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  1. Re:INspector is Right on School Sends Child's Lunch Home After Determining it Unhealthy · · Score: 1

    BMI doesn't mean anything, I can eat anything and everything, regardless of fat content, deep-fry levels or amount of MSG and I stay skinny as a twig - your metabolism is where it's at. Personally I would only deem the above lunch unhealthy only if the sandwich had no vegetables on it and amount of potato chips was obscene...

  2. Re:OPT OUT on Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted For TSA Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Because if they don't, according to them, something terrible will surely happen. We know it hasn't so far, not thanks to them... but just wait until something does happen - they will be ecstatic in their "I told you so" lamenting and more surveillance will follow. "Cancer of the few outweighs the safety of the many" should be their motto.

  3. Re:OPT OUT on Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted For TSA Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    They already have scanners on all border crossings and portable scanner vans patrolling the streets (in New York I believe)...

  4. Re:What, all 3 of them? on Amazon Blocks Video Streaming On BlackBerry Tablet, Blames Apple · · Score: 1
  5. Re:What, all 3 of them? on Amazon Blocks Video Streaming On BlackBerry Tablet, Blames Apple · · Score: 1

    I have one, it's ridiculously cheap at $150 for a 32GB tablet that can run Android apps... I will never buy anything Amazon though, after they screwed its DX customers with absolute lack of support, and it's Canadian customers with absolute lack of content, so yeah - nobody cares.

  6. Re:If selling is legal.. on Selling Used MP3s Found Legal In America · · Score: 2

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but the judge has only refused a request for an immediate injunction against the service at this point. The case will now go to trial, where it will surely lose. The OP is misleading at best.

  7. Re:The Wheel on Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Patent Lifespan? on Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues · · Score: 1

    I think they only filed for the patent in 2006 or something like that. The scary part that it was granted.

  9. Re:Missing a letter on Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues · · Score: 1

    I believe the company is actually Eolas.

    You're right, oops.

  10. Re:And accuracy on Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports · · Score: 1

    Most of the people that have refused so far and thus been banned from flying were British citizens.

    Wow, they ban you from flying for refusing the scan? In US they just get really friendly with you.

  11. Re:And accuracy on Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports · · Score: 1

    That may be a concession for citizens of your own country. For example, US/Canada citizens are the only ones who do not have to be fingerprinted when entering the US, for the time being.

  12. Re:By extraordinary coincidence... on Lake Vostok Reached · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not worried, Bruce Willis will save us.

  13. Re:By extraordinary coincidence... on Lake Vostok Reached · · Score: 1

    RTFA, they stopped the drilling for a dozen years, with 130 meters left, just to develop technologies to prevent such contamination.

  14. Re:And accuracy on Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports · · Score: 2

    Australia was fairly high on my list of places to visit. I just marked it off the list.

    Ditto. Joined the list of countries I won't visit over privacy concerns, right after US and UK.

  15. Re:Government Contract in Search of a Problem? on Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports · · Score: 3, Funny

    What problem does Australia have that this is solving?

    Healthcare costs are too low, additional sources of cancer sought.

  16. Re:Okay, stupid question time on MIT Envisions DIY Solar Cells Made From Grass Clippings · · Score: 1

    Carbon neutral doesn't mean that it continues to grow, it means that whatever carbon is released from burning it, was originally absorbed from the atmosphere. Burning down rainforests is also carbon neutral, if you think about it, although a lot less popular amongst all the soccer-mom movements...

    But to answer you question, it appears that leaves have approximately 61.5% of the calorific energy value of coal, so I am assuming that grass would be similar.

  17. Re:Oh, please... on MIT Envisions DIY Solar Cells Made From Grass Clippings · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of some cooky article I saw a few months ago about someone "making glasses from recycled human hair", which turned out to be them taking human hair and adding it into the plastic from which the frames were being molded anyways...

  18. X-Men on Chinese Boy Claims To Have Cat-Like Night Vision · · Score: 4, Funny

    How is there no X-Men reference anywhere in the article or the comments? Are we afraid of copyright lawsuits for uttering the brand? :)

  19. Re:If only trees could talk on 3,500 Year Old Florida Tree Dies of Natural Causes · · Score: 1

    If you are referring to a lightning strike - that is not a natural cause. If you got struck by lightning, would that be death of natural causes? Didn't think before replying, huh?

  20. Re:If only trees could talk on 3,500 Year Old Florida Tree Dies of Natural Causes · · Score: 1

    I think it would also disagree with the article title... A tree burning down is as much "dying of natural causes" as someone "dying from an allergic reaction" to lead, after being shot 6 times in the head.

  21. Re:Dark Side on 1st Video of Moon's Far Side · · Score: 0

    Oh. My. God. It looks just like the other side! What a shocker :)

  22. Re:End game on Aussies Could Use Elephants To Fight Invasive Species · · Score: 1

    Asian ivory import market.

  23. Re:Tomorrow's Headline on Angry Birds Boss Credits Piracy For Popularity Boost · · Score: 1

    Considering that they stole the whole concept from Crush the Castle (which in turn took it, with credit, from Castle Clout), I wouldn't be surprised.

  24. Re:Wow on The Chevy Segway Keeps On Rolling (Video) · · Score: 1

    Did you see Top Gear trying it out? They blew up something like 5 kilos of TNT under it and it still drove off... sort of. Let's just say when they did the same to a Hummer, it disappeared.

  25. Re:Once you go public... on Top Google Executives Approved Illegal Drug Ads · · Score: 2

    hope you're not the sorry sucker holding the bag before you get a chance to cash out.

    New RIM "CEO" comes to mind.