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  1. Oh, the irony... on SXSW: Al Gore Talks Surveillance Culture, Spider Goats · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Here's Gore - liar, rumor-monger and slippery pol extraordinaire preaching about pols selling out to special interests and lobbies while he goes and sells his failing "Current TV" network to Islamic propagandists, Al Jezeera, for millions because, I suppose, hi millions in speaking fees and book tours wasn't enough.

  2. Why would people need phony names on Google? on Vint Cerf: Google Shouldn't Require Real Names · · Score: 0

    ...unless they are trying to hide something, maybe? Signed, Anita Bath

  3. Scientific evidence, here... on Among Servers, Apple's Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I have had an Intel Mac mini running XP for a home surveillance monitor/server 24/7 for approx. 5 years and it has *never* crashed, and I do a preventative restart about every 60 days. Simultaneously, I have had the identical software running on an identical install of XP on no less than 4 different PC hardware with similar CPUs (both Intel and AMD) and RAM with regular, almost daily crashing, BSD, or freezing.

  4. HAL was a jab at IBM on 2001: a Space Odyssey's Dave Returns To Sci-fi In New Film · · Score: -1

    HAL letters correspond to the letters that immediately follow it alphabetically, namely, IBM. WTF does "HENRi" correspond to "IFOSb"?? I hate it already.

  5. Tabs should have miniature thumbnails of the page on Google Chrome Getting Audio Indicators To Show You Noisy Tabs · · Score: 0

    ... which when selected would open full-size pop-ups of the tabbed page so you can view the entire page in a pop-up without selecting the tab and displaying the entire page. Is that a great idea or WHAT?! Google - are you listening? P.S. Google: I'm available for consulting work!

  6. Why stop at apparel? Introducing... ROBOMAILMAN! on USPS To Launch Line of Smart Clothing · · Score: 0

    Implant brains and rudimentary organics into robotic hardware for the ULTIMATE MAILMAN. Years of on-the-street programming including advanced indolence, surliness, slowness and turbidity in a mailman-cyborg that never needs sleep or coffee breaks! YOU-HAVE -27-CENTS -POSTAGE -DUE- ON -THIS- LETTER - YOU - NOW-HAVE- 5-SECONDS-TO-COMPLY.....THOOMTHOOMTHOOMTHOOMTHOOMTHOOMTHOOMTHOOMTHOOMTHOOMTHOOM

  7. Who cares? on The Two Big Problems With Online College Courses · · Score: 0

    Unmotivated, struggling students: do they really belong in college in the first place? And if they manage to get pushed through via in-depth, one-on-one intervention by instructors, then they're also lowering the quality of education for everyone else.

  8. Re:If man evolved then there was no "Adam" on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    Man evolved *and* there was an Adam: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0097454KQ

  9. The rugged server is fine... on A Server That Can Fall From the Sky, and Survive · · Score: 2, Funny

    The problem is parachuting in the nerdy IT guy to set it up plus his supply of Code Red Mountain Dew and Doritos. So far, tests of their survivability has been dismal.

  10. Not sure why this is news... on Male Scientists More Prone To Misconduct · · Score: 1

    So, the misconduct incidence among male scientists mirrors exactly the misconduct incidence among male non-scientists (by-gender incarceration rates.) Erm...okay.

  11. aka: beer goggles... on The Problem With Internet Dating's Frictionless Market · · Score: 0

    ...or everyone looks prettier by last call.

  12. The most intriguing aspect was... on World's Oldest Fossils Found In Australia · · Score: 0

    .. that the bacteria fossils were persistently aligned into a pattern of a likeness of Mel Gibson.

  13. In Soviet Russia... on Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam · · Score: 1

    ...plane catches *you*

  14. People will say their duty is to shareholders... on Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but they're still actual human beings - not a faceless entity - who make the decisions and understand the ramifications, so they and all of the other corporations (and individuals) who seek tax havens are essentially privateers and definitely scumbags.

  15. This is the type of research that will suffer... on Altered Immune Cells Help Girl Beat Leukemia · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    under Obamacare because drug companies will have little incentive to invest.

  16. Another example of "junk science", I'm afraid on Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Murder is not the "disease", per se, but rather it is a symptom or outcome of other processes; namely, economic downturns that manifests themselves in lost jobs, lost homes, broken families, substance abuse and the ensuing and inevitable upturn in desperation and violence,

  17. Re:Mathematician? on One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators · · Score: -1, Troll

    I suspect there's a lot of artificial, unearned and overly complimentary praise for her because she is a woman in a male-dominated field.

  18. 339 Gb/s? on Caltech and UVic Set 339Gbps Internet Speed Record · · Score: 1

    isn't that like the average home Internet speed in Iceland?

  19. "These are not the droids you're looking for...." on NTSB Dumps BlackBerry In Favor of iPhone 5 · · Score: 0

    '....THESE...ARE...NOT...THE.. DROIDS...WE'RE...LOOKING...FOR' Yeah, just Apple's slick marketing machine STRIKES BACK again, preying on unsuspecting, technically-challenged, government consumers by dangling their shiny, overpriced toys. (sarcasm)

  20. Re:Why I stick with my local telco VDSL on Verizon To Throttle Pirates' Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    Amen. Earthlink DSL customer here in California since 2000, no worries about ISP monitoring, throttling, peak-time congestion, etc. and likewise I cut off even cable TV infiltration 2 years ago (just watching OTA antenna TV and loving it.) Gosh bless my little copper phone line.

  21. Hardly new technolgy... on Invisibility Tech Demo Tomorrow In NYC · · Score: 1

    Wonder Woman has had her invisible jet for 50 years... the only shame is that her outfit wasn't also invisible.

  22. Surface = Zune XL on Bungled Mobile Bet Will Be Ballmer's Swan Song · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Interesting product, but like the Zune it will not connect with enough consumers, corporate or otherwise. That, plus W8 is awful. MS should have spent resources making 7 viable instead of scrapping everything for the "tiles." Ugh.

  23. Can anyone say.... on Curiosity Snaps 'Arm's Length' Self Portrait · · Score: 1

    WALL-E?

  24. As hard as I tried to resist... on Pumpkin Carving For the Digital Age: Pumpktris · · Score: 2

    I had to click the link to look at it... *sigh*

  25. This is dumb, but I remember Ovshinsky... on Stanford Ovshinsky, Hybrid Car Battery Inventor, Has Died · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...my dad was a physicist at ECD (when Ovshinsky owned it) in Troy, MI back in ca. '70 and I was about 8 years old at the time. We used to go to his house for dinner and BBQs a lot and he would stock my favorite pop (strawberry Faygo) for me at his house. He was a very nice guy.