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  1. Re:contain your astonishment... on Laser Surgery Goes Online · · Score: 1

    Why not just completely automate flying? It is possible with existing technology (which was developed many years ago).

  2. not too soon on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 1

    When your kid can put up half the money toward the purchase himself. That probably means when he is a teenager.

  3. Re:Medical uses are realistic on Former Health Secretary Pushes for VeriChip Implants · · Score: 1

    The powers-that-be used to think lobotomies were useful too.

  4. Re:Medical Purposes Only on Former Health Secretary Pushes for VeriChip Implants · · Score: 1

    What? Tommy Thompson is the Beast?

  5. Re:Overkill on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Special interests just can't make enough money from such simple solutions, so Congress will make sure we have to use RFIDs.

  6. Re:First they came for foo, then you, now me! on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1
    Oops. Did the US military tip its hand?

    Watch out Costa Rica. We're coming for you too.

  7. Re:Thank you Gary on Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. He didn't 'fuck with national security'. The nation is not really at risk of losing its precious extraterrestrial technologies.

  8. Re:Conflict of Interest - NOT FOR GOOGLE on Google and Microsoft Lob More Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    He and his family are in the Seattle area right now. They have a home in King County.

  9. fatigue on Meet Web Hypochondriacs · · Score: 1
    A lot of symptoms are vague. Many diseases are blamed for fatigue or shortness of breath. You could also get those symptoms from the food you eat, smoking tobacco or pot, drinking coffee or alcohol, or because you are huffing gasoline or paint.

    The sad thing about hypochondriacs is that they will get off their asses to go see a doctor every time something feels wrong, but they rarely will eat better, exercise, sleep more, avoid stresses, etc. Build up your immune systems, people! Stop making yourselves sick!

  10. Re:Be prepared on Conquering the LaGrange Points? · · Score: 1

    It would not have been the first time the US faked such an incident to bring us into a war.

  11. Re:Be prepared on Conquering the LaGrange Points? · · Score: 1

    That sounded gay. Was it supposed to?

  12. Re:France on Conquering the LaGrange Points? · · Score: 1
    Oh yeah. The US might have a lower income tax rate, but will nickel-and-dime everyone with payroll taxes, social security, Medicare & Medicaid, etc.

    Is the US the best example of a free market you can think of? I hope not.

    Let's not have any nation controlling anything in space, so maybe no one can tax commerce and industry. Let people pay their own way. We'll see how it works out.

  13. Re:A lot of small things. on Improving Education? · · Score: 1
    I hope they also teach students to write in easy-to-read paragraphs.

    You could at least have used an ordered list for items one through five.

  14. Re:I call BS on Improving Education? · · Score: 1
    Technology upkeep

    What percentage of those dollars go to 'computers in the classroom'?

    That is one big waste of many in nearly every district.

  15. Re:a few starting ideas on Improving Education? · · Score: 1
    Although you did not mention it directly, you do know that not all Christians are backwards science-hating hicks living in Dumbfuckistan, right? Many live in the modern world, and think evolution is more than just a great theory to explain how life evolved here on Earth.

    I don't understand why the Bible seems to be in conflict with science. Or maybe just narrow-minded people think that way.

    Fundamentalist Christians, why do some of you insist that God could not have used evolution in creation? Is God not omnipotent?

  16. Re:My deepest fear: text changing on the fly on Arizona School Won't Use Textbooks · · Score: 1
    This is a good money saving idea. And it will save paper and make it easier to do homework from home.

    Sounds good, until you add up all the electricity usage, heat generated, etc. There are some environmental costs.

  17. Re:What's wrong with textbooks? on Arizona School Won't Use Textbooks · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You are right.

    I would not want my kid going to a school like this. My kid had better learn how to read and write the old-fashioned way. Spelling, grammar, punctuation, and even penmanship are still important.

    They also need to be able to do a lot of math with pencil and paper -- not rely on computers or advanced calculators. (Have you ever asked a teenager a simple math problem that they need a calculator to solve? Many cannot give you the correct change without the cash register's help.)

    And schools still need music, art, and PE classes, to keep kids mentally well-rounded but physically fit.

    Kids need to learn how to do things in their head before they learn how to make a computer do it for them. Otherwise, we will have some stupid kids when the power goes out or they are lost in the wilderness.

    Is that what anyone really wants?

  18. Re:Name 5 innovations from Microsoft. on Ballmer on Innovation · · Score: 1

    Let's go play soccer at Xerox Park.

  19. CIA vision? on Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words · · Score: 1

    The CIA has been failing to meet its own goals for the past few years.

  20. Re:Good hackers have excellent communication skill on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, not all English majors learn proper grammar and spelling.
    Have you read essays written by today's college students?
    How did they get accepted by the university?
    Did anyone (teacher, TA, other student, etc.) help them to improve their English writing skills before graduation?

  21. Re:Disdain for the illogical on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    But sentences can begin with "But" or "And".
    And they often do.

  22. Re:Abbreviations with "w" on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    That is why I call my web server 'shitbox'. It seems to be easier for people to catch the URL. From time to time, I have to tell people not to include the 'www' in front.

  23. what riches? on How to Become A Real-World Superhero · · Score: 1
    So why couldn't the average geek do the same?

    Maybe it is the 'riches' that we lack.

  24. Re:I can't believe the guts of this lawyer on Apple Sued Over iTunes UI · · Score: 1
    This may not be about the patent. But Contois appears to actually have a different kind of case, if you actually look at the similarity between the two interfaces.

    The multi-column layout and the image of the album cover above the play/stop/etc. controls are mirror images of each other. Then again, it could be coincidental.

    Apple could change the interface, but still keep it easy-to-use. There are other ways for users to select artists, albums, and songs. Plenty of other music sites use different interfaces.

  25. Costco on Your Digital Photos Are Too Professional · · Score: 1

    Try Costco next time. The machine does most of the work. The technician might do some tweaking, but they don't snoop into your personal business.