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  1. Summary quality on Apple Loses the iPad Mini Trademark · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's ok to comment the news in the summary, but this has gone too far. "Apple is bad, you must hate Apple." Come on.

  2. Re:Magic on Violation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 5, Informative

    This has been tested experimentally. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments

  3. Re:Soon to be -1... on Nobel Laureate Wiped From Pakistan's Textbooks As Heretic · · Score: 2

    It already is in the U.S. It's called democracy. If 51% of the population wants this, they get it. They can be wrong, but it's their choice.

  4. Re:For one moment there on Nanotech Surprise: Shooting Lasers at Buckyballs Makes Them Bigger · · Score: 4, Informative

    These tiny little things have wonderful characteristics, for instance they're the biggest kind of matter that has shown wave behaviour. They probably don't have an use in this precise moment. Lasers started just like that: as a 'pointless' curiosity.

  5. Re:"Divinely guided"? on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    This is interesting: according to the poll, the group with the highest likelihood of believing in a God-guided evolution are the people with post-graduate studies, at 42%.
    Think about it. 42% of all American PhDs believe something along the lines of intelligent design? That's news to me. But it makes sense, it's the best way to join religion and science.

  6. "the particles, known as neutrinos" on Scientist Who Oversaw OPERA's Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Study Resigns · · Score: 0

    Is this slashdot?

  7. Already happened in Austria on Woman Wants To Replace Her Non-functioning Hand With a Bionic Prosthesis · · Score: 2, Informative

    And it was also covered by the BBC.

  8. Re:the only drug? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heresy! How you dare! Alcohol has to be the one and only bad drug, otherwise you can't legalize pot... ... ... ...

  9. Of course on Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Suppose that someone inherited from his father an Y-Chromosome without the "Manliness Gene". Then he would not have a functioning reproductive system and leave no offspring. The "Manliness Gene" can be lost by a random mutation, but the mutation will never be carried on to the following generation, unless a new sex-determining mechanism already exists.

  10. True story on Google Researchers Propose Plan To Fix CA System · · Score: 5, Funny

    The new certificate system will be invitation-only, and then will be shut down.

  11. Re:US, get out on EU Speaks Out Against US Censorship · · Score: 1

    As a Latin American and EU citizen, all I can tell you is... this is not new, get used to it!
    Also, bear in mind that "US government" is not equivalent to "US people".

  12. Re:Honor system on RIAA Doesn't Like the "Used Digital Music" Business · · Score: 1

    And in order to enforce the code verifying process, you'll be required a permanent internet connection... oh wait.

  13. Immunity on US Troops To Leave Iraq By End of Year · · Score: 1

    Why do you need immunity if you're not planning to do anything wrong?

  14. If you're interested on The Genetics of Happiness · · Score: 1

    There is an excelent Stanford course in youtube.

  15. Re:Hopefully on DNA Sequenced of Woman Who Lived To 115 · · Score: 1

    Hopefully this leads to people being able to put their children through Bokanovsky Process so that we no longer have to deal with mental diseases like Alzheimer's.

  16. This was already going on in Portugal, Chile, Gre on Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global · · Score: 2

    Occupy Wall Street in the beginning was the globalization of European Protests... I mean, Greece and Spain were on fire, with people fighting the police on the streets, many months before anything in America.

  17. Re:Ah. Ok. on OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Libero, using the unaltered latin root: liber, not libre.
    What is the difference between LiberOffice and LibreOffice? They are both ugly names, but at least the first can be pronounced by anyone. You can even market it with a picture of the Statue of Liberty and sell it as the American Dream fullfiller... but nah, they stuck to their ideology...

  18. Re:And yet on US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police · · Score: 1

    Suppose a Microsoft employee became a serial killer or a child molester, does it mean it's Microsoft's legal responsibility?

  19. Re:Ah. Ok. on OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) · · Score: 1

    Anything pronounceable in English would be great. They could have chosen a compromise like "LiberOffice", or anything. But the name LibreOffice could only have been chosen by people with absolute zero marketing experience.

  20. Re:Stanford disagrees on Teacher Union Tries To Block Online Courses · · Score: 1

    You got it wrong. Your parent did not assert anything, it is therefore impossible to prove him wrong. He simply stated 3 facts.
    And actually, the OP has had 2 counter-examples that provet him wrong.

    Do consider taking an online course on debate and argumentation.

  21. Everyone's going to accuse on RSA Blames Nation State For Cyber Attack · · Score: 5, Informative

    China

  22. Idiot marketing scheme on Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Gmail was very successful with it's invitation system: it was elitist, and everyone ached to get in. But putting an invitation system into G+ was devastating. If the objective of a Social Network is to get in touch with everyone at any time, it's a very idiot move to restrict the creation of new accounts for no reason. They basically released a product that was useless, because they made sure there would be nobody to communicate with.
    This could be understandable if it was their first shot at social networking; but Wave had the same problem and they did not learn from it.

  23. Re:Italians only in italy? on Italian Wikipedia May Shut Down Due To New Legislation · · Score: 1

    but how many people outside of Italy speak Italian?

    a lot

  24. Re:Can I take all three? on Deadline Approaches For Registration In Stanford's Free CS Classes · · Score: 1

    I already know db, so I'm taking the three of them. But I guess there's nothing wrong with trying.

  25. E caddi, come corpo morto cade on The Nine Circles of IT Hell · · Score: 3

    If he adds a "how to escape" for each circle, then he did not read it. Virgil had to convince Charon to let them in...