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  1. Re:Remember when.. on Blackberry Z30 Phablet Announced · · Score: 1

    And still in zazzy black-n-red!

    Too legit to quit!

  2. Re:The Devil You Know on Obama Asks FCC To Make Carriers Unlock All Mobile Devices · · Score: 2

    Why do I want to unlock my phone to change carriers if they all suck the same? Anyone?

    Actually they all suck more.

  3. Re:BFD on London Tube Cleaners Don't Want Fingerprint Clock-in · · Score: 3, Funny

    +5 Insightful?

    So then. It is just not you that has no clue what a slave is.

    Fry: "You know the worst thing about being a slave? They make you work but they don't pay you or let you go..."

    Leela: "That's the only thing about being a slave.

  4. Re:Go After the Lawyers also on Doubleclick Cofounder Responds to Patent Troll by Filing Extortion Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Someone needs to not only go after the trolls, but go after the law license of the Attorneys representing them as well. Get a couple of lawyers disbarred and watch the lawsuits end!

    From what I've seen, it seems a lot of these patent troll companies are owned by lawyers.

  5. Re:I will believe it when I can buy it on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: 2

    If I had a dollar for every time a uni came up with a new solar cell. The reality is that most of what you can buy is stil monocrystalline silicone, same as 50 years ago. Why is nothing commercialised?

    I think could be related to the types of discoveries. Discovery X gives a 10% increase in efficiency, then discovery Y gives a 8% increase, however discovery X is not compatible with discovery Y, so they both can't be used together. Also discovery X will cost 10x as much as discovery Y, so we'll have to go with Y.

    I suspect there's a lot of that going on.

  6. Re:Don't know their science on Researchers Develop the Most Detailed Map of Gravitational Variations Ever · · Score: 2

    From the article: That means a 100kg person weighs 700g more near the North Pole, where gravity is 9.83ms-2, than at Peru’s Nevado Huascaran summit, where gravity is 9.76ms-2.

    They are implying that mass is a function of gravity

    Not really. They specifically say "weighs", which is weight, not "masses".

  7. Re:direct link on Researchers Develop the Most Detailed Map of Gravitational Variations Ever · · Score: 2

    Probably should be most detailed map released to the public. The Military of both the US and Russia/USSR have been working on maps of gravitational variations for decades.

    It would also be only the most detailed measured using sattelites. More detailed maps can be made using measurements from airborne gravimeters or surface measurements. They are used often for oil and mineral exploration.

  8. Re:Obligatory XKCD on It's Official: Voyager 1 Is an Interstellar Probe · · Score: 1

    "No, we really mean it this time!"

    Maybe!

  9. Re:iPhone + fingerprint? on Can the iPhone Popularize Fingerprint Readers? · · Score: 1

    Take some fine powder and sprinkle it over a cell phone screen and back. You'll get a fingerprint or two.

    Too complicated! Just take a screenshot! ;). (Yes this is a joke!!!!)

  10. Re:Fond memories of Threads on British TV Show 'Blackout' Triggers Online LOLs · · Score: 4, Funny

    so I can scare myself to death whenever I want.

    Surely that only works once!

  11. Re:I would have... on Final Mars One Numbers Are In, Over 200,000 People Applied · · Score: 1

    I think you're wrong.

  12. Re:minus 40 degrees Celsius != (minus 40 Fahrenhei on Japanese Ice Wall To Stop Reactor Leaks · · Score: 1

    minus 40 degrees Celsius != (minus 40 Fahrenheit)

    I was going to make a snarky comment thanking them for the conversion, but I guess it was needed! -40F does equal -40C.

  13. Re:Not really on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    I think his point, although made very rudely, is that in top gear you probably will not be able to redline the engine.

  14. Re:£946 ??? on Building Melts Car · · Score: 1

    For severe bodywork damage on a modern Jag? In London? Bullshit!

    Well.... they're apparently made of cheap plastic.

  15. Re:Numbering .. on Nintendo Announces 2DS Handheld — Plays 3DS Games In 2-D · · Score: 2

    It's a sequence. What is the next number in the sequence? 1,3,2... the correct answer is 4. From this we can deduce that Nintendo has a 4 dimensional game device in the works, and that it will require inter-dimensional space travel to play.

    I'm expecting the 0DS - now in black and white!

  16. Re:No way on Death of the Car Salesman? BMW Makes AI App To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 4, Funny
    I hope it's like this:

    "Hi, I'm Malfunctioning Eddie, and I'm malfunctioning so badly, I'm practically giving these cars away!!! "

  17. Re:Two peas in a pod on Gore's Staff Says He Was Misquoted On Hexametric Hurricanes · · Score: 0

    Size has nothing to do with hurricane category. It's based on wind speed.

  18. Re:Huh? What? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somehow it claims it's "a sort of Ctrl-Z for the entire Internet".

    So it suspends the internet. Wouldn't the rest of the world find that annoying?

  19. Re:His original complaint - in English on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an accurate review. I don't know about Frenchie-land, but here truth is a solid defense against libel.

    I wonder if it's because he specifically mentioned another competitor.

  20. Re:Rule of thumb on Fukushima Actually "Much Worse" Than So Far Disclosed, Say Experts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's called spin. Apply spin to either under- or over-estimate to make the government/corp to look better.

  21. Re:Dentist is deluded on Dentist Wants To Clone John Lennon Using DNA Extracted From Lennon's Tooth · · Score: 1

    After re-reading the original DNA half-life article - you're right. I mistook it to mean that half the DNA would be damaged/gone after 571 years. I guess I'm thinking too much like a physicist and radioactive halflife, where it's more of a binary situation! However, not being a biologist or cloning specalist, I would assume that more than a single strand of DNA is used for cloning so it may be possible for DNA of some age, say 20-30 years. Of course it would depend heavily on enviromental factors. Then again, maybe I'm completely wrong.

  22. Re:Sounds like they thoroughly broke him on Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman · · Score: 2

    Sounds like they thoroughly broke him. First apologizing and then this. Doesn't look like he is going for insanity (trial is over), seems like he got insane for his time in solitary. Not saying that because he self identifies as a woman (something that happens to some people naturally) but because of the timing of the whole matter.

    This was from before. His defense (I assume) even released photos of him in a wig and lipstick.

  23. Re:Dentist is deluded on Dentist Wants To Clone John Lennon Using DNA Extracted From Lennon's Tooth · · Score: 1

    To obtain a complete sequence suitable for cloning you would need a DNA sample that was obtained from living tissue and either processed immediately or suitably frozen in the interim. DNA starts to degrade pretty quickly.

    Not true. DNA has been estimated to have a approximate half life of 521 years. John hasn't been dead very long.

  24. Re:Well what do you know.... on Urban Terror Code Stolen · · Score: 5, Funny

    even weirder is that B1naryTh1ef would be stealing the source code.

    Yeah, that's clearly a job for S0urceTh1ef!

  25. Re:Life without coffee? on Excess Coffee May Be Linked To Early Death · · Score: 1

    Why would you even want that?

    Well good news: Cofee May Reduce Risk of Suicide