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  1. Gremlins my ass on Using RFID Tags Around the House? · · Score: 1

    1. Collect Attacked-by-gremlins' stuff
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

  2. Re:hah on Using RFID Tags Around the House? · · Score: 1

    not to mention that the readers that are able to detect how far away a tag is (as opposed to just reading the tag) will be a bit more expensive.

  3. Re:That's a bit of a fallacy. on Greenpeace Complains Game Consoles Aren't Green Enough · · Score: 1

    "hip deep in horse shit" = greenpeace

  4. Re:Well yeah on Greenpeace Complains Game Consoles Aren't Green Enough · · Score: 1

    what? no lead?

  5. Re:One big difference on Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man · · Score: 1

    Millions of people can't be wrong!

  6. No. 19 on The World's Spookiest Weapons · · Score: 2, Funny

    while scary, the airborne laser has only been used to fill a house with popcorn.

  7. Sci-Fi Channel original movie on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas · · Score: 1

    life imitating art...

    if you can call it art

  8. Re:Do people still write letters? on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    Well, what about the original severed fingers of person who typed it? :P

  9. Re:Absolutely not. on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    Now is time for someone to correctly use the phrase "begs the question."

    or at least I think so...

  10. Re:Scene releases = No ads on Youngsters Skip DVR Ads Less Than Seniors · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with American Idol? Hmm... elitist attitude. Are you white, college educated, and voting for Obama, perchance? wow, you really showed him what it's like to not be elite!
  11. Re:Could they not do the same with torrents? on How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong, but don't you have to be downloading the file(s) in order to see the seeders' and leechers' IPs when you use torrents? In other words, would the RIAA agents would be committing the same crime they're suing you for if they do this?

  12. Re:Octopus on FTC to Scrutinize Contactless Payment Technology · · Score: 4, Funny

    We do it here in California with FasTrak for paying tolls... Beware, if you or a loved one leaves their FasTrak (or other automatic toll device) behind when they move/get a new car, think twice about shipping it to them...
    luckily I didn't learn this from experience, but word of mouth.
  13. Re:RFID tech is full of holes security wise. on FTC to Scrutinize Contactless Payment Technology · · Score: 1

    Elaboration?
    RFID chips can be encrypted, and the read-distance of the chips are directly proportional to the size of the antenna on the chip.
    Not to mention the fact that (unless the banks are dumb as fuck) the RFID chip itself will just have a generic ID pointing to an entry in a database somewhere, not the account number itself.
    The only hole in security I can think of at the moment is that the chip can be read without you knowing, which won't in itself be useful unless the criminal has breached other forms of security, which could be breached with any payment method.
    Or you can just make a little metal sleeve for your rfid key-fob, or you know, pay in cash or traditional credit cards.

  14. Re:Total Bullshit from the very beginning on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 1

    And another thing:
    phone calls need to have very little to no delay, imagine having to wait a few seconds between each things you say to see if your friend has a reply.
    but texts, the telcoms can really send those whenever it costs them the least

  15. when you assume... on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 1

    ...and we assume the average price for a text message is 5p... for the average consumer maybe... but you're a crackhead if you think it actually costs a telcom 5 p to deliver 140 bytes at their leisure.
  16. Re:One problem machine out of many installs on Windows XP SP3 Creating Havoc · · Score: 1

    XP was an improvement over the previous Windows version. Vista is not. but it's pretty!
  17. Re:Logical conclusion on Round Robin Scheduling Not Power-Efficient · · Score: 1

    Just hook some wires up to a bunch of irate electric eels, free!

  18. Re:pir8? on A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything) · · Score: 1

    take a chill pill and eat some t8r tots

  19. Re:It's as if a thousands hands screamed out in pa on iMac Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    The iMac might last you 2-3 years max! Who cares? They're *pretty*
  20. Re:lactation on Platypus Genome Decoded · · Score: 1

    you mean theyre both dolphiny. unless you get the dolphin safe can of tuna

  21. California on DOE Pumps $126.6 Million Into Carbon Sequestration · · Score: 1

    I hope they put all that CO2 in the part of California that *doesn't* have earthquakes.

  22. Re:Cue Dr. Evil on DOE Pumps $126.6 Million Into Carbon Sequestration · · Score: 1

    *Cracks open a can of 'Perri-air'*

  23. Re:Prefer the Pile of Cat Poo or Pile of Dog Poo? on Orson Scott Card Blasts J.K. Rowling's Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    At least Card had one good book....

  24. "So let the Borg and Terminator jokes begin!" on Self-Healing Robots of Doom From UPenn · · Score: 1

    What? No replicator jokes allowed?

  25. Re:I'll admit I don't understand the classificatio on Memristor — 4th Basic Element of Circuits · · Score: 1

    Until now we did not know how to construct a passive device which would provide a function relating charge and flux. What about the flux capacitor? huh?