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  1. Panic app on Cell Phones Could Sniff Out Deadly Chemicals · · Score: 1

    A chip costing less than a dollar would be embedded in cell phones and programmed to either alert the cell phone carrier to the presence of toxic chemicals in the air, and/or a central station that can monitor how many alerts in an area are being received

    And how about alerting the user that paid for the phone in the first place? I want flashing red-on-yellow big letters that say, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! With a loud siren sound too.

  2. Re:Hmmm... on NASA Summoned To Fix Prius Problems · · Score: 2, Informative

    Government has been helping car manufacturers, banks, wall street execs, etc, etc. for a long time now. Hope you aren't just realizing this now. Otherwise, put the shotgun and the shaving blades in a locked compartment and throw the key away, cause you are in for a depressing ride...

  3. Re:Traitors beware! on Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates · · Score: 1

    The moral of the story is villagers don't have sharp objects.

  4. Slaves will do anything for a buck on Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I was young and I needed the money" isn't what it used to be...

  5. broadcasting programs on NASA Gives Mars Rover Extra Smarts · · Score: 1

    Hypotetically speaking: If they broadcast the programs, and I get that transmission and save that software. Is it considering pirating?

  6. If he'd really want to help the world... on Bill Gates May Build Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    If he'd really want to help the world, he'd make it open source and he would GPL it, but we know him already.

  7. 5 reasons on 5 Reasons Tablets Suck, and You Won't Buy One · · Score: 1

    5 reasons not to click on a link to an enumerative article:

    1 - Most of the time you get 1 of those items per page, exposing you to more banners and stuff.
    2 - They tell you nothing new.
    3 - Sometimes, reasons are invented just because they have to have 3, 5, or 10 reasons, never 6.
    4 - They are poorly written. The "N reasons [to|not to]" are the best cost/benefit for the site owner, they get the article up in minutes and the title gets zillions of wondering surfers to their site. They don't want to inform you, they want you to see the banners or they want to promote their blog/site.
    5 - Just because you probably have something better to do with your time, like reading this post.

  8. Concerts / Sports on Piezo Crystals Harness Sound To Generate Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    So Rock and Metal bands can illuminate their concerts by playing louder? Niiicee
    Also think the soccer / football matches, the louder the fans, the brighter the field.

  9. Can someone explain me this? on Scientology Tries To Block German Documentary · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can someone who knows about legal stuff explain me this?
    How come Scientology can shut everyone that tries to talk about them and we don't see any corporation doing that too? I mean, what gives Scientology the right to do it while denying it to everyone else? Or is it that the corps just choose not to use that right? I don't think that would be the case.
    Think of all the articles talking sh1t about MS, Apple, you name it. If they had the same rights, they would be able to silence every news article talking bad about them.

  10. dynamic-binbing darwinism on Accidental Wii Suicide · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry for the kid, but parents stupid enough to leave a loaded gun at reach of a 3 year old (and then blame a wii controller!) should have died long time ago leaving no offspring.

  11. Re:You know things are bad when ... on LHC Will Be Shut Down In 2011 Because of "Mistake" · · Score: 1

    Someone it's playing with Time. That copy of text just wasn't there when the editors saw the article.

  12. Who want to bet.. on The World's First Commercially Available Jetpack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ..that the first kill by one of these is a multi-millionaire executive of a top company that missed to reach his office's window on the 100th floor after commuting from a distance which burned most of his fuel?

  13. Re:Must be a slow news day... on Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity · · Score: 1

    I have synaesthesia and the brown tastes like shit, you insensitive clod!

  14. Re:DRM? on Write Bits Directly Onto a Hard Drive Platter? · · Score: 1

    At first I thought he wanted to do a platter printer kind-of thing. Upload your pic and see it being "printed" on the disk. For art, you know.
    Immediately, I thought you could hide an image or a printed message in a disk with full of junk data. Guess you can't fight your inner self...

  15. Newbie! on GoDaddy Wants Your Root Password · · Score: 1

    That's why if you are serious about your data you should run your own server on your own rack on your own hosting company connected with your own pipes; Use your own DNSs servers, your own CA and of course your TLD.

  16. Re:I'm lost. on New Bounds On the Higgs Boson Mass · · Score: 1

    Thanks mate. Not only you helped parent, but many of us who are legos in this matter. Thanks for taking the time to write it.

  17. Start your own tracker! on Italian Court Rules ISPs Must Block Access To Pirate Bay · · Score: 2, Informative
  18. It happens because we let them on Amazon Surrenders To Macmillan On eBook Pricing · · Score: 1

    Pirate their books until they are broke. They've "earned" so much already. Free the knowledge.

  19. Re:What's the marginal cost of production on an eb on Amazon Surrenders To Macmillan On eBook Pricing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is that your definition of "marginal cost of production"?

  20. Re:Ok US complainers on US Blocking Costa Rican Sugar Trade To Force IP Laws · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course nobody did, and it's not your fault. But that doesn't mean you can stand rested with your arms crossed now. Democracy is about breathing in the necks of the politicians EVERY SINGLE DAY, cause the day you don't do it, things like these happen.

  21. Re:Single person != single identity on Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    Batman is that you?

  22. Re:Google may lose China... on Google.cn Attack Part of a Broad Spying Effort · · Score: 1

    Well, of course they can't think and everything you said for themselves, but their behavior is like if they did. Maybe I chose not the best words. Ever heard of the invisible hand? Specially, if they are public like another replier commented. People who doesn't make the company perform the way shareholders want will get fired and replaced by someone who can.

  23. Re:Google may lose China... on Google.cn Attack Part of a Broad Spying Effort · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can't believe people still fall for the naive "Don't be evil" motto these days.

    Google is a corporation, doing evil or not doing it may apply for people, but corporations are entities that operate way above those simple "good/right" and "bad/wrong" terms. They don't have sentiments, morale or regrets. They follow the economy rules without asking themselves whether something it's right or wrong. And following those rules can make them do horrible things which they'll do without hesitation if there's a buck to be made.

  24. Re:Cue the conspiracy theory nut-jobs... on CIA Teams Up With Scientists To Monitor Climate · · Score: 1

    BS, this is a distraction operation from the stuff that really matters: US economy, never-ending war in the middle east with more and more reinforcements, bailouts, etc. So newspapers today will copy this story instead of the important ones. Front page's real state has a limit, so they flood the system with tons of sensationalism and crappy news, that ironically will sell better. That's why the newspapers pick them instead of the important ones.

  25. Here's how on Bruce Schneier On Airport Security · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you think that we can actually make air travel (and any other kind of travel, for that matter) truly secure?

    Yes, just stop taking the oil and other resources from foreign countries like locusts.