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  1. Re-educate them! on Teenagers Jailed For Criminal Version of Facebook · · Score: 2

    They need to be re-educated. Train them in Banking, then they can rob the public blind with impunity!

  2. Re:It's not a bug... on Programmer Arrested For Logic Bombing 'Whac-A-Mole' · · Score: 1

    My Brother laser printer is the same. With a 3/4 full cartridge of toner it wont let me print; after 1500 pages it just stops. Fortunately it is easily disabled using just a sharpie to cover up the optical sensor. A cartridge rated for 1000 pages easily prints out closer to 3000 before it really dies.

  3. Planned Obsolescence on Programmer Arrested For Logic Bombing 'Whac-A-Mole' · · Score: 1

    Kinda like having a 100000 mile warranty, and your cars engine dies at 103000 miles.

  4. More importantly on Talking To Computers? · · Score: 1

    If it can talk, and you smack it, what happens?

  5. Ghetto Blaster on CIA Shows Off (Formerly) Super-Secret Spy Goodies · · Score: 1
    Please, someone who has seen all these, tell me, did they really create a Ghetto Blaster?

    James Bond, "The Living Daylights"

  6. Re:decomission more nukes on The Outfall of a Helium-3 Crisis · · Score: 2

    The bombs dont give off the gas. Making the stuff that goes into the bombs makes the gas. So to get more He3 we actually need to build more bombs.

  7. Re:Temporary problem. on The Outfall of a Helium-3 Crisis · · Score: 2

    It depends on how much gas is produced, and what it costs to capture it. At $1500/L I cant imagine it would take that long to recoup the investment.

  8. Re:This is important? on Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly · · Score: 1

    I was just trying to be nice. It really sucked, but I still kept watching hoping it got better.

  9. Re:This is important? on Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly · · Score: 1

    What SGU were you watching? Because the one I was watching kinda started to suck...

  10. Re:Iceland needs new energy? on Iceland Eyes Liquid Magma As Energy Source · · Score: 1

    They use that cheap electricity to smelt aluminum. Iceland is one of the largest aluminum producers in the world.

  11. Re:needed to head off next supervolcano? on Iceland Eyes Liquid Magma As Energy Source · · Score: 1

    Because its more akin to popping balloon.

  12. Sexting? on Police Chief Teaches Parents To Keylog Kids · · Score: 4, Funny

    And then he arrests them all when pictures of said kids pop up on the computer. Easy felony busts to fluff up a record.

  13. Planned Obsolescence on Fibre Channel Over Ethernet: From Fee To Free · · Score: 2
    Worked wonders for the auto makers, hows that working for you?

    /s

  14. Gravity on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 1

    The problem appears to be that growing up or procreating in zero-gravity causes problems. Solution: Spin the ship to create artificial gravity.

  15. And that on Crysis 2 Leaked Over a Month Before Launch · · Score: 2

    Is why you pay your developers good money. So they don't fuck you over out of spite.

  16. What I want to know.... on Thrifty, Anonymous Benefactor Backs Up BBC Websites Before They Go Dark · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is how many millions of pounds were spent developing all those sites.

  17. Fake News & Lies on Fox News Brings Video Game Violence Debate To a New Low · · Score: 1

    With the slander and bullshit they put out on an hourly basis, are any /.ers really surprised at this? That's why it is the duty of those that are informed to educate those that are gullible and fall for crap like this.

  18. Remote wipe? on Open-source Challenge To Exchange Gains Steam · · Score: 1

    Why is this better than MS? And can someone still remote wipe all my iStuff remotely? (with/out my permission)

  19. Ahh LEGO... on A Lego Replica of the Antikythera Mechanism · · Score: 0

    ...is there anything you can't build?

  20. Re:I would like to... on Stem Cell Research Running Into IP Brick Walls · · Score: 1

    How so? Say you create a stem cell treatment for a disease. If the patient comes to you, then the IP problems arent there. That has nothing to do with geography.

  21. Re:Totally avoidable. on Stem Cell Research Running Into IP Brick Walls · · Score: 1

    The laws are written by lobbyists, it doesnt matter what party is in power.

  22. I would like to... on Stem Cell Research Running Into IP Brick Walls · · Score: 2
    Buy a tanker and convert it to labs, then sail the ocean and do research out of the reach of lawyers.

    After all, there is no IP law in the middle of the pacific.

  23. Wrong motive on Swedish ISPs To Thwart EU Data Retention Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It would be nice if their motive really was righteous. They seem to be doing it just because it would cost them a lot to comply with every request the police made.

  24. Re:Not really the whole story... on Engineer Designs His Own Heart Valve Implant · · Score: 2

    I thought GE had scanners for sale that can do just that? Take a 3D MRI of a heart beating and display/record it in real-time. At 80 beats a minute, and 30 frames a second, not that much would be needed to collect still images of the heart in the same position of every beat. Recording it in 3D also makes a CAD scan of the heart easy to create.

  25. Re:Banned in Australia on Laser Incidents With Aircraft On the Rise · · Score: 1
    What about infrared lasers then? Even a low power one can kill a retina in milliseconds.

    If people wanted to down planes that is what they'd use, not green lasers. You cant see the IR beam, and it causes way more damage than any colored laser.