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  1. Re:Biggest flaw remains unfixed- on LibreOffice 3.5.1 Released With Fixes · · Score: 1

    "resume's need to be in an editable format" so you can remove the offensive extraneous apostrophe's!

  2. Re:Double irony award? on Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem · · Score: 1

    I would think that just about everything Western (TM) would be banned in Kuwait. Except cars.

  3. Re:EAT IT, Thomas! on Record-Setting 100+ T Magnetic Field Achieved At Los Alamos · · Score: 1

    You mean 1 hectoTesla, or 0.1 kiloTesla?

  4. Re:Not just field strength on Record-Setting 100+ T Magnetic Field Achieved At Los Alamos · · Score: 1

    I remember an NMR spectrometer from when I was in college that had a 4T field. Keep your credit cards and mechanical watches away!
    17T or 100T is wacky strong.

  5. Re:Just another hope for an easy way out on Aspirin Helps Prevent Cancer, New Studies Show · · Score: 1

    Really? Big Pharma has nothing to gain by promoting aspirin, of all things. If anything they should want to squelch this research since buying aspirin instead of their expensive statins, anti-cancer drugs, chemo drugs, etc. etc. is less $$ for them.

  6. Re:The Study Itself Is Fine, Singularity Hub Is No on Aspirin Helps Prevent Cancer, New Studies Show · · Score: 2

    Even "may help" still suggests a causal link, where none has been demonstrated. Such language can confuse a lot of people and can be avoided but it takes some effort that space-saving and lazy journalists and headline writers may not wish to exert.
    See http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2012/03/please-read-our-primer-on-observational-studies/

  7. Re:A thousand words on Elementary School Kids Explore the Moon At Close Range · · Score: 1

    Depends on the resolution, compression scheme and color depth of the picture, doesn't it? Certainly a small enough picture could take up the same space, but a decent sized photo is going to take more space than 1000 words, for sure.

  8. Re:Nothing is Copyrightable? on Judge Rules Pi-Based Music Is Non-Copyrightable · · Score: 1

    "...you could get that number from a giant random number generator, but the person who developed the software didn't, and that's why they're able to copyright it."

    It reminds me of a guy who looks at a abstract expressionist painting and says "My five year old daughter could've done that."
    Missing the point that his five year old didn't do it; Jackson Pollock did it, and did it first, and did it intentionally.

  9. Re:Slahdot gets it wrong as usual on Judge Rules Pi-Based Music Is Non-Copyrightable · · Score: 1

    So if you just hide a melody within a chord progression , you'll be OK?

  10. Re:Patent on Supreme Court Limits Patents Based On Laws of Nature · · Score: 1

    Sure they ahve.

  11. Re:Patent on Supreme Court Limits Patents Based On Laws of Nature · · Score: 0

    BS. It's BASF (Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik)

  12. Re:Truly a great man on University Makes 80,000 Einstein Documents Publicly Available · · Score: 3, Informative

    Teaspoonful is volume. If that were neutron star material...
    [A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoon (5 milliliters) of its material would have a mass over 5.5×10^12 kg, about 900 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza.]

  13. Re:Samsung, huh? on New Samsung TV Watches You Watching It · · Score: 1

    Your sentence is somewhat unclear.
    Did you mean "i just laughed, so hard milk came out of my nose... "?

  14. Re:Great news for dieters! on Garden Gnome Tests Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    1 / 0.006 = 166.66...
    One more cookie per calendar quarter maybe?

  15. Re:Wrong units... on Garden Gnome Tests Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    Sorry. Wrong abbreviation. N for Newton, not Nt.

  16. Re:Wrong units... on Garden Gnome Tests Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    Every analytical balance I've ever seen reads out in g, mg or micrograms. Not Nt, mNt, or your silly kiloponds.

  17. Re:My Anniversary on 10 Ways To Celebrate Pi Day · · Score: 1

    i.e. the normal way of rounding 3.14159265....

  18. Re:Pi? on 10 Ways To Celebrate Pi Day · · Score: 1

    True, but did you catch my joke: "one over pi" or was your brain too fogged from excessive pie-eating blood sugar spike?

  19. Re:Engineering shortage? on Reversing the Loss of Science and Engineering Careers · · Score: 1

    "... falls as engineering major gets harder (ie electrical)"

    Disagree with this, at least relative to chemical engineering. I don't think that ChE is "easier" than EE. Although EE is probably "harder" than ME or Civil Eng. And there were more girls in ChE than all other engineering majors when I was in school.
    The "no girls in companies where you work" is pretty true though, and it can be a bummer. But then it's probably best to avoid romantic relationships with co-workers anyways, so that makes it easier!

  20. Re:My Anniversary on 10 Ways To Celebrate Pi Day · · Score: 1

    That'd be a year early, methinks.

  21. Re:Pi? on 10 Ways To Celebrate Pi Day · · Score: 1

    You should stand OVER the pie and ask for 7/22nd of it. That would be a large serving, but conceivable to eat, unlike more than 3 pies.

  22. Re:If you are American on 10 Ways To Celebrate Pi Day · · Score: 1

    12 x 5280. Wouldn't you be more interested in how many cm fit in a km? Both are trivial.

  23. Re:10? on 10 Ways To Celebrate Pi Day · · Score: 1

    They're only letting people with UIDs below 3141593 post. Is that good enough?

  24. Re:Why not just make smart sprinklers? on Robot Firefighter To Throw Extinguisher Grenades · · Score: 2

    HALON/CO2 no good on subs. Seawater piping with valves or sprinklers that open on their own also not a good idea. Fighting fires the old fashioned way with manual fire hoses is still the best.

  25. Re:AMD is dead. on AMD Gives Up Its Share In GlobalFoundries · · Score: 1

    And I discovered that my castles stand
    Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand [silicon dioxide, that is]