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  1. Re:Right, so on Al Franken Calls for Tight Rules on Facial Recognition Software · · Score: 1, Troll

    AL Franken doesn't want to be snapped by an intelligent cam when he's blowing taxpayer funded coke from taxpayed prostitutes.

    It's pretty much the only reason why a politician would not celebrate and approve of 1984 tech

  2. Re:Ain't technology great? on Implant Gives Grayscale Vision To the Blind Using Lasers · · Score: 1

    Local anestethic is delivered as eyedrops and remove the sensation of pain from your eye.

    But before that they give you some benzodiasepides which make you, well, high, calm and amnesic.

  3. Re:Ain't technology great? on Implant Gives Grayscale Vision To the Blind Using Lasers · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, you won't see it coming.

  4. Re:Wait ... on Skype Bug Sends Messages To Random Contacts · · Score: 0

    Why don't you just aquire a fully fledged surveillence application in indefinite trial mode from indefinite trial bay?

  5. Re:Now all they have to do is put it on a shark! on Record Setting 500 Trillion-Watt Laser Shot Achieved · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's not funny.
    Alderaan died that way.

  6. Re:The last sentence on New Nanodevice Creates a Near Perfect Electron Stream · · Score: 2

    You mean using picoamps instead of amps wouldn't be a huge revolution?

  7. Re:[gets popcorn] on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hurry. Blame global warming before the deniers get any ideas!
    Oh wait, we've been doing that since like 2004 already.

    What if global cooling is actually causing global warming which is cooling the globe?

  8. Re:100 times faster than existing optical microsco on UCLA Develops World's Fastest Camera To Hunt Down Cancer In Real Time · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't think of lenses at all, this is a specialist setup made to picture cells and is more something along the line of the bastard child of a flow cytometer and a picosecond laser system than anything resembling classical photography equipment.

  9. Re:Oh just wait on UCLA Develops World's Fastest Camera To Hunt Down Cancer In Real Time · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At 24fps playback, light itself would move only 192 meters per second. A pistol bullet would move at less than 1 mm a second resulting in a pretty much still-footage look.

    Blinking the lights of a football stadium would look nice though.

  10. Re:But can it print a Tux? on Cubify 3D Printers Aren't Just for Squares (Video) · · Score: 2

    $50 for the cartridge sounds a bit expensive.
    You can probably find something equvalent for less than half the price from http://reprap.org/wiki/Printing_Material_Suppliers

  11. Re:Yes, users are demented. on Sergey Brin Shows Project Glass Glasses to Journalists (Video) · · Score: 1

    It's a first generation prototype for a limited audience that's $1500 so it can have all the bells and whistles, think of it as a buying a beta key for a game, only that this time it's hardware, and it's really damn expensive. Force the price down to $200 and it will be like the Vuzix "vr glasses" that's absolute shit tier because they valued an attractive pricepoint more than a plesant user experience.

  12. Re:Beats current techniques on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1

    Unless you quit halfway due to the bleeding or whatever else you can manage it as an amateur, you can palpate both the trachea and cricothyroid ligament through the skin so you're unlikely to miss them.

  13. Re:Beats current techniques on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1

    Especially obscure references that are not purely fictional. People choke on food in resturants, that happen to be full of steak knives. If the heimlich don't work, then your options is to try your luck with the steak knife or watch the person turn blue.

  14. Re:Lots of applications on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1

    You could create an arteriovenous fistula and use something like a dialysis machine that ensures a proper fluid load, a proper removal of depleted particles and a fresh supply of new ones.

    Although you'll likely not use something the size of a dialysis machine as a diving aid. And for medical care there's already extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machines and techniques.

    An artificial gland that releases its stored particles when blood is severely hypoxic would be a neat solution though.

  15. Re:Beats current techniques on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1

    You won't do tracheotomies with steak knives, you'll do a cricotomy.

  16. Re:you what? on Game of Thrones: Bush's Head Gets a Makeover · · Score: 2

    They had to keep up with the times.
    So they made it look like Obama instead.

  17. Re:They solved the frame problem? on Strong AI and the Imminent Revolution In Robotics · · Score: 2

    So they see no problem leaving a bomb just lying around? If I was in charge of versioin 4 I'd make it warn humans of potential dangers.
    I'd also make it capable of picking up stuff, solves the whole wagon dilemma.

  18. Re:wow... on Valve Unveils Steam For Schools, Portal In the Classroom · · Score: 5, Funny

    " BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone. "

    It's like terrorism and communism combined into one package of evil.

  19. Re:Good work on Bev Harris of Black Box Voting Releases Accenture's Voting Software · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You means commits suicide by shooting himself once in the heart and twice in the head?

  20. Re:Too lazy to do more research on The Ineffectiveness of TSA Body Scanners - Now With Surveillance Camera Footage · · Score: 1

    Terahertz wave scanners, while perhaps dry it's the correct technical term and due to a number of reasons humans absolutely love formality, even more so if they are in any station associated with power.

  21. Re:Patent good in this case on Time Warner Cable Patents Method For Disabling Fast-Forward Function On DVRs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For those who don't want to read technical details it can be summarized like this: Time Warner patents yet another "Method to create disincentives to honest buyers and drive people into piracy"

    I'm sure it will be a great sucess and useful as yet another argument why pirates kill their business.

  22. Re:It is no coincidence on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Warning people before is a terrible idea. I don't like the prospect of seeing people spreading their buttcheeks to the sky on every single map that's availible.

  23. Re:Yeah, so what? on National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List · · Score: 2

    And a kill list that includes everyone else is not? The difference here is really that it's not unconstitutional to have a kill list with 5 billion people on it as long as they're not american, the tyrannical or amoral or just plain-ridiculous-as-expected-from-politics are determined by entirely different criteria than a text that pretends to be a law of nature in some book that is selectively ignored for most of the time.

  24. Re:Obligatory on FunnyJunk Sues the Oatmeal Over TM and "Incitement To Cyber-Vandalism" · · Score: 1

    Give me half a days income or I won't belive you.

    Also why work at a porno shop with that income?

  25. Re:Meh, the US already controls it on The U.N.'s Push for Power Over the Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because they want regress the internet into a locally governed and very much controlled and filtered service. Remember that it's politicians that push for this, old and wrinkeled people that do not use internet for much themselves other than perhaps a archaic email client at work, they will never wish your well, they just want to stroke their ego by gaining more power, because in their minds, their _opinion_ equals divine truth.

    The same is true in the US, but for once, the giant corporate lobby is against such intervention.