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  1. Re:Waste MORE time!? on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    Married. . . With Children.

  2. Re:Great stalking device. on Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid · · Score: 1

    Who wants to bet the the primary use of this device will be for stalking. All someone has to do is stash it in or under someone's car and they can be stalked from home via Google.

    That's a great idea! Thanks!

  3. Re:I'd rather have a GBC emulator for the DS on GBA Emulator Released For the DSi · · Score: 1

    That's why I still have my SP.

  4. I call shenanigans. . . on Trust an Insurance Company's "Drive-Cam?" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Especially when, according to a British insurance firm, computer engineers are most likely to crash

    I don't buy that - how many computer engineers are women?

    /ducks

  5. Re:Spoiler Alert on New Wheel of Time Book — Chapter One Online, Released Oct 27 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, Bela killed Asmodean.

  6. Re:Gitmo on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: 1

    I meant that as a joke, but "Troll" is close, right?

  7. Gitmo on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good thing Bush gave us the prison camp at Gitmo, and authorized waterboarding. Now all we need to do is officially declare war on Mother Earth; then these tools can be classified as "enemy combatants."

  8. Re:whatcouldpossiblygowrong on Solar Roadways Get DoT Funding · · Score: 1

    Of course it's cost effective. The first 12'x12' panel, 144 sq feet, cost US$100,000. So, 25,000 sq miles x 5280 feet x 5280 feet x ($100,000/144 sqft) = . . . $484,000,000,000,000. Is that. . . 484 trillion dollars? Where's Dr. Evil's laugh when we need it?

  9. So I don't know a damn thing about this. . . on Pidgin Adds Google Talk Voice and Video Support (and a Vulnerability) · · Score: 1

    . . . but if it's going through the MSN server, doesn't that imply that one would have to be running an MSN login?

    Does anyone actually use that anymore?

  10. Or Whatever the SEC version is. . . on No Social Media In These College Stadiums · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So in other words, I am not allowed to tweet, "Haha, the Bengals lost again?"

  11. Re:Pardon? on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    . . .if a parent can't answer to a child where babies come from it's not for lack of knowledge.

    Uh-huh. It could never be from ignorance.

  12. Thank God. . . on Study Catches Birds Splitting Into Separate Species · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . . for intelligently designing these species to evolve.

  13. And yet another layer of "Duh!" on Study Finds Delinquent Behavior Among Boys Is "Contagious" · · Score: 1

    "For boys who had been through the juvenile justice system, compared to boys with similar histories without judicial involvement, the odds of adult judicial interventions increased almost seven-fold,"

    Well, duh. If they're smart enough to not get caught when they're young, they're probably smart enough to not get caught when they're older.

  14. Re:You will have to know tech either way on Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You have to know tech either way, whether you continue to be in tech or go in to management

    I want to work where you do. My company hires management based on management experience, not experience in the field I work in. Then they quit after two months because they don't know what's going on and all the working stiffs are making fun of them. Hire new manager, rinse, and repeat.

  15. Re:They need an EDIC. on Massive Bank Fraud In EVE Online · · Score: 1

    How so?

    "WTB, one account"

    That would be the same response a virtual jail sentence would get, though.

  16. Re:They need an EDIC. on Massive Bank Fraud In EVE Online · · Score: 1

    I think that's what the banning represents. The offenders are not allowed to interact with the EVE society anymore.

  17. Re:I encourage this trend on Microsoft To Offer Windows 7 On USB Thumb Drives? · · Score: 1

    Now all we need is old Iron Eyes Cody to be standing by the highway, crying over a pile of USB sticks.

  18. Re:Iran and AT&T vs. Twitter on AT&T's Bad Math Strikes MythBusters' Savage · · Score: 1

    Nah, that's one of the things the bloggers are complaining about - that the beatings are more numerous than usual.

  19. Re:Iran and AT&T vs. Twitter on AT&T's Bad Math Strikes MythBusters' Savage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We'll claim Iran was humbled when we see some actual results. All we've seen so far is more beatings than there would have been without the internet.

  20. The only place I actually enjoy shopping. . . on Where Does a Geek Find a Social Life? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    . . . the book store.

  21. Re:Not Science, not anything on Buckyballs Polymerized Into Buckywires · · Score: 1

    I want to know why there is no proton NMR data - with the author claiming disubstitution of the fullerenes, at least initially, there should be a very clear shift in the proton spectrum of the methylene carbons.

  22. Re:Why Bucky-wires and not Bucky-snot? on Buckyballs Polymerized Into Buckywires · · Score: 3, Informative

    The bonding is controlled by both the thermodynamics of the multi-bonded fullerenes, as well as the kinetics involved in multiple crosslinkings, forcing fullerenes next to each other. If you read the actual article, the evidence suggests that the fullerenes are slowly polymerizing, and crosslinking - an NMR spectrum after several months implies that it actually is one, big, horrible mess (or not fullerenes anymore, depending on how skeptical you are of this).

  23. Re:As Someone Who Has to Support IE6 at Work ... on Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die · · Score: 1

    How about telling your bosses that IE 6 is dead, so maybe they'll tell the IT managers at my university, which rolled out last week a new registration system which only supports IE6, IE7, and Firefox 2. I really dislike having to go back two significant releases to have to register for classes. . .

  24. Re:Can we on Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 · · Score: 1

    I'm all for Ghostbusters 3, but I don't understand this idea to put the original cast in it. They left Schwarzenegger out of Terminator 4 for a reason.

    That reason being he is the Governor of California and didn't have time to do it (and yet he still manages to be in the film).

    Steven Spielberg looked like a bad directing job in the latest Indiana Jones.

    Fixed that for you.

  25. Re:But... on Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Legal, Says WI Court · · Score: 1

    Or if that's too invasive, require you to carry the device at all times?

    Nuts to that! I carry enough electronics around already!