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  1. Already have a proven theory on New Kind of Metal Theorized To Be In the Earth's Lower Mantle · · Score: 0

    It's too bad that nobody has proposed a theory that could be measured for each planet in our solar system and tested against a prior prediction to see if it is accurate. That would be the perfect scientific solution to the problem of planetary magnetic fields.

    Or maybe someone has (article from before Voyager launched, summary from after it passed Neptune): Article Summary

    One commentator says, "you would have thought we would have given up guessing about planetary magnetic fields after being wrong at nearly every planet in the solar system. . . ."

  2. Re:And you choose the NFL as your example? on NFL: National Football Luddites? · · Score: 1

    Dude, the ref still counts penalty time on his freaking wristwatch! something most 40-and-unders in the real world don't even own.

  3. Re:And you choose the NFL as your example? on NFL: National Football Luddites? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Soccer hasn't even discovered stoppable clocks or clocks that count downward yet.

  4. Re:They do allow non-humans to compete on NFL: National Football Luddites? · · Score: 1

    Sure. Vitamins, diets and sports drinks don't enlarge your heart increasing the risk of heart attack by hundreds of percent. They don't render you sterile. They don't cause you to need to get your feet amputated later in life. I could go on about the dangers of steroids, but they are certainly not safe over the course of a lifetime.

  5. Re:They do allow non-humans to compete on NFL: National Football Luddites? · · Score: 1

    Ask wrestler Superstar Billy Graham or Road Warrior Hawk how steroid "use" becomes abusive later in life.

  6. Re:Android has many problems on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 1

    "Mesothelioma" used to go for over $100 per click.

  7. Re:Driverless Vehicle Patent on Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent · · Score: 1

    Everyone had the idea, but Google has one that works. This is the traditional difference required for getting a patent.

  8. Re:Hardly a fair comparison on The Kindle Skews Amazon's 2011 Best-Seller List · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...And it's a glorified rental that they can take back from you at any time.

  9. Re:Still readying the artical but... on New Study Concludes Math Gender Gap Is Cultural, Not Biological · · Score: 1

    I don't know about that. It seems to me that innately, the majority of women prefer to work with people and the majority of men prefer to work with things. This is seen in every culture, even primitive ones. Hunter vs. Gatherer. Nobody disagrees that women use more words each day, so this would seem to be universally held, except that when you talk about careers, everyone gets PC and doesn't want to admit it. Also, girls tend to play with dolls which involves social interactions and men prefer to play with cars, spaceships and other things. These preferences seem to be innate from birth and not taught.

    Now, it's not that any one woman can't be a great programmer/mathematician, etc. And it's not that a man can't plan large events well or be a nurse or caregiver (so please don't limit any one individual's career), but it will be (and is) less likely and less common.

  10. Re:A simple question to a bigger answer. on Does Mega Media Control 90% of Content? · · Score: 1

    I don't know where I stand as far as him being president (we could probably do worse), but Ron Paul has been completely ignored by the Big 6 Media. Despite being considered a winner in some debates and winning some polls, he is still not mentioned at all. Now, he's no longer in the list of favorites as the media talks endlessly about the other Republican candidates. This is the problem with the ownership situation. It's too easy to silence a voice.

  11. Re:OMG on North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights · · Score: 1

    He only has nuclear weapons because his heart is 3 sizes too small.

  12. Re:More detail on North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights · · Score: 1

    It's not that they have "nothing" to do with Christianity. It's just that Christians see Christ being ever so slightly more removed from the celebration of Christmas every year.

    "Merry Christmas" becomes "Happy Holidays", Jesus becomes Santa, Songs about Jesus' birth are replaced with songs about Grandma getting run over by a reindeer. These things have LESS to do with Jesus than the things they replaced.

  13. Re:Something has to take its place. on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 1

    Easy. Do it just like Israel. They haven't had an incident in over 30 years despite being in the hottest terrorist zone in the world. Of course, you have to pay experienced interrogators over $100K/year instead of paying high school dropouts $8/hour, but it's proven to be very effective at catching intent.

  14. Re:Ha! on Bluetooth Keyboards With a 10-Year Charge Promised · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I actually called Duracell to tell them that a clock that I got with a very loud rooster alarm every day for 12 years finally quit working. The Duracell batteries came with the clock. They asked me if there was any leakage from the 12 year old batteries and sent me a coupon.

  15. Re:Of course on Facebook Flaw Exposed Private Photos · · Score: 1

    Just get it from her Facebook profile...

    I mean, c'mon, it's not like it's hard...

  16. Re:Ice Age Park on Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years · · Score: 1, Troll

    The Creationists were right?

  17. Re:Alternate Outcome: Greenpeace Activist Shot... on Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was expecting, "French army surrenders to Greenpeace..."

  18. Re:Transformer Rocks... on NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Outruns Apple's A5 In First Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    There are people on XDA forums working on getting Ubuntu on there. Apparently, it works really well at this point: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191141

  19. Re:This is more proof on New Jersey DMV Employees Caught Selling Identities · · Score: 1

    But in California you are still required to have a DMV ID card.

  20. Re:This is more proof on New Jersey DMV Employees Caught Selling Identities · · Score: 1

    See? There are people that think that!

  21. Re:So let me get this straight. on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' · · Score: 4, Informative

    And CDMA works better in wide open spaces and GSM works better in populated areas. Is it any wonder that Sprint and Verizon rule the Southwest while AT&T rules the Northeast? Having the government choose a single standard would have been a mistake.

  22. Re:Of course it is real on New Batch of Leaked Climate Emails · · Score: 0

    Actually, I don't know ANY young earth creationist that believes that the climate hasn't changed on earth. Most Creationists believe the Ice Age was a direct result of the Flood cooling the earth. The point is, the earth (and mankind) has survived the changing climate in many areas for a long time. The "Fertile Crescent" is now a desert. Siberia used to be a grassland, based on the contents of mammoth's stomachs.

    When you see those kinds of drastic changes on earth when there were few (or no) men on earth, why is everyone freaking out about half a degree over the last century (http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=94b7d021-c5da-4e82-b37f-53d338709fb1, which could be easily explained by deforestation or other natural causes?

  23. Re:Take your time, let software catch up. on AMD Cancels 28nm APUs, Starts From Scratch At TSMC · · Score: 1

    Actually, the changes to the core in Windows 7 mean that most situations are nearly evenly split across processors anyway.

    I had a batch file at a previous company calling all "single-threaded" applications and during the entire run of the batch, all 4 CPUs were within 5% of each other. Bring up your Task Manager Performance tab someday and leave it up all day at work. You might be surprised.

  24. Re:Take your time, let software catch up. on AMD Cancels 28nm APUs, Starts From Scratch At TSMC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, this.

    In building computers for my wife and my brother, I just went with lower end I3 and Phenom X2(4) processors. Why? Because the effective performance difference between the two for the applications they are running is .001%. And the price difference between those and say, an I7 is 1000%.

    But I made sure to get both systems SSD drives. Price difference? About 200% (500GB HDD $60 vs 128GB SSD $125). But the performance difference is about 700%.

  25. Re:Hit or almost hit on Toronto School Bans Hard Balls · · Score: 1

    I got knocked out by a basketball at school. I got my nose broken playing softball when the runner, who was much taller than me, "accidentally" punched me in the face. So what? I still had fun playing sports.