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  1. I'll be, as a student, you liked it when the teacher put "show your work" on the test. :-)

  2. We want our rocks back!

  3. I certainly don't care enough to try washing my Apples in a commercial bleach solution. Who came up with that bright idea to get rid of chemical residue?

    Clorox?

  4. Re: Terrible news on SciFi Author (and Byte Columnist) Jerry Pournelle Has Died (jerrypournelle.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    On the gripping hand, ...

    Nicely done.

  5. I feel like this is an onion story that WSJ picked up accidentally.

    I thought the same thing.

  6. Re:A .50 CAL! on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Oh, that's not what you were asking?

  8. I'm definitely having less sex than I did 20 years ago!

  9. Come on! All these posts and I had to be the one to say that?

    Sigh, what's this world coming to.

  10. You just tell them what they want to hear and they'll vote for you, whether you make any attempt at being sincere or not.

    The most important thing when running for elected office is sincerity. If you can fake that you've got it made!

  11. Re:electricity on Why Apple Just Invested in Wind Turbines In China (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    My bet is they won't be putting up a local wind farm to actually use renewable energy.

    Cause that would require investing In America - instead of china.

    You're right, Apple is not putting up wind farms in the US. They're putting up (mostly) solar farms

    This means Apple will now be able to sell renewable power it does not need but it owns or has under contract — note that 93% of Apple facilities worldwide run on renewable electricity.

    According to the FERC filing, Apple holds positions in these solar properties:

    • 20 MW Ft. Churchill solar farm in Lyon County, Nevada,
    • 50 MW Bonnybrooke solar facility under construction in Pinal County, Arizona
    • Two behind-the-meter generating plants totaling 18 MW on its California campus.
    • A long-term firm power purchase agreement with First Solar for 130 MW from a California solar farm under construction
      67.5 MW of facilities in North Carolina
  12. Re:Really? on Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I frequent those forums and I've literally never heard anything about Elon on them.

    You don't see? This is fake news about fake news!

  13. "Does this mean the US is now the Weiner Republic?"

    I know there's a joke about deflation there somewhere.

    Fixed that for ya.

  14. You do realize that CTRL-[ will generate the ESC char, right?

  15. Or:

    Computer users can improve their web browsing with this one weird trick!

  16. Water cooler? Hell, I'd vote for the Inanimate Carbon Rod!

  17. Re:Me too :wq on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, sometimes I'll find :wq in a Word document that I've been editing. Or hit when I'm typing an email in Outlook.

    That should say '... hit ESC when I'm typing ...'

  18. Re:Me too :wq on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, sometimes I'll find :wq in a Word document that I've been editing. Or hit when I'm typing an email in Outlook.

  19. T-Mobile issues? on T-Mobile To iPhone Users: Do Not Download iOS 10 For Now (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm on T-Mo but have a Samsung Galaxy S3. I noticed this week that my mobile data usage was massive. Just this week I've used nearly 2.5GB. My normal usage is less than a GB for the whole billing period. I'm wondering if the iOS 10 issue is hammering the T-Mo network and causing my problems. My data usage shows that it's my email app that is using all the data; I have an Apple email acct, maybe the combo of the two things is affecting me?

  20. Re:I lost 25 pounds quitting sugar on Sugar Industry Bought Off Scientists, Skewed Dietary Guidelines For Decades (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Same here. In addition, it helped my digestive problems a great deal.

  21. Re:NOT "enough to power a car" on Can Cow Backpacks Reduce Global Methane Emissions? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Assume a spherical cow in a vacuum...

  22. Waiting for the next two undersea fibers... on Google's 'FASTER' 9000km, 60Tbps Transpacific Fiber Optics Cable Completed (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    They will be CHEAPER and BETTER. But you'll only be able to use any two of them at one time.

  23. Re:Long term solutions aren't easy on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    In Texas we also have the Michigan left.

    The city of Plano was the first city in Texas to use a Michigan left. One was built in mid-2010 at the intersection of Preston Road and Legacy Drive. In January 2014, the city announced plans to revert the turn to a traditional intersection as a result of drivers' confusion.

    BTW, the Texas Turnaround definitely doesn't eliminate all left turns.

  24. Cigarette smoke is not the only cause of lung cancer.

  25. By way of example, You will feel 20 micronewtons of force is someone stands moderately close to you simply from gravitational effects.

    I think there's a "Yo mama's so big ..." joke in there somewhere.