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Comment Re:HA! (Score 1) 102

The thing that always amazes me in that story is they put Captain Bligh on a row boat in the Pacific and somehow he made it back to England.

From what I understand he did it the same way the Polynesians did it: stellar navigation. Not to England, but to some island he knew about, most likely due west. He was the ship's captain, familiar with the nearby islands. Think about those crazy Polynesians who use stellar navigation to travel between Hawaii and Tahiti!

Polynesian: The race of many islands

Comment Re:Do what Amarok 1.4 does to MP3 tags. (Score 1) 41

It might be rendering the tags in UTF-16, which for code points \x00 - \x7F look just like ASCII with a NULL byte \x00 before (Big Endian) or after (Little Endian) each printable character.

Can you give an example? I'll take a look. Run Unix "strings" on the file, run it through "hd" and post it as a reply here.

$ strings file.mp3 | grep "known text" | hd

Comment Re:Would their force carriers be called... (Score 1) 103

If the force carriers for ordinary matter are called bosons...

Then would the force carriers for SIMPs be called...SIMPsons?

You probably nailed it. Particle and theoretical physicists have quite the sense of humour. I'm sure if you send that name to those actually developing the theories that they would consider it.

Comment Re:8.0 percent? (Score 3, Funny) 82

Sure hope that's a typo, or heart attacks are really fatal over there.

It's probably due to the conversion from metric. Notice how 100 KPH was rounded off to 60 MPH in the summary? The submitter rounded off whatever 8% in metric is.

The use of a decimal type instead of integer type was the key to figuring this one out.

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