Comment Obligatory Daley (Score 4, Insightful) 403
Vote Early. Vote Often
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/classes/hmc.cs070.200401/votequote.html
Comment Re:Malware warning? (Score 1) 189
Nope
Comment Reader X? Next Lawsuit (Score -1, Offtopic) 110
Apple sues for the use of "X"
Comment 2030 HAH! (Score 1) 738
They forgot about 2012! Plenty of room after that!
Comment Re:It's tougher than you think... (Score 1) 369
Windows is ingrained in business culture here, for the most part.
Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Comment Re:What no spelling? (Score 3, Funny) 272
Well it is obvious! It found the LOLCats page first!
Comment Re:America (Score 1) 851
To bad I don't have points... would have upped to informative.
Comment Re:Sideways! (Score 5, Funny) 1140
But then my neck hurts at the end of the day from turning my head....
Comment Re:Budget? (Score 5, Funny) 322
because outrage at government spending gives Slashbots a hard-on.
Great free alternative to the little blue pill
Comment Re:Wow. - Extortion vs Coercion (Score 1) 200
Common man difference is the follow through.
Extortion:
Pay us or we will break your legs
No
Snap, Crackle, Pop
Pay us or we will break your legs
OK
Coercion:
Pay us or we will break your legs
No
OK Bye
Comment Re:Wow. - Extortion vs Coercion (Score 2, Informative) 200
There is a difference!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion
Extortion, outwresting, and/or exaction is a criminal offense which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person(s), entity, or institution, through coercion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercion
Coercion (pronounced
Comment Imagine a (Score 4, Funny) 117
Beowulf Cluster of...... Never Mind......
Comment Any entity (Score 5, Funny) 308
— no matter how many tentacles it has — has a soul. Ummm... The Flying Spaghetti Monster??
Pope's Astronomer Would Love To Baptize an Alien 308
Ponca City, We Love You writes "The Guardian reports that Guy Consolmagno, curator of the pope's meteorite collection and a trained astronomer and planetary scientist, says he would be 'delighted' if intelligent life was found among the stars. 'But the odds of us finding it, of it being intelligent and us being able to communicate with it — when you add them up it's probably not a practical question.' Consolmagno adds that the traditional definition of a soul was to have intelligence, free will, freedom to love and freedom to make decisions. 'Any entity — no matter how many tentacles it has — has a soul.' Would he baptize an alien? 'Only if they asked.' Consolmagno dismisses the ideas of intelligent design as a pseudo-scientific version of creationism. 'The word has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.'"
Comment Re:Yes and? (Score 4, Informative) 121
Nitinol is also used many permanent implantable medical devices such as stents http://www.euroflex-gmbh.de/pdfs/medical.pdf [PDF] and having developed a few devices with Nitinol, it is simply amazing to see it work.
