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  1. Re:Who says Reality TV is dead? on Volunteers Simulate Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    A Russian, a German, and a Frenchman in an enclosed space for 3 months. Sure. I'd watch that. You'll know they've run out of ideas after someone invades Poland, though.

    This format could be tweaked further for greater entertainment value. Let's have Italians organize it, with a British chef (I'm looking at you Heston), an ex-Citroen French mechanic, and a German policeman.

  2. Re:Why give it away? Should have sold sponsorship! on NASA In Colbert Conundrum Over Space Station · · Score: 1

    Might have something to do with that being against the law. Not that it would have done any good either way, as any funds raised that way go into a general fund and are doled back out by Congress. (Which is a feature, not a bug. It's designed to prevent federal agencies from circumventing the budget or selling off federal resources for personal or agency gain.)

    Which explains the Exxon Condoleezza Rice, I mean the Exxon Altair Voyager.

  3. works great on Command Lines and the Future of Firefox · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP

  4. Re:Two runs? on New Speed Record Set For Wind-Powered Vehicles · · Score: 1

    What about gradient then?

  5. Re:Fascinating on HIV Transmission Captured On Video · · Score: 4, Funny

    I always found biology quite fascinating. All those little buggers that can kill a human just by sheer numbers.

    You should hang around statisticians then. They're a hoot!

  6. Re:Target operating system? on Vast Electronic Spying Operation Discovered · · Score: 5, Funny

    Macs? I'd think he'd be a Linux type of guy.

    Mac, for sure. If someone knows the sound of one mouse button clicking, the DL is it!

  7. Two runs? on New Speed Record Set For Wind-Powered Vehicles · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did they take the average of two timed runs in opposite directions in order to compensate for, you know... wind speed?

  8. Re:I smell a technical loophole in this... on Australian ISP Argues For BitTorrent Users · · Score: 1

    . According to 17 USC 101,

    "Copies" are material objects, other than phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The term "copies" includes the material object, other than a phonorecord, in which the work is first fixed.

    Sounds like a brain, or the ear-brain combination. I have actually *heard* music (not just recall it internally) in places with strong white noise (like the beach). I would hear a song faintly but quite distinctly and think that it's just a radio playing out in the distance. But sometimes, after a while, I realize that the song just won't end! I notice this happens when I don't know the full arrangement of the original recording. My hypothesis is that my brain selectively perceives actual sound waves in the white noise, filtering out everything that does not correspond to the piece of music I am "hearing".

  9. Re:Required reading on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    Well semantically, the difference between "Experiencing pain" and "Displaying pain behaviours" is so thin as to be non-existent. Might as well assume they're the same thing.

    Quite the opposite. Ask your girlfriend if the difference between "experiencing orgasm" and "displaying orgasmic behaviours" is non-existent.

  10. Re:one difference on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 2, Informative

    dynamical

    Dynamical? Really? It's bad enough the last president made up shit like this, now we have supposedly intelligent people doing it too?

    Yes really.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_system

  11. OT grammar Nazi on 10 OSes We Left Behind · · Score: 1

    I can't speak to whether it is the load (it was a normal p90 Dell type computer).

    Please use the phrasal verb "speak to" only with an interlocutor as a complement. By "speak to" do you mean "comment on" "speak about", or somesuch, or does "can't speak to" mean "don't know about"?

  12. Re:What is it with these guys? on Laser Sniffing Captures Typed Keystrokes From 50-100 Feet · · Score: 1

    It's time to switch to a DVORAK keyboard. Let them sniff that.

    Actually, Dvorak users tend to be the most sniffable, in the literal olfactory sense of the term.

  13. Re:And so.. on Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons · · Score: 1

    There has to be a guy somewhere in the pentagon who is Chief Officer of Nomenclature, Military Acronyms, & Names. Or something like that!

    I WANT THAT JOB.

    Unfortunately, the acronym "CONMAN" is not used as it is polysemous within all three branches of government.

  14. Already legal on Canadian Songwriters' Collective Licensing Bid Goes Voluntary · · Score: 1

    "The SAC has renewed its bid to legalize peer-to-peer file sharing "

    Isn't it already/still legal in Canada?

  15. Re:Cool - now how much ... on NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Besides, most accidents are on takeoff, landing, or when the pilot didn't notice the mountain. No time to deploy parachutes.

    Indeed. Slamming into mountains is common enough to be given an acronym: CFIT - Controlled Flight into Terrain).

  16. Re:Cells are NEW but also STOLEN on Building Your Own Solar Panel In the Garage · · Score: 1

    Volts don't cause electrical fires. Amps cause electrical fires.

    And what causes amps? Volts.

    But what causes heat, and thus fire? Ohms.

  17. Re:Cool... but limited... only by your imagination on MacBook Modded With Second Monitor Inside Logo · · Score: 1

    There really should be some sort of licensing procedure for using the phrase "beg the question"... but yeah, agree with the winking/blinking distinction.

  18. Onerous requirement on Court Reinstates Proof-of-Age Requirement For Nude Ads · · Score: 1

    It looks like these businesses will have to buy extra equipment (ten-foot pole) to check Goatse Guy's ID.

  19. Round Collectors on Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? · · Score: 1

    The renderings in the article show round or hexagonal collectors that seem to be radially divided into identical slices.

    Pie in the sky?

  20. Re:12470 volts on When Servers Explode · · Score: 1

    It's not the volts that kills you. It's the amps. (Obscure)

    Actually its the Ohms. If you were a perfect conductor, you'd be fine.

  21. Re:How can people expect... on Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" · · Score: 1

    The difference is that, in addition to the harmful side-effects, real medicine generally has beneficial effects, which "alternative medicine" is a tad bit lacking in.

    Take Lipitor, please! (Henny Youngman reference for the clueless--you know who you are!)

  22. Re:Haha... Such a predictable sig-roll on Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" · · Score: 1

    Which part of: "Don't hesitate to call when you get interesting." did you not understand? Please stop wasting my time. Thank you.

  23. Number 1 Rule when Dealing with Servers on When Servers Explode · · Score: 2, Funny

    Be nice to whoever is handling your food!

  24. Haha... Such a predictable sig-roll on Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" · · Score: 1

    What initially showed promise as a potentially fruitful dialectical encounter has ultimately proven to be barren.

    Bye. Don't hesitate to call when you get interesting.

  25. Re:How can people expect... on Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" · · Score: 1

    Sure, let's plainly state things. Like "you're an idiot". I have an "economically-motivated bias" to go an rob banks. Quite noticeably, I am not going around robbing banks. "foo is possible" is *not* a solid argument.

    The only claim I have made is just that: "Climate scientists have an economically-motivated bias to come up with findings that are more likely to spur funding for continued research in their field."

    Thou dost protest too much! (This is rhetorically effective only for a certain audience)

    I agree with your sig though.