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  1. You make it sound exciting on Penguin Car Earns Indy500 Spot · · Score: 1

    ...but isn't it boring without all the turns of other racetracks?

  2. Digital waste on Digital Waste Worth More Than Gold, Copper Ore · · Score: 1

    ...are the files I delete. This is just electronics.

  3. Crying "wolf" on Teachers Fake Gunman Attack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Was it really smart to say it was not a drill? It sounds, you know, like crying "wolf"...

  4. Info on the reactor on University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt Returns · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It was a bit tricky to find, many pages talking about it were gone, but here it is.

  5. My computer does on Harvard Prof Says Computers Need to Forget · · Score: 1

    My computer forgets me all the time. I pass by in the morning and say "hello, friend" and it would respond "who are you?", I'd say "it's me, you must remember me!" but oh no, it wouldn't believe me and refuse to let me in without a fight.

  6. These old intelligence agencies should have known on Shredded Secret Police Files Being Reassembled · · Score: 1

    ...that fire is what you use to destroy documents properly

  7. Re:Preference... on Linux as A Musician's OS? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your 28 minute drum solo may infringe on Led Zeppelin copyright, do you want me to contact your lawyer?

    Cause I have already contacted theirs, of course.

  8. Re:Makes a little bit of sense. . . on Treating the Dead · · Score: 2, Funny

    Another important thing to note is that the rate of compressions is 100/min.

    This is a tech site, we use SI! That would be 1.7 Hz.

    For the tempo, think "Another One Bites the Dust"

    I counted, it fits nicely!

    Verse
    *breath* *breath*
    Chorus
    *breath* *breath*
    Verse
    *breath* *breath*
    Chorus
    *breath* *breath*

    Wohoo, it's a good grove! I could go on all day. What? Oh, you're fine now? And it hurts? OK, I understand...

  9. Where everyone could see it, of course. on Which Shared Calendar Package Would You Use? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Writing on the surface of the Moon.

  10. Green to use on Georgia Tech Unveils Prototype Nanogenerator · · Score: 2, Informative

    The generators are green (to use), drawing power from natural motion in the surrounding environment.

    My friend the principle of energy conservation told me that they are no more green to use than that which causes the motion in the surrounding environment (probably a little less).

  11. Just like software on The Modern Ease of 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    I envision that this could bring to hardware, what free software already is for software. Good times!

  12. Re:Why would my cursor run as root? on Windows Vulnerability in Animated Cursor Handling · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    go ahead and issue "rm -rf ~"

    Ah, I do that all the time. It's refreshing. Fortunately, I store all my data outside my home directory.

  13. All the statistics I ever use on Static Code Analysis Tools? · · Score: 3, Funny

    wc project.c

  14. Re:Oh no!! on Nano Scale Artworks · · Score: 1

    We're using an unofficial but universally understood unit of measure!!!!

    Yes. Yuck!

  15. Micron? on Nano Scale Artworks · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia says: Micrometre, one millionth of a metre. The term micron was officially sanctioned as part of the metric system from 1879 to 1967

    Get over it already!

  16. Re:Youtube award Link please on YouTube Announces First Award Winners · · Score: 1, Informative

    The link in the article doesn't work. Someone link the youtube award gallery please

    Sure.

  17. The mentioned Turing Award lecture on John W. Backus Dies at 82; Developed FORTRAN · · Score: 5, Informative
  18. Re:Voltage? on Diodes Could Drive Swimming Micro-Robots · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's... that's a pretty large range. You sure you didn't mean to write 150 V?

    I actually meant what I wrote. I got 75 V from multiplying the weakest electric field with the shortest distance I found they had between electrodes and, 1050 V from multiplying the strongest electric field with the longest distance. That is not to say that they actually used the combinations necessary to produce these extreme values, but just that the voltages have to be somewhere in between.

  19. Re:Voltage? on Diodes Could Drive Swimming Micro-Robots · · Score: 2, Informative

    Anyone know what voltage was used here.

    They used an electric field of 3000 V/m to 15000 V/m. Using the distances they said they had between the electrodes, it seems that for these particular experiments, the voltage was in the range of 75 V to 1050 V.

  20. Re:Last I Checked on Spacecraft May Surf Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    Mercury has no magnetic field

    Wikipedia: Despite its slow rotation, Mercury has a relatively strong magnetic field, with a magnetic field strength 1% as strong as the Earth's.

    Perhaps you mean it's not strong enough?

  21. Re:Microsoft Cracking Open the Door To OSS on Microsoft Cracking Open the Door To OSS · · Score: 1

    You forgot the XKCD link.
    Ah, that's spot on! Why didn't I think of that strip? I had seen it before.
  22. Microsoft Cracking Open the Door To OSS on Microsoft Cracking Open the Door To OSS · · Score: 1

    Microsoft smashing in the door to OSS, in the middle of the night, mask on, weapons in hands.

  23. Ehrm... on Copyright Law Used to Shut Down Site · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is this a misuse of copyright law in order to stifle dissent?

    What did we say about ending with those silly questions?

  24. You forgot to say... on Computer Forensics to Help Solve Pioneer Mystery · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...that what you are talking about is the Pioneer anomaly. That is a well-known name, so when you didn't mention it, you got me thinking there was some other curiosity going on that I had missed.

  25. SHA-256? on Schneier On the US Crypto Competition · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about SHA-512?