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  1. Looks like they're following their time-honored strategy of embrace, extend, and eavesdrop

  2. New business model on Netgear Adds Support For "Collecting Analytics Data" To Popular R7000 Router · · Score: 1

    It's surely no accident that Netgear is releasing this "feature" just 2 months after Congress voted to allow ISPs to sell users' browsing history.

  3. Their “coffee” is only using half the recommended L-theanine to caffeine ratio for increasing focus without causing jitters. At such a low L-theanine dose it seems like it’s just thrown so they can hit the “nootropics” marketing checkbox, and makes me question their other claims of meeting daily values for “all essential vitamins and minerals”.

  4. blackwater started a fad on Comcast Shoots For New Image, Rebranding As Xfinity · · Score: 1

    Appears Blackwater started a trend when it rebranded itself Xe. Whatever the RIAA decides to rename itself, I'm sure it'll start with X

  5. hideous on NASA Designs All-Electric Personal Flight Vehicle · · Score: 1

    and I thought jetpacks were ugly...

  6. Futile on Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names · · Score: 1

    This won't work. It's ineffective at best and a privacy invasion at worst. Drunk driving is not a premeditated crime. It's the result of being in a state that prevents you from waying the consequences of ones actions, therefore increasing the penalties is relatively futile.

  7. Really? on Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus · · Score: 1

    Really? do I have to be the 1st to make the obligatory "I'm in your base, stealing your coconuts" reference? C'mon guys!

  8. good background info on US Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents · · Score: 4, Informative

    A good source of background info for this case is provided in epside 1 of the Software Freedom Law Center's podcast http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2008/nov/25/0x01/ It puts the case in perspective as to what software patents would be thrown-out under even the most optimistic Bilski rulings (ie: not ending all software patents, as we'd like to see).

  9. 1.2T = 120B per year on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let's be clear: 1.2 Billion is the cost for 10 years, not 1 single upfront cost (like bailouts or emergency war funding supplementals)

  10. sorry on Air Force Seeking Geeks For 'Cyber Command' · · Score: 0, Troll

    sorry Airforce but I'm gay and not willing to hide it

  11. Potential for rigging on Mac Hack Contest Redux · · Score: 1

    The problem with the "let's see which OS cracks first" approach is that Microsoft, Apple or maybe even Novell would bribe participants to focus their efforts on their competitor's OS.