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  1. Re:Spock is an odd choice on Star Trek Fans Told To Stop "Spocking" Canadian $5 Bill · · Score: 1

    Palpatine? Hmm. Well, this one is spot-on:

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix...

  2. Re:Hey Canada: Stop "verbing" proper nouns! on Star Trek Fans Told To Stop "Spocking" Canadian $5 Bill · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bushificationism of verbicates will continue to continuify. If you are bothertized by it, then please seekify some therapification.

    - Thankitize You, The Managementors

  3. Streisand Effect engaged on Star Trek Fans Told To Stop "Spocking" Canadian $5 Bill · · Score: 1

    Now that they pointed out the fun prank to all, I want to Spockify some also.

    And, I just found some cool Dr-Who-ifications on Google.

    Let the nerdification begin...

  4. Re: Politics aside for a moment. on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 1

    As I point out elsewhere, the law appears to be vague so far. It does not dictate HOW to archive. Guilty until proven innocent?

  5. Re:Politics aside for a moment. on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 1

    BS

  6. Re:Politics aside for a moment. on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 1

    List the "top 3", hopefully with links to specifics.

  7. Saved by CC's? on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 1

    This passage may prove key:

    Mr. Merrill, the spokesman for Mrs. Clinton...said that because Mrs. Clinton had been sending emails to other State Department officials at their government accounts, she had "every expectation they would be retained." He did not address emails that Mrs. Clinton may have sent to foreign leaders, people in the private sector or government officials outside the State Department.

    If she CC'd a government email address each and every time she was on gov't business, then technically it would be properly preserved because all gov't email accounts are supposed to be archived. We don't know if or how many were not CC'd in this way yet.

    As far as whether using that technique is an official "security risk" is also unclear. Bad practice, yes. Illegal, perhaps not.

    I expect a lot of complex and controversial interpreting of the law text during the course of this. Laws involving IT are often vague.

  8. Re:Galactic Plane? on NASA's Spitzer Team Releases Highest-resolution View of the Full Galactic Plane · · Score: 1

    Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.

  9. Re:Politics aside for a moment. on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 1

    What exactly is her big "Benghazi sin"? I cannot get a good, clean answer from conservatives. Civilian workers died in the middle east under W also.

    As far as this current (alleged) scandal, give it time to play out. Often these things are more nuanced than initial headlines suggest when one digs into the details and gets more analyst opinions. There are too many drama queens on both sides of the isle.

  10. Premature Grey on Astronomers Find an Old-Looking Galaxy In the Early Universe · · Score: 1

    That's the Presidential Galaxy. It ages faster than normal due to stress.

  11. Re:I clicked through to look at the image. on Photo First: Light Captured As Both Particle and Wave · · Score: 1

    They've gone to plaid!

  12. Re:It's the measurement on Photo First: Light Captured As Both Particle and Wave · · Score: 1

    I wish physicists would stop using the word "measurement" when talking about quantum mechanics. To detect fundamental particles we have to interact with them in an intrusive or destructive way.

    Hmmm, strangely like the Middle East.

  13. Galactic Plane? on NASA's Spitzer Team Releases Highest-resolution View of the Full Galactic Plane · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Airplanes that can travel around the galaxy? Wow! Fast progress. How about a Galactic Boat now. And where's my flying car!

  14. Devolving? on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    While the early search engines indexed largely based on content, Google primarily used hyperlinks to index. And most found it better, making Google the king. It's how they Won the West. Now they are going back to content-centric indexing?

  15. Simple reason on Research Suggests That Saunas Help You Live Longer · · Score: 1

    Simple reason: they cook your balls, you have less children, less stress, and live longer.

  16. Re:Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More R on Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More Robots · · Score: 1

    Technology creates new fields

    Yes, I realize that, but will it always be enough to offset the losses? I don't see enough "new fields" to replace lost factory jobs. Retail? That seems like a stretch, but the web and self-checkout technologies are eating into that also. Plus, retail pays lower than factory work.

    Road construction, gas stations, repair shops, car factories, etc. clearly offset any loss in the "horse and coach" business. I don't see the equivalent in quantity these days.

  17. Re:Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More R on Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More Robots · · Score: 1

    Quark chips?

  18. Re:Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More R on Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More Robots · · Score: 2

    It used to be that new technologies created new jobs as it destroyed old ones. But that's merely a historical pattern, not necessarily a law of nature, and it may end.

    It's kind of like Moore's Law: it's held so far, but nobody knows if it will keep.

    Many conservatives feel that if the gov't doesn't meddle, new jobs will come from somewhere. However, they are slow to name specifics. The few they could name are also ripe for offshoring.

  19. Re:Good on Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More Robots · · Score: 1

    If the Chinese gov't cant find jobs for that many people, bleep will happen. Rioting will likely happen based recent history just after the mortgage crash. They may have to dust off the socialism.

  20. Re:Better definition of planet on One Astronomer's Quest To Reinstate Pluto As a Planet · · Score: 0

    As far as I'm concerned, if it's gravitation is enough to pull it into a sphere, it's a planet

    Then we'd have hundreds of "planets".

    One could argue that since the definition is arbitrary, including that of "sufficiently round", we might as well stick with the "classic 9".

  21. Re:Two reasons Pluto must be a planet! on One Astronomer's Quest To Reinstate Pluto As a Planet · · Score: 1

    Calling the entitled, greedy rich "Neptunecrats" doesn't sound right.

    But "Uranuscrats" or "Uranus-craps" is quite fitting.

  22. Mystery solved on 12-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole Discovered · · Score: 1

    Side effect of all those AOL disks

  23. Re:Why only Pluto is getting the love? on Ceres' Mystery Bright Dots May Have Volcanic Origin · · Score: 1

    Shadow of a giant turtle in its shell.

  24. Re:Premature Eguessulation on Ceres' Mystery Bright Dots May Have Volcanic Origin · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with private speculation, it's just premature to publish it when soon we'll have much better info.

  25. Re:What's the alternative? - The Chinese on It's Official: NSA Spying Is Hurting the US Tech Economy · · Score: 1

    That may be the case, but how does that relate to spying level or depth? I don't see a direct connection.

    By the way, China has shown aggression to neighbors over territory disputes over small islands and Taiwan.