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  1. Re:Lets see you do it then on Italian Researchers Demonstrate 'Powerloader' Suit · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Too much torque in the experimental stage could lead to a grisly accident like the wearer's arm being ripped out of socket.

    These force multipliers seem like cool accessories, but the manned robot will likely present too many restrictions in efficacy.

    Look for this to go the way of manned space missions, at least for the foreseeable future. Cameras and remote operation, walker drones if you will, seem much more practical.

  2. Re:You don't understand free markets at all. on Are Bankers Paid Too Much? Are Technology CEOs? · · Score: 1

    This is true as long as the markets remain truly free, and government oversight doesn't devolve into corporations writing their own regulations to suppress competition.

  3. Re:We're number one! on F-Secure: Android Accounted For 97% of All Mobile Malware In 2013 · · Score: 0
    Just like the very best counterfeit money.

    The Craftsman/Craftstress behind either shenanigan will not be needing to work, then, unless they get nicked.

  4. Re:android was never meant to be highly secure on F-Secure: Android Accounted For 97% of All Mobile Malware In 2013 · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering if he personally contacted all eleven users.

  5. Re:Why so expensive? on NASA Forgets How To Talk To ICE/ISEE-3 Spacecraft · · Score: 2
    Yes. And.

    This is a systemic problem perpetuated by the companies who bid for government contracts.

    Jobs bid and completed outside the influence of government (and perhaps organized crime... but I repeat myself) are not associated with cost overruns on every single project.

  6. Re:We don't understand anything anymore! on Scientists Revive a Giant 30,000 Year Old Virus From Ice · · Score: 1

    Taken out of context and going to be used by idiots to prop up the god damn false dichotomy.

    If we're lucky, real lucky, the age of this -phage will be used against idiots who prop up the damn false god dichotomy.

  7. Re:in prehistoric Russia on Scientists Revive a Giant 30,000 Year Old Virus From Ice · · Score: 1

    Well done.

  8. Re:Dick? Maybe, but not your classical patent trol on Inventor Has Waited 43 Years For Patent Approval · · Score: 1
    Indeed.

    Perhaps there's a barrister out there who's bored at work?

  9. Can we discount the possibility that the on The Ephemerality and Reality of the Jetpack · · Score: 1

    Chuck Taylor's weren't responsible for the gain in vertical leap?

  10. Re:not in all cases on Inventor Has Waited 43 Years For Patent Approval · · Score: 0

    Well done.

  11. Dick? Maybe, but not your classical patent troll. on Inventor Has Waited 43 Years For Patent Approval · · Score: 1
    FTR, FTA, he won a $388 million lawsuit against the State of California for harassment and invasion of privacy, which is now being reviewed in the SCOTSO Nevada.

    We could, and often do, argue all night whether the patent system should cease to exist in it's current form.

    For the purposes of this argument, we are forced to stipulate that it presently exists. This is about a government patent office holding a grudge against an inventor for friggin' decades.

  12. Re:19 billion? on Inside the Billion-Dollar Hacker Club · · Score: 3, Funny

    It sounds like a lot of money, but I understand about $12 billion is in bitcoin, er, facebook stock.

  13. Secret Strategy. on Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000 · · Score: 1
    Proceeding on the assumption a minimum of one sentient creature is required to be in the know for a secret to exist,

    that is exactly where the laws of probability are greatest for containment.

    Please understand the person you tell may be no better at keeping it than you were.

  14. American Indian, right? on The Facebook Ads Teens Aren't Supposed To See · · Score: 1

    Full-voting member of the Slapaho tribe?

  15. Re: Interesting Stuff on X-rays From Other Galaxies Could Emanate From Particles of Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    Sure, it is possible but it is equally not possie.

    Probably, less than equally possible.

    Nonetheless, these poor bastards are postulating intelligently with scant additional evidence about a theory yet to be empirically proven.

    If they lack a quality necessary for scientific breakthrough, it is not imagination.

  16. In Communist China, Physics laws you. on Face Masks Provide Chinese With False Hope Against Pollution · · Score: 1
    Take heart Chinese mask-wearers,

    prior to the Snowden revelations,

    it wasn't always cool to be a tin-hatter.

  17. Re:Interesting Stuff on X-rays From Other Galaxies Could Emanate From Particles of Dark Matter · · Score: 0

    Denver could beat Seattle......

    The Meadows had forecast that very probability prior to the contest.

  18. Re:Uhmmm... what? on Apple To Unveil Its 'iOS In the Car' Project Next Week · · Score: 1

    Are you fucking stupid?

    Nope. His mom had him tested.

  19. Re:"Apple Maps as in-car navigation" on Apple To Unveil Its 'iOS In the Car' Project Next Week · · Score: 3, Funny
    Son of a bitch!

    There is no way you're wrong.

  20. Interesting Stuff on X-rays From Other Galaxies Could Emanate From Particles of Dark Matter · · Score: 3, Informative
    The data they're sorting through is only a 1% bump above the continuum,

    but before the shouting about statistical noise begins,

    RTFA... it sounds plausible.

  21. Out of curiousity, and with no animosity, on Snowden's NSA Leaks Gave IETF a Needed Security Wake-up Call · · Score: 1

    are you currently reading The Catcher in the Rye?

  22. A stochastic process... on Snowden's NSA Leaks Gave IETF a Needed Security Wake-up Call · · Score: 1
    Markov Chain Generator, eh?

    Perhaps if the God you refer to is Tyche.

  23. Re:I wonder about the legality though on The Spy In Our Living Room · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What if I put an XBox360 in a locked room with no windows, turned it on with a kinect camera pointing at a sign which threatens a top political figure. If someone acts on it, how would they justify their actions? Legally it would be extremely questionable and ultimately, it would not be a threat as much as it would be a trap for the government to fall into. After all, discovery would result in all manner of details which should enter public record. ...or I could disappear into a puff of darkness.

    It would be one hell of an entertaining story for your cellmate in Guantanamo.

  24. Re:Which is the same thing as saying... on Privacy Lawsuits Over NSA Spying Force Retention of Metadata · · Score: 2
  25. "I apologize for causing trouble." on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 4, Funny
    Sure. Alright. That's all the folks who lost Bitcoins could ask for is a heartfelt apology.

    Your stewardship of Mt Gox resulted in a fairly significant black eye for the very currency you've plundered and/or allowed to be plundered.

    I find your lack of remorse disturbing.