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  1. Re:That would make sense on Changes In Rocks Noted Before Earthquakes · · Score: 1
    It doesn't even look like it is in the middle of a tectonic plate. Looks fairly close to the southern edge of the North American Plate.

    The middle looks like it would be somewhere in way northern Canada or the Arctic Ocean, depending on how you define "middle" (center-of-mass, etc.)

  2. Re:WARNING on The Very Worst Uses of Windows · · Score: 1

    "Windows: As useful as a screendoor on a submarine!" ?

  3. Is it even remotely possible on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1

    that they know something you don't, and that they are right and you are wrong?

  4. Re:The language of engineers on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    With its similarities to English (cognates etc., and apart from S-O-V sentence structure) it's a heck of a lot easier to learn than Japanese, which, working in a Japanese company, I wish I had learned (only French, Spanish and German were offered in my HS then). It probably helped, too that I was a teenager when I learned the German I learned. Learning a foreign language at 40 is tough - especially Japanese! My recommendations: Chinese, Japanese, Spanish - if you live in the US.

  5. Might not be good advice on How to Fight Name Scraping Scammers? · · Score: 1
    to expect a web presence to prevent this name scamming, seeing how Curt Monash has a pretty significant web presence,

    Curt A. Monash, Ph.D. President, Monash Research curtmonash@nospam.com (978) 555-1212 CurtMonash on AIM and Twitter Backups: curtmonash@nospam2.com, (978) 555-1213 Main website: http://www.monash.com/ Guide to our research: http://www.monash.com/blogs.html Required reading if you want to pitch me: http://www.strategicmessaging.com/how-to-pitch-me/2008/05/16/ New Network World blog: http://www.networkworld.com/community/monash

    and yet he still fell victim. Who knows, it may be the opposite strategy is better.

  6. Re:Web presence? on How to Fight Name Scraping Scammers? · · Score: 1

    Always remember: there are different kinds of intelligence.

  7. Re:Mod grandparent 'troll', not 'insightful' on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Half NaCl, half KCl, IIRC.
    Too much potassium can be bad for you though, so you shouldn't dump a lot of it on your fries either.

  8. Re:Vendor Puppets on 9 Reasons Why Developers Think the CIO Is Clueless · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was a joke, but he was talking about FORD.

  9. Re:sphere on Roundest Object In the World Created · · Score: 1

    Thank you AC, I can't believe that was modded Informative. Spherical crystals. Oy vey, whatever that means.

  10. Re:Who does age matter to? on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wheelchair-using != incapacitated. And get some cough drops.

  11. What does it day about Wired on Google Begat the End of the Scientific Method? · · Score: 1

    that the author of TFA, Chris Anderson, is the editor in chief of Wired?

  12. Re:already here on Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat" · · Score: 1

    Having visited Japan (and having to wear Japanese style work uniforms there) and living in America, I feel qualified to say that it is likely that the average American's BMI is higher than the average Japanese BMI, regardless of height differences. Nice try, though.

  13. Re:Who woulda thought? on Fastest-Ever Flashgun Captures Image of Light Wave · · Score: 1

    A /.er who's never taken a Physics class? You must be in a small minority, I would think.

  14. Re:Shameless karma whore on Trees' Leaves Grow At a Cool 70° All Over the World · · Score: 1

    "Alcohol is not used anywhere."

    It was used in the joke. And in most mixed drinks. You should try one of each.

  15. Re:No Ethics on 1 In 3 Sysadmins Snoop On Colleagues · · Score: 1

    "So why do we look less favorably on the children who do it and are just not as good at it?"

    I don't know, I don't think I do, but two wrongs don't make a right, as the saying goes.

  16. Re:Seriously, WTF? on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, there are some people who get their "information" from reading comics, I'm pretty sure.

  17. Re:Certainly sounds fair... on Man Fired When Laptop Malware Downloaded Porn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they'll change their name to The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents Waiting To Happen.

  18. Re:Height maps on Intel Shows Off Quake Wars, Ray Traced · · Score: 1

    My first website was actually done in Word.

    Really?
    My first Flight Simulator application was done in vi.

    OK, not really.

  19. Rain in WA on NASA Testing Lunar Rovers In Moses Lake, WA · · Score: 5, Informative

    When someone says it always rains in Washington (1) they're exaggerating. a bit. (2) they mean WESTERN Washington. Moses Lake is in Eastern Washington.

  20. Re:Spam for McCain! on McCain Asks Supporters To Campaign On Blogs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Duh! ALL politicians are SCSI!

  21. Judge must have pretty good influence on Porn Found On L.A. Obscenity Case Judge's Website · · Score: 2, Interesting

    since all archive.org has for all the archives of alex.kozinski.com is pages saying

        Ain't nothin' here.

        Y'all best be movin' on, compadre.

  22. Re:Bad project name on NASA Plans Probe to the Sun · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the correction. It has been a long time since I heard the story.

  23. Re:Bad project name on NASA Plans Probe to the Sun · · Score: 1

    Of course, originally, Icarus was the name of a certain Greek god who thought a little too much of himself (as many of them did), fashioned some wax wings and flew too close to the Sun, with results as you can imagine.

  24. Re:Okay? on NASA Plans Probe to the Sun · · Score: 3, Informative

    This should not be modded informative. Please. A nuclear reactor (I assume you mean fission not fusion since that is the usual meaning of reactor) core does not get hot enough to melt the fuel - if it did, you must mean Chernobyl so you should have been more specific. The surface of the Sun is at a much higher temperature than the melting point of any material.

  25. Re:Obama will win! on Prediction Markets and the 2008 Electoral Map · · Score: 1

    Obviously, it only works on dogs, not on people! (I'm sure they didn't have pet semataries [intentional misspelling])