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  1. Re:It's a little large. on Chairbot Walks You Around While You Sit · · Score: 0

    Wow. This is the future of wheelchairs, and the burger eating public. Wheels are more efficient than legs on flat surfaces, factor in raise/balance, stair climbing and some off-road and thats a very complete solution.

  2. Re:Huh on Safemedia's CEO Tells Congress He Can Stop P2P · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yes, if you want one. Might cost a bit, though.

  3. Re:Does freedom imply privacy? on FBI Target Puts His Life Online · · Score: 0

    Thats fine, except that the information that is revealed about you can impinge on what you can do. Eg. He met a suspected agitator, better lock him up too.

  4. Re:T4 on New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned · · Score: 0

    Eventually it gets to the point where John Connor sends Michael Beihn back in time so he can save the day and appear in Aliens

  5. ylbaborP on Italian Phone Taps Spur Encryption Use · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    !toN

  6. My Fridge.... on Researchers Chill Mirror to Near Absolute Zero · · Score: 1

    .. goes up to eleven

  7. Re:Pfft on Viacom Says "YouTube Depends On Us" · · Score: 1

    is she out of jail again now?

  8. Re:Quantum mystery on Quantum Computer To Launch Next Week · · Score: 1

    > Which means, look at them all you want, just don't crack the casing open and point a torch inside.
    Wow - get one of these babies moving at the speed of light ... break open the case and what colour is it going to be?
    BSOD!

  9. Its not censorship on Expert Wants to Decertify Global Warming Skeptics · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised by the reaction here. I'm not a climatolgist but I read the scientific press and from what I see there simply isn't any doubt that global warming is happening and what its primary drivers are. I'm sure there are nuances and feedbacks yet to be discovered that both accelerate and alleviate the warming effects that have been witnessed since the industrial revolution.
    Yes there are fashions in science and paradigm shifts that supercede previous understanding. But science works. If you've ever been on a plane, you've flown because thousands of bits of science from fluid flow to metallurgy work together so that it gets from a to b with the occupants usually alive.
    What strikes me as strange is that this person isn't saying "you can't voice opinions about global warming", they're saying "if you do not speak in scientific terms you lose you certification".
    If you ran a plumbing firm and one of your engineers would go around chanting to fix people's heating systems, you'd kick them out.

  10. Re:Home of the free... on US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This kind of isolationist thinking completely fails to grasp the realities of what your national debt means. A dollar is securitised debt - you want to "go it alone", nobody wants that debt. The dollar then collapses on the currency markets. And then you can't buy the oil you need to function. And you haven't got enough oil to drill enough wells either.

  11. Re:Dresden on Electronic Paper Plant to be Built in Germany · · Score: 1

    So it goes

  12. The thinnest of books on Microsoft Releases Book Search · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder if "Microsoft Innovation - Volumes 1-12" are going to make it into the index

  13. Re:where the facts? on Solar Cell Achieves 40% Efficiency · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can't you use a prism to split out photons of different energies and direct them at the appropriate receptor?

  14. Re:Suit up guys! on Millimeter-Wave Weapon Certified For Use In Iraq · · Score: 1

    LOL Nicholas Cage would play him

  15. Re:My plan for Iraq on Iraq Study Group Reaches Concensus · · Score: 1

    Thats what the shiites and the kurds want. It doesnt work too well because it leaves the sunni (who were the ruling class) with no oil revenue but loads of left-over weapons. Its them who are driving the insurgency. What you're suggesting as an exit strategy is whats been happening for several years. It also stuffs up that turkey lets its airbases be used by the US airforce

  16. Dogfood on Ancient Astronomical Computer Decoded · · Score: 1

    It's an amazing achievement, but it was on a boat that crashed. Makes you wonder really.