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  1. Re:"Open Media" on Major Release of Miro Aims to Compete With iTunes · · Score: 1

    Very funny. Well played, sir.

  2. Re:Gone gold? on Duke Nukem Forever Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    I dunno but "Stay Gold" refers to a Stevie Wonder song.

  3. Re:With Our Luck on Duke Nukem Forever Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Will they be flatulent? I saw that on Doctor Who. Well, OK, it didn't involve Duke Nukem Forever. But the aliens were pig-like.

  4. Re:New news? Don't think so on TEPCO Confirms Partial Meltdown of No.2 and No.3 Reactors · · Score: 1

    If anything is funny, it is your comment. Burnup? Care to define that?

  5. Re:Why 51? on Under Soviet Satellites, How Area 51 Hid (And Invented) Secret Craft · · Score: 1

    In that case, it should have been "CIA Zecret Aircraft Research Area", or possibly "Top Secret Aircraft Research Area".

  6. Re:Not a fan on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    Your name wouldn't happen to be "BadAnalogyGuy", would it?

  7. Re:Don't get one. on Testing Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    No. Gammas penetrate through a tin can but do not cause the contents to become radioactive. Fallout and other radioactive contamination are not neutron sources. There *might* be some nuclides present that undergo spontaneous fission, and those would emit neutrons, although the flux would be small, and neutrons are not more penetrating than gammas, particularly through substances with low atomic weight, like beans in sauce.

  8. Re:If it were up to Google... on Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series · · Score: 1

    ...nope. Still be on Linux Beta.

  9. Re:He should call it on Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series · · Score: 1

    No, just a plain old run-of-the-mill moron.

  10. Re:Geiger-Muller not Geiger on Testing Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    Bzzzt.
    It's a Geiger-Mueller tube, not a Geiger-Mueller counter. The counter, or meter, contains or connects to, a G-M tube, which is the sensor.

  11. Re:Don't get one. on Testing Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    What?
    The beans in an unopened can don't get radioactively contaminated by being in the presence of radioactivity, unless it is a neutron source.

  12. Re:Apple Stores on Apple Causes Religious Reaction In Brains of Fans · · Score: 1

    An activity is not analogous to having a belief.

  13. Re:Apple Stores on Apple Causes Religious Reaction In Brains of Fans · · Score: 1

    Actually, there are two kinds of atheism, weak and strong. Former is lack of belief in God, latter is believe that there is definitely no god. It gets confusing when people start saying things about atheism without distinguishing which atheism they mean.

  14. Re:In the developed world... on Internet Could Mean End of "Snow Days" · · Score: 2

    I'll sell you some. I've got a bunch.

  15. Re:Radon transport through water on Local Atmosphere Heated Rapidly Before Japan Quake · · Score: 1

    Of course it dissolves in water. I'm not going to look up the Henrys Law constant for it now, but all gases can dissolve in water, more so at lower temperatures.

  16. Radon transport through water on Local Atmosphere Heated Rapidly Before Japan Quake · · Score: 1

    How does one account for the fact that the fault is underwater, and the radon would have to bubble up through all that water, and not dissolve in it or be carried elsewhere by currents as it came up? Also, is the activity of the radon at the concentration it might reasonably achieve in the atmosphere sufficient to account for significant ionization?

  17. Re:HAARP on Local Atmosphere Heated Rapidly Before Japan Quake · · Score: 1

    Is your last name actually Noory?

  18. Re:Dangerous on Worm Descendants From Columbia Disaster Relaunched · · Score: 1

    Not as tough as waterbears, I bet.

  19. Re:What I Don't Understand... on Netflix Dominates North American Internet · · Score: 1

    The problem is not Joe Schmoe thinking that, it's Joe Biden (or s.o. else in gov't.) thinking that.
    BTW, your statement is an outright admission that illegitimate uses are now the predominant ones.

  20. Re:Netflix on Netflix Dominates North American Internet · · Score: 1

    And they could call it...AlphaMax, or something like that. Since it would be big (figuratively speaking) and they'd be the first ones to do it!

  21. Re:Prediction for the future: on Bing Adds 'Like' Button · · Score: 1

    It's already too late to have gone the way of those things.

  22. Re:Why Bing shouldn't 'Like' Facebook on Bing Adds 'Like' Button · · Score: 1

    +1, Like!
    (I say this *after* reading it, fyi.)

  23. Re:why pay tax? thats your real question on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    OK *part of it* is true, but the last sentence is stupid, not true.

  24. Re:Short Answer on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    That's a fine example, but not of a change to the US Tax Code. That's about a state tax issue. Ohio. Not the US.

  25. Re:as said before here many times on The Cost of US Security · · Score: 1

    Their freedom? Have you had your head in a deep hole for the last, say, six months?
    Yeah, sure, we installed Mubarak and propped up Qaddafi, and all that. And if we completely left the middle east, liberty would just abound there, wouldn't it?