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  1. Re:Community edited on Was This the First CC Community-Edited Novel? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ahh... It's not goatse.cx, it's just a space station.

  2. Re:There was a Hardy Boys about this on Zeppelins Over California · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, the per-passenger-mile fallacy. I'd love that if I could do the annual 10k or so road miles at aircraft risk probabilities. The problem is that those 10k miles represent several hundred or more trips. Usually, air miles are done in big chuncks, so a more realistic representation of risk probabilities is to use per-passenger-trip. When you embark on a trip, it is preferable to arrive in one piece, regardless of the distance of the trip.

  3. Re:A viola? Really? on "Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief · · Score: 1

    D.S. al Fine.

  4. Re:Not entirely accurate either on Tesla Motors Opens Retail Store · · Score: 1

    After reading all these posts comparing running costs between a USD100K two seat EV sports car and a USD27K gasoline minivan by cherry picking the data, I don't find it at all surprising that Microsoft can easily bamboozle people with TCO claims.

  5. Re:Who are these people? on NewYorkCountryLawyer Debates RIAA VP · · Score: 1

    It's just to be doubly sure, like the post up the page which used the regex **AA, just to make sure that no *AAs were missed, including Alcoholics Anonymous and various Automobile Associations

  6. Re:Here the propaganda machine starts again on An Inside Look At Iran's Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    Sure, the US is handing out a shitload of money to poor countries. Since US is heavily indebted, just who's money are they giving away?

  7. Re:You're missing the point of an ISO standard on Office 2007 Fails OOXML Test With 122,000 Errors · · Score: 1

    Since we are having so many problesm with ones and twos, may I ask whether this make us constipated or incontinent.

  8. Re:Mod Parent UP PLEASE on Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue · · Score: 1

    The USA puts $250 billion each year on the tab, of which it only settles a quarter.

    The Arabs and Chinese are truely getting stiffed by the US.

  9. Re:Just how counterfeit are they? on Counterfeit DFI Motherboards Surface In Indonesia · · Score: 1

    Same as printing your own money... alone you won't break the world economy, but if too many people do it they get together and create a central bank to support their "business". There, fixed that for you.
  10. Re:Large enough sample set? on Identify and Verify Users Based on How They Type · · Score: 1

    Do you really have to repeat all those vowels?

  11. Re:Real Texans keep their word. on Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment · · Score: 1
  12. Re:He had nothing to hide on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1

    It's John Winston Howard's fairy-tale ending. A perfect method to implement wage restraint.

  13. Re:Transit passes... on NXP RFID Cracked · · Score: 1

    Does the card contain any more valuable information? No, but the linked camera that took a photo of the card owner, or correlation with time-stamped CCTV footage might provide some useful additional info.
  14. Re:Frustrating, but not really... on NXP RFID Cracked · · Score: 2, Funny

    The tinfoil pants are for preventing them reading his mind.

  15. Re:Peer through opaque objects on Using X-ray Radiography To Reveal Ancient Insects · · Score: 1

    What, so you can check out Amber's crabs?

  16. Re:Abandon All Hope on ISO Approves OOXML · · Score: 1

    Cue persistent formal requests to MS for specification details regarding "auto space like Word 95" et al. It's obviously the first step on the road to litigation/anti-trust cases.

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

    Of course it simplified things. Every issue resolves to a dichotomy. A simple choice then.

  18. Re:1.6ghz? on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 3, Funny

    The sound of the CPU cooling fan at 2.4GHz?

  19. Re:Wow, it really works on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Interesting point. Should a solved cube be a member of the set of all starting points, and also would it also be a member of the set of essentially similar ones?

  20. Re:disparity... on Nuclear Nose Cones Mistakenly Shipped to Taiwan · · Score: 1

    I say it's probably in the basement.

  21. Re:Ads up on Western Digital's "Green" Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Care to reveal your specs?

  22. Re:Simple solution on Cubicle Security For Laptops, Electronics? · · Score: 1

    Only car analogies parse around here.

  23. Re:Simple solution on Cubicle Security For Laptops, Electronics? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Almost like a garage for your car.

  24. Re:Room-pressure? on Scientists Create Room Temperature Superconductor · · Score: 2, Informative

    If there's a cold wind whistling in through the open door, then certainly cold is coming in.
    Since convection is one of the three heat transfer mechanisms, then movement of cold mass and subsequent dilution with a warmer mass, viz. cold coming in, is a valid description of heat transfer.

  25. Re:For fuck's sake on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A burning tire around a camera is tant-amount to an act of terrorism by virtue of its lack of shiny-happiness and thus is to be treated with suspicion rather than as food for thought. A better civil disobedience act, more in the vein of The Chaser's War on Everything would be for a team to swan around the city posing as a CCTV camera cleaning crew, albeit using a can of black spray paint instead of proper cleaning equipment.