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  1. Re:Guilty. on Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students · · Score: -1

    That's what I got until I reread it and the comments a couple hundred times.

  2. Re:Guilty. on Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students · · Score: -1

    Ehh, I hadn't figured that out yet.

  3. Re:Guilty. on Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because it's another crybaby story the govt. is evil, copyright is evil, and all nerds should be allowed free access to any information that is in the entire world. I'm surprised they didn't try to tie the iphone and google into it.

  4. Another Iphone Story. on iPhone 3.0 Update Delivers Prodigious Patch Batch · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I must not be geeky enough, I'm tired of Iphone stories.

  5. WTF on Senators To Examine Exclusive Handset Deals · · Score: -1

    Since when do wireless carriers make phones? I thought they just carried them.

    Yes, I'm karma whoring.

  6. Re:Shoot them on For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes · · Score: -1

    Actually there are two subspecies of Canadian Goose, the migratory kind, and the resident kind. So destroying the nesting sites might help, or might not. Depends on the kind.

  7. Re:That's what she said on Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor's Cyberlaw Record · · Score: -1

    Sound's sexist too.

  8. Re:This is a very old issue on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: -1

    Nah, it's true. I just can't find the link to prove it. I have a friend that knew all the details, but I can't get in touch with him to find the links I need to prove it. You are right that you can do what ever you want with it, but you still technically have to rent if from the govt.

  9. Re:This is a very old issue on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: -1

    Unless you paid gold for your car, you don't technically own it. For a small yearly fee, you are allowed certain rights to your car, but the government actually owns it. This is why they must be titled and tagged. If you pay gold for your car, you get a special certificate from the car company, and you don't have to tag or title it. I'm sorry can't find the link, but it's very interesting.

  10. Re:Mostly just for cars on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: -1

    This is true, but we might've lasted a little longer if gas hadn't spiked that bad last summer. This caused consumer spending to tank which led to a meltdown of our economy. When people were forced to use their credit to pay for gas, instead of luxuries it hurt a lot more than people know.

  11. Re:Mostly just for cars on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: -1

    Or it will just cause a global recession like it did last summer when gas in America hit $4.XX a gallon and everybody quit buying anything, and the whole economy went to shit.

  12. Re:Run, neanderthal, run! on Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? · · Score: -1

    There are still tribes in Mexico (I think that's where they are located) that hunt like this. They will chase a herd of deer for a few days until the animals die from exhaustion and then proceed to butcher them and carry them back to camp.

  13. Re:"The Inheritors" on Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? · · Score: -1

    Also Ben Bova has a very interesting take on what happened to the Neanderthals in Orion.

  14. Re:Evolution is real -- even for modern man. on Scientists Discover Common Ancestor of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans · · Score: -1

    Of course Europe didn't really advance technologically until it met the Moslems. So how did a bunch of desert dwelling terrorists become the first technologically superior culture?

  15. Re:Oh this is gonna be fun :) on Scientists Discover Common Ancestor of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans · · Score: -1

    What proof of evolution can you give? Much like the religion of global warming, there is no proof of either, or proof against it. It's four religions that are based completely on faith.

  16. Re:You mean redirect the funds. on Funding For Automotive Fuel Cells Cut · · Score: -1

    It's all fine and good to whine about how more people should carpool/use public transportation/whatever the flavor of the day is. But for a large majority of Americans a car is the only way to get to work/grocery store/doctor/whatever. where I live and where I work there is no form of public transportation, and I live in the suburbs of a medium city in the US.

  17. Someone should ask Ms. Le Guin about the library on Copyright Infringement of Books · · Score: -1

    I wonder what she would say about public libraries that "gasp" will let you borrow one of her precious copyrighted materials for free. I wonder how much money she has lost to these "pirated" copies.

  18. Second and Fourth Amendment Rights? on Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Legal, Says WI Court · · Score: -1

    So the constitution doesn't ban this, but it doesn't support the right to own guns? I wish we could create AI judges with no opinions, that actually used the constitution as their balance point.

  19. Re:Like batting orders on New Pattern Found In Prime Numbers · · Score: -1

    You can't be computer science without being a mathematician.

  20. Re:Counterproductive on UK Government To Monitor All Internet Use · · Score: -1

    Probably about the same time that they realize that gun control laws don't work for criminals.

  21. Re:Bad time for movies on Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble? · · Score: -1

    Who said anything about date? He's probably talking about a sibling or his mom.

  22. Re:You must mean the iPhone on Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only · · Score: -1

    The summary clearly says notebooks. Had to reread it. Oh yeah, I hate ms too. /end karma whoring

  23. Re:sigh on Pirate Bay Trial Ends In Jail Sentences · · Score: -1

    This is the stupidest argument that I have ever heard. If google, or msn or yahoo, only allowed you to search for torrents, then yes they too would be in violation of the law. I'm not sure if you've ever heard of aiding and abetting. It a crime and punishable by jail time. This is what TPB is actually guilty of.

  24. Re:sigh on Pirate Bay Trial Ends In Jail Sentences · · Score: -1

    The difference between making a copy of the mona lisa and hanging it on your wall and making a copy of the mona lisa and trying to pass it off as the mona lisa is the problem with piracy. Taking a copy of something and using it without paying for it is stealing. Period. It's a good thing I don't have any karma, cause I just burned some more.

  25. Has other uses too. on New Discovery May End Transplant Rejection · · Score: -1

    Wow, this research is one of the best things I've heard out of science in years. It can help to cure many autoimmune diseases, like Rhematoid Arthritis.