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  1. Re:"They taste like asparagus!" on How To Hunt a Cicada Smorgasbord · · Score: 1

    Yea, your cicadas sound interesting. They have a call pattern and such.

    Here they just sound like tiny air-raid sirens blaring for 5 minutes at a time :/

    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.....

  2. Re:"They taste like asparagus!" on How To Hunt a Cicada Smorgasbord · · Score: 1

    The only thing their "singing" does for me is put me in a nasty mood.

    From a distance they sound fine - but when they are right outside your window it sounds like someone screeching "EEEEEE" in your ear non-stop.

  3. Re:Aren't we about done with this zombie craze? on The War Z Taken Offline Following Hack · · Score: 1

    It's scary how damn insightful some of the writing on that site is...

  4. Re:sounds good on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes they are. "Step 2. Enter your details, including your estimated weight(s) of passengers and baggage"

  5. Re:Long Term Waste EASY.. on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 1

    Because NIMBY assholes. That's why.

    Unfortunately it will require lots of visible evidence of their safety/practicality and some external pressure (fossil fuel costs etc) to shut the NIMBYs up - and even then you won't satisfy them all. Hell we still have people who think Wifi or power lines make you sick.

  6. Re:Long term? on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think that would not. Because the babies would (obviously) perish - and how the corpses are handled would result in radioactive materials being released into the atmosphere (crematorium ash) or groundwater (burial). Do that long enough and you will begin to see severe effects.

  7. ooookay? on Brown vs. Startup Over a Sandwich · · Score: 1

    Brown also happens to be a perfectly cromulant color and a very popular surname. Brown University can go... do something indecent.

  8. Re:abetting in the murder of children? on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Do you even know what "pinko commie" means?

  9. Re:Translation: on DOJ, MIT, JSTOR Seek Anonymity In Swartz Case · · Score: 1

    OK, thanks for the ad-hominem. I appreciate that.

    What the AC did is post flamebait, pure and simple. The difference between black humor and flamebait is context. The AC did not provide it.

  10. Re:yeay four sensors on New Camera Sensor Filter Allows Twice As Much Light · · Score: 1

    No, it is directly relevant. I'm sorry that you do not see it.

    The 'K' is black, simulating a lack of sensor input on the camera. You don't have "black" sensors, you just have chroma/luma sensors that do not receive input.

  11. Re:Translation: on DOJ, MIT, JSTOR Seek Anonymity In Swartz Case · · Score: 1

    True enough, but the tone does not add anything to the discussion aside from confusion.

  12. Re:complicated radiation patterns on FCC To Update 1996 Cell Phone Radiation Standard · · Score: 1

    Probably not. The whole point of a fractal antenna is that you get a relatively omnidirectional pattern.

  13. Re:Nothing New on North Korea Declares a State of War · · Score: 1

    Just what do you mean by the "U.S. play the same game?"

    The difference between NK saying the US is a threat, and the US saying NK is a threat, is the latter happens to be true.

  14. Re:Nothing New on North Korea Declares a State of War · · Score: 1

    China would have an opportunity to rake in some serious cash as they help Korea rebuild what used to be the northern half. Doing so could also go a long way towards mending their relationship.

  15. Re:Didn't they get the memo? on North Korea Declares a State of War · · Score: 1

    Er, I don't see where he said anything contrary.

  16. Re:Of course the North Koreans.... on North Korea Declares a State of War · · Score: 1

    Yea, except the moment any number of troops start crossing the DMZ there will be hell to pay.

  17. Re:Didn't they get the memo? on North Korea Declares a State of War · · Score: 1

    Kind of hard to do that when you are supposed to be a deity.

  18. Re:yeay four sensors on New Camera Sensor Filter Allows Twice As Much Light · · Score: 1

    The K in CMYK is not a "color."

  19. Re:Great! on Microsoft Mulling Smaller Windows 8 Tablets · · Score: 1

    You say that like we can't just hate all three?

  20. Re:Great! on Microsoft Mulling Smaller Windows 8 Tablets · · Score: 1

    It rained chairs.

  21. Re:Good luck with that on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    I'm not naive enough to say there isn't posturing going on, but there's more to it than that.

  22. Re:Good luck with that on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    erm... scratch that "don't" - that's what happens when your sentence evolves while you're writing it :P

  23. Re:Good luck with that on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    So, you don't think a country that may have nukes (run by what appears to be unstable leadership) that shares borders with both China and a US Ally (and is close to other third parties, such as Japan) is just an excuse for posturing?

  24. Re:it sure would be nice to get a PNG.. on 4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover · · Score: 1

    You do realize that would be ~ 11gb of data (uncompressed), right? Even assuming that PNG managed an 80% compression, you'd still have more than 2gb of data.

  25. Re:MITM attack: impersonates a cellular tower on DOJ Often Used Cell Tower Impersonating Devices Without Explicit Warrants · · Score: 1

    They don't care, they only care about getting paid.