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  1. Re:Alien planet on Mars Polar Cap Mystery Solved · · Score: 2, Funny

    Finally, someone has solved the mystery of why weather prediction is called meteorology.

  2. Re:i have a third nominee: on Gamers Are Fitter (and Sadder) Than You Think · · Score: 1

    You forgot one:

    1. "correlation is not causation"

    2. "you can't prove a negative"

    3. "that's a strawman argument"

    4. "Profit!"

  3. Re:Erm... on Gamers Are Fitter (and Sadder) Than You Think · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well yeah, he probably crushed it with his mussel.

  4. Re:Erm... on Gamers Are Fitter (and Sadder) Than You Think · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of morning people, who don't drink. I don't drink, and the act of getting up at 6 a.m. totally against my will makes me feel worse than I do for the entire rest of the day.

    I'd say about 11a.m. is my peak, witha close second around 3-4p.m. Unless I get home and the kid is off at someone's house and the wife says "oh all right, let's go."

  5. Re:Pity on Copyright Board Lawyer Responds On Pandora's End · · Score: 1

    Which is why downloadable albums are all only $5 a piece at online music retailers.

  6. Re:Brave New World, 1984 on Citizens Demand To See Secret ACTA Treaty · · Score: 1
  7. Re:You'll never get your money back on Citizens Demand To See Secret ACTA Treaty · · Score: 1

    True, but one possibility is that we'd have one. That we didn't start. Or win.

  8. Re:You'll never get your money back on Citizens Demand To See Secret ACTA Treaty · · Score: 1

    No, that seems to be what they did with my parents' money. My money seems to be going to a host of other things while the things you reference slowly rot into unusable decay.

  9. Re:I'm AT&T FREE! on AT&T Buries ToS Changes In 2500-Page Guide · · Score: 1

    They are trying to get people to move off their regular DSL services in favor of the new U-verse4 stuff. Best way to do that is make the old DSL unattractive. They did the same thing with dialaup several years back. My dialup became mysteriously slower. Ordered their DSL, and a couple of days before they shipped me my DSL equipment, my dialup speed suddenly doubled to about 50K. My friend down the street's experience mirrored mine a few weeks later. They were deliberately slowing the dialup lines.

    DSL is now mysteriously slowing down, especially in the early evening hours. And U-verse pushers are coming to our door every couple of months, and saying the new service doesn't suffer from that slowdown. Hmmmm.

  10. Re:AT&T on AT&T Buries ToS Changes In 2500-Page Guide · · Score: 1

    Since the type of clause in question is here is about the right to sue, rather than the right to win a lawsuit, that's a meaningless question. You may (albeit futilely) sue the phone company, and your case will likely NOT be dismissed based on a clause purporting to remove your right to sue. Whether you win or not is an entirely different matter.

  11. Re:common place on Tech Vs. Business? · · Score: 1

    So THAT'S why our IS group limits us to 650 MB of disk storage on the servers. And here I was thinking they had no good reason.

  12. Re:This thing... on Unholy Matrimony? Microsoft and Cray · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but will it be moist and crumbly so the devs can eat it? You know, like cake.

  13. Re:I haven't even rtfa, but here goes on New Study Links Plastics To Heart Disease, Diabetes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, it was a topic carefully avoided by the scientists themselves. Just look at their tap dancing: "The researchers, who will also present their findings at the U.S. FDA session on Tuesday, added it was too early to identify a mechanism through which the chemical may be doing harm." and "The researchers also cautioned that these findings are just the first step and more work is needed to determine if the chemical actually is a direct cause of disease."

  14. Re:No not really on Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast · · Score: 1

    " I'm beginning to suspect you may not have read the article, "

    Snicker

  15. Re:Your tax money at work on Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure. Observe - In a capitalist system, suppliers (Congress) invent, streamline their production methods (legislation made to order, in fact copied verbatim from the customer's order) and improve their products to compete against each other in the attempt to make the customer choose them over their competitors. The customers (corporations) in turn, collectively decide which product suits their needs best and buys this one, thus giving the supplier that matches their needs best the upper hand. Suppliers that supply what is in demand will thrive, those that supply what isn't, perish. And to top it off, it even occurs in the Capital, er, Capitol. OK so the spelling is off.

  16. Re:Religion on Has Superstition Evolved To Help Mankind Survive? · · Score: 1

    Actually, thats not quite fair. The church was never against technology as such, just idea's that challenged their version of the world.

    "Was"?

  17. Re:Oh, they've learned... on CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security · · Score: 1

    Not sure. People with a sense of humor or even the ability to detect it don't respond to trivial jokes as you do.

  18. Re:This sounds so ridiculous... on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    They're built out of frozen seawater.

  19. Re:Oil on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    No, no, see, the ships will have sizable solar arrays for power, which work great except when it is cloudy, um, WHAT"S THAT OVER THERE?!!

  20. Re:Not really on In Leaked Email, NASA Chief Vents On Shuttle Program's End · · Score: 1

    But it's not 2010 yet. We aren't supposed to elevate aggressions and partition the space station for two more years.

  21. Re:My problem with the article on In Leaked Email, NASA Chief Vents On Shuttle Program's End · · Score: 1

    That was the one thing in Transformers that irritated me (I know I know). Everything in the modern age reverse engineered from Megatron. Including cars. CARS!? Pffthb!

  22. Re:Legal consequence? on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 1

    So if YouTube has found the takedowns were all issued by a party the cannot trace the existence of, are they putting all the videos back up? I would hope so.

  23. Re:Slashvertisement on RealNetworks To Introduce a Simple DVD Copier · · Score: 1

    PARTICULARLY nasty is the fact that Real seems to think that they can use DRM extortion tactics on content that don't own.

    The worst thing about the software. Apple and MS don't add their DRM onto CDs you rip.

  24. Re:What Are You Talking About? on Seinfeld-Windows TV Ad Anything But 'Delicious' · · Score: 1

    I am always numbed when I am there by the sheer number of shows that just show people eating food. Cooking shows in the U.S. talk about the process of cooking, and there is a lot of talking, but there, it seems to be people standing around eating, going, "mmmm hmmmm" and agreeing how delicious everything is.

  25. Re:countdown on Ghostbusters Is First Film Released On USB Key · · Score: 1

    Even if it is cracked and ripped, they may never find out. Since it is such a crappy version of the movie, it would seem a version ripped and compressed from the DVD would be better, even at the same file size, so any copy from this thing is unlikely to ever be shared enough to turn up on their radar.