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  1. Re:Holy Mixed Unit Systems Batman! on Crazy Eric Schmidt, His Yacht Prices Are Insaaane! · · Score: 1

    8192 for certain values of $Dogs_Tail

  2. Re:But... on Listening To the Big Bang – In High Fidelity · · Score: 1

    Your speakers implode!

  3. Re:Title not entirely accurate on Man Accused of Selling Golf Ball Finders As Bomb Detectors · · Score: 2

    Yes.

  4. host your own ads. on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    Host your own non-flash ads from the same domain and I'll see them fine. Very few do this though so I rarely see webvertisements.

    Also /. seems to like adding "(?)" at the end of my subject lines in preview. Weird.

  5. Re:finally, some good sense on Apple Patent Describes iTunes Reselling and Loaning System · · Score: 1

    Not the OP. People like you are why i go with +1 ac in my profile. From somebody with the handle "PoolOfThought" I would have expected a silent mod point applied to the "thought" portrayed rather than bitching about the logged in status of the OP.
     

  6. now to download on For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0 · · Score: 1

    503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request..

    Server=slag heap

  7. Re:Modest changes on Canadian Government Scrapping Internet Predators Act · · Score: 1

    Sounda like a normal day at the WGA-the World Canadian Bureau.

  8. FSM on Texas School Board Searching For Alternatives To Evolutionary Theory · · Score: 5, Insightful

    May we each be touched by his noodley appendage!

  9. Re:Stealth became a necessary tactic on No Transmitting Aliens Detected In Kepler SETI Search · · Score: 1

    *for the right...
    ** kind of tinder

    I loathe iTyping!

  10. Re:Stealth became a necessary tactic on No Transmitting Aliens Detected In Kepler SETI Search · · Score: 1

    'Nuclear physics is at a stage of
    "rubbing two sticks together" to generate
    nuclear power.'

    Not quite correct. In the 50s we were at the 2 sticks phase but we're now looking fpr the right king of tinder and imagining a firebow.

  11. Re:dont have an account here on Untethered iOS 6.1 evasi0n Jailbreak Arrives For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    Restore from the itunes backup you took before you ran the jailbreak. You DID backup right?

  12. Cheating in Congress on Dozens Suspended In Harvard University Cheat Scandal · · Score: 5, Funny

    The course is Government 1310: "Introduction to Congress" so I'd think cheating was required.

  13. Re:Good machine, poor software on A Robot With a Chainsaw! · · Score: 1

    I want one which can manipulate the T-dimension.

  14. Re:And that's why SETI will never find the aliens on NASA Achieves Laser Communication With Lunar Satellite · · Score: 1

    This is the one you're thinking of:
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

  15. Re:Where does extra energy go? on Mathematical Breakthrough Sets Out Rules For More Effective Teleportation · · Score: 1

    "Speculation on the consequences of impossible
    events is not really informative."

    About a century ago a patent clerk speculated on impossible events and successfully described space-time and time dilation.

  16. Re:Retro gaming on Open Source Gaming Handheld Project Wants Your Money · · Score: 1

    In my day 'old games' were a helluva lot smaller than 640*480.

  17. Re:understanding the brain on Spaun: a Large-Scale Functional Brain Model · · Score: 1

    Neither correctly recalled nor attributed but that's not an issue in these days so don't worry too much about it.

    "If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."
    Lyall Watson

    I started typing and Google showed me the way.

    On a somewhat related note although Bing is improving I hope it never becomes a verb...

  18. sloppy web coding on The Wii Mini Is Real, Arrives December 7 — In Canada · · Score: 1

    I tried to RTFA but it crashes Opera on my ipod just after the page finishes rendering. Repeated three times and three crashes with lost tabs each time.

  19. Re:When the lights dim in the building... on The World's Oldest Original Digital Computer Springs Back Into Action At TNMOC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Copypasta from TFA:
    Power Consumption: 1.5kW
    Size 2m high x 6m wide x 1m deep
    Weight: 2.5 tonnes
    Number of Dekaton counter tubes: 828
    Number of other valves: 131
    Number of relays: 480
    Number of contacts or relay switches: 7073
    Number of high speed relays: 26
    Number of lamps: 199
    Number of switches: 18

    It uses about the same power as the space heater in my living room which does dim the lights across the apartment. I'd expect a museum to have slightly better power than the century-home I live in although I may be mistaken on that point.

  20. Re:VirtualBox or VM Workstation on Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? · · Score: 1

    I'll just leave this here...

  21. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? · · Score: 1

    This!

  22. Re:I wish every subject did this. on Nearly All Particle Physics Research To Be Open Access · · Score: 1

    As a guitar teacher I have met many of these travesties. It often takes *months* of work and correction to break the terrible playing-position and rhythmic faults. I've also seen a few book-schooled players who learned to play execute wrapped-thumb-tapped basslines while plucking melody and harmony in counterpoint but those are the pleasant exceptions.

    I have yet to see a book which teaches the entire skillset of the true essentials of the instrument. I might have to remedy that myself.

  23. Re:Launch window of only 20 minutes on Twin Craft To Study Space Weather From Within Earth's Radiation Belts · · Score: 1

    "...What I'm surprised is that the launch window lasts only for 20 minutes

    Why so short the time frame of the launch window?"

    IANARS but i have always thought of the launch window as a kind-of measurement of excess-available delta-vee (ie-extra fuel) from launch. The problem with carrying extra fuel beyond mission-specifications is it *also* needs to be accelerated up to orbital velocities which reduces the contribution from the previously-spent fuel. It goes deeper than that but those are some of the prime factors in launch-windows.

  24. Re:as a precaution ... on Cats Not Linked To Brain Cancer After All · · Score: 1

    You could concatenate them instead...

  25. Re:Feels like post-911 on Companies Advise Tighter Security After Honan Hack · · Score: 1

    It annoys me every time i need to login, especially on my iDevice where i have to click no, reload, hit back and refuse again before it loads properly.

    I should set up a voip number similar to a certain luggage combo and enter that to click yes but i bet it would violate the TOS...