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  1. Re:This will never get approved on Australian Scientists Discover Potential Aids Cure · · Score: 1

    From TFA, though, I get the impression that it's a one-shot treatment for long-term results. Course, I could have read it wrong...

  2. Re:2017 on China's Nuclear Rover Will Sample the Moon · · Score: 1

    I read TFA, and there's suspiciously no launch date, and the mission talked about is an orbiter with a perigee of 6.5 miles. I'm guessing the Chinese are implying they'll drop the rover at perigee for its 90 day sampling mission.

    Or this could be just vapor, the Chinese goverment wanting some good press for a change...

  3. Re:Huh? on US DOJ Claims It Did Not Entrap Megaupload · · Score: 1

    Well, until you get into court, the judge asks where your lawyer is, you point at the DA, and say, "That's the one they sent me when I was in custody." Yes, there are a few bad judges, but the overwhelming majority of them really dislike lawyers pulling unethical bullshit.

    Except most DA's offices have way more than one attorney working in them. All they need to do is assign the case to a different attorney. Good luck getting a warrant to haul the entire DA's office in for a lineup to identify 'your lawyer'.

  4. Re:Huh? on US DOJ Claims It Did Not Entrap Megaupload · · Score: 1

    Cops get promoted based on performance as well as test scores. Arrest records are a good metric of 'performance'.

  5. Re:Huh? on US DOJ Claims It Did Not Entrap Megaupload · · Score: 2

    Court orders? Evidence? This is the United States government we're talking about here. They don't have to show any evidence until the trial. FISA and the PATRIOT Act cover that. Or didn't you get the memo that filesharers support terrorism?

  6. Re:Huh? on US DOJ Claims It Did Not Entrap Megaupload · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Look at the way it played out for DoJ. If Mega had deleted the files, they've been hit with obstructing justice, interfering with a federal investigation, etc, etc, etc. If they didn't delete them, they get nicked for copyright infringement. By backing up a level and dealing with the server host, the DoJ tried to get its cake and eat it too.

  7. Re:Huh? on US DOJ Claims It Did Not Entrap Megaupload · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but couldn't they have stopped sharing the files or making them available while at the same time not deleting them?

    Did you even read ANYTHING related to this case? At all?

    They were specifically asked not to do anything that would alert owner of the files.

    Do you think disabling links to files would alert him, huh?

    Except the 'true owners' didn't upload those 39 files. That's where it gets murky as hell.

  8. Re:Isn't it obvious? on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 1

    "That was no flying saucer, it was a top secret Army spy balloon we used to eavesdrop on the Russkies!"

    Funny, though, ain't it, that they haul out a top secret project to explain a UFO crash.

  9. Re:Isn't it obvious? on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 1

    Naw, it's Jimmy Hoffa's tomb.

  10. Re:This is a rare breed of human. on Anti-GMO Activist Recants · · Score: 1

    Rodale? The company with a vested interest in 'organic' gardening since way before the 60's?

  11. Re:This is a rare breed of human. on Anti-GMO Activist Recants · · Score: 2

    You're absolutely right. Now let's go find that prick that invented that heathen device known as 'the wheel'. And that asshole who learned to 'make fire'. And that total misfit who started the whole agriculture thing by domesticating dogs, cats, and cattle. String 'em up and burn them on a plain rock altar to the gods. And while we're at it, let's kill anybody who isn't naked or grunting like an ape.

  12. Re:It was an understandable mixup on Rusty Foster Isn't Dead · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Pretty much, yeah. Couple neckbeards still post their blogs there, but I was just over there, and the latest article was from Dec 17th of last year. The article at the end of the page was a year old.

    So much for culture and geek tech 'down in the trenches'.

  13. Re:You have to have the right selling point... on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    Where do I cash my points in, and what do I get for them?

    A lot of shillings, I'd guess...

    I'm thinking those shillings would be worth more than face value to collectors. DEAL!

  14. HORRORS!!! on Google Engineer Shows How To Forge Swords and Knives · · Score: 1

    This man is showing how to manufacture weapons. Surely he must be arrested, tried, and sentenced for this evil deed.

    And Google said they'd 'do no evil' my ass.

    But foolishly, folks, this is awesome cool that he shared the vid with all of us.

  15. Re:Get rid of printers on Campaign To Remove Paper From Offices · · Score: 1

    Where are you buying your printers?

    If a department wanted to violate the no printers rule they could do it with petty cash, I don't think the cost of a printer is even remotely a barrier here.

    The cost of a printer is trivial these days. The cost of ink cartridges isn't, especially 'smart cartridges' that yell for replacement when they still have about 25% capacity left in them.

    It's usually cheaper to replace the whole printer than it is the ink cartridge.

  16. Re:35 USC section 271 - Infringement on Patent Troll Targeting Users of Scanners; Wants $1000/Employee · · Score: 1

    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.

    Under this section, wouldn't the manufacturer of the devices that get used by the person allegedly infringing the patent be legally negligent in not providing clear indication further licensing would be required to use their product compliantly within the law?

    Oh, they probably already got their legal notice. The patent troll is 'going retail' with going after the users to improve their bottom line.

    Fun thing about 'selling intangibles' is, the supply never dries up. And if this isn't a prime example, I don't know what is.

  17. Re:first post! on Patent Troll Targeting Users of Scanners; Wants $1000/Employee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just 100 dollars? :D

    He's European. They use the '.' where we Americans would use a ','.

  18. Re:Boggle on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    UK GDP: GBP 1 500 000 000 000 and thruppence

    Note that at the Wal-Mart revenue is smaller than the Dutch/British Shell at $484 thousand million.

    How much is that in shillings. Or sovereigns?

  19. Re:You have to have the right selling point... on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    Thats two birds with 6.35029kg, (extra points for ths student that gets this)

    1 stone == 14 imperial pounds, a weight measurement.

    Where do I cash my points in, and what do I get for them?

  20. Re:0.001km = 0.01hm = 1m = 10dm = 100cm = 1000mm on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    Maybe so, but there are more than 10 inches to the foot.

    I went metric decades ago, in the military and later studying physics. Metric just makes more sense.

  21. Re:Cut out the intermediary step. on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 0

    Cut out the intermediary step. Adopt the units of the future world superpower now.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_units_of_measurement

    Otherwise known as metric?

    Woosh...

  22. Re:And this too shall pass away. on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why are you against voting for a Democrat when a Republican held the country hostage?

  23. Re:First Time on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    Hey, you tried. Points to you, and congrats on your first submission.

  24. Re:Fiscal cliff on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 4

    This is what you get in a country with no leadership.

    No, this is what you get when you have a bought and paid for Congress. Lobby money bought them, now they're delivering on their promises to keep from raising taxes on the rich and the corporations.

  25. Re:Or, instead, you could... on Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future · · Score: 1

    The main problem is, the guy on the other side might not be as 'calm and rational' as you are. In fact, he might jump at the chance to let you disarm so he can whack you out that much easier.

    Never appeal to somebody's better nature. They just might not have one...