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  1. Oh man on Recovering Moldy Electronics? · · Score: 4, Funny

    24 feet of drywall from the base of the room? He's got some big rooms.

  2. Re:Parlous...I like that. on "Roadable Aircraft" Moving Towards Launch · · Score: 1

    Parlous is perfectly valid English, and a nice word to boot. (Also, you misspelled pardner.)

  3. Porn-to-porn? on Vint Cerf Says It's Every Machine For Itself · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's porn-to-porn fileswapping? We know what the submitter had on his mind.

  4. Re:I have not read the book on Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Output quality: does it have automatic equation numbering? An equivalent for BibTeX? Intelligent modifiable Table of Contents? Ability to replace a math symbol wherever used with another? Change aforementioned numerations at will?

  5. Re:No such thing on Kuwait Issues Order To Block YouTube · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your logic reaches the right conclusion, but for the wrong reasons. "Guns don't kill people: evil dictators kill people" - or in your case, ideas don't kill people, evil dictators kill people. Most ideas where one person is believed to be permanently more important result in evil dictators, and death results.

  6. Re:Aren't there others like this? on Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Unless I'm greatly mistaken, I doubt there are a billion companies, so less than one company wants to buy a nonfunctional product. This is belied by the number of companies using Microsoft products. Therefore, your math is wrong somewhere.

  7. Re:How? on 7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hi. I am also a Davidson Fellow (Billy Dorminy, won $10k about two years ago, I forget the award cycle). Let me tell you: while I can't vouch for any year but the year I was a winner, the Davidson Fellow award-winners I know are fully smart enough to do such things, and while some do have scientific parents, I can say I do not have scientific parents and thus cannot have had parental help. Thus, I understand why you'd claim it's just the parents, but it's not always true and can be offensive.

  8. Re:Not worried? Perhaps they should be. on Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've heard Firefox 4 will move to Webkit also. Gecko is dying. Netcraft confirms it.

  9. Re:What's wrong with a... on Making Mobile Presentations Without a Laptop? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Westinghouse = ?? on Westinghouse Commits to Green Plug's Universal A.C. Adapter · · Score: 1

    Never mind, the company I was thinking of was renamed

  11. Re:Westinghouse = ?? on Westinghouse Commits to Green Plug's Universal A.C. Adapter · · Score: 1

    It's actually Siemans, a French company, that owns Westinghouse' name.

  12. Re:Things that make you go "hmm..." on Paul Suspends Presidential Campaign, Forms New Org · · Score: 2, Insightful

    [citation needed] Being creationist does not mean being anti-science. Being anti-"public"-school means getting government out of forcing one choice for free education, and allowing school vouchers means accountability for the (still-taxpayer-funded) schools, improving our education system.

  13. Re:Things that make you go "hmm..." on Paul Suspends Presidential Campaign, Forms New Org · · Score: 1

    [citation needed] I'm unaware of Paul wanting to restrict what you learn in science class or do in your bedroom (or outside). Mind finding a citation?

  14. Re:Anti-Malware Response on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    Actually, factoring algorithms are in a constant state of refinement. For instance, the current fastest factoring algorithm, the general number field seive, was discovered in the last decade. It _is_ possible that the NSA has made some leap which makes it feasible for them to factor, maybe not over lunch, but possible. Your bruteforce analysis is invalid because it does not take into account possible algorithm improvements.

  15. Re:Anti-Malware Response on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    And, who knows what specialized algorithms have been found in the NSA?

  16. Re:Lynx on goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell · · Score: 1

    Actually, google's interface is fairly cluttered in lynx; the text box is preceded by about 15 links.

  17. Re:Wait... Would you ever hit this? on The 25-Year-Old BSD Bug · · Score: 1

    If you RTA, you'd see that it's a bug where the first entry in a block is deleted. If a directory spans more than one block, there are multiple first-entries-for-a-block, not just '.'. Thus, in the article's example, in a 28-file directory, deleting file 25 and seeking to file 26 would return file 27.

  18. Re:This is a US website on Nanoparticle Infused Gauze Quickly Stanches Wounds · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, I'm fairly sure that it is correctly 'stanch' for 'cause to cease bleeding' and 'staunch' for 'very fervid, committed to a cause'. You stanch blood, you are a staunch supporter. They can be interchanged, but those are the original meanings, and it is correct as used.

  19. Re:wishful thinking on Growing Plants on the Moon May Be Feasible · · Score: 1

    1: Not necessarily.
    2: Pressure? Why? Water? See cacti. CO2, yes, I don't know why nitrogen is necessary though.
    3 and 4: There are plants that abide in very high or low acidity soils.
    5: The summary discusses bacteria that could abide on the moon.
    6: See 3/4.
    7: Some plants survive.
    8: No. Doesn't need to be above freezing necessarily, or *nothing* would be alive in the winter.

  20. Re:Buying One Myself on Home Wind-Power Turbines Make Headway · · Score: 1

    How will you deal with internet connection, out of curiosity?

  21. Re:To be fair, mathemeticians didn't know math eit on Psychologists Don't Know Math · · Score: 1

    Ah, so there is a 1% chance of neither succeeding nore losing. :)

  22. Re:AmigaTex, Dvips, Blitter Life on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 1

    Can't we treat the bits not static as a binary number, add 1 to it, and replace the original bits with the bits of the new number? For instance, from 101110101001, we treat the number as 101110101, increase by 1 to 101110110, replace for 101110101010.

  23. Re:Not really that great. on Space Tourism Industry Gains New Competitor · · Score: 1

    Only 0 if it's launched straight away from Earth, else the horizontal component of its velocity is non-zero at all points in the flight. /nitpick>

  24. Re:not as secure as it could be on 7 Secure USB Drives Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Was that the Ciphershield?

  25. Re:so what's a few minutes apart ? on Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster · · Score: 1
    a) wee people like the comfort of their parents.

    b) sometimes people traveling together are virtually only going to see each other during that plane flight, for whatever reason, and being apart 10 of 200 minutes is 5% of their time together.

    So there are reasons that some people would very much dislike this.