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  1. Re:My new patent on Apple Camera Patent Lets External Transmitters Disable Features · · Score: 1

    sure it does. it's called a hot mirror.

  2. Re:The real crime is within... on Pentagon Says Cyberattacks Can Count As Act of War · · Score: 1

    I know I'm not the popular guy here asking the Government to actually spend MORE money

    we don't really need to spend more, just waste a whole lot less.

  3. Re:I read it as... on Chapel Hill Computational Linguists Crack Skype Calls · · Score: 1

    insane in the membrane. so did I.

  4. Re:Oh, great on Apple Acknowledges MacDefender · · Score: 2, Insightful

    statistics say you still made the right choice.

  5. not metaphor examples on US Intelligence Agency to Compile Mountain of Metaphors · · Score: -1

    The world is a stage; Time is money Both simalies, genius.

  6. Re:Already a fan, but how valid is it? on Smart Pajamas Monitor Patients With Sleep Disorder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While I don't really question the results of my own sleep diagnosis, I certainly question the methods. One nights sleep at the diagnostic center is really just one data point. From a purely statistical perspective, this is already lame. Add to that the stress of having to do the test with a strange bed and all the wires and you would seemingly have a recipe for disaster. Yet somehow, it does kinda work out for some people. I agree that having some sort of cheap, easy home monitoring device that is not decades behind in sensor and transmitter tech would be really nice.

  7. Re:Beats the normal method on Smart Pajamas Monitor Patients With Sleep Disorder · · Score: 1

    electric shocks?

  8. Re:Great News for Environment! on New Rechargeable Battery Uses Water · · Score: 1

    I prefer to see the estuary as being half full.

  9. Re:Great News for Environment! on New Rechargeable Battery Uses Water · · Score: 2

    I would gladly trade this for the aging coal power plant that currently sits on the banks of my local estuary. I am inclined to believe that this will be better for my local environment than the coal burning.

  10. Safety is not Logical on Google's Driverless Car and the Logic of Safety · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sadly, safety is something that is not handled rationally by the masses. It is mostly an emotional judgement.

  11. "supersonic sound waves" on US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if it is really detecting supersonic sound waves, it needs to be re-calibrated methinks...

  12. Re:You don't need to watch Apollo 18 on Potentially Great Sci-fi Films Still Due In 2011 · · Score: 1

    touche

  13. Re:You don't need to watch Apollo 18 on Potentially Great Sci-fi Films Still Due In 2011 · · Score: 1

    This is why I don't watch trailers.

  14. Re:Tag on Physicists Develop Quantum Public Key Encryption · · Score: 2

    It seems there is always one that says "story". Is that even remotely useful?

    It is only useful if there is also one that says "garbage".

  15. Re:Cleaning? on NASA Building Network of Smart Cameras Across US · · Score: 1

    No kidding.

    In South Jersey they have been installing lots of solar panels on telephone poles, each one about 1/4 square meter or so. They did not count on the fact that telephone poles and wires are a favorite hang out for birds. I've seen some that are totally covered.
    These cameras will be smaller targets, but the bird problem remains.

  16. pre not dead? on HP Announces a Watch That Unifies WebOS Devices · · Score: 1

    I thought the Pre was totally dead???

  17. Re:revenue on What Would You Do With Open.org? · · Score: 2

    you forgot about the "undisclosed sum" that they had to pay up front...

  18. Re:More to come? on First Ever HIPAA Fine Is $4.3M · · Score: 1
    +1 Informative

    Are there any studies out there about how much HIPAA compliance costs?

  19. Re:I can see how this will work out. on Tiny Transistors Could Be Used To Track Cash · · Score: 1
    you mean you don't already microwave yours?

    it kills all the nasty germs that the isopropyl bath misses.

  20. Re:no digital Wild West on When the Internet Nearly Fractured · · Score: 2

    the crucial juncture in history is always the juncture of the past and the future, because it is the only place where we can ever change history. personally, I think you missed option 3. All of the above. Right now both 1 and 2 are true and they will continue to battle for the foreseeable future.

  21. Re:Hmmm on Sysbrain Lets Satellites Think For Themselves · · Score: 1

    IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!!!!!!!

  22. Simple on London Stock Exchange Tackles System Problem · · Score: 1

    42

  23. Re:Fight! on Google Announces One Pass Payment System · · Score: 1

    well played

  24. Re:Who cares? on Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    ... nor does any of those religions currently run private prisons/concentration camps for the punishment of ill behaving members...

    You clearly did not go to Catholic school.

  25. Who is drinking their milkshake? on Leaked Cables Reveal US Thinks Saudi Oil Reserves May Be Overstated · · Score: 0

    Who is drinking their milkshake?