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  1. Re:Slightly Inaccurate Summary on Encrypt Your Smartphone — Or Else · · Score: 1

    The problem is, which you basically allude to, that defining reasonable suspicion is always on unstable ground.

    The drunk driver could have texted an admission something along the lines of "im wasted" to a friend or posted pics of himself drinking from the bar on Facebook an hour prior. Yeah criminals can be stupid but where do you draw the line?

    For all the reasons people like smart phones there is rightly or wrongly a way to interpret virtually any infraction as able to benefit from searching.

  2. Let's think about this... on Tunisian Gov't Spies On Facebook; Does the US? · · Score: 1

    War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength - yeah that sounds about right.

  3. Re:"Death Panels" on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 2

    Uh no, let me clarify. This whole equating "the left does bad stuff too!" when actual violence happens from conservatives is a desperate attempt to save face. Trying to equate calling Bush Hitler and actually "targeting" a member of Congress who previously had her office vandalized is misleading, that's all. The worse thing to do is "restrict" that from the government though.

  4. Re:"Death Panels" on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    Yes, we have freedom of speech. No, the second amendment does not give the right to shoot people who you don't agree with.

  5. "Death Panels" on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rep. Gabrielle Giffords isn't particularly liberal but is one of the 20 in Congress "in Sarah Palin's crosshairs" for her vote on health care reform. I don't know the motives or mental state of the shooter, then again people could have said the same thing during 9/11...in this instance, look at the target, look at the political climate. Sure, many times it's the most unstable people who take the final step but they obviously pick up on signals from all the vitriol. That particular brand is simply more prevalent on the Right (or at the very least, more "popular" in media). And yes, any knee jerk reaction with gun control ideas would be completely misguided.

  6. Stop Thoughtcrime Now on UN Telecom Chief Urges Blackberry Data Sharing · · Score: 1

    Crimethink is doubleplus ungood.

  7. Re:Really? on Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A moonbat refers to the followers of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the guy who supported Nixon during Watergate, went to prison for filing false taxes, has presided over mass weddings of his followers and fittingly enough founded the Washington Times. I lean conservative so don't take this as a "smear" but if you don't know the history of this guy you should stop worrying about scary liberals and realize any time people blindly follow people, whether it's Beck or Obama or whoever, they put themselves in a position to be manipulated.

  8. Long Exposure = Headaches on Why Bad 3D, Not 3D Glasses, Gives You Headaches · · Score: 1

    I was recently a subject in market research around 3D televisions specifically, we watched 3 2-hour World Cup matches with a small break in between each. By the end, it was just too much...now granted I can't say another pair of glasses could have helped things some but the reason 3D won't catch on like HD is because it only works well in moderation.

  9. Rihanna / Def Jam will sue on "Music" Of the Sun Recorded By Astronomers · · Score: 1

    I'm only half serious of course but the title of this article is the name of her debut album, pre-ridiculous hair.

  10. Re:Might as well try this too on Afghan Tech Minerals — Cure, Curse, Or Hype? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Afghanistan is considered Central Asia, not the Middle East FYI.

  11. Not to worry... on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Killed By Ice · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Phoenix will rise from the...well, not ashes, but dendritic crystals perhaps.

  12. Useful Idiots on The Telcos' Secret Anti-Net Neutrality Strategy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Let's see what kind of absurd talking points come out of this, at the end of the day expect outright lies to be gladly paid forward by the "journalists" / stenographers with corporate media. Frankly if they succeed more power to them for exerting that much influence over us proud, "free" people.

  13. I am AWESOM-O on "Tweenbots" Test NYC Pedestrian-Robot Relations · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's what I think of when I hear tweenbot

  14. Re:Pulling i out of thin air? on Nintendo To Take On Apple With DSi App Store · · Score: 1

    They didn't create it but they successfully marketed it and made it synonymous with "tech" when attached to another name/brand. My comment was only in response to the start of TFA where it painted the picture Nintendo wanted to pretend Apple doesn't exist. To that point, using the flavor of the month i seems a little silly - there's really no point to flame because you are flame retardant.

  15. Pulling i out of thin air? on Nintendo To Take On Apple With DSi App Store · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If Nintendo doesn't intend to compete directly with Apple then why jump on the bandwagon with the "i" addition? I know it's trendy on everything from the iRobot to the i-Dog but in my opinion they show their hand with the name.

  16. And More Laws will destroy it on How Moore's Law Saved Us From the Gopher Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    or try their hardest at least.

  17. Re:La la la on Concentrate Better By Doodling · · Score: 1

    Insightful, really? I can't tell if it's reticulated or not, how is this insightful...

  18. Pages don't stick together on Is Salacious Content Driving E-Book Sales? · · Score: 1

    Perfect format, they should co-market with screen wipes.

  19. Re:I, for one, welcome our new Insect Overlords on DARPA Creates Remote Controlled Insects · · Score: 1

    Point taken unless Klax'nor is at the other end of the remote and they start swarming.

  20. I, for one, welcome our new Insect Overlords on DARPA Creates Remote Controlled Insects · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you sign up now you won't get hive duty and can assist as a pollinator.

  21. Re:Do you know who is paying for this? on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    I appreciate the sentiments but our hard-earned tax dollars have been going to the other side of the world to spread "freedom" via cluster bombs and depleted uranium shells to fight the evil terrorists. Forget $800B, we've spent upwards of $1 TRILLION dollars there, not to mention the long-term health care costs to the thousands of disabled veterans. It's easy to rail against portions of government spending that you're philosophically opposed to, but none of these so-called fiscal conservatives bothered to bat an eye at this or any other previous government expansion. Shows where their priorities are that's for sure. But now that Republicans are bringing out the specters of "welfare queens" and other wasted money now all of a sudden it's Don't Tread On Me.

  22. What about Three Gorges Dam? on Zipingpu Dam May Have Triggered the Sichuan Quake · · Score: 1

    That monumental earth-shattering project is much larger in scope. It is 315 miles from the Sichuan earthquake's epicenter but in any case, if this phenomenon is true perhaps it may not have been related to this earthquake but will wreak havoc one day. Of course, they can just keep denying anything and not worry about the dam impact.

  23. Balls of hair? on Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed · · Score: 1

    Dyslexic or not this seems to be an interesting way to get the mammoth's DNA.

  24. Re:RIP on Phoenix Mars Lander Declared Dead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tried to pour some carbon dioxide on the curb for all my dead homies...didn't really work out.

  25. Go Palindromes on International Spam Ring Shut Down · · Score: 2, Funny

    Investigators broke the case with a tip from the spam maps.