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  1. Re:Currently not worth the educational investment on U.S. Science Gap Fictional? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    MBAs

  2. Re:attraction. on Space Tourism from UAE · · Score: 1

    It's almost like you're describing a feudal system.

  3. Re:Attention-whoring, maybe, but why not start you on The Politically Incorrect Science Fair · · Score: 1

    It's not about flash as much. It's more about getting funding to pay for research materials, graduate student salaries, etc.
    It's sad because now, if an immediate result isn't suspected, or some buzzwords like stem cell or cancer research isn't thrown around, you chances of getting funding decrease.
    The high school kids just figured that out.

  4. Re:Make sure you account for everything on Near Light Speed Travel Possible After All? · · Score: 1

    The parent is talking about time dialation, which sadly isn't in wikipedia.

  5. Article Title on Tracking the Cracks · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought this was going to be about tracking people who crack software.

  6. Well, it's my business on When Data Goes Missing Will You Even Know? · · Score: 1

    I teach at a college. In a world where we are getting sick of big brother, I'm getting sick of IT people filling that role. So what if the school won't know if I lost a bit of data on my usb drive. I can live with that. It's better than them centralizing all the drives so that if one networth thing goes wrong everybody can't work.

  7. Re:Any heat is good heat in winter on Standby Electronics a Waste? · · Score: 1

    Visible light's frequency is different than rf but they are both electromagnetic radiation and hence have photons.
    rf has longer wavelengths and lower energy than ir which your remote uses. Both have longer wavelengh than visible light.

  8. Re:Any heat is good heat in winter on Standby Electronics a Waste? · · Score: 1

    Minus any sound it is producing.
    Which turnes into heat.
    Minus any vibrations which might be conducted elsewhere.
    Again, heat
    Minus any radio-frequency energy that it might output.
    rf is light, and photons from previous post metions it already.

  9. People on Trauma Pill Might Help Ease Emotional Pain · · Score: 1

    The trauma pill is people

  10. Re:That's a pretty bold statement... on Dark Energy May Be Changing · · Score: 1

    Math is not science.

  11. Re:Cliffhanger on Sci-Fi Channel to Pick Up John Doe · · Score: 1

    You mom thought I had good delivery.

  12. Re:Cliffhanger on Sci-Fi Channel to Pick Up John Doe · · Score: 1
    Any other showbiz vocabulary questions? Perhaps you were wondering about foley or gaffer or maybe denoument?
    No but you might want to look up humor.
  13. Re:must resist on Symantec Competing Unfairly Against Spybot? · · Score: 1

    I thought they stopped making Quantum(tm) harddrives...

  14. Re:Cliffhanger on Sci-Fi Channel to Pick Up John Doe · · Score: 1
    Rule of thumb - big name actors do not take unimportant bit parts.
    Then what is a cameo?
  15. Re:Flawed. on Switching to Windows, Not as Easy as You Think · · Score: 1

    Also, it would take about half a day to get all the Windows updates intalled. And then they forget to put up a firewall (I know sp2 does it) and 20 minutes later they get hacked.

  16. If it's like any of their other producs, on Yahoo Launches Dashboard · · Score: 1

    It'll probably have too much advertizing. I can't stand opening Yahoo's messenger or their email anymore because the big fat pictures that I have to look away from...

  17. Livestrong on The USB Wristband · · Score: 1

    Only if it were a Lance Armstrong band... (sarcasm)

  18. Re:too easy, but: on Santa Shopped Online This Year · · Score: 1

    I'm Armenian, Christmas is on the 6th of January :)

  19. Re:Apple Stores on Apple Revolutionizing Retail · · Score: 1

    Will they replace your ipod battery this way too?

  20. Re:cookies on Graphics Coming to Google Ads · · Score: 1

    You are correct. Thank you.

  21. cookies on Graphics Coming to Google Ads · · Score: 1

    I'm already annoyed with Google because I can see pages that I haven't clicked on wanting to set cookies on my computer.

  22. fuel fo this? on Zero-Gravity Sports League In Development · · Score: 1

    It'd be funny if the stars of the game would preach fuel efficient cars

  23. Re:Nasties on the net on Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net · · Score: 1

    So if the kid makes a typo for a website and gets 26 porn popups, how is this the parent's fault?

  24. In other news on Nanotechnology Gets Finer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Telescopes see farther, and batteries last longer.

  25. Re:consumers: pathetic? on Amazon Goes Wiki · · Score: 1

    I just switched to tags from wish lists. It seems simpler. They are set as "public" by default just like wish lists and if you care about privacy you would change them to "private".