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  1. Re:This is what pisses me off about police on Retrieving a Stolen Laptop By IP Address Alone? · · Score: 1

    We saw that the police bent over backwards and ransacked a man's home when he possessed a missing iPhone of Apple's.

    You missed the part were he blogged a year before offering a reward for stolen IP and then blogged that he had paid for a stolen prototype. Kinda paints a target on your forehead and the police make an example of you.

  2. Re:Who cares? on Consumer Reports Can't Recommend iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    They do testing on pretty much everything. They are non-profit, and have a reputation for accurate reporting.

    I remember them "reporting" that mountain bike brake levers pinch your fingers when you put fingers under the lever instead of over it.

  3. Re:Indemnification on NetApp Threatens Sellers of Appliances Running ZFS · · Score: 1

    Contracts expire.

  4. Re:Thank God for standardized testing on The Creativity Crisis · · Score: 1

    When I was kid, I remember playing with a stick and imagined it was a sword and a gun and a spear and a lightsabre and a shovel and ...

    Today that would make you a potential Columbine Shooter.

  5. Re:Validity on The Creativity Crisis · · Score: 1

    Turtle soup is delicious.

  6. Re:The final AIDS solution on China Censors HIV/AIDS Awareness Documentary · · Score: 1

    I thought that the public health care in US is in such a state, that this doesn't happen? Who is mandated to pay for this kind of extended care?

    The hospital bills the family. Which they can't pay. The hospital puts a lien on all their assets. Basically ruins their life.

  7. Re:The Americans are tampering with our internet! on China Says US Uses Facebook To Spread Political Unrest · · Score: 1

    This past weekend, "protesters" in Oakland got free shoes.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdYoyh6mduA

  8. Re:not the highest resolution: 8k super hi-vision on YouTube Adds 'Leanback,' Support For 4K Video · · Score: 1

    Then again, this is on YouTube. I'm sure compression brought the quality below a 1080p Blu-Ray the instant it was uploaded.

    Not to mention that may bluray discs contain nothing more than a copy of the standard def mpeg2 data from the same DVD release.

  9. Re:The final AIDS solution on China Censors HIV/AIDS Awareness Documentary · · Score: 1

    In the US, life is considered so "precious" that we mandate everyone live in agony for as long as possible no matter the condition.

  10. Re:Recycle Nukes? on NASA's Plutonium Supply Dwindling; ESA To Help · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's fucking plutonium. You can't just make it. Hippies freak shit when we try to build an oil refinery, much less refine nuclear material.

    But for some reason they don't mind turning on the lights in their home with electricity provided by coal fired generators that put more radioactive particulates in the air than any nuclear plant could.

  11. Re:Indemnification on NetApp Threatens Sellers of Appliances Running ZFS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sun already does indemnify it's customers. Schwartz pointed this out when NetApp's rumblings against Sun first happened.

    Neither Schwartz or Sun exists anymore.

  12. Re:This is a non-story (how it actually happend) on Nokia Chases Blogger To Recover N8 Prototype · · Score: 1

    No that's not how I remembered it.

    • Individual sells prototype to Gizmodo.

    You forgot: Individual's roommate gets nervous over stolen iPhone and reports him to police.

  13. Re:Yes we can stop it on The Unstoppable 'Tech Support' Scam · · Score: 1

    Find the people who are doing it and kill them. That usually stops it.

    Usually they have already produced offspring to replace them.

  14. Re:Wow on The Unstoppable 'Tech Support' Scam · · Score: 1

    doing what the logical thing would be

    Just because you've been trained over the years to know what certain icons and terms mean, don't define them being "logical" to regular humans.

  15. Re:Elle, Oh, Elle on Prince Says Internet Is Over · · Score: 1

    There was a time when Prince was an amazing musician

    There was?

    Purple Rain remains one of the better albums ever created.

    And a movie about a man who kept dolls in his room who would run away giggling when a woman undresses for him.

  16. Re:Hypocrasy on A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts · · Score: 1

    How many places on earth are radioactive?

    The whole universe is radioactive by default.

  17. Energon Cubes? on New Material Can Store Vast Amounts of Energy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Will this attract the Transformers?

  18. Re:If Opera implemented other things right,I'd use on Opera 10.60 Released, With Faster JS, WebM Video Support · · Score: 1

    Or just use Camino.

  19. Re:Thats the least of their problems. on Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help · · Score: 1

    Writing the password probably isn't as smartest way to save it but lets be realistic, nobody can remember a 26 character password.

    You can't remember a sentence?

  20. Re:$100,000 through youtube? on "David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family · · Score: 1

    "You may have noticed, those annoying boxes that float up from the bottom, that you instinctively click the X on?"

    Nope, never have. ABP FTW

    Me either.. Maybe because I only view html5 interface on YouTube.

  21. Re:Typical on Alleged Russian Spy Ring Exposed In US · · Score: 1

    Russia is no longer a communist state.

    They want you to think that...

  22. Re:OH GOD MAKE IT STOP on Cisco To Challenge iPad With Cius 'Business Tablet' · · Score: 2

    Perhaps you're not aware that Cisco sells $500,000 videoconferencing rooms to the DoD?

    Pointing out gov't waste doesn't help.

  23. Re:Great on German Airports Use Bees To Monitor Air Quality · · Score: 1

    "swarms of angry bees" are a fictional movie construct

    Not true! In the 70's they told us that the Africanized honey bees were coming to KILL everyone in North America!

  24. Little bigger than Apollo? on Boeing Releases Details On New Crew Capsule · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Apollo was barely big enough for 3. Something only a "little" bigger is supposed to hold 7?

    Do they sit on each other's laps?

  25. Re:That explains the pay difference... on Women Dropping Out of IT · · Score: 1

    Now, how do you 'Have kids' exactly?

    If you live in Hollywood, you buy them from Africa.