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  1. Obligatory Car reference on CNET Sued Over LimeWire Client Downloads · · Score: 1

    "Peer-to-Peer Software enables Piracy in the same manner that Automobiles enable Smuggling."

  2. Source on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 1

    Would someone inform me of what changes to make regarding stopping the plugin from redirecting traffic every 15 pages? Or even provide a link to a version of the plugin that doesn't do that?
    http://mafiaafire.com/wall-of-text.php#s

  3. Replacement for Google? on Google To Block Piracy-Related Terms From Autocomplete · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I quit using Yahoo back in the day because it impinged on my give-a-damn. Too many ads, not enough do-what-I-want simply, quickly, or silently. Google's bare bones front page was exactly what I wanted in a search engine.

    Is there any sort of replacement for Google in that same vein? A bare bones search engine I can set as my home page and expect not to be impinged on by irritants like someone else deciding what I may search for?

    Also, does it mean anything for the non automated search function of Google's HTTPS feature?

  4. Fractal images a better bet? on Map Based Passwords · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could you use the scalability of fractal images as a map in this manner?
    By my understanding, this would give you random numbers depending on your "depth" and x/y coordinates.

  5. Speaking as somone... on Sony Has Lost the PS3 Hacking War · · Score: 1

    ...who hasn't updated since April 1st and doesn't use the PSN service, what does Sony banning users mean to me? Absolutely nothing. I owe these people nothing. I owe Sony nothing. If Sony has a problem with me using this knowledge to my own personal benefit, tough luck jack. I lost any inclination I had to buy from them EVER again on April 1st. I had been a fairly loyal customer up to that point (Sony TV, DVD player, etc...).

  6. A Known Quantity. on The Best Near-Term Future of Space Exploration? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    An approach to space exploitation (and thus exploration) has been known for decades.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space

    Gerard K. O'Neill wrote this book decades ago, and I see no reason to deviate from the basic plan described within.

  7. a digital certificate on their cell phone... on White House Unveils Plans For "Trusted Identities In Cyberspace" · · Score: 0

    Sounds like some companies are lobbying for the burden of verification to be put on the consumer, not the provider. Like Verisign (et al) in reverse.

    I like things the way they are now, because I don't have to provide an explicit identification to anyone I don't need to.

  8. sure, sure. on NASA Warns of Potential "Huge Space Storm" In 2013 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can't plot the weather here on Earth more than 3 days from now accurately, but you expect us to believe you can plot the sun's weather 2 years from now?

    I call BS.

  9. Re:Obligatory on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    Presumably the ones who bought it, they aren't outlawing DVRs.

  10. Re:Where's Sarah Palin on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    Blow baby, blow?

    I thought it was Liberal party not Libertine party?

  11. Buffalo Technology gets my vote. on Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Buffalo Technology http://www.buffalotech.com/ is my starting point for all my future networking needs. I don't need anything more than a windows compatable 802.11g router for the foreseeable future, so I have no experience with linux compatability or open source availability.

    I bought a WHR-HP-G54 a few years back and am thrilled with it. I think I've only needed to reboot it twice since I bought it and neither time was the routers fault. Possibly the simplest to get working, user friendliest, least problematic piece of tech I've ever owned.

  12. Evolution? on Genetic Disorder Removes Racial Bias and Social Fear · · Score: 1

    People who aren't sensibly afraid of others are generally called "Victims".

  13. Re:Close the loop holes on What the Top US Companies Pay In Taxes · · Score: 1

    They are immortal, and can skirt current law and tax codes by existing simultaneously in multiple places and jurisdictions at the same time.

    There can be only one? Sounds like a great pitch for a sitcom.

  14. If the price is low and reliability is high... on PARC Builds iPod-Sized HIV Detector · · Score: 1

    ...with the addition of common STD infection detection capability, I can see these being bought by regular people. Can you imagine what this would do for the STD worries of people involved in "One Night Stands"?

  15. Cranium-at-birth:Breeding-Females-Hip-size ratio on Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ · · Score: 1

    If we have complications from our "normal" sized skulls (requiring caesarean sections) how much more difficult would childbirth have been for these Boskops? This is a much more likely reason they failed to survive, rather than a purely social one like not being literate.

  16. Cold Steam Engine? on Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It occurs to me that a compressed air vehicle could be compared to a "cold" steam engine.

    Have there been any scientific advances that could make steam engines in general viable for car sized engines?

  17. Re:SHOW ME THE MONEY! on School Cancels Cash-For-Grades Fundraiser · · Score: 1

    "Eventually all schools will be like the financial system, corrupt..."

    You have obviously never been hit up for a Dime bag by a teacher in Middle School, and haven't realized that corruption is all but omnipresent. The embezzlers aren't at the teacher level, but at the level of District officials. At least locally.

  18. How do I get in on this? on Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s · · Score: 1

    My PS3 freezes/crashes when displaying certain websites on the browser. It is a repeatable thing, it never happened before the 3.xx patches. Any recourse on my part?

  19. Re:Nasa can't afford the programs it has now. on NASA Wants Your Ambitious High-Tech Contest Ideas · · Score: 1

    I hope NASA does continue spending money on contests. Anything that reduces it's utility as a spacegoing agency is to be supported. When people realize it does very little (due to Congress repeatedly cutting it off at the kneecaps, financially speaking), it can be dissolved and it's assets sold to private corporations.

    It is sometimes better to scrap a bad system (NASA is rife with entrenched bureaucracy and poorly designed [24,300 unique tiles on a shuttle is an exercise in unnecessary complication] machinery.) than to encourage it, even if you get useful benefits from the result. Privatized commercial space travel is, in my opinion, a much better idea.

  20. Nasa can't afford the programs it has now. on NASA Wants Your Ambitious High-Tech Contest Ideas · · Score: 1

    WTF are they soliciting ideas for? If you have an idea that improves space travel, form a company and promote it. The returns will likely be better too, as you will own your ideas and can sell/lease them to foreign investors as well.

  21. False Positives? on Philips Develops Roadside Drug-Testing Device · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do they return false positives for people who eat poppy seed cake? http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/poppyseed.asp

  22. 'cookies for good, not evil' on Feds May Soon Be Allowed To Use Cookies · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the Dark side already have cookies?

  23. Financial Responsibility. on Detroit to Stop Prosecuting "Low-priority Crimes" · · Score: 1, Troll

    Michigan's government doesn't have it.

    If elected State officials announced a pay cut, down to minimum wage across the complete State government employee spectrum, a lot of money would become available.

    And maybe we could get the Federal government to follow suit.

  24. As a customer of Wells Fargo... on Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself · · Score: 1

    ...trying to get a loan modification so I can keep my house, I must say that this fits with the general level of inanity I've observed from these yahoos.

  25. Just bite the bullet and buy an LCD. on Small, High-Resolution LCD Monitors? · · Score: 1

    Any desk real estate you lose due to width will be more than made up for in depth.

    I bought a Hanns.G HG216D (22" LCD monitor) from TigerDirect last year for about $150, upgrading from a 17" CRT. Best computer related investment I've ever made. Only one weird pixel, it only shows up as solid red when the area farther down the screen directly under it is white.