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  1. Re:!Safe in Cloud on Megaupload User Data Could Be Destroyed Soon · · Score: 1

    If it was that important, why not have backups?

  2. Re:Ironic? on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 1

    No, more likely Gen-Y. They're the ones who came up with "ironic beard" and "ironic t-shirt" to mean something completely different.

  3. Re:His brain is better than mine on UCLA Professor Says Conventional Wisdom on Study Habits Is All Washed Up · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they were very *small* leaps.

  4. Re:Again with the visas on America's Future Is In Software, Not Hardware · · Score: 1

    Ports are definitely "infrastructure" IMO. They're points of entry & exit and facilitate transportation of physical goods. If bridges and roads are, ports definitely are.

  5. Re:Great engineering! on Mars Rover Opportunity Turns 8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can you remember the last piece of technology hardware you had which outlived its warranty?

    Practically all of it, since I don't buy horribly-made cheap crap.

    Pay for quality, get quality. Simple.

  6. Re:Great engineering! on Mars Rover Opportunity Turns 8 · · Score: 1

    High five, old Honda buddy! 1980 CB400T, still truckin' along, albeit in need of some engine gasket replacements.

  7. Re:Customers pay for bad management... on AT&T Threatening To Raise Rates After Merger Failure · · Score: 2

    "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."

    "Asps. Very dangerous. You go first!

  8. Re:Does it erase the Water Memory? on Graphene Membranes Superpermeable to Water · · Score: 1

    What about the Water Memory? Does this membrane erase all this information or is a there a mechanism to determine which information to be deleted? Would be an invaluable Material for all that homeopathy stuff...

    Are you clinically retarded?

  9. Re:Why would twitter on Twitter Can Now Block Tweets In Specific Countries · · Score: 1

    And where is all this original user-generated content?

  10. Re:American newspapers censor this way! on Twitter Can Now Block Tweets In Specific Countries · · Score: 1

    So what? It's their site, they can do what they want with comments.

  11. Re:Once you go public... on Top Google Executives Approved Illegal Drug Ads · · Score: 1

    I know, they keep importing Russian girls instead of hiring the locals!

  12. Re:Stop selling debt to China on WikiLeaks Cable: NASDAQ Folded To Chinese Pressure · · Score: 1

    So, Steve Jobs, then.

    Only if you're willing to ignore the quarterly and yearly balance sheets.

  13. Re:Misleading to call it "non-copied" on Non-Copied Photo Is Ruled Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Indeed, and more blatant ripp-offs happen all the time. Hollywood has made a string of them in recent years without even changing the titles. They call them "remakes" or "re-imaginings" - Nobody has yet been sued for copyright infringement. You can't copyright an idea.

    Nobody has been sued because the remakes have been done by complying with the current copyright law, you dumbass.

  14. Re:Happens all the time. on Zynga Accused of Cloning Hit Indie iPhone Game Tiny Tower · · Score: 1

    Hell, Apple paid for it with by allowing Xerox to buy a million buck of pre-IPO stock. The "Stolen" story is for morons.

  15. Re:not to mention getting run over by SUVs on MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car · · Score: 1

    Actually they've mostly been buying SUVs for the last 10 to 15 years. Despite the fact that mini-vans are safer, roomier, and get better gas mileage. They were perceived as "uncool" compared to SUVs when those started getting popular.

  16. Re:Why? on States Using Cloud Based Voting System For Overseas Citizens · · Score: 2

    In most places in Canada at least, we need Photo ID to match the voters' list, and the postcard that the election team sends out that has our name, address, and voting location. Of course every ballot I've cast has been with a paper and pencil and the results are tabulated fairly quickly.

    The biggest issues I've seen with the US federal ballots are that local races are including on the same one that you're using to vote for your Rep, Senator and President. Separating these out would make things so much easier to deal with IMO.

  17. Re:It should be throttled. on CRTC Says Rogers Violating Federal Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    P2P traffic should take a lower priority over VOIP and other more interactive traffic. That is just common sense.

    No it's not. Traffic is traffic. You want QoS, do it on YOUR end.

  18. Re:Finally on CRTC Says Rogers Violating Federal Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Why is Canada dominated by this company?

    Shaw and Rogers, over the years (Rogers has been around since the 1960s), bought up smaller competing cable companies, then did a cross-country territory swap: Shaw got the West, Rogers got the East. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Cable#History

  19. Re:"print-me-up-some-caltrops-please" on Pirate Bay To Offer Physical Item Downloads · · Score: 1

    I only use caltrops against ninjas, you insensitive clod!

  20. Re:3D printers == sex toys industry on Pirate Bay To Offer Physical Item Downloads · · Score: 1

    Nitpicking XKCD because he doesn't think that 3D printers can be in a gag comic? Dude needs to get a life, and pronto.

  21. Re:Why... on Hackers Manipulated Railway Computers, TSA Memo Says · · Score: 2

    There there!

  22. Re:Shit. on Mutant Flu Researchers Declare a Time Out · · Score: 1

    Funny, I have The Alarm!

  23. Re:Lesson 1 on Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank · · Score: 1

    Agreed! Cupcakes are yummy!

  24. Re:What's begun? on Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music · · Score: 1

    I dunno, rent them?

  25. Re:Hard to hit someone at 80 feet on NYPD Developing Portable Body Scanner For Detecting Guns · · Score: 2

    Contrary to what you see on TV and in movies a person 80 feet away is hard to hit with a handgun, especially the more compact and concealable models.

    It's even harder to hit them with a knife :)