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  1. Re:Well, isn't that ironic? on Firefox Appears Ready to Crack 20% Share Next Month · · Score: 1

    This is not a troll. Hope it gets metamoderated...

  2. Re:No on Boy Scouts Ask Open Source Community For Help · · Score: 1
    Still wrong.

    As someone else pointed out, http://www.usscouts.org/advance/boyscout/religious.asp lists the official religious awards and includes Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, et al.

  3. Re:Correction on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 1

    You are not forced to sign the contract unless you are forced to buy the product, and I believe that is not the case. There are other (and better) phones available.

  4. Re:Noooo! on Testing Quantum Behavior — From Earth to the ISS · · Score: 1

    It may be that if you keep your stuff in La-La-Land, you'll be much happier.

  5. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    There's an ironic thought: we could sequester all the "nasty" carbon in the vehicles themselves!

  6. Re:U5? on Canadian Gov't Victim of Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    I first thought it was 1337-speak for US.

  7. Re:Peer Review is Elitism on Are Academic Journals Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    One word: azeotrope.
    Oh, and they *don't want* people drinking it. I know it was a JOKE.

  8. Re:YouTube? on Community Choice Award "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Govt" · · Score: 1

    Stupid people need information too!

  9. still not working AFAICT on US Amazon.com Website Down For Over 1 Hour · · Score: 1

    I tried to click on a link for a DIY Home Chemistry Experiment Book and got:

    We're sorry!

    An error occurred when we tried to process your request. Rest assured, we're already working on the problem and expect to resolve it shortly.

    If you were trying to make a purchase, please check Your Account to confirm that the order was placed.

    We apologize for the inconvenience.

      on the Amazon.com home page

  10. Re:I got infected by this virus on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    What- they were all ROT13'd and the virus ROT13'd 'em again? Lame.

  11. Re:Might want to check your FPU on Happy Birthday! X86 Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    It can't be over 29.9792458 because that would violate the laws of physics!

  12. Re:People don't learn from history on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 1

    I didn't say "can't even influence", but obviously, since you had to go all the way back to FDR and earlier, the influence is not all that big.
    The Lieberman-Warner bill in Congress now has the power, as I understand it, to change America into France, only without the nuclear power and cheese. Heaven forbid.

  13. Not getting easier. on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 1

    From what I can tell, at early grades at least, since my son is only in 3rd grade now, math is not getting "dumbed down". He is in a charter school with a better curriculum than the ordinary public schools though. I may change my mind when he gets to high school, so ask me again then.

  14. Re:I for one welcome our on IEEE Special Report On the Singularity · · Score: 1

    He said "all natural systems". Does that not leave the possibility that there are other kinds of systems?

  15. Re:People don't learn from history on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 2, Informative

    and if they're smart they'll answer (1) *irrelevant - the POTUS doesn't control the economy, and (2) Yes.

    *but other than energy costs, not too bad, and energy would cost less if federal laws and regulations didn't prevent more production here in the USA.

  16. Re:It's like a 3 lb CASIO watch. on Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 · · Score: 1

    I'm wearing a 3 lb Casio (Pathfinder) watch I got about three years ago, you insensitive clod!

  17. Re:In other news on Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story · · Score: 1

    Estimating from the UID, quite a long time...ah, but you've only been here 15 minutes. How would you know?

  18. Re:Default Browser on Firefox Appears Ready to Crack 20% Share Next Month · · Score: 3, Informative
    I don't have a "Win" key, you insensitive clod!

    Actually, I use a little utility called Launchy and whenever I want to start an app (not using the Start menu), I hit Alt-Space and type the first few letters and hit Return...

  19. Re:thats a lot of sodium... on Building a Miniature Magnetic Earth · · Score: 1

    No. But if I told you that they control pH to prevent corrosion...never mind.

  20. Re:Its simple... on What Could You Do With a Bogus Root Name Server? · · Score: 1

    That's got too many syllables for the tune.

  21. Re:thats a lot of sodium... on Building a Miniature Magnetic Earth · · Score: 4, Informative

    US Navy uses all Pressurized (light) Water Reactors.
    I was on a boat with an S5W reactor (S for submarine, W for Westinghouse). I did my prototype training (the hands on training that nucs do before going out to the fleet) in upstate NY at the D1G reactor (G for General Electric, D for destroyer). Also at that facility were a couple of interesting reactor designs, one of which used liquid sodium as coolant (it was no longer in operation by the time I got there in 1987) and another, called MARF, that used gadolinium-lined, well I don't know what to call them, but they were like toilets, and they were neutron moderators, so when you wanted to SCRAM the reactor you dumped the water out of them, like flushing a toilet, and reactivity immediately dropped to subcritical.

  22. Re:Previous efforts on Philip K. Dick's 'Ubik' To Be Filmed · · Score: 1

    Small nitpick: It was Christ who said "it is finished", not a centurion.

  23. Re:ISU on Programming As a Part of a Science Education? · · Score: 1

    Even if it's not good for Science, it's good for A New Kind Of Science (TM)

  24. Re:Shenanigans on Pushing a CPU to Heat Death, Intentionally · · Score: 1

    Apparently, they don't cover that until "Thermodynamics 102".

  25. Re:Your rights? on US Firms Read Employee E-mail On a Massive Scale · · Score: 1

    "..., if the company doesn't have a similar policy about use of company letterhead,..."

    But people - back in the old days - didn't go to the cabinet and get some company letterhead to type a letter to their friend saying "what a cool concert that was last night and have you seen my bong?" - it wasn't necessary to have such a policy. It would be funny to see a letter like that, though, I'll admit.