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  1. Re:Handicapping, Ridiculous, Anti-Progress on 3D Hurts Your Eyes · · Score: 2

    Brodmann would gouge out his own eyes upon reading that...

  2. Re:I don't get it on PayPal Joins London Police Effort · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm given to understand that this happens anyway. In fact, Paypal is famous for suspending peoples' accounts for 180 days when they have a large balance, for example. No appeal. So really this isn't news IMO. Yeah ok maybe finally the music industry has cottoned on to the fact that their target should be people who make a living by ripping them off instead of 13 year olds, grandmothers, and cats because after all that's what copyright was originally designed to prevent, but apart from that I just don't see a story.

  3. I don't get it on PayPal Joins London Police Effort · · Score: 2

    There are people who actually pay for "pirated music" via paypal instead of, say, downloading it for free?

  4. Re:I've Got a Question on Has LHC Seen a Hint of the Higgs? · · Score: 0

    The same thing we've gained from all those other particle discoveries - a request for more funding and a promise that fusion is just 20 years away.

  5. Re:Not clear, yet, that it's terrorism. on Terror Attack On Norwegian Government · · Score: 1

    Yeah I hadn't seen that - no one had put it online yet. Poor bastards. What makes a man want to kill people for an imaginary friend?

  6. Moral of the story on The Loudness Wars May Be Ending · · Score: 1

    Music industry finds yet another way to shoot itself in the foot. But yeah, blame the pirates.

  7. Re:Not clear, yet, that it's terrorism. on Terror Attack On Norwegian Government · · Score: 1

    Agreed. No vehicle wreckage and the blast appears to have happened on one of the upper floors of the building meaning your bomber would have had to have been able to walk with his hundreds of kilos of ammonium nitrate all over the building. I doubt it. And the building turns out to be the Ministry of Oil and Gas. Perhaps they were storing something there that they shouldn't have been?

  8. Re:Console Manufacturers on EA Considers Service-Based Business Model For Sports Games · · Score: 1

    20-40 million per a stupid port of a fucking golfing game?

    Hey corporate jets are expensive!

  9. Re:Battles on Scientists Study Impact of Wearing Medieval Armor · · Score: 2

    No I meant the Napoleonic Wars where France had the whole world on the run for almost 20 years.

  10. Re:Battles on Scientists Study Impact of Wearing Medieval Armor · · Score: 1

    Good thing they got better in the 19th Century eh mon ami?

  11. Re:Way to go on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Doesn't matter if anyone gets prosecuted. Damages are $8 billion and counting, and News Corp is about to lose its credit rating. No court in the world could dish out this sort of damage.

  12. Re:Is this what it has come down to? on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mail servers have been hacked. Let's just see how many ethical wrongs they did, shall we?

    I thought we had gotten beyond the whole "eye for an eye" thing.

    I'm sorry, why is the US in Afghanistan again? Please keep your double standards away from me. You're not perfect either, you're just a dickhead that wants everyone else to believe how moral you are. Lulzec couldn't have picked a nicer target and I hope they find serious dirt on News Corp and their ilk.

  13. Re:Pretentious twits on Chain World — Innovative Game Design Sparks Debate · · Score: 3, Funny

    So the game is Mac only huh?

  14. Re:Typical game on Chain World — Innovative Game Design Sparks Debate · · Score: 1

    AD 3100. You place the thumb drive in your PC.

    You appear in a vast land, overlooked by a prominent golden Lord Juan statue and completely paved over with dead bodies to a great depth. One of the bodies near you appears to have been sexually molested .You see a lone vulture in the sky. The stench overcomes you. You are dead. Please transfer this thumb drive to the next player.

    Oh look, we are playing it now.

    Indeed.

  15. Re:Someone needs to check. on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1, Troll

    Get out of here and take your 2 million+ user id with you. You're no nerd. Go back to Fox News.

  16. Re:Tethered jailbreak on Apple IOS 4.3.4 Jailbroken Hours After Update · · Score: 1

    How often do you reboot your phone? And don't you want to connect it to your computer after you do anyway, to restore stuff?

  17. Re:Guilty until proven innocent on Facial Recognition Gone Wrong · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't need a license to drive a car. You need a license to drive a car on a PUBLIC ROAD. You have an inherent right to drive. When you want to drive in a public place, you have to prove that you meet certain standards for the safety of other public road users (thus the driving test). A license is not a "gift" from the government, it is in fact a responsibility that the government has ensured you are a safe vehicle operator. Eventually this has turned into an additional source of revenue and now, apparently, a "privilege". Beware of people who say rights are privileges, they are the ones who would see you in chains.

  18. Re:How is this specific to the Internet on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1

    There was a little more effort involved in looking something up in an encyclopedia. Going through the index. No scroll. Tiny print. Flipping pages. This effort is what makes the difference. When things are too easy we tend to take them for granted.

  19. Re:Bad teachers and bad students on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1

    Ahh yes, I call them the copy & paste generation. Absolutely no ambition, thinking is a chore and a tedious bore to be done between Facebook/Playstation/Starcraft sessions.

  20. Re:Still out on... on The Science Behind Fanboyism · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ie. Apple customer. Hey what? Someone had to say it, might as well be me.

  21. Re:old news on Vodafone Femtocells Rooted, Secret Keys Exposed · · Score: 1

    nope, that was too short. So it was "sys123".

  22. Re:Other interesting things on Undersea Cable Map Shows Where The Data Pipes Are · · Score: 1

    What is the point of laying something like that?

    Connecting to the rest of the world through a European telecommunication company instead of an American one? The point is it was probably cheaper.

  23. Re:Svlabard has a 5 TB cable? on Undersea Cable Map Shows Where The Data Pipes Are · · Score: 1

    Someone has to track the submarines...

  24. Re:Marie Antoinette on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 0

    What do you mean "this economy"? If the government is to be listened to, everything is just peachy! The Dow is above 12,000! Recovery, right?

  25. Re:No rage, just a lost customer. on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So expensive that they were able to build a huge company on it but now, suddenly, it's not profitable. Wake up and smell the cash grab.