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  1. Re:New Season of Big Bang Theory on Scientific American In Blog Removal Controversy · · Score: 1

    Direct your snark at Stupid Man who said that email messages 'weren't on the internet'

  2. Re:New Season of Big Bang Theory on Scientific American In Blog Removal Controversy · · Score: 1

    "But it wasn't even an internet insult. The insult happened in Email"

    Psst. Do you want to know a secret? (Furtively glances around). Email uses the internet...

  3. Re:I agree on BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying · · Score: 1

    Ok, a computer can be a car, and a server a truck.

    I guess that makes a tablet a moped!

  4. Re:Hiding in Darkness on DOJ, MIT, JSTOR Seek Anonymity In Swartz Case · · Score: 1

    Did John reconsider his position at 3:30? Or 4pm?

    And who is this John fellow anyway?

  5. Re:Conspiracy! on Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Both of my two children were born around 31 weeks. The first was in a ICU for 3 weeks, and humidicrib for about 4 weeks.
    My second was healthier (wife managed to get steriods to improve the baby's lungs before birth), but was still in hospital for around 5 weeks.
    My wife was admitted to hospital during both pregnancies multiple times due to excessive vomiting.

    We calculated the total cost to us for both pregnancies - it was around $200. Thankfully we live in Australia were there is a proper health care system.

  6. Re:Download Linux on Copyright Alert System To Launch Monday · · Score: 2

    "We don't care. No peer-to-peer."

    "I just asked my coworker here at the ISP to confirm this, and he said he couldn't answer because - No peer-to-peer!"

  7. Re:Stratigraphy vs. the Created Young Earth on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    Clearly a 6K Earth is a very stupid concept.

    Everyone knows that a 640K Earth should be enough for everyone...

  8. Re:So? on Mars Rover Curiosity: Less Brainpower Than Apple's iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... I am ...curious... about this thing you describe.
    I would like to order one on a 2 year plan.

  9. Re:A real shame on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    ...(missed adding this)...

    The original guy would typically then be denounced, trialled and executed (often using the very same system he had set up).

    Great Purges? Almost certainly all driven by Stalin himself (via the system he set up). A very, very nasty man.

  10. Re:A real shame on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    It was driven by Stalin - who wanted to destabilise the leadership to cement his position. Several times he would get people to do his dirty work for him (such as run denouncements, trials and executions), then turn on the person doing the work by appointing a new person to take over the very same role.

  11. Re:Don't live in places without water, stupid. on Melting Glaciers Cutting Peru Water Supply · · Score: 1

    I guess you are putting out the welcome mat so they can move in with you then?

  12. Re:Crazy on Oxford Professor Taken To Task For Linking Internet Use To Autism · · Score: 1

    Head you win, tails I lose hey?

    With that sort of attitude, I think I'll stick with my original premise.

  13. Re:Crazy on Oxford Professor Taken To Task For Linking Internet Use To Autism · · Score: 1

    Um, I spent 21 years as a CS lecturer

  14. Re:Crazy on Oxford Professor Taken To Task For Linking Internet Use To Autism · · Score: 1

    News flash : The employment process and skills required for professors works to screen out most crazy humans, leading to a difference in overall craziness profile.

  15. Re:Stability is NOT achieved that way. on Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h · · Score: 3, Informative

    We do understand how to maintain balance on a bike.

    People steer into the continual tiny falls that happen all the time, actively steering the bike upright.

  16. Re:so a typo is now unlawful access? on Security Researcher Threatened With Vulnerability Repair Bill · · Score: 1

    If I was in his position I would say that I was showing someone how secure First State Superannuation's service is - "Look you can even change any of these digits and nothing will happen!...Hmmm.... that's strange!". I would mention looking at many of them.

  17. So neutrinos travel at C++ speed? on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Faster than C I guess

  18. Re:re C and C++ were disasters on The Rise of Software Security · · Score: 1

    "Once you build the checking into the language no one will want to use the slower executables it produces."

    Except they do. Languages such as Ada, and really any language that allows compilers to understand what is happening in the code, can optimise out many of the bounds checking. The cost of bounds checking isn't as great as you may think it is, and if it eliminates -all- buffer overflows wouldn't you choose it?

  19. even worse than a safe haven... on File-hosting Sites Not a Safe Haven For Private Data · · Score: 1

    Even worse than a safe haven are all those unsafe havens! Never put your data there!

  20. Re:Pointless on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    Never ascribe to malice that which can attributed to stupidity.

    I re-read your post (more carefully this time!) and agree with you...

  21. Re:Terrorists who were trained in Afghanistan by A on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 4, Informative

    Saddam Hussein didn't like Al Quidea - it's very, very unlikely that he would have had anything to do with them at all. AQ moved into Iraq filling the power vacuum when the government fell.

  22. I wish, I wish, I wish... on Wikileaks Says Public Forced Canadian DMCA Delay · · Score: 1

    ...that people would stop calling it copyright "reform". It makes it sound as though it's broken, and this will fix it, making it all rainbow and sunshine.
    I'd agree on the first part, but not the second.

  23. Re:Improved tablets on MS Global Strategy Chief: Tablets Are a Fad · · Score: 1

    Apple's iPads are so incredibly cheap to make that no one seems able to match the price on them. ...and Toshiba (when they saw the iPad 2) said they'd have to consider going back to the drawing board.

    So what is your expertise on pricing on tablets?

  24. Re:So don't worry about it on Ridiculous Software Patents: a Developer's Nemesis · · Score: 1

    Sorry but you are an ungrateful ass or something. There were only 4 paragraphs in the post. Get over yourself.

  25. Re:Before everyone freaks on Things Get Worse at Fukushima · · Score: 1

    It takes more energy to send something into the sun than to send it further out into the solar system.