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  1. On the next "Border Patrol" on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 1

    If snitch the nosy beagle detects illegal porn, he'll mount the bag.

  2. Poor teachers on What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? · · Score: 1

    They're already overpaid -- now they have to work for free?

  3. You will never ever win this one on Generic PCs For Corporate Use? · · Score: 1

    From the perception (aka reality) side of things, every little thing that goes wrong with one of the computers you build will be blamed on being cheap, and because it was your idea, you'll be the laughingstock who thought he was smarter than the entire corporate world. Even if you ultimately vindicate yourself on the bottom line to the CFO, you will be loathed everywhere else in the company.

  4. Don't count us out quite yet on Humans Will Need Two Earths By 2030 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fortunately, things are being dramatically better managed than even just 30 years ago. For instance, the birth rate of most densely populated countries has flattened to almost zero; agriculture is far more efficient than before; trees are being reforested in earnest. As things get gradually get worse, people will gradually put more emphasis on sustainability, and an equilibrium will eventually be reached somewhere between the Utopian and Doomsday extremes. Might not be quite as rosy as it is, comparatively, today, but it will be manageable.

  5. Re:It's just not that compelling on Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling · · Score: 1

    The greatest visuals in all of cinema will not improve with 3d: Laurence emerging from the desert as a spec that can only be seen on 70mm; The crane shot of Gone with the Wind; The intrusion shot of Kane; etc. Unlike 'talkies' which were also scoffed in their early days, 3d is a vulgar gimmick with no hope of adoption. And get off my lawn!!

  6. Next up on Technological Genius Is Timeliness, Not Inspiration · · Score: 1

    0-click ordering

  7. Re:Maybe the answer isn't better software on US Monitoring Database Reaches Limit, Quits Tracking Felons and Parolees · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Chinese use a simpler, more lethal solution to prison overcrowding.

  8. Obvious on 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP · · Score: 1

    The article just restates that most computer users will replace their hardware after 3 years, and get the current operating system with it.

  9. Oz? on Aussie Gov't Won't Help Fight Cyber Attacks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's so God damned interesting about Australia's internets? We're half the size of California for Christ's sake. Who really gives a toss what we do?

  10. Why did the chicken cross the road? on Opossums Overrun Brooklyn, Fail To Eliminate Rats · · Score: 0

    To prove to the possum that it could be done.

  11. When will it be useful to the real world? on Two-Photon Walk a Giant Leap For Quantum Computing · · Score: 0

    For example, assume there are... cans... situated in the area around me. Inside these cans are... recyclable materials. I'm on a... Segway. What's the optimal path I should take to loot\h\h\h\hretrieve the items in the cans in the least amount of time?

  12. R/PG-13 all over again on 72% of US Adults Support Violent-Game Ban For Minors · · Score: 0

    If this goes through, adults will no longer be able to buy adult-themed games.

  13. Give 'im the ol' latex glove treatment on Steve Jobs Tries To Sneak Shurikens On a Plane · · Score: 0

    That'll learn the pompous ass.

  14. Black Crowes on Radiohead Helps Fans Make Crowd-Sourced Live Show DVD · · Score: 0

    The Black Crowes have provided direct soundboard access to all of their live concerts, which has resulted in numerous high-quality 'bootleg' distributions of some great rock concerts.

  15. Mars? Doable on Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret · · Score: 0

    Pair of rabbits, pair of foxes, pair of mongooses, some star thistle for good measure. It'll be a choked out hell instead of a barren hell.

  16. Re:the better alternative on Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers? · · Score: 0

    You just told me accidents are caused by poor people.

  17. Re:I finally could tell my friend to go to hell on Windows 95 Turns 15 · · Score: 0

    W95 didn't give you that you idiot. NT did, or more properly, W2000 finally did, 7 years later.

  18. Personally on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 0

    I hope he gets the chair. Truth is subjective, and he subjectively pissed off the wrong people.

  19. Re:This comment not safe for 15-year-old on Australia Considering iPhone App Censorship · · Score: 1

    Sorry but did you even go to school? There's not a complete sentence nor a coherent thought in your comment.

  20. And furthermore on Australia Considering iPhone App Censorship · · Score: -1, Troll

    We have 1/3 the gun crime and half the homicide rates that Americans have, and our "nanny state" laws made it possible. Civil liberties are a double-edged sword, and a healthy sense of pragmatism is necessary in a modern stick-not-up-its-ass society.

  21. Re:This comment not safe for 15-year-old on Australia Considering iPhone App Censorship · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fuck you too buddy. We have two of the top 10 liveable cities in the world. The US of Nothing has Zero. Get your shit together and then take us on for how we run things.

  22. Re:Scottish ingenuity on Scottish Scientists Develop Whisky Biofuel · · Score: 1

    Obviously a pom. Fuck off.

  23. Re:LOL on How the Internet Is Changing Language · · Score: 1

    My favourite was a m8 who got into a scrapup and he called it rlpvp

  24. Scottish ingenuity on Scottish Scientists Develop Whisky Biofuel · · Score: 1

    Better than vegemite from beer castoffs in Oz.

  25. Re:Did the author sleep through Anthro 101? on Tool Use By Humans Pushed Back By 800,000 Years · · Score: 0

    I'm guessing you meant Anthro 1, because 101 signifies an upper division course. It's like a quantum leap being interpreted as the largest possible advance when it actually means the smallest possible.