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  1. Re:Two ways? on Bees Help Detectives Catch Serial Killers · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I would say no. To be a serial killer it implies that you murder more then one person, generally have the same Modus Operandi and some times your victims carry similar traits or are the same in some way. I would think if you kill around your home a pattern would emerge in a very tight area and police would catch on. The only thing you would accomplish is having them profile you as someone who kills spontaneously and has little or no self control, which would be the opposite of what you are trying to accomplish.

    In short it is still safer to kill away from your home, the police still would have to figure out which direction your coming from and as the article says there is a far lower chance of you being recognized. Not that I've put too much thought into this or anything :-P

  2. Re:A Greater Truth on Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science? · · Score: 1

    Which is why I pledge my allegance to the republic for which it stands.

  3. Re:Dont apologise for the downtime yet. on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    Forgive my ignorance because I have seen this a dozen times since joining this forum a year ago. But do we really ramp up traffic at these sites so bad as to cause servers to crash? By posting the most outrageous things we can find, do we all unknowingly contribute to an accidental DoS attack? That would make this site as powerful as the "Colbert Bump"!

  4. Re:Duh! on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    Dude wait, we HAVE to start website that argues that the internet is a myth... We could say something crazy like the "Ghost In A Shell" theory were random bits gather together and form what appear to be web sites. I don't think it would get very far, but it would be the funniest damn thing in the world if it took off or was reported on by a big (I did not say credible) news station. See Americans can have a sense of irony too!

  5. Re:It never rains in southern California on GM Researching Windshields For Old Drivers · · Score: 1

    I live in Buffalo and I can say this guy is %100 right, it is a bad idea to drive like we do in the weather that we do. However people adjust if you experiance it year after year you get used to it and even find it easy. Older drivers are even MORE of a hazard though they seem to speed up in the snow and slow down when everything is clear making for some very interesting winter drives, I guess they figure they have less time left so they need to get places sooner.

  6. Re:Futurama on The Future of Mind Control of Physical Objects · · Score: 1

    I would prefer to be like Kane from Robocop 2, minus the drug dealing. I don't know if I like the idea of having my brain in a jar and me living forever though. Can you imagine the spyware that someone might develop to feed directley into your brain? Would you want to live forever with the same five pop-up ads?

  7. That's Ironic on Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that they should name it Medusa, a villain who was defeated by reflecting it's magic back at it...

  8. I'll admit it... on How to Fight Name Scraping Scammers? · · Score: 1
    I ran into this kind of thing not "ego-surfing" but actually checking out an on-line dating service. A colleague of mine had just married a great women he met through a similar site and although I wasn't looking for quit the same thing I decided to give it a try.

    I was quickly disappointed though as the site which boasted 1,000+ members in my area and certainly had profiles to back it up appeared to be padding profiles onto their site. Now I realize it is possible that a lot of the correspondence I sent out weren't going to be met by a positive response but I would have at least expected the courtesy of a rejection every now and then. Long story short they got my money and I left the site with nothing to show for it. I guess there is a lesson here but I'll be pwnd if I know what it is.

  9. Re:Google Apps as a Personal CDN on Google Apps Hacks · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Free Low Cost" should be hyphenated as "Free-Low Cost" read like "Free-to-Low Cost". It implies that one part is free (The software in this case) and the other is cheap (assume Hardware). It can also mean low startup cost and no reoccuring cost (overhead). But your right if they are going to charge for it then it was misused.

  10. Re:Neighborhood friendly computer geek on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 0

    Wait...what? You mean the internet can be used for more then Dating, Porn and Wasting time at work? Huh! Who knew? Next your going to try to tell me that Windows is NOT the only operating system for a PC.

  11. Re:Most jobs are boring on New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring" · · Score: 0

    So you don't count like Parachute Instructor, Demolitions Specialist, Concert Stage Crew, or Film Star as jobs? I think the opposite of what you say is true and that everyone has both an talent for a certain job AND a interest in a certain job the luckiest ones of us have both in the same category. I personally love working in IT, yes it gets frustrating but the worst days don't get as bad as every day would be if I did anything else (except maybe Parachute Instructor that actually sounds really cool). This article shows a good thing happening, a shortage of labor supply in a skilled market makes all of us more valuable.

  12. Re:but.. on Studies Confirm That Bad Boys Get More Girls · · Score: 0

    Damn Mutants always getting the girls...

  13. Re:First post? on All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us · · Score: 0

    I think the best way around this is to let the machine itself do most of the processing this way the coffee machine ignores all but a few specific commands. Now if what they are talking about is a buffer overflow hack? or a system service hijack? or another of the hundred things along those lines. Then the designers should be denied coffee for an entire year to teach them what it is like for the consumer to be 'hacked'.

  14. I know where this comes from on Do Women Write Better Code? · · Score: 0

    It's easy to see where this writer can get this impression, seriously IDK about YOUR environment but the last time I saw a women write code was in college as part of a mandated computer class. I can easily imagine that the reason the writer sees a 'trend' is because programming is (to the point of frustration) still very much a male dominated world and the only women the go into it are the ones who are interested in the subject enough to do it right. I think we would be lying to our selves if we ignored the "nerd factor" in all of this. This is a generalization people, there will always be exceptions and given how many programmers are foreign and don't necessarily have the communication skills that someone in a 1st or 2nd world country would I am not surprised by this result.

  15. Re:quick... on Verizon Cutting Access To Entire Alt.* Usenet Hierarchy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Uh dude, MOST of us don't have that kind of stuff laying around the house...

  16. Don't Ban Me For This, It Needs To Be Asked on Verizon Cutting Access To Entire Alt.* Usenet Hierarchy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm from New York and as much as I agree with what this attorney is doing I can't help but to ask, is he pulling an Eliot Spitzer?

  17. This is proof that the MPAA hates me... on MPAA Wants To Prevent Recording Movies On DVRs · · Score: 0

    This is great so there is now yet ANOTHER obstacle that we have to show each individual member of our family how to over come, and not just one time either but EVERY TIME IT COMES UP FOR THE NEXT YEAR! That's what they are planning people, to use our family's against us! This is sabotage on the mental level! We will all end up in a hospital curled up in a ball rocking back and forth due to of the endless calls from Aunt and Uncle Somebody because your little cousin fifty times removed wants to record the new Pokemon movie! And my family wonders why I drink only when they're around...

  18. I GET IT! on Is Google Making Us Stupid? · · Score: 0

    Check Wikipedia for this guy, I'm sure it's the same one and I didn't even finish the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Carr This guy is a modern day soothsayer. He writes inflammatory articles to get attention. I should have known, This guy also just wrote a book and is probably trying to drum up publicity.

  19. Bitter Old Men on Is Google Making Us Stupid? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have found that the people that harbor these ideas are often bright in their own right and during their "Hay Day" were looked up to at every job they had. The problem comes in when you take a piece of information that only they knew and give it to everyone with a web browser, than their superior intellect means jack squat! This is the most peaty type of fear mongering a person can spread. "I don't care that you memorized the periodic table in the third grade and can recite any of the elements by heart. I memorized the character string 'www.wikipedia.org' and when I ask that site for information it doesn't give me the same grief that you do!"

  20. Complete Idiots on Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US · · Score: 0

    So what my government is telling me once again is that it is more socially acceptable to walk up and punch someone in the face than it is to call them names and hurt their feelings. I just love how vague this legislation is, like the OP said I could get jail time for trash talking in a video game. This sucks, if it weren't for trash talk I wouldn't say anything at all!

  21. Re:And so it begins.. on Scientists Build Mind-Reading Computer · · Score: 0

    I know what your thinking... I know you know what I'm thinking... I know that you know that I know...

  22. Escaping Nationalism By Moving To North America? on Moving Between Countries? · · Score: 0

    The US economy runs on a few things: Big Tobacco, Big Oil, and Defense Contracts (The American PC term for war). There is a saying in the US, "Get your heart in America or get your ass out!". As red neck as I think this is, you should be warned about it. Now I know what your thinking "I said I was moving to Canada NOT America" but guess what, Canada is our sibling to the north. Everything that happens here effects them and everything that happens there effects us (even something as small as one man moving in from across the world). So if your looking to escape nationalism, then I would suggest Antarctica, I hear the penguin population there is very decentralized. BTW, did you ever stop to think that by moving to Canada you might be placed in a job that would see you working for a US company?

  23. Re:Birds? on Giant Floating Windmills To Launch Next Year · · Score: 0

    In this case Darwin says the bird must die

  24. Am I missing something? on Dan Rutter Suggests Tossing Some Wi-Fi At the Neighbors · · Score: 0

    Why don't we just build an Amp. that is in sync with the Wi-Fi frequency? It seems easy enough to me, just build some thing with a pair of side band filters one for in coming and another for out going and boom we're done. Yes it is theft of service unless one of the ISP's wants to allow us to do the Starbucks thing but I think it's just a matter of time

  25. Re:Logical positivism to the rescue... on Is Mathematics Discovered Or Invented? · · Score: 0

    And god spoke and said "... ye shall not stop thy bowling ball with hand nor foot without extreme pain, and many laughs from the Romans". And man said it with math, to explain why... j/k!