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  1. Re:Plz check the "Not here to commit acts of terro on Anti Terror Honor System · · Score: 1

    I think from what I've heard, Israel does the most ardous security check ever and they do it without being dicks about it. They have intelligent agents, who ask the right questions and do not invade your personal space to intimidate you. And it seems to work for them, especially since they back it up with the kind of stuff Mossad did at Entebe (despite the international legalities of doing so),

    Have you read "The Pillars of Hercules" by Paul Theroux? There are some passages in there about entering Israel and the procedures involved.

  2. Obligatory on Heavy Internet Use Linked To Depression · · Score: 1

    Correlation, causation, etc. Oh wait, it's even in TFA.

  3. Re:Not sure in USA but in Spain... on The Apple Paradox, Closed Culture & Free-Thinking Fans · · Score: 1

    I am seriously considering buying a Mac user, because I'm a hipster with a penchant for showing off my material means and social standing. I could make him use my Mac for me which I bought because it's pretty. Yeah, sure you have a Mac - I've got a Mac user lounging around my apartment waiting to do trivial wiki searches for me!

  4. Re:An answer in search for a problem? on Low-Energy Laser Etching May Replace Fruit Labels · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then, as soon as you tare the breading gown and peal or the skin which get toss in the garbage anyway.

  5. Re:IQ is not the same as EQ on Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart · · Score: 1

    IQ measures raw mental abilities. It's a bit like measuring raw CPU power and memory in a computer.

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    Actually, measuring IQ is nothing like measuring raw CPU power and memory in a computer, which are quantitative measurements with a thoroughly defined unit. There is nothing even near that for IQ, and surprisingly little scepticism/research towards this, placing the construct IQ and it's parent g very close to the border of science/pseudoscience...

  6. Re:Openness to ideas and creativity on Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart · · Score: 1

    Intelligence still not defined, news at 11.

  7. Re:Following that line of reasoning... on Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence · · Score: 1

    Most addicts have a genetic predisposition toward addiction.

  8. Re:Military Dowsing History on Iraq Swears By Dowsing Rod Bomb Detector · · Score: 1

    I also wholeheartedly agree that Big Fish is Tim Burton's best film!

  9. Re:Poor QA on Why Computers Suck At Math · · Score: 1

    Hezbollah are Palestinian?

  10. On-Board GPS on Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS? · · Score: 1

    On-board devices will snuff out standalone GPS far quicker than Android with google maps ever will.

  11. Re:Oh no! on New Threats Against Pirate Bay Owners · · Score: 1

    Although you have a point, I must say I always prefer to use TPB for my torrent needs for a variety of reasons: - lots of trackers - active community who post comments regarding certain torrents (for example warnings about overdubbed spanish audio on films that has no mention in the torrent title or description) - verified contributors (for example eztv who reliably upload high quality content) Most other tracking sites don't provide any information on the torrents.

  12. Re:A solution to over population on John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture · · Score: 1

    How are big broad shoulders and geekyness mutually exclusive?

  13. Re:Lenovo on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 1

    Office on OSX is terrible. Try importing an UTF-8 encoded CSV file into Excel on OSX... :(

  14. Re:Recovery DVD on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 1

    This was addressed in a post already. Dell is the only one I know of that ships with a clean windows installation disc.

  15. Re:Lenovo on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 1

    On top of installing a whole bunch of weird crapware, iTunes and Quicktime use inordinate amounts of system resources on windows. If you are running iTunes and Quicktime you're using more than 300 MB's of RAM on startup... not to mention the huge amounts of CPU time quicktime requires to decode any video with a moderate bitrate.

  16. Re:Aluminum powder? on Possible Meteorite Leaves a Crater In Latvia · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere on the internet that aluminum is part of a lot of modern nucular explosive devices :-P