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  1. Re:Couldn't care less. on How Windows 10 Performs On a 12-inch MacBook · · Score: 2

    Reverting the Windows 8 start screen

    So he did the needful?

  2. crap on MAME Changing License To Fully Libre One · · Score: 1

    it also kept legitimate commercial entities doing business with the software

    How did it do that? By threatening to kill their pets if they stopped?

  3. motto my botto on Volunteer Bob Paulin Turns Kids on to Tech with Devoxx4Kids (Video) · · Score: 1

    That's not a motto, it's a frickin' list.

  4. Re:This isn't fking starwars on Visualizations of Rebel Alliances In the UK Government · · Score: 1

    The kind that writes 'a collection visualizations', perhaps?

  5. New submitter? Don't become an old one. on Humans Dominating Poker Super Computer · · Score: 1

    The Claudico super computer uses an algorithm to account for gargantuan amounts of complexity by representing the number of possible Heads-Up No-limit Texas Hold'em decisions.

    Ummm, wrong. It's the other way round. You don't put shoes on by keeping your feet warm, do you?

  6. Re:crap on Liquid Mercury Found Under Mexican Pyramid · · Score: 1

    You didn't use any word implying likelihood or probability. You're making stuff up.

    P.S. Reading comprehension. No "for".

  7. Re:crap on Liquid Mercury Found Under Mexican Pyramid · · Score: 1

    Why did you retype it rather than copy-pasting?

  8. unit mismatch on Tesla Announces Home Battery System · · Score: 5, Informative

    battery systems designed to store up to 10 kWh of power.

    kW is a unit of power. When you multiply it by a unit of time it becomes a unit of energy.

  9. Re:Principle? on Paul Hudak, Co-creator of Haskell, Has Died · · Score: 1

    simple English

    Just sayin'. Not that the original mistake isn't utterly retarded.

  10. Re:crap on Liquid Mercury Found Under Mexican Pyramid · · Score: 0

    If you think a doctorate is required for getting words in the right order then that says more about you than it does about me.

  11. Re:Done in movies... on Allegation: Philly Cops Leaned Suspect Over Balcony To Obtain Password · · Score: 1

    video-clip by Woopy Goldberg

    Never heard of him.

  12. crap on Liquid Mercury Found Under Mexican Pyramid · · Score: 0

    they a found trove of strange artifacts

    An English primer was not among them, it would seem.

  13. Re: republicrats on McConnell Introduces Bill To Extend NSA Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Never end a sentence with a preposition.

    This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.

  14. Them crazy Canucks, eh. on Music Industry Argues Works Entering Public Domain Are Not In Public Interest · · Score: 1

    extend the term of copyright for sound recordings and performers

    I didn't know people could be copyrighted.

  15. Re:Good grief on New Nudge Technology Prods You To Take Action · · Score: 1

    I had this idea of taking pieces of bog roll and compressing them like a very lot and enclosing them in a capsule. You'd swallow them at the end of a meal and when you pooped them out they'd burst and expand automatically hygieneise your botty-wotty. I proposed this to some venture capitalists and they turned me down in favour of some website where you post inane details about your life in a vain attempt to appear like you don't have an utterly pointless existence. Who's laughing now, you bastards?

  16. Re:An what about volcanoes and plate tectonic? on If Earth Never Had Life, Continents Would Be Smaller · · Score: 2

    It does. It's called subduction.

  17. Re:Render farm? on Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage · · Score: 2

    Wrong on two counts. One, "you fucking American idiot" doesn't have a finite verb so it's not a complete sentence. Had he written "you're a..." you might have a point.

    Two, it's correct to use a comma to separate the addressee. http://www.grammarerrors.com/p...

    Many people here omit it, sometimes changing the meaning somewhat.

    "There's an orange, doctor" vs. "There's an orange doctor"

  18. confused on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: 3

    How can something which is just a pure number outscale something that's physical and has actual dimensions?

  19. Re:This, if true, will utterly destroy on Researchers Developing An Algorithm That Can Detect Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why a serious media company like CBS News wants their brand to be associated with constant racist ignorance

    Clearly a stupid move. Competitive theory suggests targeting segments where you are strong relative to your competitors. Going bayonet to bayonet with Fox on their home ground is suicidal.

  20. lolwut on 1980's Soviet Bloc Computing: Printers, Mice, and Cassette Decks · · Score: 4, Funny

    We covered what the personal computer revolution was like in Eastern Bloc countries back in December.

    Going from nothing to serious cyber espionage in four months is pretty impressive.

  21. Nice one on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 0

    either impractical and impossible.

    Can someone find which circus the submitter ran away from & send him back?

  22. Re:Call me an old guy with a short attention span on No Film At 11: the Case For the Less-Video-Is-More MOOC · · Score: 1

    For a software installation only illiterates could conceivably find a video better than good written instructions.

  23. Huh? on SuperMario 64 Coming To a Browser Near You! · · Score: 1

    Since Unity has been given a liberal license and free for non commercial developers it has become popular.

    How do you give a free?

  24. Re: Is the smartwatch fad stillborn? on Lenovo CEO Reportedly Posts Image of Next Gen Moto 360 Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    Science isn't speculation any more than drawing is sharpening a pencil. You seriously think SF writers do extensive research into feasibility & utility rather than what will look cool/make a good plot device/drive merchandising sales?

  25. me not likey on Boeing Patents Star Wars Style Force Field Technology · · Score: 1

    Just liking the luminescent shields seen in the film

    What if you is hating them?