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  1. Re:How do we know matter is more common? on LHC Research May Help Explain the Universe's Matter/Antimatter Imbalance · · Score: 1

    Learning physics from Slashdot is not recommended. You sound generally interested in this material; go to the library and read some books that can actually explain it consistently.

    Rude translation: I'm not going to figure this shit out for you. Go ask someone who not only knows but cares.

  2. Re:How do we know matter is more common? on LHC Research May Help Explain the Universe's Matter/Antimatter Imbalance · · Score: 1

    Because a virtual particle pair is created at random from the sea, then annihilates resulting in a gamma, which then disappears into the sea without a trace.

  3. Re:Another Kink on Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    So fine, you've debunked that the president responsible can be called conservative, and you've provided one more example of a non-liberal who dislikes the TSA. You've taken the sting out of my retort. I still take extreme exception with your branding the TSA, DHS, and other such government invasions as LIBERAL concepts. That's just plain bullshit.

  4. Re:Another Kink on Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Informative

    A *liberal* concept? Hast thou forgotten which President *created* the TSA and the DHS?

  5. Re:Reeeaaal smart on Answers.com Now Only With Facebook and Own Login · · Score: 0

    Geocities maybe had a similar market percentage to Facebook. But it never, never, had anything like the same scale. Facebook has over 750 million registered users. Geocities had a max of maybe 175 million yearly unique visitors.

  6. Re:Even rational models are unstable on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it's known as the American Question, not Problem.
    http://www.sfu.ca/~allen/McCloskey.pdf

  7. Re:Even rational models are unstable on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 1

    This is called "The American Problem": "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?"

  8. Re:Well.. on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    Eventually they will deactivate your transponder number, and your perfectly good but old unit will stop paying your tolls.

  9. Re:Will it blend? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Not cheap.

  10. Re:Thermite? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Original poster mentioned he does not have IDE hardware anymore, so a normal data overwrite is not an option. At least not a preferred option.

  11. Re:Pretty much by definition on Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Buy Legal Game ROMs? · · Score: 1

    Now I'm not sure what I want to do if I want to stay moral (legality aside).

    Read books instead of playing games.

  12. Re:Dark matter always seemed like a cop out. on Dark Matter Hinted at Again at Cresst Experiment · · Score: 1

    Probably not a neutralino. SUSY is mostly dead.

  13. Re:cool! on Biological 'Logic Circuit' Destroys Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    When you add a tiger to a cell, the tiger usually gets very upset. Tigers need lots of room.

  14. Clue on EPIC Uncovers: Mobile Scanners Not 'Certified People Scanners' · · Score: 1

    GP was joking.

  15. Re:Emacs can emulate vi on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 1

    That's right. I consider Emacs to be more unwieldy than the heaviest bulldozer in the world.

  16. Re:Emacs can emulate vi on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 1

    Yes, let's take a 500 ton bulldozer, tape a fork to the front of it, and use it to eat salad.

  17. Re:Lisp? on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 1

    LISP: Lost In Stupid Parentheses

  18. Sneaking in a pun on Gamification — Valid Term or Marketing-Speak? · · Score: 1

    The really clever bit about Ian Bogost calling it bullshit is that Ian Bogost is the creator of the Facebook game parody "Cow Clicker".

  19. The "die" layer must be why on Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... the CD/DVD/BD discs don't last. If only they'd used a dye layer instead.

  20. Re:What about Africans? on Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc · · Score: 1

    Apparently you're also part troll.

  21. Juno objects. on NASA's Juno Blasts Off To Investigate Jupiter · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the ancient Roman goddess of the heavens just loves being called a flying armored tank.

  22. Ian Elliot is a much bigger mistake than .NET on Was .NET All a Mistake? · · Score: 1

    Ian Elliot is a much bigger mistake than .NET ever will be.

  23. "Broken" on Massachusetts Lottery Broken · · Score: 1

    The word "Broken" in the title refers to what the lottery is, not what happened to it.

  24. Re:I'm confused on NAND Flash Better Than DRAM For PC Performance · · Score: 1

    Cutting off your own foot with an axe and cauterizing the wound is more cost effective than going to a doctor and having your diabetes treated for 30 years. Guess which one I'm picking.

  25. Re:A novel idea... on Weather Satellites Lose Funding · · Score: 1

    Having every American pay the for something run by government is what's known as a "tax".