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  1. Reconstructs A-bomb? on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 1

    So he has one in his garage or something?
    There is nothing fundamentally difficult about making an A-bomb, particularly a plutonium-based bomb, except obtaining the fissionable material, handling it, and keeping people from finding out about it.

  2. BP's lost laptop on Samsung Plants Keyloggers On Laptops · · Score: 1

    Maybe the laptop the BP lost with personal information from thousands of people who've filed claims related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster was a Samsung. Just wait for someone to connect it to the internet.... voila. See? It's a FEATURE.

  3. Re:Edit on Breaking Into the Super Collider · · Score: 1

    That, and the fact that both the SSC and the Lydon B Johnson Space Center in Houston (ISS mission control) are in Texas, and funding both projects would have been funneling an absurd amount of money there.

  4. Why? on Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App · · Score: 1

    If they have more eyeballs on their programming at more times of the day watching the ads, and TW is still paying their programming costs, what are they losing?

  5. Re:Looking back now, it was a terrible mistake on Journey To the Mantle of the Earth By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Yeah. As long as a few tens of thousands of people survive, we'll be O-TAY.

  6. And the winner is... on US Gov't Sides Against Microsoft In i4i Patent Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the lawyers.

  7. Re:Why did it take so long? on Visa To Offer Person-To-Person Payments · · Score: 1

    The phrase 'unmarked bills' does not refer to currency without serial numbers, it refers to bills that have not had anything additional done to them to allow them to be traced.

  8. Re:Most boring planet? on MESSENGER Enters Orbit Around Mercury · · Score: 1

    Mercury has an extremely large iron core for its size, much larger by volume than Earth's. I'd say that's interesting.

  9. Added bonus: on NASA Wants To Zap Space Junk With Lasers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ability to blind and de-orbit enemy satellites in wartime.

  10. Human beings on Japan Earthquake May Have Shifted Earth's Axis · · Score: 0

    I wonder how much (if any) effect human activities have had on the earth's axis and rotation. Things like mining, the damming of rivers, heck even the rising sea levels (if you believe in climate change).

  11. Re:Meltdown? on Third Blast At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Thank you for this link.

  12. Re:definitely remember on Trumpet Winsock Creator Made Little Money · · Score: 2

    Your experience sounds pretty similar to mine. My first computer was a TI99/4A, then I upgraded to a C=64, which I absolutely loved. Then, in 1993, I bought a Canon 486SX 33 MHz. No modem, no way to get online at that time. A while later, I purchased a modem (a BocaModem I believe), was given Trumpet by my ISP, and away we went...

  13. Slightly over 2 shares.... on Researcher Blows $15K By Reporting Bug To Google · · Score: 2

    Should have just given him a couple of shares of stock.

  14. Re:Anyone know the location of the moon landings? on A Half-Gigabyte View of the Moon · · Score: 1

    Why is that? Because photos can't be doctored? Seriously, anyone that believes that the moon landings were a hoax will continue to come up with conspiracy theories and claim falsified evidence. There really is no way to argue with or convince them short of flying them up there for a personal look-see, and of course that would never happen. It's not even worth wasting time on them.

  15. Re:I remember a friend racking up a huge phone bil on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 2

    Damn. You could have FLOWN to Helsinki....

  16. Re:Don't Worry AT&T on Supreme Court Rules On Corporate Privacy · · Score: 1

    Care to check out #2 on the list of top political donors since 1989?

  17. Re:Box my Brain on How Cyborg Tech Could Link the Minds of the World · · Score: 2

    We might have to sandbox you instead...

  18. Re:Who wrote this virus? on Infected Androids Run Up Big Texting Bills · · Score: 2

    Apple.

  19. Good ole' days... on 20 Years of Innovative Windows Malware · · Score: 1

    Remember the good ole' days, when malware spread by floppy disk?

  20. Re:Enough of this already on Tolkien Estate Censors the Word "Tolkien" · · Score: 1

    I had mod points all last week. Now, when I really need them, I don't. +1

  21. Re:Credibility anyone? on PayPal Reinstates Fund For WikiLeaker Manning · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you accept Paypal?

  22. Re:Subtraction on Erdos' Combinatorial Geometry Problem Solved · · Score: 1

    According to TFA, the problem was originally posed by Erdos in 1946.

  23. Re:Help me out here on Scientists Cleared of Misusing Global Warming Data · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact that that we'd probably get another snowball earth and all freeze to death. CO2 and greenhouse warming is needed to maintain our current temperatures. Just because too much of something is bad, that doesn't mean none of it is good.

  24. Middle East on Scientists Cleared of Misusing Global Warming Data · · Score: 2

    Regardless of the validity of the data or their conclusions, I think the price of oil is going to reign in those pesky greenhouse gas emissions for us.

  25. Re:And on For California, an Earthquake Early Warning System Is Up and Running · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure they understand that Windows are one of the first things to go during an earthquake, and you don't want to be anywhere around them.