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  1. Re:this is an opportunity on US Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card · · Score: 0, Troll

    As much as us Americans hate being reduced to a number... something's got to be the primary key in the database records government and business keep about us.

    I hope, for your sake, that said DB doesn't log instances of grammatical errors.

  2. Re:Hmmm on Google vs. China — Who's Got the Most To Lose? · · Score: 1

    +1 Profound

  3. Malware and what else... on Memory Cards of 3,000 Phones Infected By Malware · · Score: 1

    ...do you suppose shipped out on those SD cards. I know where my mind strays, but more likely it was probably a bunch of pictures of cats and annoying ringtones.

  4. Re:Yo Mamma... on Invisibility Cloak Created In 3-D · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... so far not even a 3d cloak could hide her!

    I think you're doing it wrong.

  5. Re:And this will be called... on Coming Soon, Smartphone-Based Banking · · Score: 1

    Chexting? ;-)

    "Chequexting" in Europe and Canada.

  6. Re:So... on Japanese Turning To "Therapeutic Ringtones" · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the Japanese for "There's a sucker born every minute"?

    Sony.

  7. Cultural Gap on Japanese Turning To "Therapeutic Ringtones" · · Score: 1

    Japan : therapeutic ringtones :: USA : Lynyrd Skynyrd ringtones

  8. Discredited on Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA · · Score: 1

    Before any further consideration of this dude's merits, take a look at this epic gem from his personal website:

    Lyse Lyse Baby

    I have a feeling that alone will discredit anything further from Mr. Seringhaus. Thanks for playing.

  9. Unless things have changed... on University of Wyoming Studies Video Games · · Score: 1
    TFA:

    Perrell explains that he sees great potential for video games to be used in the same capacity as today's college textbooks.

    Seldomly?

  10. Bringing Gaming to My Media Center on Sony's PS3 Motion Controller Gets Demoed and Named · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Dualshock 3 functions terrificaly as an interface to fire up Netflix, Pandora, and Blu-ray discs...can't say I've used it as a game controller very much, however.

    I think the Wii tainted me...the whole dual analog setup is pretty tough for me to get back into. Maybe the Move will be able to merge graphics and play-abiliy, and make PS3 gamers out of guys like me.

  11. Re:Library of Congresses per second on Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router · · Score: 5, Funny

    Video Calls per Chinese Person...I'm going with that.

  12. Stupid? on Window Pain · · Score: 1

    I know that when I see a stupid ad pretending to "scan" my computer for viruses, I get unreasonably disgusted, not from seeing the ad itself (which I can easily ignore), but from knowing that the advertiser has probably fleeced people of thousands of dollars with that ad.

    Ethics aside, those "scanning" ads are really quite ingenious for their ability to elicit a true "what the fuck" reaction when first encountered.

    I am far more offended by that "lose belly fat" ad that AdSense drops seemingly everywhere...knowing that someone sat down and actually produced that uninspired elementary school-looking advertisement blows my mind. Moreover, it has been running for ages, so you know it is generating all sorts of clicks.

  13. Re:security implications? on The Computer That Can Read Your Mind · · Score: 4, Funny

    So now if people are thinking about their passwords while typing it in, it could be picked up by this ?

    I'm fairly positive the target would notice you placing an electrode-laden skull cap on their head.

  14. kool on Google Acquires Online Image Editing Tool Picnik · · Score: 0

    n/t

  15. Re:Clever of someone on The Difficulty of Dismantling Constellation · · Score: 1

    "Many of the deals are called 'undefinitized contracts,' meaning that the terms, conditions -- and price -- had not been set before NASA ordered the work to start."

    Oh, that sort of thing always ends well. /sarcasm

    Actually, that thing ends quite well in most industries. Work that is done as 'Time and Materials' is often mutually beneficial to both contractor and client due to the inherent flexibility (client requirement changes) and predictability (set percentage for contractor.)

    The more you horse around with deviations of processes, the more attractive T&M work becomes...unless of course mounds of paperwork and scope creep is your thing.

  16. Sup Dawg, on Wi-Fi In a SIM Card · · Score: 1

    I herd you like wireless connections...

  17. Inconclusiveness on India Ditches UN Climate Change Group · · Score: 5, Insightful

    'There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism,' Ramesh said. 'I am for climate science.'

    That was nicely worded. The line is not very fine in many cases, however. The biggest difference between a climate evangelist (read: Al Gore) and a scientist is the presence of uncertainty in reporting the state of the climate. It is hard to be preachy when data remains inconclusive.

  18. Re:He wants to recreate you virtually!! on Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer · · Score: 1

    Though military robots have been deployed in the Balkans, Yemen, and Iraq, I'd say chances are good that it would head to Afghanistan. Not sure how a military robot would benefit from a user's RSS feeds, however.

  19. Re:Stupid, really on The Upside of the NASA Budget · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...but the major impediments to commercial space launches are still the FAA and the EPA.

    Perhaps the most attractive point of the commercial swing is that it makes the FAA/EPA factor moot. A launch provider is a launch provider...if the payload sports an American flag on the delivery vehicle, so be it. If it is economically more feasible to hitch a ride into orbit on a Cold War R-7 out of Kazakhstan, that will be the commercial solution.

  20. Re:What's different? on Using Windows 7 RC? Pay Up Or Auto Shutdown Warned · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I see where you are going there...

    In all honesty, when was the last time you saw a BSOD? I have been running XP at work with 100% uptime for years, and for quite a while kept a Vista dual-boot for streaming media at home with no issues. At least tout the merits of something superior w/o resorting to tired anti M$ rhetoric.

  21. Surprised at the time required on Nokia N900 Linux Smartphone Running OS X · · Score: 0

    The n900 has 256 MB SDRAM and 768 MB virtual memory with a 600 MHz processor...you can Hackintosh a ghetto netbook with 8 GB solid states with OS X that will boot in no time.

  22. Re:Great news on Gates Foundation Plans To Invest $10B Into Vaccines · · Score: 1

    As 'the' human race we should be ashamed that people still die of malaria.

    I see where you are going there, but the interplay between world socioeconomics and infectious desease is far from trivial matter. With over 350 million cases of malaria per year worldwide, the solution is not exactly a cake-walk, an by no means anything to be ashamed of.

  23. Let's keep this one to ourselves... on Old Stems Cells Young Again — Via Vampirism · · Score: 1
    FTA:

    To see if younger blood could reverse the sluggishness of aging blood cells, the researchers began by surgically joining the bloodstreams of pairs of mice that were of different ages, but nearly clones of one another.

    PETA is going to go ape-shit.

  24. Step 1: on NSF Tags $30M For Game-Changing Internet Research · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Abolish Flash, immediately.

  25. Re:Who the heck is 'Top'??? on Data Breach Costs Top $200 Per Customer Record · · Score: 1

    Confusing, are some verbs.