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  1. Re:I await ... on Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception · · Score: 1

    Either you don't understand the concept of a placebo, or you don't understand the concept of a generic drug.

  2. Re:Wow on Latest Mars Photos Show Frosty Landscapes, Ancient Lakebeds · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Either an ancient alien artifact, or a few hundred billion barrels of crude under the sand ... either one has an equal chance of getting our asses to Mars.

  3. Re:I await ... on Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm waiting for big pharma to patent placebos and to start suing makers of generics.

  4. Re:I did my part on RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police · · Score: 1

    Many hotels are a serious PITA to check in to unless you have a major credit card.

  5. Re:I did my part on RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet that if 1 million people cut up their MasterCard and switch to Visa, and another million people cut up their Visa and switch to MasterCard, those evil bastards at the credit card companies will really start to sit up and take notice!

  6. Re:Now think of 20, with their own different style on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    the USPS changed the house number 5 times. No new neighbors they just kept changing it.

    So that's their new business model!

  7. Re:Go electronic! on Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'd be amazed the places you can swipe a credit card

  8. Re:You could just do what I do on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 4, Funny

    You people are determined to ruin my version of reality.

  9. Re:but on New Tech Promises Cheap Gene Sequencing In Minutes · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, but it can identify the gene for compulsive behaviour.

  10. Re:In other irrelevant news ... on iPad Newspaper From News Corp Rumored in January · · Score: 1

    Yup, check out the maps from Ohio from 2004.

  11. Re:You could just do what I do on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    Divorce finalized the year your sweetheart turned legal ... you had it all planned out didn't you?

  12. In other irrelevant news ... on iPad Newspaper From News Corp Rumored in January · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This has no bearing on me, as I have no desire to own an iPad, and even less desire to read a single word penned in Murdoch's cesspool.

  13. Re:You could just do what I do on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it's memorable for somebody with Aspergers.

  14. Re:I'm confused on CIA Launches WTF To Investigate Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    I really hope they're not storing all this info in PDF format.

  15. Re:You could just do what I do on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    There's a balance between what's secure (a bunch of random characters with no relationship to anything in the real world) and what can realistically be memorized by the average person ... times twenty or thirty variations to account for all the different sites you visit.

    For most people, it seems that balance lies somewhere near "have 2 or 3 shitty, easily guessed passwords and reuse them across all my online accounts."

  16. Re:I'm confused on CIA Launches WTF To Investigate Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    Does that mean they're also tracking me using a GPS system?

  17. Re:Perfect solution on Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law · · Score: 1

    The actual recorded sound or the Bubb Rubb version?

  18. Re:The sound I want on Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law · · Score: 2

    I'll be rolling with the Wilhelm Scream

  19. Re:Camera in eyeglasses on Recording the Police · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, there's no rulebook that insists you must have corrective lenses mounted in your eyewear.

  20. Re:And they're hiring. on Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory At South Pole · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh come on - it's one night. You can handle a single night's work can't you?

  21. Re:What a suprise on Obama FCC Caves On Net Neutrality · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes

  22. Re:Duh... on Nigerian Email Scam Victim Sues Bank, Loses Appeal · · Score: 1

    as long the deposit is not over $5k

    ... which brings us back to GP's question: How was this dude able to wire close to half a million dollars someplace before the fraudulent nature of the cheques was discovered?

  23. Re:Apple hates it's customers! on iBook Store Features Leave Indie Publishers Behind · · Score: 1

    Apple is not run for the benefit of their customers, but for the shareholders, executives and their friends.

    So they're like 95% of all the corporations out there then?

  24. Re:Chapter 1 on iBook Store Features Leave Indie Publishers Behind · · Score: 1

    What's the virus?

  25. Re:Oh wow. on UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default · · Score: 1

    Who do you think is the biggest loser in this?

    The guy jerking off in his mom's basement with cheetos dust all over the front of his sweatshirt?