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  1. This Guy Hasn't Slept for 30 Years on Genetic Mutation Enables Less Sleep · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thai Ngoc or Hai Ngoc (born 1942) is a Vietnamese insomniac.

  2. Re:Totally Agree on Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City · · Score: 1

    There's something beautiful about driving with virtually no noise and I still smile when I roll up to a stop sign and the engine shuts off.

    I drive a 2007 Civic Hybrid. Last weekend I was in San Diego and I rented a standard, gas-powered compact. I take the engine shutting off at a stop for granted now: it struck me so much when my compact's engine didn't do it. "Why is the engine still going? I'm not even moving!"

  3. Re:Why all the hate? on Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why people are hating on this car so much other than the fact that it's GM and everyone is mad at them for the whole bailout thing right now.

    I'm still mad at them for the EV1 thing.

  4. Re:Green is the new black on Rival Green Groups Bid To Snatch .eco Domain · · Score: 1

    Forgive my cynicism but in my experience, humans are not altruistic at all.

    I like to think I'm, or can be, altruistic.

  5. Re:How could the miss that? on Major New Function Discovered For the Spleen · · Score: 3, Informative

    30% of a horse's red blood cells are stored in its spleen, for release when needed. Like for extra blood oxygen capacity under strenuous exercise. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spleen See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_doping

  6. Re:There should never be an OS charge on Amazon US Refunds Windows License Fee, Too · · Score: 1

    And let's magically assume that you can, in fact, order laptops from Dell without OSses. They'd still have Windows keys, and be plastered with "Designed for Windows" stickers. Does anyone who ordered an Ubuntu laptop from Dell have anything to say otherwise?

    You can order laptops from ZaReason without OSses installed.

  7. Tailgating on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    Or people can just stop tailgating

  8. Re:Poor Aussies on Australian Website Bans ... Australians · · Score: 1

    Consider this: The Ten Commandments contain 297 words, the Bill of Rights 463 words, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

    Not true:

    http://snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp

  9. Re:cats also provide more on Cats "Exploit" Humans By Purring · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Good ideas. on Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA · · Score: 1

    The dinosaurs are dead because they didn't have a space program

  11. Re:the answer is in the abc article on Doctors Baffled, Intrigued By Girl Who Doesn't Age · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Her intelligence seems affected though. Shouldn't she have normal mental development if it was just HGH insensitivity? She's 16 and still talks like a baby.

  12. Re:Two mathematicians on A Mathematician's Lament — an Indictment of US Math Education · · Score: 1

    An exponential function and a constant function are walking down the street. In the distance they spot a differential operator. The constant function goes, "Oh no! A differential operator! If he gets to me I'm screwed!"

    The exponential function confidently responds, "I'm not afraid! I'm e^x!"

    The constant function says, "Well, I'm not sticking around to see what happens."

    The exponential function and the constant function part ways. The exponential function reaches the differential operator and boasts, "I'm not afraid of you! I'm e^x!"

    And the differential operator answers, "I'm d/dy."

    http://instantrimshot.com/

  13. Re:Costs of Solar, Wind, and Nuclear Power on First Floating Wind Turbine Buoyed Off Norway · · Score: 1

    We should also address the major reason for the growing demand for energy. That reason is overpopulation. However, no American politician has the guts to touch that topic.

    Population: The elephant in the room

  14. Re:Dangerous is worse than stupid. on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Windows Only on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    Sorry to reply again, but I also want to mention that although I have zero data to back this up, Chrome's usage share could've been higher now if it came out on Linux and Mac first. I mean, we tend to be eager and early adopters, don't we?

  16. Re:Windows Only on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    It's frustrating for me too. I mean, Mozilla did it.

    Something that can drive Linux adoption is a killer app. Chrome could've been that app.

  17. Re:We have SEVEN senses on Hacking Our Five Senses and Building New Ones · · Score: 1

    It's even more than seven. There's the sense of temperature, pain, and internal body senses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense

  18. Re:World Record on The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired · · Score: 1
  19. Two-Point-Oh on The Tech Building Blocks of City 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one sick of two-point-oh? Seriously, just stop.

  20. Re:Cupcake on Ten Features To Love About Android 1.5 · · Score: 1

    Remember, you don't have to refer to these things by their code names. If Jaunty and Cupcake are too embarrassing, then use their official names: Ubuntu 9.04 and Android 1.5.

  21. Re:this is so sad! on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    to me, this is as if a relative had died :-(

    Have a little perspective. It's a game.

  22. Re:It's damned fast on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Ratty? From the 90s? Where do you get that? I think the UI looks great.

    Posting from a fresh Ubuntu 9.04.

  23. Re:ha ha ha on Work Progresses On 10,000 Year Clock · · Score: 2, Informative

    One of the conscious goals is to make it from cheap, plentiful, or otherwise unattractive-to-thieves materials.

  24. At Least Trees Don't Die for It on Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? · · Score: 1

    Believe me, I hate spam as much as the next guy. At least trees don't die for it. San Jose must hate them, I am apalled at how much junk mail I get.

  25. Re:It's Good Advice for Any OS Install on Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is probably the best thing to do. I've had a couple of folks yell at me for testing my backups when I need them. :)