Comment Re:Vagina (Score 4, Funny) 217
Love how you classed that right up by adding a smiley.
Comment Re:Not limited to logogram-based languages (Score 1) 508
Whoosh.
Comment A.K.A. Actuarial Science (Score 1) 71
A.K.A. Applied Statistics
Comment Required reading, you morons. (Score 1) 118
Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat
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ral writes "The human tongue can taste more than sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein. Researchers have added fat to that list. Dr. Russell Keast, an exercise and nutrition sciences professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, told Slashfood, 'This makes logical sense. We have sweet to identify carbohydrate/sugars, and umami to identify protein/amino acids, so we could expect a taste to identify the other macronutrient: fat.' In the Deakin study, which appears in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Dr. Keast and his team gave a group of 33 people fatty acids found in common foods, mixed in with nonfat milk to disguise the telltale fat texture. All 33 could detect the fatty acids to at least a small degree."
Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 412
Depending on the laws in your state, if your car were damaged by debris from such a vehicle, but you were following the vehicle very closely, your compensation would be reduced by contributory or comparative negligence. Basically, even though the sign itself doesn't have any legal power, the advice it gives you is sound.
Comment Re:the cat (Score 2, Interesting) 437
And do you have *proof* that they can't reach in and delete your non-DRM media? Amazon is stonewalling all attempts from all journalists trying to figure out the actual boundaries the Kindle has. Given what they've shown they can do so far, I'd be very surprised if they were unable to delete an arbitrary file from an arbitrary Kindle, but the fact is, we don't know because they won't say. Seem you're a lot safer just avoiding the Kindle until they start answering some questions or making some changes.
Comment Re:I am a hippo, you insensitive clod! (Score 1) 599
You mixed up 5 & 6.
The second half of the book goes:
All through the hippo night, hippos play with great delight. But at the hippo break of day, the hippos all must go away.
9 hippos and a beast join
8 hippos riding east while
7 hippos moving west leave
6 hippos quite distressed
5 hippos then set forth with
4 hippos headed north
3 hippos say "good day"
the last 2 hippos go their way.
1 hippo, alone once more, misses the other 44.
The second half of the book goes:
All through the hippo night, hippos play with great delight. But at the hippo break of day, the hippos all must go away.
9 hippos and a beast join
8 hippos riding east while
7 hippos moving west leave
6 hippos quite distressed
5 hippos then set forth with
4 hippos headed north
3 hippos say "good day"
the last 2 hippos go their way.
1 hippo, alone once more, misses the other 44.
Comment Re:3.5 mm? o.o (Score 3, Insightful) 617
Ah, don't worry about getting married. The real killer is having kids. Put that off as long as possible, because once you do that, your childhood is done, forever.
LittleBigPlanet Creations Raising Copyright Questions 66
Joystiq's Law of the Game column uses the recently released LittleBigPlanet to address the question of intellectual property rights for user-created content within and for games. At this point, Sony's ToS claims a great deal of control over users' work, unlike Second Life's, which is much more permissive. GiantBomb has a related story pointing out creations within LittleBigPlanet that are copies of other games, and how they could lead to legal troubles for Sony if they aren't quick about taking them down.
Comment Re:Goggles &c (Score 1) 235
Or install web developer and hit Ctrl-Shift-S to just turn off style sheets.
