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  1. Re:Man, my head is reeling on Samsung Amps Up Its Multi-Window Android Upgrade · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, it's meeting the girl of your dreams and then meeting her beautiful wife

  2. Re:Disrespectful to death you mean surely ? on Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

  3. Re:I can't decide... on Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with using leather, I eat meat (although I buy organic and grassfed) , I have no problems with sustenance hunting - but I do have issues with trophy hunting or sport killing.

  4. Re:I can't decide... on Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir · · Score: 1

    And how do you think having someone do that to your body after you're dead would affect other people?

    (Yes I think what happens for funerals is completely different. I think funerals are for the living not for the dead - it's a time set aside for people to come together to say goodbye.)

  5. Re:I can't decide... on Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Disturbing :(

    Doing things like shows lack of empathy, and is I believe is disrespectful to life.

  6. Re:Fundamental Disconnect on Backyard Brains Can Help Satisfy Your Inner Frankenstein (Video) · · Score: 1

    I wish I could mod you up.

  7. Re:Deader Than a Doornail on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points.

  8. Re:Not *totally* drug resistant on Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges In India · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I definitely agree that we should do massive researching into phages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

    problem is that big pharma won't do much with phages because they're naturally occurring which i think means no patents - so as soon as one has FDA approval, anyone can produce it,

    I wish the government should give out grants to research phages - but big pharma would cry "unfair"

  9. Re:Not *totally* drug resistant on Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges In India · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem isn't using antibiotics to fight bacterial infections.

    The problem is incorrectly using antibiotics, much of which comes from IGNORANCE and POVERTY
    1) Ignorance: lack of education on how antibiotics work, and a frightening number of people stop taking the antibiotics as soon as they start feeling better - VERY BAD IDEA!

    2) Poverty: medicines are expensive, and so people who are tight on money will "share" drugs, with other people to save on costs. This goes hand in hand with ignorance about how the drugs work.

    The answer to this (and many other problems) is universal education and healthcare.

  10. Corbomite solution on Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    Why don't we put explosives in these things with different conditions on detonation (lack of signal for a certain amount of time, receipt of encrypted detonation signal, unauthorized opening of the drone, etc)?

  11. Re:Stop pussyfying our youth on Can a Playground Be Too Safe? · · Score: 1

    uh... there is nothing wrong with acting like a girl :)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny

  12. Re:Stop pussyfying our youth on Can a Playground Be Too Safe? · · Score: 1

    so i guess explaining why the 'n' word is bad makes someone a racist too...

  13. Re:Stop pussyfying our youth on Can a Playground Be Too Safe? · · Score: 1

    yea, it _can_ mean a scared cat - but I don't know if that's what most people think of when they hear it.

    When I was a kid, if someone was called a 'pussy' it meant that they were a boy acting like a girl, and that acting like a girl was bad. (girls were rarely called pussies)

  14. Re:Stop pussyfying our youth on Can a Playground Be Too Safe? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I should have said, "Stop speaking like a misogynist"

  15. Re:Stop pussyfying our youth on Can a Playground Be Too Safe? · · Score: 0

    Stop being a misogynist.

  16. Re:Collecting Sales Tax on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    Yea, it's too bad someone hasn't invented a device or method for storing and retrieving data... :P
    [/sarcasm]

    Each state could be help responsible for creating a table of taxes based on location (GPS, zipcode, street address, etc).
    The table would be in a standard format, and could be made available from the state's website.

    Each entity that wishes to do business in that state could access that table. If a particular state doesn't make that tax data available, then - the business has no responsibility to collect tax for that state.

  17. Re:Paying Dane-geld on Paying Hacker Extortion · · Score: 1

    Just a few seconds too late...

  18. Danegeld by Rudyard Kipling on Paying Hacker Extortion · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dane-geld
    (A.D. 980-1016)

    IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
            To call upon a neighbour and to say:—
    “We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
            Unless you pay us cash to go away.”

    And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
            And the people who ask it explain
    That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
            And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

    It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
            To puff and look important and to say:—
    “Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
            We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”

    And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
            But we’ve proved it again and again,
    That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
            You never get rid of the Dane.

    It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
            For fear they should succumb and go astray,
    So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
            You will find it better policy to says:—

    “We never pay any one Dane-geld,
            No matter how trifling the cost,
    For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
            And the nation that plays it is lost!”

  19. Let's build... on One-Way Sound Walls Proven Possible · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Ah but that IS part of empathy on Do Violent Games Hinder Development of Empathy? · · Score: 1

    I'd mod you up if I could

  21. This happened to me, here on China Starts Censoring Phone Calls Mid Sentence · · Score: 2

    Okay, so it was right after Christmas 2009. My girlfriend was in Germany visiting her family, and I was stuck here in the states. It was too expensive to call her directly, so I bought a calling card and we'd use that to talk.

    Anyway, it was right after the underwear bomber thing, and she was telling me about how much crap she had to go through at the airport because she took too much shampoo.

    I said, "The whole liquid thing is stupid because there's an easy, way to get around it, all you have to do is ..."

    Right then, I heard a woman with a thick accent firmly exclaim, "Nein!" - and the phone went click and we were disconnected.

    I kinda freaked, but I called her right back and told her what happened, which totally freaked her out. She hadn't heard the woman say "Nein!" and was worried that I was going to be getting a visit. I wanted to test fate and try telling her again, but I figured not to push my luck.

    No one showed up at my house, and I've flown all over the place since then without any problems.

    Anyway ... so now I assume that people (or machines) are ALWAYS listening

  22. Re:Honeypot? on NY Times Considers Creating a WikiLeaks Type Site · · Score: 1

    If there's a timestamp on the submission, and the NYT's ISP has records of IP's connecting - then it starts getting easier to track back. Maybe something like TOR could help obfuscate the submitter, but I don't know enough about that stuff to say if there's even "right" way to do it...

  23. Honeypot? on NY Times Considers Creating a WikiLeaks Type Site · · Score: 2

    Would the NYT keep the submitter anonymous at all costs, and if not wouldn't this just become a honeypot for the US (or any) government?

  24. Re:Oh noes! on Woman's Voice Restored After Larynx Transplant · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Oh noes! on Woman's Voice Restored After Larynx Transplant · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's even the Y chromosome, it's the the SRY gene (which is _usually_ located on the Y Chromosome) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRY

    but - there are XX males. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_male_syndrome