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  1. Re:Bye bye marvel... on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wouldn't worry about it too much, Disney owns Miramax, producer/distributor of such family friendly fare as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, From Dusk Till Dawn, No Country for Old Men, and so on.

  2. Re:Fox and New Corp on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 1

    Marvel never worked real hard at pushing much past mainstream values anyway, and it doesn't seem that difficult for artists who want to put out edgier material to work with the more boutique publishers (it isn't as if the market for adult themed comic books is constrained by printing costs).

  3. Maps? on Wind Farms Can Interfere With Doppler Radar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If only the wind turbines were on stationary towers, then they might be able to map them, and use such a map to inform their interpretation of the radar data.

  4. Re:Reality distortion field enforcement on Apple Faces Inquiries In the EU On iPhone Accidents · · Score: 1

    Or the single moderator that modded you down so far happened to agree with me that you had simply reposted the stupid advertisement from the story (also, of the four points, 2 aren't really critical of Apple, and another is incoherent).

    I'm no Apple promoter, I can't believe people shell out for the shiny lock down they sell.

  5. Re:Backwards on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    At a minimum, it is likely that the person proposing the legislation has rationalized it in some way.

  6. Re:Get to know when your iPhone is about to explod on Apple Faces Inquiries In the EU On iPhone Accidents · · Score: 1

    Why are you linking and reposting their advertisement? "Listen to your iPhone and get to know when the iPhone is about is explode in you hand on in the pocket" is a dead giveaway that the page you linked was thrown together by someone who speaks English as a second language, probably the guy who wrote the iPop app advertised at that site.

  7. Re:Dante's iNferno? on Apple Faces Inquiries In the EU On iPhone Accidents · · Score: 3, Funny

    Isn't that where we are now?

  8. Re:Water problem! on Watermelon Juice Makes Great Biofuel · · Score: 1

    Yeah, who knows. The abstract for the research article also mentions lycopene extraction, so the economics may be more involved:

    http://www.biotechnologyforbiofuels.com/content/2/1/18

  9. Really? on Apple Faces Inquiries In the EU On iPhone Accidents · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Was it really necessary to link to the iPop advertisements 3 times?

  10. Re:Interesting angle on social engineering... on FBI Investigating Mystery Laptops Sent To US Governors · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are the sixth or seventh person to respond to my throwaway snide remark with that general thought.

  11. Re:I actually saw one of these.... on Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD · · Score: 1

    I have no problem demanding logical consistency from the incoherent. If he is going to use currency, he might as well take advantage of the convenience of a bank account.

  12. Re:Cheese! on Treasured "Moon Rock" Is Petrified Wood · · Score: 1

    What sort of petrified wood?

    I'm sure the flavor varies depending on the mineral content.

  13. Re:does this mean war? on Treasured "Moon Rock" Is Petrified Wood · · Score: 1

    Send Bill.

  14. Re:Dammit, there goes the planet. on Entanglement Could Be a Deterministic Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    So dark matter results from intelligence arising and becoming arrogant?

    Who knew.

  15. Re:In other news, 500 gamers in Seattle = good sam on We're In the Midst of a Literacy Revolution · · Score: 1

    The people that go to large public universities also have SAT and ACT scores that are well above average.

  16. Re:The sins of youth... on We're In the Midst of a Literacy Revolution · · Score: 1

    Ever try a search engine? Google handles giant blocks of text quite well (it makes my cry when I see some poofter librarian ranting about teaching people how to 'properly search', as if the ontologies they have constructed are more useful than smart automated indexing).

  17. Re:College students? on We're In the Midst of a Literacy Revolution · · Score: 1

    The statistical literacy revolution is scheduled for 2030.

  18. Re:Interesting angle on social engineering... on FBI Investigating Mystery Laptops Sent To US Governors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But West Virginia?

  19. Re:I actually saw one of these.... on Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD · · Score: 1

    You have insulted rich capitalists the world around.

  20. Re:Hacked hardware? on FBI Investigating Mystery Laptops Sent To US Governors · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article says that they were HP laptops, not Sony.

    </obvious>

  21. Re:I actually saw one of these.... on Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you think interest is unethical, you shouldn't be willing to use government backed currency, as governments often create or destroy money without doing anything to tie that activity to anything real.

    (Interest works because the debtor is exchanging future consumption for present day consumption, presumably to their own advantage)

  22. Re:Is this trespassing? on FTC Rules Outlawing Robocalls Go Into Effect Next Week · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am still waiting for the Orwellian corporate future, to date their tracking and data collection clearly has not led them to the proper conclusion, that I am a crank and not worth using aggressive marketing tactics on.

  23. Re:is there still a so-called non-profit loophole? on FTC Rules Outlawing Robocalls Go Into Effect Next Week · · Score: 1

    If you are home, try answering and saying "Can you please put me on your courtesy do not call list?".

    This has worked on every 'legitimate' organization I have tried it on (so businesses using the preexisting relationship loophole, and charities).

  24. Re:Ugh on Snow Leopard Drops Palm OS Sync · · Score: 1

    The majority of shipping computers have sound chips, not sound cards (as laptops take over, this gets more true); I don't recall seeing a one without a microphone jack though.

    I do understand where you are coming from, I know people that have expensive, special purpose, legacy devices that only have serial port connections (the manufacture still sells them, so legacy might be the wrong word, but the reason they don't update the unit is that they serve a small market), but forcing you to carry around a decent usb->serial adapter (and drivers) is at least as good a solution as shoving 2 serial ports onto every computer (I would be a little surprised if the overall cost was less than $1, but that is essentially baseless, so not worth arguing much).

  25. Re:Ugh on Snow Leopard Drops Palm OS Sync · · Score: 1

    So the 98% of the world that is well served by USB should pay $10 each so that you are never inconvenienced?