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  1. Re:FTW! on Piracy Whistleblowers Paid $57K In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Wonder how many "whistle blowers" used Limewire, eMule, or Frostwire in the privacy of their own homes. I say it's 30 pieces of silver

  2. Re:Interesting?? on Ebooks Finally Included On the NYT BestSeller List · · Score: 1

    If you sit on your couch, drinking beer and belching the "William Tell Overture", you might be normal

  3. Re:The PIC was similar on Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    The lesson here is that it isn't the goodness of the chip. (The early PICs were really unfriendly to C compilers.) You can have the best chip in the world but nobody will use it if they aren't properly supported.

    I'm 64 yo, a pharmacist by profession and originally wanted to be an electrical engineer. I like building small projects for my and my grand children's amusement. This is cook book electronics and computer programming. Put in the right components, find a suitable script for download and listen to the kids say "Gramps, what did you make for us today?"

  4. Re:Let's not let broadband history repeat itself.. on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 1

    This will happen eventually, just after pigs fly out of my ass

  5. Re:Worldwide death toll on Oxford University Tests Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Does this mean everyone will have broadband? on FCC Moves To Convert Phone Fund To Broadband Fund · · Score: 1

    Probably it means some form of rural broadband or Wimax or something for shcools. But maybe not for every farmer along the route.

    I on the other hand think it is for every farmer along the route as well. Farmers depend on the net a lot for things like weather forecasts, market prices for crops and livestock etc. I'd bet they're the squeaky wheel that's going to get greased and to the benefit of everyone else

  7. Re:Big RC tugs on Private Space Shuttle Flights · · Score: 1

    Plenty of room, step to the rear.

  8. Re:Money on An Open Letter To PC Makers: Ditch Bloatware, Now! · · Score: 1

    And I guess they've never heard of PC Decrapifier ?

  9. Re:Maybe for dome teams on NFL Teams Considering IPads To Replace Playbooks · · Score: 1

    What kind of iOS n00b are you? The iPod glove has been around 4 evah

  10. Re:Hmmm ... on Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name · · Score: 1

    Legal experts say it is relatively unusual for politicians to formally trademark their names because they are generally not associated with commercially valuable products or services

    Firstly, Palin is nothing more than a product, and I hereby move that from henceforth on she simply be referred to as "That Woman" to prevent her bringing legal suit in articles/posts/blogs/etc without her approval or consent.

  11. Re:Was it smart? on Giant Archaeological Trove Found Via Google Earth · · Score: 1
    From TFA:

    Ground views confirmed what Kennedy was seeing on Google

    A pile of rocks

  12. Re:Xenophobia... on Japan's Elderly Nix Robot Helpers · · Score: 1

    In the US we have immigrant laborers that are likely to do jobs that the general populace doesn't want to do. In Japan the desire for a homogeneous society is working against them because of their migration policies $100,000 robots aren't the solution. I'm quite sure that Chinese workers, making a buck fifty a day would welcome working in a Japanese home, for real wages as a caregiver

  13. Re:Proposed? on Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Wait, I got me an idea. Don't allow throw away phones, make it okay to have a regular phone and have someone review the phone call records, thereby eliminating "escape attempts, drug deals and conference calls coordinated via smuggled cell phones." and allowing "the phones to stay in contact with loved ones,"

  14. Re:*ALL* kind of alternative fuels? on US Team Seeks To Top Steam-Car Speed Record · · Score: 1

    I wonder about all the interest in the anachronistic steam engine when the contemporary Stirling Engine was ignored

  15. Re:Prediction on Hacker Steals $12 Million Worth of Zynga Poker Chips · · Score: 1

    About 20 years ago, my dumb ass brother-in-law told me that he read that someone had bought something (another company I think) for 4 billion dollars. He said to me that : "that's ridiculous. That amount of currency existed nowhere in the world" Sighing I turned my attention to my sister.

  16. Re:Small typo on Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets · · Score: 1

    Chris Angel "Mind Freak"

  17. Re:Small typo on Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets · · Score: 1

    Some people are not motivated primarily by greed.

    , "primarily" being the operative word here.

  18. Re:Small typo on Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets · · Score: 1

    "and a sudoku" expert.

  19. Re:Mayeb Not a Bad Thing? on The Microsoft High-Profile Exodus Continues · · Score: 1

    Rats and ships.. Just sayin'

  20. Re:Cheating? on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    I Am Shocked! Shocked I Say!

  21. Re:Libraries on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    Microfiche anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

  22. Re:Damn academics on Scientists Work To Grow Meat In a Lab · · Score: 1

    "“Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.” LBJ

  23. Re:Damn academics on Scientists Work To Grow Meat In a Lab · · Score: 1

    I can tell you how ersatz people were made, but then I'd have to kill you

  24. Re:type of game matters! on Are Gamers Safer Drivers? · · Score: 1

    I guess it all depends on whether the player actually plays the game to win or not. A n00b will crash his/her car just to see what happens when you crash and that's not going to make him a better game player or driver.

  25. Re:type of game matters! on Are Gamers Safer Drivers? · · Score: 1

    If playing video games were detrimental, why would the Air Force even bother with simulators to afford pilots and astronaut candidates practice before the fly a multi-billion dollar aircraft?