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  1. Re:The problem with computer sabotage... on Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment · · Score: 1

    Look at the state the US got into on the international scene when all the stories about deception and torture in Iraq started coming out.

    Uh, yeah. Nothing has happened?

  2. TFS - Callouses on Ears Might Be Better Than Fingerprints For ID · · Score: 1

    I'm a full time bass player (I play with my fingers, no pick) and my callouses are pretty impressive. Every once and a while I'll get a blister under them and have to bite em off. They're about an 1/8th inch thick and I can see my finger prints just fine. Not sure what the summary is referring to.

  3. Re:defense spending cuts should be happening on Iron Man Is Another Step Closer To a Reality · · Score: 1

    I think this is more along the lines of what we should be doing. Anything that makes for less troops is a good thing.

  4. Re:60fps on a phone? Why? on John Carmack On RAGE For iOS/Android · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it's just anecdotal. I'm not really sure why you would want to actively throttle the fps, it's probably not an issue. Think "Oh, look, it's running at 60 fps."

  5. Re:Thermite paint on Large, Slow Airships Could Move Buildings · · Score: 1

    I've never understood why it matters that it was painted with thermite. I don't care what it was painted with, it was the hydrogen that blew it up.

  6. Re:Hunters and responsibility on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    I didn't. They were considered extinct by 1960.

  7. Re:Hunters and responsibility on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    So you'd be fine if we reintroduced wolves then, right?

    Yes, and it's already in progress. They were considered extinct by the 1960's and now there are a few packs in northern Wisconsin.

  8. Re:Hunters and responsibility on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I killed all the wolves. Oh wait, wolves were almost gone by the 1950's. And yes, I want them reintroduced. But of course everyone cries NIMBY.

    Also, I'm not bitching that there are too many deer, that's just why we hunt them.

  9. Re:Hunters and responsibility on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 5, Informative

    15 years later and hunters will still defend their pass time with the fervor of a rabid PETA campaigner, or Muslim cleric. Saving the world you know. Thinning pests, and over population of grazing animals...

    Hi there, hunter here from Wisconsin. Do you know that there are more deer in Wisconsin than before it was settled? It's true. And do you know why? There are no more wolves. The deer have no natural predators any more. Every year deer cost millions of dollars in crop damage and insurance claims. Almost 27000 deer/car collisions a year.* $28 million in crop damage.** They also destroy forests by eating new growth faster than it can recover. Yes they are cute and many people are afraid of guns due to ignorance and inexperience, but don't let that stop you from actually getting the facts.

    And trust me, all the shitheads that want to go around poaching and shooting road signs and transformers piss off every decent hunter out there that has to defend themselves against stories like these. It's not the guns or the hunting that's the problem, it's STUPID PEOPLE.

    * http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/wildlife/HUNT/DEER/CKDFY10.pdf
    ** http://learningstore.uwex.edu/assets/pdfs/G3083.pdf

  10. Re:its a valid point on Will Android Flavors Spoil the Platform? · · Score: 1

    a few weeks after you buy a 'smartphone' some other model makes yours a POS

    No, no, no. You've bought into the marketing propaganda. Your phone is the same one you bought. It's just as good as the day you bought it, only the people who buy phones as a status symbol think that. If that's what's holding you back, forget that and go get yourself a smart phone.

  11. Re:Really? on Facebook Surpasses Google For Users' Online Time · · Score: 1

    Yuck.

  12. Re:"This is historiography." on Wikipedia Entry Turned Into Actual Encyclopedia · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lol. You're an idiot.

  13. Re:Good on WikiLeaks Set To Release Unpublished Iraq War Docs · · Score: 1

    "I'm for an open government, but only if they want to be."

  14. Re:Too much money also means no trust. on Researchers Say Happiness Costs $75K · · Score: 4, Insightful

    shut the fuck up and do not discuss your income

    Soooo... what you're saying is that you agree with him? Can't trust your friends eh?

  15. Re:The real culprits? on White House Fingers PlayStation As Obesity Culprit · · Score: 1

    Walking through the woods is now out of the question, thanks to lenient sentencing of violent criminals and paranoia that we get from watching crime dramas on TV.

    That is the paranoia. The woods are still as safe as they always were.

  16. How to parse on Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development · · Score: 1

    Duke Nukem: Forever in Development

  17. Re:Who's on first? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    I think it's perfectly appropriate. Look up pantheism or panentheism.

  18. Wait, what? on Target To Sell Facebook "Credits" As Gift Cards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't this the same as buying tokens to play arcade games? The currency isn't "fake", it still has value.

  19. Re:Educational Problems on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 1

    You don't need three advanced degrees (And the debt load that comes with it) to each ANY high school class. Period.

    You don't, unless you want to make more than $30k a year...

    Please refrain from further discussion as you have no idea what you're talking about.

  20. Re:Scrutiny on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 1

    Your analogy fails. Hard. I would not call a classroom a controlled environment, it is the exact opposite.

    When a plumber goes to a job, are the pipes ever tired and resist fixing? Do they talk back or fight each other? Do the pipes parents show no interest in showing them how to route water properly?

    And remember, you can't just throw out the bad bits, you are stuck with them even if they are riddled with holes and held together with duct tape.

    Being a teacher is more like herding cats. It's not one person creating or fixing an object or writing a report. It's making other people do shit they don't want to do.

  21. Re: How does on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    I don't support the troops or the wars.

    They were NOT drafted. They signed up for it, they wanted to play soldier and fight pointless wars, that's their choice.

    Until there is an actual MILITARY threat to the US, I don't see any reason anyone would sign up for the military. If you sign up, you are FOR our pointless wars.

    However, if someone actually attacked the US (meaning more than 2 people crashing a plane), you bet your ass I'd enlist.

  22. Hell yeah on The Great Typo Hunt · · Score: 1
  23. Sell your iPhone! on Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex · · Score: 1

    I didn't have a cellphone until about 5 years ago and I had 26 partners at that time. Going for a one per year average ;)

    Note to self: don't buy an Android, Blackberry or iPhone.

  24. Privacy? Oh noes!! on Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? · · Score: 1

    The only 'privacy' you lose is some piddly demographic data.

    No one cares about you. You're not that important.

  25. Re:Yield signs on Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats · · Score: 1

    Around here it's the opposite, people think yield signs are stop signs. I see people come to a full stop all the time even where there is CLEARLY no traffic.