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  1. Re:Slander on FBI to Put Criminals Up in Lights · · Score: 1

    It could have been worse for my dad. A few edgy looks, one visit from police officers, and a couple weeks of family members joking about turning him in for the reward money. But mistakes do happen. I'm more worried about these billboards tainting the juror pool. If you drive past a giant sketch of some suspected bank robber every day on your way to work, if you get summoned for jury duty, you'll have a pre-existing notion that the guy is guilty.

  2. Re:Slander on FBI to Put Criminals Up in Lights · · Score: 1

    Several years ago, my father was a near perfect match for a composite sketch in the local paper. He was innocent, but that didn't prevent a fair amount of awkwardness as he went about his daily business.

  3. Re:is there a better way? on How To Tell If It's Really Titanium · · Score: 1

    People actually translate aqua regia into "royal water"? I've never encountered it before.

  4. Re:Crossbow Strength on The LCD Panel vs. The Crossbow · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can see that the monitor was dented by the crossbow by looking at the reflections. Still, my monitors would have exit wounds, so it's still pretty impressive.

  5. Re:OMG censorship!!! on Airlines Plan To Filter, Censor In-Flight Internet Access · · Score: 1

    You clearly don't understand just how low the bar for assault is. If the kid or his parents feel uncomfortable with what you're saying, they can ask you to stop, and failure to do so could potentially be considered assault.

  6. Re:What do the rest believe in? on Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many believe in Santa Claus. Bet it's more.

  7. Re:I never "got" GMail on Google Reader Begins Sharing Private Data · · Score: 1

    Labels don't cut it for you? I actually prefer to be able to tag emails that have to do with more than one subject in more than one way.

  8. Re:Question about platform security on Inside a Modern Malware Distribution System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, and by the time you finished any sizable app, one that was "good enough" would already have been released, and gobbled up marketshare. The problem with chasing perfection is that it takes forever, and even if you find it, most people don't need it.

  9. Re:Disparity on RIAA Writes Its Own News For Local TV · · Score: 1

    The way I see it, people with way too much money and way too little sense are the ideal market for the RIAA.

  10. Re:Disparity on RIAA Writes Its Own News For Local TV · · Score: 1

    There have to be 8 people like you for each person who will buy all 8 before it becomes a losing proposition.

  11. Re:I'm not who I say I am on People Were More Likely To Google Themselves This Year · · Score: 1

    I share the name of an apparently prolific college football player. He dominates the first several pages of Google, with only a review I posted on Amazon being both me and first page.

  12. Re:Google? on People Were More Likely To Google Themselves This Year · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sometimes people are logged in to their iGoogle homepage. Then they search for a name that just so happens to match the one on their account. Google, being ever-so-crafty, figures out that they must be Googling themselves.

  13. Re:Disparity on RIAA Writes Its Own News For Local TV · · Score: 1

    Why should they sell you all the tracks you want to hear on one CD instead of 8? I mean, other than catering to the consumer.

  14. Re:The sooner... on Universe May Be Running Out of Time · · Score: 1

    So, universe fhtagn?

  15. Re:weird warnings.. on Tiny, Morphing, Electricity-Stealing Spy Planes Developed · · Score: 1

    Maybe he was referencing this.

  16. Re:New Excuses on Tiny, Morphing, Electricity-Stealing Spy Planes Developed · · Score: 1

    Maybe not short-circuit, but I can imagine some shoebox sized robot plowing into a power line and damaging it or possibly even shearing it off.

  17. Re:Business reason for different locales on IBM Finding Business Uses for Virtual World · · Score: 1

    This is reminding me of this guy, who conducts a talk show in Halo 2. It seems to have gone progressively downhill, but the first couple episodes are worth watching.

  18. Re:!BRICK FFS on Exploit Found to Brick Most HP and Compaq Laptops · · Score: 1

    You'll probably need a therapist to get over whatever frightened you too.

  19. Re:Idiot... on No Right to Privacy When Your Computer Is Repaired · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because people fully document where their porn comes from. Best most people could do is "some website."

  20. Re:not lasers! ;) on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 1

    I cede to your superior Star Wars knowledge. I just have Expanded Universe to fall back on. Nerd.

  21. Re:Good yes. Worth it, no. on What Is Your Game of the Year? · · Score: 1

    1.5 hours of game time? I suppose it's possible that one might make it through in that time period, if one didn't take any time to explore. Or if one decided not to do any bonus missions.

    Captcha: temporal

  22. Re:not lasers! ;) on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 1

    While handheld guns were blasters, X-wings were equipped with quad laser cannons. Capital starships were generally equipped with turbolasers. I could be wrong about the TIE fighters, but I don't think so.

  23. Re:hypervelocity star on Supernova Detonates In Empty Space · · Score: 1

    Maybe it originally didn't mass enough, but was relativistically pushed into critical mass. That'd be pretty damn cool.

  24. Re:What kind of laser? on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 2, Informative

    You got it backwards, except for lightsabers. X-wings, Y-wings, A-wings, and Corellian Corvettes have red lasers. TIEs and Star Destroyers have green lasers, as did the Death Star.

  25. Re:Not every candidate on Presidential Candidates' Science and Tech Policies · · Score: 1

    And that was supposed to say "Sure they do, look at [list]." I forgot that Plain Old Text drops things that look like tags.