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  1. Re:20-volume set? on Oxford Dictionary Considers Going Online Only · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's one PDF I wouldn't want to download.

    ePub FTW!

  2. Scandalous! on Facebook Says It Owns 'Book' · · Score: 3, Funny

    They should call this whole affair "Facebookgate".

  3. Re:iphone, iphone, iphone, iphone... on Court OKs Covert iPhone Audio Recording · · Score: 1

    Why is it important that the recording was performed with this particular device?

    As opposed to one's brain, for example?

  4. Re:Well what I haven't seen on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    I need to see what it is that the public needed to know so much that it outweighed the harm.

    That war shouldn't be done unless absolutely necessary.

  5. Funny on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 1

    Oops. Posting to undo fat-finger mod.

  6. Unslung on Unusual, Obscure, and Useful Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    It makes the Slug rock!

  7. Exoplanet... Schexoplanets on Exoplanet Reports Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    "Directly imaged"? IDTX (I Don't Think Xo). Not unless you consider any Kim Kardashian photo you've ever seen to be "directly imaged".

    As for planetary status--they even got Pluto wrong FFS... and that's just an endo-whatever.

  8. Russia 0 - Wikileaks 1 on Alleged Russian Spy Ring Exposed In US · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Officials said no secrets were compromised or revealed in the alleged plot."

  9. Canary in a Coal Mine on German Airports Use Bees To Monitor Air Quality · · Score: 1

    From the article: "Assessing environmental health using bees as 'terrestrial bioindicators' is a fairly new undertaking, said Jamie Ellis, assistant professor of entomology at the Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory, University of Florida in Gainesville.

    Fairly new undertaking? I don't think so.

  10. Re:No it isn't on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    Whoosh?

  11. Re:Wrong dictionary. on FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Fifty bucks says the password is GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! Good luck with that. Even though goals are few and far between, in a game, there is an infinite number of ways of saying it... GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! etc.

    Not quite infinite, but maybe a GOOGOL permutations.

  12. Re:O'RLY on USPTO Grants Bezos Patent On '60s-Era Chargebacks · · Score: 1

    The credibility of patents is eroded day by day, diluted into pure paperwork used for litigation fodder.

    This is a good thing: reductio ad absurdum or at the very least reductio ad incommodum. Same with copyright.

  13. Online Service Provider on YouTube Granted Safe Harbor From Viacom · · Score: 3, Informative
    As defined by DMCA, practically anyone can be an OSP and claim safe harbor:

    (A) As used in subsection (a), the term "service provider" means an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user’s choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received.

    (B) As used in this section, other than subsection (a), the term "service provider" means a provider of online services or network access, or the operator of facilities therefor, and includes an entity described in subparagraph (A).

  14. Re:Not just Google on At Google, You're Old and Gray At 40 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia...... ?

    Surely you meant "In South Korea..."

  15. Re:Content versus medium on Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter · · Score: 2, Informative

    A better reason to hate Twitter is the obsolete 140-character limit (...) the character limit just serves to dictate that all posts be short, which in most cases also makes them vapid.

    Lo bueno, si breve, dos veces bueno.. y si malo, no tan malo.

  16. 80-20 on Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter · · Score: 1

    Pareto strikes again!

  17. Stop Thinking about the Children on Italian MEP Wants To Eliminate Anonymity On the Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm looking at you Silvio.

  18. Re:Thanks on DePaul University To Offer Degree In Predictive Analysis · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the idiotic moderators are uninformed.

    K. Trout

    And so it goes.

  19. Re:In Other Word: on DePaul University To Offer Degree In Predictive Analysis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    statistics.

    As Feynman might have said, Statistics is to Predictive Analytics as Mathematics is to Physics.

  20. Re:Desert Southwest on NASA Says Moon Has More Water Than Great Lakes · · Score: 1

    Good, let the desert southwest get their water from the moon!

    The way NASA reckons it (the volume of water molecules locked inside minerals in the moon's interior), I bet the Southwest has a much higher "specific humidity" than the moon.

  21. Re:Thanks on Updated Mac Mini Aims For the Living Room · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tell me, if Steve told you to jump off a bridge, would you ask which one?

    Well, Steve wouldn't just tell you to jump. He would offer three height options (iBridge 50, iBridge 100, iBridge Pro250) and then sell you the privilege of jumping off one of them.

  22. Re:2nd Amendment on Set Free Your Inner Jedi (Or Pyro) · · Score: 1

    The real question is, does the FDA regulates the sales of freakin' sharks?

    "Freakin' sharks" are FDA. "Friggin' sharks" are ATF.

  23. Firecrackers on Teaching Fifth Graders Engineering · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Obviously not something that would be done in school, but playing with firecrackers and other incendiary devices provided me with some engineering insights early on.

    Sample objective: achieving maximum height of a projectile using an explosive propellant.

    Lessons learned: 1) Use a seamless can (such as an empty butane canister), as normal cans would just blow apart. 2) Set canister in a basin of water to minimize energy loss, with firecracker suspended by the wick through a hole on top.

    Results: A couple hundred meters altitude, incredibly low deviation from vertical.

  24. 1931 called on The Beginnings of Encrypted Computing In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    This is just Gödel numbering using an "encrypting" algorithm.

  25. Re:What about Google? on Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies? · · Score: 1

    A relentless focus on profit over all else is the scourge of capitalism in our nation. We have forgotten that business exists to serve people, people do not exist for the sake of money. There are other business models other than focusing purely on profit. For example, ask Muhammad Yunus: 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner; Founder, Grameen Bank.

    From the Grameen Bank FAQ: "Does Grameen Bank make profits?
    Since its inception, Grameen Bank made profits every year, except for the years 1983, 1991 and 1992. For detailed information take a look at the Data & Reports section."


    The fact is, the only way you would know that your business is serving people is if it makes a profit. Loss-making enterprises mean that there are better uses for your capital.