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  1. Re:Om nom nom on Scientists Advocate Replacing Cattle With Insects · · Score: 1

    In places where large clouds of flies congregate...

    Oh, I thought this was going to be a post about Anna Bligh.

  2. Re:Encryption broken? on Google Broke the Law, Say South Korean Police · · Score: 1

    There was probably some aspect of the data that was encoded in some way

    Like this:

    A=U
    B=R
    C=Q
    ...
    X=P
    Y=E
    Z=A
    etc.

  3. Re:What gives you the right to send signals... on Google Broke the Law, Say South Korean Police · · Score: 2

    If you are going to blast the signal to me I have every right to listen/decode/see what you are bombarding my property with 24/7.

    I completely agree. And the answer to the GP's various questions is "Yes, it would be OK." It's up the the emitter to restrict emissions that he wants to remain private. That includes photons/vibrations/radio/heat.

  4. Re:I'm all for banning guns on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    but that means all guns if civilians don't have guns why would police or military need them? Unless to kill unarmed people.

    Or you know, they could just shoot suspects in the leg as they make their getaway. Why would they have to kill?

  5. Re:There was an old cartoon that had this on Swedish Firm Proposes City Buildings On Rails · · Score: 1

    The buildings were all on rails and moved around as needed, and people got on a stationary "train" car while the buildings came to them in a strange inversion of normal travel methods

    That happens anyway if you believe in Einstein's Relativity theory.

  6. Re:SINGLE SIGN ON?! on Will Facebook Become the Net's SSO? · · Score: 1

    It's not that much work. Here's another expansion, just for you...

    Simson Garfinkel at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review...

  7. Re:Fake product reviews on Google's Next Challenge, Spam Results · · Score: 1

    Someone please tell me if it's possible with Google, to search for pages that contain 6:6 but do not contain 6-6 or 6/6 or any other character between the sixes.

    Searching for "6:6" (even using the quotes) still returns results based on pages with 6-6 in them and other non-matches. And searching for "6:6" -"6-6" returns no results at all!

    I'm finding Google search to be more and more like 'Clippy' every day. Trying to read my mind and mostly getting it wrong.

    Dear Google, how can I search for pages which contain six-colon-six?

    Also please rename your 'Advanced' search to 'Slightly Less Basic' search.

  8. Re:"If you consider the iPad to be a PC" on Apple Passes $300B Market Cap, 2nd In the World · · Score: 1

    If I call a horse's tail a leg, how many legs does that horse have?

    6 if it's a boy.

  9. Re:Fake product reviews on Google's Next Challenge, Spam Results · · Score: 1

    All too often after searching Google with a few keywords, I'll click on one of the first results, and then use the 'Find in page' function in my browser to look up those same keywords... 0 matches found in page! This is an unbelievably frequent occurrence.

  10. Re:No alarm? Thank god! on iPhone Alarms Hit By New Year's Bug · · Score: 1

    I bought my girlfriend an iPhone, and the damn thing seems to set off the alarm at random times.

    Well then why don't you just tell her not to?

  11. Re:PDF is hacker-friendly way of making leaks on Detailing the Security Risks In PDF Standard · · Score: 1

    A real hacker doesn't call himself a hacker, you tool.

    Does he call himself gothmolly?

  12. Re:Yahoo email. on Some Hotmail Accounts Wiped · · Score: 2

    Secret questions are the worst "security" feature ever.

    They are a great feature if you always make your answer nonsensical with respect to the question.
    eg. Question: What was the name of your first pet? Answer: July 23, 1994

  13. Re:Far from it... on Has the Industrialized World Reached Peak Travel? · · Score: 0

    Ah, no kids? Your perspective might change as your lifestyle advances.

    Kids? You mean as your lifestyle retreats?

  14. 62 miles per hour on South Korea Launches First Electric Bus Fleet · · Score: 1

    They have a maximum speed of...

    Which, as anyone who has been to Korea will tell you, is done precisely 2.3 seconds after an old lady gets on the bus, and hasn't taken her seat yet.

  15. Re:Job? on Assange Has Signed Book Deals Worth $1.5 Million+ · · Score: 1

    You mean like J.K. Rowling? Writing is a real job.

  16. Re:I can't restore any files on What's the Oldest File You Can Restore? · · Score: 1

    Backups are not archives, and archives are not backups.

    Thank you. This is worth repeating.

  17. Re:Damn You George Bush!!! on Crookes, RIAA, MPAA, ICE — 'Linking Is Publishing' · · Score: 1

    I can't wait for Obama to be inaugurated!

    Forgive me if I don't get the reference, but I think it's spelled 'incarcerated'.

  18. Re:Linking can be deceptive! on Crookes, RIAA, MPAA, ICE — 'Linking Is Publishing' · · Score: 1

    ...and steal bandwidth...Such practices should be illegal.

    I don't believe in bandwidth theft. PERIOD. If your server serves a request, then it has technically been served willingly, not by force.

  19. Re:This isn't helping. on Crookes, RIAA, MPAA, ICE — 'Linking Is Publishing' · · Score: 2

    Where do you get that he downloads?

    I inferred it from the word 'also', which came directly after his sentence about pirates.

    I also buy...

  20. Re:Good luck with that on Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names · · Score: 1

    Foolish and a waste of money.

    Agreed, however even if they came up with 10,000 combinations of 'abusive' domains, with a bulk registration discount the 'waste' has hardly a drop in the ocean compared to bank profits. Even at $5 per domain that's only $50k.

  21. Re:Why is the single line perceived least efficien on Scientifically, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line · · Score: 1

    With single-line, there is usually some sort of winding chicane/fencing, so during quiet times, it's a much longer winding convoluted walk to the cashier, than a multi-line set up where you would just be able to walk directly to the cashier.

  22. Re:Idle? on 8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study · · Score: 1

    Method:

    1. Drink sample A.
    2. Feed sample B to partner.
    3. Check each other for side effects.

  23. Reality Check Network with Torrent / Tubes on The Year In Downtime · · Score: 1

    Most noticeable one for me was when Reality Check Network went down knocking over hundreds of torrent and tube sites as well as thousands of other non-torrent and non-porn sites.

  24. Re:most of the PAY warez sites seems to seen scams on RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police · · Score: 1

    I know things about 419 scams

    That's a lot. Can you list them all for me?

  25. Re:Some people do not even watch TV on Internet Usage Catches Up With Television In US · · Score: 1

    The externally-imposed schedule is what killed TV for me years ago.

    I rarely watch TV anymore, but this 'externally-imposed schedule' is what draws me BACK to the TV... for those times when I'm so bored I can't think what to watch on the pc, it's actually nice to just switch on the idiot box and be spoon-fed for a while.