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  1. Re:American beer or Canadian beer? on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    You also need to factor in time -- your stomach absorbs X oz of alcohol per hour, your liver metabolizes Y oz. of alcohol per hour.

  2. Re:They probably shouldn't just lower the limit on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    I've seen a few bar/strip clubs in Canada that had a breathalyzer machine in the bathroom, next to the condom machine (WARNING: do not confuse the breathalyzer with the glory hole). For some people, it would have the wrong effect.

    I think France now requires all cars (or drivers) to carry a disposable breathalyzer.

  3. Re:Why not just 0? on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    MADD? The first article says: Even safety groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and AAA declined Tuesday to endorse NTSB's call for a .05 threshold. The second article says: MADD would not oppose the change, he said, but would pursue other remedies.

    Of course, it would be counter productive to demand a 0.0 limit. Is .05 even drunk by any meaningful standard? The MADD representative they quoted in the article is Mr. J. T. Griffin. That ought to tell you something.

  4. Re:This is disgusting!! on Supreme Court Rules For Monsanto In Patent Case · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know what else expires? Roundup's usefulness,

    The backstory: Roundup is a weedkiller. It's also a plant killer. So Monsanto developed a soybean with roundup resistance. Lazy (uh, I mean efficient) farmers could just spray roundup everywhere to kill off the weeds.

    If you've heard of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, you know what happened next.

    So now you have roundup-resistant super weeds and farmers need to manually weed their crops. By the time the patent expires, there will be no advantage over heirloom soybeans (well, if you can even find heirloom soy beans).

  5. Re:You first on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but beet juice is also used.

  6. Re:"UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects?" on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 2

    With shrimp, crab, and lobster, I eat select parts, not the whole thing. Let me know when grasshopper legs are the size (and taste) of king crab legs.

  7. dupe, dupe, goose! on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1

    wow, 3 dupes. Is that a record? Oh, I guess this one isn't a dupe because some idiot failed 5th grade science and doesn't understand that plants like carbon dioxide.

  8. Re:In addition, on Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download · · Score: 1

    Sadly, violating a website's TOS is a crime under the CFFA.

  9. Re:My Figures on Real World Stats Show Chromebooks Are Struggling · · Score: 2

    Can you print from Chrome OS ... after Google shuts down cloudprint?

  10. Re:Give up on Real World Stats Show Chromebooks Are Struggling · · Score: 2

    It is a stripped down linux distro. You're complaint is that they stripped too much.

  11. speaking of google io... on Real World Stats Show Chromebooks Are Struggling · · Score: 1

    LAst year (or was it two years ago?) they released some sort of media speaker cube thing, then suspended it a couple days later because it was so pointless (or wtf inducing). The only reason I remember it is because it was made in the US. Is anything else happening with it?

  12. Re:fucken retards on 80FFTs Per Second To Detect Whistles (and Switch On Lights) · · Score: 1

    No swears, but there are some kinky sex scenes.

  13. Re:Would you like your beer shaken or stirred? on Beer Drone Delivery Service For South African Music Festival · · Score: 1

    While I am a fan of the concept, it does look like that can will be undrinkable for some time on account of it being seriously shaken up.

    Where "some time" is 30-45 seconds. Try it some time -- shake the fuck out of a can of beer or soda. Let it set for a minute and then open it.

  14. fool me once... on YouTube To Offer Subscription Service This Week · · Score: 1

    Anybody else remember google video? Anybody else remember when they shutdown and fucked over everybody that had paid for their DRM videos?

    Ok, this is a subscription. But it's not the first time they tried making money from videos.

  15. Re:Postgres on There Is No Reason At All To Use MySQL: MariaDB, MySQL Founder Michael Widenius · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think he's referring to upgrades. What if Oracle releases MySQL 7.0 Enterprise Edition SE and 2013-02-31 is no longer a valid date? Meanwhile, MariaDB starts recognizing SLECT, SELCT, SLCT, INSRT, etc as keywords so shitty PHP programmers don't have to worry about writing valid SQL queries.

  16. Wikipedia, harbinger of truth, claims NoSQL means a document database, a graph database, or a key/value database (like Berkeley, GDBM, etc). Of course, you can use a key/value store where the value is JSON or xml data, i.e. a document.

  17. Re:It Fits Right In on Xkcd's Long-running "Time" Comic: Work of Art Or Nerd Sniping? · · Score: 3, Funny

    So... it's best to smoke up before you look at it? Got it.

  18. Re:Outdated on Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy") Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Heh, kernel 3.2... this OS comes outdated out of the box.

    It's not outdated. It is well tested.

    Isn't 2.6 even more well tested?

  19. Re:Combatting Crime? on In Australian Town, Public CCTV Off Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    I would like more CCTVs. Specifically, located in every FBI office. So we'll know why they ignored repeated warnings about Tam Tsarnaev from Russia and Saudi Arabia intelligence.

  20. Re:Sure... on Redditors (and Popehat) Versus a Bus Company · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Surely you're not suggesting that it matters what colour skin they have?

    It does when redditors are tracking down bomb suspects.

  21. Re:What is "GNU/Linux?" on RMS Urges W3C To Reject On Principle DRM In HTML5 · · Score: 2

    Time for a history lesson! Early linux users didn't use GNU utilities. They used minix utilities and ported over the BSD utilities. The FSF had to port their utilities and gnu libc to linux to remain relevant. Today, most Linux users are using android... no GNU needed.

  22. Blackberry - Enemy of Open Source on An Exploration of BlackBerry 10's Programming API · · Score: 1

    Surely I can't be the only one that remembers when QNX made their source code available (under a look but don't touch license). It was very educational and useful. I even found a couple bugs and submitted fixes for them. But then they revoked access to the code just before RIM bought them. Too bad. I learned long ago not to depend on closed source operating systems. When Blackberry unlocks the source code, I'll buy one and start developing. Until then, I'll stick to Android.

  23. Re:Exactly what Namecoin was designed for... on Pirates of the Caribbean: the Pirate Bay Moves To Island of Sint Maarten · · Score: 3, Insightful

    thepiratebay.onion.

  24. finally on-topic! on Pirates of the Caribbean: the Pirate Bay Moves To Island of Sint Maarten · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://goat.sx!

    (WARNING - goat.sx link)

  25. Re:hahaha. oh they're not joking on BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like he ate too much of his own dog food.