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  1. Re:I understand, but... on Senators To Unveil the 'Ex-Patriot Act' To Respond To Facebook's Saverin · · Score: 1

    The best way to have the full protection of the US Constitution is to pay your taxes and not renounce your citizenship...

  2. Hmmm... on Man Becomes Artist When He Sleeps · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds sketchy...

  3. A hair-washing robot... on Panasonic's 16-Finger, Hair-Washing Robot · · Score: 1

    ...because washing your own hair is just too hard.

  4. Re:Somebody call the whaaaambulance on No HTML5 Hulu Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    I dunno, they have trouble keeping 64-bit Linux clients working, (despite the fact that they were working fine 6 months ago). I'm beginning to doubt their technical expertise.

  5. The Coming Robot Uprising... on Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines · · Score: 1

    Haven't we learned anything from The Matrix? Darkening our skies will only result in human beings used as power sources....

  6. Re:Hmmm on What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone · · Score: 1

    ARIN will for the very first time, sometime between the middle and end of next year, receive a request for IPv4 address space that is justified and meets the policy"

    They say no all the time, to anyone that doesn't meet their criteria, ie "the policy".

    I dunno exactly what that is, but I'm going to assume it includes some kind of need or size requirements.

  7. Re:Allow me to translate. on Cox Discontinues Usenet, Starting In June · · Score: 1

    I don't think Cox makes any money off of "charging extra". They just save on the cost of running the stuff. The monthly fee offer is to buy it from another company.

  8. Re:Nooo ! on Mozilla Puts Tiger Out To Pasture · · Score: 1

    You can still install an old version of Firefox if you're desperate.

  9. Is SETI hopeless? on Making It Hard For Extraterrestrials To Hear Us · · Score: 1

    So if the trend of our communications technology is to become less noticeable to space people, and we assume aliens follow a similar course of technological development, does SETI have any hope of finding anything?

  10. Re:Is it fun? on Open Source FPS Blood Frontier Releases Beta 2 · · Score: 1

    If it's open source I'm sure some crazy person somewhere will invent new and weird gameplay mods you can try out. Eventually one of them has to be awesome...

  11. Re:Aluminum powder is green? on Air Force & NASA Fire Off Green Rocket · · Score: 1

    But it burns water and aluminum. Using natural water makes anything green.

  12. The end is near! on Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship · · Score: 1

    Oh no, now they'll have to make more inkblots!

  13. Old News on The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired · · Score: 1

    The study cited in the main article was done in the '80s, and said the rats "might have died" from lack of sleep. The other link is a newspaper article published in 1997. This is hardly "groundbreaking."

  14. Fan the flames... on Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post · · Score: 1

    Isn't sending Microsoft to fight insecurity like fighting fire with fire?

  15. Re:Off with her head! on GAO Reports Bailout and Tech Firms Love Tax Havens · · Score: 1

    Isn't the way this worded presuming guilt before innocence? Is doing business in a tax-haven country an automatic fail?

    I'm pretty sure there's not a market for 91 subsidiary companies in Luxembourg...

  16. Good, Better, Best on The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Thats because, on the internet, as well as everywhere else in life, an "adequate" solution is good enough if a "better" or "best" solution is more work...until that adequate solution breaks.

  17. Re:Still doesn't help deleted cookies on New Method of Tracking UIP Hits? · · Score: 1

    While all the web advertisers are busy whining that they can't use cookies to do their market and ad research anymore, they're forgetting how spoiled they've been so far in being able to do all of this research for free. Every other advertising industry has to pay people or volunteers and conduct surveys. They call it market "research" for a reason.