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  1. Re:No progress at all... on Another Possible Voynich Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but that's just Double Dutch to me.

    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

    It's a genuine sentence. A VERY typical one, but a correct one.

  2. Re: 82 years old on Leonard Nimoy: Smoking Is Illogical · · Score: 1

    So ... why did they smoke until they became addicted? What do you think happens anyway? "Wow, this does nothing for me! Better keep at it until I'm addicted!"

    Try thinking before posting.

    Peer pressure and social contagion. Youngsters see older people smoking and feeling good about it (the older ones being addicted, and really liking it), and there you have it.

  3. Re:Standard practice... on Peanut Allergy Treatment Trial In UK "A Success" · · Score: 1

    generally on the order of 1/100000000000 000000000 000000000 0000000 0000000 0000000 00000 00000

    So basically, one molecule of the thing in a gallon of water?

    No. It's much, much less than that. The quoted value there is one part in 10^60. A mole is 6.02x10^23. There's about 200 moles of water molecules in 1 gallon (3.8 liters and 55 moles per liter for water). So one molecule of water in one gallon is one part in 10^26. To get one part in 10^60, you'll need about 10^34 gallons of water. Wikipedia indicates this is the volume of Betelgeuse (a massive star that's about a million times the volume of the sun.)

    And this is why I don't skip AC's.
    *stands up and applauds*

  4. Re:So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable. on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 1

    nothing happens, its NOT a product, its a pretty 3D render and a VC bait,

    Exactly. This is a DESIGNER at work, not a scientist. It's about selling pretty pictures, and interesting ideas, but nothing more.

  5. Re:Holy Biased Presentation Batman! on US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry · · Score: 5, Informative

    But were they Bald Eagles? Cuz let's be honest, no one gives a fuck about sea gulls.

    In all fairness: most of the world doesn't give a fuck about bald eagles.

  6. Re:What a bunch of idiots on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    As a conservative, religious man, I find the religious anti-vaccination crowd a bunch of blind ninnies. I have a few at my church like that, and I want to smack them as they put my children who are too young to receive these vaccination at risk of catching a deadly disease.

    Yet you still go that church? Might as well stop that, for your childrens' health.

  7. obligatory quote on Death and the NSA: A Q&A With Bruce Schneier · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." Helen Keller

    Schneier is right,

  8. Re:Is it a phone ? on Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 and Snapdragon 800 Challenges Apple A7 In Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    No, it's not a phone. It's a pocket-sized computer that can also make phone calls. We call it a smartphone for historical reasons. Do you also complain that we say 'computer' as shorthand for 'electronic computer', when we all know that a computer is a person who prepares logarithm tables?

    Yes, yes, so much yes. My smartphone is hardly used in the phone-kind of way (not much of a caller anyway, hardly touch those 'free' minutes) but as an internet-computer/pdf-viewer/musicplayer/calculator/watch SO much more. It doesn't do any of those functions really well, but just good enough and the fact that it's all in one single handheld device makes me happy.

    When I ONLY want a good mobile phone I'll get my old trusty Siemens.

  9. Re:Why is he special? on French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For the record, the pictures are available here. They were infamous long before anyone knew it was this Mosley guy (he's nobody to me).

    Nobody in the right mind clicks a lemonparty link.

  10. Re:NOT posted as AC. on TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint · · Score: 1

    would have turned into the OK Corral

    Prove that. .. The most effective deterrent to actual violence is a credible threat of retaliatory violence. That is how humans actually work in the real world. Widespread gun ownership reduces violence.

    Majority of shooters are willing to die, or even kill themselves. That's how shooters ACTUALLY work.

  11. I prepare for peace on Fighting Zombies? Chevrolet Reveals New "Black Ops" Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    Because when I buy something to prepare myself there always be someone else who is prepared to take it from me. I better live like it is here, and not in some warzone. Or some retarded survivalist citadel.

  12. Re:Half a billion? on Cruise Ship "Costa Concordia" Salvage Attempt To Go Ahead · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The salvage is being done by Smit International from the Netherlands, a country widely regarded as efficient. Fpor more information Wikipedia article "Costa Concordia disaster", paragraph "Salvage" is a good start.

    A COMPANY reagarded as efficient. The country is... well, tomorrow the government will present new plans to recover the economy. None of the plans can be considered 'efficient'.

  13. Re:They are NOT "toys"! on Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn · · Score: 1

    So, a car is a toy? A stove is a toy? A band saw is a toy?

    That's very possible:

    toy |toi|
    noun
    1 an object for a child to play with, typically a model or miniature replica of something : [as adj. ] a toy car.
      an object, esp. a gadget or machine, regarded as providing amusement for an adult : in 1914 the car was still a rich man's toy.

    Toy and tool do not exclude each other. My laptop is more a toy at home, but a tool at work. (not that I don't like the work, but I rather keep a more serious pose there) I'm not sure where the EXACT difference lies, but I prefer to know the context before I judge. I've seen stoves I'd love to play with, I've seen cars (Ford Falcon!) that would serve me no more purpose than fun (heck, anyone with more than 2 cars could be considered to keep cars as toys), I wouldn't call a band saw a toy but someone else might: to each his own, I guess?

  14. Re:Proofread much? on Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development · · Score: 1

    3 lines is an article now?

    Also, it's "its", not "it's". You would think an editor on an English-language website would have at least a rudimentary understanding of English grammar rules.

    "US-centric" != "rudimentary understanding of English"
    I kid, I kid...

  15. Re:terrible UI on Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development · · Score: 1

    7 years and the UI is still shit.

    UI is confusing, to say the least. But that's not my issue with it, it's UNBELIEVABLY slow to click around. *click* *wait* oops wrong option *click again* *wait* *find the right option* et cetera.

    But it's very capable of what it ought to do. It's immensely big though and I prefer smaller apps for smaller tasks.

  16. Re:social security number = ID and citizenship che on Obamacare Exchanges Months Behind In Testing IT Data Security · · Score: 1

    social security number = ID and citizenship check

    But it needs a proof of ID, or something like that, with a photo, I guess? Like a passport? Just the plain numbers are worthless, I hope?

  17. Re:Simple on First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&T's Emergency Alerts Are a Mess · · Score: 1

    Alerts don't sell phones or services, so it's probably funded, staffed, and supported like anything else that doesn't contribute to profits: poorly.

    Expect it to either be pwned after a few times, or "This important message is brought to you by General Motors"

  18. A new Doctor on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    Hopefully it will get a bit more sinister, less shouting and running, better arcs. Can't wait till the Christmas Special :)

  19. Re:Rupert Grint? on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    He was 41 at the time, but could have passed for younger.

    Eccles was good, and very underestimated. He gave Dr Who a bit of noir. The lang black coat suited very well.

  20. Re:Just wait 'til companies catch on on Study Finds 3D Printers Pay For Themselves In Under a Year · · Score: 1

    End the war on work!
    http://goo.gl/Nz128

    I saw that Ted Talk, one of the few that made sense, was honest, was based on facts and experience and should address the whole world. Yet half my acquaintances were convinced that Mike Rowe was blabbering. They rather heard someone talking about success than about life's realities.

  21. Re:not a geometry proof on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    Was Zimmerman's life in danger?

    If you answer 'yes' or 'a reasonable person might think so' then you're still looking at it with half of your brain.

    Given the circumstances which were well reported, no matter who was 'on top' or had weed in their system or was a 'racist'...Zimmerman's life was **not in danger**

    His head was banged repeatedly against concrete. I'd call that life threatening. Oh wait, let me use your argument enhancing technique:

    "I'd call that **life threatening**"

  22. Re:Guess the military can save millions then. on New Study Fails To Show That Violent Video Games Diminish Prosocial Behavior · · Score: 1

    Of course real violence desensitizes people. No question in that.

    But we are talking about virtual violence. That is completely different.
    Virtual violence, like video games, do not desensitizes people to real violence. Because that one is virtual and the other is real.

    A horror movie will not desensitize you. A plane crash movie will not traumatize you.

    And yet the videos of the planes crashing into the World Trade Towers on 9/11 that were played over and over again, did indeed traumatize many. So evidently, some plane crash movies do traumatize people.

    I fail to see how the planes crashing into the World Trade Towers is virtual violence.

  23. Re:Want to meet a Japanese woman? on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    Of course, they like the Cauc!

    Bravo! *applauds*

  24. Re:And where have they put the power button on the on Apple Updates MacBooks and Mac Pro Desktop With Haswell, "Unified Thermal Core" · · Score: 1

    My wife is an architect and she likes the mac desktop, but she needs to run windows only cad software.

    And, presumably, can't do so in VMware Fusion or Parallels Workstation (which avoid the reboot and the "can't run your OS X apps and your Windows apps at the same time") or doesn't want to spend the money for them. (Yes, I can imagine that there are apps that don't work well enough in a simulated Windows box, for whatever reason.)

    Sometimes it's really convenient to just reboot and get to work, instead of launching an extra environment. Yes, virtualisation works, but unless one has to multitask between os-dependant applications, booting in another os is effective and efficient. And provides breaks and stuff.

  25. Re:Loaded camera on Montreal Union Wants a Camera On Every Policeman's Uniform · · Score: 1

    dude, story please? what did you do that you were arrested for assaulting an officer in front of 6 or 7 witnesses?

    "to within an inch of his death", he assured me when I asked about it (he mentions it a lot). So he managed to get tried and found guilty with over 5 witnesses AND a hospital record to prove otherwise. Probably because of some 'Occupy' action.
    Don't question him of he'll 'foe' you too.