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  1. Re:An evolution from magnetohydrodynamics... on Pumping Fluid With No Moving Parts · · Score: 1

    He wasn't spanish, he was an egyptian pretending to be a spaniard with a scottish accent. Also known as not even trying.

  2. Re:1/10 of a grown man on Robot To Slowly Run Ironman Triathlon Course · · Score: 1

    Hear that whooshing noise artor?

  3. Re:1/10 of a grown man on Robot To Slowly Run Ironman Triathlon Course · · Score: 1

    My response would be similar. A pug is about 1/10th my size but catching the little fucker is another matter entirely.

  4. Re:Offensive on Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers · · Score: 1

    Or she had her kid at 14, daughter had a kid at 14, granddaughter is 21 and has a 35 year old mom and it's time to ask Mr's Beam, Walker and Daniels for an assisted doubletap.

  5. Re:Holy shit! on Android Tricorder Killed By CBS · · Score: 1

    You have a six digit UID, like the rest of us mere mortals... that's about two digits high for impressing most people.

  6. Re:Wow.. should buy one! on CyanogenMod Shows Off Android On the HP TouchPad · · Score: 1

    There's no reason to use a 53 character random string when a memorable 3 word combination is just as effectively impossible to brute force with current technology.

  7. Re:Duh, on CERN Physicist Says Dark Matter May Be an Illusion · · Score: 1

    Well it does and it doesn't, it depends.

  8. Give it a few tries and go with what's fastest on The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing · · Score: 2

    Believe it or not sometimes people are better at solving certain problems than computers. This is one of those fuzzy problems with lots of irregularities that a human is excellent at working out with just a little help from a stopwatch.

  9. Re:All too many times... on How To Ruin Your Game's PC Port · · Score: 1

    FEAR 2 had a similar problem, at least in the demo. The game would let you rebind controls in the menu, and then completely ignore that and still follow the default controls ingame... but only for some things. The most obvious example was "E" for entering and exiting the giant mech. Come hell or high water no matter what you bound that key to you WERE going to get in or out of that thing when you hit that button.

  10. Re:All too many times... on How To Ruin Your Game's PC Port · · Score: 3, Interesting

    MGS2 wins a special lifetime achievement award in the "bad port" category because you weren't actually using a keyboard, they had some kind of wierd controller-emulator that you mapped keys to buttons with outside of the game and that would grab your input and pretend you were using a controller. That's why you had to assign a key to "slow" and "gentle", so you could signal their controller-emulator-thing to pretend you were releasing a pressure sensitive button slowly or pressing it gently.

  11. Re:graphics not the main problem on The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress · · Score: 2

    It IS possible to just set all dropped stuff to forbidden by default so you don't get every dwarf in the fortress going "HOLY FUCK UNCLAIMED SOCKS!" and bumrushing out to the killing fields.

  12. Re:That doesn't follow on Facebook Is Most Hated Social Media Company · · Score: 1

    i don't hate bing because it's microsoft, I hate it because every time I've used it I've been underwhelmed by the results.

  13. Re:No trace, eh? on A Linux Distro From the US Department of Defense · · Score: 1

    This just in, pedophiles also tend to use candy to attract children. Possession of candy made illegal for anyone over 9. Stoners and college students inconsolable.

  14. Re:Location proves nothing on Police Increasingly Looking To Smartphones For Evidence · · Score: 1

    So the fact that a notoriously inaccurate system which says only where their phone was is enough to prove Beyond All Reasonable Doubt that they themselves were trespassing? Sorry but even if you ignore the enormous problem of them just getting hold of everyone's locations like that I don't buy it.

  15. Re:Uh, tough? on Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google · · Score: 1

    That was basically my point. They bitched about linking and sued trying to get money instead of just using robots.txt so google said "Fine, we're not waiting for you to decide that NORMAL links are worth suing over too. One link is as good as another, fuck you."

  16. Re:Uh, tough? on Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google · · Score: 1

    It's not that, it's that they want to pick and choose exactly what parts of google they show up in and how. They don't want to be in google news but they want to be in regular google. That sort of thing is such a pain in the ass that, like a parent dealing with an overly picky child at the dinner table, they said "Fine, you'll eat when you're hungry" and took them off completely.

  17. Re:Uh, tough? on Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm having a hard time calling this censorship. It's more like giving up on a tantrumming child who's WAY to picky about their food and just saying "Fine, he'll eat when he gets hungry."

  18. Re:Steam-punk appeal on Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches · · Score: 0

    Short answer: In the same way kitchen knives, chainsaws, and powertools are dangerous

    Long answer: It's a matter of how you use it. Proper shaving moves the blade perpendicular to it's edge and will give you some nasty razorburn at most, but moving parallel to the edge will slice you right open. The bright side of that is if you're using the right amount of pressure you probably won't go very deeply at all despite the surprising bleeding, sometimes you can even notice it so fast that you don't even cut through the skin fully.

    The pros are that for $50ish you can can get a good solid razor and a respectable pasted strop that will keep you going for a long damn time until you need an actual hone (which is well past the paid-for-itself point) instead of just paste, and the shave is as good as your skill with the blade.

    The cons are that the shave is as good as your skill with the blade, you can't just wave it around your face and let it do all the work automatically like a cartridge, shaving takes a while, and everything from stropping to shaving requires skill and respect. Also people might think you're an insane murderer or something.

  19. Re:In fact... on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    Great, so for his next project he can go sell sand to the bedouin.

  20. Re:Makes sense on Human Brain Places Limit On Twitter Friends · · Score: 1

    Yeah I mean after all that's only 110 people left...

  21. Re:makes sense on RMS Cancels Lectures In Israel · · Score: 1

    Actually your comparison IS a poor analogy but not for the reason you think. When hamas took over gaza it wasn't elected individuals moving into an established form of government it was Hamas as a whole taking over with it's own organizational structure and everything.

    So yes, Hamas is the current governing body of Gaza and I would say Palestine in general since they seem to have a lot more influence right now than the PA.

  22. Re:makes sense on RMS Cancels Lectures In Israel · · Score: 1

    So your argument is that the current ruling party is not the current governing body?

  23. Re:makes sense on RMS Cancels Lectures In Israel · · Score: 1

    When you leave voluntarily because your buddies are planning to come through and kill everything civilian and military alike but lose the fight it seems disengenuous to bitch about not getting your shit back.

  24. Re:makes sense on RMS Cancels Lectures In Israel · · Score: 1

    Hamas, since they're the current governing body with the most power.

  25. Re:makes sense on RMS Cancels Lectures In Israel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is true, but when your government charter specifically and explicitly calls for the murder of all JEWS and blames them for secretly being behind pretty much every war or revolution that ever happened in the world while referencing the protocols of the elders of zion it's pretty obvious that in this case they are anti-israel specifically because they are anti-jew.