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  1. Re:Let me guess... on Acorns Disappear Across the Country · · Score: 1

    they could (collectively) lead to TEOCAWKI. Which would be bad.

    The End Of Coal As We Know It?

  2. Re:Obvious? on Diet of Fast Food and Candy May Cause Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that, among the three diets you're discussing (the standard American diet (SAD), the broad-stroke, nutritionally recommended diet (BSD), and the genetically individually-tailored, optimal diet (GIT)) that BSD is actually the worst?

    BSD is dying. Netcraft confirms it.

    You SAD GIT.

  3. Re:Author's Name?? on jQuery in Action · · Score: 1

    Who names their kid "Bear"??

    Sir Michael and Sally Grylls, for one. Apparently giving ridiculous names is a family tradition; Bear Grylls named one of his sons Marmaduke.

  4. Re:BFF on Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors? · · Score: 1

    And before you security nuts go crazy about telling other people your passwords, keep in mind this is a person I trust above anyone else...even my own close relatives. If I can't trust him, then I must live a truely miserable life of denial full of people who dislike me.

    Consider this. Assume somebody else cracks your passwords--which could well happen. If you need professional help getting the resulting identity theft untangled, they will, of necessity, have to pull in your friend so *they* can be sure he didn't do it, and didn't accidentally let your passwords be known to somebody else. Not telling your passwords to anybody else isn't a matter of trust, it's a matter of not digging a hole your friend will fall into if anything goes wrong.

  5. Re:Well, arguably not... on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 1

    You formed the plural possessive wrong. Old wives' tale.

  6. Re:Their next game - Pet Killers on PETA Using Games To Spread Its Message · · Score: 1

    sure, "no-kill" shelters seem like a noble policy, except that no shelter can retain unclaimed animals indefinitely since they don't have infinite capacity. so these so-called "no-kill" shelters are just passing the problem on to other shelters who end up with their unplaceable animals.

    Rights that are shoved aside when they're not convenient are no rights at all. PETA takes the view that, "It's okay when we do it, because we have to." Whether or not they do indeed have to is beside the point; the fact that they take such a position shows the basic hypocrisy of the organization.

  7. Re:Justice Served on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 1

    Or have a short mace. I was taught in the SCA how to deliver a wrap-around blow with one while standing nose-to-nose with an opponent so that it catches him in the back of the head.

  8. Re:I must be tired... on SpaceX Successfully Tests Nine-Engine Cluster · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can has orbital trajectory?

  9. Re:Old fashioned pagers... on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 0

    So its a cellular base station in its own right. Why not?

  10. Re:One obvious question... on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    In fact, if the owner is letting other inmates make calls on it, they have an incentive to help keep it hidden.

  11. Re:Mathmatically verifiable on E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation · · Score: 1

    As I understand it there were several geocentric models of the universe that were mathematically validated.

    Yes, you can constructed a mathematically consistant model of the universe with the earth as its unmoving center. That's part of the theory of relativity: you can construct a mathematically consistent model of the universe around *any* frame of reference. Since the earth is not an inertial frame of reference, it makes the math needlessly complicated, but you can do it.

  12. Re:Big whoop... on Stardock Tried To Make Star Control, Master of Orion Sequels · · Score: 1

    "Fire it up!"

  13. Re:Uh oh on New Star Trek Trailer · · Score: 1

    "Hockey religions"?

    Truly, Jesus saves--but Gretzky gets the rebound!

  14. Re:Landing? on India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon · · Score: 2, Funny

    But nobody walked away from this one...

  15. Re:Does this surprise anyone? on Richard Garriott Quits NCSoft · · Score: 1

    MMOs have a shelf life and expire after a (very few) years

    No, they don't. MMOs have died, but because they were screwed up, not of old age. Many of the oldest MMOs are still around. With no real data points, it's difficult to say what the life-span of a well-run MMO might be, but my guess would be somewhere around 20 years.

  16. Re:HBO? on Mystery Science Theater Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    That would've been "Whose Line Is It Anyways?". They actually did a large variety of improv setups, but that was one of them.

  17. Re:Bailout on Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Looks like there's more than one, then. I live in the Washington DC area and I'm talking about WMATA.

  18. Re:Bailout on Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Free example how AIG sets off falling dominos: our local metro mass-transit authority has its bonds insured by AIG. The bondholders are claiming that AIG's troubles means that the bonds are now in violation of covenant and must be redeemed immediately. Obviously, the authority doesn't have the cash to redeem bonds that aren't due for many years. It looks like it'll probably get cleaned up, but if AIG wasn't being bailed out, it could be getting a lot nastier.

  19. Re:Nope. on Are Neo-Retro Game Releases a Fad? · · Score: 1

    Oh, if only there was a place where you could still get those hints. It could even be a website, so that it could be more easily accessed, with a web search service to help you find it. Alas that there is no such thing...

  20. Why hasn't game AI been developed? on The State of Game AI · · Score: 1

    Because game AI developments don't give you pretty pictures, bullet point features or big numbers to put in the ads and on the box.

  21. Re:Disconnect on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Someone, someday will carry lost a USB thumbdrive carrying the sensitive information.

    Computers that carry secret access do not have readily accessable removable media ports. Putting secret informatino on removable media that is then removed from a secure area is prohibited. I'm not saying it'll never happen, but if it does happen it'll be because somebody broke enough regs that there's going to be a court-martial in his immediate future.

  22. Re:RTFA before you summarize? on How China Will Use Cyber Warfare To Leapfrog Foes · · Score: 1

    And it happened in 1969, not 1968.

  23. Re:Incentive? on Are MMOs Time-Release Vaporware? · · Score: 1

    Verizon could sell network access at 100 dollars for build-out + 50 dollars a month upkeep.

    If you want a hookup at your house or business that hasn't already been built, then, yes, Verizon will charge you run the line out and install it. Won't be just a hundred bucks, either.

  24. Re:Doesn't make sense on Morris Worm Turning 20 · · Score: 1

    Nice joke, but, in fact, he was. In 1988 he was in his third year as a freshman Senator, having already served eight years in the House.

  25. Re:Suffixes FTW! on ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains · · Score: 1

    How valuable do you think ".disney" would be?

    Valuable enough that you would be bludgeoned into submission by a gang of Disney lawyers if you tried to squat it.