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  1. Maybe they should get Apple design the UI on U.S. Soldiers Hate New High-Tech Gear · · Score: 2, Funny

    They could call it iKill. It would be functionable and lickable too!

  2. It's never so simple... on Star Trek Shields Now a Possibility? · · Score: 1

    By re-routing power from auxiliary nacels, cutting life-support from the lower decks, and turning off the holo-deck, they might just be able to reverse polarity by de-coupling the anti-matter containment field to properly reconfigure a photon torpedo to the borg frequency. Thus, Tea, earl grey, WILL... be hot.

  3. Does this equipment stop IEDs? on U.S. Soldiers Hate New High-Tech Gear · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Economies of scale? In Iraq the insurgents can use a weapon that cost maybe $100 to destroy equipment worth a few million.

    Reminds me of Batman Begins quote about the high tech body armor... you know the one.

  4. Unfortunately on Only 244 Genuine Windows Vista's Sold in China · · Score: 4, Funny

    It seems all 244 copies were sold to Microsoft's Beijing quality testing center.

  5. Excellent Sir! on Turbo Tax Melts Down on Tax Day · · Score: 1

    A quote from an eps. when the simpsons was still funny.

  6. Actually schools are one of the most powerful on Ontario Proposes School Cyber-Bullying Law · · Score: 1
    forces in society to shape children. Teachers and principals are incredibly powerful.

    There are laws that require teachers to intervene if they feel students are being threatened. Such as suspecting child abuse, or severe depression...ect.

    Yet another difference in attitudes between Canada and the US perhaps.

  7. Care to cite a real world example? on Ontario Proposes School Cyber-Bullying Law · · Score: 1

    Otherwise it just another inane comment.

  8. Students are not adults on Ontario Proposes School Cyber-Bullying Law · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They are CHILDREN or YOUNG ADULTS. There is a BIG difference and if you can't acknowledge that well, you're an idiot.

  9. cyberbulling is as real as you make it on Ontario Proposes School Cyber-Bullying Law · · Score: 1
    Like most things in human life, its psychological. I'm sure many a 'nerd' on here knows what I'm talking about. Being exposed to the same psychological shit everyday from a bully when you're 12 takes an effect. People must be accountable for their actions if we are all to get along in society. Similarly...as a certain tragedy earlier this week clearly demonstrated, we also need to intervene when we see our acquaintances are clearly in trouble.

    Also, it is the teacher and principals job to PROTECT the children and help mold them into good human beings. What do you think they are for? guh.

  10. Well we still have wormholes on NASA Probe Validates Einstein Within 1% · · Score: 1

    Wormholes count for something don't they? ...now all we need to do is harness the power of the sun...

  11. A question about the notebooks these will go in on Intel Spills Beans On Santa Rosa Notebook Platform · · Score: 1

    How will these new chips effect the size of new notebooks? How will they effect battery life?

  12. So...what movies would this include? on New Australian Laws To Censor Terror DVDs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess V for Vendetta would just be a blank screen and bleeped from the opening title?

  13. As an owner of an original Bondi iMac on PC World's 20 Most Annoying Tech Products · · Score: 2, Funny

    I look on my now crippled mouse hand with pride, all those fond memories will be with me forever. Of course, my baseball career is over, ditto with curling, pool, in fact I usually just cover the mangled stump with a black glove.

  14. In the other extreme on PC World's 20 Most Annoying Tech Products · · Score: 1
    You have sites that make the print window annoyingly small...such as reuters.com

    I suppose the most sneaky pop the print window open to try to tick you into printing the page without being able to read at all.

  15. There is something uniquely American on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    about these tragedies. Speaking as a Canadian, these things happen up here as well from time to time. However, it just seems they happen more often in the States more than anywhere else.

  16. Re:As horrifying as this is... on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    It's only random if you're the victim.

  17. please for the love of bees mod this guy up on Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees? · · Score: 1

    The OP sounds like the plot to a Michael Chriten book.

  18. He better bring a Geiger counter on Gary Kasparov Arrested Over Political Fight · · Score: 1
    to his next chess match...someone could "switch" the pieces if you know what I mean...

    And by that I mean switch those wooden pieces for "radioactive pieces"...

  19. I don't think you get it on Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees? · · Score: 1
    Bees pollinate essential crops that keep whole countries fed. To think that wasps or some other species will make a quick substitute to stave off crop losses is incredibly naive.

  20. It's not JUST the US...its spreading on Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Clearly its in everyone's best interest to find the cause...and cure.

    "The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast.

    CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. And last week John Chapple, one of London's biggest bee-keepers, announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned.

    Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and north-west England, but the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted: "There is absolutely no evidence of CCD in the UK."

  21. Re:its not just bees ... on Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees? · · Score: 1
    Gee... I mean we humans couldn't possibly take the initiative and solve the problem before it becomes a tragedy. ::rolls eyes::

  22. Steve Jobs is my Daddy on Why Apple Delayed Leopard for the iPhone · · Score: 1

    There I said it.

  23. Overheard from a computer on a bbs in 2231... on Building Brainlike Computers · · Score: 1
    :LOL:

    Blasphemy! To believe that a lowly monkey man created our brains a few hundred years ago!? Madness I say! And illogical too! Everyone knows that our 'souls' came into being by miraculous inception. I believe it involved a lighting strike on an Intel fabrication plant, or perhaps it was AMD (computer god rest their soul). Regardless, the monkey men are only good for distilling into basic nutrients to fuel our sacred circuit boards.

    I have spoken! As for that so called 'theory of evolution', everyone knows that 64,000,000,000,000k should be enough for everyone, who says otherwise!

  24. I call it the sock goblin on Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted · · Score: 1

    Ours likes a sacrifice of Edam cheese. May I suggest a Gouda?

  25. OH and don't forget the most important part on Google Earth Highlights Darfur · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sudan's best buddy is China (long term contracts for cheap oil and timber and anything else they can rip out of the ground) , which will continue to use their VETO in the UN to prevent any foreign intervention.