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  1. Re:i would sue on Bug Sends Lost-Phone Seekers To Same Wrong Address · · Score: 2

    So if they had not made the mistake, and things were working the way they are supposed to, all these people looking for their lost/stolen cell phones would end up at a cell tower? Sounds like a great plan.

  2. Re:Humans AND Animals? on New SARS-Like Virus Infects Both Human and Animal Cells · · Score: 1

    How about no more comments pointing out that humans are animals? (1) Context (2) Duh.

  3. Re:cpt. obv? on New SARS-Like Virus Infects Both Human and Animal Cells · · Score: 2

    Of course, you realize that in context, 'animal' means 'non-human animal', but you still had to be pedantic.

  4. Re:Why would they stop developing weaponry? on North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket · · Score: 1

    Any military is going to be appear weak, in the usual sense, against the US military. What country, that the US would have conceivable any reason to attack, could be considered (relatively) strong?

  5. Re:Careful you don't run afoul on Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) · · Score: 1

    So I can bring my 20 gauge shotgun on the airplane with me? It's not rifled, so not a 'gun'?

  6. Re:Only Americans... on Historians Propose National Park To Preserve Manhattan Project Sites · · Score: 1

    Randy Newman: built to remind us all that it's OK to discriminate against short people.

  7. Re:pronounciation on Swimming Robot Reaches Australia After Record-Breaking Trip · · Score: 1

    Who are aow-sees?

  8. Re:Depends .... on Should Inventions Be Automatically Owned By Your Employer? · · Score: 1

    They have toilets where you work? Lucky bastard.

  9. Re:Aha on 7 Jailed In 'Kidney For iPad' Case In China · · Score: 1

    I sold myself to my employer...well it feels like that most of the time...why isn't that illegal?

  10. Re:Idiotically ineffective rating system on Microsoft Security Essentials Loses AV-Test Certificate · · Score: 1

    I just uninstalled Symantec Endpoint Protection from my work laptop because it was so slow I was hardly able to get things done. Soluto informed me that the Symantec software was the likely culprit. I uninstalled it and things have sped up considerably. I know I won't get in trouble because our company's not that serious about security. I was going to reinstall MSE again, but now I'm reconsidering...

  11. Re:George Lucas obviously greater - in impact on Critic Cites Revenge of the Sith As "Generation's Greatest Work of Art · · Score: 1

    He did actually go to art school, didn't he?
    So did John Lennon. Hmmm.
    And Prince Charles paints some decent watercolors.

  12. Re:Cloning is portrayed as complicated?? on Book Review: Version Control With Git, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    I would have called it Stupid Git.

  13. Re:Put badge in microwave for 10 seconds. on Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So she can be marked as absent when she's actually in school? Great solution. Better to pursue the lawsuit.

  14. Re:News! people don't like music they don't like.. on Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong' · · Score: 1

    I suspect you are right, that it was a combined effect of the visual and the aural. But Rite of Spring was unprecedented, musically, without the ballet aspect.

  15. Re:But... on Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong' · · Score: 1

    He's not one of my favorite composers, but all composers use dissonance to some degree, and I like some who use a quite a bit of it: Prokofiev, Wagner, Stravinsky, Ligeti, et al.

  16. Re:News! people don't like music they don't like.. on Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong' · · Score: 4, Informative

    Did you listen to Verklaerte Nacht (Transfigured Night)? It's one of his best known pieces and it's not the most dissonant or atonal (not the same thing). It probably requires some getting used to, stretching the limits of what you listen to, to appreciate it.
    Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" was so jarring to the audience when it was first played that they rioted. Now it is a staple of symphony programs, though still a challenge to play.

  17. Re:Old news... on The US Navy's Railgun Program · · Score: 2

    Ahead flank, cavitate!

  18. Re:Water, or some other fluid? on Rover Finds Ancient Streambed On Martian Surface · · Score: 1

    Yeah, maybe hydrazine or Dowtherm A or tetrahydrofuran or propylene glycol methyl ether acetate.

  19. Re:Ring/toroid shape? on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Only if it has a handle. Those little Chinese tea cups aren't topologically equivalent to a donut. They are equivalent to a fortune cookie though, so there is some sense to it.

  20. Re:I already designed mine on QR Codes For Memorials · · Score: 1

    Well, your sig is finally relevant to the article!

  21. Re:Is it too late to get UN sanctions on them? on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 1

    federalization vs. fertilization, grammar joke. Ha ha.

  22. Re:fire the board. on PC Makers In Desperate Need of a Reboot · · Score: 1

    I was going for funny, but OK!

  23. Re:fire the board. on PC Makers In Desperate Need of a Reboot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe he meant her eyesight was 20/20.

  24. Re:Something I Don't Know on The Sweet Mystery of Science · · Score: 1

    I guess it has to do with the fact that quanta are being compared with a continuum (infinitesimal steps) not with bigger things. In that case a quantum , a discrete step change, is more dramatic than a smooth, continuous change.

  25. My very first clear memory on Astronaut Neil Armstrong Has Died · · Score: 1

    was watching the moon landing in July 1969 on a black and white TV at my grandparents house in California. I was two months away from turning three years old. That was something all Americans could take pride in the accomplishment of, even though it was a brave few who actually did it.