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  1. Re:What about the oil spill? on The Hobby of Energy Secretary Steven Chu · · Score: 2, Funny

    The oil spill is larger than 0.5 nm so there shouldn't be a problem.

  2. Re: samzenpus: on How Sperm Whales Offset Their Carbon Footprint · · Score: 1

    Do you know how much carbon was released into the atmosphere in the making of that .22?

  3. Re:There's funny... on Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris" · · Score: 1

    I'll go fetch the torches, guys.

    LED?

  4. Re:Welcome to the DMCA on Feds Bust Cable Modem Hacker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What has the DMCA got to do with this case?

  5. Re:Versions on Chrome 4.0 Vs. Opera 10 Vs. Firefox 3.5 · · Score: 1

    No. They compared the current, stable release of firefox against the current, stable release of Opera and the dev build of Chrome.

  6. VX-200? on Successful Test of Superconducting Plasma Rocket Engine · · Score: 1

    Otherwise known in Australia as the "Holden Commodore".

  7. Re:Racist Roboticist on Farmer Builds Robot Army · · Score: 1

    If an American farmer made a robot slave dressed in clearly traditional Chinese farmer clothes to pull them on a rickshaw, they'd be denounced as a racist.

    I therefore denounce this Chinese farmer as a racist for doing exactly that with a White American looking robot.

    White Americans look like that?

  8. Prize... on The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted · · Score: 1

    The prize is $500 as from Sept 6th.

  9. Re:Culture --weird on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 1

    Oh no. He had a gun rack with guns on it. RUN TO THE HILLS! Shouldn't that be "RUN TO THE CITY!"?

  10. Re:You don't seem to understand the point... on 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush · · Score: 1

    You mean the democrats, who filibustered their way out of drilling in ANWR, preventing progress in a slush-tundra featuring the most rugged and survivable species in the world; who's preventative action is causing us to pay $4 a gallon for gas now? Oh you poor things.

    We would love to go back to the good old days of $4 per gallon.
  11. Re:Great, Web *3.0* on Google Health Open Platform Is Great — Or Awful · · Score: 1

    The the major feature enhancements of iWeb 2009 Enterprise Edition are:

    A synergistic development model.
    Grassroots support.
    Enterprise level uptime and support (obviously).

    This technology promises to create a paradigm shift in the way we think about web services. And the worst bit is that I understood that and it made sense :(
  12. Re:Toshiba Libretto 110CT! on What to Seek in an Older Subnotebook? · · Score: 1

    Got a 100 and a 110.
    The 100 runs Win98 and the 110 has Slackware on it.

  13. Re:How long before... on Hacking Canon Point-and-Shoot Cameras · · Score: 1

    The only thing the 350D is crying out for is ISO expansion.
    It's got the Dig!c II chip, I want ISO3200 dammit!

  14. Re:US jury system does it again on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    And they'd have to find your friends blood in your house as well. And your friend would have had to disappear with you as the last person to see him alive. And your friend would have to be a self confessed murderer.
  15. Re:A grand for a 64G SSD drive? on Apple Announces MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    Newegg 64GB SSD for 1533, 64GB SSD from Apple for 999. This may be the first Apple upgrade ever to be cheaper from the factory than DIY.

    Apart from the people pulling the microdrives from the early iPods to put in their cameras.

  16. Re:Trademarks on Is a Domain Name an Automatic Trademark? · · Score: 1

    .com is worldwide (Not like the "world series"). .us is US.

  17. Re:Acme no, South African aftermarket coding, yes on Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9 · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me more like a day in the life of a good engineer.

    Tell them it can't be done and see what happens.

  18. Re:i was edited and my points were lost.... on GPS Transitions to New Control System · · Score: 1

    The rest of the world.. well, i can't help you with costs since you've never paid for this thing. I'd just say "thanks" and leave it at that.

    I have personally forked out many hundreds of dollars over the years to Garmin for the privilage of using this system.

    Oh I've paid for it all right.

  19. Re:Close... on Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech · · Score: 1

    1) We buy oil at fair market value, even after the countries in question nationalized their oil production - which was by and large owned by western corporations at the time. In effect, the countries in question stole from the West.

    And who decides fair market value?

  20. Re:No, it doesn't. on Linux Wireless Driver Violates BSD License? · · Score: 1

    Linux users are fine with Tux toys and stickers, BSD users believe in no graven images.

    Not even a little Daemon?

  21. Re:So the market sure is promoting innovation on The Man Who Owns the Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    (2) If you own a trademark, like walmart.com, and he registers walmart.cm (in Cambodia) before you do, he steals a bunch of traffic from visitors that were really intending to visit your website but now are just directed to some ad page. You just lost a few potential customers, have someone doing some other junk business in your name, and now you have to also spend on lawyers to rectify the issue.


    If you'd read TFA you would see that he hasn't registered any .cm domains.
    He has a wildcard redirection of unregistered domains - His site is effectivly the .cm 404 page.
    Lawyers probably won't be able to do a thing.
  22. Re:by definition on Why Doesn't Microsoft Have A Cult Religion? · · Score: 1

    Closer to Catholicism or Alcoholism?

  23. Re:And this is how... on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 1

    Every decade we have stories like this about other countries that are going to surpass the United States because of how much better they can cough up answers on tests (the stories have been happening since AT LEAST the early 70s in my memory). And yet, it never seems to happen. The FA says the Chinese test required the studnets to know what they were talking about whereas the UK tests were regurgatorial.

    The US not surpassed?
    You still use miles, gallons and Libraries of Congress as measurements.
    There is this thing called the metric system you know.
  24. Re:Next article on CNet... on Digital Camera Vs. Camera Phone · · Score: 1

    "Is a dual-socket, quad-core workstation actually faster than a ZX Spectrum (when playing Space Invaders)?" That depends...
    Which ZX Spectrum model?
  25. Re:Changing percpetion on X Prize For a 100-MPG Car · · Score: 1

    To get good fuel economy probably needs a mindshift away from SUVs and Hummers towards smaller 1300cc or smaller cars.

    Oh yeah...
    Hayabusa engined Ford Ka - That'll shift your mind :)