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  1. Re:Oblig on Iraq Swears By Dowsing Rod Bomb Detector · · Score: 1

    Far more effective than the rock as it's reactive instead of passive.

    If you have received a passive rock it may be malfunctioning. If it is still under warranty you may return it for analysis.

  2. Re:Laptops should be able to defend themselves on Dell Rugged Laptops Not Quite Tough Enough · · Score: 1

    But did we do limes or not?

  3. Re:Wrong story title on Giant Rift In Africa Will Create a New Ocean · · Score: 1

    Bigger news is that his anchor text for his link is 35 words long and happened in less than a day!

    Uh, the biggest news is that the event in question happened in 2005... the event is not new, but some additional rationale behind the ocean hypothesis is new.

  4. Re:Noah's flood and a massive deluge on Giant Rift In Africa Will Create a New Ocean · · Score: 1

    Given the Sumerians were a river culture (think about what "Mesopotamia" means)

    You have to hand it to them, though. They laid down the law in Meso. Potamia.

  5. Re:How do they know on Intergalactic Race Shows That Einstein Still Rules · · Score: 1

    IOW, the speed of light is not affected by the wavelength.

    But actually, it's a well-determined phenomenon called "Dispersion". SETI has to run special filters against their signals to correct for higher frequency waves traveling slower than low frequency waves from the same event, since they get mashed together due to the speed difference over the distances involved.

  6. Re:anonymous on Leaked Modern Warfare 2 Footage Causes Outrage · · Score: 1

    Armed Assault is a game that has a lot of hurry-up-and-wait in a good way (if you like that sort of game). If you die in a multiplayer game, you appear back at base. Then you need to wait for someone to chopper you back to the battle, which is anywhere from zero to ten minutes of waiting for a chopper to get back, and two to ten minutes of flight over fully modeled/populated terrain to get to your destination. Then when you hit the ground at a safe LZ, you have to walk to your destination... and once in combat, you have to be careful, because one bullet could send you right back to respawn, and you have to do the whole process all over again.

  7. Re:They won't on Laptop Fires On Airplanes · · Score: 1

    Would you rather wait to surrender your liquids after an aborted or potentially successful suicide operation with binary liquid explosives? Now, let's not be unreasonable and start forfeiting our pencils, shirts, plastic forks, wristwatches, belts/buckles, USB cords, etc. just because they may be used as weapons. But when you've foiled a group of people that had done the necessary homework to conduct an attack and were following through with the necessary steps to carry out such an operation, then it becomes a little more valid of an argument to have liquids banned.

    That said, I always bring an empty water bottle with me to the airport and fill it up the second I step through security. I get too thirsty and I'm unhappy about otherwise having to buy an expensive bottle of water past airport security.

  8. Re:Good grief.. on Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog · · Score: 1

    No, he did it on purpose, but it's still unoriginal and dumb in this conversation.

  9. Re:Awesome! on Wikileaks Plans To Make the Web Leakier · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think there should be a one or two week loss of mod points for those who decide to mod the first post as "redundant".

  10. Re:Volume: 11 on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    bare with me

    *Shudder*

    BTW, he meant "bear with me". Don't you feel stoopit...

    Bears. Nature's killing machines.

    GP is probably a bloody mess by now.

  11. Re:Internet access on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    Did you know that I can buy nuclear warheads in Minsk for forty million each?

  12. Re:I'm sure it didn't help. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    I think you're going for +5 funny because tractors would be machines that turn biodiesel into biodiesel ;)

  13. Re:I'm sure it didn't help. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    US Residents are also fingerprinted and photographed routinely upon re-entry.

    I have never been fingerprinted or photographed upon reentry to the US. I usually fly into west coast air ports.

  14. Re:Still too much money on LCROSS Team Changes Target Crater For Impact · · Score: 2, Funny

    We've done these kinds of "impact" missions on Mars several times, generating a large dust cloud each time. The only difference is this time something will be watching/analyzing the dust cloud.......... ;)

  15. Re:What every player is missing on Theora 1.1 (Thusnelda) Is Released · · Score: 1

    You should read the rest of the thread before replying. :/

  16. Re:ThankYouThankYouThankYou on The Night Sky In 800 Million Pixels · · Score: 1

    Most people who live in cities never get to see even a fraction of the night sky. Even thougb I live in rural Colorado where we can see the Milky Way fairly regularly, I want to thank you so much for sharing with everyone what we are missing out on, night after night. This is way better than TV. Cheers.

    Those of us temporarily taking up abode in the Iraqi desert also don't get to see much of the stars. The sand/dust that is always in the air is worse than looking at the stars just a mile from downtown Seattle! The dust in Iraq is far worse than any light pollution I've ever encountered while living in Seattle.

  17. Re:What every player is missing on Theora 1.1 (Thusnelda) Is Released · · Score: 1

    And it's also a pain to transfer a "folder" of files to someone over the net. Torrents are the only remotely usable solution and that requires making a torrent, uploading it to a site, and then finding a user you want to give it to who also understands bittorrent...

  18. Re:Hybrid car on $529M Gov't Loan To Develop $89,000 Hybrid Sports Car · · Score: 1

    But why can't we just build hydroelectric dams or fission reactors right into the car itself?

    We should just make cars that run on hydrocarbons. Everybody wins. Except for everybody. ;)

  19. Re:Not statistically significant on Math Indicates Pollster Is Forging Results · · Score: 1

    I am Spartacus!

  20. Re:The basis is sound. on Alabama Wages War Against the Perfect Weed · · Score: 1

    I don't follow that. What do the gorilla's - or other large species - have to do with it, except that there's likely to be more other creatures around for them to eat as the bug explosion reverbrates down the food chain?

    That's the beauty of his plan. The girls die off in the wintertime.

  21. Re:Doomsday Machine on Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive · · Score: 1

    Sunni vs. Shia is over a thousand years old.

  22. Re:Doomsday Machine on Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive · · Score: 1

    If we get the jump on the russkies, I'm betting 10 to 20 million killed. Tops!

  23. Re:That makes at least two... on Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive · · Score: 1

    it would have had to be declassified at some point, and you would have received a communication to this effect.

    I agree with your post, except for this part. So much classified material gets handled by so many people that they don't track or notify everyone when their previous work has been declassified. Everything else you wrote is fine.

  24. Re:Cool on Intel Core i7 For Laptops — First Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Is this really the first Intel Core i7 benchmark for laptops? I've had an i7 in my new laptop since mid-July!

  25. Re:What qualifies for new sensory organ? on On-Body Circuits Create New Sense Organ · · Score: 1

    If you could spin at a perfectly constant rate, you wouldn't feel dizzy (until you stopped, naturally).

    Not true, because of the Coriolis effect. Unless you are a three-dimensional being spinning along your fourth axis. (I just read Flatland)