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  1. This is why on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    I use a Monster HDMI cable.

  2. If you include cars as devices on 25% of Car Accidents Linked to Gadget Use · · Score: 3, Funny

    it skyrockets to 100%

  3. Re:Who Says authors are supposed to be rich? on The 'Adventure' In Self-Publishing an IT Book · · Score: 1

    Obviously you've never written a book.

  4. Better not... on Apple May Remove the Home Button On the Next IPad · · Score: 1

    I don't have 4 fingers you insensitive clod!

  5. Re:Now they tell us. on SETI Institute Is Looking For a Few Good Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Sure, but even a fruitless quest delivers long-term benefits indirectly in the form of tools, techniques and experience which can be applied to more terrestrial use.

  6. I favor the use of the term 'twit' on New York Times Bans Use of Word "Tweet" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    for its users, though.

  7. Hey guys! on Citizen Scientists Help Explore the Moon · · Score: 1

    I think I found an important rock! Oh wait, it just a regular rock. Nevermind.

  8. Re:Good hygiene, don't be a know it all. on How To Behave At a Software Company? · · Score: 2, Informative
  9. Re:Shame on Slashdot on All of Gopherspace Available For Download · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's my explanation in graphic form: http://parseerror.com/images/explain/internet-vs-web.jpg

  10. Re:Problems... on Bing Loses More Money As Microsoft Chases Google · · Score: 1

    If only there was a way to find it....

  11. Investment about to pay off! on What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone · · Score: 3, Funny

    I paid thousands for 127.0.0.1 years ago in anticipation of this. Cha-ching!

  12. Re:Why publish a death notice? on Newspaper Death Notices May Be a Dying Business · · Score: 1

    cremation is still a bargain at $525 plus $50 for the death certificate.

    Cremation is so old-fashioned; I'm having my consciousness uploaded to the internet.

  13. Making symmetrical holes in water is easy on Saturn's Strange Hexagon Recreated In the Lab · · Score: 2, Informative

    I thought making symmetrical holes in water is easy http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060515/full/news060515-17.html

  14. Unethical on Game CEO Sees "Gamification" of Work and Military · · Score: 1

    It's all unethical. Until the other guys are robots too, then it's OK. Until scientists invent robot with souls; then it'll go back to being unethical.

  15. Re:Video on Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings · · Score: 1

    Honest question: why suppress a video displaying proper conduct? Like most people who will watch the video, I have no experience in military conduct or law and it is difficult for me to evaluate its contents in a complete context. Although knowing that the video was suppressed and only available due to wikileaks makes me naively suspect that laws of conduct were broken.

  16. Dogfood on Naming and Shaming Toxic Web Apps · · Score: 1

    I don't see an entry for itself

  17. Example: on Amazon Reviewers Take on the Classics · · Score: 1

    You can't please all the people all the time.

  18. Re:What? on Amazon Reviewers Take on the Classics · · Score: 1

    You may like fwfr.com

  19. Re:Shiny and beautiful... on Hubble Builds 3D Dark Matter Map · · Score: 1

    You need to wear these special glasses...

  20. Carbon dating... on Carbon-14 Dating Reveals 5% of Vintage Wines May Be Frauds · · Score: 1

    ahref=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_datingrel=url2html-21275http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dating> only works for things up to ~50,000 years old, so it wasn't used for those old rocks. For things older than ~100,000 years folks use ahref=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium-argon_datingrel=url2html-21275http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium-argon_dating>. The applicable time period is based on the half-life of the isotope. Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5730 years while Potassium-40's is 1.248e9 years.

  21. Postel's Law on LHC Hits an Energy of 3.5TeV · · Score: 1

    be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept

  22. If he isn't already rich then he's lying on Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Uses Games To See the Future · · Score: 4, Funny

    But then, he knew I'd say this.

  23. Re:Take that china on Copernicium Confirmed As Element 112 · · Score: 1

    Copernicium is named after Copernicus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicium#Naming; regarded as the father of modern astronomy and whose heliocentric model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_Revolution is considered as a crucial starting point of the Scientific Revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Revolution

    Copper is apparently from the Latin cuprum, which is from the word cyprian, a more general word for copper and bronze alloys, itself derived from the name of the island Cyprus where the metal was mined. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=copper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper#Antiquity_and_Middle_Ages

  24. Just more proof... on PageRank-Type Algorithm From the 1940s Discovered · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nil novi sub sole

  25. Correctness on Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law · · Score: 1

    Systems are either provably correct or not.