Comment: Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 205
[Citation Needed]
Comment: For some reason, I'm wondering... (Score 1) 1
...which global junk-food corporation would be the first to recover and begin/resume provision of nutritionally-poor yet perhaps slightly more appealing than usual junk 'food', given the post-apocalyptic circumstances.
I'm guessing double zombie-burgers would be made of some kinda of artificial substance with zombie flavouring...
Comment: Re:Time to get rid of Tor (Score 1) 121
...demands a payment in Bitcoins".
Seriously? way to reduce your pool of potential customers to those who know how to make a payment in BitCoin.
Is this is an ad for BitCoin?
Comment: Re:Do Business in the US? (Score 1) 749
Too bad you didn't have a sufficiently compelling retort.
Comment: Re:Maybe, maybe not. (Score 1) 749
At present they're pretending it's just meta-data so no-can-do.
Comment: Re:Maybe, maybe not. (Score 1) 749
Is there a question at all? If you have a presence here, you are subject to our laws.
Our laws are made by politicans.
Our politicians are available for hire
Therefore, if you have a prescence here, you are subject to the will of a miniscule minority.
FTFY
Comment: Re: Maybe, maybe not. (Score 1) 749
Comment: Re:I thought the sons were keepers... (Score 1) 131
Somehow this headline smacks of "yellow" journalism. We always need to remind the west how shifty the majority population behaves.
Stop being so judgmental - it's not easy to replace the Russians overnight. Get with the program, commie/traitor...
Comment: Hamilton (Score 1) 3
Hamilton said that he first raised the issue of the utility’s online reputation when he was interviewing for the chief of staff job in early 2013.
Who?
Comment: Even better (Score 1) 162
Scientists have found a way to combine an industrial blender with test subjects; simply pop in the suspect, pulse intermittently for five minutes then place a sample of the fluid in a mass spectrometer to detect explosive residue.
+ - Mathematicians Solve The Topological Mystery Behind The "Brazuca" Soccer Ball
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KentuckyFC (1144503) writes "In the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, teams used a new kind of ball called the Telstar made from 12 black pentagonal panels and 20 white hexagonal panels. This ball has icosahedral symmetry and its own molecular analogue in the form of C60, the famous soccer ball-shaped fullerene. In 2006, a new ball called the TeamGeist was introduced at the World Cup in Germany. This was made of 14 curved panels that together gave it tetrahedral symmetry. This also had a molecular analogue with tetrahedral symmetry among the fullerenes. Now teams at the current World Cup in Brazil are playing with yet another design: the Brazuca, a ball constructed from six panels each with a four-leaf clover shape that knit together like a jigsaw to form a sphere. This has octahedral symmetry. But here's question that has been puzzling chemists, topologists and..errr...soccer fans: is there a molecular analogue of the Brazuca? Or put another way, can fullerenes have octahedral symmetry? Now a pair of mathematicians have finally solved this problem. They've shown that fullerenes can indeed have octahedral symmetry just like the Brazuca, although in addition to hexagonal and pentagonal carbon rings, the ball-shaped molecules must also have rings of 4 and 8 carbon atoms. The next stage is to actually synthesis one of these fullerenes, perhaps something to keep chemists occupied until the 2018 World Cup in Russia."
Comment: Re:Christmas is coming early this year (Score 1) 702
Just to be safe, all goods should be confiscated as passengers board the plane.
Comment: Re:Well Sure (Score 1) 139
Uber announced in a blog post on Monday it would cut the prices of its UberX service in New York City by 20% — but it's only for a limited time
A limited time X; where X is infinitesimally greater than the time it takes to establish a critical mass which will lead to a monopoly? Just wondering
Comment: TOTC (Score 1) 116
Is this the "think of the children" glass-killer ?
Comment: Re:This is why genital recognition is needed. (Score 1) 116
There's one technology that solves this problem, and that technology is genital recognition.
Presumably this involves some kind of nano-sensor for you?