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  1. Re:If you tear it down on Malicious Spam Spikes To 'Epic' Level · · Score: 1

    So fight fire with fire.

    Send out anti-spam spams with botnet-killer attachments.

    They'll hit the same lusers with relatively high certainty.

  2. Re:It feels old and already seen on World of Warcraft Finally Loses Subscribers · · Score: 1

    EVE Online has a huge interesting world where everything goes, and is tailored much more towards PVP.

    EVE Online should raid WoW.

    That'd be cool to watch.

  3. Re:Obligatory. on Floating Nuclear Power Plant Seized By Court · · Score: 1

    With a tailwind, you could do it telekinetically.

  4. Re:Scam Magnet on Santa Cruz Tests Predictive Policing Program · · Score: 1

    Likely what's happening here. Who in their right mind thinks that crime follows the same patterns as earthquakes, and who in their right mind thinks we've ever predicted an earthquake, anyway?

  5. Re:Obligatory. on Floating Nuclear Power Plant Seized By Court · · Score: 1

    They do, but you could push the QE2 away from the dock by leaning into it.

  6. Re:Time for your head to explode. on Floating Nuclear Power Plant Seized By Court · · Score: 1

    Dingdingdingdingdingdingding!

    Building a nuke plant to pump oil isn't about energy. It's about money and ignoring the consequence.

  7. Re:Kevin Bacon? on Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation" · · Score: 1

    Doesn't count, unless you were filmed doing it, presuming Bacon's dad is in home movies with his son.

  8. Re:privacy of connections on Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation" · · Score: 1

    Did you ask their permission to question their permission?

  9. Re:Travelling Salesman on Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation" · · Score: 1

    By making you do the computation.

    Note that they aren't looking at their extensive database and determining the graph, they're asking you to send messages to friends to see how they propagate.

    Massively parallel computation on a fuzzy, slow, balky system of human processors using a lossy communications scheme (anyone with 130 friends and any sort of IRL activities is not going to be able read everything that comes up on their feed every day).

  10. Re:Paul Erdos on Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation" · · Score: 1

    who's this Kevin Bacon anyway

    Some guy with an infinite Erdös number.

  11. Re:Obligatory. on Floating Nuclear Power Plant Seized By Court · · Score: 1

    If you want to be able to move hundreds of tons of ship and cargo with the force it takes to parallel-park a VW, you're going to have to expect a balance in your karma somehow.

  12. Time for your head to explode. on Floating Nuclear Power Plant Seized By Court · · Score: 4, Funny

    From TFA:

    In 2009, Rosatom announced plans to send a fleet of floating nuclear power stations to the Arctic, where they could power deep-sea drilling for oil and gas.

    There's so much wrong in that meme that I'm going to have to go lie down and hope I forget it happened.

  13. Re:Ack! on Samsung Hires Steve 'Cyanogen' Kondik · · Score: 1

    I doubt he has stopped.

    But now it will be known as "Samsung Mobile Android Plus."

    Which would be kind of a downgrade even if the features are improved...

  14. Re:Call me when you find some who can do cold fusi on Mussels With Hydrogen Fuel Cells Found · · Score: 1

    True dat.

    We can consume the hydrogen just fine.

    Now, if these bacteria found in the mussles could turn seawater into H2 and O2...

  15. Re:Hardware vs Software on Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill · · Score: 1

    No, those are still valid and still ofsetting.

    They'll stack them up like POGs and see what happens.

  16. Re:We Did...a week ago..Re:Didn't see this one com on Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill · · Score: 1

    You left out

    Quote:
    IMO it is far too early in the process to be making any sort of predictions because there are just too many moving parts.

    Which was correct. This was a logical move for Google, but not an imminent one.

    If you cast around the net, you'll find just about any possible future described in a prediction somewhere. Finding them after the fact doesn't make them any more likely.

  17. Re:Google+ on Popularity Trumps Privacy For Many On Facebook · · Score: 1

    He wants to hide from people dumb enough to think that's someone else because the name doesn't match.

  18. Re:Google+ on Popularity Trumps Privacy For Many On Facebook · · Score: 2

    Google+ users have so much self esteem they don't even sign up.

  19. Re:Holy shit, what's going on in the world... on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    We also had universal health care. Or we would have, if the GOP's corporate pwners hadn't poured tens of millions of dollars into getting him elected so the GOP could filibuster it and stick us with an unreconciled, half-cooked version the House had passed expecting the Senate to clean it up.

  20. Re:My only question... on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    The alchemists will find a way to make it into Thorium, of course.

    If not that, then the price will fall to $0.18 a gallon, and the Hummer will make a massive comeback.

  21. Re:250 MW laser? on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    Where does the power to run the 250 MW laser come from during this time?

    The Sears Die-Hard Nukium. With 250 Cold-Fusion-Cranking Megawatts of power, and a lifetime warranty*.

    * - lifetime of the battery.

  22. Re:Not Skynet enough on Iron Man-like Exoskeleton Nears Production · · Score: 1

    I kinda new all that. But I was thinking more in terms of their attitude towards our guys.

    I also remember that the number of bullets fired per enemy killed has remained roughly constant at 3,000 since at least the civil war. That includes training ammo.

    War isn't just hell. It's logistically predictable. Which makes it worse. It's mechanical, and futile. Just play the game using Basic Strategy and your side has the best chance of winning. The only thing you don't know is which random subset of your side will be there to salute the complement subset.

  23. Re:Hmmm on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    But at a value equivalent of 20-30,000 dollars a gram, "expensive mining and refining techniques" become "shit we we're gonna do and you can't stop us."

  24. Re:It'll never make it through FDA trials on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 1

    Not "any."

    Given the cost of cancer treatments, it's possible for certain companies to come to the conclusion that their current position in the provision of drugs and equipment for those treatments is more profitable than providing an outright cure for the disease.

    When money makes your decisions it's a recipe for evil.

  25. Re:Modified, Harmless HIV Used on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 1

    Whatever.

    Just hand them the next three Nobel prizes.