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  1. Whoooooo - oh forget it... on Study Says Targeted Ads Gettin' a Lil' Creepy · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I wonder if people are so dense even a good whooshing wouldn't get through.

  2. Re:It was too easy on NASA Ends Plan To Put Man Back On Moon · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You have no fucking idea what you are talking about. For example, the gravitation of the moon is 1.63 m/s^2, not 2km/s. 2km/s isn't even a measure of acceleration, how the fuck could that even look correct to you?

  3. Re:Isn't it all about options? on Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell · · Score: 1

    VIM is more important [than mc]

    Woooow. Understatement of the century.

    You know come to think of it, I don't htink I've ever met a single person that uses mc, everyone either uses real GUIs, or real CLI tools...

    Also, Icaza is a certifiable jackass. He wasn't so bad in the beginning, but his trollish behaviour concerning the entire mono situation is just too much.

  4. Re:It's not that bad at all... on The Truth About the Polygraph, According To the NSA · · Score: 1

    The questions are very general, which actually threw me off a little. I could dream up a scenario that I've committed a major crime and now known about it.... so... am I 100% sure I haven't committed one... well... no!

    They do that very very intentionally. In fact, they are lying when they explain to you what the control questions are for.

  5. Re:Won't work on Newly Discovered Bacteria Could Aid Oil Cleanup · · Score: 1

    I've been thinking that this entire time. I just read Zodiac a month or two and the parrallels are starting to become pretty amusing :) I'm particularly interested to see how that stuff with the oil dispersents will turn out.

  6. Re:Bullshit on Quant AI Picks Stocks Better Than Humans · · Score: 1

    No, that is just what they want you to think. Why do they want you to think that you ask? Well, so long as the majority of people believe that, they get free money.

  7. Re:Girls on Bionic-Eyed Man Wants To Stream Eye Video Online · · Score: 1

    throw a red Terminator LED in there, and go around scaring kids on the street.

    If you watch TFV you'll see that he already has that covered...

  8. Re:Rubber duckies on DoE Posts Raw Data From Oil Spill, Coast Guard Asks For Tech Help · · Score: 1

    That shouldn't really be a problem. Your average highschool physics student would probably be up to the task.

    The hard part I guess would be making the devices radiate their position efficiently from those depths.

  9. Re:Why is nobody talking about blowing it up? on DoE Posts Raw Data From Oil Spill, Coast Guard Asks For Tech Help · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if he put his car analogy in terms of another car analogy it would make more sense.

  10. Re:Bullshit on Quant AI Picks Stocks Better Than Humans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    especially when taxpayers worldwide are free to pay billions to revive banks

    What in the world makes you think insanity like that qualifies as "free market"?

  11. Re:Rectifying interference with more interference? on Gulf Oil Spill Disaster — Spawn of the Living Dead · · Score: 1

    Yours will be too. Nobody lives forever (yet) and as you near the end of your life you too will eventually realize just how short life really is.

    And really, tuna isn't going to negatively impact your life expectancy in any meaningful way...

  12. Re:It's my childhood future... on Japan Successfully Deploys First Solar Sail In Space · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'll second that recommendation for Accelerando. That's the book that convinced me solar sails are way way cooler than chemical rockets.

    It's even available as a free ebook, though I of course recommend picking up a hard copy.

  13. Re:Microsoft created this problem on Microsoft a Weak Link In Possible Cyber War · · Score: 1

    That's the problem genius. Tivo-ization only hurts linux.

  14. Re:Bet you didn't think of this on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Something should be banned nationwide because your wife doesn't like it. Wow, that is some seriously messed up perspective you've got there.

  15. Re:Bet you didn't think of this on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope they start selling this stuff in cans. I could use it as vegan repelent.

  16. Re:Caffeine?! on New Google Search Index 50% Fresher With Caffeine · · Score: 1

    A PC is defined by hardware, not software. For all intents and purposes modern Macs are PCs. The only real difference is they don't use the same BIOS deal or whatever, but that is largely irrelevant (and apparently PCs from other companies are looking to ditch it too).

  17. Re:GP100M on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    Why not 5 deciliters? :) I don't think "0.5 L" is so wrong, no matter how familar you are with the metric system "one half" is just too simple of a concept to pass by.

  18. Re:GP100M on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    I'm an American, and always have been, but I have no conceptual understanding of quarts, ounces, fluid ounces, or pounds. Pints I know well enough, but only because I enjoy beer... Public school taught me metric units very early on, but always assumed I knew "english" units and never taught me them.

  19. Re:GP100M on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? Americans most certainly know what liters are, and probably see them in every day life more often than gallons. With the strange exception of milk, beverages are most often sold in .75L, 1L, 2L, or sometimes 3L containers.

  20. Re:go figure. on California Judge Routes Campaign Robocalls Through Colorado · · Score: 1

    They're far easier to hang up on.

    How do you figure? Hanging up a phone is hanging up a phone, it's not like you need to ask the other party for their permission.

  21. Re:Aliens! on America Versus the UFO Hacker · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but SpaceX is working on that.

  22. Re:I'm not qualified to read this article. on Why Some Supermassive Black Holes Have Big Jets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the spin of a black hole can be determined across a black hole, does that mean information can be transmitted across the event horizon?

  23. go figure. on California Judge Routes Campaign Robocalls Through Colorado · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Politician thinks the rules only apply to other people. News at 11.

  24. Re:Second Stage Burn over australia on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Appears As UFO In Australia · · Score: 1

    Do you have any sort of sources at all for this? I didn't know that the Falcon 9 was ever supposed to be able to achieve escape velocity. What exactly where they supposedly shooting for? A moon shot?

    Anyways, their brand new rocket didn't blow up and acheived orbit the first time they tried it, I think it'd be easy to spin this as a sucess regardless.

  25. Re:64 bit Linux on Adobe Warns of Flash, PDF Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I see the 64 bit Flash plugin for Linux has not been updated.

    Does that really suprize you?