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  1. Re:That irony can be so ironic sometimes on China Starts Censoring Phone Calls Mid Sentence · · Score: 0

    Nice FUD; the link works perfectly well and one can read the entire article without a subscription.

  2. Re:Welcome to the real world, hippies on Why IP Laws Are Blocking Innovation · · Score: 2

    How can the summary (and presumably article too) say that you can't have both [innovation and prop up old business models], but then talks about a balance between the two? A balance would be somewhere in between, allowing for *both*...

    Oh well.

  3. Re:Incredibly useful human group dynamics experien on World of Warcraft Can Boost Your Career · · Score: 1

    Had exactly the same thing happen for me a few years back. 5 minutes of aftercall/wrapup work at the end of each call, but got through more calls than others by being better at my job. Was left with a higher percentage of aftercall (translated as non-productive) work at the end of the day than the idiots taking 3 times as long to complete calls.

    I was working for a UK government department.

  4. Re:Midichlorian testing to come soon on Believing You Are Very Good Or Evil Boosts Your Physical Capabilities · · Score: 1

    It's not that they *use* quantum entanglement per se; it's that the electron transport chain present in choloroplasts has evolved to be as efficient as it can, which happens to take advantage of quantum effects.

  5. Re:Doubtful on Kojima Predicts the End of the Console · · Score: 1

    I believe Dust 512 due to come out next year will look to achieve just that

  6. Re:Amazon is fighting for their life here, remembe on Amazon Battles Apple By Arm-Twisting Publishers · · Score: 1

    Personally, I would certainly be offended if someone said, "You will sell this product at a price we dictate, and only take 15%. You cannot charge more to make more money; you cannot try to maximize profits through selling more by offering it for less. And if 15% of an arbitrary price we set isn't enough for you to make profit -- or even enough for you to run your business, tough." And I'd fight it as best I could.

    What the hell are you referring to? The publisher *is* allowed to set the price - and so clearly they *are* able to vary their profit per unit.

  7. Re:Lol neckbeards on Bethesda Unveils New Co-op Dungeon Crawler · · Score: 1
  8. Re:seems legit. on Screwing Food Into Your Mouth · · Score: 1

    The news here is that milk is sold in metric litres. WTF?

  9. Re:Its Chang on A Hyper-Velocity Impact In the Asteroid Belt? · · Score: 1

    Worst Slashfiction Ever

  10. Re:For those too lazy on New Study Shows Youth Plugged In Most of the Day · · Score: 2, Funny

    how does the moderation system manage to work without directors such as yourself spelling out your inane opinions?

  11. Re:How do we know it's not already in use? on Newly-Found Windows Bug Affects All Versions Since NT · · Score: 1

    If your analogy takes longer to explain, you shouldn't bother.

  12. So.. on Kernel Contributor Corbet Says Linux Community Is 'Intimidating' · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    was his.

  13. Re:Indeed on The Trousers of Reality · · Score: 1

    He didn't coin anything, ever.

  14. Re:Minus 1, Troll) on Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light · · Score: 1

    this link is even SFW! take a look at this halloween parody..

  15. Re:People fall for spam? on Project Honey Pot Traps Billionth Spam · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..your link doesn't work :(

  16. Re:Absurd on Supreme Court Takes Texting Privacy Case · · Score: 1

    read it again. it says informal policy.

  17. Re:DON'T LIKE iT? DOn'T USE IT !! on Facebook Masks Worse Privacy With New Interface · · Score: 1

    no need, i have a friend on FB called Senile Edge

  18. Re:New players AGAIN? on Nvidia Announces 3D Blu-ray Format For 2010 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Like you can see in 3D with your one eye anyway. What do you think you are missing out on exactly?

  19. Re:It's an interesting point on Monkeys With Syntax · · Score: 1

    AFAIK the most recent suggestion is that Neaderthals needed more calories per day, and hence couldn't find enough food to survive when homo sapiens lived through the last ice age.

  20. Re:Teach the Controversy Riddle-runes on Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    That isn't an original idea by Terry Pratchett you know.

    The combination of tortoise and elephant is present John Locke's 1690 tract An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, which references an "Indian who said the world was on an elephant which was on a tortoise "

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

  21. Re:Sorry, what? on Record-Breaking Black Friday For eBay's PayPal · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's Easter, fucktard

  22. Re:interesting on Cancer Vaccine That Mimics Lymph Node · · Score: 1

    The larger problem is that the AIDS virus does not copy itself particularly well, consequently mutating fast. Different 'populations' of slightly different versions of the AIDS virus grow and decline and eventually the immune system can never quite rid the body of the infection which eventually overwhelmed as you described.

  23. Re:Spamford Wallace talks to the judge on Facebook Awarded $711 Million In Anti-Spam Case · · Score: 1

    What's the question that awards only single points?

  24. Re:Here's what I think is wrong. on A New Explanation For the Plight of Winter Babies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think you quite understand. Data showed that there is already a correlation between the season a baby was born in and measurable performance statistics. They have shown that some, most or all of this correlation is due to a key assumption being false;

    A key assumption of much of that research is that the backgrounds of children born in the winter are the same as the backgrounds of children born at other times of the year.

    Ah fuck it, I can't be bothered to explain it in full. It's too obvious.

  25. Re:Proof once again... on Senate To Reconsider Wiretap Immunity · · Score: 1

    Gone? Or police resources (and hence crime figures) skewed to the Mob on Mob crime? People obviously still drank alcohol, so what would cause this drop in domestic crime?