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  1. Re:Too lazy to RTFA on Why Some Supermassive Black Holes Have Big Jets · · Score: 1

    The existence of the different jets is observed. The cause is theorized, but fits with observations.

  2. Re:A Strange Game on Malfunction Costs Couple $11 Million Slot Machine Jackpot · · Score: 1

    I didn't know you could start a thermonuclear war with a malfunctioning slot machine.

  3. Re:Isn't this the SECOND time ... on Malfunction Costs Couple $11 Million Slot Machine Jackpot · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that TV Tropes ruined your life?

  4. Re:Mistake my ass. on Malfunction Costs Couple $11 Million Slot Machine Jackpot · · Score: 1

    So in effect, it's a draw without put back? In that case, you should avoid machines which have given out a jackpot, because that one is already taken and won't come again until the next fresh list is uploaded.

  5. Re:Mistake my ass. on Malfunction Costs Couple $11 Million Slot Machine Jackpot · · Score: 1

    It's one thing to have the probabilities being low. That's expected. It's another thing to lie about the probabilities (which is what those hidden mechanisms actually do).

    For example, say I have a game where you win if six dice show a six at the same time, then you know it's a low probability, and it's your choice if you want to play anyway. But if I use biased dice which give a six with less than 1/6 probability, without telling you about this, it's not OK. It's fraud, plain and simple. This is also true if I only use the biased dice in case I think you are winning too much.

  6. Re:Uh oh on Hardware Companies Team Up To Fight Mobile Linux Fragmentation · · Score: 5, Funny

    enable new markets

    This probably will not go well.

    Oh, that one is easy. Just go to the configuration, and check the box at "enable new markets". Alternatively you can also do it by hand with
    echo 1 > /proc/market/new/enabled

  7. Re:Hasn't this already been done? on Amazon Seeks 1-Nod Ordering Patent · · Score: 1

    You almost got me to nod! Next time be more careful, or I'll send you the bill!

  8. Re:Prior Art on Amazon Seeks 1-Nod Ordering Patent · · Score: 1

    I can't believe that in this crowd nobody has yet mentioned this one:

    Nor can I.

  9. Re:I can see it now! on Amazon Seeks 1-Nod Ordering Patent · · Score: 1

    Or they patent writing a joke next to their offers ... who said that there was no money in writing jokes?

    However we will have to unlearn that a smile costs you nothing.

  10. Re:Maybe... on US Climate Satellite Capabilities In Jeopardy · · Score: 1

    So if the candidates in a game show don't win, you call the broadcaster and claim the prize for yourself, because after all, the candidates didn't get it, and you knew the answer?

  11. Re:My simple motion ... on Amazon Seeks 1-Nod Ordering Patent · · Score: 1

    is the raised middle digit.

    Thank you for ordering four items using our new digital order technology.

  12. Re:What will be next? on Amazon Seeks 1-Nod Ordering Patent · · Score: 1

    The first one is free. The following orders will come automatically.

  13. Re:Don't browse Amazon sitting at a cafe outside on Amazon Seeks 1-Nod Ordering Patent · · Score: 1

    You are sipping a delicious coffee, sitting outside your favorite cafe. "Man," you say to yourself, "who would buy a set of bleachers on Amazon? $10,000! Hah!"

    Presently, your friend Bob comes walking down the street. "Hey Bob!" you say, waving and nodding. Your browser starts loading a new page. "Purchase confirmed." DOH!!

    No need for Bob. Some offers are so unreasonable that they make you smile ...

  14. Re:Prior Art! on Amazon Seeks 1-Nod Ordering Patent · · Score: 1

    That's missing the vital part: "with a computer"

  15. Re:Maybe... on US Climate Satellite Capabilities In Jeopardy · · Score: 1

    What is the cause of U.S. agricultural inefficiencies?

    Do I win a prize? This is about Climate Satellites in Jeopardy, right?

    Unfortunately you are not a climate satellite, so you don't win anything.

  16. Re:OMG! He's right, it IS missing!!! on Windows 7: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1

    $ whatis windows7
    windows7: nothing appropriate.

  17. Re:Windows 7 manual on Windows 7: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1

    1. Install/purchase it.

    I think the usual order is: First purchase, then install. :-)

    7. Defrag. Scandisk. Coffee.

    I don't think it will improve your Windows experimence if you put coffee into your computer :-)

  18. Re:So how can the computer do it then? on Germany Finds Kismet, Custom Code In Google Car · · Score: 1

    That's so big-endian. Try XIXXLMCM. :-)

  19. Re:So how can the computer do it then? on Germany Finds Kismet, Custom Code In Google Car · · Score: 1

    So if you write the two of "2nd" in binary, it becomes "twoth" instead of "second"?

  20. Re:So how can the computer do it then? on Germany Finds Kismet, Custom Code In Google Car · · Score: 1

    No, as 01011011111.

  21. Re:You will be assimilated. on Part-Human, Part-Machine Transistor Devised · · Score: 2, Funny

    voltage = futile current

  22. Re:Uh, no, you can't have my network on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 1

    Politicians love to be vague.
    Does the bill define exactly what "critical infrastructure" is? Exactly how would a network attack result in the loss of "thousands of lives"?

    If it brings down the Linden Lab servers, a lot of people would lose their second life. :-)

  23. Re:WTF? on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 1

    The company hopefully knows everything about their own network topology etc., and they are surely required to help the officers. Indeed, most probably it will be the employees themselves who will do the work, with the officers only giving directions and controlling the results.

  24. Re:Are you sure? on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The probability that your systems and behaviours are really secure is much higher if you actively looked for weaknesses and fixed those you found.

  25. Re:WTF? on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What is impossible about a group of armed officers coming to the building and saying "give us your passwords, or else"?