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  1. Re:Easy. on NASA Ponders What To Do With a Pair of Free Space Telescopes · · Score: 1

    Actually, the SDO already kinda does that.

  2. Ah, the laser field. Well..... on Phony Laser Security System Proves Perception Is Reality · · Score: 1
  3. Incumbents on FCC To Require TV Stations To Post Rates For Campaign Ads · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this law just favor the incumbent? They get lots of free air time through official government channels. The current social view on spending money on advertising is highly negative. This new law seems to be a de facto incumbent gerrymandering.

  4. No change. on Sesame Street Begins Teaching Math and Science · · Score: 1

    Other countries' children watch Sesame Street as well. If this new programming helps anyone, it will also help everyone. The USA will remain in the same position until the underlying cultural changes occur.

    Is "Square One" still around?

  5. Sticks and stones... on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will get you 5 years in prison.

  6. Re:Duh on World Population Expected To Hit 7 Billion In Late October · · Score: 1

    What does the continued increase in world population mean for humanity and for the the planet?"

    War

    "Only the dead have seen the end of war." -Plato

    There'd be war even if the population stayed the same.

  7. Re:Yep on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 1

    I didn't think Climatology experts were Heliology experts as well. There may be a few, but I doubt they're properly represented in these climate reports.

  8. Re:nt on Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead · · Score: 1

    Not hard to do when the names have only one letter difference.

  9. Re:The Natural Suspicion... on Lawsuit Claims Sony Canned Security Staff Just Before Data Breach · · Score: 1

    I fired our janitors and two weeks later the place was a mess. The janitors did it!
    I fired the police and two weeks later crime rates were sky high. The police are the culprits!

    It all depends on what Sony did to keep security up after it fired the workers. If they didn't replace them with at least temporary contractors or IT people from other departments, then they intentionally left their guard down. Strike when the guard is down. Just because the events occurred near each other is circumstantial. If I was working on penetrating Sony's systems, I'd increase my attempts if the security department just got laid off too.

  10. Re:Seen in the manual for a T-Mobile G2 smartphone on "Do Not Eat iPod Shuffle": 30 Dumb Warning Labels · · Score: 1

    We at T-Mobile would like to apologize for accidentally giving you the wrong phone. We sent you the "G2 smartass phone" instead of the "G2 smartphone".

  11. pseudo-code on paper too? on Japan Criminalizes Virus Creation · · Score: 2

    If this law is too broad it can actually do harm. Would bad code that contains bugs be illegal as well? How are they categorizing it?

  12. Re:He got notified? on Sony Sued For PlayStation Network Data Breach · · Score: 1

    I'm sure most people don't mind occasional outages. In this situation, however, you're paying for many services linked to a PSN account and not only are you not getting the service promised, but they're hiding the fact that your personal information has been compromised. This is a step below bait and switch. instead of a lower quality service, they're providing an unservice. Deliberately hiding knowledge of the loss of private data for this long is at the LEAST a fine.

    Losses suffered don't have to be financial. The loss of security can be costly. In this day in age when identify theft can wreak havoc, having personal information floating around the internet can be difficult and expensive to monitor and defend against. The damage is the loss of a secure identity, at a minimum.

    I don't have a PSN account, I'm just following this story out of interest in security practices.

  13. Re:It measures a test score for a smart monkey. on What Does IQ Really Measure? · · Score: 1

    Whew, I'm glad humans are considered part of the great apes and not monkeys. I knew that tail dexterity test was rigged against me!

  14. Re:I keep telling everyone on Wardrivers Target Seattle Businesses · · Score: 1

    It's worse than leaving your door unlocked. It's more like leaving your door unlocked and putting a sign out front in blinking lights telling everyone it's unlocked. (Broadcasting.)

  15. Re:Patent nonsense. on All Languages Linked To Common Source · · Score: 1

    Why'd you have to troll first-post. Just say "first post" if you don't have anything useful to say.

  16. Re:Smokin' on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Exactly. His ideas are as bad as hot-linking to someone else's pictures and using them in your own web page.

  17. Re:no taxation on Senator Wants to Tax Internet Shopping · · Score: 1

    If nobody votes for you, that is proof that your opinion is an extreme minority.

    Doesn't have to be the extreme minority, just less than 50% of the voting public. Which is likely if you're in a gerrymandered district.

  18. Re:First, is there a problem? on Arizona Governor Proposes Flab Tax · · Score: 0

    That link is garbage. A study in the Netherlands that only simulated 3 certain types of illness from age 20+. It was a simulation that "scientists" with a predetermined theory put data found by them into a program with parameters designed by them and got a solution that they already assumed.

    it also doesn't include market values of healthy people. Healthy people are simply more productive on average than obese people. (Please don't argue the exception for desk jobs. It's a statement on the mean value of healthy people.)

  19. Assumptions as Facts on New Dinosaur Species Found In China · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The gigantic creature roamed North America and east Asia between about 65 million and 99 million years ago.

    If they know the region where it roamed, does that mean this isn't the first of it's species discovered? Is there other evidence of this specific species in other areas? Are they just assuming and then stating as fact? I read the article, and it suggests the later.

  20. Re:...liabilities on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 2

    Why is it my mod point expire right before I find a good comment with useful links?

  21. Re:To all complainers: why not counter-troll? on Block Adverts Outside of the Browser · · Score: 2

    Time to cover my car in advertising bumper stickers and effectively make it invisible!

  22. Re:Hand gestures on Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating · · Score: 1

    You should at least mention who the artist is in parenthesis. Not everyone has heard of that annoying song. (I didn't until i clicked it.) It's just common courtesy and an unwritten rule, but you know the rules, and so do I.

  23. Re:What are these "stars" of which you speak? on Help Map Global Light Pollution, By Starlight · · Score: 1

    I can do the same. But it's probably because all my electronic devices have LEDs telling me that they're _almost_ off.

  24. Re:Complacency is dangerous on What Data Mining Firms Know About You · · Score: 1

    Even if they want to sell you stuff you can actually use? I'd rather get fed ads for products I'd buy than ads for products I have no interest in at all.

  25. Republic on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    "And to the republic, for which it stands."

    I'll just leave this here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE