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  1. Re:oh, please on TSA Internally Blocking Websites With 'Controversial Opinions' · · Score: 1

    Oh no need. I think I've just witnessed a pretty standard example of the fine people skills people who work at the TSA often have.

  2. Re:Hmmm... on Police Stop Journalists From Photographing Metrorail System · · Score: 1

    and sometimes very dangerous work.

    That bullshit has never been, and never will be, a good excuse.

    You know what is a far more dangerous job than being a police officer? Being a pizza delivery guy.

    I'm not being tricky and counting accidental deaths either. That is for homicide. For some reason you never hear about people in the food services industry beating the shit out of innocent civilians.

  3. Re:Hmmm... on Police Stop Journalists From Photographing Metrorail System · · Score: 1

    What's next, "sidewalks are a privilege and therefore can be revoked at any time for any reason"?

  4. Re:In case there was any doubt on California To Drop State Rock Over Asbestos Concerns · · Score: 1

    Bear wrestling matches are prohibited.

    Let me guess, you are one of those people who also thinks that dogfighting should be legal.

  5. Re:I wonder... on A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts · · Score: 1

    or the side which is never exposed to the Earth

    No, the correct term for that is "the far side of the moon".

    "Dark side of the moon" is commonly, but incorrectly, used to refer to the dark side of the moon. A scientist using this phrase instead of the correct phrase certainly sets off alarms.

  6. Re:Learning curve on Local Newspapers Use F/OSS For a Day · · Score: 1

    umm, if the video plays at 2x, but the sound does not then it will become out of sync. Action will happen in video before you can hear it.

    Mplayer can do this (see -af='scaletempo'), and I believe VLC can do it too. It basically vocoder's the hell out of the audio but it works pretty decent (starts to break down after a point, but it works really great for a narrow range).

  7. Re:Save the Gulf: Send the Enterprise on Oil Means More Arsenic In Seawater · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're still not getting it. With the scales we are talking about, you'd be better off zipping out into the middle of the gulf yourself on a zodiac and blowing bubbles in the water with a drinking straw. It'd be a hell of a lot cheaper, and it'd accomplish about as much.

  8. Re:Is that a lot? I'm not sure. on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 1

    P.S. It's a loan guarantee. $1.45B is the upper limit on how much it will cost the taxpayers. The lower limit is $0.

    It really doesn't take a genius to accurately predict how much it is actually going to cost.

  9. Re:Can't believe they still use pounds on Russia's Unmanned Capsule Misses Space Station · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the fuck are you talking about? Pounds is debatable but kilograms always means mass. Things have mass in space.

    If you are smart enough to think that you know the difference between mass and weight, then you sure as shit should be smart enough to know that kilograms is a measure of mass.

  10. Re:Can't believe they still use pounds on Russia's Unmanned Capsule Misses Space Station · · Score: 1

    Now, try that with the ridiculous conversion ratios between ounces, pounds, stones and all that crazy mumbo-jumbo that is the imperial system.

    Well I'd give it a go, but I was only taught SI in my (American) public school. :)

  11. Re:Can't believe they still use pounds on Russia's Unmanned Capsule Misses Space Station · · Score: 1

    That's not exactly true. The kilogram hasn't been defined in terms of water since 1889, when officially became defined by the IPK. From 1901 to 1964 the liter was defined in terms of kilograms (the other way around), but even that is no longer true. 1 liter of water may still be close to a kilogram, but that isn't how either of them are currently defined.

  12. Re:pendantry on Russia's Unmanned Capsule Misses Space Station · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pounds are a measure of mass, not weight

    This is because the most common definition of a pound is in terms of kilograms.

  13. Re:Can't believe they still use pounds on Russia's Unmanned Capsule Misses Space Station · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well to be fair, unlike other measures in the SI system, kilograms isn't all that much better than pounds. It still isn't defined in terms of any universal constant (speed of light, properties of atoms, etc), but rather defined by the International Prototype Kilogram in France.

    The most common definition of the pound is exactly 0.45359237 kilograms. The pound is abitrary but so is the kilogram.

  14. Re:It's time to deliver a space tug to the station on Russia's Unmanned Capsule Misses Space Station · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ah, but then you'd need a space-tug-tug to pull your space-tug back when it fails...

    Where exactly do you get the idea that they are doing this in a half-assed manner? Contrary to what you might think, this is rocket science.

  15. Re:Uhhhh on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 5, Informative

    How exactly could you know the answer to your query? Well by RTFA of course!

    The study data was collected on an opt-in basis from nearly 10,000 users of the Mozilla Test Pilot addon which surveys Firefox usage.

  16. Re:Aren't you guys excited for net neutrality? on Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    These are hardly consequences of common carrier laws.

  17. Re:he did it because on Grigory Perelman Turns Down $1M Millennium Prize · · Score: 1

    Remember to save some of that money for syrup though.

  18. Re:Aren't you guys excited for net neutrality? on Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because phone neutrality (read: Common Carrier), is clearly being abused in similar manners right now.

  19. Re:Probably not even that on In UK, Computer Science Graduates the Least Employable · · Score: 1

    Hmm, economy gets significantly worse, but prospects for CS guys goes up?

    Cyberpunk dystopia here we come!

  20. Re:Great, so now we need massive antena. on EU Plans To Make Apple, Adobe and Others Open Up · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Software Defined Radio.

    It is the future.

  21. Re:Grow up on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Cool story bro. You remember to tell them that you've been sending me death threats?

  22. Re:What is the problem? on VP8 Codec Coming To FFmpeg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually I was reading that comment as sarcastic. Maybe that is what the moderators were doing as well.

  23. Re:Grow up on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Suprized it took you so long to find this discussion Michael Kristopeit, I was starting to feel lonely!

    I do find it amusing how you and your sockpuppet madddddddddd (1710534) are actually trying to convince people that I'm the troll though. Your karma is so low I had to go out of my way to read your recent posts in a thread the moderators forgot about days ago. Oh, you might want to check out how the comment system and karma works yourself, I haven't responded to myself yet in this thread, I've just responded to people who were sence modded into oblivioun by others. You'd think that you of all people would have figured out that who "browsing at low karma levels" thing by now.

    And your claim that your shit karma is entirely mine and clone53421's fault is laughable, considering your other account has such shit karma as well and wasn't involved in that dicussion until near the end. That you go on to complain about us using multiple accounts (untrue) is even more hilarious in light of madddddddddd (1710534)'s existence. Your opposition to hypocrisy lacks any sort of self-reflection. You are the embodiment of irony.

    No wait, I take that back, you are NOTHING, and the moderators agree.

  24. Re:Nice accomplishment! on Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours · · Score: 1

    Shhhhhh! You might shatter their pre-concieved notions of C and make them feel bad for never learning it!

  25. Re:WebTV on Chase Bank May Drop Support of Chrome, Opera · · Score: 1

    So more than half a fucking decade ago. Got it.