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  1. Re:"Self-powering" on Creating Electric Power From Light Using Gold Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    If they're powered by light then they aren't really "self-powered", are they? /blockquote They are if you can get them to produce light.

  2. Re:Simply, no software required. on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 1

    All you have to do is remember that the first 90% of the project takes the first 90% of the time line, and the remaining 10% of the project takes the other 90% of time.

  3. Re:I could have told you that. on Studies Reveal Why Kids Get Bullied and Rejected · · Score: 1

    Yes, I said *being* in a fight. If your kid tries to defend himself and gets his ass whupped, he gets suspended even if he weren't the aggressor. Both kids get suspended.

    So now the only reasonable thing to teach your kid is that if he's bullied to hit first, hit often, fight dirty, and win at all costs. If you're going to get a suspension, you might as well go in to it with a W.

  4. Re:Trial By Combat! on Champerty and Other Common Law We Could Use Today · · Score: 1

    I'd be perfectly fine with legalized dueling so long as there were set rules and the major players were above the age of 18 and mentally fit.

    It'd make the legal profession far more interesting if professional arguers were replaced with professional duelers.

  5. Re:Seriously? on Scientology Attacker Will Be Sentenced To Jail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As long as parents have the legal "right" to force their (property) offspring into organized religion, ethical people have the RIGHT to use force to oppose such religions.

    Ethical people generally are not hyperbolic idiots or religious or anti-religious fanatics, therefore do not assert a right to use force to influence people's religious beliefs.

  6. Re: Idling is bad for the engine on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    According to Consumer Reports AND The Tappet Brothers (Tom and Ray Magliozzi) it's bad for the engine to "warm up" your car by letting it run idle in park. It's also a waste of time and gasoline.

    Those guys can eat my ass if they think I'm driving around in a cold car I can't see out of. They are also welcome to scrape my windshield for me.

  7. Where's the risk? on Who's Controlling Our Vital Information Systems? · · Score: 1

    I have increasingly come to the conclusion that we are putting our state's operations at risk and compromising the trust of the people of our state by outsourcing core government functions.

    Well, my interaction with my state's operations have made me increasingly come to the conclusion that I would trust a rowdy herd of poorly trained chimpanzees over the state's employees. So bring on the contractors, I say.

  8. Re:yes on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    I've got a Yahoo email address. Would you have been do stupidly biased against me?

    That depends. Is it something like yourname@yahoo.com, or ILikeToDrinkAndSkipWorkTheNextDay@yahoo.com?

  9. Re:You aren't exactly wide awake... on Surgeon Makes Tutorial DVD For Conscious Open-Heart Surgery · · Score: 1

    Keeping you awake is done because it is easier to keep you from not dying when they aren't trying to put you to sleep

    What if I don't want to be kept from not dying?

  10. 3000 sq ft house? on MagicJack Femtocell Gates Cell Traffic to VoIP · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It supposedly will cover a 3,000 sq ft house.

    My house is 3 feet wide and 1000 ft long. Am I covered, smart guy?

  11. Re:My Wife Thinks it Exists on New Research Suggests G-Spot Doesn't Exist · · Score: 4, Informative

    She never had an orgasm until I figured out where her supposedly non-existent g-spot is

    Yes she did.

  12. Re:Depends on How Many Admins Per User/Computer Have You Seen? · · Score: 1

    When asked to do something, to you just go ahead and do it? Or do you require things like justifications, business cases, funding, staff, etc?

    Admins do not get to require justification or business cases to do their jobs. That is management's job.

  13. Re:laughable on Eolas Sues World + Dog For AJAX Patent · · Score: 1

    If the world were "fair" every single human would have as an inalienable right free access to decent food, housing, healthcare, and security and working beyond that would be an optional choice to better their life.

    If the world were "fair" lazy shitbags who want decent food, housing, healthcare, and security without being willing to work for it would get tossed into a volcano.

  14. Re:They believe it because it's true on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    The US has one of the most liberal immigration policies in the world. It's easier to come here than almost anywhere else.

  15. Re:LED lighting vs. CFL question on Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated · · Score: 1

    Probably the single best thing about the current LED bulbs is you can throw them away.

    I can throw away CFLs too, and the environment can eat my ass if it doesn't like it.

  16. Re:Robots.txt on Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches · · Score: 1

    Could be that he wants to block the actual content, regardless of whether it is on one of his sites or not? Like maybe he's licensed a particular story to zombo.com, and wants to block zombo.com from having that story show up in search results as well?

  17. Re:419 Scams on Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart · · Score: 1

    They're biased against the poor, and more african americans are poor.

  18. Re:One thing... on Hyperdrive Propulsion Could Be Tested At the LHC · · Score: 1

    OP did not specify the desired deceleration rate. My idea fulfills the requirements stated.

  19. Re:One thing... on Hyperdrive Propulsion Could Be Tested At the LHC · · Score: 1

    "calculated that a stationary mass should repel a particle moving towards or away from it at more than half the speed of light"

    So, how do I slow down while going half he speed of light?

    According to what you have in quotes, approaching a stationary mass ought to do the job.

  20. Re:Outward facing systems ... on Sloppy Linux Admins Enable Slow Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    And perhaps set your SSH port to a non-standard port, where possible? Brute-force attackers seem to ignore high (> 1023) ports.

    That works great until everyone starts doing it, and the brute-force attackers no longer ignore it.

  21. Re:Premium content on Micropayments For News — Holy Grail Or Delusion? · · Score: 1

    For example in Russia the most used payment method is WebMoney [wmtransfer.com], where you define exactly what information is public about your account and *by default* everything is private.

    I have it on very good authority that in Russia, money pays you.

  22. Re:From My Simpleton Point of View on Why Developers Get Fired · · Score: 1

    You can't fire a developer that's leading in resolutions and completed requirements.

    Boy are you going to be disappointed someday.

    I wonder how he would have chosen people if he saw through an employee's thinly veiled attempts to make himself look better?

    Just so you know, there is a reason why a lot of places ask you to do a self evaluation. As a manager myself, I find them useful because sometimes I miss things. I may *think* I have all of your accomplishments listed, but I may not. Or I may over or understate the relative importance, or the success. Sometimes I look at them and think that the person is more accurate than I am. I try to keep track of everything, but since I have to do it for so many people, things can get missed despite my best efforts. If you don't tell me, you might be missing out on raises or bonuses.

    Keeping track of what you do, and the outcome of it is no more Machiavellian or bragging than putting together a resume is.

  23. Re:Dangerous animals on Girls Wired To Fear Dangerous Animals · · Score: 1

    higher pitch of their voices seems like it would travel better than a guttural manly tone

    Which is why animals that communicate over long distances use higher pitches, like elephants and whales.

  24. Re:so... on Maori Legend of Man-Eating Birds is True · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks for ruining the joke, Captain Pedantic.

  25. Re:the apology isn't for turing you moron on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 1

    Well, I didn't do anything wrong, I would imagine the vast majority of Britons didn't do anything wrong either, so why would they apologize and make amends for something they had fuckall to do with?