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  1. Re:No surprise here on The Men Who Stare At Airline Passengers, Coming To the UK · · Score: 1
    Just Iraqi troops, not US or British.

    http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/01/23/magic-wand-bomb-detector-deemed-fraudulent-inventor-imprisoned/

    But yeah, some folks are absolutely convinced that dowsing, bomb detector magic wands, and flying spaghetti monsters are the absolute truth.

  2. Re:whatever. on Yahoo Faces Questions After Discovery Of Comment Replication · · Score: 1

    In Yahoo news, old comments append you!

  3. Re:That's nothing on Yahoo Faces Questions After Discovery Of Comment Replication · · Score: 2, Informative

    Different content on the same subject or a completely different subject? Often the AP or whoever is doing the article will update and change it around a bit over time, especially on breaking news. Sometimes it is difficult to determine how and when it was changed, sometimes they tell you.

  4. Re:It doesn't make any difference on Yahoo Faces Questions After Discovery Of Comment Replication · · Score: 1

    Don't forget all the cranks and crazies. Yahoo's news comment system is a complete waste of time and I have no idea why they have it. They got rid of it for a while, then brought it back. Without any sort of moderation or sanity checking, it's like listening to talk radio without call screening.

  5. Re:Space = you're going too slow on Traffic-Flow Algorithm Can Reduce Fuel Consumption · · Score: 1

    you drive 12.5 mph downtown and people only "sometimes" honk at you? If you do this on a regular basis, make a sign that explains what you are doing so other drivers don't think you are insane.

  6. Re:It astounds me on Traffic-Flow Algorithm Can Reduce Fuel Consumption · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Lights are intentionally mis-timed for safety. During rush-hour around here, you can breeze past most lights, always catching the green. Once rush hour passes, the lights are set so you hit every single frickin' light and can't catch a green. Forces everyone to slow down, consume gas, but hey... think of the children!

  7. Re:Summary is gibberish on Why Are Indian Kids So Good At Spelling? · · Score: 1

    is the summary basically gibberish?

    Not only that, but when I read TFA (yeah, I know), a lot of the links went nowhere.

    Kinda like customer service at a call center, cept they probably didn't repeat the same script 3 times. "Yes, how can help you?"

  8. Re:Sigh... apple on iPad Steering Wheel Mount · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just wait until the airbag deploys. That will be a real treat.

  9. Re:Black market? on Apple Reverses iPad "No Cash Purchase" Policy · · Score: 1
    Apple.com and the Apple retail stores are sales to end users only. That means no buying for resale. Buying for resale means you have to open a reseller account, which they may or may not approve, and providing information and a picture of your retail establishment.

    http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/salespolicies.html#topic-3

  10. Re:Laptop Useage in Class? on Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Yes. Absolutely.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030804915.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010030805078

  11. Can it fit into most airport's taxiways and gates? on MIT Designs Aircraft That Uses 70% Less Fuel Than Conventional Planes · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Sure, long thin wings, or a flying wing design are great, but widening aircraft past existing designs would be a nightmare for airports. There is a certain amount of space to fit airplanes while they are moving around on the ground, and wider planes = more of a hassle.

    http://blog.flightstory.net/272/airbus-a380-hits-hangar-in-bangkok/

    http://home.iwichita.com/rh1/hold/av/avhist/abs/a380flys.htm

  12. Re:Hypochondria? on Doctors Seeing a Rise In "Google-itis" · · Score: 1

    Hi! I'm Clippy, your disease assistant. Would you like some assistance today? It looks like you are trying to diagnose syphilis. Sometimes blisters just pop up for no particular reason, like now.

  13. Re:I'll wait for the iDriver on EyeDriver Lets Drivers Steer Car With Their Eyes · · Score: 1

    Just don't leave your iDriver parked where Gizmodo can buy it from some guy who "finds" it.

  14. Boobies on EyeDriver Lets Drivers Steer Car With Their Eyes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So we want cars to steer towards what we are looking at? Seriously? You want to have all the cute women in the world run over?

  15. "Coal-miner look"? on Hacking Big Brother With Help From Revlon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, if you read TFA, its more of a mad-max bad 80s thunderdome / ww1 dazzle / ranger camouflage than blackface or a football player's mascara.

  16. Re:Get it Back on After DNA Misuse, Researchers Banished From Havasupai Reservation · · Score: 5, Informative
    Read TFA

    Acknowledging a desire to “remedy the wrong that was done,” the university’s Board of Regents on Tuesday agreed to pay $700,000 to 41 of the tribe’s members, return the blood samples and provide other forms of assistance to the impoverished Havasupai — a settlement that legal experts said was significant because it implied that the rights of research subjects can be violated when they are not fully informed about how their DNA might be used.

  17. This isn't a new issue... on After DNA Misuse, Researchers Banished From Havasupai Reservation · · Score: 2, Informative
    The IP rights and ownership of biological materials has been an important intellectual property issue for quite a while. Who owns or should commercially benefit from cell lines and tissue samples has been litigated several times.

    Quick google search turned up http://www.dddmag.com/intellectual-property-and-biological-materials.aspx which is a summary of some of the important cases.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_v._Regents is one of the "big" cases, and worth reading the wikipedia summary of, " The California Supreme Court ruled that Moore had no right to any share of the profits realized from the commercialization of anything developed from his discarded body parts."

  18. Re:Nerds on NASA Solar Satellite's First Sun Images · · Score: 1

    Well, real nerds would argue about mass, not weight. Or something.

  19. Aren't we at a solar minimum? on NASA Solar Satellite's First Sun Images · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Not sure of the extra-specialness of a solar observatory at the time of a record setting solar minimum.

    "During 2008-2009 NASA scientists noted that the Sun is undergoing a "deep solar minimum," stating: "There were no sunspots observed on 266 of [2008's] 366 days (73%). Prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008. Sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of September 14, there were no sunspots on 206 of the year's 257 days (80%). It adds up to one inescapable conclusion: "We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum," says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "This is the quietest sun we've seen in almost a century," agrees sunspot expert David Hathaway of the National Space Science and Technology Center NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center.

    from wikipedia quoting legitimate sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_minimum

    I'm all for space exploration, but the TFA should at least mention the solar minimum. And isn't http://solarstormwatch.com/ more interestin' anyway?

  20. Re:6800 lbs? on NASA Solar Satellite's First Sun Images · · Score: 1

    Still need the volume in library of congresses. Or breadboxen.

  21. It wasn't the DoD... It was Aliens! on Woman Tells State Judiciary Committee, "DoD Implanted A Microchip Inside Me" · · Score: 5, Funny
    Everyone knows vaginal-rectal tracking is Martian territory, not the Department of Defense. The taint is pure red planet; DoD has an oral fixation. Doesn't anyone research these things?

    Just proves that they are educated evil and too stupid smart to understand implanted tracking devices and timecubes.

  22. Re:Don't worry... on Microbe Mat the Size of Greece Discovered In the Sea · · Score: 1

    Don't call Cthulhu a microbial mat... just upsets his dreams. They do have the "size of Greece" thing right.

  23. Text is still up on Fine Print Says Game Store Owns Your Soul · · Score: 1
    By placing an order via this web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamesation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions. We reserve the right to serve such notice in 6 (six) foot high letters of fire, however we can accept no liability for any loss or damage caused by such an act. If you a) do not believe you have an immortal soul, b) have already given it to another party, or c) do not wish to grant Us such a license, please click the link below to nullify this sub-clause and proceed with your transaction. Click here to nulify your soul transfer.

    http://www.gamestation.co.uk/Help/TermsAndConditions/

  24. Re:Context? on Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings · · Score: 3, Informative
    In a press conference on April 5, 2010 at the National Press Club (USA), Wikileaks released a video "showing murder of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists".[106] The 38 min video shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site reveals that US military mistook the journalists' cameras for AK-47s and a Rocket-propelled grenade, and opened fire, resulting in the violent death of several people, including the two Reuters news staff Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#Airstrike_Video_Release

    Reuters article: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1617459520070716

  25. Re:Degradation of Freedom on New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders · · Score: 1
    Obviously no mods are Dana Carvey fans.

    Anyway, my point is, people have been bitching about "they sky is falling and things are unparalleledly shitty o noes!" for as long as people have been capable of bitching. Ug the caveman most likely looked around and thought that bipedal locomotion was a giant step downhill (ha!).