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  1. Re:yes, but here it's funnier on When Agile Projects Go Bad · · Score: 1

    I assume he meant to write the word esoteric (no 'h').

  2. Re:Regexp-based address validation on (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? · · Score: 1

    I find the ones on this page more useful: http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html

  3. Re:Old News on Flash Cookies, a Little-Known Privacy Threat · · Score: 1

    Making a folder Read Only in Windows just prevents you from deleting it (without confirmation). You'll have to restrict the folder access rights so that not even System can write to that folder.

  4. Re:a bunch of questions on C# In-Depth · · Score: 1

    How about this one or this one?

  5. Re:Ressurrecting a 45-million-year-old life form on Ancient Yeast Used To Brew Modern Beer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah, what could possibly go wrong? I for one, want my pet raptor...

  6. Re:Since looking farther = further in time on "Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe · · Score: 1

    Finally we learn the actual reason for the star wars...

  7. Re:ermmm... on "Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe · · Score: 5, Informative

    At cosmological scales, metric expansion of space becomes very important. Light that left 13.7 billion years ago will actually travel 47 billion lightyears because of metric expansion. Since metric expansion implies space-time is curved (at cosmological scales, locally it is flat, like the earth is flat locally), general relativity comes into play. This means the normal causality described by special relativity is no longer applicable.

    Imagine points A-B-C to be gravitationally bound. Because of metric expansion, space between A-B and B-C expands. This can cause A to move away from C at larger than lightspeed. Since space between B-C only expanded half of A--C, B will be withing light distance from C and thus visible by observers on C. Light from A can reach B, but it will never reach C. By the time it would, space between B and C will have expanded so much that observers from C will no longer see B.

  8. Re:Since looking farther = further in time on "Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe · · Score: 1

    the farthest it could ever get is 13.7 billion light-years in distance

    Actually, because of metric expansion of space, this distance is considerably larger: 46 billion lightyears.

  9. Re:WTF? on Verizon Denies DSL Because of Subscriber's Name · · Score: 1

    And it was only a substring of his name. I wonder what would happen with names like Dick Tracy or George Walker Bush...

  10. Re:Already? on White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars · · Score: 1

    It's not that. The president gave NASA permission to drill and mine on Mars, but only if he was contacted at the first sign of oil. Invasion fleet launching in 5 4 3 2 1...

  11. Re:Mars missions on Moon Rocks Still In Demand After Almost 40 Years · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have touched Mars. Repeatedly.

    That's nothing! I have eaten Mars. Repeatedly.

  12. Re:Been there done that on Scientists Pave Way For 25nm CPUs · · Score: 1

    Who wants this grid, and why the heck would you use a laser

    See, the grid is to keep the sharks in, and the laser has to be mounted on the shark's head...

  13. Re:Do women write better code? on Do Women Write Better Code? · · Score: 1
  14. Re:If you want to help: on Wine 1.0-rc2 Released · · Score: 1

    The test ddraw_test.exe dsurface crashes (BSOD) my laptop (Compaq 6710b running XP SP2). On my desktop the test suite also causes BSODs, but not always, and I'm not sure in the same test.

  15. Re:Absolutely Beautiful on Teen Discovers Plastic-Decomposing Bacteria · · Score: 1

    He thought a of a simple problem that hadn't been solved
    I'm not convinced he has solved it either. Reusing the plastic bags as a base material would be much better than having bacteria decompose it. Granted, decomposing is still far better than burrying in a landfill.
  16. Re:Elium-4? on Successful Cold Fusion Experiment? · · Score: 1

    All the "H" are indeed gone!
    Obviously they were fusing Ydrogen.
  17. Re:Am I the only person? on How Water Forms in Interstellar Space at 10K · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, Kelvin. The standard unit of desktop temperature, as defined by KDE.

  18. Re:The 9000 Series has a perfect operational recor on Self-Healing Computers For NASA Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Whoever marked this Troll didn't see the movie.

  19. Re:No sense of smell on Flowers' Smell Not Traveling As Far · · Score: 1

    Yes, you're correct. I meant the household variety where they add sulfur based odorants (mostly mercaptams). For what it's worth, some natural gas contains H2S and therefore does have an odor (rotten eggs), but this is normally removed since H2S is highly toxic.

  20. Re:Horse shit. on Flowers' Smell Not Traveling As Far · · Score: 4, Funny

    Last I heard, the news reports were stating that bees weren't vanishing after all. Then they were. Then they weren't again. I heard rumors they plan to leave again right after putting a vase in every house, engraved with 'So long and thanks for all the sugar'.
  21. Re:Horse shit. on Flowers' Smell Not Traveling As Far · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problem seems to be not drowning the scent in other scents, but the destruction of scent molecules by pollutants. Insects have a very low scent threshold and can detect a scent trail of just a few specific molecules, so drowning wouldn't be a problem.

  22. Re:No sense of smell on Flowers' Smell Not Traveling As Far · · Score: 2, Informative

    If it's any consolation: neither do my sister and my father (though my sister can still smell extremely strong aromas). Especially troublesome is the lack to smell natural gas or smoke.

  23. Re:GODDAMIT on Nanoclusters Break Superconductivity Record · · Score: 1

    you'd be talking about "das aluminium" right now. Even worse: das Aluminium.
  24. Re:GODDAMIT on Nanoclusters Break Superconductivity Record · · Score: 1

    And IUAPC swings both ways. That's IUPAC. I'll assume it's a typo ;)
  25. Re:If its so likely, they why hasn't it happened? on Alternate Baseball Universes · · Score: 1

    Interesting, it seems not only does God play dice, He also likes playing baseball.