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  1. Re:take care on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hmmm:
    • Fear of light
    • Lives mostly indoors
    • Hunched over
    • Content with junk food
    *looks at "computer nerd" checklist*
    *looks at "Cockroach-Man" checklist*

    Oh my God.

    I HAVE SUPER POWERS
  2. Re:Surface Tension? on Giant Atmospheric Waves Filmed Over Iowa · · Score: 1

    I'd have to say that's probably not equally true for gas even though both are a liquid.
    That should be fluid, of course.
  3. Re:Surface Tension? on Giant Atmospheric Waves Filmed Over Iowa · · Score: 1

    I was alway under the impression that something had surface tension when the intermolecular forces between the molecules in the fluid were strong enough to attract each other and create said "surface tension." Remember in elementary school when we had droplets of water on wax paper? They kept together as beads because of surface tension. However, when we introduced dish detergent, the bubbles of water flattened right out. The molecules of detergent got in between the molecules of water and kept them from interacting with each other, effectively "breaking" the surface tension.

    If what you're referring to is the ability for liquids to "stick" together, I'd have to say that's probably not equally true for gas even though both are a liquid. Gases tend to expand to fill their containers. As far as I understand, that's the definition of a gas, so anything that didn't act like a gas in that way would not be a gas.

  4. Re:So much for science! on Monster Black Hole Busts Theory · · Score: 1

    hate to break it to you, but that's their favorite.

  5. Re:Ugh, no. on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    Well is the problem here the hard drive capacities or the companies that abuse them? And if it's the hard drives, do you propose we stop making bigger drives? Because there's no OTHER way to have more capacity than simply to have SINGLE drives that hold more storage space. *COUGH* DRIVE ARRAY *COUGH*

    What?

  6. Re:This is great on Promising Blood Test for Alzheimer's · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is Alzheimer's an unavoidable disease? I don't have any actual papers in front of me, but I thought I heard that frequent use of the mind and critical thinking were a great way to keep your brain "in shape." Maybe knowing that you have Alzheimer's disease will give you the chance to live a normal life with the occasional crossword, sudoko, critical reading, etc.

    Either way, I'd want to know.

  7. Re:Keep your stuff updated.. on iPhone, iPod Touch 1.1.1 Firmwares Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    It's not the same hole, it just happens that TIFF is a very holey format.
    From my experience, TIFF is the spawn of SATAN

    ( Maybe not ... )
  8. Re:Unfortunately... on Microsoft Offers IE7 to All, Pirates Included · · Score: 1

    you mean *css-declaration: value;? I'm pretty sure that still works under IE7. There's even a special one for just IE 6 (_css-declaration: value;), so making IE7 specific changes might look like this:

    *width: 100px;
    _width: auto;
    Where the element width of whatever you're working on would have a width of 100px in IE7 but not necessarily in IE6

  9. Re:Lex Luthor is Pleased on 2.5 Mile Deep Hole Drilled Into San Andreas Fault · · Score: 1

    I think you're thinking of matzo bread.

  10. Re:If you put enopugh engines on it... on Rocket-Powered 21-Foot Long X-Wing Actually Flies · · Score: 1

    No! You fool! Don't give them ideas!

  11. Re:Strong fan of free software??? on Best Platform For Hobbyist Mobile Development? · · Score: 1

    Coming next to Slashdot: up is down and black is white.
    And this would be different ... how?
  12. Re:I will apply for a patent of India style Englis on IBM Seeks US Patents For Offshoring US Jobs · · Score: 1

    You can't do that! I've already patented the double "???" method!

    I SUE YOU!

  13. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Germs Taken Into Space May Come Back Deadlier · · Score: 1

    I wonder if there are lab mice out there that get infected with horrible diseases, survive, escape, and get back into the mouse population to pass on their human-lab-test-impervious genes to the rest of the gene pool. Soon we'll have to find some other animal to test on ... or maybe something stronger than salmonella? :P

  14. Re:Africa on Google Planning New Undersea Cable Across Pacific? · · Score: 1

    Because the Internet solves all of humanity's other problems, right? As far as my understanding goes, Africa needs more humanitarian aid and social stability before the Internet becomes critical in their development. Like Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Just ... for continents.

  15. All right! on Dell, Lenovo Adding Solar Option for PCs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just what I need! Solar power for my desktop computer! This will go great right next to my windo-- wait. I don't have any windows. Oh, shit.

  16. Re:your sig on Scientists Create Di-positronium Molecules · · Score: 1

    Well I suppose getting your buildings blown up and having extremists take over your government simultaneously would probably be more of a bitch. I don't think "terrorists" are bombing buildings in the Middle East just to scare people.

  17. Re:All a matter of scale... on Photonic Laser Thruster Promises Earth to Mars in a Week · · Score: 1

    Well cockroaches don't run in an effective vacuum, and adding more and more thrusters in said vacuum would continue to add additional force on the satellite body. Adding legs to the cockroach would be funny, but probably ineffective.

  18. Re:Atoms? on Scientists Create Di-positronium Molecules · · Score: 1

    Is positronium it's own anti-atom? If the positron were the nucleus, then it would be one thing, and if the electron were the nucleus it'd be the anti-thing. That must be where the gamma raze from :P

  19. Re:Code Wheels on What's the Right Amount of Copy Protection? · · Score: 1

    Oh dear God, WHY?!

  20. Re:Hmm... that could explain the headaches on Method of Reading Discovered · · Score: 1

    If that were the case, people would be able to perceive a "blinking" when they were sitting in front of a computer screen. Not to mention that many displays don't do any kind of "redraw" like LCDs. I think that the headache is caused by a constant focus on one plane of space. Your eye muscles tense up when you fixate on an object close to you (e.g. the computer screen). Remember they say to sit as far from the screen as possible? Your muscles are more relaxed when they don't have to strain as hard to focus on something really close.

  21. Re:I think I found something... on Help Find Steve Fossett · · Score: 1

    That assumes that he was coherent enough to realize "Hey, there are houses 500 feet over there."

  22. Re:kiddin' yeah ? on Spirit and Opportunity Are Back Online · · Score: 1

    In America, it's Labor Day. So, yes, Spirit and Opportunity!!! None of that for you Europeans.

  23. Re:simpsons quote on Ape-Human Split Moved Back By Millions Of Years · · Score: 1

    What if, hypothetically, God did create man in his own image, and man has since evolved away from that image. That wouldn't necessarily explain the appendix and tail bone, but why does man have to be evolving towards a perfect form? After all, the bible explains that when Adam was created, he was said to be "perfect", and what kind of perfect system is unable to adapt to the changes around it? Just some thoughts.

  24. So basically on New Method To Detect and Prove GPL Violations · · Score: 0

    If your algorithm works, say, 95% like one in another GPL project, you're in for the legal ride of your life? I could see this maybe suggesting "this code here is a LOT like that code there. Maybe yous should check it out." I mean, after all, how many possible implementations of doing something like, say, displaying a simple pie chart, could there possibly be?

  25. Re:Article? on Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by "anymore."