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  1. Re:Should we believe anything the FBI tells us? on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 1

    3.7M is wasted each year in DC on TOILET PAPER. Dont even try to tell me that 3.7M will buy something useful out of the government.

  2. Re:So it begins on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 5, Informative

    Educated is dangerous for two reasons.

    1 - the more educated you are the more capable of making BOMBS you are. This educated people who have degrees in science are dangerous.

    2 - the more educated you are the greater resistance to the propaganda bullshit that we need the TSA, Homeland security and the PATRIOT ACT. And that is the most dangerous of them all. Someone that can see through bullshit and think for themselves.

    WE need to round these people up and put them in concentration camps to keep society safe.

  3. Yeah and... on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The TSA says that everyone that has a carry on with more than 3oz of liquid is a terrorist.

    So how are we to believe these departments that make crap up to keep the fear machine going?:

  4. Re:cool idea... on High School Juniors Create 'Flavor Strips' For Astronauts · · Score: 1

    All of the "spices" are typically already in the food. Think space MRE. and they have their diets controlled so no going off the nut over salting anything.

    AS for "hot sauce" you can easily have a hot pepper paste in a tube to apply or eat a small amount and then eat the food. In fact I believe they already have it on the ISS.

  5. I always wondered why..... on High School Juniors Create 'Flavor Strips' For Astronauts · · Score: 2

    The space program did not use things like Fruit leathers and food leathers. It's been known to backpackers and camping people for centuries.

    a little flavorless gelatin and the "spices" spread out and let dry. it turns into a leather that you can pack easily and use without effort.

  6. Re:Many possibilities on Mercedes Can Now Update Car Software Remotely · · Score: 1

    Only on poorly maintained cars. You DO lubricate the cable yearly as in the Maintenance schedule right? at least you take it to a competent mechanic for these things right?

    If not, then you take care of your vehicle rather poorly.

  7. Re:Many possibilities on Mercedes Can Now Update Car Software Remotely · · Score: 1

    In any car made over the past 15 years it will do NOTHING to throw a car in park at speed. The parking pawl is solenoid driven and the ECM will not allow it to engage. Older pure hydralic transmissions would use line pressure to keep it from moving until the speed drops to a point where it is "safe" to engage.

  8. Re:Many possibilities on Mercedes Can Now Update Car Software Remotely · · Score: 0

    I have. An emergency brake will slow you down and bring you to a stop safely.

    Will it lock up the brakes because you were an idiot and dont start braking until you are 6 feet from the car in front of you? no. It does not save the typical moron driver.

    But in a brake line failure, you take your foot off the gas (WHAT A CONCEPT!) and apply the emergency brake. it will slow you down a LOT faster than just trying to engine brake.

    Granted, you have to have a clue as to how to drive a car and how to use it, which rules out about 90% of drivers on the road.

  9. Re:Which is why I wear a LooxCie all day... on Survey Says Bosses Fear Being Filmed By Employees · · Score: 1

    Looxcie already works that way. but you CAN dump the whole video buffer if you want. having a 6 hour buffer means you can grab things you missed if they happened in the afternoon.

    The cool part is the button on it when you hit tag grab the previous 30 seconds as well, so you get every bit of that punk kid crunching his crotch on the railing because he was trying to free run past everyone instead of being polite and waiting his turn.

  10. Which is why I wear a LooxCie all day... on Survey Says Bosses Fear Being Filmed By Employees · · Score: 1

    Works great, and all the executives act highly polite when they see it on me.

    Fear my life streaming!

  11. Re:Seriously? on AT&T To Unlock Out-of-Contract iPhones · · Score: 1

    This is a blatent lie.

    I have and many others have had their iphones unlocked in previous years for international travel. you just need to know what number to call back then. I never called apple, I called AT&T international tech support. they gave me the code after I gave them info and they checked to see if my phone was at least 1 year into contract. He then gave me the code to type into the dialing keypad that unlocked the phone's cellular chipset.

    I know of 7 other people that have done this with iphone 3G, 3GS and a iphone 4.

  12. Re:Seriously? on AT&T To Unlock Out-of-Contract iPhones · · Score: 1

    That is really Wrong.

    I had AT&T sim unlock my iphone back in the 3G days.

    you give them your phone info and they give you a code to enter on the keypad that tells the radio modem chipset to flip off the carrier lock bit.

    There is no "contact Apple servers" BS. That is not how cellphones work. even the iphone and android phones use the exact same radio chipset as a cheapie $3.00 flip phone.

  13. Re:My experience on AT&T To Unlock Out-of-Contract iPhones · · Score: 2

    The incompetence runs deep. From cellular to commercial T1 and data lines. They only hire techs that are color blind or morons. I have had to troubleshoot a smartjack for a tech before because the idiot did not understand how a T1 worked.

    The incompetent runs deep in this one they call AT&T.

  14. Re:former customers? on AT&T To Unlock Out-of-Contract iPhones · · Score: 2

    If apple wanted that one Ios update later to disable any carrier lock ability and a letter to AT&T's CEO with a "suck it, we just unlocked all iphones world wide and will never lock another iphone again. We are also starting a big advert spread that will make you look like a total scumbag if you do anything but say "thank you for doing this"

    Enjoy that turn in your morning cheerios, we have another one ready about you BS with data caps but will give you 90 days to fix it yourself.

    That would rock. Like ship a new IOS that turns on tethering and tether masking so carriers can not detect it.

    Apple wold win the world overnight and not one carrier would dare to do anything but say... thank you may we have another.

  15. Re:Bigger issue that needs solving on Robot Helicopters To Single Out Pirate Ships · · Score: 1

    cheaper than losing a ship and paying for the dead crew and lost cargo.

  16. Re:Why? on Robot Helicopters To Single Out Pirate Ships · · Score: 1

    I guarantee the samalis dont have many working rocket launchers. Rockets for the popular russian, RPG-7 is not a rocket launcher but a rocket propelled grenade and have a shorter range than an AR15 with a 20" barrel and a scope. Plus those RPG rounds are expensive compared to the nearly free AK47 rounds. Plus samali's are not expert sharp shooters, so their chances of hitting anything is random at best. I guarantee they dont practice.

    Also the pirates want the ship so they will not be using RPG-29's that will breach the hull and start a fire sinking it.

    Very small expert ex navy seal private teams can easily hold a container ship against a hundred samali pirates just based on training and the ability to even hit a target.

  17. Re:Bigger issue that needs solving on Robot Helicopters To Single Out Pirate Ships · · Score: 2

    Many ships already are.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5e2_1333668975

    A lot of shipping companies are arming their ships with private security and they are killing anyone that comes at their ships.

  18. Why? on Robot Helicopters To Single Out Pirate Ships · · Score: 1

    Give all the ships the right to simply start shooting at any boat that approaches them. It's time to stop screwing around out there.

    Give ships guns turrets, and when the idiots in the other boat get within 100 yards, turn everyone on board into red goo and sink the vessel.

    every container ship or shipping vessel if it has a small team of 8 highly trained security and heavily armed cal easily repel these samali idiot pirates by firing on them to kill them all when they are within 100 yards or if it looks like they are heading to the boat after several loud warnings.

    I would prefer they are given 40mm deck guns so they can take out the pirates boats with only a couple of shots.

  19. The problem is the education level of the teachers on OLPC Project Disappoints In Peru · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Almost ALL teachers from the richest of schools to the poorest of schools have a horrible education level in computer technology operation and use. I have met multiple PHD holding professors that cant operate a projector to save their life. Even ones that have been dumbed down with a control system that have an ON and OFF button that will do everything. IF the ON button did not work they freak out and never use it again.

    WE need to start with all education degrees being REQUIRED to have several computer operation classes. Something a lot more than "how to type letters in word 101" and "internet for idiots 102" They whould be requlred to go through a couple of more advanced classes like "education systems troubleshooting and use 204"

    Once you get the teachers comfortable with the technology, they will start using it. Did the OLPC people give the devices to the teachers a YEAR before the kids? Because the teachers should have been given them AND classes on their use in the classroom.

    I will bet you the OLPC people simply dropped a shipment in the schools and said "we givith! use this wisely" and walked away.

  20. Re:when dick cheney did it he wasn't charged on Waterboarding Whistleblower Indicted Under Espionage Act · · Score: 0

    Yeah, keep your brainwashing going. IF you think that Scooter Libbiy did ANYTHING without the direction of Dicky then you are a complete moron. Cheney ran his officer with an iron fist, you could not crap without his approval.

  21. Re:when dick cheney did it he wasn't charged on Waterboarding Whistleblower Indicted Under Espionage Act · · Score: 1

    They still feed him the hearts of Cuban children? I though that stopped when he left office.

  22. Re:Hope and change on Waterboarding Whistleblower Indicted Under Espionage Act · · Score: 0

    "There are lots of differences between the parties—just no significant ones."

    For example...

    Republicans hate gays, women, the poor, and damn dirty immigrants.
    Democrats hate the rich, republicans, and damn dirty people making their own decisions.

    All their points are useless drivel that only server to rile up their supporters. They know they have no chance in hell doing anything they promise and will instead just do what their biggest financial supporters tell them to do.

  23. Re:Hope and change on Waterboarding Whistleblower Indicted Under Espionage Act · · Score: 2

    It is one of two things.

    1 - Obama lied through his teeth about all of it.
    2 - a shadow government in control that when he got there they held guns to his family's head and laid it all out on how things will work, and if he plays along he get's to have two terms as president.

    Add to that the fact that every president after they leave office has a team of security with them 24 7 for the rest of their life, and of their family's life..... Things start looking plausable on the kooky conspiracy side.

  24. Re:Let this be a message to the unpatriotic on Waterboarding Whistleblower Indicted Under Espionage Act · · Score: 1

    The one that has an ungodly mountain of money. It's the only way to tell them apart by measuring money pile size.

  25. Re:monkeys throwing darts... on 1981 Paper's Predictions for Global Temperatures Spot-On · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Oh not this horseshit again. There was never a "Global Cooling" frenzy."

    Wanna bet? I guarantee there was one before the last mini ice age we had.