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  1. "Real-life video"? Jesus... on 2012 Another Record-Setter For Weather, Fits Climate Forecasts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    'In 2012 many of the warnings scientists have made about global warming went from dry studies in scientific journals to real-life video played before our eyes

    Or "reality," as us old geezers prefer to call it.

  2. Re:Not real practical on MIT Research Shows New Magnetic State That Could Aid Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    If it were possible to split a crystal and communicate

    You do know that quantum entanglement does exactly that, right?

    You do know that it doesn't, right?

  3. A third kind of magnetism? on MIT Research Shows New Magnetic State That Could Aid Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    I didn't even know there were two.

  4. Re:TSA, terrorism, gun control, and mass shootings on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because the evidence, say, from Japan, is that an almost complete prohibition of firearms and a very low murder rate are not mutually exclusive.

    FTFY.

    Or did Japan used to have a high murder rate until they took away the guns?

  5. Re:YAY I'm so glad!! on New York Culls Sex Offenders From the Online Gaming Ranks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you read tfa, a 12 year old boy was 'groomed' for a period of months by a sex offender using a Playstation. After gaining the youth's trust the sexual assaults began. Sex offenders do not belong around kids at all, it's too big a damn risk to take.

    Then you'll just have to keep them locked up forever, unless you're willing to better define "around kids," because the damn things are everywhere (kids, not sex offenders).

    The standard cliche (in the UK, at least) is that paedophiles groom children with the promise of puppies - better ban sex offenders from keeping pets!

    A few months ago two men seriously sexually assaulted a child in a shopping centre - better ban sex offenders from shopping!

    Forfty percent of all sex offenders have jobs and eat bread - well, you see where I'm going with this.

    PS You've conflated sex offenders with paedophiles. Not all of one are the other.

  6. Re:Add campaign... on Researchers Create Ultrastretchable Wires Using Liquid Metal · · Score: 1

    You mean like the robotic weapon

    What makes that a robot?

  7. "Yeah well"? on TI-84+C-Silver Edition: That C Stands For Color · · Score: 1

    +10 for writing your own summary and not just copy-pasting from the article.
    -100 for using "Yeah well"

  8. Re:Photoshop on Cassini's Christmas Gift: In the Shadow of Saturn · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you can tell by the pixels, right?

  9. Re:how many years in prison on Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years · · Score: 1

    What crimes has Rupert Murdoch committed?

  10. Re:Google can do what they want. on Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs · · Score: 1

    Which would be unencrypted, wouldn't it?

  11. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 1

    Credit cards just allows to pay with the money that's in your bank account

    Then in what way is that a credit card?

  12. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 1

    Uh, really? Which countries are those?

  13. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What sort of stupid parent doesn't provide a mean for their children to use the money on their own bank accounts?

    That's what debit cards are for.

  14. Re:Great Renderer, Lousy UI... on Blender 2.65 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Less reliance on video tutorials in lieu of documentation would be nice, too.

  15. Re:Wait, what?? on Raspberry Pi Team Launches Pi Store · · Score: 2

    And by extension, I presume, so was the noun "manager."

  16. Re:Getting used to it? Wow, high praise on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    "I just realised the doctor had BOTH hands on my shoulders when he did it!"

    (rest of joke omitted as redundant)

  17. Re:They know when you are sleeping on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    They know if you watch porn or cats*, so downgrade+ for privacy's sake, oh...

    (*I don't really know. Do they?)
    (+"install Linux" didn't really scan)

  18. Re:Wait, what?? on Raspberry Pi Team Launches Pi Store · · Score: 0
    Yeah, there was me hoping this was a badly written article which had mistaken a repository for a store - but no:

    The team also managed to get 'one piece of commercial content:

    "Managed"? As if it's something to be proud of?

  19. Getting used to it? Wow, high praise on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I'd get used to having a prostate exam every day, if I had to.

  20. Re:how if someone with this virus dying? on Virus Rebuilds Heart's Own Pacemaker In Animal Tests · · Score: 1

    jesus, small case J, since i don't respect zombies.

    It's still the dude's name. Or do you de-capitalize everyone you don't respect? Just don't call him "Him."

  21. For my fellow squares on Austria's Mobile Drug Lab Could Test Street-Drug Effects, Too · · Score: 2

    new variants of bath salts

    Note that that should be "bath salts" in quotes. It's a range of drugs that are sold under the guise of bath salts despite having no use as such.

  22. Re:If nothing else..... on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    And you, sir, sound like an 19th century duellist.

    Good day!

  23. Re:Kudos on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    You can't be arrested for doing so

    Not even for reckless endangerment?

  24. Re:Well, duh on WW2 Pigeon Code Decrypted By Canadian? · · Score: 1

    Is that you, Ravelli?

  25. Re:Kudos on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    Search for B4UACT

    Yeeaaah... or maybe don't.