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  1. Re:Gray versus grey on Why Many CSS Colors Have Goofy Names (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Although grey is slightly more common in the UK, and gray in the US, both are used pretty frequently in both places.

  2. Re:Kanbun: Reordering Chinese to Japanese on New Unicode Bug Discovered For Common Japanese Character "No" · · Score: 1

    Both the Korean and Japanese language groups are language isolates, and are not thought to be in the same language family.

  3. Doesn't matter on June 30th Leap Second Could Trigger Unexpected Issues · · Score: 5, Informative

    The only problem mentioned is that they fall out of sync with each other. If they're both otherwise fine, just pick one. Sounds like the disadvantages of either one aren't as big as the disadvantage of them not working well together.

  4. Re:Informative winners list on The 2014 Hugo Awards · · Score: 1

    Ray Bradbury did well with it (Kaleidoscope). But that wasn't the story Cuaron wanted to tell.

  5. Re:Buy local honey on Laser Intended For Mars Used To Detect "Honey Laundering" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fresh? I thought honey lasted for years. It certainly has to in my house; I don't use it very fast.

  6. Re:Batch on COBOL Will Outlive Us All · · Score: 1

    Isn't this the same idea as defining two structs and a union of them in C?

  7. Re:Noob Question on 1st Video of Moon's Far Side · · Score: 1

    Because of libration, we can, over time, see more than 50% of the moon from Earth. But billions of years from now, not only will the moon still be locked with the Earth, but the Earth will be locked with the moon. By then it will have been engulfed by the sun, anyway.

  8. Re:Backups on NASA Rover 'Curiosity' Set For Saturday Launch · · Score: 1

    There could be native microbes on Mars. We wouldn't want to kill off other life in the solar system by accident.

  9. Re:Needs platform adoption first. on OCaml For the Masses · · Score: 1

    Pandoc is written in Haskell, but you can download a 3MB Windows installer for it.

  10. Re:More spreadsheet abuse on Convicted Terrorist Relied On Single-Letter Cipher · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wait, huh? Wikipedia says the Vigenère cipher was created in the 16th century.

  11. Re:What class of SUV? on Paris To Test Banning SUVs In the City · · Score: 1

    The CR-V has better MPG than most cars? From Wikipedia: "Consumer Reports rates fuel economy as 19 mpg-US (12 L/100 km; 23 mpg-imp) city, 29 mpg-US (8.1 L/100 km; 35 mpg-imp) highway." That sounds pretty crappy.

    Also, it seems the CR-V is a "crossover" aka "crossover SUV" which means it looks like an SUV, but it's built on a car chassis, not a light truck chassis.

  12. Re:Agreed on Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key · · Score: 1

    Why is this a convention? I know all languages used to do this, but in most cases their descendents have left it behind. I prefer syntax-highlighted, lowercase words. I find them easier to read.

  13. Re:I don't get it on XBMC Running On an Atom-Based MID · · Score: 1

    An Xbox runs a modified Windows 2000.

  14. Re:FAAAAAKKKEE on Denver Couple Unveils Homemade Service Robot · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't moving your own body be a red herring, since sounds emanating from you travel through your own body, and hunching your shoulders might also change the shape of your diaphragm. Wouldn't a better test be to move an object near you and see if that changes the sound of your breathing?

  15. Two roles on Should the United States' New CTO Really Be a CIO? · · Score: 1

    I'm hearing people thinking the CTO will do either or both of two things:

    1. Advise the President on new, emerging technology.

    2. Advise the President on managing the government's use of existing technology.

    Should these really be combined in one person?

  16. I'm sure I'd love having that ripped out of me on Wealthy Mexicans Getting Chipped in Case of Abduction · · Score: 1

    GIZMO: It'll work. Come on, do it or Hacksaw will.

    NEO: Do what?

            The instant he hears the word, he knows.

    TRINITY: Clear.

    NEO: Oh, shit --

  17. Re:Not surprising.... on The Mainframe World Is Alive, Even For Those Under 40 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you'll find the tool is a class, not an object.

  18. Asimov mentioned this in The Gods Themselves on Stars Could Shine In Many Universes · · Score: 1

    In The Gods Themselves (I think), one of Asimov's characters speculated that in a universe with different laws, life could not exist. Another character countered that if the laws were different, the definition of life might be different, so life could exist, even if we couldn't recognize it.

  19. Dumb idea on Academic Says We Should Give Up on Correct Spelling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Dumb idea; people who speak different dialects would misspell in different ways, being opaque to speakers of other dialects. This is why Germany standardized their spelling even though it doesn't remotely reflect the pronunciation of half its dialects.

  20. Re:It is most munificent of you, on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean celery on your shirt?

  21. Re:Creatives Use Macs on Lenovo Intros the Monstrous ThinkPad W700 · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of graphic artists who aren't 'creative'. Those who draw exploded diagrams and cross sections for manuals, for example. Most of the Cisco writers' team (which includes the graphic artists) uses Windows.

  22. Spinach! bah on Silk Protein Photonics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Spinach! Sure, the most recent E. Coli scare was with spinach, but I'd like to see this on fish, so I could know what fish to buy for sashimi.

  23. Re:Organization = disorganization? on Mozilla Unveils Aurora Concept Browser · · Score: 1

    Using one tag is equivalent to using one level of directories. Multi-level directories are a very different paradigm than multiple tags. Here's an example of what a college student's documents directory might have:

    + Work
    + Personal
    + School
        + english
            + ewrt 1a
            + ewrt 1b
            + ewrt 2
        + math

    I like being able to search any level of that hierarchy. Tags can't reproduce this.

  24. Re:New, it is not on NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive · · Score: 1

    3 nuclear reactors, as the video's summary states. If nuclear reactors can provide 1.21 GW, 200 kW should be a breeze.

  25. Ad Hominem on Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Just because Micro$oft copies doesn't mean open source doesn't.