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  1. Suicide was the case they gave me? on Researchers Dispute Closing of the Bruce Ivins Anthrax Case · · Score: 1

    Can we even believe is was suicide? Sure seemed awful convienient even before ever-mounting doubts.

  2. 'Enhance' clatter-clatter on Adobe Demos Photo Unblurring At MAX 2011 · · Score: 1

    'Enhance' clatter-clatter

    'Just print the damn photo.'

  3. Re:All this shows on The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm just naive.

    Possibly, but I'm waiting on the data analysis from Peoria to be sure.

  4. Doesn't matter on The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama · · Score: 1

    The right wing controls the fraudulent voting machine code bases. And this time around, there will be a bumper crop of uniformed, no-neck white guys outside the polling stations, pretending to be part of the official Security Theater so as to suppress all minority voters - excepting those to whom they've already given the wrong election date (and location).

    Throwing free elections: doing The Lords' work.

  5. Reading the tea leaves on Netflix Kills Qwikster · · Score: 1

    The deal to sell the physical disc operations to Amazon fell through.

  6. Ohmigosh on HP To Introduce Flash Memory Replacement In 2013 · · Score: 1

    I sure hope this somehow doesn't put a crimp in Microsoft's plan of intimidating BOIS makers into shutting out F/OSS!

  7. Somehow on DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project · · Score: 1

    When machines get smart enough to predict someone's future crimes, we're all going to be unemployed, anyway.

    Somehow, this should extend to politicians vis-a-vis voting machines.

  8. Take that back! on Movie Industry: Loss of Control Worse Than Piracy · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem with the movie industry...is that the quantity of movies even worth watching is decreasing by the minute, let alone the quantity of movies that might be worth pirating.

    You might think so, but I can barely wait for Battleship: The Movie!

  9. Secunia PSI on How Windows Gets Infected With Malware · · Score: 1

    http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
    I'm sure it's not unique, but I like that it does keep track of third-party programs and services - especially the seemingly purpose-built attack vector: Flash.

  10. This is such a bad idea on China's Alibaba Interested In Buying Yahoo · · Score: 1

    but I'm not quite sure for whom. Let's just say everybody.

  11. With all the grace and aplomb on Zune Dead, Then Not Dead, Then Officially Dead · · Score: 1

    of a pig on roller skates. and chrystal meth.

  12. Death to Public Education! on Should Science Be King In Politics? · · Score: 0

    This is a keystone to the GOP's long-tem goals, for a brutally ignorant voter is an easily manipulated voter. Home-schooling nine times out of ten (the tenth done to avoid an already starved / abandoned / dangerous school system) really means Right-Wing madrassa-style indoctrination into the rich Republican tapestry of hate and exploit 'the others'.

    Not having to pay taxes to help other kids and society in general is just rich, delicious, filling, Chris Cristie-approved gravy.

  13. It starts out very safe on Japan Re-Opens Some Towns Near Fukushima · · Score: 1

    until the second and third generation of bean counters and suits inevitably cut back on maintenence and zero out equipment upgrades. Then - as has happened at nearly every plant - as the plant nears the end of its DESIGN life, they file extension after extension after extension to squeeze out a few more pennies in profits -- and more importantly to delay the expensive decommissioning until after the deployment of their personal golden parachutes.

  14. You're right on Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes · · Score: 1

    lying about a beej is far worse than lying about a war and torture.

  15. Oh nonononono on Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying · · Score: 1

    Hiding your face in public? Obvious terrerist is obvious. [Bang]

  16. Ball Bearings on Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot · · Score: 1

    I would love to see how this thing would react to someone laying down a massive carpet of small ball bearings in front of it. The sound of Fred Flintstone running in mid-air comes to mind.

  17. Cool! on Pavegen To Tap Pedestrians For Power In the UK · · Score: 1

    Unstable sidewalks to go with unstable, convex shoes to shape your butt and break your ankles! I assume these sidewalks will be right in front of hospitals and orthopaedic offices.

  18. Cache for Speed on Rob Malda Casts a Jaded Eye at Amazon's Silk · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a great idea. This way with the more common data hosted by Amazon, I more quickly learn about the sudden Japanese treachery at Pearl Harbor.

  19. Battery Life and Death on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this could be banned solely on the fact even if you don't answer, they are draining a very small, finite resource that could literally be the difference between life and death in places far away from power, landlines, or any other form of help.

  20. Me too on HP Touch Pad Still Popular ... With HP Employees · · Score: 1

    And at this rate, I fully expect an email reneging on my purchase based on some bullshit excuse. This will probably end in tears and useless class-action lawsuits.

  21. DNA Evidence on Science Manual For US Judges · · Score: 1

    I hope there is a chapter about DNA evidence titled 'Falsifying DNA: Easier Than Fingerprints', that goes onto explain how it is becoming faster and easier to synthesize and plant DNA evidence at the scene and on evidence - especially from those who already have their DNA on file from prior run-ins, or through those chilling appeals to communites for cheek cell samples to help catch a killer. Or assist in the perfect frame job due to idiot juries and jurists who automatically spell D-N-A as G-U-I-L-T-Y.

  22. Racial on FBI Leaves Cleared Names On Terrorist Watch List · · Score: 1

    I would love to see the ethnic and racial demographics between those given their rights back and those that will never receive them.

  23. Hey Dr. Tim Faltemier, on US Military Seeks Non-Cooperative Biometric Tracking Technology · · Score: 1

    Can we start with tracking you and your family first? If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide, right?

  24. Bad Karma on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I the only one that half-wishes the Kindle Fire has overheating problems?

  25. Pollyanish on Australian Users Petitioning Against Windows 8 Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    Secure boot can be disabled, again assuming your OEM doesn't suck

    Citation required. The razor-thin margin OEMs rely on their suppliers to be even more razor-thin, meaning: do just enough to sell that which only runs the 800-pound gorilla in the OS room, and nothing more, as they 1) can't really afford it and 2) can't afford to piss off Ballmer.

    We are talking ever changing, low-level, damn near no-name component makers that do ten sketchy things every morning before the first coffee break.