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  1. Re:For everything you want to buy... on Visa Cuts Off AllOfMp3.com · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mastercard cut off AllofMP3 as well.

  2. Re: Will the Next Election Be Hacked? on Will the Next Election Be Hacked? · · Score: 1

    My wife's grandfather's being dead did not stop him from voting for Republicans in 2000, 2002, 2004. Thanks to Diebold's special powers he will vote this year again of course.

  3. Re:What I really want to know... on Chinese Lasers Blind US Satelites · · Score: 1

    Pointing lasers into space isn't exactly attacking USA. That was unfortunate however that the American satellites flew into Chinese laser beams.

  4. Re:Don't worry its Belgium on Google News Removes Belgian Newspaper · · Score: 1

    You can not forget
    Till Uilenspiegel

  5. Re:Cheating in video games on When Is a Con Not a Con? · · Score: 1

    You watch too many movies, and play the GTA too much.

  6. Pluton on Geologists Angry About New 'Pluton' Definition · · Score: 1

    Actually, in Greek, Pluto is Plutonas, if anyone cares.

  7. In another news... on IAU Proposes 3 New Planets · · Score: 1

    Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus will be called jupitons.

  8. Re:Not poor design on Dangerous Apple Power Adapters? · · Score: 2, Funny

    That reminded me of a story about an instructor of parachuting who said that if you are landing on a power line then try not to touch the bottom of the line. When confused listeners asked him why, he said that heavier electricity flows on the bottom of the wires and that is why you don't see birds sitting on the wire electrocuting themselves.

  9. Compare revolution to on Full Body Dance Dance Revolution · · Score: 1
  10. Re:My take on Doomsday from a market perspective on The NYT Imagines Life After Earth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, nuclear weaponry (rather, its existence and the credibly threat of its use) did slow the spread of communism.

    I understand when in 60-80s US public was affraid of the communists as some boogeymen. But now?
    Oh wait, they scare children with terrorists now.

  11. Re:gamers beware. on AMD Slashing Prices Still Not Enough? · · Score: 1

    So have you installed the CPU drivers?

    What 's next? The PSU drivers?

  12. Ukraine??? on Inflatable Space Station Prototype a Success · · Score: 1

    What does Ukraine have to do with this project?

  13. Re:So no disaster. Any successes? on Space Shuttle Heading Home · · Score: 1

    From TFA:
    Discovery launched with seven astronauts on board, but left one of them -- Germany's Thomas Reiter -- at the space station where he will stay for six months.

    The Discovery delivered a 3rd crew member to the ISS. Without shuttles it were impossible to have 3 people on board.

  14. Re:I tip my hat to those brave men (or women) on Astronauts Pull Off Risky Spacewalk · · Score: 1

    During the spacewalk, the suit ballooned up to a point where the spacewalker could not fit into the cramped confines of their primative spacecraft. Even though the spacewalker wasn't told of the standing orders to cut him loose in case of an emergency, he must have thought of it as time ticked down. Pretty much at the last second, he squeezed himself into the craft and secured the latch. Crew and vehicle returned safely to earth and later spacesuits were made more rigid.

    I believe the ballooned suit was a story of a Russian cosmonaut Leonov

  15. Re:Buran on Space Shuttle Gains Remote-Control Landing Capability · · Score: 1

    but in the same way that an aircraft designer looks at other aircraft.

    It is more like the wheel designer looks at other wheels.

  16. Re:Obligatory on New Crater On Moon Caught On Video · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone knows that energy is calculated in BigMacs (229 of delicious kcal). That explosion was mere 17,743 BigMacs.

  17. Re:Sign me up! on Judging The Apple 'Sweatshop' Charge · · Score: 1

    So you work 40hr/week ~ 160hr/mo, that is you pay 80+hr of your work per month for food and rent. They on the other hand work 15hr/day~360hr/mo and pay 180hrs of their work per month for food and shelter. Is it still not so bad?

  18. Re:A few random thoughts on Judging The Apple 'Sweatshop' Charge · · Score: 1

    This type of reasoning is what is at the core of Marxism,

    What's with the personal attacks? What did Marx did to you?

  19. half the cost on Techies Asked To Train Foreign Replacements · · Score: 1

    is outsourcing tech work to Indian companies whose employees do the work at half the cost of what a U.S. worker gets paid.

    Sounds sensible to me to hire whole companies at cost of a half american.

  20. Re:iTunes FairPlay Vs Qtrax DRM on EMI Launches Advertising-Supported P2P Service · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here we have an innovative use of DRM such that it is restricting the decrypting of a particular file to ensure that the user is viewing ads or clicking ads to visit websites that then, in turn, pay the artists. Let us see, they distribute files which make the computers visit certain sites. And how is it different from creating botnets for DDOS attack?

  21. Re:Should share credit with Perelman on Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    The fact that a proof is beyond comprehension of some mathematicians does not mean it is less of a proof.

  22. Re:Let me look at the source a sec... on Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite · · Score: 1

    The danger of using the unsigned double

  23. Re:The one true license (TM) on Making Sense of Software EULAs · · Score: 2, Funny

    According to Clearware, it should be 67% Funny, 33% Troll.

  24. Re:Slight Problem With Gas Tax on Americans Gearing up to Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    $4.77 as of today.

  25. Re:How do they even write these patches??? on Two Unofficial IE Patches Block Attacks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But you can reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the exploit.