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  1. Would you debate Broun? on Ask Richard Dawkins About Evolution, Religion, and Science Education · · Score: 1

    A very dangerous idiot in Georgia is running for re-election: Paul Broun who has denounced evolution as 'straight from Hell'. Naturally, that qualifies him to be on the US House Science panel. A wag has started a campaign to write in Charles Darwin in the election to oppose Broun and they have cheekily stated they look forward to debating Darwin. Would you be willing to stand in for Sir Darwin?

  2. What odd phrasing on Man Finds Roman Gold Coin Hoard Worth £100,000 With Metal Detector · · Score: 1

    ...had been sold a beginners metal detector from the towns High Street-based Hidden History for £135.

    That reads like he had no choice in the transaction. I half-expected the sentence to end with 'at gunpoint'.

  3. Anybody got Dick Cheney's IP address? Just curious; totally unrelated to this story. Honest.

  4. Somewhat in agreement on WikiLeaks Losing Support From Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Yes, JA is being railroaded, but it is beyond tiring of WL coyly dangling carrots to stay relevant by picking and choosing small drips what to release. Anonymous would probably dump everything at once and mirror it across the world a hundred times over.

    Can't remember the particulars, but there was a former WL principal that took a goodly chunk about embarassing banking dirt and deleted it (or sold it back, or?). This info is too valuable to keep in a few precocious hands that think they alone can change the world. Dump it all. Now.

  5. Wrong Trousers on New NASA Robot Could Help Paraplegics Walk · · Score: 1

    ...it's my understanding that there's no real technological hurdle that needs overcoming in terms of getting a strength-assist exoskeleton.

    That's what Wallace thought, but Gromit knew better.

  6. Wrong on Saudi Arabia Calls For Global Internet Censorship Body · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know..if we could just become energy independent....we could just then pull out of the whole middle east and let those fuckers blow themselves up and be done with them.

    Except there's Israel. We'll never be free of their over-large influence (and I'd say co-opting) of US politics. Sorry about the Holocast, and you're better than your neighbors, but that doesn't justify your willful and active meddling in US policies foreign and domestic.

    If there was no religion of any sort, present day would be like living in Star Trek.

  7. My bet pays off on DRM Could Come To 3D Printers · · Score: 1

    I'll be heading to Vegas to collect my winnings in predicting some horseshit like this would happen. I can only assume the scumbags at Intellectual Vultures are behind this.

  8. Hypocrite on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 1

    You want Made in the USA? Tell state and federal congress to stop doing everything to drive up the cost of business compared to China and India...

    The same states and federal congress that have passed health, safety, workers, and consumers rights that would prevent any of this shit in the US. They had to, to guard against greedy, immoral pricks that worship mamon over people. Remind you of anyone?

    Slave Labor rented at a PREMIUM with low quality results is still apparently cheaper than coming back here and paying tons of taxes, be subjected to over regulation and be threatened with union formation.

    I guess you get your anti-union wish, as more states (mostly southern) have found their new slave labor: prison inmates. We're starting to see it's no accident why the US has more people imprisoned (usually minorites) than even - take a guess - China.

  9. Question time on US Supreme Court Says Wiretapping Immunity Will Stand · · Score: 1

    British House of Parliament http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_time this is the debate format we should have. For that matter, we should have a formal, weekly Question Time in the US House of Reps every week.

  10. Demand on Following Huawei Report, US Rejects UN Telecom Proposals · · Score: 1

    I insist my hypocrisy be labeled 'Made in the USA'!

  11. PS, Shareholders on Steve Ballmer: We're a Devices and Services Company · · Score: 1

    By demanding UEFI on the PC side and 'Windows Only' chips on the ARM side, we will finally destroy all this 'Install Other OS' foolishness. Profit!

    PPS - Please don't tell the EU.

  12. Henry V on KDE Publishes Manifesto · · Score: 1

    "From this day to the ending of the world,
    But we in it shall be remember'd;
    We few, we happy few, we band of Desktops"

  13. Dear Diary on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    'First Pen Test successful. All is going according to plan.'

  14. The old wry bumper sticker on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 1

    'The parts falling off this car are of the finest British manufacture."

  15. Of course not! on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not You Own What You Own · · Score: 1

    It is flame bait to claim that he is sleeping.

    Exactly. He's merely waiting to vote whichever way Scalia tells him to. Whenever those two go out to lunch, as the waiter approaches the first time, Thomas shouts out "I'll have what he's having!"

    Scalia's favorite song: Me and My Shadow

  16. As Designed on Flaws Allow Every 3G Device To Be Tracked · · Score: 2

    Probably in an NSA spec book somewhere.

  17. Funny how the logo is more an upside down 'M' than a 'W'.

  18. Simple: Microsoft on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Tell me how can we defeat UEFI and 'Windows Only' ARM devices?

  19. Re:Bad summary on Unredacted Documents In Apple/Samsung Case, No Evidence of 'Copy' Instruction · · Score: 0

    The jury gets to see the entire document, hear both interpretations, and figure out who they think is more credible.

    Who are then told what to think by a blatantly biased and arrogant fellow juror.

    Still; no doubt in my mind Samsung opted to keep him in the final jury selection as a poison pill to guarantee a succesful appeal if they lost.

  20. Automatic Shutoff at Idle on How We'll Get To 54.5 Mpg By 2025 · · Score: 1

    Automatic shutoff at idle will be the main way they'll accomplish this - though I'd avoid the first-gen of these as they will try to cheap-out or repurpose existing starter systems that will not hold up, especially in summer start-stop urban traffic jams.

    Additionally, all but the largest (read: truck-based, not car-based) SUVs will be a hybrid, given suburbia's enduring love affair with these gigantosaurs. Sidenote: most SUV tires are in the 18-19" size range now. Can you imagine a soccer-mom wrestling with a tire that huge? TPMS is a great and (now government-mandated) system, but what happens when that chunk of twisted metal takes out such a large tire in one fell swoop? Never understood the car industries' trend towards gigantic tires; I can't even get name-brand 14" tires anymore.

  21. Point Source on Electric Car Environmental Impact: Power Source Matters · · Score: 1

    I would like to think it would be easier to capture/convert/sequester emissions at a group of fixed power plants instead of a mobile, distributed cloud.

  22. Fleet of Worlds on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    I hope they also keep a look out for Rosettes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemperer_rosette too.

  23. Coverup on Lab-Made Eggs Produce Healthy Mice · · Score: 1

    Turns out, their math and verbal skills are total shit.

  24. Longevity on Electric Car Environmental Impact: Power Source Matters · · Score: 1

    I have to wonder how long an EV will last, and I mean everything else *other* than the battery. Can you imagine a 10-year old, high mileage 1st gen Prius or Leaf? Nickel and Dime? More like Gold and Platinum. Lastly, I wonder how well junk yards (sorry; Automotive Recyclers) can break down and process EVs - and how much heavy metals and toxins will escape into the environment.

  25. Funny on How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed · · Score: 1

    I still don't know why at least one person he verbally raped didn't haul off and flatten his nose. I suppose they knew he would have them prosecuted for attempted murder and make it stick, or just 'disappeared'. When a man didn't even have to have a license plate on his car, he *was* the law. Ah, well; Karma got him in the end. I just hope he realized it.