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  1. Re:Laws by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Satellites Keep Aircraft Away From Volcanic Cloud

    http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/planes-or-volcano/

  2. Re:Vaccines aren't as simple as people think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again

    Look into the HPV vaccines, actual risks.

    Yes, let's look at them.

    Odds of dying of cervical cancer: 500 to 1.

    Odds of dying from the HPV vaccine: 145,000 to 1.

  3. Auto-sending of texts to everyone! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on China Begins Monitoring Billions of Text Messages

    To really screw with them, just set up a program that automatically sends all the phones in China text messages related to Tibet, Tiananmen Square, porn, Amnesty International...etc.

    Put those bot-nets/spammers to good use. ;-)

    (e.g. http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/what-does-china-censor-online/)

  4. Re:Second that. by brit74 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Bono Hopes Content Tracking Will Help Media Moguls

    "I haven't seen a failing music industry yet."
    Music sales are half of what they were in 1999, and still on a major decline. Here's a chart: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/the-death-of-the-music-industry/

  5. Engineers are conservative? by johnnysaucepn · · Score: 1 · on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees

    Maybe... http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/climate-change-a-consensus-among-scientists/ "In fact, when you adjust the PetitionProject’s odd categorisation – they filed ‘chemical engineers’ as chemists and physical engineers as ‘physicists’ – the total number of engineers who signed the petition, by our reckoning, jumps to 49%"

  6. Re:Still no Adblock though by Blue+Stone · · Score: 1 · on New Chrome Beta Adds Themes, Speed, & HTML 5 Video
    > Remember that a significant share of their revenue comes from web advertising...

    No shit