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  1. Bought and Paid for on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 2

    You can always tell a bought and paid-for politician; they're completely out of phase with their parties' belief set.

  2. Speak Up on TV Ownership Declines For Second Time Since 1970 · · Score: 2

    and remember when Congress was going to do something about loud commericals? I SAID, REMEMBER WHEN...

  3. Crime Shows on TV Ownership Declines For Second Time Since 1970 · · Score: 1

    I know a sweet, 80-year old church-going lady, and all she watches are crime shows. There's a basic cable station that runs damn near every police procedure show available back-to-back-to back. Pretty sure the reason for so many of these shows with rather horrific violence starting out is that in the end, the wicked (now more and more wicked terrerists) are punished by the infallible John Law. Respect authority, citizen.

  4. Re:Handset Or Carrier Or FedGov? on Carrier IQ Software May Be in iOS, Too · · Score: 1

    ...integrating CIQ became a mandatory requirement for products that were to be bought by AT&T...

    Now better known by their working acronym of NSA.

  5. Fitting on Patent Expires On Best Selling Drug of All Time · · Score: 1

    Steamboat Willie has been on Lipitor for years.

  6. Not ALL old rich guys on Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial · · Score: 1

    All old rich guys do this. They do really nasty evil things to get rich and then spend a little of their trillions trying to buy back their soul.

    Not all old rich guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

  7. Yin and Yang on Robot Controls Person's Arm To Manipulate Objects · · Score: 2

    Someday soon we may not have any quadras and paras nor amputees which will be wonderful. But when it becomes commonplace - as silly and trivial as it sounds - competitve sports at nearly every level may become impossible as the augments become faster, stronger, and more accurate than the naturals.

  8. The briefcase whispers goodbye on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    I wish more handset makes, especially the big ones (HTC, Motorola, Nokia) would do the same to offer their customers a much better and more consistent experience.

    If they did, Apple would probably sue them for infringement.

  9. Re:No education or occupation on Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA · · Score: 1

    I'm now fairly certain Ron Paul is the reincarnation of Ann Rynd.

  10. Horrible idea on SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby · · Score: 1

    Most people considering voting third party skew Liberal / Progressive (ignoring the obvious Koch-funded astroturf group du joir). The only real effect is decreasing the vote count for Democrats and ensuring even more violent, corrupt, ignorant right-wingers are elected.

    Unless you are actually hoping this will occur?

  11. Asking the wrong question on New Malware Signed With Stolen Government Certificate · · Score: 1

    The right question: why the fuck does the Agricultural Research and Development Institute of the Government of Malaysia even need a CA??

  12. Follow the money on Barnes & Noble Names Microsoft's Disputed Android Patents · · Score: 1

    Find the actual names of the USPTO employees that approved these patents. I'm betting they no longer work there, having long retired to the tropical island they were somehow able to purchase in cash. I'm serious here.

  13. Wrong! on Google To Allow Location Service Opt-out · · Score: 1

    It isn't like SIDs are personal or in any way linked to you as an individual...

    My middle name of Linksys goes back six generations, you insensitive clod!

  14. No thanks on Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag · · Score: 1

    I've got my fire-sale HP TouchPad as a couch companion. I don't read as much as I should, but buying DRM-hobbled ebooks (with their inevitably limited virtual 'shelf life') just doesn't appeal to me.

  15. Sue 'em on Plasma-Filled Bags Could Replace the Petri Dish · · Score: 1

    Lacks was never asked her permission, and her family never knew for decades afterward that her cells had made such a contribution to medicine.

    They should sue for blatant IP theft, MAFIAA style, say $1 million for every copied cell.

  16. Can Linings on Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material · · Score: 1

    were hailed as a great idea too... until the concerns about BPA came to light.

  17. A simple test on How Is Technology Changing the Brain? · · Score: 3, Interesting
  18. More accurate headline on DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection · · Score: 1

    DARPA wants to get rid anonymity protection.

  19. Impressive on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Seven other verses for Whistling Past the Graveyard.

  20. Re:It makes you wonder... on NASA Successfully Test Fires J-2X Engine. · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You are labouring under the mistaken belief that the Space Race was not just thinly veiled ICBM R&D.

  21. Re:Picture on NASA Creates Super-Black Carbon Nanotube Coating · · Score: 2

    Here's a photo of it. In the middle, kinda hard to make out http://f.cl.ly/items/1S2W2w3X0z13450i440Z/black.jpg [f.cl.ly]

    That's obviously been photoshopped.

    You can tell by the nanopixels.

  22. Slow down! on One-Molecule Nanocar Takes a Test Drive · · Score: 1

    ...six nanometers per 10 electric pulses.

    "You're driving like a bat out of Hades! You're gonna get us all killed!"

  23. DARE 2.0 on FBI Takes Out $14M DNS Malware Operation · · Score: 1

    DNS Abuse Resistance Education and MacRuff, the Router Crime Dog.

  24. Fight Club on Biofuel Thieves Steal Restaurant Grease · · Score: 1

    I wonder if liposuction clinics are next to get hit. At least in the US, the emissions would still probably smell like french fries.

  25. And pigs may fly on Microsoft Killing Silverlight? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a desktop application is coming for Mac OS/Windows/Linux.

    Not while CEO Reed Hastings sits on Microsoft's Board of Directors. They will just transition to whatever proprietary next-gen DRM garbage Microsoft haphazardly staples onto HTML5.