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  1. Re:It's about time on Proposed ADA Requirements May Affect Public Internet Use · · Score: 1

    Additionally, as I pointed out earlier, Woolworth's desegregated their lunch counter long before they were required to, because it was good for business.

  2. Re:you know.. im all for.... on Proposed ADA Requirements May Affect Public Internet Use · · Score: 1

    Yes, because the free market ended "separate but equal." Oh, it didn't?

    Point of fact: Woolworth's desegregated its lunch counter long before it was required by law to.

  3. Re:Old mine? on The Story of My As-Yet-Unverified Impact Crater · · Score: 1

    I agree, I'd bet money it's an old carbonate quarry.

  4. Re:Bugs, Mr. Rico. Zillions of em! on Iron Man Is Another Step Closer To a Reality · · Score: 1

    +1 Exactly

  5. Re:Glacial lake for cooling? on Nuclear Bunker Houses World's Toughest Server Farm · · Score: 1

    Really, it takes years for thermal energy to travel through stone?

    The thermal conductivity of stone is actually greater than that of water, about 1.7 W/(mK). (That's why it feels cold to the touch, unlike, say, wood.) If what you are saying were true, then geothermal heat pumps for building HVAC wouldn't be possible at all. But, they seemingly are.

  6. Re:Glacial lake for cooling? on Nuclear Bunker Houses World's Toughest Server Farm · · Score: 1

    What do you mean? Whatever the temperature of the surrounding earth, it should be able to sink a nearly unlimited amount of heat. Are you sure you're not confusing "underground" with "outer space?"

  7. Re:Western Electric Hearing Aid ca. 1925 on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 5, Funny

    4) She's talking to a hologram of a man from her own time that only she can see and hear, as she puts right what once went wrong.

  8. Re:Not really an issue... on US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months' · · Score: 1

    The lost code was:

    1 2 3 4 5

  9. Re:Time to take the men out of the loop ... on US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months' · · Score: 1

    I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it would do any good!

  10. Re:Bing 411 on Google To Shut Down 411 Service · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just confirmed Microsoft's original 1-800-CALL411 number works as well. If you used the Google service, this is a decent alternative.

  11. Reminds me of the BBC exclusive: on This Is a News Website Article About a Scientific Paper · · Score: 1
  12. Think, McFly, think! on Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites · · Score: 4, Informative

    If burning your own copy of a book is "religious violence," to the point of being terrorism, then we have no free speech rights whatsoever, do we?

  13. Re:Shocking! on Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad' · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is the consensus.

  14. Re:Alien Versus Predator on Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Adobe Flash 10.1 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Heh. He he he. Ha ha haaa! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaa! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAHAA! HAAAAA&T%$J94b=sf

      +++NO CARRIER

  15. Re:And they will call this device... on Defeating Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    Maybe if we reversed the polarity and introduced random fluctuations to the phase frequency...

  16. If anyone needs Steve Jobs on Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal · · Score: 5, Funny

    He'll be in his angry dome!

  17. Disappointingly on An Unprecedented Look At Apple's "Black Labs" · · Score: 1

    They did not show Sector C Test Labs & Control Facilities.

  18. Re:ARM is going to end up in servers on Microsoft Signs License With ARM · · Score: 1

    Good point. If only Microsoft had spent the last decade investing major resources on a platform for developing architecture-independent bytecode.

  19. Re:Matrix Jokes ... on DARPA To Turn Humans Into Batteries · · Score: 1

    I had similar thoughts. And the twist would be the discovery that everyone had originally joined the matrix voluntarily, like in Vault 112.

  20. Re:Matrix Jokes ... on DARPA To Turn Humans Into Batteries · · Score: 1

    It's body energy *combine with a form of fusion*, remember?

    Which sort of seems like saying that foot power, combined with a form of combustion, is what powers my car.

  21. Re:Is a trap! on Recomputing the Sky · · Score: 1

    This is why I love Wolfram Alpha:

    Assuming a 1200 DPI printer:

    Search: 1 trillion pixels / 1200 pixels per square inch

    Input interpretation:
    (1000000000000 pixels)/(1200 pixels/in^2 (pixels per inch squared))

    Result:
    8.333x10^8 in^2 (square inches)

    Unit conversions:
    537633 m^2 (square meters)

    Comparisons as area:
    ~~ 0.87 x total floor area of the Pentagon (~~ 620000 m^2 )

  22. Re:I went from 3G to an Android phone on Consumer Reports Can't Recommend iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    "I do miss the ease of direct downloading podcasts"

    What do you mean by this? Have you downloaded Google Listen? http://listen.googlelabs.com/

  23. Solution on Sidestepping A-to-D Convertors For Town Government's Cable TV? · · Score: 1

    You tell Comcast you want the boxes at no charge, or you'll be in touch with the city attorney. Electrical consumption is negligible next to the television that is displaying the signal.

  24. Re:Just hilarious on Leaked MS Presentation Shows App Store Plans For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Assuming that one isn't restricted from installing apps outside of the app store, Microsoft is the new Ubuntu?

  25. Re:So what on What iOS 4 Does (and Doesn't Do) For Business · · Score: 1

    Jailbreaking is also a federal crime.