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  1. Re:Not to be too pedantic on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    They could have pointed it towards Byron- 20 miles away.....no houses in between.

  2. Re:Not to be too pedantic on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    To be exact- miss the target, punch through a cinder block wall, THEN skip off the hill, fly 1/3rd of a mile, through a door, skip UP the stairs, through an adobe and plaster wall, hit the neighbor's roof, before rolling off the roof onto a minivan windshield, bounced of the dashboard into the back seats floorboards.

    That's *almost* as unbelievable of a projectile path than the amazing single bullet that went through Kennedy and hit Governor Connally.

  3. Re:Not to be too pedantic on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    Resulting damage and initial part, maybe- too valuable not to. But I really think they didn't have cameras on the back side of the hill.

  4. Re:Not to be too pedantic on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    Apparently limiting the charge in the canon was NOT one of the safety precautions taken. By my reading of the article- this canonball flew for well over 1000 feet and did a great deal of damage along the way. Can't wait to see the episode itself.

  5. Interferance would suck on Bionic Implants and Spectrum Clash · · Score: 1

    I hope they're using a packet based protocol with massive error correction.

  6. Re:Skewed Data? on 4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook · · Score: 1

    The point is, when you add in the data for people who are off facebook, but have friends who are on facebook, you get 6.24 degrees of separation on the average for *everybody in the First world* and with the plethora of cybercafes in the third world, very likely *everybody with electricity on the planet*.

    While the number reported is skewed by people who never meet in meatspace and are only friends in cyberspace- it actually works out to be *nearly exactly the same as every previous study of the sort*.

    And THAT blows my mind.

  7. Re:no it's not on 4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook · · Score: 1

    Which is still within 1 of 6.....5.74 or 6.74, would average out to 6.24, that's REALLY CLOSE. And I was going to say Facebook skews the data by encouraging people who have never met in meatspace to be friends in cyberspace, but I guess I'm wrong.

  8. Re:Novell is killing babies now? on Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial · · Score: 1

    It's already patented, so I can't make any money off of it. Gardasil can cause sterilization with just one shot, though it's not 100%. I have no doubt it can be refined to do so.

  9. Re:Novell is killing babies now? on Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial · · Score: 1

    Has he stopped putting sterilization drugs in his vaccines yet?

  10. Re:Groklaw has a pretty good article. on Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial · · Score: 1

    I even had a Packard Bell that lacked the bug. Worst mistake I ever made was upgrading it to Windows ME, which would barely run an hour without crashing.

  11. Re:Common sense on How Much Tech Can Kids Take? · · Score: 0

    South Park is a neurotypical cartoon written by neurotypicals, I'm not surprised that they attempt to insult their betters while being unable to spell.

  12. Re:Common sense on How Much Tech Can Kids Take? · · Score: 0

    More that evolution fulfills a master plan, and that without evolution, without change, our species will be left behind.

  13. Re:Common sense on How Much Tech Can Kids Take? · · Score: 0

    And this is how neurotypicals spell. How sad.

  14. Re:First self-driving crash - who to blame, or sue on Toyota To Let People Ride In Self-Driving Prius · · Score: 1

    Given most of the self-driving systems I've seen depend on radar to keep the car away from obstacles- I'd say it's the idiot who painted his car with stealth paint that is at fault.

  15. Re:Common sense on How Much Tech Can Kids Take? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Autism is not a disorder. It is the next stage of human evolution.

  16. Re:Come See the Violence Inherent in the System on A Drone Helicopter That Can Land On a Moving Truck · · Score: 1

    "a governmental system based on a monopoly on violence."

    Since when? Their monopoly isn't very effective.

  17. Re:More war on A Drone Helicopter That Can Land On a Moving Truck · · Score: 1

    Or manned? Rescue missions flown remotely? That would make a huge difference here in the Pacific Northwest (especially after we had that Blackbird roll down Mt. Hood).

  18. Re:perspective on A Drone Helicopter That Can Land On a Moving Truck · · Score: 0

    "The future is already here -- it's just not evenly distributed."

    And never will be as long as the Leninists and the Libertarians are in charge.

  19. Re:To Tape... on Why Do Companies Backup So Infrequently? · · Score: 1

    Hi Mr. Tape, Meet Mr. Magnet.......

  20. Re:Corporate Owned Government on EULAs Don't Have To Suck · · Score: 1

    What idiot would go after the workers, for a contract signed by the CEO?

  21. Re:Corporate Owned Government on EULAs Don't Have To Suck · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the choice is between signing and starvation. Contracts should NEVER be unilateral- but I think they'd be a lot better if instead of being enforced by the courts, every contract dispute would have to be settled by pistols at 15 paces.

  22. Re:This is news? on Skilled Readers Recognize Words By Shape · · Score: 1

    ""Comprehend" could mean retaining information points presented as fact." I was using that definition. Due to my version of autism, the others didn't occur to me. At all. But then again, I'm pretty bad at non-factual information, whether in reading or in real life.

  23. Re:This is news? on Skilled Readers Recognize Words By Shape · · Score: 1

    As a phase on my way through puberty- when I read all of Marx's books in a single summer. I'm currently really a Chestertonian Distributist. The difference is in who owns the property- Marxism is for nobody owning anything and the State owning everything, distributism is about everybody starting out with the same amount of property ownership and being unable to sell your initial stake, which is enough for you to live on in an emergency.

  24. Re:This is news? on Skilled Readers Recognize Words By Shape · · Score: 1

    Depends on the font. Wingdings is a problem, yes, as is Algerian, Bauhaus 93, BlackadderITC....and those are just the first three picks off the font list in MS Word. Any font that thinks an s and an f are the same character also causes me problems.

  25. Re:This is news? on Skilled Readers Recognize Words By Shape · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been reading since age 3 and read at 1500 wpm with 100% comprehension. I could have told them long ago that this is how I do it.

    It's part of my autism.