Of course, if the bees leave it for a few days, it becomes mead. So all the bees that sample it then will be paralytic by the time they get back to their nests.

Whoosh indeed.

I suspect the person either is thinking buckyballs, or more likely something like C8H18. (petrol, or gasoline if your american).

Where do babies come from? and Where do idiots come from ... Same question really!

Come on guys, this is /. You don't really expect these types of questions answered here. (Alternatively, where do girls come from?)

I was always under the impression that patents were to protect novel ideas that were unlikely to be obvious to anyone that was working in the field. This I find acceptable usage of patents! However, many patents that are granted by the USPTO are NOT novel. The problem with business and software patents is that they are either obvious but have been applied to computing, or they are well known but no-one has applied for the patent before, since it was "obvious". The obvious fix is that any patent that is granted should perhaps have a two year probationary period, during which the patent office could receive objections from other interested parties. The patent should then be reviewed, based on any/all received information. This would freeze out many of the bogus patents that are issued (mainly to trolls who would never use the patent they own anyway!

Really? The one that pisses me of is how quantum has come to mean something truly big, where its original usage is something incredibly small!

If you want to get really technical, Red, Green and Blue are the additive synthesis primary colours, and Yellow, Cyan and Magenta are the subtractive synthesis primary colours.

Since the article states that the most exploited race is "Americans", what does this say about relative IQ's?

Especially since jpeg/mpeg gets a large percentage of its compression through deleting high frequency detail during the DCT pass. So unless the note is very close to the camera, the text will disappear in the compression process!

The thing that really is a pain is the IT admin insisting on monthly changes to the password. So you might use a strong passphrase (say 20 characters long) but in the end you use the minimum, and put it on a post-it note so you don't lock yourself out of the system. (And, since most IT admin think their related to god, asking them for help is like grovelling in shit, something very few people enjoy!)

Easy to fix. Set up a RupertMurdock tracking site. Every time someone see's Rupert, or on of his family, they report it to the site. (With pictures, where available.) Once a week, a $1000 dollar prize is awarded to the best sighting.

I am sure this close scrutiny would piss the bloody old prick off enough so that he would learn to pull his head in. Thank Christ Rupert renounced his Australian citizenship. and became a US citizen, as this type of behavior is very un-Australian! (But ... it is about par for the USA!)

Not to mention the taste is out of this world.

The truth is he used it to decipher many of the emails he had in his in tray ... It shocked him so much that he decided dictionaries were a bad thing. (He probably concluded that the dic part was rude in its own right!

Apple users are after all religious users of technology. (Otherwise, they would be Luddites!)

Well, compare yourself to Australia ... http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=NB03014.pdf Our population is about 1/12th that of the US, but our gun deaths are about 100th those of the USA. Also, since a draconian change to our laws, te gun deaths have fallen 50%. This is indicative of what the USA might become if it altered its current laws.

H'mm, beryllium used to be the element of choice for thermal grease before its carcinogenic properties were understood. However, thermal grease used to be explained as preventing gas filled voids between the heatsink and the device to be cooled.

While diamond does have good thermal conductivity, I wonder if anyone has tried a thin slab of bismuth. Bismuth is reasonably conductive, is fairly malleable, and will readily deform to get rid of any voids. It also has a very low melting point. a hot cup of coffee placed on a slab of bismuth is sufficient to leave an indent of the cups base!

H'mm, you must NOT be a real geek, since for a real geek, the saying goes

When ALL else fails, RTFM!

(Besides, your getting married ... Never the less, I suppose your going to live with your mother ...