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  1. Re:BURN THE WITCH!! on Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009 · · Score: 1

    And they was using vi vi vi, they was!

  2. Re:Amazingly fantastic batteries! on The Electric Airplane Is Coming · · Score: 1

    My Volt only goes 35 miles

    Sucker! Just wait until you have to replace those batteries because it only holds a charge for a measly mile.

  3. Re:8000 miles = Close shave on Asteroid To Pass Near Earth On Monday · · Score: 1

    No, that's completely wrong! The article says "there's no chance that the asteroid will hit Earth on this approach," so how can you come up with an 18% probability. Here is where you went wrong: the center of the path of the asteroid is expected to be ~8,000 miles above the surface of Earth at a specific point on the surface, not that the center of the path is expected to have an equal chance of lying on the surface of Earth's 2D projection.

  4. Re:8000 miles = Close shave on Asteroid To Pass Near Earth On Monday · · Score: 0

    No, I'm pretty sure that is incorrect. The asteroid is "expected to pass less than 8,000 miles above Earth's surface" which means that 8,000 feet above Earth's surface is either the center of the of the asteroid's projected path or the outer edge of the asteroids path. In either case the asteroid will pass through an area of space bounded by a circle with a radius of 8,000 miles or 4,000. So, there are either 201,061,930 paths with a radius of a mile that the asteroid can take in which it will miss us or by the conservative estimate 50,265,482 such paths. If you take into account the maximum radius of the asteroid is 55 feet then there are well over 4.8x10^9 paths in which we are missed by the asteroid using the conservative estimate.

    As noted in the article, "if the asteroid did strike, it would probably explode in the upper atmosphere." And if it didn't there are 139,433,845 square miles of ocean it would likely hit.

  5. Re:How about an LVDS standard for connectors on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    I totally agree I have a bunch of laptop displays attached to broken laptops. It would be nice to make use of the displays. It seems the only option is to eBay the displays to someone with the same model laptop. If there was a standard connector I'd have some sweet digital picture frames or some sweet single purpose displays attached to my computer.

  6. Re:Absolutely not on Might iCloud Be a Musical Honeypot? · · Score: 1

    Nor was it specifically an Apple. All translations I've read refer to a forbidden "fruit." As usual interpretation is whatever you find useful at the time.

  7. Re:Nuclear Hologram. on Japan Doubles Fukushima Radiation Leak Estimate · · Score: 2

    100,000+ people in Japan are permanently homeless.

    Really?

  8. Re:Nuke power on Japan Widens Evacuation Zone Around Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Reading this thread has been a pleasure. Your belligerent technophobic replies to all these rational verifiable arguments against your asinine fear of nukes is laughable. It's like watching a drooling retard punch himself in the dick because a uncircumcised homosexual South African man might get AIDS when he ass rapes a dormitory of AIDS infected male prostitutes without protection.

    And trust me that analogy is bang on (pun intended). Because, like Chernobyl, there is no containment, there is a predisposition for disaster, and the at-risk party is engaging in exceedingly dangerous behavior. Which, by your logic, proves safe sex is imaginary.

  9. Re:please, enough horseshit on Japanese Government Will Censor Fukushima "Illegal Information" · · Score: 1

    Great, let's all start quoting a magazine that has been criticized for its "level of scientific illiteracy" and that had the audacity to print "Darwin was wrong" on its cover. By the way, I looked over the reports from MEXT and never found mention of "kilobecquerels," in fact all the measurements I found were in microsievert. From what I could gather most were only a few times greater than background radiation. So please kindly explain this to me or link to a comprehensible article that references reports from MEXT that I can actually verify.

  10. Re:Drop in the bucket on Google Invests In World's Largest Solar Power Tower Plant · · Score: 1

    If you think those numbers are significant, by all means produce them.

  11. Re:Drop in the bucket on Google Invests In World's Largest Solar Power Tower Plant · · Score: 2

    In Arizona the 3,875 MW Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station cost $5.9 billion. I think your numbers are off!

  12. Re:Letter of Immunity on TJX Hacker Claims US Authorized His Crimes · · Score: 1

    Yes, but Jack Bauer was too busy making his TV show and couldn't hand deliver the letter. Ask again in 24 hours.

  13. Time for another IAU meeting on Two Planets Found Sharing One Orbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quick, we need to redefine the meaning of "planet" yet again.

  14. Re:False equivalence on Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? · · Score: 1

    Insensitive cod! *drum sound punctuating lame joke*

  15. only in kindergartenland on Police Seize Computers From Gizmodo Editor · · Score: 1

    is finders, keepers...but that doesn't fly in the real world.

  16. Re:Not Ajax on Proof of Concept For Ajax Without JavaScript · · Score: 1

    No, that is the model identifier and doesn't have much to do with the generation of a product. I never said it was formal designation either. It's only confusing if you make it confusing.

  17. Re:Not Ajax on Proof of Concept For Ajax Without JavaScript · · Score: 1

    iPhone = 1G, iPhone 3G = 2G, iPhone 3GS = 3G, next iPhone = 4G, for values of G equal to Generation. Hint #G doesn't have to refer to the network. Apple products have traditionally been referred to by the generation scheme as in: "I have a 5th generation iPod," or " I have a 3rd generation MacBook."

  18. Re:Name change please... on WePad Tablet Will Use Linux To Rival the iPad · · Score: 1

    Nah. It's called the DSi XL. I think that means dual screen with an 'i' as in an eye (a camera) and it is now extra large. Maybe they could change it to iDSXL or WiiDSXL or WiiLSX (Will Suck haha). Personally I already own two Lites, does that make it a QS Lite?

  19. Re:3...2...1... Wake up! on iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked · · Score: 1

    Haha, if you only knew...

  20. Re:3...2...1... Wake up! on iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked · · Score: 1

    Me: *double tap home*
    Me: *touch girlfriend's name*
    Girly: *slides to answer*
    Girly: Hi honey.
    Me: Hey babe, ever have a problem making a call with you're iPhone?
    Girly: No never, why do you ask?
    Me: Some guy on /. says he tried to make a call and "ooops".
    Girly: What? Is he retarded? Both our Moms and your little sister -- a cheerleader I might add -- have never had a problem with their iPhones.
    Me: I know right. They've asked us for help with every other device they've owned, but not once with the iPhone.
    Girly: So true. How is the CS project going?
    Me: So, so. I keep reading /. ...
    Girly: I don't know why you waste your time with that site.
    Me: Me either. How is grading going?
    Girly: Well you know these intro to CS kids...
    Me: ha, bet they could make phone calls on their iPhones?
    Girly: Your cat can make a call on an iPhone.
    Me: Alright I'd better get back to work. Bye babe.
    Girly: Bye.
    Me: *end call*

    Yeah real fucking oops! I don't know where this nonsense comes from about the iPhone not being a usable phone. Newsflash: it's a great phone and so much more.

    Sure, maybe it has some comedic value:
    Comedian: Did you see the new iPhone from Apple?
    Person: No.
    Comedian: Well it does everything except make phone calls. Harhar.
    Person: What?

    Then everyone who as ever touched an iPhone just stares at the you (the comedian) wondering how you managed to get your shoes on the right feet.

  21. Re:Her teachers were aware of it and did nothing.. on 9 MA Cyberbullies Indicted For Causing Suicide · · Score: 1

    So you are saying we should punish bullies because their "victims" may be mass murders? Usually I'd end this with some condescending yet humorous insult, but you just might go on a killing spree and I don't want the law to come down on me...oh wait...

  22. Re:Not a metric that makes me want to buy stocks. on Microsoft Giving Rival Browsers a Lift · · Score: 1

    If Windows came with wget or curl I'd probably never have started IE even to download another browser. Just sayin'.

  23. Re:Multi-touch on Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  24. Re:Multi-touch on Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones · · Score: 1

    Because they did not invent pinch to zoom, it had been used before. [citation needed]

  25. That's already taken too! on Google Go Capturing Developer Interest · · Score: 1

    Goo