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  1. Re:Wannna hear it on an ancient 1982 computer? (SI on Bohemian Rhapsody On Old Hardware · · Score: 1

    Wholly fucking christ! heaven forbid you have a JVM open anywhere. That sounds like someone running that previous scanner sound through a carton of dry laundry soap.

    Close everything if you open that URL!
    Sounds fine after closing all Java instances.

  2. Re:I thought it was April 2? on What Would It Look Like To Fall Into a Black Hole? · · Score: 1

    is it just me, or did that look like a screensaver?

  3. Re:Stupid on Proposal Suggests UK Students Study Wikipedia and Twitter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let me offer a quote from "The Time Ships" by Stephen Baxter:

    "The Morlock began his life in these birth farms and nursery communities - the whole of the earth, to my painful recollection had been given over to one such - and there, in addition to the rudiments of civilized behavior, the youngster was taught one essential skill: the ability to learn. It is as if a schoolboy of the nineteenth century - instead of having drummed into his poor head a lot of nonsense about Greek and Latin and obscure geometric theorems - had been taught, instead, how to concentrate, and how to use libraries, and how to assimilate knowledge - how, above all, to THINK. After that, the acquisition of any specific knowledge depended on the needs of the task in hand, and the inclination of the individual."

    Ever since the first time I read this, I have pushed my own children to learn for themselves. Let them determine what they were interested in, in order to teach them how to learn, not WHAT to learn.

  4. Re:We now know the question to the answer... on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    think in base 13 you dolt

  5. Re:No on Body 2.0 — Continuous Monitoring of the Human Body · · Score: 1

    "It's always the 'Yogurt, sprout eating motherfuckers' that get run over by a guy driving a bus who smokes 3 1/2 packs a day.

    'Sorry officer, I didn't see him, I was too busy SMOKING!'"

  6. Re:rainbow gold on A Short Summary Following the Pirate Bay Trial · · Score: 4, Funny

    But then again, you never caught Bo and Luke Duke so you also have no ground to stand on. :)

  7. Re:More like on MIT Researchers Create a Cheap "6th Sense" Device · · Score: 1

    The 6th sense is humor.

  8. Re:Imagine... on India Will Show Its $10 Laptop Prototype · · Score: 1

    Sun VirtualBox ftw!

  9. Re:Macbook pro 17" on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Save yourself 2-3 weeks and buy some fine grit sandpaper. Problem solved!

  10. Re:English 3.0 on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: 1

    ...and the mixed up order of "re" instead of "er". Oh, and we also put the punctuation within the quotation marks where it belongs

    Um... I thought you said within the quotation marks...

  11. Re:Uhh, yes it does... [Car Analogy] on The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn · · Score: 1
  12. Re:It will work... on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    try x-plane: http://www.x-plane.com/

    runs on linux, mac, and windows, and is a helluvalot better FS than MSFS is...

  13. Re:Get a swap partition on Optimizing Linux Use On a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 1

    Wholly christ on a rope!

    Who the hell cares?!?

    You can pick up a 4Gb USB stick for like $10 these days. Screw the wearing out of the drive. Just buy a new one when you notice bad sectors.

  14. Re:Environmental impact? on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    or is it going to be producing diatomic hydrogen and oxygen

    Yikes! Water as a byproduct as well? Sounds perfect

  15. Re:Well... on AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pendii?

  16. Re:More importantly.... on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    wanders off to order a triple quarter-pounder with bacon

    Wouldn't that be a 3/4 pounder?

  17. Re:I don't understand why black people let this go on Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android · · Score: 1
    People will stop caring when their census form and every other damn form in existence stops asking for your race.

    Ethnicity?
    • Caucasian
    • Latino
    • European
    • Asian
    • African American
    • Native American
    • Human (too bad this isn't a real option)
    • Other

    Other gets my vote every time.

    If all these politicians were really talking about racial equality, no sex discrimination, equal rights, etc... then why the hell is a company supposed to hire a certain number of asians, hispanics, disabled people, women, etc...

    If we're all the same, then why the special treatment to some groups and not others?

  18. Re:Taking pictures of the sun? on The Quietest Sun · · Score: 1

    Be careful though. If you're telescope is one of those cheapo jobs that you picked up at Walmart, the internals holding the eyepiece in are plastic. They are also not generally collimated properly so you will melt the inside of your scope when the beam from the sun is not focused directly in the center of the eyepiece or secondary mirror. Think really REALLY powerful magnifying glass here.

  19. Use them on Mars! on Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently · · Score: 1

    I say, let the terraforming begin!

    Place these things all over the martian surface and make em solar powered!

  20. Re:Disagree on White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page · · Score: 1

    So you think that these proposed consumer devices would be transmitting? They are only receivers. A nearby "White Space Device" would only be receiving, not transmitting.

    Jeez, think for a second.

  21. Re:Oh My! on White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page · · Score: 1

    No...
    See, what happens is that the employer sends around a person saying "I am collecting for 's political contribution. Would you like to donate?
    Then, the person signs over a bit from their next paycheck to the fund and the employer tallies it all up and forwards the contribution. This includes a list of each employee who donated to keep it legal. The employees get a "receipt" for their trouble that allows them to claim it on their taxes and the candidate gets to say in press releases that x-company donated a certain amount to their election fund.
    win-win for everyone.

  22. Re:fantastic on White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page · · Score: 1

    hmm.. here in Japan i have 3 more channels available for my 802.11 device than they do in the USA. Channel 12, 13, and 14 anyone? Granted, 802.11 is limited to 100mw...

  23. Re:I hope they're removed, on Barr Sues Over McCain's, Obama's Presence on Texas Ballot · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How about everyone rates the people running for president as their first, second, and third choice by marking as such. 3 points for first pick, 2 points for second pick, 1 point for third pick, 0 points for not picked.

    Then we tally up all 3 and see who wins.

    This would sure even things out a whole lot more I would think. It would force candidates to campaign outside their party boundries in order to get the popular vote.

  24. People would have been happier? on Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Cancelled · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "People would have been happier if everyone loved the ads, but this was not unexpected."

    As if anyone understood the ad at all, let alone were happy about it.

  25. Re:Not really wireless on Scientists Test World's Fastest Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what we use ours for. Gigabit FSO multi-beam laser to get fiber optic speeds into a location with no infrastructure. Then you break it out from there.