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  1. Stealth mode on To Counter Widespread Surveillance, Stealth Clothing · · Score: 1

    When you are invisible, you have to be extra cautious around traffic.
    The hoboroadie knows many things, for he walks by night. Mwahahahaha.

  2. re:Hardware porn on Microsoft Pushing Bing For Search In Schools, With Ad-Removal Hook · · Score: 1

    I agree, pixelating those images is kinda droll.

  3. Re:Search engine optimization on Microsoft Pushing Bing For Search In Schools, With Ad-Removal Hook · · Score: 1

    In the olden days, I tried using search engines to improve my life, but none was a positive influence before I tried Google. Until the forces of darkness perpetrated SEO on the internet, the results were uncannily prescient, and on occasions when I tried the competition I found them unintuitive and the results worthless.
    Nowadays, I occasionally find Google quite useless as the wanted data has been obfuscated by commercial interests, but Bing seems to be the same with the few useful results stripped out.
    Now something about my Poa pratensis...

  4. re:GE reactors on The Aging of Our Nuclear Power Plants Is Not So Graceful · · Score: 1

    I have always been greatly disturbed that many of our nuclear reactors were built by General Electric, but they've assured us that they did not engineer them with their usual tight life-cycle controls.

  5. Re:Wall replacement on Pinholes and Plastic Wrap Make Solid Walls "Transparent" To Sound · · Score: 1

    In my experience, the sound attenuates as you plug the holes. I prefer 90 minute mud.
    It is truly amazing how sound blasts through a single, tiny hole.

  6. Re:This is news? on ROVs Discover Deep Sea Trash · · Score: 1

    I don't believe most of you realize the extent to the trashing of the arable topsoil.
    The hoboroadie used to marvel at the plastic bags drifting overhead from the Altamont landfill heading toward Tracy, or the Sierra Nevada, there to wrap themselves around a Centauria solstitialis or some such, and into the food chain.
    As a farmer, I have occasion to observe the process under a variety of conditions, and believe the magnitude of the damage is cause for concern.

  7. Re: Age on ROVs Discover Deep Sea Trash · · Score: 1

    I recognized it, that P.O.S. was all plastic except the upper. Nice digs.

  8. Re:significant negative effects on ROVs Discover Deep Sea Trash · · Score: 2

    I AM NOT AN OCEANOGRAPHER, but I bet the plastic bags outnumber the frickin' sharks at that depth.

  9. Re:significant negative effects on ROVs Discover Deep Sea Trash · · Score: 2

    That Gorgonian Coral did not look too thrilled to have a plastic bag wrapped around it.
    People should be truthful and unbiased in their analysis of facts.

  10. I routinely find sensible arguments from people I disagree with (aside from yourself, obviously) here on /.

  11. Re:Why is this marked as insightful? on Montreal Union Wants a Camera On Every Policeman's Uniform · · Score: 2

    I like the sixty percent reduction in police being forced to use force.
    Interesting.

  12. Are we fucked yet? on German Brewers Warn Fracking Could Hurt Beer · · Score: 1

    We followed the water to British Columbia, but our property turned out to be downstream.

  13. Re: Energy a bit more important than Beer on German Brewers Warn Fracking Could Hurt Beer · · Score: 1

    Only one third liter per day? I thought the Germans were supposed to be drinkers.
    Stereotype busted.

  14. undoing touchscreen auto-mod on Possible Collision Between Cube-satellite and Old Space Junk · · Score: 0

    Seriously, people pay money for these instruments of fail?

  15. Re:Don't copy that floppy! on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 1

    Honoring copyright restrictions is one lesson. The sooner the kids learn not to fuck with property owners, the better. A search for freely available content that teaches the kids that the property owning class has gone to great lengths to prevent access by the poor is another useful lesson.
    The entire concept of property ownership and such artificial constructs could be examined, though my experience has been that most people's brains hurt too much when faced with abstractions of that magnitude, and their parents are likely to complain to the authorities.
    We could all look at this and decide that laws should be created to serve and protect the People from greedy monopolistic overlords, but that is the punchline to this joke.

  16. Re:Getting an education today is hard on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 1

    I noticed that when I was in school. In the mimiograph days, they had free-to-copy texts. When Xerox copiers came out, teachers started making pirate copies in clear violation of the stated terms in the textbooks they were stealing from.
    By this time, I had learned not to always correct the glaring errors that our teachers committed, so I just let it slide.
    If they have onerous restrictions, find a book that doesn't, and teach the publisher to provide useful texts. You can't cheat an honest man.

  17. Re:Don't copy that floppy! on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 2

    This can be used as an example for the kids. A lot of lessons here, if someone was into teaching and stuff.

  18. Amazon's one-click on John McAfee's Belize Home Burns To Ground · · Score: 1

    I wish that mis-modding was a little less unavoidable.

  19. Re:broadband technologies? on Amtrak Upgrades Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I regularly go weeks at a stretch without internet access. I get enough news from John Stewart to bridge the gap.
    It is actually a long bike ride, uphill both ways, to the school library for research, I do miss it.

  20. Re:Depends on who owns the track... on Amtrak Upgrades Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Last time I rode Amtrak it was understood that fright traffic got priority, (I'm pretty sure we spent a few unscheduled hours on a siding every time I rode.) I didn't realize that it was not absolutely shitty on every line.
    If you're going north on the Coast Starlight, schedule it on a full moon, the only non-sucky scenery goes by at night.

  21. Re:The State Militia on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anyone planning armed resistance to our criminal government is an idiot. (Peaceful resistance looks pretty fucking foolish, as well.)
    Anyone who thinks that taking away my guns improves security is an idiot. (If I can't be trusted with WMDs, then wtf am I doing AT LARGE?)
    I can't seem to get through to anyone that the Second Amendment's purpose was to keep us from maintaining a tyrannical military, to be used for crimes against the People. Publius had to do a lot of hard selling to convince everyone that we could trust a national army. I think we got conned.

  22. Finally, someone's thinking of the children! on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I immediately (certainly didn't RTFA) thought of the retirees already staking out the pressure cookers at Wal-Mart.
    Now they'll have a # to call, this should save the 911 operators a lot of grief.

  23. Re:Why? on A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale · · Score: 1

    I guess some kind of a thrill, at that.

  24. undoing mod on Possible Graphene Alternative Made From Hemp Waste · · Score: 2

    N/T
    Fuck touchscreen, fuck autospell.

  25. Dupe on Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users · · Score: 1

    That comment is made for every Microsoft release.