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  1. Re:That list is clearly missing one on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why you had the sister doing the fellating. As your point would have been just as well explained if you used the word 'girlfriend' or 'wife', I can only assume that 'sister' was the first thing that came to your head or was what seemed most natural to you. Sicko.

  2. Re:Definition of Abilene on Internet2 Gets a New Backbone · · Score: 1
    Actually http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ABILENE+& db=* only lists proper nouns as definitions. Do you have a source for your definition?

    Yes I do, please refer to the link below the definition in my original post. In fact, the definition is in a <blockquote> element, with the "cite" attribute pointing to the definition... unfortunately browsers rarely render this in a useful way, which is why I repeated it below.

  3. Definition of Abilene on Internet2 Gets a New Backbone · · Score: 2, Informative

    In case anyone was wondering...

    ABILENE (adj.)
    Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow.
    The Meaning of Liff .
  4. Re:Why do I get the feeling... on Newspaper Lobbyists Take Aim at Google News · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just thought I'd add that what that means is that they are explicitly allowing Mediapartners-Google* access to all files, not disallowing. If they wanted to disallow google, they would need the line Disallow: /

  5. Re:Political spin... on Quantum Trickery - Einstein's Strangest Theory · · Score: 1

    jesus. it was a joke!

  6. Re:wrong... on Quantum Trickery - Einstein's Strangest Theory · · Score: 1

    use mirrors under the coffee table then.

  7. Easily done on Quantum Trickery - Einstein's Strangest Theory · · Score: 0, Redundant

    spin a top on a glass coffee table. It will be spinning clockwise and anti-clockwise at the same time, depending on the position of the observer (below or above). WOW!

  8. Re:Definitions? on Robot Demonstrates Self-awareness · · Score: 3, Funny
    Kasulis taught my class about Hindu philosophy of the self or soul and the supersoul ( Atman and Brahman ). I thought some of it might be a useful high-level definition of self-awareness in AI. It goes something like this:

    Q. Are you aware? A. Yes. Q. Are you aware that you are aware? A. Yes. Q. Are you aware that you are aware that you are aware? A. Yes. Q. Are you aware that you are aware that you are aware...?

    I can get to 23 levels of awareness, but at that point, I'm not actually aware that I'm aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware that I am aware.

    My new years resolution is to reach 30 by then end of 2006, but the difficulty in becoming aware increases exponentially with each level of awareness.

    Note that I'm aware that I'm not aware that I'm aware^23, and if I follow down that path, I'm actually aware^14 that I'm not aware that I'm aware^23.

  9. Re:My card was fraudulently used in Korea on Korean Banks Forced to Compensate Hacking Victims · · Score: 1

    Doesn't bother me if the bank is gonna foot the bill. As for wherever you go there is fraud, I didn't even leave Melbourne :D

  10. Re:Blog runs Drupal on Tim Berners-Lee Enters Blogosphere · · Score: 1

    That isn't interesting at all.

    Interestingly, I was about to post the exact same thing.

  11. My card was fraudulently used in Korea on Korean Banks Forced to Compensate Hacking Victims · · Score: 1

    The bank phoned me last Saturday to see if I had been using my credit card in Korea. Apparently four transactions had been made. They cancelled the card and assured me that I would not have to pay for any transactions that weren't mine. I haven't seen the statement yet though to see how much was spent.

  12. Re:and e-mail pictures. on Wifi Camera Uploads without Computer · · Score: 2, Funny

    I had some trouble adapetting to your attrocious spelling, but then I learned to love the bomb.

    Whereas spelling 'adapt' as 'adapet' is obviously a typo, turning 'adapet' into 'adapetting' rather than 'adapeting' and spelling 'atrocious' as 'attrocious' is obviously plain old stupidity, especially in a post complaining about spelling!

  13. Re:well.. on What's On Your Tech Bench? · · Score: 1

    I've learnt from experience to take the pot off the stove early enough to avoid damaging the seals, but I didn't realise that it was actually water rather than steam that's going through the coffee. That's made me like my stovetop machines a little bit more. They have been gathering dust recently as I prefer to use the plunger.

  14. How come they never registered gmail.com? on New Legal Threat To GMail · · Score: 1

    nor g-mail.com, which is also owned by google. they must be kicking themselves! :D

  15. Re:well.. on What's On Your Tech Bench? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I prefer to attribute the origin of the name espresso to the "quick" way it is prepared in opposition to the usual italian way of preparing the coffee (at home) by using a special coffe maker tool called "moka" that produces coffe lighter than the espresso.

    Gah! No, no, no! A moka (such as the classic octagonal aluminium pot that you are talking about) is an espresso machine. It's a cheap stovetop version designed to emulate the cafe espresso machines. The point of espresso and the reason an espresso is called an espresso is that the water (or steam) is forced through the coffee grains at high pressure, which is exactly what a stovetop espresso machine does. The heating of the water in the lower half of the moka builds up the pressure, until the steam is forced through the coffee, up through a tube and into the top half. You are right that it doesn't match a cafe espresso, you don't really get a crema with a moka. Another disadvantage is that because the water is boiling when it passes through the coffee, the coffee gets a bitter burnt taste when compared with a cafe machine, which runs at about 90 degrees C. All the same, it's still an espresso.

  16. Re:well.. on What's On Your Tech Bench? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You're right, spelling wise, but chose a bad way to make your point - espresso is Italian for "very quickly" :-)

    A common misconception, but actually espresso is the past participle of esprimere, meaning to express or to press out, and relates to the process of making an espresso coffee.

  17. Re:Too early to call the fight on The End of the Bar Code · · Score: 1

    RFID can be used to track consumers inside a store.

    Better product placement, better loss prevention, better tracking of purchases.

    ...and the problem is???

  18. Insurance in case the watch fails? on Watch Like Device for At-Risk Patients · · Score: 1
    If it fails and you have a heart attack that could have been avoided if it didn't fail, you'd want more than your money back for the watch. Perhaps they by default they give you say, $2000 in this situation, but if you pay for an extra insurance package, they pay more?

    Disclaimer: I haven't RTFA

  19. Re:Yet Another Misleading Slashdot Summary on Crocodile's Immune System Kills HIV · · Score: 1

    True, but since this agent doesn't kill or harm crocodiles there's a decent chance it'll be safe for humans.

    It's ironic to make this assumption when the topic at hand is AIDS, which apparently doesn't kill or harm crocodiles, but is far from safe for humans.

  20. You hum it, we'll sell it on Google to Include iTunes? · · Score: 1

    I imagine having access to Apple's well catalogued and metatagged library of mp3s could lead to some very cool search technology from google. "Hum a tune, we'll tell you what it is, and then sell it to you", for example. Also, some of those geeks at google must be wanting to put all of that music into a computer, analyse it, and then churn out their own top 40 songs in seconds hehe (they should be easy). Or "how about a bit of jazz/reggae/bluegrass fusion tonight?" - just put in the keywords and out pops a (possibly terrible) tune. :)

  21. Re:oooops on Microsoft Testing Rival to Google's Start Page · · Score: 1

    I noticed this too - I browse at 3+ and it looks like I am getting about 1% of comments, which seems way too low. Nice though hehe - perhaps I'll move to +4 or +5 in future. Ironically, I just realised you won't see this post.

  22. Re:XBoxes? on Eat Right, Earn an iPod · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wait 'till they unvail the Fucking For Virginity campaign next week.

    Well they've been "fighting for peace" for a while now

  23. Re:no more TLDs, please on Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late · · Score: 1
    It is the classic chicken and egg problem. Until the general population knows how to use TLD's properly, companies will not start using them properly. But companies will not start using them properly until the general population knows how.

    Isn't this more analogous to the classic chicken and chicken problem? A chicken and egg analogy might be that "Until the general population knows how to use TLDs properly, companies will not start using them properly. But until companies start using TLDs properly, the general population won't know how to use them properly.".

  24. Re:This is no big deal on Google Punishes Self for Cloaking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to his site, even Greg Duffy isn't 100% convinced that google did this. How can you be so sure?

    What happened to 'innocent until proven guilty'? Oh yeah, Guantanamo...

  25. Re:The zero tolerance policy is wrong on Google Battles Fraudulent Clicks · · Score: 1

    I was black and had a website that talked about being black

    As a matter of interest, what are you now?