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  1. Re:Linus on Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Question on The Quest To Make Super-Cold Quantum Blobs in Space (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Same thing that happens to an atom traveling at the speed of light.

    It's a meaningless question. Like c, 0K is unattainable. You can only approach it asymptotically.

  3. Wait!!! on The Quest To Make Super-Cold Quantum Blobs in Space (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in the '50s, I learned that you get rid of the Blob by freezing it!

    Now you need the cold to make the Blob????

  4. Yes. Fingers going faster than my brain. Thanks for the correction.

  5. Atlas was RP1/LOX.

    The Titan II (Gemini) was UDMH/N204. There were no nasty hypergolic explosions with the TItan II.

  6. The only thing that Ziosk is good for on That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Is so that I don't have to hunt down the server when I want the check, and again when I'm ready to pay.

    Oops... There's one other thing they're good for... they have the menu's allergy info.

    Other than that, I ignore the damned thing, and try to put it somewhere off the table (I prefer to have the table space).

  7. It's also a management issue, when anything less than a 5/5 or 10/10 is considered a "fail".

  8. Re:How can people not know... on That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've been told many times that on those surveys "management considers anything less than an 8 [out of 10] a fail"

  9. Re:Monitors on Ubuntu Makes Public Desktop Metrics (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm running Bionic on a Dell XPS 13 with a 3200x1800 screen.

    It's WAAAY to small, so I have my resolution set to standard HD (1920x1080).

  10. I'm sure that many early cultures were aware of the a^2 +b^2 = c^2 relationship.

    What gives Pythagoras the credit is that he proved it.

  11. Re:Down with Pythagoras! on Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born (techtimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That article is possibly the stupidest thing I have ever read in my life.

    What would Benjamin Franklin have to say about the absurdity that Alaska, with less than a million inhabitants, has the same Senate power as California, a state with over 38 million people

    He'd say, "Good". That's EXACTLY what the Senate was designed for... so that small states would be on an equal footing with the large states.

  12. Re: paperwork nightmare incoming on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's been said before... ZIP codes cross city and county lines, which do have different tax rates.

    Hell, some items have different tax rates depending on their SKU, etc... (see "candy tax") in some jurisdictions. It's not as simple as just indexing.

  13. Or... Congress could repay the trillions they have "borrowed" from the Social Security Trust Fund...

    If any private business raided their pension plan the way that Congress has raided SS, the executives of that business would be in jail.

  14. Possibly also having something to do with building a stately pleasure dome.

  15. Re:Idea for a more marketable product on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    TFS says they've already solved it. (see the quote in my comment)

  16. Re:Cost isn't the big problem. Weight is. on Norway Tests Tiny Electric Plane, Sees Passenger Flights by 2025 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    <VOICE type="Emily Litella">
    Oh, that's very different. Never mind!
    </VOICE>

  17. Re:Already in use on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I prefer Dethklok

  18. He wants to keep out the illegal space aliens.

  19. Idea for a more marketable product on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Google's tool has the ability to sift through notes buried in PDFs or scribbled on old charts.

    To hell with this death predictor... Sell the product that can read doctors' handwriting!!!

  20. Re:Cost isn't the big problem. Weight is. on Norway Tests Tiny Electric Plane, Sees Passenger Flights by 2025 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt the EU's version of the FAA is that quick.

    Norway is not part of the EU

  21. In related news... on Turkey Bans Periscope (stockholmcf.org) · · Score: 1

    Turkey has also banned its submarines.

  22. Re:Pictures on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Pics explain the need for 128GB.... It's running Windows 10

    [ducks]

  23. Re:I still like my first computer... on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You had an Abacus? We had to carve marks in stone using flint tools!

  24. Next release.

  25. Re:No biggie on Google Disables Inline Installation For Chrome Extensions (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a V6, you insensitive clod!