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  1. Re:Foiled again. on Australia Air Travelers' Laptops To Be Searched For Porn · · Score: 2, Informative

    Aquiring the precursors and manufacturing it on site sounds like an easier plan.
    Don' tell this to the feds, but even if you can't get the optics normally used for it you should always be able to get paper and pencils, and even if you can't find that, i can assure you that you'll always manage to get wood.

  2. Re:Marine Life Kicks Ass on Marine Mammals Used To Fight Terrorism · · Score: 4, Funny

    We need a new enviromental protection agency to protect us from the enviroment.

  3. Learn the bloody lesson on The Pirate Bay Sinks And Swims · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If the money funneled into legal departments to hunt pirates were instead funneled into marketing and development of competitive alternatives we'd have next to no piracy.
    Instead, the money that the lawyers don't pocket goes to implemention of fascist-grade DRM and to greed inspired practices such as pay-for DLC which is a massive turn off. If i want to have a game continously bleed me for cash i'd play an MMORPG(which i do; eve online, but they atleast have the sense of providing expansions for free(and quite often) so the bleeding is smooth)

  4. Re:what's the point on AMD Multi-Display Tech Has Problems, Potential · · Score: 1

    High-resolution head-mounted displays with large field of view(for peripheral vision) will set you back atleast $5k or more. As they have individual feeds to each eye you get 3D functionality included at that price.
    If you are interested go look up Sensics.

  5. Re:This or full body cavity search Take your pick! on Scientists Question Safety of New Airport Scanners · · Score: 1

    Can't i have both?

  6. Retarded on Senators Demand NASA Continue Spending On Ares · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Spending truckloads of money on a super expensive brand-name rocket that not only do nothing more than the generic ones around but whose purpose of shuttling stuff to the ISS makes it entirely fucking retarded as by the time the rocket gets to orbit the atomized remains of the ISS will be floating in the pacific.
    This is the most apparent short sighted bill i've seen in a long fucking while. Someone should add a clause that draws the additional funding required from the pocket of the senators and the companies they are puppets for, perhaps they would be motivated to produce something that's a bit less shitty and budgethogging if they had to pay for it themself.

  7. Re:Wow..! on Armstrong, Cernan Testify Against Obama Space Plan · · Score: 1

    spaceX sent a good few of their rockets into the ocean before they got into orbit without going bankrupt, if their heavy lifter and dragon capsule gets smashed once or twice on test runs it will most likely not be the end of the company, only some unfortunate delays.
    I would say obama is leaning in the right direction on this one, we have commercial interest in space like never before while at the same time having a itty bitty shortage of goverment funds. Let the commercial entities play around with some goverment funds while they iron out the wrinkles(which they do efficiently without the beurocratic overhead of nasa). Once the companies have their nice and shiny new toys ready for serious business(dragon capsule, falcon 9 heavy, VASIMR, the bubble habitat thingies, skylon etc) the goverment can have NASA step in and get the awsome shit that's too expensive for corporate interests done.

  8. So... on Stanford Robot Car Capable of Slide Parking · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the future, not only will cars drive themselves, they will do so in the most action packed manner possible.
    I'm looking for funding to put ramps and pyrotechnics all over national highways.

  9. If it works against oil spills... on Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke · · Score: 1

    ...It will probably work against the volcano on iceland. In fact i'd like to go as far as to advocate it as a universal problem solver.
    Wall street crashing? Bail them out with nukes. Investors complaining? Invest nukes in them. Invasive species? Spray the land with thermonuclear omnicide. Bad weather? Seeding some mushroom clouds will solve that. Too much fallout? Blast it into orbit.
    See, works for everything!

  10. Re:always the loudest wins. on Climate Change and the Integrity of Science · · Score: 0, Troll

    They get away with it because of the extreme polarisation of opinions. If i write up an article detailing how the atmosphere will balloon and aerobreak the moon down on our heads because of man made CO2 sources then i'll get immideate support from the CO2=Bad crowd, atleast from the journalist and non-scientist segment of the crowd even though the science behind the argument is fraudulent. That it have turned into a political alignment instead of science is my main problem with it.
    My secondary problem is the hubris of the climate modellers, predicting there will be rain in 12 hours or snow this winter is at best guesstimations, yet people tout their multi decade global predictions as for sure to be really accurate and a reason to ACT NOW because in twenty years it will be too late, never mind waiting five years to see if the model have any accuracy. And if we do wait five years we'll have the new and shiny and untested climate model 5.0 which more accurately reflected the last five years as an indicator of increased accuracy yet still is untested for predicting real future.

  11. Re:Awesome!!!! on MMORPG Ryzom Released Under AGPL · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, but it will be when i'm done stripping the artwork of clothes.
    A free Massive Multiplayer Online Really Pornographic Game, the trees and clouds may be textured with ads but that's not going to stop you from playing it now will it?

  12. Re:suicide? on Colleague Comes Forward To Defend Anthrax Suspect · · Score: 1

    Death by liver failure induced by paracetamol takes far longer than the time codeine stays in the system, and to die of codeine you need, as mentioned, a lot of pills.

  13. Re:Earth on crash course? on Japanese Spacecraft Bringing Back Space Rock · · Score: 2, Funny

    The quote doesn't say anything about calamity.
    If you read between the lines you'd also realize we are on collision course with an asteroid fragment thanks to this mission, it will hit Woomera, South Australia, later this year if nothing is done to prevent it. I suggest we hit it with all our nukes after touchdown, that saves us the trouble of hitting a moving target.

  14. Re:first bribe! on HP's Moscow Offices Raided In Bribery Probe · · Score: 1

    What are the model number for HP rocket launchers and suitcase nukes? I've heard they are quite popular outside of the US, except for the rather expensive refill rockets and plutonium, but some third parties offer them a bit cheaper, although with no warranty.

  15. Coming up very soon... on Activision Countersues Modern Warfare 2 Execs · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... EA announces Modern Company: Bad warfare 3.
    Starting at three, because then there's place for atleast two prequels without having to use convoluted titles.

  16. Laser satellites... on Tsunami Warning From Space? · · Score: 1

    ...Is all fun and games until someone turns it up to 11 and pokes out a billion eyes.

  17. Re:Interesting... on Discovery To Bring "Plug and Play" Micro-Lab To ISS · · Score: 1

    As a ipad release event steve jobs bribed enough people to covertly give us the International iStation.
    A cash bounty is availible from the Jobs estate to whoever is first to update all wikipedia articles to this change.

  18. Re:HFC on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    It's actually because fructose bypasses a regulatory step in the carbohydrate metabolism, i can't fill in the specifics, as i failed that part of biochem, but some part of it apparently got stuck. It's seemingly rather old news in the field of biochemistry though.

  19. Re:In Soviet Russia Webpage reads you? on Does This Headline Know You're Reading It? · · Score: 1

    You won't get away with just reading the headline when this comes around. The rest of the article will helpfully move itself to your center of vision and scroll by in a leisurely pace until you've read it all.
    Version two of the software will then ask you questions from the article to make sure you really read and understood it.

  20. Re:Like the games themselves on The Problems With Video Game Voice Acting · · Score: 1

    You mean it's not a lektor dub? So that would mean there's more than one person in poland doing voiceovers?
    From my experience with polish television i had the image of a communist remnant, a Minister Of Voice that was personally responsible for all localization of voice content.

  21. Re:thinking calories on Study Shows TV Makes Kids Fat, Computers Don't · · Score: 1

    Energy consumption by the brain is 230-247 calories, based on 17 calories/gram and human brain sizes of 1,350-1,450 grams. During periods of peak performance, adults increase that energy consumption by up to 50%, according to psychology lecturer Mark Moss, of the University of Northumbria. (ask google for source).

    Add to that some vigorous asymmetric limb exercises that are more frequent in computer users, coupled with an increased in protein synthesis and we're probably a fair bit over hundred calories ahead of the TV user.

  22. Comment blocked on US Gov't. Ending Its Hands-Off-the-Internet Stance · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your biometric identification with the Intergovermental Panel of Internet Acess Enforcement have failed.

    Make sure that your webcam is BigBrother-certified and that its view of your face is not obstructed. If the problem persists, please verify that your general acess level is adequate for class 3 content and that you have no active thoughtcrime sanctions.

  23. Re:Don't understand the hostility... on Unfriendly Climate Greets Gore At Apple Meeting · · Score: 1

    So if an occurence is local when it involves half of the earth, at what point does it stop being local?

    And if you claim it's basic physics, how come it's so bloody hard to model? And on that topic, could we please get a list of weather phenomena that is not caused by global warming? If i woke up tomorrow with 2 miles of glacier over my home, i'm pretty sure that some global warming expert would claim it's basic physics, global warming increased evaporation rate, so the glacier could grow super fast.

    I find it rather hard to belive that global warming is a magic bullet that can cause all forms of extreme weather, yet can't be accurately modeled. If we need to bake ad hoc solutions to every observation it's not a very good theory or model.

    I belive we have a problem of human bias here, if last winter i had painstakingly constructed a very detailed climate model, and let it run forward one year and had it display record snowfall and god awfully cold temperatures for the northern hemisphere. I sure as hell wouldn't have belived it to be accurate, and i wouldn't have published any papers describing it as a revolutionary new climate model as that would've got me a fair bit of ridicule.

  24. Re:Kinda like they poison opiates with apap on US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of cold water extraction? It's a process for separating acetaminophen from the opiates by the complex use of a coffee filter and cold tap water. Everyone that uses the internet and have paid a visit to a drug related forum knows about this.

  25. Re:Denaturing Alcohol is standard practice... on US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition · · Score: 1

    Ethanol is the drug of choice for you liver enzymes. Methanol is not dangerous unless metabolized. as such you're in the green as long as you're properly drunk on non-methanol booze for a good while afterwards.