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  1. Re:dogs deficate not staring into the sun on Dogs Defecate In Alignment With Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 2

    I've found that shaking my dog vigorously or lightly tapping his face with my index finger gets him to realign correctly.

  2. Ice breaker? on Chinese Icebreaker Is Stuck In Ice After Antarctic Research Vessel Rescue · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why do they keep using that term? I do not think it means what they think it means.

  3. I'll take the blame on Space Junk or a Meteor? Fireball Lit Up Midwestern Skies · · Score: 2

    That was the top of my skull reentering orbit after my head exploded at the end of the Chiefs-Chargers game (eliminating the Steelers from the playoffs).

  4. Financial shenanigans? on BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain how the books looked fine for so long then all of a sudden tanked? I had assumed that all the dire talk was negative PR.

  5. Re:Quite a bit different than NSA tracking on It's Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car · · Score: 1

    This is a CLASSIC case of where technology advances past the law. Police surveillance traditionally meant two detectives following around the perp in an unmarked car and drinking lots of coffee. The implicit man power commitment was in itself a limitation on how far the privacy of citizens could be infringed. Now that this limitation has been rendered obsolete, you can expect the courts to follow the norm of imposing a new limitation in the future.

  6. Is it charity if it's a deduction? on Mark Zuckerberg Gives $990 Million To Charity · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see how the donation is reported. I guess it's good that these guys donate so much to charity, but the tax code makes it a no-brainer; financially and for PR.

  7. Should have been obvious to Willow Garage on One-Armed UBR-1 Points the Way To Cheaper Robots · · Score: 1

    A proper statistical analysis should have revealed long ago that a one-armed robot is more than adequate for at least 95% of grad students running masturbatorial subroutines.

  8. Re:What did the Neandertal say on his first date ? on Genome of Neandertals Reveals Inbreeding · · Score: 1

    I think Ned Beatty needed the apology; and a hug.

  9. Not as bad as you think on Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests · · Score: 1

    I drove through one, and it only took about 10 minutes. I could've done it in five, but the DNA collector didn't really turn me on.

  10. Re:My question on Interview: Ask Bruce Sterling What You Will · · Score: 1

    No, your question just builds in an assumption that BR is the best. Open it up for him to pick the one he wants as the standard.

  11. Question for financial gurus on Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban · · Score: 1

    Is there a way to effect a short on bitcoin values?

  12. Re:Blade Runner on Interview: Ask Bruce Sterling What You Will · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd rephrase this a little differently:

    What film best represents your vision of a cyberpunk or high-tech dystopian future?

  13. What would most of us do? on Academics Should Not Remain Silent On Government Hacking · · Score: 1

    The government can put a heck of a lot of pressure on an individual for not cooperating. Everything from being blacklisted to jailed on spurious charges. Truthfully, I don't think I would have said a word once they started turning the thumb screws; metaphorically or otherwise.

  14. Re:Very unfair to the original team on Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    Unlike your partisan hackery, I've been actually USING the website. I put up with about a month of TERRIBLE performance before I could get myself registered. I enrolled, paid my 1st month's premium to Coventry, and will have healthcare I signed up for under the exchange starting next year.

  15. Very unfair to the original team on Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    The problems are largely resolved and in 3 months when the deadline hits and millions more are enrolled the old administrators will take the blame for past problems and this guy will get the credit.

  16. Re:co-inventor? on Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but slightly later right? That pattern seems to happen a lot in science.

  17. Re:There were 10 types of ancient societies on Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math · · Score: 1

    Your theory is flawed. Had they developed polymorphism, surely they would have developed cars to explain it to everyone else?

  18. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Sounds great in theory, but it's political naivety at best to assume that's the way to resolve the situation. Google for what happens when any politician dares to claim we're not currently at war in Iraq or Afghanistan. The American people often stand in the way of the obvious solution.

  19. Re:Facebook? Still? on Facebook Tracks the Status Updates and Messages You Don't Write Too · · Score: 1

    Meh...there's already an app for that.

  20. IOW: NASA brass making astronauts dress sluttier on NASA Testing Lighter Space Suits For Asteroid Work · · Score: 1

    The harsh environment of deep space is no longer an excuse. There's an oblig. Simpsons reference I'm too lazy to look up.

  21. 60 minutes is propaganda now on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 1

    I don't even bother with them anymore. And when the NSA says they're not targeting you what they really mean is we're storing all you communications and we just promise not to look unless you do something we deem suspicious. These guys have been caught lying way too many times.

  22. Re:Yeah, sure... on NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove · · Score: 2

    Snowden never took anything to China or Russia. He'd unloaded everything on his lawyer by then. I suspect this is why he was greeted so lukewarmly by both countries.

  23. Re:Call me paranoid on You Are What Your Dad Ate · · Score: 1

    If your sperm was swimming in crap, you must have been REALLY confused on how to properly get your wife pregnant!

  24. Re:There's no mystery. on Open Source Beehives Designed To Help Save Honeybee Colonies · · Score: 1

    Informative, but one place you fail miserably is at bulleting points:

  25. Re:Colony Collapse Disorder already understood on Open Source Beehives Designed To Help Save Honeybee Colonies · · Score: 1

    Dan Rather Reports had a episode on this I watched a few weeks ago. I'm just a layman, but I was under the impression that there was intermingling of different bee colonies whenever bees are trucked in from different parts of the country. They noted this as one of the ways problems with one bee colony can spread faster (like an airport phenomenon).

    Perhaps there is no genetic mixture when different colonies are pollinating the same orchards?