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  1. Re:Easy fix? on TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures? · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's what metal detectors do. I fly a lot. these go thusly:
    wait, get in, put your feet on the prints (rotated 90 degrees from normal walking direction), hold up your arms
    wait for the scanner to swipe through it's arc.
    get out
    wait on another set of footprints

    total time 20-45 seconds per scan.

  2. Re:Inevitable consequence... on New Interface Could Wire Prosthetics Directly Into Amputees' Nervous Systems · · Score: 1

    This sort of thing was posited in Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age". Resulted in suicide.

  3. Re:So only the US and China get Cyber-Destructed? on US, China Face Mutually Assured Destruction In Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    Three steps: Kill DNS, then start in with backhoes and anchors there aren't THAT many backbones. Then change the access codes on the sats - boom! no internet.
    Even easier: talk the ISPs into closing their backbones to public traffic. The internet isn't NEARLY as decentralized as it should be.
    The only way to combat this is with a wide area wireless mesh. every wireless peers it's neighbor. Intercontinental traffic is still gone if the oceanic fiber is cut, but relatively localized networks will still be possible.

  4. Re:And parents wonder on Children Used To Steal Parents' Data · · Score: 1

    Revert on boot. Only do installs on a clean master.

  5. Re:Does this mean... on Graphene Membranes Superpermeable to Water · · Score: 1

    Does capillary action require added energy?

  6. Re:Its hard for me to critisize this move. on China Cuts 'Excessive Entertainment' From TV · · Score: 1

    how can anyone choose what they like?

    Most acquired tastes work this way. {Beer, Coffee, Cigarettes, etc}

  7. Re:I think we should ban cosmetics completely on US Watchdog Bans Photoshop Use In Cosmetics Ads · · Score: 1

    absolutely.

  8. Re:It's for signatures on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    ditto. I rarely go a day without using a serial port or more properly RS(TIA)-232 connection

  9. Re:It's convenience and security. on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    The point of the hammer is to remove nails. The flat part drives them.

  10. Re:Makes sense on Human Brain Places Limit On Twitter Friends · · Score: 1

    You count your postman... that significantly?

    He may be the father of my children....

  11. Re:This is the beginning of the end on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    Only if your accident did not involve another car. Otherwise, the black box in the other car should corroborate your story.

  12. Re:Well on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 1

    Where do you live that all housing prices and employment opportunities are at parity over 100% of the city?

  13. Re:NLP + sEnglish != thinking on Sysbrain Lets Satellites Think For Themselves · · Score: 1

    Design computers to beat humans at silly games.

  14. Re:Idiot phone on Microsoft To Disable Windows Phone 7 Unlocking · · Score: 1

    If you want a phone and not a computer, How about this? http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-details/?device=Sony+Ericsson+W518a+-+Red&q_sku=sku4270495

    I have it's retarded older brother. Works adequately. iOS is not your only other option it seems.

  15. Re:You really wanna save thousands of lives a year on High School Plans To Open Drug Clinic · · Score: 1

    Your idea doesn't go too far enough.
    Put the crack smack and meth next to the tylenol and sudafed. Put a skull and crossbones on it so it can be easily recognized, even by illiterates. Wait a generation. The problem will solve itself.

  16. Re:Oh boy on FCC Commissioner Blasts Verizon On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    If we could only get a 50-50 split between parties in addition to ravenous partisanship, nothing would be passed! - best possible outcome

  17. Re:Here we go again (SCO) on Oracle Claims Google 'Directly Copied' Our Java Code · · Score: 1

    Of course, the courts ARE a vast army of lawyers...

    Not that I'm cynical or anything...

  18. Re:freedom on Pirate Electrician Supplied Power To 1,500 Homes · · Score: 1

    but... How would an EMP affect a wooden ship?

  19. Re:Turbo super cool on High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd · · Score: 1

    Usually between ambient and body temperature.

  20. outsourcing on Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts · · Score: 5, Funny

    I delegated my facebook account to a third party. She can let me know if anything worthwile has occured in my social parabola. (also maintain any farms, etc. I haven't actually looked at facebook in months.

  21. Re:Fahrenheit? Really? on Scientists Using Lasers To Cool Molecules · · Score: 1

    gosh!

  22. Re:Farenheit? on Scientists Using Lasers To Cool Molecules · · Score: 1

    pansy

  23. Re:Sequel? on James Cameron Commissions Submarine To Visit Challenger Deep · · Score: 1

    Star Trek - The movie would have been great if they left out all of the closeups of the actors making serious faces. Probably would have been a half hour shorter.

  24. Re:Count me in on The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally · · Score: 1

    10/10/10 can only happen once a century...

  25. Re:WD40 on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    You can drink mineral oil also. Buy it in the laxative aisle.