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  1. Re:Hogwash... on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 1

    Ah. A female who knows what rejection feels like. Doesn't feel good does it? And yet you still always force the man to make the first move.
    No I am not bitter at all.

  2. So what happens on OCZ Prepares Neural Impulse Actuator for Shipping · · Score: 2, Funny

    When you're playing Battlefield 1942 and you see a tank shell coming for your face? I find it very hard to believe this kind of technology will be able to interpret the "OH SHIT" reflex accurately...

  3. Re:Challenge? Why on Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI · · Score: 1

    In NZ this guy would be a hero in juvie. He wouldn't have any problems at all. Come to that, he'd be a hero in highschool too...

  4. Re:Amy I the only one? on The Effects of the Fibre Outage Throughout the Mediterranean · · Score: 1

    Yeah I noticed it too, but I'm from NZ. It's also strange considering the previous stories were talking about the Middle East, which is obviously also distinct from both the Mediterranean and countries like Pakistan and India. Americans are so funny sometimes :P

  5. Re:Easier way......... on Sperm Made From Female Bone Marrow, Men Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Smoking crack has the same affect on the baby as smoking, say, tobacco. The urban legend of crackbabies is a socioeconomic oppression tool.

  6. Re:RSI worse with touchscreens? on Touch Screen Tech Comes of Age · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm willing to bet you won't have to maintain contact the whole time, even when dragging things (highlight item with left hand, touch destination with right hand: zero arm movement). Besides which, a little added physical exertion will be a good thing for many computer users...

  7. Anyone else reminded on Robot Composed of "Catoms" Can Assume Any Form · · Score: 1

    of Clayfighters? That was an awesome game :)

  8. Re:swarms are not creepy on Researchers Reference Flocking Birds to Improve Swarmbots · · Score: 1

    Birds flying in a V shape isn't useless at all, it's efficient. The lead bird expends the most energy because it doesn't get any of the slipstream effect the other birds get off the bird ahead of them. So V-shape formations for robots ARE useless for nonflying robots.

  9. Re:Cheap shot incoming! on Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind · · Score: 1

    Succotash is a food made of lima beans and maize. But that isn't widely known (at least not over here). So why shouldn't we take the BBC list seriously?

  10. Re:Population Perspective.... on World of Warcraft Hits 10 Million Subscribers · · Score: 1

    Lovely http://www.citizensrequired.com/unit/site/index.shtml is bigger than a few of those lil countries tho - it isn't hard...

  11. Problems.. on Pentagon Working on "Human Fear" Weapons · · Score: 1

    From TFA, about the 2002 Viennese study: "though subjects thought the smell was aggression rather than fear." It seems to me like this could be a tool to provoke riots rather than fear, if the Pentagon can't sort out the misinterpretation issue. Ah empirical science. Doing things you didn't expect :)

  12. This happens naturally in New Zealand on Japan's Melody Roads Play Music as You Drive · · Score: 1

    When we get our roads resurfaced, the first thing they do is scrape the road laterally, and you get grooves just like in the Japanese YouTube video linked above. I had it on my road for about 3 months (they take their time with roadworks); it sounded like a whale singing when u drove over it at about 70kph. Trippy as hell!

  13. Stealth my a$$ on "Stealth" Plasma Antennas · · Score: 1

    If it's plasma, it's heated. Heat is highly visible to anyone using thermal imaging goggles on the ground, or in the air. Thus, not stealth.

  14. Re:Free Energy on A New Way To Make Water, And Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    The US produces a lot more vodka than Russia. So maybe it will be their vodka wells?

  15. Re:Sigh. I love American grammar... on New Robots Hunt Pirates by Sea · · Score: 1

    The problem with the grammar is (conspiracy theories aside) that I don't think the Americans or British would have wanted to help Al Qaeda's attack on the USS Cole...which is what that sentence says. My point was that Americans often use the word 'help' with self-preferential bias ("help the Americans defend the USS Cole") rather than grammatical accuracy ("help Al Qaeda attack it").

  16. Re:Sigh. I love American grammar... on New Robots Hunt Pirates by Sea · · Score: 1

    Because this kind of error occurs reasonably frequently. But yeah, I shouldn't make generalisations, I know :)

  17. Sigh. I love American grammar... on New Robots Hunt Pirates by Sea · · Score: 1

    From TFA: "The 55-mpg Interceptor could become the long-range patrol boat of the future, while the jetski-size Sentry (inset) could help a terrorist plot such as Al Qaeda's attack on the USS Cole in December 2000." Sounds about right though...

  18. Evolution vs Creation on Rate of Evolution Metrics Observed · · Score: 1

    Why do people assume that the process of evolution being true means that creation isn't? They're not mutually exclusive!

  19. Re:Down Under? on Police Busted When Tracking Device Found On Car · · Score: 1

    Diminutive Tasmania? Tasmania is smaller than the North Island! But u were right, Down Under is pretty much always used to refer to Australia only.

  20. Felony? on NZ MPs Outlaw Satire of Parliament · · Score: 1

    "but the threat of felony contempt is new." What? We don't even have a class of criminal offending in New Zealand called felony... I don't even know what the distinction in America is. Also, Parliament has already backed down on this, they changed the wording to include "misrepresentation for satire..."

  21. Re:Entertaining. on Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but so do magnetrons...

  22. Re:Hold your horses... on DreamWorks Picks up Neil Gaimans' Interworld · · Score: 1

    Mirrormask has been out for a while now... (A good, out-of-it Neil Gaiman book that got made into a movie...)

  23. Re:I suppose... on Pimping Out a New House · · Score: 1

    They's already been done, in Soviet Russia...

  24. HAHAHAHA on Attack-Proof Power Line to be Installed Under NY · · Score: 1

    As a New Zealander with no training in terrorism (like most NZers), the first thought that popped into my head when I read the article was, "Man, if I was a terrorist I'd just damage the cooling system." Attack-proof is such a silly term to use with something that has to be kept so far below not only ambient but also resistance-induced temperatures...

  25. Re:Ancient Chinese Secret, Huh? on DARPA Developing Defensive Plasma Shield · · Score: 1

    Green. Or khaki, possibly.