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  1. Re:Refusing to learn from mistakes? on Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes · · Score: 0, Troll

    No. I'd say like the socialists. More than 100 million starved and they still praise communism.

  2. Re:Not just for movies on New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    What about 500GB external HDDs at $100 or less?

  3. Re:What COBOL really needs on Why COBOL Could Come Back · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rip off the B

  4. Re:No, *THESE* are slaves on Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into Slaves · · Score: 1

    Did you read the part about CHOICE?

  5. Re:neat idea on MIT Team Working On a $12 Apple (II) Desktop · · Score: 1

    Remember the IBM PC Jr?

  6. Re:Mailing list receipts on Yahoo Blocks Venerable Email List Over False Positives · · Score: 1

    How many people read the 200+ messages in their spam folder before pressing DELETE ALL?

    Kinda sounds like the "don't read this if you're not the intended recipient" message usually found AT THE BOTTOM of most corporate emails.

  7. Re:Real question: Why can they? on Software Price Gap Between the US and Europe · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!

  8. Re:This infringes on my 1992 patent... on trees on Microsoft's Decade-old Patent On Tree-view Mode! · · Score: 1

    Trees don't grow in mothers' basements.

  9. Re:This infringes on my 1992 patent... on trees on Microsoft's Decade-old Patent On Tree-view Mode! · · Score: 1

    Ever read The Little Prince about baobabs?

  10. Re:Disassembly anyone? on More Skype Back Door Speculation · · Score: 1

    If it was easy, someone would have done it by now, and made Gnype, don't you think?

    Gnype ... the writing makes me think of the Skype from Soviet Russia.

  11. Re:How long till.. on Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Try searching for a given product and the word "review" or something alike. You'll get endless pages of stores with no review whatsoever that must be scrolled away till you find a real technology site that has actually reviewed the product.

  12. Re:How foolish on UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap · · Score: 0

    Now send in 007 to get that Blackberry!

    007 with chinese woman? Already been done. Bring yet another race from the PC vault.

  13. Re:This seems to be a recurring problem. on UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap · · Score: 5, Funny

    Members of the British Government will now be expecting an increased amount of spam and unsolicited phone salesmen calling to offer V1agra and other products.

    Will that be because of the data inside the phone or because of the chinese lady's detailed report?

  14. Re:You're all missing the point! on FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or that's what they expect you to conclude.

    These tests are chosen so they can tell a person apart from his family, even his own twin in some cases! The "extremely close matching DNA" you mention consists of a very small portion of the subject's DNA which in most cases encodes nothing we know of.

    These tests can conclude "subject X is not the same as suspect A", but they just can say "theres's a very high probability of suspect A being the same as subject X".

    There's racial tracers in DNA that can tell how long ago your lineage forked from its branch, like in the National Geographic Global Gene Project. And that proves differences among human races.

  15. Re:You're all missing the point! on FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Race IS genetic, and only a product of culture and surroundings in that they may have influence over mating.

    Nevertheless, pure races (with distinctive racial phenotypes) become harder to be found. Us humans have made "pure breed" dogs, horses or fightbulls in centuries or less; pure races that would disappear if left in the wild. We tell dog races apart from the size, the color and length of their hair, the face bones, the tail, etc. We tell men races apart grossly from the amount of melanin alone. Still the mainland chinese and the japanese are very different, as are the norse and ukranians (both blue-eyed blondes).

    In the human species, races sprung up from a group of humans becoming geographically (or culturally) isolated and resorting to inbreeding. Nowadays we overcome geographical isolation easily, but still races endure because of cultural isolation.
    Westeners tend to look at themselves as the root of all evil race issues, but I can resort to HUGE human groups in Africa, the middle east or the far east that won't mate someone from the tribe next door even though we'd be unable to tell them apart from average africans, arabs or chinese.

    In this case, loci were chosen that vary a lot among individuals, regardless of race. There may even be matches with monkeys or other mammals! This does not take race differences apart, nor does prove it as a social construct; otherwise albino black or chinese people wouldn't "look" black or chinese.

  16. Re:What player? on Worm Transcodes MP3s To Infect PCs · · Score: 1

    The way I understand it, when you feed unknown data to a very "helpful" player, it will try to locate a codec for you. That's the trojan, and it relies on the user to be installed.

    Try playing a DivX or xVid file on a fresh install of Windows XP and you'll see what I mean. (Media Player won't find the codec, anyway).

    I don't remember the name of perhaps the first mainstream adware program, back in the 90s. It prompted the user to see "kewl vidz", but a "viewer" had to be downloaded. Once installed, it would take over even your email and messenger programs attaching propaganda about itself as signatures. This uses the same principle.

  17. Re:hidden extensions on Worm Transcodes MP3s To Infect PCs · · Score: 1

    but occasionally I get someone who deletes the "unfamiliar" file extensions from their files and ends up not being able to open them.

    That shows they care about the "average user".

  18. Re:Gentlemen, on Worm Transcodes MP3s To Infect PCs · · Score: 1

    After that, from ".bin-laden" mp3s?

    'cause we knew from the start that pirates and terrorists work together (along with child abusers, of course)!

  19. Re:finally on Fastest-Ever Windows HPC Cluster · · Score: 1, Funny

    How quick does it BSOD?

  20. Re:Communist Rant on A Hippocratic Oath For Scientists · · Score: 1

    The author doesn't know about Lysenko, does he?

  21. Re:Informed Vote? on Blogger Launches 'Google Bomb' At McCain · · Score: 1

    Fascism is not a left/right stand. It's a style of life.

  22. Re:Also in the news on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    Do the same every day. I'm a doctor.

  23. Re:Also in the news on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    If studies could mean some change in "no shit sherlock" issues, they'd be totally worth the money.
    The sad truth is that a cold, logical, mathematical truth that comes out of a study will never convince people against a warm, fallacious and wishful lie/myth that comes out of a moron's ass/heart.

  24. Malware-laden on Adobe Flash Zero-Day Attack Underway · · Score: 1

    Look out! Ben's brother has servers, and he plans to exploit them!

  25. Re:Yes. What's unconstituional on P2P BitTorrent Tool Could Replace Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    If the government had less power over each and every aspect of our lives, the lobbies would be of no use. But the knee-jerk reaction whenever corruption or lobbying becomes a problem is to give more power to the state, thus closing the circle.