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  1. Wait a second, these can see through cars? on Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans · · Score: 1

    So these x-rays are powerful enough to see into a car trunk, but will not have any unhealthy side effects on people? WTF???

  2. Re:Le sigh on FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy · · Score: 1

    I always thought kissing, with or without permission, and molesting were two different animals.

    All rape might be molestation, but not all molestation is rape. Coming up to little girls and "tongue kissing" them is a rather good example of molestation I'd say.

  3. Re:Not just iTunes and games... on PR Firm Settles With FTC On Fake Game Reviews · · Score: 1

    iPad has introduced you to internet porn?

  4. Re:Le sigh on FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy · · Score: 1

    Man arrested for "molesting" girls in park by tongue kissing them

    Before or after the story of the thug arrested for "mugging" passerby by hitting them with a beer bottle in the back of the head and taking their wallets?

  5. Re:empathy is not sympathy on Teacher Asks Students To Plan a Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    I grok you. Now prepare to be blinked out of existence.

  6. Re:Three words on Searching For Backdoors From Rogue IT Staff · · Score: 1

    While it may stop normal folks from becoming assholes, it won't prevent existing assholes from adding some revenge code.

  7. Re:Id Software ... on More Devs Going Indie, To Gamers' Benefit · · Score: 1

    Have you tried the freeware Cave Story? It's a metroid-style game and one of the best indie titles I've played.

  8. Re:Really? on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1

    Never really got what was so special about the First Coming of Citizen Kane myself...

  9. Re:That's not copy protection on Medieval Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Technically it is both - the protection of that copy of the book from being stolen. Just not the "copy protection" we all know and despise.

  10. Re:They've already left on Look For AI, Not Aliens · · Score: 1

    That or they're just observing us, waiting to see how we deal with the inevitable invasion of our undead ancestors before making official contact.

  11. Re:I HAS a Dream on Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the Martin Luther King Jr episode of The Boondocks...

  12. Re:Timeless saying applies here... on 1978 Cryptosystem Resists Quantum Attack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If it can be engineered, it can be reverse-engineered.

    That only works for "security through obscurity" type of problems. A good encryption should not be "solvable" - it must be brute forced. The question is how expensive the brute force method is in processing power and time.

  13. Re:All of us? on Facebook Takes On FourSquare · · Score: 3, Informative

    I never used Foursquare, because it reminds of the game the retarded kids have to play at recess.

    Yes, because any activity involving even the slightest bit of exercise is only for the "retarded".

  14. Re:Um, no on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    Hah, I can imagine that in Counter-Strike:

    Counter-Terrorists planning explosions at militant weapons bases.
    Counter-Terrorists attempting to keep terrorists from staging a jail-break.

  15. Sure but can he... on Keith Elwin Wins Pinball World Championship · · Score: 1

    So he won the World Championship, but the important question is, can he make the Android live?

  16. Re:Slightly OT: Modern fun, fast FPS like Doom 1 & on id Software Demos Rage On iPhone, Releases Source Code For Two Games · · Score: 1

    Try Painkiller. Great mindless action coupled with awesome level design.

  17. Re:Wrong on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 1

    I see a problem with the problem in the summary: 4+3+2=( )+2 is not the way math questions are typically phrased. In my experiences these problems usually looked like this: "4+3+2 = __+2 ; Fill in the blank." The instructions were explicit so students did not need to guess the teacher's desired result.

    I don't like teachers that think writing confusing tests (aka trick questions) is any test of student ability. It's more a demonstration of the test-writer's lack of communication skills.

    Exactly. And if the kids had taken pre-algebra or whatever, it should have come as "4+3+2=x+2; solve for x".

  18. Re:PADD... on How Star Trek Artists Imagined the iPad... 23 Years Later · · Score: 1

    In Star Trek, interstellar flight and communication usually costs next to nothing in time, money, manpower or material resources.

    Money - it's a tax supported Federation starship.

    Communication - why would subspace communication cost all that much? It's their version of the internet.

    Interstellar flight - when you're the equivalent of 20 miles away from a gas station (star base) at all times, you don't worry about running out of fuel.

    Obviously Voyager had to do things differently, being stranded so far from Mother Federation.

  19. Re:Yeah, but where does this get ME? on Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking · · Score: 1

    When you don't have to wait for anything planning becomes a matter of resources, and time, far from being a barrier, becomes a resource in of itself.

    And this is the future. Lafferty was a prophet.

  20. Re:Enough! on Rubik's Cube Now Solvable in 20 Moves · · Score: 1

    What the hell kind of DM is that? Not even a mention of rolling a d20!

  21. Re:mmmmm on Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Ha, I remember buying the Heretic shareware for $5 or $10. Paying for shareware because of lack of modem...

    But at least shareware in those days had some decent amount of content, as opposed to today's 1-2 level demos (and that's for games that even have demos!)

  22. Re:Here, let me summarize... on Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time · · Score: 1

    You should try the single-player mode is for.

  23. Re:Only half the experience without music. on Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Ah ok, read further and saw that he next tried the XBox version.

    But seriously, he should've worked some more getting DOSBox to work. I've never had DOSBox freeze my computer, not even my old Pentium 3!

  24. Only half the experience without music. on Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time · · Score: 1

    FTA:

    I chose Doom in my browser, programed in Flash with no music, but supporting the original WASD key commands for character movement.

    Seriously, half the atmosphere of the game, especially in the opening scenes, came from the music!

  25. I think I hard about this one before. on Senate Approves the ______Act Of____ · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it have something to do with martial law and an outbreak of flesh-eating classified something or other?

    Seriously, this reads like an Onion story.