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  1. Re:A hurr hurr hurr derp on Building Blocks of DNA Confirmed In Meteorites · · Score: 1

    Angry atheist? Not at all. More like malevolent agnostic who finds cafeteria Christians to be hilarious joke fodder.

  2. A hurr hurr hurr derp on Building Blocks of DNA Confirmed In Meteorites · · Score: 0

    But the Bible didn't say nothin' bout no metorites!

  3. Re:id color palette on Preview of id Software's Rage · · Score: 1

    There have been a number of colorful FPS's: No One Lives Forever, Far Cry, Half Life (the XEN levels), just to name a few. There are a lot that stick with the dingy color scheme but typically they tend to be post-apocolyptic or space styled games which find the player in dingy, uncared for environments.

  4. Re:Sad new paranoid world on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    And likewise, all female teachers are awesome. Well, except the ugly ones. And even they're still mostly awesome.

  5. Re:Dumb question... on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 2

    I'm wondering this as well. Even more - what about homeschooled children?

  6. Re:Teacher friending student is inapprorpiate on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    So if he has a child, and they end up going to his school and are friends on facebook, he should be fired for that? There are corner cases here you're not considering.

  7. Re:Good... on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm interested in this as well; I am dating a teacher. What happens if our child ends up being taught by her?

  8. "Arrested" on Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I wonder if he was arrested, or "arrested." Meaning, he'll disappear from the grid, and turn up working in a government lab. I'd think sensible politicos would want to nurture this sort of thing.

  9. Re:I enjoyed it on Review: Cowboys & Aliens · · Score: 1

    They're the same people who went to "Snakes on a Plane" expecting a life-changing, deep, inspiring experience. Instead they got snakes. On a plane. So they whined and complained and bitched and moaned.

  10. Re:Again ? on Anonymous Hack One Gigabyte of Data From NATO · · Score: 1

    That's absolutely true! And that's where the whole rhetoric part of law comes in. Who can swing the jury to their side; the prosecution or the defense. That part all comes down to showmanship :)

  11. Re:Again ? on Anonymous Hack One Gigabyte of Data From NATO · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. The exclusionary clause stops the government from stealing stuff to be used as evidence. It doesn't stop a thief from stealing things from you, and then turning them over to the police.

  12. Re:First Post on Sheikh Carves His Name In Desert So It's Visible From Space · · Score: 2

    Actually, google originally utilized aircraft photography from assorted surveyors (NOAA, USAF, etc). However three years ago they helped launch what was at the time the worlds most powerful imaging satellite. While not the primary users, I'm pretty sure they take it for a spin every now and then.

  13. Re:Is this what it has come down to? on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    Sadly not fictional. The first bully never picked on me again, however he still caused trouble so I suppose he didn't change his ways. He ended up getting into another fight where he smashed a plate in the lunch room. The other kid grabbed a shard and stabbed him in the arm. After the fight both were expelled. He never screwed with me again. The second bully transferred to a new school where he got arrested for attempted arson when he set a bathroom garbage can on fire. Believe it if you want or not. I wasn't a "nerd" in school, I skipped as often as possible to help take care of my family's farm since my dad had colorectal cancer and couldn't do a lot of the work. Meh.

  14. Re:Dear LulzSec on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    Don't just stand there, throw something!!!

  15. Re:tampering with evidence? on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 3, Informative

    They can admit it in the US. The exclusionary clause protects you from a government search. It does nothing to protect you from someone breaking in to your PC, stealing your hard drive, and then turning it over to the police when they find kiddie porn.

  16. Re:the ends do not justify the means on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    I wish there was some sort of effective solution. Obviously the courts are failing miserably.

  17. Re:Is this what it has come down to? on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    I've seen two bullies change their ways. One who attacked me, got knocked down, and I promptly stomped on his kidneys for about 30 seconds. Apparently peeing blood for a few weeks really takes the fight out of you. The other bully was insulting a friend of mine who had tremors (has an inoperable tumor on his brainstem that will one day kill him). My friend threw him into an open locker, shattering his collar bone. So they can change their ways. It just usually involves getting hurt beyond the usual "lost a fight" injuries. Note I went to a small country school, and most of the time if the violence was against a known bully the teachers would just walk away until karma had been doled out.

  18. Re:Can you do it with a broken screen? on How To Jailbreak and Upgrade Old Android Phones · · Score: 2

    Many older phones let you install a recovery partition, which should give you access to the phone via ADB. From there you can do most of the work (AFAIK, YMMV)

  19. Re:Yay! let's give Murdoch a defense! on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    Dude, don't argue with the Queen. She'll have your head off for that.

  20. Re:Is It Wrong? on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    I'm hoping they do. I set an alert with my brokerage so I should be getting a text when their stock gets to 50 cents a share. There is money to be made off of NI's misery; rather poetic I think.

  21. Re:All down on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Their DNS server got taken down, and their admins have taken down public facing servers from what I've gathered.

  22. Re:Is this what it has come down to? on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    They killed a girl? I thought they just hacked her phone? Not in any way defending News Corp, they deserved to be keelhauled.

  23. Re:Is this what it has come down to? on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 0

    Well argued, and good points. I'm assuming you studied debate? You never really put him down, only told him how to strengthen his position for a rebut. Good post. I like it.

  24. Re:Is this what it has come down to? on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 2

    ...a natural cause of death best served cold!

  25. Re:Why Isn't Anyone Slagging Cell Carrier's Securi on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The hackers of Paris Hilton's phone weren't being employed by a massive multinational corporation to hack the phones. The people who did hack the phones saw jail time - something that will never happen to anyone who actually ordered the crimes to be committed in the case of News Corp. Until we start instituting nuremburg style trials for large corporations where there are serious consequences for malfeasance, this is going to get worse. At least in China the executives get executed when this shit happens.