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  1. Re:Serious and Organized Crime Agency on UK Police To Get Major New Powers To Seize Domains · · Score: 1

    I've always thought the American "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives" felt crude. Thanks Britain for bringing some class.

  2. Re:what's the big deal? on Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems · · Score: 1

    Though, the sidewalk is a crowded public place. In order to leave your home, you'd better agree to molestation and/or irradiation by the TSA-agents assigned to your apartment door.

  3. Re:Better idea on FCC To Allow Texting To 911 · · Score: 1

    I see you attended the Jack Bauer school of CPR. Find someone unconscious? Forget chest compressions: Hook 'em up to a car battery and pistol whip them until they start talking.

  4. Re:Can't wrap my head around on FCC To Allow Texting To 911 · · Score: 1

    Texting 911 doesn't work, everyone knows this,

    This is evidently not true.

  5. Re:Quantum physics certainly is confusing... on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    All the quantum physics classes in the world will not help you understand the summary. I think they're attempting to dumb it down to a layman's level while inserting buzzwords and hip analogies to make it interesting. Whatever they're doing, the end result does not make whole lot of sense.

  6. Re:I'm shit on Why Don't We Finish More Games? · · Score: 1

    Or... you could, you know, not hack stuff. Dump your points into lockpick instead. It is after all an RPG, and you're not supposed to be some sort of jack-of-all-trades demigod who can do absolutely everything. There are multiple ways of doing most stuff in the game. If you don't like one, use another.

  7. Re:I dunno man on Swedish Court Orders Detention of Wikileaks Founder Assange · · Score: 1

    Earlier, it was almost impossible to get convicted for rape in Sweden, as even if you had technical evidence, it was just word against word to what had actually happened (you're not likely to have any witnesses to the actual act). Now, eager to correct this, it's swung the other way, you seem to be able to get convicted based on the claims of the "victim" alone, because who would possibly lie about such a serous thing*!

    *Except those who have been found lying about such a serious thing. But let's not worry about those cases. They're acting in a way that's not compatible with our irrational "feminist" world view, so let's just cover our ears and chant lalalalalalalala until people are done talking about them.

  8. Re:lpd on 2010 Geek IQ Test · · Score: 1

    If nothing else, I've had a reference to "lp0: on fire" in my .sig for years.

  9. Re:Careful with those quotation marks on Sophos Researcher Suggests Password 'Free' to Spur Wi-Fi Encryption · · Score: 1

    Computer programmer, are you?

  10. Obsidian on Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's funny because Obsidian is the developer of New Vegas, and not Bethesda (who are the publishers).

  11. How is this news? on The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs · · Score: 5, Funny

    My computer isn't responding when I click an icon. I click again. Nothing. So I click it really hard 30 times in a row. Now the computer decides to respond. Clearly, the computer can read my frustration, and therefore hurries to open the 32 firefox windows I requested.

  12. Re:The Northernmost town on earth is : on World's Northernmost Town Gets Nightlights · · Score: 1

    Longyearbyen begs to differ.

  13. Re:BASE16 on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    'pow' is a floating point function. Clearly you don't expect people to do hexadecimal floaing point calculations in their head?! (Actually, in this case it's fairly easy, but in general, it's more of a headache)

  14. Odd choice of words on Workers Poisoned Making Touchscreen Hardware · · Score: 1

    "It's scary to think that people are being damaged to pursue high production rates."

    Damaged? What a peculiar choice of words. People get harmed or injured; machines and tools get damaged and malfunction.

  15. Re:8? I thought it was 3 ... on Taco Bell Programming · · Score: 1

    Will be a pretty boring universe without leptons.

  16. Re:Whoever Wins - We Lose on Cheap Software Tools Give New Life To Stop-Motion Animation · · Score: 1

    And then there's Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus.

  17. Re:Lears on Meet NELL, the Computer That Learns From the Net · · Score: 1

    Obviously it leared from slashdot.

  18. Oblig. on The Bomb Squad Olympiad Starts Today · · Score: 1

    What could possibly go wrong?

  19. Re:Hooray on Epic Games Predicts Console, Mobile Convergence · · Score: 1

    That's almost enough time to render the top 3% of the first frame! How exciting, I see we're in some sort of shipping container, or bus maybe?

  20. Re:Remember kids: When you steal something it's wr on UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details · · Score: 1

    The government doesn't steal, it expropriates.

  21. Re:Donald Duck and the Pirate Party on Swedes Cast Write-In Votes for SQL Injection, Donald Duck · · Score: 1

    That's only hand written votes, though. The pirate party does have official voting slips, and got a total of 38,491 votes, which is approximately 0.6%, and comparable to the previous national election.

  22. Re:Doesn't really matter... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, there is still a significant minority of Western people who believe that the Earth is the center of the universe: 18% of Americans, 16% of Germans, and 19% of Britons."

    ...And assuming that they aren't working in astronomy, there really is no loss.[...]

    Or they could simply have sufficient mathematical knowledge to know that "the earth revolves around the sun" and "the sun revolves around the earth" are equivalent statements depending on your frame of reference (somewhat similar to where to put the zero meridian on earth, if a touch more complicated). The heliocentric frame of reference is easier to define ("the planets, including earth, move around the sun in more or less elliptical orbits"); but there is nothing wrong with the statement "the sun revolves around the earth in an elliptical orbit, and the other planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits" other than being slightly cumbersome.

    Similarly, you could say that you're standing still and the earth is moving around when you take a walk. It's an awkward way of defining things, but it isn't by any means wrong.

    Unfortunately, people don't want to think about mathematics, as it hurts their heads much more than simple dogmatic factoids like "the earth revolves around the sun" do.

  23. Re:Welcome to the third world on Microsoft Complaints Help Russian Gov't Pursue Political Opposition Groups · · Score: 1

    Learn2history. Russia is by definition the second world (as is the rest of former Soviet as well as China, and some other Asian countries). The third world is countries that were neutral in the cold war, whereas the first world is America and it's cold war allies (NATO, Australia and some others).

  24. Re:So... we disproved P != NP on How the Web Rallied To Review the P != NP Claim · · Score: 1

    Technically, if P = 1, (P-1)! will equate to 1 (as 0! = 1), and therefore P will be equal to NP.

  25. Re:The "Real" Difficulty in making a 3D Game on The New Difficulties In Making a 3D Game · · Score: 1

    Largely the only people who don't hate it are people who were suckered into buying a 3D TV, and are now in denial over what a ridiculous waste of money it was.