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  1. Re:The problem is another entirely. on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 1

    Um, your link isn't quite right. Try this.

  2. Re:This is just cover for the ANCIENT DRONE WEAPON on Robots Fly Over Antarctica · · Score: 1
    Naw, these are human-made drones. TOTALLY ineffective against the forces of Anubis.

    We're so screwed...

  3. Re:throttling from bell and rogers on Canadian TV to Adopt DRM-Free BitTorrents · · Score: 1
    OK, point of interest here...

    You have a Sympatico account. You sign up for Techsavvy as a secondary. Doesn't the 'last mile' still come through Sympatico? And won't you still be subject to their throttling?

  4. So... on Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year · · Score: 1
    Do we take this as evidence of manipulation by a political machine (not to be confused by electronic balloting machines), or simple incompetence, or both?

    Having spent 25 years in Ohio, it sure sounds like business as usual to me...

  5. Re:I found the "???" on RIAA Will Finally Face the Music In Court · · Score: 1

    I would NOT want to be the RIAA if they're caught with Spoilation or Contempt of Court in this matter.

    Thing is, as a couple lawyers I'm aquainted with always tell me, it's not what you know that counts in court, it's what you can prove. If RIAA manages to shred all the evidence and the evidence of the shredding too, as well as hide the people who authorised and carried it out, how are you going to prove anything?

  6. Re:I found the "???" on RIAA Will Finally Face the Music In Court · · Score: 1
    Oh my god, you killed a South Park meme. You bastard. j/k

    I'm just hoping the discovery phase of things actually find something instead of random paper shredding by the guilty.

  7. Re:Is there another reason for this? on Japan's Unique Cow/Whale Hybrid Experiments · · Score: 1

    Meat wouldn't be that great of an incentive considering that we can directly clone meat so that we don't need to raise any animals and there would be a greater energy efficiency for the production of meat.

    Sorry, been out of the loop for a couple decades. Got a cite handy perchance?

  8. Re:Love It or Hate It? on Japan's Unique Cow/Whale Hybrid Experiments · · Score: 1

    The reason that beef is so expensive in Japan is that they don't have lots of land fit for raising cattle. So even if they create some modified cattle, they still won't be able to profitably raise it.

    Or, it could be a way to develope cows that are aquatic. The ocean's pretty big, and the Japanese love their beef. Figure a way to raise cow herds in an enclosed bay or atoll, you've just freed up that much more land for other uses. Interesting idea...

  9. Re:Love It or Hate It? on Japan's Unique Cow/Whale Hybrid Experiments · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just as long as you can keep the meat warm. Nothing tastes worse than cold whale blubber.

  10. Re:Hmmm on Hacking a Pacemaker · · Score: 2, Funny

    I find this joke to be old and rather insulting, really. Of course Dick Cheney has a heart.

    Yup, he has the heart of a 20 year old.

    It's in a jar on his desk.

  11. Re:Bionic eye on Hacking a Pacemaker · · Score: 1

    Older model pacemakers were susceptible to microwaves from your kitchen 'nuke'. And they had to redesign the kitchen 'nuke' to cut this radiation down so it wouldn't interfere with a pacemaker. Pacemakers are also subject to getting whacked by an electromagnetic pulse, so this isn't 'news' per se, they've known it for decades.

  12. Re:Bionic eye on Hacking a Pacemaker · · Score: 1

    They don't usually sew them in your chest these days. They snake the leads down your carotid to the heart, and bury the electronics in that hollow at the base of your neck, on top of your shoulder, for easy access. It's under a couple layers of skin and a bit of muscle instead of behind your ribs.

  13. Re:Payola? on RIAA Denies Hypocrisy in Royalties Dustup · · Score: 1
    I don't get it.

    If he had a prostitution bill comin at him, why didn't he just pay it?

    Oh, wait...

  14. Re:Untrue on Casino Insider Tells (Almost) All About Security · · Score: 1

    That's just because there's nobody else in the basement.

  15. Re:first memory leak post on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4 · · Score: 4, Funny
    You must be old here...

    Oh, wait...

  16. Re:WTF. on British Airport Will Require Fingerprints From Domestic Passengers · · Score: 1

    Because fear sells these days.

  17. But... but... but... on New Book Cuts Through Violent Video Game Myths · · Score: 1
    This would mean that Jack Thompson really is a crank.

    Won't somebody think of Jack??????????

  18. Ok... on TSA Evaluating Laptop Bags · · Score: 1

    So what about the requirement that you actually show that the laptop is really a laptop and not a bomb by taking it out and turning it on?

  19. Re:Put SCO down on SCO Preps Appeals Against Novell and IBM · · Score: 1

    Problem with that is, when people start snapping up a stock, the price goes up. You'd be pumping 'value' into the stock, and everybody who bought it at a nickel will quadruple or more their cash (good for them!!), but not really pump money back into the company.

  20. Re:poetic justice on SCO Preps Appeals Against Novell and IBM · · Score: 1

    With 5 million to buy a judge? He'd just get time served & 500 hours of community service, taken as running a company that litigates for a living.

  21. Re:What the hell? on SCO Preps Appeals Against Novell and IBM · · Score: 1

    Just like P T Barnum used to say, there's a sucker born every minute...

  22. Re:Now that's a deal. on SCO Preps Appeals Against Novell and IBM · · Score: 1
    Howbout, cut off its head, stake its heart, run it thru a woodchipper with a ton of garlic, and bury it under a running river in a sliver lined cold iron coffin?

    I think I got all the bases covered on this one...

  23. Re:Candidates on Will Mars be a One-way Trip? · · Score: 1

    You're bout 8 years too late, I think...

  24. Re:How about blocking Saudi travel firms on Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well what about the billions in military aid given to Saudi Arabia, one of the most oppressive regimes in the world?. Cuba is Disney Land compared to Saudi Arabia. What about all that money going towards oppressing the Saudi people? Imagine some big democracy movement started in Saudi Arabia and tried to overthrow the dictatorship. The Saudi government would no doubt use all the weapons we have been selling them against their own people.

    You kidding me? If the Saudis ever had a popular revolution start up, the US would send everything we got to keep them propped up and in place.

  25. Re:This is very disturbing on Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist' · · Score: 1
    It was originally designed to keep Soviet medium-range missiles away from a launch pad only 90 miles from the Florida coast. The missiles were pulled out after JFK and Kruschev agreed that the Americans would also pull their nuclear missiles from Turkey.

    But they don't teach you that in school...