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  1. Re:Why Is Prison Rape Humorous? on Smilin' Bob Not Smilin' Anymore · · Score: 1

    Yes, these stories always attract humorous posts from sadists. Given their evident enthusiasm for rape I wonder on what grounds they condemn a scammer?

  2. Strong stand by UK government on UK Hacker Loses Extradition Appeal · · Score: 1

    Good to see the British government standing up so vigorously to the US on this, and er, allowing one of its citizens to be dragged off to Guantanamo Bay for life.

  3. Police productivity on Police Shame Pranksters On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Well done the police for using public money to mock people with mental illnesses, instead of wasting it on preventing and detecting crime.

  4. Well done the US on Air Force Looks To Laser-Proof Its Weapons · · Score: 1

    It's not as if the Israelis need anti-laser defences. Their continuing campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians just needs more guns and fighter jets. But hats off to the the US military for their forward thinking in case the Palestinians somehow get hold of lasers.

  5. The irony cannot even be charted on Researchers Face Jail Risk For Tor Snooping Study · · Score: 1

    So the Bush government might launch prosecutions for illicit surveillance? What a strange time for them to start taking an interest in this issue.

  6. Get yourself a weblog on Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet · · Score: 1

    Start a blog if you want to engage in mere 'liberal media' ranting. This is a serious website for tech news, not a bulletin board for crackpot Ayn Rand fans.

  7. Public space privatisation on Online "Public" Spaces Don't Guarantee Rights · · Score: 1

    This issue becomes more and more important as more and more IRL public spaces are privatised. We need to assert more strongly the position that if the public at large are admitted, their rights come in with them.

  8. Soft power on Power Consumption of a Typical PC While Gaming · · Score: 1

    The internal battery on my PC is dead, so I have to leave it soft-switched off but plugged in or it forgets the date etc. It uses 8W in this mode, which costs £0.03 a day (~ 5 cents in your charming currency) so buying a new lithium cell would have been the more cost-effective solution after only 100 days.

  9. Every second of footage is a false accusation on AI Could Power Next-gen CCTV Cameras · · Score: 1

    "allowing them to more quickly respond to crimes" - or most likely to totally innocent activity.

  10. Death from the sewers on Scandinavian Scientists Designing Robotic Snakes · · Score: 1

    Imagine the terror police getting hold of this idea. You'd get these things coming up through your plumbing to kill you.

  11. Short shelf life on A Cautionary Tale of Open Source Social Technologies · · Score: 1

    This issue will shortly be rendered moot when the Israelis trigger off WW3 by attacking Iran, with the permission if not encouragement of their American military and financial backers.

  12. Call the police on Guide to DIY Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    I like the article's advice to call the police if you're being wiretapped. 'Hello, police? My phone's being tapped!' 'Yes, we know.'

  13. Nah on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's the problem? Students who are genuinely intelligent can look after themselves. The people on here defending the 'improve the best, chuck out the rest' solution are clearly not intelligent, but just using this issue to prop up their egos. They coulda been a contender.

  14. Father's day for husband? on Best Chair For Desktop Coding? · · Score: 1

    If OP really has married her father then finding the right chair is the least of her problems.

  15. Sus Minervam on Encyclopedia Britannica to Take User Contributions · · Score: 1

    Britannica are hardly well placed to criticise the accuracy of Wikipaedia. They've spent decades trading on an unearned folk reputation for accuracy. Einbinder, _The Myth of the Britannica_ is an excellent source on this. Now please excuse me as I have a report due on space.

  16. Re on What's the Solution To Intellectual Property? · · Score: 1

    Without law or society there isn't any property. So how does an 'anarcho-capitalist' assert ownership over the means of production, or over anything? (A: Guns)

  17. Re:Old Ground on Israelis Sue Government For Laser Cannons · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "It was given to them by the Allied forces in recompense for what was done to them"

    If that was true, they'd deserve to have it taken away again as punishment for doing exactly the same to the Palestinians ever since. These people are not nice, clean-shaven pseudo-American suburbanites under inexplicable attack from nasty, bearded Arabs, as the US media would have you believe. They're heavily armed military colonists.

  18. Jane Jones has a developer key on Semantic Web Getting Real · · Score: 1

    I clicked 'here' for a developer key and was told that it had been despatched to jane.jones@gmail.com. Good news for Jane Jones.