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  1. On the other hand on Study: Martian Soil Has Signs of Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    I react very badly with them.

  2. It's a scream on Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled for Breaking Arms · · Score: 1

    actually.

  3. Recall the players on Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled for Breaking Arms · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's really the players that are defective. The game is fine.

  4. Then it is not theft.... on UK Police Cracking Down on Broadband Theft · · Score: 1
    TFA is about cracking down on theft.

    If you deliberately share your bandwidth allocation within the limits of your agreement with your ISP then it is not theft.

    If, however, the ISP says you are not allowed to share it but you do then that is theft.

  5. More like an extension cord on UK Police Cracking Down on Broadband Theft · · Score: 1
    A running hose just wastes the water if nobody uses it.

    Awifi connection does not use internet resource if nobody uses it. Thus, a better analogy would be an extension cord in the street. Is it wrong to take someone else's electricity if you just happen upon their extension cord?

  6. Light != wifi on UK Police Cracking Down on Broadband Theft · · Score: 1
    Very bad comparison.

    The 1000W light is just waste and using it does not use up anybody's resources. However making a connection to their wifi uses more than just wasted resources.

  7. There is a problem on UK Police Cracking Down on Broadband Theft · · Score: 1

    You are giving away the ISPs services for free. All this freeloading removes money from the industry.... and who's going to whine when there's insufficient bandwidth for everything you want to do?

  8. What about the 1 pound books? on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 4, Funny

    Weight discrimination again!

  9. Re:Does anyone know 2? on Google Ready to Bid on 700 MHz · · Score: 1
    Is there off-the-shelf equipment for 700MHz? If not, then anyone buying a 700MHz solution will be locked in to that provider.

    Private spectrum is not really any different to any other kinds of lock-in.

  10. Bad comparison on Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace Rocket Crashes and Burns · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Significant rocketry started in the 1940s and space travel in the 1950s. That's over 50 years to get its shit together. Yet, in approx 120 launches the space shuttle program has lost two vehicles/crews in huge fireballs. If planes crashed that often LAX would have a crash before breakfast every morning.

    Or, put another way... within 20 years of the Wright Brothers the airplane industry had far better safety records than the space industry does after 50 years.

  11. Any companies driven by passion? on Free Tuition for Math, Science, and Engineering? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many companies are really driven by passion? Yes there are some but they are very rare. Most live quarter-by-quarter trying to pump up their share price. They do this by following the latest Wall St fashions. Right-sizing, diversifying, refocussing, out sourcing... In that context, passion is a meaningless emotion.

  12. Where's the motivation? on Free Tuition for Math, Science, and Engineering? · · Score: 1
    Sure some science disciplines have high employment, but many/most don't and those opportunities are getting less. Why would an American company want to pay high salaries for American scientists when they can get quality scientists cheaper in China/India?

    Many scientists earn less than truck drivers. Where's the motivation?

  13. Control? on Top 25 Hottest Open-Source Projects at Microsoft Codeplex · · Score: 3, Interesting
    There are already many other sites such as sourceforge that have provided Windows OSS for many years.

    MS is harly breaking new ground here. So, what is their interest? Control?

  14. STALLION on US Shuts Down Controversial Anti-Terror Database · · Score: 5, Funny

    Secret Threat and Local Liberal Interferer Observation Notice

  15. Perhaps same problem in reverse on Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance? · · Score: 1
    The problem you had was because the two boards shared interrupts and the sound interrupt was also triggering handling of the ethernet code.

    Perhaps Vista has the opposite problem and does not handle shared interrupts properly, so when the sound and ethernet interrupts happen the processing gets screwed up.

  16. You've never fired a gun have you? on Gunplay Blamed For Cutting Fiber · · Score: 0, Redundant
    No rifle will be able to send a bullet along 1km of fibre. The fibre was shot multiple times over the km.

    Depending on the number of breaks it might be easier/cheaper to just replace the whole km of fibre.

  17. More accidents are inevitable on Nuclear Info Kept From Congress and the Public · · Score: 1
    For a few reasons...

    People are fallable and make mistajes. No matter the safeguards and systems in place, people will screw up. Sure you might be able to fire them for not following procedure etc, but that won't clean up the mess.

    Safety is not king. Money is. Operators are very reluctant to scram reactors or spend up huge on safety and equipment "just in case" because they really want to maximise profits. Thus, they operate in the risk zone. Bad calls are inevitable.

  18. Just shows on Student Finds 5000-Year-Old Chewing Gum · · Score: 1

    Everyone was just looking at the cute chick and not RTFcaptions.

  19. !!!Sensationalism!!!!!! on DMCA Means You Can't Delete Files On Your PC? · · Score: 0, Troll
    C'mon: all the author of TFA did was write some words and stuff....

    TFA belongs in the pile with "Republicans fail to stop Hurricane Katrina, poor folks' houses destroyed!"

  20. Carnot is only part of it on Heat Wave Shuts Down Alabama Reactor · · Score: 1

    One heat-to-mechanical cycle is limited by the Carnot cycle, but the waste heat can still be used for other purposes even driving other heat-to-mechanical cycles working at lower tempertaures. Of course if you placed the reactor at the coast you could use the waste heat to do things like desalination.

  21. Putting frosting on a turd.... on Diebold Rebrands What No One Wants · · Score: 2, Insightful

    doesn't change it into chocolate cake!

  22. Re:Watching movies is not physics homework... on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Perhaps learning should be entertaining, but the reverse does not apply. Not all entertainment needs to be educational.

    It is therefore bizarre to expect entertainment to be factually accurate.

  23. That's actually a snail trail on NASA Finds Star With a Tail · · Score: 1

    because it is moving so slowly.

  24. Imagine if the English profs get hold of this on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 1
    The way people talk in movis is impacting on people's English. People in movies should only speak in the Queen's English with no profanities, slang or double negatives.

    ... or if the cops got hold of it. Movies plots glorify crime. People in movies should not break laws. They should drive carefully and keep to the speed limits.

  25. Watching movies is not physics homework... on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and it ain't no muthufukin English homework neither!