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  1. Re:Shale is coming on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 1

    Shale has been coming for the last 40 years. It will never amount to any meaningful supply due to logistical constraints. The same applies to tar sands.

  2. Birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    Copyright dinosaur-song, then sue them for prior art.

  3. I sold my Apple stock in 2005 on Apple Has Too Much Money · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought I was a genius for doubling my money.

  4. Political solutions on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Authoritarian Left  : Antibiotics in animal feed increase yields thus benefiting the proletariat.

    Authoritarian Right : Antibiotics in animal feed increase yields thus benefiting the shareholders.

    Libertarian Left    : If the superbug kills you then you can sue the farmer in court.

    Libertarian Right   : If the superbug kills you then you can sue the pathogen in court.

  5. You young people don't remember the horrors on Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of being stranded on the side of I95 in the dead of summer with steam pouring out of the hood of a behemoth Ford.

  6. Sorry folks... on NASA To Drastically Cut Mars Mission Funding · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The days of America's manned space program are over now that Medicare and Social Security are running deep into the red.

  7. Out goes one disaster on Kazuo Hirai To Assume CEO Position At Sony · · Score: 1

    In comes another disaster. Sony needs to return to its roots as a solid engineering company.

  8. Re:Germany - USA on America's Future Is In Software, Not Hardware · · Score: 1

    EU tariffs and VATs on imports is how.

  9. Philadelphia on Microsoft Patents Bad Neighborhood Detection · · Score: 2

    Instead of a dot representing the city on a map it should be a skull and crossbones.

  10. halal://persianbabes.allah on Iran Developing 'Halal' Domestic Intranet · · Score: 5, Funny

    in terms of popularity halal will rank above gopher but below telnet

  11. Re:has to corrects my code on Leap Second Coming In June, 2012 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's because the perl interpreter sends each script to Larry Wall for review and correction.

  12. has to corrects my code on Leap Second Coming In June, 2012 · · Score: 0

    if (($mon == 5) && ($mday==30)) {
       $sec = $sec + 1;
    } else {
       $sec = $sec;
    }

  13. Re:Iran isn't terribly scary, but $150 oil is. on Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games · · Score: 1

    They don't need to hit Europe. All they have to do is hit the oil infrastructure of Saudi Arabia which is conveniently located all along the gulf. This is the main reason Iran will not be attacked by the West.

  14. Re:What would an alternate universe be like... on Reinventing Xerox PARC As a Money Maker · · Score: 1

    Xerox tried to commercialize the Alto research with the Xerox Star in 1981.

  15. Re:Photogs? on The Rise and Fall of Kodak · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Kodak committed suicide in the mid 90s when management spun off Eastman Chemical, pharmaceutical and medical divisions. Management received nice bonuses though.

  16. My friends have selective memory on New Study Finds People Remember More Than They Think · · Score: 5, Funny

    They remember me when they need a ride to and from the airport, but they can't remember to pay me back the money they've borrowed.

  17. Completely different design mentalities on Sony Racing Apple To Develop 'a New Kind of TV' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The remote for the Sony TV will be a wall of buttons and under those buttons will be more buttons and there will also be a function key so that each button has 3 or more functions.

    The remote for the Apple TV will have no buttons and will probably be useless but at least it will look good on the fireplace mantle as a knick-knack.

  18. kevin knight on Copiale Cipher Decoded · · Score: 1

    a lone crusader in a cryptic world

  19. Hey Phil on Ask The Bad Astronomer · · Score: 2

    What date and time will Eta Carinae go hyper-nova?

  20. 5000 soldiers on US Troops To Leave Iraq By End of Year · · Score: 0

    and 70,000 'contractors'

  21. What science?? on The Science of Password Selection · · Score: 0

    Use month, underscore + year

    JULY_2011
    or
    July_2011 for systems that insist upon mixed case

  22. Yes your honor... on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 2

    I would like to cite the case of 'Finders vs Keepers'

  23. Re:Good on British NHS Patient Records Go To the Cloud · · Score: 1

    By contrast, the vast majority of medical records have nothing in them that is worse than mildly embarrassing
     
    Not in the US. Medical identity theft is used to perpetrate host of scams including medicare and prescription drug fraud.

  24. Re:Good on British NHS Patient Records Go To the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Health care entities in the US have been using remote computing services and data storage for over 30 years.

  25. Re:Usability is highly relevant and rarely examine on Electronic Health Records Now In All US Military Hospitals · · Score: 2

    Management doesn't really get the usability concept. Well they do eventually when the mortality rates rise and the lawsuits start coming in.