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  1. Re:huh on Swiss Bank Has 43-Page Dress Code · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I prefer the half Nelson knot.

  2. Re:You thought the GOP/TP represented regular peop on Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Well, smoke signaling would pollute but it might counter CO2-induced global warming!

  3. Re:This shows how full of shit Steve Jobs is on Word Lens — Augmented Reality Translation · · Score: 1

    Sounds like "I can't have it, therefore it must be no good."
    I watch Flash videos on my Android phone and it has not crashed once. I agree battery life is a problem, but not more so than the battery drain from apps constantly checking location or transferring data.

  4. Re:Useful in my neighborhood... on Word Lens — Augmented Reality Translation · · Score: 1

    You kid, but a funny thing is how I can recognize Korean instantly, but I don't know a single word or even character of Korean (except the (probably wrongly) transliterated Kamzamide "thankyou")!
    I can read Japanese Katakana/Hiragana with difficulty but even then not always understand what it means.

  5. Re:Password keychains? on The Case For Lousy Passwords · · Score: 1

    You're welcome. Don't hurt yourself! ;-)

  6. Re:That plastic bottle ... on JBI's Plastic To Oil Gets Operating Permit · · Score: 1

    You really think someone (or a machine, I don't care) is looking at individual pieces of paper in recycling bins to figure out if the fibers are too worn out to recycle them? Sounds like like a pretty major bottleneck for recycling paper. I don't think so.

  7. Re:What the fuck... on Mother, Daughter Face Drug Charges For Ibuprofen At School · · Score: 1

    Typing != talking.

  8. Re:That plastic bottle ... on JBI's Plastic To Oil Gets Operating Permit · · Score: 1

    Paper can be recycled seven times before the fiber is worn out and gets burned for energy.

    How do they know how many times a given piece of paper has been recycled?
    What does that even mean since many pieces of paper get commingled in the recycling?
    Are we supposed to make any sense of this statement?
    My recycler has not asked me to segregate paper based on the number of previous recyclings.

  9. Re:Trust No One! on Scotland Yard Has Been After Anonymous For Months · · Score: 1

    Ah, hiding behind a misspelling, I see.

  10. Re:Password keychains? on The Case For Lousy Passwords · · Score: 2

    So don't use the real answer to the father's middle name question. Say it's 1y1g2r3fs5cxy4 or something.

  11. Re:But... Ummm... on Calculator Networking With CALCnet and Doors CS · · Score: 1

    I heard calculators are about 4% of TIs revenues.
    The processor in my smartphone is a 1GHz OMAP processor from TI.
    I have on that smartphone, btw, an app that simulates a HP48 calculator.
    I have a real one in a drawer and it still works (from the days when HP still meant quality hardware) but I don't use it anymore. The Saturn processor in it was 2 MHz clock speed and HP made it themselves AFAIK.

  12. Re:The State is the true source of these problems on Google Patents Browser Highlight All Button · · Score: 1

    I should overthrow my government because a broken patent system?

    Yes. And your sentence missing a verb.

  13. Re:Microsoft on Google Patents Browser Highlight All Button · · Score: 1

    Better yet, patent it in white, since white contains all the colors. Then you've got it covered. Wait - almost everything is highlighted in white! You could sue everybody!

  14. Re:Wireless != noun on Researchers Use Wireless To Study How Flu Spreads · · Score: 1

    If you're hanging around with people who call AM radios "wireless", we should probably get off *your* lawn. (Well, the retirement home's lawn that you enjoy.)

  15. Re:Strong Bad said it best. on Learning From Gawker's Failure · · Score: 1

    This thread is full of dog's balls!

  16. Re:What we really want to know... on Archaeologists Find 2,400-Year-Old Soup · · Score: 1

    Of course. Cheetos, Taco Bell and Domino's Pizza requires no cooking. Hot Pockets require heating, but that is not cooking.

  17. Re:Donutleaks strikes again! on Sheriff's Online Database Leaks Info On Informants · · Score: 1

    Actually, heroin is diacetylmorphine, so it is a chemically modified form of morphine, which, as you say, comes from opium.

  18. Re:Donutleaks strikes again! on Sheriff's Online Database Leaks Info On Informants · · Score: 1

    But I don't drink beer to get drunk.
    Then again, I don't drink Budweiser either. I guess I answered my own question!

  19. Re:If Terrorist Attacks Could be Modelled ... on Statistical Analysis of Terrorism · · Score: 1

    you forgot "a fanatical devotion to the Pope", but that doesn't fit with the theme. Monty Python sketch does not apply to real-life situation. Film at 11.

  20. Re:Filed by Ken Cuccinelli on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    "...an ad hominem is attacking somebody for reason's not related to the matter at hand."

    Not really. An ad hominem *argument* is just that: an argument. It is an attempt to (fallaciously) persuade another about the subject at hand. Since he said specifically "I'm not saying he's right or wrong in this matter", it's clearly not an argument.
    Now, if he's being disingenuous, and he really *is* saying he's wrong in this matter, that's another story.
    A personal attack or reference is not necessarily an ad hominem argument. In fact, I'd wager that it is usually not one, because it's not an argument at all.

  21. Re:Ant's ?? on Next Generation of Algorithms Inspired by Ants · · Score: 1

    Ant that a shame. Leave it to the ped-ants to point it out.

  22. Re:Can't wait for the same on supercaps on Video Shows Why Recharging Kills Batteries · · Score: 1

    All the markets would crash if energy were "free"? Why? It's not as though energy is the only finite resource that exists.

  23. Re:Good excuse on Porn Site Gave Federal Agents Free Rein · · Score: 1

    Pete Townshend, is that you - on /.?

  24. Re:did she really "hack" it? on IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail · · Score: 1

    Uh yeah. Is that new or surprising to you? I'd say that probably happened over twenty years ago.

  25. Re:Consuming vs. Creating on PC Era Forecasted To End In 18 Months · · Score: 1

    Is this your example of a "publication-level novel" produced on your iPad? Keep your day job, as they say.