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  1. Re:music ip? on Analyzing YouTube's Audio Fingerprinter · · Score: 1

    "I'll be back."

  2. Re:Go on Ancient Books Go Online · · Score: 1

    Do you, in FORTH, much program?

    There. That, for you, I fixed.

  3. Re:Not as quick as texting...yet on Sending Messages With Your Brain Via EEG · · Score: 1

    Ah. Imaginary friends. Good one. No, I actually meant that I had fewer than zero friends.

  4. Re:Fantom? on Bohemian Rhapsody On Old Hardware · · Score: 1

    Well, "phantom power" has a specific meaning in the field of sound/audio engineering, but I don't think that was what was meant here.

  5. Re:Not as quick as texting...yet on Sending Messages With Your Brain Via EEG · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I must be at like -sqrt(9) friends now.

  6. Re:Not as quick as texting...yet on Sending Messages With Your Brain Via EEG · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Good one. I always employ that sequence (I learned originally in Hoftstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach) when I play Hangman. I never lose.

  7. Re:Just remember when you give money to the church on Vatican To Build 100 Megawatt Solar Power Plant · · Score: 1
    Actually, there is a mention of a form of it. Onan practiced coitus interruptus (Genesis 38), and was condemned for it. But is this really on topic?

    8 Then Judah said to Onan, "Lie with your brother's wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to produce offspring for your brother." 9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother. 10 What he did was wicked in the LORD's sight; so he put him to death also.

  8. Re:What about MySQL? on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1

    Actually, since lunar eclipses are much more frequent than solar eclipses we might expect to refer to the moon more often than the sun when we refer to an eclipse.

  9. Re:Inside my head... on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 1

    Construction outside your house at 2am?

    Where the hell do you live? Hell?

  10. Re:The special hundred on Ford Bets On Social Media For Fiesta · · Score: 1

    The Mercury Mystique (aka Ford Contour) I bought in 1996 had the same claim - 100,000 miles before the first tuneup. I sold it at about 90,000 having had to replace the water pump myself but no other work had been needed on it. I know the person I sold it to and know it's still going, but I don't know how many miles are on it now or if she's had to have any repairs, etc. I think not - i.e. that I would have heard if she had.

  11. Re:RTFS?? on EFF Says Obama Warrantless Wiretap Defense Is Worse than Bush · · Score: 1

    But in this case, apparently, it should have been, "Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss."

  12. Re:I love TED. on Cracking the Code of Bacterial Communication · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity, why don't you want to kill those particular bacteria quickly?

  13. Re:I used to intake around 500 mg/day on Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal · · Score: 1

    True enough, and I've purchased paracetamol when I've been overseas, but I assumed that acetaminophen is the name the GP would have been looking for else he would have said "I've never seen a bottle labeled 'paracetamol'" and he wouldn't have said that he used Tylenol which is a US brand name. To be perfectly country-independent he could have said "I've never seen a bottle labeled "N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)acetamide". I haven't either.

  14. Re:I used to intake around 500 mg/day on Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal · · Score: 1

    I've never seen a bottle simply labeled "acetaminophen".

    Really?

    It's quite common. For example, here, http://www.walgreens.com/brandstore/branddetaillist_new.jsp?CATID=301393&PNAME=Walgreens&selectedBrand=118&orderBy=brandCatId.displayName&PID=118
    (the topmost item)

  15. Re:The Only Change You Can Believe In on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    You were probably going for a funny, but there's some truth to it (like most funnies), and you're not alone.

  16. Re:The Maker Achievement on Achievements and Optimizations · · Score: 1

    You really dig Mark Frauenfelder?

  17. Re:Opportunity on North Korea Missile Launch Fails · · Score: 1

    "...she lost it"

    It was a good book, but the one that really made me "lose it" was Body of Secrets. I mean, can you believe the gall of those Israelis, attacking the USS Liberty?!

    -another ex-submariner (USS Kamehameha SSBN 642 Gold Crew 1988-1992)

  18. Re:Problem with DVDs was... on Obamas Give Queen Elizabeth an iPod · · Score: 1

    Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say....
    I wanna tell her that I love a lot, but I gotta get a belly full of wine....

  19. Re:Frist Psot? on Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat" · · Score: 1

    I was just contradicting him. You know, a joke.

  20. Re:!aprilfools ?? on Yeast-Powered Fuel Cell Feeds On Human Blood · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought,too. BTW, AFD is a terrible day to have mod points....

  21. Re:Frist Psot? on Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat" · · Score: 1

    No, he's not. There's no contradiction achievement.

  22. Re:Slashdot's awkward point of view. on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Yes. Next question?

  23. Re:Obligatory Serious Answer on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    He must have *wanted* it to say "one in the last six MONTHS." You're right. It didn't.

  24. Re:Being a vendor... on Want a PC With 192 GB of RAM? · · Score: 1

    Well, it would be good news, if more than a handful of these monstrosities were sold.

  25. Re:Google File System Paper on How Google Routes Around Outages · · Score: 1

    But wait, isn't the point that Google is the internet's largest tool obvious and relevant?