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  1. Re: You know it's just PR on NASA's Chief Scientist Predicts Evidence For Life Beyond Earth By 2025 · · Score: 1

    Something like 50-75% of global food production gets discarded in landfills thanks to cosmetic defects - lumpy potatoes, bread crusts from sandwich factories, spoilage at the store, etc

    That is astounding. Citation, please?

  2. Re:It works at least as well... on Thousand-Year-Old Eye Salve Kills MRSA · · Score: 1

    Killing MRSA is easy. Trivial, even. You can do it with steam, alcohol, or dozens of other disinfecting agents.

    Any info about the prophylactic dosage there?

  3. Re:Well, I guess I've got to watch it now. on Indian Gov't Wants Worldwide Ban On Rape Documentary, Including Online · · Score: 1

    dunno about that. many people want to APPEAR good and decent there. TOO FUCKING BAD LYNCH MOBS AND DENYING TRIAL is pretty fucking far from being decent. yet statistics and probabilities say that some people in the lynch mob were rapists too. so yeah, they got a lot of work ahead of them in being viewed as fair and civilized society.

    Yeah, why don't the fuckers just follow your shining personal example?

  4. Re:Things aren't supposed to live forever. on The Abandoned Google Project Memorial Page · · Score: 1

    I lost all my Google Health data, my Google Wave data, my Google Buzz data, and my Google reader feeds

    So, you're the one!

  5. Re:There might be hope for a decent adaptation on 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' Coming To the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Great sci-fi or no, Dina Meyer alone made that movie more watchable than many other critically acclaimed works.

  6. Re:What about the 87% of 'sad' feedback reports? on Firefox 36 Arrives With Full HTTP/2 Support, New Design For Android Tablets · · Score: 1

    IE loads mht-s, so does Firefox with this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

  7. Re:NWO on Trans-Pacific Partnership Enables Harsh Penalties For Filesharing · · Score: 1

    You were probably expecting this, so let me be the first to ask - what is NWO?

  8. Re:so... on Peak Google: The Company's Time At the Top May Be Nearing Its End · · Score: 1

    agreed, ddg is my default as well. i also like the bangs feature, so I can type into my browser's search bar "alexander hamilton !w" and it takes me immediately to the wikipedia page for alexander hamilton without needing to deal with any annoying click throughs.

    I don't need ddg for that, firefox keywords work just fine. Dunno about other browsers, though.

  9. Re:Boundary conditions... on Quantum Equation Suggests Universe Had No Beginning · · Score: 1

    The truth probably lays somewhere in between

    Eggs? Bricks? Or what exactly does truth lay in that "between" place?

  10. Re:Silly Question on Site Launches To Track Warrant Canaries · · Score: 1

    "stuffed canary"?

  11. Re:So can a flock of starlings on The Quantum Experiment That Simulates a Time Machine · · Score: 1, Funny

    We need a "Wow, that sounds impressive although I didn't understand a single word" mod option.

  12. Re:We don't on How Do We Know the Timeline of the Universe? · · Score: 1

    We pretend we do, but it was actually re-created yesterday after the reboot of God's Second Life server farm.

    We should have a "-1, repetitive" mod option.

  13. Re:Waiting for Republicans to come in and defend t on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 1

    Obligatory HHG: "Presidents don't have power, their purpose is to draw attention away from it."

  14. Re:Besides the blantant bloodshed... on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jeez, I'd really like to meet this Cmdrtaco guy who carried out the strike on Iraq, arrested Saddam Hussein and won the presidency for Obama!

  15. Re: who cares how many children on AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore · · Score: 1

    No. Children are underdeveloped and require a considerable amount of investment before they create value. Compared to adults where the investment has already been made and who now cannot pay it back, children are worth less.

    So unless a child holds the promise of creating 'value' in the future, it is worthless to you? How about children with disabilities? Or old people who have spent all their 'value'? Or adults without any particular skill?
    It is a great misfortune of modern Western civilization that power is concentrated in the hands of people like you - those who think economic value is the only value.

  16. Re:Raise a stink and vote with your poket on India Faces Its First Major Net Neutrality Issue · · Score: 2

    I already migrated to another service when Skype started being choppy on Airtel. Strangely, there was never any problem with torrents, only with real-time media. My present connection is a tad slower, but pretty solid.

  17. Is your particle collider small, bent or crooked? on New Particle Collider Is One Foot Long · · Score: 1

    No need to feel inferior; it turns out twelve inches is more than enough to satisfy Dame Nature.

  18. Re:GPLv3 was much like that - a lot of people disl on Can Ello Legally Promise To Remain Ad-Free? · · Score: 1

    There are quite a lot of people, myself included, who released software while GPLv2 was current and feel that FSF went a little bit evil with v3. Even to the extent that I agree with Stallman regarding bad patents, I don't think it's right to retroactively pull that into a copyright license. To me, that's precisely the same as if he'd added "you lose your license if you vote Democrat". Democrats may or may not be a bad thing, but Stallman doesn't have a moral right to impose his views regarding political affiliation upon my software. I chose the license because I agreed with what it was - the position it took regarding copyright and secrecy. I allowed for "any later version" to allow for _revisions_, adjustments, to the wording. I didn't do that to allow Stallman and friends to attach their unrelated personal preferences to my work.

    So don't release under GPL V3, and continue with V2. No one's forcing you to upgrade your license, so what imposition are you talking about?

  19. Re:Fristy Pawst! on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    So yes, some of the "rising 3rd world countries" like india and guatemala have some credit available but nothing close to the US where someone can buy a house on credit or get credit cards with limits that grossly exceed their annual income.

    Wrong. Loans for purchasing homes have been available in India since forever. I live in Kolkata, India, in an apartment bought with money borrowed from one of the largest banks. The borrowed amount was about 6 times my annual income when I took it, about 5 years ago.

  20. Re:CDC guilty of correlation == causation on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    There was even one guy who had amnesia whenever you took it.

    Hey, do you happen to know of any way to make this kind of spooky action at a distance work for exercising?

  21. Re:Dupe? on More Quantum Strangeness: Particles Separated From Their Properties · · Score: 1

    Nope, that's the article interfering with itself.

  22. Weapon of mass destruction on Programming On a Piano Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Convert Windows Vista to music, hijack a shortwave radio station & broadcast it around the globe! Muahahahahahaha!

  23. Remarkable achievement? on First Movie of an Entire Brain's Neuronal Activity · · Score: 1

    The entire brain of a nematode worm??? You don't say!!!

  24. Re:BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA on True Size of the Shadow Banking System Revealed (Spoiler: Humongous) · · Score: 1

    And when I see someone trying to puncture a meta joke with his own meta-meta joke in which he claims that the parent claimed that the grandparent belittled a comment solely because... um... solely because... wait, I'll work it out and get back real soon.

  25. Was this what Einstein tried to do? on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1
    Disclaimer: I have no formal knowledge of Maths and Physics beyond high school level.

    I understand Einstein disliked the untidy nature of particle physics and the Standard Model, and wanted to discover an elegant, geometrical explanation for quantum phenomena. Is the current discovery a step in that direction?