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  1. Re:How do I adjusted volume? on Why Music Really Is Getting Louder · · Score: 1

    I'm really surprised that mainstream music players don't have individual volume settings for songs.

  2. Is it bad that the first thing I thought of on Wildlife Returning To Chernobyl · · Score: 1

    was the Tiberian Sun series?

  3. Re:Copyright on Man Sues Gateway Because He Can't Read EULA · · Score: 1

    Is sales tax charged on licenses?

    Is sales tax charged for software?

  4. Re:Nephews on What Kids Really Think About Kids' Games · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's awful. Especially since the game existed before the internet was widely used (I'm sure it didn't use to have the internet activation), so they'd have to add it in later.

  5. Re:2 DVD's? on Genome of DNA Pioneer Is Deciphered · · Score: 2, Informative

    But you can't just point to the animo acid because the codons pointing to the same amino acid don't make the acid fold the same way when introduced to a protein.

  6. Re:Compression on Nanoglue Could Be Used To Make Spiderman Web-Shooters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe it also reacts with air as its formed, which means not all of the strand is contained within the can.

    (Now I'm sure *some* comic book geek is going to point out how Spiderman used webbing in space or something)

  7. Re:interesting on New Anti-Forensics Tools Thwart Police · · Score: 1

    I believe the NSA uses electron microscopes in order to read data off smashed disks. They can also get information that has supposedly been rewritten off too.

  8. Re:Ah, the police... on New Anti-Forensics Tools Thwart Police · · Score: 1

    "Officer, I wasn't trying to destroy evidence! I just wanted to see what was wrong with my computer."

  9. Re:Here's a real good one on New Anti-Forensics Tools Thwart Police · · Score: 1

    If they really want to read it, though, they still can.

  10. Re:More ideas to be ignored. on Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror · · Score: 1

    From what I've heard, it was more along the lines of "that was interesting. Now why don'y you try some other tactics, since we still have time left in the exercise"

  11. Re:So what? on Bookstore Owner Burns Books · · Score: 1

    Some good literary works that are also good books: - Brave New World Oh, yeah. That book. The one that rants about classical conditioning. And then shows the author doesn't know what he's talking about. "I know, whenever people do anything that the government doesn't want them to, let's make them really happy."
  12. Re:Contextual instructions on Robotic Ecologies · · Score: 1

    What about a vegetable?

  13. Re:It will come up sooner or later... on What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're using microsoft, try Start->Settings->Control Panel->Accessibility Options->Mouse->Use mousekeys

  14. Wait a second on The Man Who Owns the Internet · · Score: 1

    I thought it was Al Gore who owns the internet.

  15. Re:Offensive Speech on Google Bans Ads For Essay-Writing Services · · Score: 1

    Blah blah blah, insensitive clod, you get the point

  16. Re:Nice find on Hurricane's Eye Reveals a New Power Source · · Score: 1

    The problem with stopping hurricanes is there are many areas where hurricanes provide most of the rainfall.

  17. 1Insert joke about Vista being a virus sponge here on 'Virus Sponge' Could Improve Flu Treatments, Diabetes Care, Vaccine Development · · Score: 1

    2)Add modding here. 3)???? 4)Karma!

  18. Re:Poison Ivy on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 1

    If you scratch, you'll have open sores.

  19. Re:Scientologists violate Godwin's Law on Scientologists In Row With BBC · · Score: 1

    The revised version includes the clause that whoever brought up Nazis/Hitler automatically loses the argument.

  20. Re:Which nickel is it? on Mission Could Seek Out Spock's Home Planet · · Score: 1

    So, how many libraries of congress can it measure per second?

  21. So this is what they needed the fake moon dust for on NASA Gears Up for the Regolith Rumble · · Score: 2, Interesting
  22. Re:Well, which is it? lb of kg? W or kW? on NASA Gears Up for the Regolith Rumble · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, 30 watts *is* less than 30 kilowatts. The TFS is (technically) correct.

  23. Re:Rightsizing on HBO Exec Proposes DRM Name Change · · Score: 1

    They don't call it decimating anymore because that would imply they're only firing 10% of the people.

  24. Re:IP-based economies on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 1

    It's like a bubble market: it only has value as long as everyone buys into the delusion that it has value ... then it goes "pop!". Ah, you mean just like the concept of money.
  25. Mod parent down! on eBay's Ill-Timed Lifetime Achievement Webby · · Score: 1

    Pure flamebait!