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  1. Re:Grain of salt. on Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Actually that does sound like the most plausible theory.

  2. Re:Grain of salt. on Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It might be the case that the malware was designed to turn the computers into hosts for redistributing the material so that those hosting it wouldn't need to host their site on anything that could be traced back to them.

  3. Re:Legalise the posession of child porn already on Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Or you could keep the DISTRIBUTION of child porn illegal, something that's a higher priority for law enforcement than people with some random pictures on their hard drives from some virus anyway.

  4. Re:A new name for this? on Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Probably a good reason why many politicians won't ever come into direct contact with a computer. Well that and they're old.

  5. Re:Walking pace... at what range? on 32 Exoplanets Discovered By Chilean Telescope · · Score: 1

    You could substitute the stopwatch with a ball rolling down an inclined plane marked at certain distances for certain times...

  6. Re:Cold Equations on What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? · · Score: 1

    Wow I remember that story from middle school. We had to all write alternate endings, that got kind of weird. Good story.

  7. Re:I'm sure it didn't help. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    the ACLU is even fighting to allow burkas for photo ID's.

    Oh wow that's going to make it so easy for underage Muslims to buy alcohol with borrowed ID.

  8. Re:I'm sure it didn't help. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    Well you can scratch driving Route 66 off your "to-do" list. Most of it no longer exists.

  9. The formula sounds vaguely familiar on Gardeners Told to Give Exhausted Bees an Energy Drink · · Score: 1

    "RSPB says that a mix of two tablespoons of sugar with a tablespoon of water makes a perfect bee-boosting drink."

    So... hummingbird feeders?

  10. Re:Poor Title on F-22 Raptor Cancelled · · Score: 1

    France sold Saddam Hussein a nuclear reactor (Osiraq) and 28 lbs of enriched uranium in the 80s. I'd say that's a little more concerning than anything the Israelis happened to sell.

  11. Re:everything is "for the children" on Children Investigated For Laughing Too Loudly · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is all worth it

    Citation Needed

  12. Re:Why didn't this happen sooner? on Lawyer Jailed For Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years · · Score: 1

    sigh... the preview delay is terrible

    IANAL but IIRC alimony and child support are both part of a group of things that are immune to bankruptcy.

  13. Re:Why didn't this happen sooner? on Lawyer Jailed For Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, I'm sure that he could have left any time he liked if he either paid up or filed for bankruptcy allowing his ex-wife's claim to be settled alongside his other debts.

    IANAL but IIRC alimony and child support are both part of a gro

  14. Re:The UK does not have free speech. on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    I'd like to point out our First Amendment protecting begins with "Congress shall make no law...", not "You shall be protected from man and beasts if..."

  15. Re:Thought crime on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    "But if you brand all Muslims as gun-toting terrorists, you've crossed the line from criticism to bigotry."

    If the shoe fits...

    Oh no I'm sure glad I live somewhere where the thought police won't get me!

  16. Re:NOT A TROLL on Can Bill Gates Prevent the Next Katrina? · · Score: 1

    To be fair tornadoes are on average 500 feet across and travel on the ground for 5 miles. An average hurricane is 600 miles across. Comparing hurricane damage to tornado damage except to say that one is several orders of magnitude more significant than the other is silly.

  17. Re:Oblig. Dennis Miller quote on Can Bill Gates Prevent the Next Katrina? · · Score: 1

    Give Ballmer a set of metal teeth and he's the perfect henchman.

  18. But does linux run it? on Firefox 3.5 Benchmarked, Close To Original Chrome · · Score: 1

    But does linux run IT?

  19. Government job on DARPA Wants a 19" Super-Efficient Supercomputer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Given this is the government would I still get funding if I developed a computer that was capable of 50 Gwatts per FLOP?

  20. Re:It's not the eye color screening that bugs me on Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening · · Score: 1

    If we were a civilized species we'd stop making more of them until we figure out how to take care of the ones we already have. I'd rather reproduce my memes than genes anyway.

  21. Re:Enough already, Apple on Apple Bans RSS Reader Due To Bad Word In Feed Link · · Score: 1

    I'm an Apple fanboy and even I'm sick of this.

    I realize this is sort of like asking a Catholic to stop going to mass or asking a Muslim to stop blowing things up but have you ever considered that Apple products on the whole are designed with malice toward the consumer?

  22. Re:Get a brain, dude on Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.viceland.com/int/v14n10/htdocs/yo1.php?country=us&bettertitle

    If some villagers in Borneo can keep an orangutan as a prostitute is it really that far fetched that at some point someone has fucked a chimp? Not that I think that's a more feasible way for the spread of disease, just that it's not exactly unheard of. And have you considered consensual chimp sex?

  23. Problem: touch screen calibration on Voting Machines and 'Calibration Drift' · · Score: 1

    Solution: Big plastic Fisher Price buttons instead

  24. Re:Would it work elsewhere? on "Tweenbots" Test NYC Pedestrian-Robot Relations · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I had to guess, in Paris it would depend on the language the directions were written in:

    English - it'd be damaged and tossed in the garbage
    French - it'd arrive at its destination with a baguette, cigarette in its mouth, and have lipstick in interesting areas
    German - it'd arrive along with a letter of French surrender

  25. Re:Brute-force password guessing not a problem on GPUs Used To Crack WiFi Passwords Faster · · Score: 1

    Is there a version that supports my collection of dice with more than 6 sides?