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  1. Melting ice does not change sea levels on NOAA: Arctic Likely Free Of Summer Ice By 2050 — Possibly Much Sooner · · Score: 1

    Put an icecube in a glass of water. As it melts the water level will not change because the ice cube displaces the same volume of water as the amount that melts. In In the same way, sea levels will not rise even if all the ice on the sea melts. Check this video for an example. Nothing to see here, move along and thank you science!

  2. Aaron Swartz Timeline on Slate's Mini-Biography of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1
  3. Timeline on Guatemala Deports McAfee To the US · · Score: 2
  4. Timeline of crazy on John McAfee Collapses At Guatemala Detention Center · · Score: 1

    I made this handy John McAfee Timeline Enjoy!

  5. Re:McAfee Timeline on McAfee Was Not Captured · · Score: 1

    Now with linky goodness: McAfee Timeline

  6. McAfee Timeline on McAfee May Have Been Captured · · Score: 2

    Here's a handy McAfee Timeline I made.

  7. McAfee Timeline on McAfee Was Not Captured · · Score: 4, Informative

    I made this handy timeline so you can follow events: http://wecheck.org/wiki/John_McAfee

  8. Re:Before the bubble bursts... on How Long Before the Kickstarter Bubble Bursts? · · Score: 0

    Hey Where's the auto-link?! Donate to my awesome project!

  9. Before the bubble bursts... on How Long Before the Kickstarter Bubble Bursts? · · Score: 0

    ...donate $10 to my project! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1630450133/crisscross-social-search-engine

  10. NOT PEER REVIEWED on Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study · · Score: 0

    Isn't the correct procedure to wait until something is peer reviewed before comment - remember Cold Fusion? According to Anthony Watts, a well-known climate skeptic, there are several errors in the paper mainly to do with comparison of different data timelines and siting of temperature record stations.

    Most climate skeptics agree that the world is undergoing "climate change" the larger question is whether humans should do anything about it.

  11. Re:Go, Julian, go! on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 1

    What actually happens though is that the unscrupulous businesses say that the honest business is not honest. Make up stuff and lie because they are unscrupulous. Then customers think there is no smoke without fire.

  12. Re:Prove it on iPad UK Pricing Confirmed; Apple UK Tax Applied · · Score: 1

    Cancer survival rates in the UK are shocking.

    This article says that the the UK rsurvival rates are the worst in Europe. Here's the money quote: "Cancer experts blamed late diagnosis and long waiting lists"

    You may also want to check this graph for prostate cancer

    I personally know of one person who died at age 50 because their cancer was misdignosed - all that extra screening in the US may be expensive but it saves lives.

    And just to keep on topic, the iPad rocks!

  13. Re:What about the little guy? on Flash Support Confirmed For Android 2.2 · · Score: 1

    I am sure that you want the the places you are evaluating to put some effort into their presentation, the same way they put effort into their food or their decor.

    Our customers want to see a place that is cool, exciting and fun - they want the wow factor. You simply cannot do the same level of animated menus, nice rollovers or other animation effects in HTML that you can do in Flash.

    Almost all of our customers have commented on our site's design - first impressions do count.

    How ironic that Apple would be the one to deny others the power to create custom web interfaces for their businesses.

  14. Re:What about the little guy? on Flash Support Confirmed For Android 2.2 · · Score: 1

    97% of web users and all mobile phones EXCEPT for the iPhone can view Flash sites - it's a de facto web standard. Sorry, Steve Jobs is the odd one out (and the fact that his decision is "controversial" highlights that fact).

  15. What about the little guy? on Flash Support Confirmed For Android 2.2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's extremely annoying to see Mr Jobs deny me access to customers based on his idea of perfection.

    As a small restaurant/club owner, I spent a lot of time creating a Flash-based website so that it would be more appealing to customers than an HTML site. Is Mr Jobs really suggesting that I should now create an app for my business instead?

  16. Re:Bravo. on Give Space a Chance, Says Phil Plait · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh, oh, I've got it!

    Social problem: Corrupt government
    Technological solution: The flintlock
    Result: The United States

  17. Re:Unfriending due to Farmville on Farmville, Social Gaming, and Addiction · · Score: 1

    Here's the facebook group for you: I Defriended You!

  18. Re:I don't believe anyone cares on Microsoft Opening Outlook's PST Format · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Count me as one who cares. I've had .pst file of old outlook mail sitting around for at least seven years waiting for this kind of news. Being able to import it directly into gmail would be very useful.

  19. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    >I doubt any terrorist would use a nuke anyway

    Just like you doubt any terrorist would fly two planes into the World Trade Center? Moron.

  20. Re:Embassy Wi-fi? on The Internet Helps Iran Silence Activists · · Score: 1

    And you're sitting comfortably doing nothing?

    You don't have to be in the country to offer support or to help. Just ask the many bloggers here and around the world who are helping distribute images and video from inside Iran.

  21. Re:Embassy Wi-fi? on The Internet Helps Iran Silence Activists · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    First of all, we already broadcast radio and TV in the form of the BBC and other foreign satellite channels into Iran.

    Secondly, the Iranian embassy in the US can broadcast to us if they like. I doubt they'd get many followers.

    I presume you are also the kind of person who would stand idly by while your neighbor beats their child. Thankfully others do not suffer from the same moral cowardice.

  22. Embassy Wi-fi? on The Internet Helps Iran Silence Activists · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it really that difficult for foreign embassies to create huge unfiltered Wi-fi spots that cover the city?

  23. Mssed-the-last-train immersion pods on Examining Tokyo's Media Immersion Pods · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Japanese people do not use these spaces because they are actively seeking out media, but because they are using the space as a refuge from long commutes and cramped, shared, homes. Japanese people often work very late and live over one hour from the city, making it almost impossible to visit each others homes. To have any privacy, couples have to meet outide the home, and places such as Bagus, karaoke boxes and love hotels are all geared to this market.

  24. Re:But they said on Vodafone Quitting Japan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Things are easy when you are Big in Japan. Becoming big is the hard bit.

  25. Just what the world needs... on Microsoft Uses DDR Dance Pad To Stamp Spam · · Score: 1

    Spam to a Eurobeat beat!