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  1. Re:Checks on Deposit Checks By iPhone · · Score: 1

    It would have made the movie "Catch Me If You Can" much less entertaining and interesting...

  2. Re:Must be nice... on Working Off the Clock, How Much Is Too Much? · · Score: 1

    I've basically never been a hourly worker, but I don't get how they can require you to work overtime and require you to have authorization to work overtime while refusing to "authorize" the overtime they're requiring. That's insane!

  3. Re:Bones out of wood? on Scientists Create Artificial Bones From Wood · · Score: 1

    I'd say they covered that by saying "created from". Kind of like "Scientists create computer chips from sand!"

  4. Re:Wolves on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 1

    He/she does admit to being confused.

  5. Re:First you need a semantic context on New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking you are correct, but as someone with a fair amount of chemistry experience, I'll say that the weight of a mole of X is always expressed as g or kg, even in the non-SI standard USA.

  6. Re:Pondering the luck of others on Neuron Path Discovery May Change Our Conception of Itching · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of something I read in a book by Richard Restak, a neurologist and author of several books on the brain. You can do an exercise with another person to fool your brain into accepting an inanimate object as being a part of your body. Sit in a chair across from the other person at a solid opaque table and have the other person tap your thigh (under the table where you can't see it) in exact synchrony with them tapping the table top. It has to be perfectly synchronized or it won't work. Do this for a little while and you will start to perceive the table top as part of your body, since your brain is associating the feeling in your leg with what your eyes see (the table being tapped). Then have the other person tap the table without touching your leg and you should anticipate a sensation in your leg. I haven't tried it yet but I want to....

  7. Re:Beam me up Scotty!! on NASA's LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it's a quote from Star Wars.

  8. Re:Legalization on Philips Develops Roadside Drug-Testing Device · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a mistake - FTIR is Fourier Transform InfraRed (Spectroscopy) to me.

  9. Re:Interesting on Censorship Struggle Underway In Iceland · · Score: 1

    And wrong.
    High enthusiasm for suppression means low need for public revelation? I don't think that's what you really meant.

  10. Re:Beware of namechanges on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 1

    "they couldn't tell a D-Cell from a buttplug."

    Perhaps, in their view, there is no difference.

  11. Re:A-380 halfway there on NASA Offers $1.5 Million For 200MPG Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Could you really cram twice as many (living) passengers on an A-380 as it's designed for, easily?

  12. Re:Missed the best feature! on Emacs Hits Version 23 · · Score: 1

    I love Lilypond, but your mention of it only reinforces GP's point. It has a steep learning curve, and there are several ways to do anything.
    Unlike a word processor, the documentation for Lilypond *really does* need to be over 627 pages long.

  13. Re:\0wned on Null Character Hack Allows SSL Spoofing · · Score: 1

    Ironwedge?
    Evil dictator or golf club?

  14. Re:Single entity on Inside the Rise of the Domain Name System · · Score: 1

    Like you called a person's house? In what way? In that you immediately talked to a human being rather than complex interactive voice response system. That's bad? Oh, wait...this is /.

  15. Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    That's actually a question on the license exam here.

    That's why I said, "in my state". Your "here" is apparently not the same as my "here".

  16. Re:40 nm process... on AMD Spin-Off GlobalFoundries Gets First Non-AMD Customer · · Score: 1

    Since Intel is always ahead in the shrink race, if it were in production now, it would be for CPUs. DRAM process always uses smaller process node than logic, so that doesn't count.

  17. Re:Green Peas... Galaxy Zoo? on New Class of Galaxy Discovered · · Score: 1

    Oh great. Were these discovered by a fourteen year old girl too?

  18. Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    He specifically said people going below the speed limit not at the speed limit. In my state, and I assume most others, it IS legal to exceed the speed limit in the course of passing someone who is going *below* the speed limit, but only while passing.

  19. Headline should say "true green laser DIODE" on Finally, a True Green Laser · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to my handy photonic spectrum wall chart, there are green lasers already: Argon ion, Copper vapor, Nd:YAG, Xe, and HeNe, as well as, of course, tunable dye lasers. Just not laser diodes, until now.

  20. Re:Dr. Who on Bill Gates Remembers 1979 · · Score: 1

    I'd argue that one billion donated carefully is always going to be more *efficient* than one million donated a thousand times. The recipient only has to report to one person instead of to a thousand people, etc.

  21. Re:Faux stupidity is the key on How To Vet Clever Ideas Without Giving Them Away? · · Score: 1

    I got it. I just thought it would be funny to say that babies would cause engine knock and retard the timing. Like it would be trivial to atomize babies. Shudder.

  22. Re:When computer geeks and engineering collide... on People Emit Visible Light · · Score: 1

    As other posters have said, these are not photons from blackbody radiation, but from biochemical reactions, of an undisclosed type. I'd be interesting in seeing the spectral sensitivity of the detectors used to make the images in TFA. Do we glow green, blue, or what?

  23. Re:Speech 3.0 on SpinVox "Recognition" Is Often Expensive Human Transcription · · Score: 1

    Hawaiian.

  24. Re:Faux stupidity is the key on How To Vet Clever Ideas Without Giving Them Away? · · Score: 1

    I don't think proprietary engine timings are gonna help you. Babies are going to have a low octane number and cause all kinds of engine knock which will cause the timing to be severely retarded.

  25. Re:Biblical? on People Emit Visible Light · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which, interestingly, is the oldest book in the Bible - not Genesis.