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  1. Re:Hey I did that on Young Students Hiding Academic Talent To Avoid Bullying · · Score: 2

    Ya... someone like that that early in life can really mess you up for years to come if not a lifetime.

  2. Both sides of the coin on Young Students Hiding Academic Talent To Avoid Bullying · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A few things...

    Talent schools do exist, a lot of them are private though.

    Being in the top 10% of your math class doesn't make you a math prodigy.

    Smart people who act "cool" tend to get applause for their "talents" , not bullied

    Lifting weights never killed anyone in this age group (at least I don't think)

    Where the f' are the parents in all this?

    In life in general, sometimes it's better to fit in than be the nail that gets hammered

    If the kids actually cared about excelling in their subject of choice, they wouldn't care about being bullied, I can think of a chess person, and a chem person who are testaments to this from back in HS

    Last, but not least, AP Calc has yet to help me in life, AP chem... kind of :)

  3. Re:Precedent on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 1

    Chances are they're familiar with air rights and will keep the drone out of those, the zoom on the camera more than makes up for it on that thing. The dispute is spying by the government, can the cops monitor you without a warrant using a drone or not. I don't think they ever intended to fly it up to your bathroom window.

  4. Re:hunting? on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ya... no shit are they going to go after people who shoot prairie dogs on their land? Those people have some pretty good reasons for doing so... Animal rights groups are so hard to take serious because of people like this, I'm sure the owner of the drone worked hard for the 4k it cost... or more than likely just asked daddy. There's actual work that can be done to help the environment and the planet, spying on flying rat shooters doesn't make the top 100 even.

  5. Re:Phones on Unresolved Issues Swirl Around Securing Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    You mean like Linux's SU system? lol On Android the backbone exists, but it hasn't been implemented for this, IOS too I believe. Of course, if payment isolation were to be taken seriously on the android, all the little unlockers / root apps would have to reconsider how they unlock the phone, or at least give a choice to the user.

  6. Re:2 degrees compared to what? And over how long? on Unresolved Issues Swirl Around Securing Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    Epic fail!

  7. Re:Cause? on Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried · · Score: 2

    The biggest problem too is developing countries where 1st world countries have little to no authority. Who's going to go into India and replace all the mufflers for 1b people driving shitty 80s cars that the EPA would have a field day over. Better yet China, who probably don't believe in global warming and are only looking to compete with the states on production. I don't think 1st world countries play as much of a role in global warming as they used to. Then again I hear the air in L.A. still isn't so good either...

  8. Re:Cause? on Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried · · Score: 1

    So... what you're saying is that if the temp went from 60 degrees in mid-October to 64 degrees, you couldn't survive? ...Darwinism at work. It's not about our survival, as it is about our eco-footprint, and preserving the species on this planet. If we heat up the planet and most species die out as a result, we're ultimately the ones that get to experience the unpleasant consequences of that. Businesses would have to close, food prices would change, but as a species, pretty sure we'd survive.

  9. Re:We've already looked into darkness on Roaming Robot May Explore Mysterious Moon Caverns · · Score: 1

    A jack hammer should do the trick nicely.

  10. Re:Quick... on Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried · · Score: 1

    Look into reverse osmosis. Water shortages aren't making headlines like global warming because we have ways to get fresh water out of the ocean if we get that desperate.

  11. Quick... on Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's invade Canada before it becomes a super power in the new "warmer" world.

  12. Re:tl;dr version on How Data Center Operator IPR Survived Sandy · · Score: 1

    Still... whole sections of the grid went down in the NYC area, electrical companies own portions of that, it sounds like where they were at, they still had access to power, most didn't, it was generator or shut down, and for most it was the latter. I'm not trying to bash them by any means though, 2n is hella impressive in scope and investment. The question now is will other datacenters follow suite, despite a hurricane up there being a 1/2 century type event.

  13. Re:This sounds like a money grab on How RapidShare Plans To Avoid MegaUpload's Fate · · Score: 1

    Woops I downloaded asdf.zip [AES 256-bit encrypted] from a link on [random site] using RS, I'm sorry I didn't know it was a copy of the latest bond movie judge.

  14. Re:not like the death star... on EU Working On Most Powerful Laser Ever Built · · Score: 1

    Best cat video I've seen in a while, well played.

  15. Re:Already featured on EU Working On Most Powerful Laser Ever Built · · Score: 0

    I'd like to order one of those sharks w a laser attached to it's head please.

  16. Re:What if we tried more power? on EU Working On Most Powerful Laser Ever Built · · Score: 1

    That's a badass laser... 1w laser for "personal" use

  17. Re:Interesting on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    It's interesting to see this guy come forward, you can google dna testing and figure out what's going on. If he was indeed the killer he could've voluntarily declined, like I'm sure some people did. DNA testing is also known for being wrong, so I wouldn't be surprised to see the Dutch government recant their solution sometime in the near future, this guy based on the article's description doesn't sound like your typically perp.

  18. Re:Downside? Sounds like a perfect weapon system on The Downside of Warp Drives: Annihilating Whole Star Systems When You Arrive · · Score: 1

    Or a whole nother level of car / spaceship accident.

  19. I'm more worried about... on The Downside of Warp Drives: Annihilating Whole Star Systems When You Arrive · · Score: 1

    . The ring would have to be made of an as-yet unidentified kind of dense exotic matter capable of bending space-time.

    You can always warp somewhere where there isn't a star or planet in front of you, I thought sci-fi reiterated this fact on a per series basis, but here it is one more time. Warp outside the galaxy > discharge your beam of death into the void > fly into the galaxy. Now about that material... does Wal-Mart carry it?

  20. Re:so what if they're minors? on Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts · · Score: 1

    You might have to explain that one.

  21. Re:Run on Twinkies? on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nope the company will go to auction I believe and somebody more competent (hopefully) will buy it. I do feel bad for the termed employees though, hopefully something can be worked out. I think hostess confused the USA with S. Africa.

  22. Re:so what if they're minors? on Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts · · Score: 1

    They'd just probably blame hollywood or the media. Getting parents to take responsibility for their kids in modern America and solving the theory of relativity probably require the same effort... scratch that, Einstein's theory is probably the easier of the 2.

  23. Re:so what if they're minors? on Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts · · Score: 1

    TOS doesn't hold up in court.

  24. Re:Puzzled Curator on How Robots Saved an Artist's Sanity · · Score: 1

    A cylon.

  25. Re:Makes sense for them. on Verizon To Throttle Pirates' Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    RIAA obtains access to Verizon logs, since Verizon publicly acknowledges having them, sues everybody who ever got flagged, nobody uses Verizon ever again.