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  1. joke on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    Most of these ideas are unworkable and a total joke to anyone who uses firearms regularly. Their only merit is the person with the patent is trying to make their idea mandatory to get rich.

  2. Re:Excellent. on Swedish Pirate Party Presses Charges Against Banks For WikiLeaks Blockade · · Score: 1

    So all these US companies that let women drive and so forth should not be allowed to do business with Saudi Arabia then? US law only applies in the US. Should you be deported for prosecution overseas for drinking alcohol, blasphemy etc.

  3. Michael Dell on Apple on Dell Gives Android the Boot, Boots Up More Windows 8 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders,"
    Michael Dell

  4. Re:Yes on The Coming Internet Video Crash · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, being in aviation, I am telling you that the reason I can't start an airplane manufacturing business is very much the government. Government certification costs are usually much higher than the actual development of the plane itself.

  5. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    You checked wrong.
    Look at the number "contractors in Iraq"
    The operation has only been shifted to mercenaries.
    There is now huge money to be made in war.
    Obama did nothing in Iraq, the troop movements were done exactly by Bush's signed timetable.
    Don't be a fool and rush to partisan politics.
    The truth is much uglier than right and left.

  6. Fight Back on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 2

    We all need to send claims against all the big media content.
    Make this rule cost them money.

  7. Historical perspective on 'Frothy Gunk' From Deepwater Horizon Spill Harming Coral · · Score: 1

    What I never hear about is what the experience is longer term with these spills is. In world war 2, many oil tankers and other ships were sunk with huge amounts of all types of fuel from heavy bunker oil to aviation gasoline. What is the effect at these sites 70 years later? Should be easy to go see.

  8. not exactly a bullet on Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    This is not exactly a bullet.
    100mm is not a personal weapon.
    This is artillery
    This is not exactly new
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M712_Copperhead
    This is just a smaller, newer version.

  9. Re:Even cheaper on Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft · · Score: 1

    No it would not.
    A plug is not a tool.
    It would not have assigned or owned by a mechanic
    It would have been installed in the subassembly to keep out contamination.
    Depending on what style was used may have even looked exactly correct to anyone who did not completely understand the system operation.
    It probably should have been tagged/flagged when installed.

  10. It's ok. on Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think the guy with terminal cancer can go ahead and use the handicapped spot.
    WTF

  11. Re:It is a start. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    This is only a small part of his cuts. Not his only cuts. Take a look at ending the wars and closing bases around the world. Yes you are right more cuts are needed, and he is working on those also. Take a look at the rest of his plans.

  12. It is a start. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 2

    Ron Paul is putting out something that might start to make a dent in looming disaster that is the budget.
    Please look for your self and see how long until the amount of interest due on the debt is larger than what the government collects.
    All the other politicians are fiddling while Rome Burns.

  13. Re:I felt a great disturbance in the Force on Sony Shutting Down Star Wars Galaxies MMO and TCG · · Score: 1

    The spooky feel of wandering Tatooine at night.
    Finding a ranger camp and learning things from other players.
    I miss it very much.

  14. Re:There is still SWGemu. on Sony Shutting Down Star Wars Galaxies MMO and TCG · · Score: 1

    I am still waiting for a game with the potential that the original incarnation of the game showed.

  15. Wash Me on Senate Bill Could Make It Illegal To Upload Lip-Synced Videos · · Score: 1

    Ever since the media consolidation rules were changed one hand has been washing the heck out of the other.

  16. Look at the left hand.... on Best Optical Illusion of the Year Contest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Best Optical Illusion of the Year is going on right now
    Tornados and Obama meeting with the queen hides discussion of the Patriot Act from the media.

  17. Fix for stupid on Apple Acknowledges MacDefender · · Score: 1

    When you have a stupid user, you don't give them the admin password.
    Problem solved

  18. Re:Bring-your-own platform on Corporate Mac Sales Surge 66% · · Score: 1

    "The problem is that once your students get out into the real world, unless they're in content creation, their primary platforms will be Linux or Windows." Since this Macintosh will also run Linux and Window you do make the point that it is very much the best machine for the job.

  19. Re:hmm on MacBook Pro Specs Leaked, iPad Event March 2 · · Score: 1

    One thing that gets left out of the craptop issue.
    The Apple product comes with a full blown non-crippled copy of the OS.
    The full copy of Windows you need to add to make the comparison accurate costs an additional $250.00.

  20. DOT test on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1

    DOT requires high pressure cylinders used in vehicles to be tested at intervals based on bottle type and service.

  21. Doing their job. on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the media had been doing their job WikiLeaks would not be needed.
    But since the media is in bed with government and industry, this is what it takes.

  22. Censorship on UK Minister Backs 'Two-Speed' Internet · · Score: 1

    This is the backside of censorship
    If only the big media outlets have the pipes to get the word out then the message can be more easily controlled.
    Why do MS and GE need their own networks?
    Why were the rules changed to allow this?
    Look at the dates that all of these things happened for yourself
    Big corps need contracts and favors, Government needs the media to stay on message.
    If just anybody can spill the beans, it queers the deal.

  23. Mag? Really. on Engineers Propose Lily Pad-Like Floating Cities · · Score: 1

    They talk about using magnesium for construction.
    Magnesium and salt water is about as bad as it gets for corrosion problems.
    That thing would be decomposing faster than they could build it.

  24. Re:Not gonna happen on The Rise and Fall of America's Jet-Powered Car · · Score: 1

    You are comparing what is comparably a 50000 hp engine to an 150 hp engine.
    The amount of energy in the rotating assembly is much closer to a truck turbo than a real jet engine.
    The Allison 250 makes 400 to 700 lbs and you can pick it up.
    Size that down by two thirds and you can picture the size.

  25. Also on Facebook Implements 'Download Your Profile' Option · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One thing that seems to be in the same update is removal of the "Clear Chat History" button in the chat window.
    There are thousands of complaints posted about this already.
    It doesn't take much imagination to see how not having this feature when one is expecting it can lead to comedy.