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  1. Wow. on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 1

    They're really starting the prisoner incarceration training young over there.

  2. Re:Damn straight! on 13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    The 80% is a reference to a comment made by an AC further down, by the way.

  3. Re:Damn straight! on 13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Initially I voted you up, but I think I'm going to comment instead. I'm guessing the reason for the difference in number of cells is principally so that 10 have the focus of the sun at any one time (thus the reason for the pattern and different angles) this is precisely what limits current typical layouts like his control set. Notice he didn't get "80%" more power out of it, it can't be a linear increase because the sun moves but his panels don't.

  4. Re:0 for 275? on Righthaven Loses Again · · Score: 1

    Correction, prosecution should pay the defence's legal fees if prosecution loses, no change otherwise. Your interpretation is bat-shit crazy.

  5. Re:its a scam on Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation" · · Score: 1

    You and GP don't know much about math, do you? This (the Small World problem) is a combinatorial problem and as such a massive computational undertaking, especially for 750,000,000 accounts.

  6. Re:Old hardware on Doom 3 Source Code To Be Released This Year · · Score: 1

    Ha. I'm still running with my GeForce 7950 GT. ...I plan on upgrading soon though.

  7. Re:You heard it from a Google engineer! on Email In Oracle-Google Case Will Remain Public · · Score: 1

    Could be right, I suppose.

  8. You heard it from a Google engineer! on Email In Oracle-Google Case Will Remain Public · · Score: 1

    We've been over a hundred of these and think they all suck.

    Even Google's version of the Go Programming Language?

  9. Re:So? on Computer Marries Texas Couple · · Score: 1

    Well dang! You mean they don't get their work done through prayer now? Progress! Whodathunkit?

  10. Uhh.... on Circuit Flaws Blamed For China Train Crash · · Score: 1

    Why was such seriously flawed equipment in use for nearly two years without being detected?

    They don't seem to be aware of the whole "made in China" stigma... They should have outsourced if they wanted quality.

  11. OMG! I as a man will not love this AT ALL!!!!! on Linguists Out Men Impersonating Women On Twitter · · Score: 1

    OMG! Awsoooooomeee! Ha-ha, TV. How cute.

    Stop showing me ads for tampons, damnit. I'M A MAAAANNNNN!!!!!!

  12. Re:Battles on Scientists Study Impact of Wearing Medieval Armor · · Score: 1

    Hahahaha....funny...no, not really. Now say they (the French) decided to take back their Statue of Liberty because it was a gift from them to the US. Now what do you say? Fuck off with your jokes about the French.

  13. Re:Lame on Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 · · Score: 1

    Still, a lot scrap metal and other critical things used to keep the place intact are going to get wasted. The ISS was made up of A LOT of materials to build it. They're basically throwing away billions of dollars worth of stuff.

  14. Lame on Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 · · Score: 1

    Wtf? Why not just have t crash-land in a desert or something? At least the parts could then be recovered.

  15. Re:DJ Hero was quite good on Activision Trying To 'Reinvent' Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    Actually I can't comment on DJ Hero because I've never played it. I can comment on Guitar Hero however and I know there have been plenty of communities and even live shows and contests built around it because of the entertainment factor of the way the player performs, not just his on-screen score.. It Is a community game in that sense. I also agree with his statement regarding Kotick. This is why I believe he deserves to be modded up.

  16. It could also be the CDC on Malware Is a Disease; Let's Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    Cyber Defence Council!

  17. Re:Thanks a lot, douchebags. on Oracle Acquires K-splice For an Undisclosed Amount · · Score: 1

    Your post brought up mental imagery of a Splice Girls concert in the world of Bioshock. Creepy as fuck.

  18. Re:DJ Hero was quite good on Activision Trying To 'Reinvent' Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    Damnit, every time I want to mod someone up I don't have mod points.

  19. Re:Strange on Google Plugs Hole That Lets You Remove Any Website · · Score: 0

    I understand that. :) The way AC phrased it gives me the impression that they're referring to general availability of the site to the open Internet, not indexability.

  20. Re:Strange on Google Plugs Hole That Lets You Remove Any Website · · Score: 1

    .... This hole in Google's code doesn't affect the general availability of your site. It affects whether or not the site is contained in Google's index.

  21. Re:Is this what it has come down to? on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    To be honest I'd never even heard of or read the books before. I don't think you need to have in order to understand the idea behind the four boxes, it speaks for itself quite clearly independent of any originating books.

  22. Re:What are these words? on NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again · · Score: 1

    The police are wrongdoing it.

  23. Re:Should have been a default in browsers from day on NoScript Awarded $10,000 · · Score: 1

    I think, personally, that the fact that we even need NoScript is shameful.

  24. Re:Is this what it has come down to? on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    Exactly, AC GP post is pointing out what I've been saying for a long time. Despite what many people say, many issues in the world reached the "ammo" part of the "soap, ballot, jury, ammo box" sequence a long time ago. This is the form it has taken. I say it's about damned time.

  25. Re:Interesting.... on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 1

    I love your idea of the compassionate pediatricians et al. If the TSA agents did this with children it would likely help immensely.