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  1. Re:Go for it on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    Is that going to happen because the government owns GM now, so they're going to require us all to buy only GM, since only GM cars have OnStar? Or require all other car manufacturers to license OnStar from GM? Either way, improving the revenues of GM?

  2. Re:Expensive Price on Anti-Smartphone Phone Launched For Technophobes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    100% pure water is ... dangerous for your health

    Please don't spread this lie. If you rely on water to get all the carbonates, chlorides, sodium, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, etc. that you need, you probably should try eating food!

    If I drink a glass of water with no ions in it except hydronium and hydroxyl, it will cease to be so as soon as it touches my mouth, and if you tell me that it will leach out all the minerals in my body, that would be true of any water that contains a lower concentration of those ions than the fluid in my body does, but it would be hard to drink enough water for that to matter. Your body (specifically your kidneys) does a good job of maintaining homeostasis and keeping the electrolytes it needs and getting rid of the rest, whether you drink water with 50ppm of sodium chloride or water with zero electrolytes.

    As for the taste, you're right.
    But that's all it is. A matter of taste.

  3. Re:Full circle? on Long Takes In the Movies, Antidote To CGI? · · Score: 1

    A *one-act* play in order to be without "cuts". Most are not one-act, AFAIK.

  4. Re:No, no premises required on Organs of UK Nuclear Workers Secretly Harvested; Energy Secretary Apologizes · · Score: 1

    Yep, that's the cycle. Carry on.

  5. Re:Legibility on The World's Smallest Legible Font · · Score: 1

    BTW, laptops with 1920x1200 displays are not common. Is yours also a ThinkPad W series?

  6. Re:Legibility on The World's Smallest Legible Font · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I can read it at the same screen resolution. Are you familiar with the text to begin with? I am. Maybe that helps a lot.

  7. Re:Steve Jobs, the Satanist on Old Apple 1 Up For Auction, Expected To Go For $160,000+ · · Score: 1

    0.1%? I don't think so.

  8. Re:Skynet on Iron Man Is Another Step Closer To a Reality · · Score: 1

    No, ferric.

  9. Re:Edited on White House Edited Oil Drilling Safety Report · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing it's not LaTEX. I'd like to be wrong.

  10. Re:Sugarless gum??!? on US Army Develops Tooth Cleaning Gum · · Score: 1

    I think that means you just need to not put fructose in the gum, or drink HFCS-containing beverages while you chew the gum etc (i.e. not have fructose in your mouth at the time)

  11. Re:NOTAM on White House Edited Oil Drilling Safety Report · · Score: 1

    Might be interesting - I didn't look up where those particular locations are - but this is the wrong thread for it.

  12. Re:Just like a toothbrush on How Often Should You Change Your Password? · · Score: 1

    Or to have a unique toothbrush for each day of the month, and if you use the wrong toothbrush for today's date, you don't get to use your teeth (eat solid food) that day!

  13. Re:I remain unconvinced on Mystery 'Missile' Identified As US Airways Flight 808 · · Score: 1

    Unusual weather conditions (still air, etc.)?

  14. Re:Is this really bioluminescence? on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that no science should be done unless it solves global warming, malaria, AIDS, cancer or hunger?

    No. That's not what I said, is it?
    I was merely making a comparison, which the GP's post was also doing.

  15. Re: I can wait! on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    Incentive to rake up all those leaves and keep the streets clean.
    Of course, decaying leaves provide nutrients back into the soil which would now be lost as extraction of the gold (there's some energy intensive stuff) takes the leaves out of the biosphere.
    I'm sure thats the only unintended consequence of this scheme.

  16. Re:Is this really bioluminescence? on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    So the energy usage of streetlights is right up there with global warming, malaria, AIDs, cancer, hunger, and the contamination of our precious bodily fluids? Who knew?

  17. Re:Larry Ellison's character on What's the Oracle Trial Against SAP Really About? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What does it mean to be miserable without even realizing it? Is that even possible? Insufferable perhaps, but how can there be misery without awareness?

  18. Re:So what. on Steve Ballmer Reveals His Secret Twitter Account · · Score: 1

    So desu. Watashi-no machigai.

  19. Re:Why on LimeWire Lives Again · · Score: 1

    That's why he said "doesn't mean" and not "means that the majority is never right". "Doesn't mean" doesn't mean "never means". Ouch. My head hurts.

  20. Re:OK you people on Central Dogma of Genetics May Not Be So Central · · Score: 1

    ...and the "grocer's apostrophe's".

  21. Re:So what. on Steve Ballmer Reveals His Secret Twitter Account · · Score: 1

    aQuantive. Look it up. OK, it's not really tech, but it's tech-related.

  22. Re:Who would want to follow... on Steve Ballmer Reveals His Secret Twitter Account · · Score: 1

    "Whoooosh" always has kind of a gentle, breezy sound, don't you think?

  23. Re:I live in Seattle. on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    You realize there is no state income tax in Washington state - where this article is about, don't you?
    What income tax are you talking about eliminating?

  24. Re:Depressing. on World's Northernmost Town Gets Nightlights · · Score: 1

    And it makes it from cholesterol - that stuff that some people are so afraid of!

  25. Re:"Information wants to be free" on Cook's Magazine Claims Web Is Public Domain · · Score: 1

    The problem is that it really doesn't mean anything. I expect GP understands that and is being facetious.