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  1. Death to corporate secrecy! on Australian Govt Holding Secretive Anti-Piracy Talks · · Score: 1

    It's not a threat of terrorism if you threaten to kill a bad ideal is it?

  2. No dude on Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues · · Score: 1

    Granted there were plenty of hypertext languages before HTML, you cannot get all pissy because someone else created a better, much more robust language & accompanying protocol.

  3. Am I the only one? on BTJunkie No More? · · Score: 1

    Anyone else check the source to see if there was a hidden message, only to be terribly disappointed?

  4. Not bad but not exactly great either on Finding Lost Recording From the 1880s · · Score: 1

    Those 1860's Phonautograph recordings are more impressive IMO, though I could imagine how eery it must have been seeing someone's voice being rapidly printed in a snaky fashion, as if ribbons of silk were being pulled from their throats...

  5. My experience looking for a Job on The IT Certs That No Longer Pay Extra · · Score: 1

    Here in CA, if you want to be a technician you either have to have certs OR a degree in a related field OR experience-- all three of those appear to be wildly interchangeable unless it's a bureaucratic environment where a certification ACTUALLY IS required. That, & if you want to be a technician of any sort you have to have a valid Class-C license & a car, so you're fucked if you drive a bike with a milk-crate tied to the luggage rack.

  6. Who cares on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die' · · Score: 1

    We all know apple's the one that failed to adapt their enterprise offerings & is now dying in the sector because of that fact.

  7. >2012 >Traditional education >Taking notes >Lectures I seriously hope you guys don't do this

  8. Re:This isn't hypocracy on Lunar Base Foe Romney Endorsed By Lunar Base Supporters · · Score: 1

    You're thinking too far into the future of the program-- I'm talking about conception, where we are NOW with this "lunar base". Before Apollo VIII we DID have plans for a giant fucking space station & frequent transport. I can shart out links too, you know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle_program#Purpose_of_the_system

  9. This isn't hypocracy on Lunar Base Foe Romney Endorsed By Lunar Base Supporters · · Score: 1

    They simply KNOW what's a reasonable timescale & what's not! I don't know if anyone remembers, but remember the shuttle program? They were actually SHUTTLES; vehicles designed to SHUTTLE people en-masse to the giant space stations we were supposed to have by now before funding was cut, & simply to build them took OVER A DECADE to get from idea to reality, & by the time they finished they had no giant space stations to shuttle people to so they gutted the seats & called it a cargo hold. So, let's review: we take over 10 years for a project that WASN'T EVEN CLOSE TO A LUNER BASE, & in the end instead of a shuttle we get a freight train that kept breaking down. To top it off, the funding came through because of the space race / national security more than anything else.

  10. Whatever helps you sleep at night on Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ · · Score: 0

    Apparently living in symbiosis with plants constantly exchanging atmospheric gases is exactly the same as the one-way releasing of gas on a massive scale coupled while reducing the number of plants that live in symbiosis with it.

  11. Not surprising on Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Most slaughterhouses in the US pay no attention to federal humane slaughtering & biohazard laws, what I find most surprising is they just *threw away* the wastewater-- that stuff makes perfect additive for fertilizer!

  12. So it begins on Filesonic Removes Ability To Share Files · · Score: 1

    The great technocratic war is now upon us my brethren! Join with me, & we shall wipe the imperialist scourge from these lands at last!

  13. Why would we send them on 'Blind' Quantum Computing Proposed For the Cloud · · Score: 2

    If we were doing in this in a pre-quantum-minicomputer era wouldn't it be easier to just entangle the qubits you need first & use quantum teleportation? I mean, I'm no physicist...

  14. Re:Every fucking month on Silver Solution Ink Makes Faster Flexible Circuits · · Score: 1

    Depends on the scale I guess-- I have a cousin that once used a silver ink pen to repair a garage door opener. Not sure where it was on the circuit but something tells me if the circuit fractured to begin with it must have been one of the 5HP move-y bits

  15. Every fucking month on Silver Solution Ink Makes Faster Flexible Circuits · · Score: 2

    We get a Silver Ink story, as if it hadn't been invented years ago available at any Frys electronics ready to mend any severed circuit.

  16. That growth rate may be skewed on China To Begin Submitting Air Pollution Reports · · Score: 1

    Millions were still dying as a result of famine & the cultural revolution in 1971, it's only natural emissions would spike once everyone stopped dying, but still...

  17. $500K on DARPA Chooses Leader For 100-Year Starship Project · · Score: 1

    What is this Somalia!?

  18. North Korea has something like this on TSA Interested In Purchasing Dosimeters · · Score: 1

    In times of famine, anyone in the military gets dibs. (Keep in mind, 5% of the total population is in the Korean Peoples Army)

  19. I've seen this before... on Solo Explorer Begins Bicycle Journey To South Pole · · Score: 1

    It's a Honda monkey bike reproduction, except gutted & made out of aluminum instead of steel...

  20. Wait on Apple Threatens Steve Jobs Doll Maker With Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Why would a chinese company be bound by california law? Wouldn't it be easier to sanction the company or something like that? Also, when did Apple OWN Steve Jobs' identity; that's something for the Jobs estate to deal with, not Apple...

  21. Re:Biased on Facebook a Factor in a Third of UK Divorces · · Score: 1

    No one over 45 talks about their divorce on the internet-- we need 10 more years for that to happen.

  22. Fuck the Geneva conventions on Judge Doesn't Care About Supreme Court GPS Case · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I say der juden need to be rounded up isolated from the rest of society!

  23. Biased on Facebook a Factor in a Third of UK Divorces · · Score: 2

    Online petition means you don't get the >45 age-range, & something tells me ye olde people divorce too.

  24. Anyone know how this should be running? on Attack Tool Released For WPS Setup Flaw · · Score: 1

    I have it going in verbose mode it waits on a beacon when there's no current connection then when I have it connected to my router already it just cycles through all the channels (even the ones I legally shouldn't be able to connect to, so it's nice to know I don't have a hardware cap on that)

  25. BOB FUCKING SAGET on Boxee 1.5 Will Be the Last Supported Desktop Version · · Score: 2

    Well nice going Boxee, you've just alienated THE MAJORITY OF YOUR FANBASE that ignore the expensive glorified trinkets w/ HDMI cables sticking out of them in favor of self-built microATX, laptop, or straight-up desktop setups. Either way, perhaps something better will come out of it. IIRC Boxee used entirely different backends for each platform...