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  1. Re:Trauma on Man Has 75% of Skull Replaced By 3D-Printed Materials · · Score: 2

    At the moment, we don't even know if it *was* trauma injury. I actually suspect it was not; disease that required replacement of the bone seems more likely, for exactly the reason you state. We don't know, because nobody seems to be reporting any details on the man's condition.

  2. That's how I like my coffee on Caffeine Improves Memory In Bees · · Score: 2

    Covered in bees!

  3. You blew it! on Defense Dept. Directed To Disclose Domestic Drone Use · · Score: 1

    Obviously, it needed to be "Defense Dept. Directed to Disclose Domestic Drone *Deployment*".

  4. Re:Ignore them on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1, Funny

    How many children do you know bear a racial hatred for Western culture that is bred and drilled into them,

    I can see you've never met the family of the average Berkeley professor...

  5. Re:Sadly, not that sunstone on Sunstone Unearthed From Sixteenth Century Shipwreck · · Score: 1

    My god! They weren't Vikings, they were Space Vikings! That explains everything!

  6. Re:Face scan? on The Wall That Knows If You're a Criminal · · Score: 1

    "I thought what I'd do was, I'd become one of those deaf-mutes."

  7. Re:Viable? LOL. on 0install Reaches 2.0 · · Score: 1

    French words need to be used because english is an imprecise language designed for the lowest common denominator.

    Aw, your French pride is hurt just because you don't get to say, "Free as in beer".

  8. Re:Confusing Title on Rock Band Live's Second Act: Networks and Data Centers · · Score: 1

    You mean we're not?

  9. Re:It won't happen again on Microsoft Azure Failure: SSL Certificates Were Updated... Sort Of · · Score: 1

    Building your own site with 99.999% uptime is really hard

    Building your own site with better uptime than Microsoft's Cloud, on the other hand, doesn't look that hard at all.

  10. Re:Good luck with that on Copyright Trolls Sue Bloggers, Defense Lawyers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did the Heisenberg Principle save your life?

    Yes and no.

  11. Re:What about foxes on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 2

    Some think dogs don't come from wolves but from foxes

    No, they don't. The article you cited indicated that silver foxes could be domesticated to have "dog-like" traits. It does not follow that dogs come from foxes, and the article does not even try to make this claim. The genetics of the matter are quite clear: dogs come from wolves. They are so closely related that there can't even be any question of it.

  12. Re:Survival of the fittest on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I may be waxing philosophical here, but does life in captivity equate to evolutionary success?

    In the case of the chicken, the answer is unequivocally "Yes". Evolutionary success means survival as a species. At this the chicken has done superlatively well. Evolution doesn't care about freedom. Evolution doesn't care about your aesthetic opinion of the genome. If it survives and reproduces, it is successful.

  13. Re:Storing plaintext passwords should be illegal on Australian Tax Office Stores Passwords In Clear Text · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem is, I am very leery of having those who are not knowledgable pass rules on technical matters, even if the correct rule would be absolutely helpful, because they are likely to pass *almost* the correct rule. I can see this very easily changed from "you cannot have cleartext passwords" to "you must have encrypted passwords" by the time it gets passed.

    "Where are your encrypted passwords?"
    "We use PKI keys, we don't have *any* passwords"
    "So you don't have any encrypted passwords?"
    "No, we don't need them."
    "Off to jail with you, then."

  14. The problem with Chinese hackers... on Microsoft Admits To Being Hacked Too · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...an hour later and you're losing data again!

  15. Re:Where should we start? on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 1

    And there are reasons while the system vendors don't want you disconnected from the Internet--which is why it's been getting harder and harder to be so. Expect this trend to continue. Yes, there will be reasons to have machine disconnected from the Internet and those who must have them so will find ways to do to it--but I wouldn't be surprised at all if the "ordinary" BIOS used in the average user's machine because "always connected".

  16. Re:Fear of robots is a red herring on Human Rights Watch: Petition Against Robots On the Battle Field · · Score: 1

    "Sir, my scans have detected unauthorized weapons. Please put them down or I will apply force."

    "You have ten seconds to comply."

  17. Re:Where should we start? on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 1

    CAs are always connected to the internet (or intranet). Motherboard BIOS aren't.

    Yet.

  18. Re:Torvalds vs Ballmer on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Torvalds better learn how to duck. Or parry.

    Dodge! Spin! Thrust!

  19. Re:Everyone was thinking it, I Just said it. on Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean · · Score: 1

    Wrong ocean. This would be Mu.

  20. Re:I'm getting a different message on For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma · · Score: 2

    Oh, BS.

    I expect it applies to BAs, too.

  21. Re:"Stole" or "confiscated"? on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 0

    Whenever there's a "copyright infringement!=theft" post, people here love to point out that the definition of theft is that you're permanently depriving someone of their property.

    Nice job inserting the "permanently". You made that part up yourself so it would fit.

    This isn't theft.

    Looks like it to me.

  22. Re:"Stole" or "confiscated"? on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 2

    Wow, two weeks and god knows how much in lawyers' bills, just to get what was his to begin with! Is he lucky or what?

    Many, many times, "confiscated" is just a euphemism for "stole." It seems very, very close to being the case here.

  23. Re:Liability is backward-looking on Unnecessary Medical Procedures and the Dangers of Robot Surgery · · Score: 1

    And the doctor's attorney will have the book and make the phony "medical expert" look like the fraud that he is.

    And the "phony medical expert" will have his own book. The jury won't know the difference.

  24. Re:Liability is backward-looking on Unnecessary Medical Procedures and the Dangers of Robot Surgery · · Score: 1

    there are books that tell you what you have to do depending on the symptoms.

    And how many malpractice juries have read those books? How many even have the vaguest notion of which books those *are*?

    Exactly none, that's how many.

    And the prosecution *will* have a expert witness--certified by the court and everything!--testifying that the test was clearly indicated and would've saved the dearly departed. No matter what the book says.

  25. Just 11,000 more signatures... on White House Petition To Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal Needs 11,000 Signatures · · Score: 1

    ...and your petition can be *officially* ignored by the White House!