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  1. Re:Computer fraud? Or just plain fraud on For 3 Years, Scammers Ran Truckless Trucking Company · · Score: 1

    Because it was patented that way.

  2. Re:These people should be considered heroes on For 3 Years, Scammers Ran Truckless Trucking Company · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yep. That's why I don't trust anyone. It's illegal.

  3. Finally! on The Walking House · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now there's and idea with legs!

  4. Re:blah the emporer has his new clothes on again. on The Walking House · · Score: 1

    You russians.

  5. Re:Oh the irony... on Stem Cells From Fat Create Beating Heart Cells · · Score: 1

    Well, it has got some rat in it.

  6. Re:Rat hearted overlords? on Stem Cells From Fat Create Beating Heart Cells · · Score: 1

    Also, from his cage, he will mimic your every move, so that after your unseemly demise, he will avenge your death by defeating the dishonorable villain who murdered you.

  7. Re:Perhaps? on Geoengineering To Cool the Earth Becoming Thinkable · · Score: 1

    You are not making your point clearly enough. People move to the suburbs so they can have at least a yard and lawn, and no one through the walls making noise, and night times without sirens and wailing cats.

    If you are proposing to somehow remedy those aspects of city life, you need to lay out that proposal, and explain why those of us who have moved to the suburbs would have our desires met some other way. All you have done thus far is faulted us for not wanting to live in the aforementioned ratholes. Which you have noted you do not either.

    As you note, money drives development. What is your proposal for a high profit development model that includes proper urban planning?

  8. Re:Like something out of Robinson's work on Geoengineering To Cool the Earth Becoming Thinkable · · Score: 1

    The atmosphere, or in this example the ocean. Since you're increasing the albedo of the ocean by doing this, that's where the energy input will drop. Local climates are heavily affected by adjacent ocean temperatures/currents.

    I'd want to see some pretty hardcore modeling before I'd be comfortable with altering those patterns.

  9. Idle hands on Economic Crisis Will Eliminate Open Source · · Score: 1

    Agree with all the troll comments. Last time it happened to me, being unemployed seemed to give me lots of free time to do unpaid work, as well as a desire to find something to motivate me.

  10. Re:A solution without a problem on "BlueTrack" Mouse More Advanced Than Laser, Optical · · Score: 1

    Or a mouse with a frickin' laser on its head.

  11. Re:Tis the season.. on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.

    Your post was funny.

  12. Re:Unauthorized impairment of a protected computer on Hacker Admits To Scientology DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    No they aren't; corporations cannot vote

    Not on a normal ballot, no. They use the alternative deposit form ballot.

  13. Right on Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android · · Score: 1

    the Google version is a smart, pro-consumer move that avoids all the things that make Apple's version a bad idea."

    Like being a company named "Apple" (or Microsoft for that matter) when caught having one.

  14. Re:Pre-loaded with iMovie, but no DV camera interf on Hands-On With the New MacBooks · · Score: 1

    I was waiting for the new MacBooks as well, as was also annoyed by no FW. Check the refurb macs on the Apple Store. You can nab 15" MBPs for $1350. FW and a real video card, for the same price as the new regular MBs. Just no new trackpad and sexy case.

  15. Mechanized overlords? on Computer Error Caused Qantas Jet Mishap · · Score: 1

    I thought we would all die in the rise of the machines, not the descent of the machines.

  16. Re:As if parents needed another "war" to worry abo on President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar · · Score: 1

    Need another plan for Idaho. Larry Craig is probably used to his foot getting pissed on.

  17. Re:Forfeiture on President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seems to me somebody with the proper skill- and mindset should crack an RIAA executive's home computer and stuff it with a few thousand illicit media files (preferably non-RIAA music, so they can't weasel out of it) and turn him in to the new "Czar".

    No need for that complicated first step. Someone will take an RIAA exec and turn him into the new czar anyway.

  18. Re:Stamping, drawing, etc. on Top Apple Rumors, Bricks, Low Price, NVIDIA · · Score: 1

    THe very small holes angle may be it, the speaker grills look to have been expanded in the leaked photos

  19. Re:Right for the wrong reasons on Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over · · Score: 1

    "The Marching Morons" - quite a good short story read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons

  20. Re:How convenient! on Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over · · Score: 1

    Does anyone not notice how often evolutionists change their stories to fit the latest finding?

    Thanks. That is the funniest thing I have seen from that group yet. A resounding "WHOOOSH", although I am guessing John WR is deaf in the part of the audio spectrum where whoosh resides.

  21. Re:How convenient! on Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over · · Score: 1

    We are the descendants of Cro-Magnon man. Neanderthals were the dead end.

  22. Re:they care about functionality, though on Steve Wozniak Predicts Death of the IPod · · Score: 1

    They don't. They want their device that has all that stuff to also play music.

  23. Re:I don't think most people care that it's locked on Steve Wozniak Predicts Death of the IPod · · Score: 1

    A great product doesn't shield you from its workings. It educates you about them. It makes you curious and makes you want to know it.

    I have to flat out disagree with that. It applies to you, and to me, but not to the majority of consumers. My wife is arguably a technology geek by the standards of her peer group, and even her curiosity only extends to limited and infrequent explanations of how these things work.

    The opposite argument is the exact thing that Apple's success is built on. People just want their products to do what they want, when they want it, in the most obvious way. Do you think anyone gives any thought whatsoever as to why light comes out of a bulb when they flick the switch? Do you think they would prefer it at all if the switch in some way did make them think about it?

  24. Re:Nope,they will repeat the same mistake as with on Steve Wozniak Predicts Death of the IPod · · Score: 1

    The dynamic may be a bit different here though. The Google Android == IBM PC isn't a real good match, as we are talking consumer AND enterprise here, and "nobody ever got fired for buying Android" is not an oft-muttered phrase (yet).

  25. Re:Larry Niven on Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    You have plainly never tried to steer on ice. Californians.