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  1. Isn't this inaccurate? on Italian Scientists Put Robot Spiders In Your Colon · · Score: 1

    Endoscopy is when the scope goes down your throat. Colonoscopy is when it goes into the colon, where the spiders from Mars are going.

    I wouldn't normally bring this up but /. accuracy nazis abound.

  2. But if you can't wait... on AT&T To Allow VoIP On iPhone · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just jailbreak your phone and use Voipover3G

    It's super easy and it has saved me lots of overage $$$$

  3. Makes perfect sense..... on Most Mac Owners Also Own a Windows PC, But Not Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    I would guess that most people who own a Mac just got tired of dealing with all the issues of the WinTel dynasty.

    Doesn't make sense to just throw them out though.... yet

  4. How about patent reform? on Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While we're on a reform kick in this country maybe we could undertake patent reform.

  5. Other nuggets on What the DHS Knows About You · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Looks like he went Tampa to London via Houston (used to be Intercontinental) and then mysteriously flew from Charles DeGaulle in Paris back to Tampa via Newark. (Hmmmmmm.. what of the missing segment? Hmm? Hmm?!!!)

    Seat numbers are clearly visible at the end of each flight segment as well.

    The history of every PNR (personal name record) has ALWAYS been tracked by CRS systems.

    Looks like the flights he was scheduled for had some schedule changes and his seat had to be changed also.

    Certainly does a lot of international travel huh?

    Customs and Immigration has always been interested in suspicious behavior though.

    1. Fly to South America and pay cash for your ticket? Expect to be stopped at re-entry
    2. Didn't eat your meal on the way back from Central or South America? Expect to be stopped at re-entry
    3. Fly international more than twice a month? Expect to be stopped at re-entry


    It's good ole profiling at it's best and there's nothing you can do about it. It's a "national security" issue. I speak from experience. I have been stopped 30 consecutive times on international flights. Every flight I ever took until that passport was renewed.

  6. Wow.. on US Supercomputer Uses Flash Storage Drives · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine a beo...... umm.. nevermind

  7. And what of.. on Former Intel CEO Andy Grove Wants Struggling Industries To Stop Slacking · · Score: 1

    software patents Mr. Grove? Has that helped creativity? I would have loved to have seen Mr. Grove go further and address this topic.

  8. Gee it's almost impressive..... on How a Team of Geeks Cracked the Spy Trade · · Score: 1

    There has been this notion that somehow if you can shove a bunch of data through algorithms that somehow you can catch terrorist networks.

    More likely you're just wasting time and here's why: terrorists don't act or usually exhibit predictable and trackable behavior like normal people. Typically they deal with disposable cell phones, cash and other "untrackables".

    These guys have managed to come up with Yet Another Terrorist Tracking Tool®

  9. This makes perfect sense on Hosting Data-Transfer Quotas Are Fading Out · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of people who have a website generally don't come anywhere near their limits. Generally people think that just because they put a website up about their cat that the world is going to be just as interested in it as they are.

    Heh heh... seriously.....

    If your getting serious traffic that means you're going past limits (obviously warez sites excepted) then you're happy to pay a little more when you expand.

  10. Google Reality Check on Google Patents Its Home Page · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the hipster-doofus lovefest that is for all things Google, it's important to remember one critical, key point

    Google is a publicly traded company and it's only obligation is to make a profit for shareholders

    That means doing things like filing for ridiculous patents (because everyone else does it) and co-operating with bending to the will of Chinese authorities (because if we don't some other search company will and make all the money)

    "Do no evil" is more of a guideline than a rule with Google. Maybe they should file a copyright for "We do less evil than everyone else"

  11. Rob A. Bank on Swedish Regulators Ban Word "Bank" In Domain Names For Non-Banks · · Score: 2, Informative

    A friend of mine is named Robert A. Bank or "rob a bank". It's true. Good thing he isn't Swedish.

  12. Why do we continually overlook the obvious? on Watermelon Juice Makes Great Biofuel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Although watermelons and corn can make biofuels: I offer you a much better alternative: Kudzu vine. It's already been synthesized into kudzuhol Kudzu grows up to a foot a day, it's the vine that ate the south. It just seems a waste to convert perfectly good food to biofuel.

  13. Wow this brings up a good point.... on Apple vs. Google, Who Will Control the iPhone? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In the hipster-doofus lovefest that is for all things Apple/Google it's important to note one very key point about your benevolent dictators:

    AAPL/GOOG are publicly traded companies and as such their only obligation is to make a profit for their stockholders

    That means AAPL does things like heading further down it's proprietary path (yeah when Microsoft does it people scream about it) and Google does things that they have to to make a profit (like cooperating with Chinese authorities which turns "Do No Evil" into a guideline and not a rule.)

    Maybe they should change their motto to "We do less evil than everyone else"

  14. Was it DSL related? on Verizon Sued After Tech Punches Customer In Face · · Score: 1

    You know, like maybe the customer was doubting that DSL was "broadband". (And I don't mean Josie and the Pussycats)

  15. Try this.. on How To Stop Businesses Storing SSNs Indefinitely? · · Score: 1

    The Social Security Administration doesn't accept paranoia as a criterion for granting a new card, but it recognizes cultural objections and religious pleas. One stratagem: Contend that your credit has been irrevocably damaged by a number-related snafu, or that you live in fear of a stalker who knows your digits. Once you switch your SSN, never use it. Instead, dole out 078-05-1120, an Eisenhower-era card that works 99 percent of the time.

  16. Re:all hail... on Underground App Store Courts the Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    This just in, it's official, Iphone users are revolting!!!
    They may be smarmy and a little smelly but revolting? That's a little harsh sir!

  17. The Feds are alarmed? on Feds At DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned · · Score: 1

    You don't say? They go to Defcon and this happens? Good gracious me oh my. Kinda the point of DefCon isn't it?

  18. SN != AL on Feds At DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned · · Score: 1

    SN != AL It's not tinfoil, it's aluminum foil. You'd think that the flock of nerds here would have that figured by now.

  19. Even Radio Shack's CEO is amazed... on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 1
  20. Reality check regarding Apple on Apple Tries To Gag Owner of Exploding iPod · · Score: 1

    It's important in times like these to take a little break from the hipster-doofus lovefest with Apple to remember one thing....

    Apple is a publicly traded company and as such their only obligation is to make a profit for shareholders.

    That means things like closing off Darwin, heading more and more down their proprietary path and to quell dissent or other actions that may hurt the Apple juggernaut.

  21. Re:Profits, but for whom? on Stock Market Manipulation By Millisecond Trading · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Really? Using the right to bear arms argument as the common man rising against the government? When betting on an Apache helicopter and your armed uprising, my money is on the Apache.

    The second amendment is dead.

  22. Wow good thing..... on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 0, Troll

    that Sarah Palin was looking at Russia from her porch and spotted this!

  23. There's a fair number of useless apps on Staying Afloat In a Sea of iPhone Apps · · Score: 4, Informative

    My advice, jailbreak your phone. Apple touts the sheer number of apps as something wonderful but I don't need 5 different apps that can make my iPhone into a flashlight.

    Jailbreaking my iPhone in the first hour yielded me apps from Cydia that allow me to record video, tether my iPhone and most importantly blacklist callers and SMS. Just this morning I successfully got Perl 5.10 running on it.

    Point is, just don't look to the App Store if you want something useful.

  24. The one thing that could derail this would be.... on Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010 · · Score: 1

    Mac OS for PCs. Wouldn't u love that?

  25. From Mark Cuban? Take it with a grain of salt on If You Live By Free, You Will Die By Free · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So he built broadcast.com, sold it to Yahoo! and made a ton of money: what else has Cuban done? I mean really?

    I tend to take everything he says with a grain of salt.