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  1. Re:Option to use the old UI? on Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    True. The question is why doesn't anyone design websites like that: with two columns of text instead of one column of text with columns of ads on either side? Oh, I just answered my own question!

  2. Re:the army is obselete on 'Robin Sage' Social Hoax Duped Military, Security Pros · · Score: 1

    I took that as being its own joke. Americans speaking British English vs American English.

  3. Re:Sloooow on Reading E-Books Takes Longer Than Reading Paper Books · · Score: 1

    But the majority of people reading e-books are using smartphones, iPads, netbooks, laptops, etc., *not* e-readers, from what I gather.

  4. Re:Option to use the old UI? on Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Closed books and magazines aren't landscaped but most people prefer to read books when they are open. In that condition, most books are wider than they are tall.

  5. Re:good. on Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops · · Score: 1

    It has an advantage to any company that makes DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapters that you need because no TVs have DisplayPort inputs on them!

  6. Re:Sloooow on Reading E-Books Takes Longer Than Reading Paper Books · · Score: 1

    That your situation is not the norm?

  7. Re:And People Wonder... on California To Drop State Rock Over Asbestos Concerns · · Score: 1

    Oregon's state rock is the thunderegg.

  8. Re:What is stereographic sound? on Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex · · Score: 1

    A visual representation of sound with 3d effects, for which either red-and-blue or polarizing headphones are needed to enjoy the experience...or ...whooosh.

  9. Re:But... on Buy Your Own Tron Lightcycle For $35,000 · · Score: 1

    No. Nothing with mass can do that, since F=ma and "instantaneous" means infinite acceleration, which requires infinite force. Yes, I know...whooosh.

  10. Re:Why so discriminating? on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 1

    For those who don't get the reference, (Paul's letter to the) Romans (specifically chapter 1) (in the NT right between Acts (of the Apostles) and I Corinthians) specifically condemns homosexual behavior.

  11. Re:Huh... on Plagiarism Inc. · · Score: 1

    I covered that possibility in my comment, but you are right that the plagiarism-detection service will work just fine if that turns out to be the case.

  12. Re:Encryption on Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help · · Score: 1

    to further spoil it, I'll add that it's unlikely that an editor at the largest Spanish-language newspaper in NYC (or any others of the 11) was using Russian to communicate with the mother country. Might raise a few suspicions, no?

  13. Re:Huh... on Plagiarism Inc. · · Score: 1

    True, but those would apparently not work with this service, since an original essay is being written on demand, assuming that the company is not plagiarizing existing work and then selling it. That would be rich.

  14. Re:report it to the fcc on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    Points about microwave ovens are all true, but almost certainly irrelevant to the OP. No one is using a microwave oven for 90 minutes every night. Heck , most things people heat up in microwave ovens take little more than 90 *seconds*.

  15. Re:kettle, meet pot on Fark Creator Slams 'the Wisdom of Crowds' · · Score: 1

    I would estimate that a person with an IQ of about 60 or more should be able to fill a mayonnaise jar, especially if you leave the water running for them and show them what to do first. Therefore, GP was referring to someone with IQ less than 60, by my estimate.

  16. Re:Air quality in the terminal? Smoking! on German Airports Use Bees To Monitor Air Quality · · Score: 1

    I was in Frankfurt airport two years ago, and no one was smoking inside at that time. I would have noticed. I hate cigarette smoke smell.

  17. Re:Interesting Pattern Near the Ring of Fire on ESA's GOCE Satellite Provides Gravity Map of Earth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    it corresponds really well because it is exactly an image of the same thing, just an earlier, less accurate version.

  18. Re:That's All? on Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws · · Score: 1

    Bingo. That's the key. A metric buttload of data entry and verification.

  19. Re:Cosmic Ray Protection... on Tracking Down a Single-Bit RAM Error · · Score: 1

    Thick sheets of lead would work better than tin foil. (Pre-emptive whooosh.)

  20. Re:I tried watching... on YouTube Gets a Vuvuzela Button (Seriously) · · Score: 1

    Another pedant might write "10Pi% of all statistics...."

  21. Re:Noscript on Google Shares Insights On Accelerating Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Hang around a while longer. Eventually you'll get a checkbox giving you the option not to see ads on /.

  22. Re:Shaking in Ottawa on 5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England · · Score: 1

    You're further south than 99+% of people. And *possibly* further south than 99.9999+%. Could you use that?

  23. Re:Largest "telescope"? on IceCube Telescope Takes Shape Below Antarctic Ice · · Score: 1

    For a telescope that detects photons (the normal meaning of telescope) area is key, because pretty much all the photons (or at least a large fraction) that are "collected" end up triggering the sensor (CCD, film, whatever) even when it is thin. For neutrinos, they hardly interact with matter at all, and the larger volume is needed. The neutrino detection experiment in Japan (I can't recall its name at the moment) is basically a huge tank of water underground surrounded by detectors that detect flashes of light created when the neutrinos interact with the water (I'm sure someone here will correct me on the details, but that is the gist of it).

  24. Re:I want to be the first asshole to say... on Make-A-Wish Builds A Millennium Falcon Fort For Boy · · Score: 1

    I think the appropriate funny response to GP's comment is "That's what SHE said!"
    Better luck next time!

  25. Re:Good to be thinking of feelings, but on Make-A-Wish Builds A Millennium Falcon Fort For Boy · · Score: 1

    At least three, it appears.