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  1. Re:Worth it? on Trader Pleads Guilty To Illegal Purchase of Nearly $1B In Apple Stock · · Score: 2

    If he made $1m on commissions (easily)...

    Would you go to jail for 5 years and walk out making $200k/year with $0 expenses?

    you forgot a minor point: he doesn't get to keep the money, he just gets the jail time.

  2. Re:zettabyte? on NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs · · Score: 2

    Not only that, but how do you generate that much data in the first place? Require everyone to wear their Google Glasses 24/7 and capture it all in high def?

  3. Re:Islamic 3D Earth on Iran Plans To Launch an 'Islamic Google Earth' · · Score: 4, Funny

    the fact that in the Qur'an, the earth is said to be flat. ... therefore, once it states something, nothing - not even scientific proofs - can negate it.

    OK: what impact (pun intended) does that have when an islamic rocket scientist tries to calculate an ballistic missile trajectory?

  4. Re:First No! on Disney Closes LucasArts · · Score: 2

    I remember the LucasArts games back in their heyday (titles like Outlaws, Dark Forces, Dark Forces II Jedi Knight, etc

    Rebellion.

  5. Re:Wonderful, but see it for what it is on Solar Impulse Airplane To Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America · · Score: 1

    Even with fantasy efficiency, there's no mass-to-surface-area that could make this a commercially viable form of transport, ever

    It doesn't have to be commercially efficient for the government to use one as a 24/7 drone watching for dissidents.

  6. ih-house - not in your house on The Twighlight of Small In-House Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Heck, I got all excited over the title at the idea of renting out an unused guest room as a data center,

  7. Re:Too far on Meteor Streaks Over American East Coast · · Score: 1

    Thousands of people had to die in a terrorist attack before we took airport security too serious.

    FTFY

  8. Re:Circle the square on 10 Ways To Celebrate International Pi Day · · Score: 1

    Squaring the circle was demonstrated impossible 131 years ago... all you can do now is to walk around the square.

    Pie aren't square. Pie are round.

  9. Re:I'm not even a fan, but on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does that not simply lend credence to his claim of "the end of democracy in America"?

    No, what would lend credence to his claim would be a US state enacting a same-sex marriage law without the necessary majority support from elected representatives.

    What about when the opposite happens; when the majority of state voters decide to not allow same sex marriage but the unelected judiciary orders it allowed anyway? Is that a failure of democracy?

  10. Re:Politics, still they don't get it on Shooting Yourself In the Foot, 21st Century Style · · Score: 1

    You have to keep in mind that 60% of Americans don't even know if the Earth revolves about the Sun or not, and only 20% can read a bus schedule accurately.

    You should judge them by something actually in their experience. Probably only about 5% of Americans have ever had to look at a bus schedule.

    By that same ratio, only about 15% of Americans revolve around the Sun.

  11. Re:I have a Galaxy Note on Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough? · · Score: 1

    and I have a Note 2 because totally unlike the whippersnapper in the article with his prissy list of "small enough" tests, my main criteria is whether or not the screen is big enough to see it easily.

  12. Re:Pot, meet kettle... on China Says It Is the Target of US Hack Attacks · · Score: 1

    Indeed; this is definitely a case of needing to call the Waaambulance.

  13. link filtered on CES: American-Made, Industrial-Strength Smartphone and Tablet Cases (Video) · · Score: 1

    Great; I got intercepted by my company's web filter for trying to access a porn site for that link to sascase dot com. Anyone else get that?

  14. Re:Yucca Mountain on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 0

    How much of this could have been avoided if Harry Reid and President Obama had not derailed the Yucca Mountain project?

    Never mind that; what if they hadn't wasted so much money on "stimulus" this cleanup would be paid for many times over.

  15. New markets! on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 1

    "New models of drones, such as the Harfung used by the French or the MQ-9 "Reaper," sometimes have infrared sensors that can pick up the heat signature of a car whose engine has just been shut off."

    I sense a great new market opportunity for Tesla Motors!

  16. Re:I don't get it. on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    So they have taken a national statistic and implied it directly applies to a particular facility and its local group of workers. Classic fail in logical debate.
    Workers in the USA are highly efficient too according to national statistics. It must be my imagination that I've ever waited in line for new license plates.

  17. Re:you are an idiot on Windows 7 RTM Support Ending Soon · · Score: 1

    If you don't have service pack 1 installed you are an idiot anyway to run a non-updated system.

    I don't have Win 7 SP 1 because my company still uses XP, you insensitive clod!

  18. Re:Win/Win on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    Take the tests and pay whatever the costs are.
    After the results are in slap the bill on the twin that did not rat on his brother.

    They're unemployed. Good luck getting one to pay the bill.

    Maybe someone could set up a BOINC project to do this analysis to lower the cost?

  19. Re:Bring in the Prophets and Sons of Gods on NASA: Huge Freshwater Loss In the Middle East · · Score: 1

    That's a terrible idea. Leave the oil as oil, please. Water is much more important to basic survival needs than oil. Oil is about $98 per barrel so that should put water easily around $750 per barrel, This should take care of the mideast trade deficit in short order and the silliness of sheiks riding around in private A380's.

  20. Re:Ok on Amazon Patents the Milkman · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell, my milkman's online account management does all that.

  21. Re:Sucks, I guess, on The Only, Lonely Protester at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    Although, I will add Nikon to my boycott list right now, along with Sony and Microsoft. I will never forget.

    Why just Nikon? He lists Canon and Sony as well. Good luck buying a non-pro but still decent camera while avoiding those three.

  22. Re:Just like a public library on FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Or when you want to use one of their computers.

    No need for a card to use the library computer where I live. If yours does, you should attend local city council meetings and suggest this be changed.

  23. Oh dear... on DNA Confirms Parking Lot Remains Belong To King Richard III · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh dear, Richard the third.

  24. Re:Reduce gun violence? on Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    You want a well trained, licensed, armed body guard? What exactly is stopping you from getting one?

    What happens when the well trained, licensed, armed body guard insists on the right to a well trained, licensed, armed body guard?

  25. Re:I'd crack... on Architecture Firm and ESA To 3D Print Building On the Moon · · Score: 1

    bets on how long four people
      No clue. Howbout we send up both my ex-wives as a test case?

    Dude, if both your ex-wives make a test case of four people, well, maybe they divorced you for a reason?