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  1. Re:Nanodots? ..b-bots? on Scientist Uses Nanodots To Create 4Tb Storage Chip · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    These nanites are evolving at a tremendous pace!

  2. Ban Cracker Jack, too. on California's Santa Clara County Bans Happy Meal Toys · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And Christmas while they're at it. Dumbasses. This stupidity will not likely have any negative repercussions, aside from McDonalds franchises in the area having to come up with procedures to de-toy their happy meals. But what I suspect will happen is that the kids won't really want the happy meal without the toy, so the parent will take the cheaper route and get them a burger and fries from the dollar menu. With more calories than what they would have gotten in the happy meal. And no toy.

  3. Re:Where's it going? on Japan To Launch Solar Sail Spacecraft "Ikaros" · · Score: 1

    As the term "deep" harbors pornographic connotations, I'd wager it's heading toward Uranus.

  4. Re:Thin sails on Japan To Launch Solar Sail Spacecraft "Ikaros" · · Score: 1

    You're thinking about it wrong. They've seriously reduced the odds of side-impact damage with this clever thinner-than-hair technology. Glass half full, right?

  5. Re:I wonder how long until it "accidentally" leaks on South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version · · Score: 1

    Scott Roeder sure is less violent than Yusuf Islam (nee Cat Stevens), isn't he?

  6. Re:Guess what I've been doing all morning? on McAfee Kills SVCHost.exe, Sets Off Reboot Loops For Win XP, Win 2000 · · Score: 1

    WTF? All of my systems are updated to 5959 already...

  7. For a marketing research team? on Simple CMS For Mixed Mac/Windows Team? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cyanide capsules ought to do the trick.

  8. Re:One freaking pin?! on Next Gen Intel CPUs Move To Yet Another Socket · · Score: 1

    Hmmmmm... would that be the same "LGA" referenced in the LGA1155 socket with its 1155 pins, or the LGA1156 socket it's replacing, with its 1156 pins? Or is that a different LGA entirely, possibly associated with women's golf or a lesbian and gay alliance?

  9. Re:One freaking pin?! on Next Gen Intel CPUs Move To Yet Another Socket · · Score: 3, Funny

    The new one has one FEWER pin than the current socket. So obviously next time they should either design one with a single removable pin, or no pins at all.

  10. Re:*Correction* on ClamAV Forced Upgrade Breaks Email Servers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Definitions were upgraded, though, weren't they? Just the engine was a year old...

  11. Re:So you had 6 months to upgrade on ClamAV Forced Upgrade Breaks Email Servers · · Score: 1

    I only got hit on one server. Lucky me. Aptitude safe-upgrades for me every night, but I had been lazy about reviewing the logs. Otherwise I might have noticed the "automatically held back" messages about clamav over the past couple of weeks... oops.

  12. Re:Really? on UK Scientists Create a Three-Parent Embryo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd say not at all better than the people with rare genetic disorders being responsible and adopting if they insist on having kids. Insurance premiums will go up to cover the costs of this treatment so that people can have vanity kids instead of adopting one ready-made and otherwise unwanted.

  13. Re:Good article on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 1, Informative

    E-cigs have *no* secondhand smoke at all. They do not burn their content, they vaporize it. The "smoke" you see is water vapor.

  14. Re:Question on Crunch Time For IRS Data Centers · · Score: 2, Informative

    The pedant in me must point out that you file your RETURN and await your REFUND (if due one).

  15. Re:Victimless crimes.. on Mass. Gambling Bill Would Criminalize Online Poker · · Score: 1

    You do realize, don't you, that the law was specifically crafted to *prevent* enforcement of the fine? That is, you can refuse to buy insurance, and the feds can say "that'll be a $1000 fine, then." And you can say "I'm not going to pay it." And they can do *nothing* about it. So the "crime" you posit does not exist, and "punishment" for the nonexistent crime is specifically barred by the statute itself. I'd say you are making a fantasy mountain out of a nonexistent molehill.

  16. Re:Damn on Moog's MF-401 Auto De-tune Fixes Music · · Score: 1

    Fuck just buying one, I'd mandate it like insurance. Along with banishment to Elba for anyone caught using auto-tune ever again. Horrid, horrid noise.

  17. Jeebus - just block facebook, it's not that hard. on New Software For Employers To Monitor Facebook · · Score: 1

    If there is a work-related reason an employee needs to have access to facebook, I have yet to hear it. Just don't allow people to visit the godforsaken vector on company resources. Problem solved.

     

  18. Re:That happens when its BOTH high-fat and high-ca on Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction · · Score: 1

    Which is still a remarkably stupid idea. Cooking is chemistry. Remove a chemical from the equation and it no longer works. I would be all for publishing the amount of salt called for by any recipe, but restricting the use of salt in the kitchen? NY would not have a single chef left if this ass-stupid measure were to pass.

  19. Re:Handy for DEA... on Google Wants To Be Your Electricity Meter · · Score: 1

    "I didn't know the DEA was enforcing US law in other countries."

    Really? You didn't know this? The DEA is active throughout Central and South America, most often in cooperation with governments there, but sometimes on its own. They're sort of continuing the CIA's dirty business in the region left over from the 70s and 80s.

  20. Re:Followin Lucid Lynx will be... on Ubuntu's "Lucid Lynx" Enters Beta · · Score: 1

    It would have been "mutated monkey" but Vin Diesel threatened to sue.

  21. To be fair, that was a series of 6 to 8 inch falls on Flaw In Emergency Response System May Have Killed Hundreds · · Score: 1

    not a 12-foot fall. You don't fall 12 feet down stairs. You fall 12 feet off a 12 foot cliff. I'd suspect that the injuries from the latter tend to be more life-threatening than injuries from the former.

  22. Re:Suicide? on Accidental Wii Suicide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To be fair, the father left the gun, but the mother was in the room with the child and the gun at the time of the accident, sitting at her computer. There's plenty of negligence to go around here.

  23. But will it let me light my belches? on Scientists Discover Booze That Won't Give You a Hangover · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lighting farts is an art form, complete with shart danger. Lighting a belch seems like it would be much more socially acceptable. How much oxygen would I need to infuse into my beer to make a belch inflammable?

  24. Re:Where is the so called democracy? on Hackers Attack AU Websites To Protest Censorship · · Score: 1

    "you also have to be able to say to those who would use their putative weakness as a tool of oppression to toughen up or suffer; those pictures won't REALLY hurt you, no matter what you say."

    You are my new internet hero. Well put.

  25. Re:Stunts? on What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts? · · Score: 1

    Depends. Was the perfect gift by any chance a sloppy BJ from a fat black hooker?