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  1. I am a UCF student on UCF Studying Health Benefits of Video Games · · Score: 1

    I'm not studying the stuff (PoliSci here) but I've seen that the school has some really cool video game programs. The Psychology department uses flight simulators to help deal with human factors problems, and there is another project on campus with an interactive shooting range for doing something or other.

  2. lightyears on Huge Leap Forward In Robotic Limb Replacement · · Score: 1, Funny

    How many lightyears until we can see these things in stores?

  3. Re:This proves the existance of God! on Hubble Survey Finds Half of the Missing Matter · · Score: 1

    It's actually a series of tubes.

  4. Re:When I read the title... on Japan IDs All Its Citizens · · Score: 1

    Mine was, "How can it be that -none- of them look old enough to be buying alcohol?"

  5. Re:Maybe they read /. on First "Observation" of Hawking Radiation · · Score: 1

    Look who is talking!

  6. that was a close call on Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution · · Score: 1

    'Every public school teacher in the state's K-12 school system shall have the affirmative right and freedom to objectively present scientific information relevant to the full range of scientific views regarding biological and chemical evolution in connection with teaching any prescribed curriculum regarding chemical or biological origins.'

    This should show those creationists, teachers are kept to teaching scientific information relevant to the full range of scientific views!

  7. by a jury of your peers (unless you're a cylon) on The Law and Politics of Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you Gods?

  8. Re:simple solution.. just contact nobel prize winn on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 2, Informative

    Make that Ig Nobel prize winner...

  9. expensive prank on Internet Pranks in Schools · · Score: 1

    When I was in high school a few years back someone thought that it would be funny to make a bomb threat with a globally broadcast "net send" command. The school was evacuated and the police called to try to figure out who done it. Everyone knew what room it came from, but the computers were all ghosted to be exactly the same and were running deepfreeze (reloads from the image upon every boot). A bunch of the computers were reset just after the message was sent, so the police just interrogated random students until one admitted to knowing -how- to send such a message. The school was searched with dogs, the student expelled (though during the search they kept the school's network administrator, a few police, and a couple of students, myself included, inside the building to try to figure out which computer sent it).

  10. misleading title on Japan Launches "Super-Speed" Internet Satellite · · Score: 1

    "Super-Speed," eh? How much faster does it orbit than other satellites?

  11. Re:Should we just call it now? on Ralph Nader Might Announce Run For President · · Score: 1

    You seem not to like multiple parties out of some kind of distaste for the mess. The US founding fathers seemed not to like mutliple parties out of some kind of distaste for the mess. Madison was vocal about the dangers of parties ('factions') to democracy for any number of reasons (though Jefferson, ever the rogue, might disagree on this point). Would you like to know more? See Federalist No. 10.
  12. easy answer -or- +5 insightful on Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Given Scientology's record of fraud and abuse, should eBay give them this level of trust?"

    No.

  13. Hey! on Saturn's A-ring Soaks Up Debris Ejected from Nearby Moon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's no moon!

  14. Re:Expected answer on White House Must Answer For Missing Emails · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had the honor of meeting Senator Cleland just prior to the 2004 Presidential election while he was campaigning for John Kerry. It was in a small room (in which I happen to be taking a course now) at the University of Central Florida, and the crowd was tiny. I was able to talk with him (and former Ambassador Pete Peterson) briefly and to shake his hand. He spoke then about how screwed up we were thanks to GWB's first term, and warned about what the second would be like. It's been almost four years, looks like he was right.

  15. Re:Chronic pain and suicide on Two AI Pioneers, Two Bizarre Suicides · · Score: 1

    Sorry to butt in but I've been following this (I was diagnosed about 10 years ago amd about a month out of a multiple resection surgery). An upper-GI w/ small bowel follow through can help look for other problems (fistulas etc), and a doctor's exam can normally feel for scarring.

  16. Re:Chronic pain and suicide on Two AI Pioneers, Two Bizarre Suicides · · Score: 1

    I was going to make a post about this. I too have been suffering with Crohn's for a while now. I don't have ready access to pain control medication, but it sure would be nice. Right now i'm dealing with a recent surgery that was supposed to clear things up for a bit, and seems to have a bit, but not completely and the major pain will surely return. Constant pain is not an easy thing to have to live with, it wears one out.

  17. Re:man... on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    No use tip-toe-ing around the jokes

  18. tagged on How and Why Knots Spontaneously Form · · Score: 1

    !knotcometonaught = notknotcometonaught?

  19. May I suggest... on DoubleClick Goes MIA At FTC Chief's Old Law Firm · · Score: 1

    "DC MIA @ FTCC's Old LF"
    The current title just isn't doing it for me.

  20. Re:IAASPS on Presidential Candidates and Online Privacy · · Score: 1

    In Political Science Jargon they are "positive liberties." Rights exist outside the constitution and the document had nothing to do with taxation. Just wanted to clear that up, I'll take another response as just more evidence that this is a troll, and will no longer respond.

  21. Re:**shiver** on Presidential Candidates and Online Privacy · · Score: 1

    Think of it like "freedom from unwarrented search and seizure" and "freedom to attend school even if you cannot afford it." Kucinich is more concerned with promoting positive rights, and Paul is set against them. I understand that you're probably just trolling, but here is some clearing up anyway.

  22. Re:**shiver** on Presidential Candidates and Online Privacy · · Score: 1

    Please check out some of the other comments about this higher up in the tree, you're misunderstanding the idea of positive liberty. Think of it as a 'freedom to' rather than the 'freedom from' of a negative liberty. You might also want to look into the work of John Dewey for some more on the subject.

  23. Re:IAASPS on Presidential Candidates and Online Privacy · · Score: 1

    Positive liberties, like government backed schooling or healthcare. No need to try to insult what you obviously don't have any kind of a grasp of yourself.

  24. IAASPS on Presidential Candidates and Online Privacy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    (I Am A Student of Political Science)

    Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul are the two on either side of the aisle that seem most likely to preserve Internet Privacy. That said, they are probably also the two running that have the least likelihood of even placing in a primary. Besides not looking presidential, they both have very unique (among their fellow candidates at least) agendas. Paul would like to shut down just about every government agency and put an end to all positive liberties. Kucinich is for more (suprisingly enough) contemporarily liberal reforms, taking us in not quite the opposite direction, but pushing for more positive liberties. Both are interested in individual rights and are (for now) in it for something other than promoting the interests of contributors.

  25. Re:They learned a lot from Deus Ex 2 on Deus Ex 3 Announced · · Score: 1

    Well said. Deux Ex still stands up as the best game I've ever played. The second one felt like a made-for-consoles tech demo mocking the original. There were so many things done wrong. I talked with the lead and writing staff of the second game, some of which worked on the first game, and they did not seem very happy about having to dumb it down to the new audience. I can't say I appreciate the story all that much, and the controls and some of the game features (universal ammo) were just terrible.