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  1. Re:Riiiiiight... on Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth Wins Austria's Big Brother Award · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with a linux desktop that "just works"?
    I'm not homophobic but it seems you don't like anything that doesn't get you all sweaty and greased in the process. Am I wrong?

  2. Re:Damnedable units on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 1

    Ok, then we've settled this unit war for good!
    Imperial for making fun of people and metric for work.

  3. Re:But can you trust xavier2dc? on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 1

    Of course. I'm alive and you're all dead.

  4. The first event... Remember the Big Bang? When space and TIME began?
    As for observers in the center of the sun... Superposition maybe? I don't think QM says observers are needed. It just says what happens if they happen to ... observe.

  5. Stuff we know and stuff we assume on 1.8 Million-Year-Old Skull Suggests Three Early Human Species Were One · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I really have question and then it's not ironic or rethoric.
    How do scientists know, when it comes to any prehistoric animal or human skeleton, when an individual becomes to a new species, to some sort of missing link or just-split subspecies, and not just a slightly different individual belonging to a known species?
    I mean how do they know when a lightly larger bump on a skull is not normal variation and it's for sure a new species where all individuals will have that bump?
    What puzzles me is that we find like 0.00000000001 of all living individuals from that time and species and yet we know it's relevant.

  6. Re:Will this stupidity ever end? on D-Link Router Backdoor Vulnerability Allows Full Access To Settings · · Score: 1

    Then it all makes sense! Leave it there or we will be doomed!
    Kirk traveled into the past at some point and planted this, it will most likely save the ship and its crew. They need our help!

  7. Re:Will this stupidity ever end? on D-Link Router Backdoor Vulnerability Allows Full Access To Settings · · Score: 1

    So what's wrong with prosecuting whoever is found to be guilty? A manager that ordered this, one or more developers who introduced this, etc. It's possible you cannot properly identify the individual(s) but that doesn't mean that the law shouldn't be applied and that the usual measures cannot be taken.

  8. Swoosh!
    See? No trailing space. I learned MY lesson. You should google humor in general, irony in particular.

  9. Re: Why do people still do this anymore? on Security Researchers Rewarded With $12.50 Voucher To Buy Yahoo T-Shirt · · Score: 1

    How does that fix the problem? That's what solution means.

  10. You don't know what 12.5 is ?!?
    And you call yourselves geeks... Ahahahaha!

  11. Re: Why do people still do this anymore? on Security Researchers Rewarded With $12.50 Voucher To Buy Yahoo T-Shirt · · Score: 1

    And the solution is?
    No, really, aside words an speaches made as if you're wearing a V mask.

  12. Yes, and tomorrow Snowden will reveal that we DO have cameras as eyes. I wonder what will schizophrenics have on us then! Maybe Philip K Dick was right all this time.

  13. Re:Why are cells spheres on Why Are Cells the Size They Are? Gravity May Be a Factor · · Score: 1

    Of course that's WHY it is, but HOW can you do that if you're not "floating"?
    Wouldn't you end up with just a pancake otherwise, since in 2d it's the circle that does the equivalent of what you said?

  14. I for one on Romanian Science Journal Punked By Serbian Academics · · Score: 1, Interesting

    As a Romanian I'd like this to become "a thing".
    Everyone disgusted by their country's research output should scam a Romanian journal. Or, even better, it doesn't even have to be related to science, it can be about everything. And it doesn't have to be a journal, you can all come here and shout it in the public square.
    We can become a stage for anyone who wants to express disgust about everything.

  15. Re:I'm shocked on Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty To Leaking Secrets to the Associated Press · · Score: 1

    And the prototype is kept in Kremlin.

  16. Re:Think of the children! on Why Are Cells the Size They Are? Gravity May Be a Factor · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't the cell growth and divison mechanism need at least a few generation untill they "realize" there's no more gravity and they can grow larger?

  17. Re: Why are cells spheres on Why Are Cells the Size They Are? Gravity May Be a Factor · · Score: 1

    ...evolved in microgravity...

  18. Why are cells spheres on Why Are Cells the Size They Are? Gravity May Be a Factor · · Score: 1

    I've just realized (though I'm sure someone smarter than me might have done this before) that the fact that cells are more or less spherical means that they evolved microgravity or while buoyant in a liquid. So it's either the aliens in an ancient station in orbit or earth's oceans.

  19. Re: Why is settling a problem? on Why Are Cells the Size They Are? Gravity May Be a Factor · · Score: 1

    It probably affects cell division.

  20. Re:42 on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    The problem is that you're over-simplifying the human brain and it's processes.
    We are VERY (imagine I wrote these with letters the size of the Hollywood sign in LA) far from understanding how consciousness is really "formed" in the brain and how the brain does what it does. And no, I don't believe in souls.
    Secondly, the little progress we've made seems to indicate that the current computational paradigm is not very well suited for modeling the brain as a whole.
    The carefree manner in which you laid out the plan for out-dating our current wetware could be the way you come off as a singularity nut ;)

  21. Re:Why? on Sailfish OS Gains Two-Way Android Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Then why are we talking about the Jolla?

  22. Re:The best Value Phone on Sailfish OS Gains Two-Way Android Compatibility · · Score: 1

    You kinda answered your own question.
    Mainly because Android is already there.
    If windows phone and blackberry missed the train on this one and Ubuntu and Firefox OS also taking a shot at this, what are the chances for yet another mobile OS?

  23. Re:They announced this in a PDF? on Sailfish OS Gains Two-Way Android Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Yes, but how hard can it be to also have a text version on a press releases web page?

  24. Re:Why? on Sailfish OS Gains Two-Way Android Compatibility · · Score: 1

    And are you sure Jolla strives to ocuppy the $50 dollars phone market?
    If you had $500 to buy a phone, what would you choose?

  25. They announced this in a PDF? on Sailfish OS Gains Two-Way Android Compatibility · · Score: 2

    If only HTML would support the text tag...