A number attached to username is an obvious example of a fact.

groupthink hasn't posted anything since 2005 http://slashdot.org/~groupthink/comments, so no.

Where are all the good trolls, these ACs are useless.

One obvious difference between the two is 2234483, but then you don't really care since you're probably just trolling anyway.

:) Have you ever eaten a plate of bacon & cabbage with floury potatoes?

I'm interested to know if this would increase the efficiency of a hydrogen generator, the ones that split water using positive and negative plates. I'm sure it's been tested at any rate, seems obvious that it would be worth testing when you read the summary.

Bacon is a fairly broad term, here in Ireland boiled bacon and cabbage is common and quite tasty actually. We're not boiling rashers, it's a large cut of meat and boiling is a perfectly valid way to cook it.

if...pfff...every year is a hole year on /.

That only makes sense if they don't ever plan to make more.

The cynic is me actually assumes that this "AskSlashdot" is just blatant fishing to drum up yet more interest in the pebble. I quite like the idea of the pebble though, so hopefully the cynic in me is wrong.

I misread that and started wondering then why reduced patent length would lead to reduced patient life expectancy. Then I wondered why pharmaceutical companies would have patients at all. After re-reading it, I'm a little upset that I misread and got patients expire but bad patents came through ok. I guess I'm not used to reading about patents expiring :(

Nice try, from a quick search online (I used your favourite search engine Google btw) it seems that Adscend was also accused of supplying the code and templates required for the scam to the "affiliates". Bit of a stretch to say that's the same as AdSense