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  1. Re:Spam on NASA Probe Blasts 461 Gigabytes of Moon Data Daily · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have never before heard a serious conversation pitting the respective benefits of trannys vs. tubes in this context...

  2. Re:I have cash to burn on The Music Industry's Crisis Writ Large · · Score: 1

    There are more than 6 billion people alive today. You have not exhausted the musical possibilities. Maybe you could make a game of it by starting an independent record label, and searching out talented, unsigned acts, and then give them some business structure to help launch their careers?

  3. Re:Let it die. on The Music Industry's Crisis Writ Large · · Score: 1

    Despite differences in slogans, recent actions have proven that "liberals" and "conservatives" are both pro-big-government in their current incarnations...

  4. Re:don't believe it on Artificial Brain '10 Years Away' · · Score: 1

    The insults at the end of that dialogue forfeit objectivity and nullify the high ground you allegorically claimed. Your bias is showing.

  5. Re:The clouds are ALIVE!!!! on Noctilucent Clouds Spread and Mystify · · Score: 1
  6. Re:New non-trusive lie detection method flawed? on Progress In Brain-Based Lie Detection · · Score: 1

    c'mon mods, were you all born in 1985? that was funny!

  7. Re:I thought they.. on Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship · · Score: 1

    I'd just like to highlight that a diagnostic tool relying on a patient answering honestly is a little naive. Diagnostic tools should not be fooled by intention - you can't lie to a stethoscope or an MRI.

  8. Re:WTF? on Recovery.gov To Get $18 Million Redesign · · Score: 1

    god, that was satisfying.

  9. Re:Hundred Millions or Hundred Thousands? on China Bans Gold Farming · · Score: 3, Informative

    I dig the logic, but there are several people in Iraq and Afghanistan who might disagree with how unstoppable armed troops are against motivated citizens...

  10. Re:Good ideas. on Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA · · Score: 1

    I love my body, but it's fragile, weak, requires very specific forms of energy supply, and is barely repairable. And don't even get me started about lack of radiation hardness. Spacefaring humans should ultimately be more rugged than us.

  11. Re:Hold on, ASCAP != RIAA on ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings · · Score: 1

    ASCAP are advocates for artists. Individual artists sign a contract with performing rights organizations - ASCAP, BMI, etc. The performing rights organizations proactively go out and demand/collect payment from businesses that are broadcasting artists' content with no oversight or compensatory obligations otherwise, and then pass those payments on to the artists. I fundamentally disagree with your assertion that these organizations are "anti-artist."

  12. Re:It is not over on $1.9 Million Award In Thomas Case Raises Constitutional Questions · · Score: 1

    Maybe she could just declare bankruptcy and be done with it? Does that insulate your future earnings?

  13. Re:only a matter of time on Air Force Planning New Drone Fleet For Pakistan · · Score: 1

    People have proven throughout history that anyone is killable- I'd say we already live in that world, and personally, I like it just fine! Even if humans managed to secure utopia for all, someone or something would come along and "correct" that...

  14. Re:Shame they can't do it for other religions on Church of Scientology On Trial In France · · Score: 1
    • While I agree that sacrifice is a concrete example of commitment, I disagree that voluntary financial sacrifice to the church organization nullifies the "side benefit" motivation. The tithing could be considered the cost of entry for any anticipated side benefits.
    • I don't see any reason why the grace of God should demand conscious sacrifice, there's too many preconditions, like consciousness and education. Sacrifice fits squarely within the realm of character building.
    • One interpretation of the hindu concept "lila" considers our entire universe to be God manifesting itself for divine play, There is no "for God" or "against God" - one is a part of God regardless of what one does or thinks. Belief is not required.

    .

  15. Re:Large format photography on Polaroid Lovers Try To Revive Its Instant Film · · Score: 1

    Not that this is a viable commercial solution, but I've seen people attach flatbed scanners to large format cameras, as a scanning digital back. Pretty wild progressive time lapse smear, like dragging your hand across a photocopier.

  16. Re:I saw this on a personal basis..... on Intel Receives Record Fine By the EU · · Score: 2

    Without being privy to the true operating environment that motivated Intel's decision to enter the chipset market, what you describe sounds like corporate natural selection and not anything nefarious. Companies are free to compete with whomever they desire, right? Maybe there's substance to the suspicion that they withheld the design specs, but maybe the market demanded faster turnaround than a 3rd party could deliver, plus added profit potential and a pre-existing manufacturing infrastructure...Sounds like a natural extension for them.

  17. Re:Evidence please? on Reflections On the Less-Cool Effects of Filesharing · · Score: 1
    Pfffft....you have got to be kidding. You are dictating arbitrary bounds on the creative process and it doesn't work that way.

    Is that $50 cardioid condenser microphone going to capture 16 simultaneous audio sources with acceptable vocal character? You can't use it for kick drums, or critical vocals, or room miking, or drum overheads...Well, technically, you can, but frequency response and pickup pattern and noise floor are not going to be acceptable for these applications.

  18. Re:Peak Oil on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 3, Insightful
    and anyway, they'd be more likely to either:
    • steal the techonology
    • Reverse-engineer an 80% effective solution using infinite labor pool, and ignore IP issues
  19. Re:Remember, folks... on US Electricity Grid Reportedly Penetrated By Spies · · Score: 2, Funny

    +1 ugh for living in LA for a week even WITH the electricity!

  20. Re:Kidding Me? on Google Reveals "Secret" Server Designs · · Score: 2, Funny

    when the bar gets raised, the limbo gets easier!

  21. Re:could I ask on Rackable Buying SGI Assets For $25M? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Creative use of language implies a poor education now?

    Here's an alternative interpretation: Author writes sentence as intended, and it doesn't mesh w/ readers' default mental vocabulary.

  22. Re:Obligatory Serious Answer on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    It's called Cliff's Variety

  23. Re:Seating for 7????? on Tesla Releases First Official Photos of Model S Sedan · · Score: 1

    the kids go in the trunk

  24. Re:The world only needs 5 "real" computers.... on Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    I think the point is to fill the universe with intelligence, so we'll end up having computers here, there, and everywhere.

  25. Re:This is nothing. on Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons · · Score: 1

    Also, isn't part of the power of the brain that it is, from birth, constantly developing new neural pathways in response to experience? How can hardware accommodate such fundamental architectural changes?