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  1. Promiscuous? on Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex · · Score: 1

    Maybe the Android users are a bit more choosy than the iPhone users. Or maybe more committed to their relationship(s).

  2. Re:Skill? on Website Lets You Bet On Your Grades · · Score: 1

    I wonder who is buying all this information...

  3. Re:If you've nothing to hide... on Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder if anyone has explained to that cop that he places himself in danger by waving that pistol around before having identified himself. He could have been mistaken for a motorcycle thief!

  4. Re:death by manhole cover? on AI Predicts Manhole Explosions In New York City · · Score: 1

    The long, loud whistle noise would annoy the neighbors?

  5. Re:Rio de Janeiro on AI Predicts Manhole Explosions In New York City · · Score: 2, Informative

    The gas involved here is from the sewer system, not "gas lines". Access to the sewer system is through the passageways for electric, water, etc., which are above.

  6. Re:But at what cost. on Concrete That Purifies the Air · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ah its 10 % more expensive.

    That's big money in a road project!

  7. Re:Old News? on Concrete That Purifies the Air · · Score: 1

    Wasn't NOx one of the major pollutant problems in the early 1960s? IIRC the culprits were detergents that ended up in waterways causing algae blooms that used up oxygen and prevented light penetration, thus being very detrimental to aquatic life.

    If this is the case it might not be good to have it running into the canals and rivers and into the North Sea.

  8. Re:As if the jews would unhand their grip on banks on The White House Listed On Real Estate Website · · Score: 1

    Anyone who has worked with steel knows that most alloys will bend more easily with a relatively modest application of heat.

    With a lot of weight above bent structural members structural failure is guaranteed!

  9. Re:First priority. on First Black Hole For Light Created On Earth · · Score: 1

    First priority: Install one above every street light so we can get our lovely speckled black skies back. :)

    I certainly agree! Recover the light that is otherwise polluting our environment.

  10. Re:This sounds laughably impractical on Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't see a lot of cattle since I moved to Alaska, but years ago I grew up among a lot of them. Dairy cattle fifty years ago surely didn't need a pager to tell them when to come in to be milked! They were there without fail twice a day, most of them even entering the barn and poking their heads into their accustomed stantion.

    If an individual didn't show up on time, you'd better go find what's the matter with her.

  11. Re:Its cut price police - again on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 5, Informative

    Reaction to the same activity in Budapest was a major tipping point in the uprising of the late 1950's.

    While it became an anti-USSR movement the initial disorder was the sometimes violent reaction to local block monitors by fed-up citizens, according to some of my friends who were there.

  12. Re:His "inbox"... on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 1

    Who decided that a scam-artist should be housed at a minimum-security camp?

  13. Re:Thousands of nuclear plants... on Former Crypto-Analyst Analyzes the Danger of Nuclear Weapon Stockpiles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, nuclear power plants in Western Europe and North America have shown themselves to be pretty safe.

    A dozen automobiles are far more dangerous than "thousands" of nuclear power plants. How about one meth lab? Or even one anthracite-powered power plant?

  14. Another approach.. on Cubicle Security For Laptops, Electronics? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the OP should consider a desktop computer to consolidate all his portable electronics at the workplace.

  15. Confusion on Wikipedia Used for Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Won't this pose a problem for today's semantically challenged "geek".?

  16. Re:Do the same laws apply? on Robotic Deer to Fight Illegal Hunting · · Score: 1

    In Alaska the offence would be the discharge of a firearm within a quarter-mile of a public road. This is obviously related to public safety rather than game management.

  17. Re:decades-long score to settle on Novell/Microsoft Deal Punishment for SCO? · · Score: 1

    Suppose Microsoft code for Windows for Workgroups or Windows NT was finally outed and shown to contain Novell networking code. This agreement would not shield MS from liability to Novell, but might forestall the wrath of their big customers and prevent a class-action (EXPENSIVE) suit by their small customers for leaving them open to possible liability.

  18. Prodigy? on NASA Public-Affairs Appointee Resigns in Disgrace · · Score: 1

    If this kid is only 24 now he must have been just a little shaver when he imposed the use of "theory" in conjunction with "Big Bang."

  19. Re:Still doesn't on Is Ethanol the Answer to the Energy Dilemma? · · Score: 1

    We can either tear up the rest of the country to increase the available farm land or learn to eat petroleum!

  20. Re:Say goodbye to free air on Car Powered by Compressed Air · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope these guys aren't designing Mars landing craft!

  21. Cheap CD-R's ?? on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 1

    I hope you at least compare MD5sum's on each disk.
    Good quality CD-R's aren't all that expensive if you want to avoid giving coasters.

  22. Re:Barring reality. on The Monetary Economics of Thurston Howell III · · Score: 1

    A' La Pitcairn's Island?

  23. Does this mean.. on Plankton Can Make Clouds To Block UV · · Score: 1

    ..that plankton are contributing to the `acid rain problem'?

  24. Re:kind of old fashioned but, on Realistic Driving Simulator Games? · · Score: 1

    Also, you might teach him that being courteous, even if other people aren't, will get him there and back safely more often than any other tactic.
    This includes timely use of turn signals, flashing your brake-lights before you have to actually clamp down, and generally keeping track of the drivers AROUND you and what they want to do.
    And, in a tight spot, NEVER expect the other guy to make the right move!

  25. Re:kind of old fashioned but, on Realistic Driving Simulator Games? · · Score: 1

    Amen.