was actually a rather large person.

  25. Re:No on New Bill Would Require US ISPs To Retain User Info · · Score: 1

    You don't need to add that. All you need is a parent filming their daughter running in a sundress taking a tumble. Panties visible in one frame? Sex offender.