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  1. Re:More than scientific learning on LHC Success! · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm setting up a standing wager. I'm offering 20 to 1 that the world doesn't get sucked into a black hole. So any takers on the world being destroyed? Your chance to turn $100 into $2000.

  2. Re:More than scientific learning on LHC Success! · · Score: 1

    lol... still laughing over that one. I could have had a coffee/monitor accident there.

  3. Re:Call the FBI? on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Google, please.

    http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/superheating.html

    That's simply H20 by itself. Pressure + water can also be explosive to the container of the water.

  4. Re:Huh on New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it's a science. The sweet science.

  5. Re:COBOL. on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Question: Define the term "self-fulfilling prophecy"

    Answer:

    "I couldn't come on board today and learn what I learned. Hell, fresh-faced kid who's as smart as me just started and I don't have time to teach him, word's gotten out through the whole company that I'm one of two people in the department you want to talk to and I'm being worked to death."

  6. Re:Perhaps Apple should begin licensing OS X on Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs · · Score: 1

    If you're just after tax savings... don't forget alberta. They only have the 5% GST and no provincial tax at all.

    And with the USD and CND at nearly par... Don't forget to buy a Nissan 350z when you're down in the states. In the US they start at $28,500 ( http://www.nissanusa.com/z/ ) and in Canada just under $50,000. http://nissan.ca/vehicles/cars/350z/en/

    And yes... they are a fully authorized import from the US (no modifications required). Just a $195 Border inspection.

    List of importable vehicles found here:

    http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/importation/VAFUS/list/VAFUS.pdf

  7. Re:Neil Turok on Lectures On the Frontiers of Physics Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doesn't he also hunt dinosaurs?

  8. Re:Stupid idea on It's Not a Flying Car - It's a Drivable Airplane · · Score: 1

    There was a fairly recent addition to the standard license types from the FAA. Which, imo, is the reason there are so many ultra-light / special light crashes in California, although you definitely do hear about such crashes else where.

    Details from TFA:

    a change in FAA rules in 2004 that created a new category of general-aviation planes called special light-sport aircraft (S-LSA) and a new type of pilotâ(TM)s license called a sport pilot certificate.

    In a nutshell, if a company can manufacture a plane that weighs less than 1,320 pounds, carries no more than two people, and flies no faster than 138 miles per hour, it can get the craft qualified as an S-LSA, meaning that owners need only a sport pilot certificate to fly it. Getting a sport pilot certificate involves only about half as much flight training as qualifying for private pilot certificate, the license previously required for most general aviation flyers.

  9. Hmmmmmm Spelling? on China's Cyberwar Against India · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cyberwaar, what is it good foor?

  10. Re:So does this mean... on Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade" · · Score: 1

    IBM's HQ is in New York. Microsoft's is in Washington.

    Both are blue states.

  11. Re:Phone? on Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The last time I messed around with a keystroke logging software, probably 3 or 4 years ago, not only did it log keystrokes but mouse button presses and window changes. So if your password was in the sentence "I know I left my keys somewhere in my house" And tried your method it would record information like:

    I know I my keys [Mouse1] [Firefox, Hotmail.com] somewhere [mouse1] [Word, Document1] in the house

    So there is no benefit from that method of defense. FWIW, it was an off the shelf program, nothing elaborate or difficult to find.

  12. Re:I Wonder on Laptops Can Be Searched At the Border · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's right! We should make all presidents sit. I wonder if you can set a president to self destruct?

  13. Re:Technical difficulties on FCC, FAA Still Don't Want Cell Phones on Planes · · Score: 1

    I duzn't wanna use mah' cell phone on some plane. What it is, Mama! ah' likes de boogie fum de co'po'ate leash.

  14. Re:Technical difficulties on FCC, FAA Still Don't Want Cell Phones on Planes · · Score: 2, Informative

    You wouldn't be switching between towers at all. I'm pretty sure the summary mentioned "pico cells" which are basically mini towers. They don't need to be nearly as strong as a real tower because the even the longest plane in the world is only 75 meters (Airbus 340-600).

    Perhaps thinking of them as repeaters is more effective. All of the phones on the plane connect to that one tower (pico cell), and then sends all of the communications to the ground.

  15. Re:Does defacing websites count as a prank? on Internet Pranks in Schools · · Score: 1

    It's called a pressure washer. They can definitely take paint off brickwork.

    I wouldn't be surprised if most schools already had one. Cleaning buses, fences, sidewalks.

  16. Re:Hey guys! on Origami Plane to Fly From the Int. Space Station · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You're running the colors of looking really dumb? ...

    And I guess if you knew the answer to your own question you would be all 'red' up?

  17. Re:also... H. P. Friedrich's "Voice of the Crystal on Hand-Made Vacuum Tubes · · Score: 1

    Anyone who fires glass with a torch and operates heavy machinery while wearing a sports jacket is cool in my books as well. Gotta love the French.

    Awesome video. It certainly didn't seem like it was 17 minutes long.

  18. Re:Actors ... on Jackson Slated to Make Hobbit Movie, Sequel · · Score: 1

    Bert.

    But the trolls are strikingly similar to Domingo, Pavarotti and the other guy.

  19. Re:sequel? on Jackson Slated to Make Hobbit Movie, Sequel · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think you're trying to nitpick... So I thought I would respond in kind.

    There are 13 Dwarves in the hobbit. Well there are more (such as Dain), but 13 in the party set out to reclaim the lonely mountain... Bilbo makes the party not an unlucky number.

    thorin
    fili kili
    oin gloin
    bifur bufor
    bombur
    balin dwalin
    ori dori nori

  20. Re:Features on Wikipedia Corrects Encyclopedia Britannica · · Score: 1

    Ever see the random article link on the main page?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

  21. Re:I'm waiting for the iPhone Shuffle on Apple Plans Cheaper Nano-Based iPhone · · Score: 1
    Such phones do already exist. The Nokia 7380 for instance. However, this mightn't be the manly-ist of all phones.

    http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/nokia-7380/450 5-6454_7-31636326.html

    Not sure if it hooks up to a PDA, but does have mp3 play back, voice recorder, camera and a radio. Damn small too.

  22. Hmmm on First Thing IT Managers Do In the Morning? · · Score: 1

    From personal experience....

    Depending on age, either they spike their hair or work on their comb-over.

  23. Re:No on Music Industry Attacks Free Prince CD · · Score: 1

    Maybe I missed something... But I don't recall seeing mentioned anywhere. Certainly not in the article. I don't think RIAA has any bearing on this at all.

  24. Re:Care package to his cell mates on "Spam King" Pleads Guilty in U.S. Federal Court · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd imagine the situation would be worse if the penis enlargement pills actually *did* work...

  25. Re:Mobility over quality on Landline Holders Increasingly Older, More Affluent · · Score: 1

    I don't think your land line would have had service at your son's ball game either.