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  1. Re:Fuelless on Fuel Free Spacecrafts Using Graphene · · Score: 1

    He didn't say he learned about them on the internet, only that the forums are on the internet. It is possible someone in real life told him with spoken words.

  2. Re:What we should really be... on Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    STOP THE PRESSES! Talk about nothing else! It is IMPOSSIBLE to talk and think about more than ONE problem at a time! Always and only focus on the most important issue ever!

    Like adware.

  3. Re:Censorship in the UK on High Court Orders UK ISPs To Block EBook Sites · · Score: 1

    1984 by Georgy Orwell

    I tried to a while back, but it mysteriously vanished off of my reader.

  4. Re:Where's Waldo? on Making the World's Largest Panoramic Photo · · Score: 1

    Everywhere else in the world you're looking for where Wally is.

    Only in English speaking countries, I would assume. The Danish translation (yes, the picture books get translated) named him Holger.

  5. Re:Wasnt an inside leak on Large Amount of Star Citizen Art Assets Leaked · · Score: 1

    I thought information couldn't be destroyed?

  6. Re:I did not know... on D.C. Police Detonate Man's 'Suspicious' Pressure Cooker · · Score: 1

    You think after blowing up his stuff only to find out it wasn't a bomb the police will care about his statement? His friend CLEARLY just claimed to have been the one driving to save him, so got hit with Obstruction Of Justice or something along those lines.

    Don't underestimate a police officer trying to save face after screwing up big time.

  7. Re:i feel sorry for the poor guy. on D.C. Police Detonate Man's 'Suspicious' Pressure Cooker · · Score: 1

    You will be charged with the manufacture of a device that (when blown up) injured or if unlucky killed several police officers.

  8. Re:I did not know... on D.C. Police Detonate Man's 'Suspicious' Pressure Cooker · · Score: 1

    He called a friend with a valid license to drive him into town, in his own car since that could fit the pressure cooker in the back seat.

    That's my theory, and at least a plausible explanation.

  9. Re:did they damage the car? on D.C. Police Detonate Man's 'Suspicious' Pressure Cooker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's funny how there's more than one kind of terrorism, right?

    Terrorism is by definition actions meant to spread fear; it doesn't HAVE to be violent. It doesn't HAVE to be done by muslim extremists. It just has to make people afraid.

    Like the risk of having the police blow up (the contents of) your car because they (claim they) can smell gasoline. On a vehicle propelled by gasoline.

  10. Youtube in Germany on Europe Vows To Get Rid of Geo-Blocking · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Will this include having Germany unblock Youtube?

    Currently, ANYTHING on Youtube involving music is blocked because GEMA (the German equivalent of RIAA) can't reach an agreement with Google. The end result is that all those videos out there where people play a bit of background music are effectively banned from being seen in Germany.

    For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

    An interesting excerpt for those too lazy to click on links:

    A study sponsored by the video hosting website MyVideo estimated that 61.5% of the 1000 most viewed YouTube clips are blocked in Germany. This is significantly higher than, for example, in the United States (0.9%) or in Switzerland (>1%).[7]

  11. Re:12/7 on VA Tech Student Arrested For Posting Perceived Threat Via Yik Yak · · Score: 2

    I like how we get the explanation of why she's now your EX wife in this short story. ;-)

  12. Re:Systemic and widespread? on The Courage of Bystanders Who Press "Record" · · Score: 1

    but in a large country statistically rare occurrences happen with distressing frequency

    These people are a minority, out of the dozens of LEOs I know I can only name one that falls into this category.

    I felt a certain need to point out these two parts of your well written post just to remind you of your own words when it comes to the second quote.

  13. Re:Adopt the German Rules on Amazon Requires Non-Compete Agreements.. For Warehouse Workers · · Score: 1

    The thing is that getting 50% of your pay means the business is going to balk at throwing it at anyone who doesn't actually have access to 'classified' knowledge; the sysadmin knowing the entire network, high-up managers with insight into future company plans and so on. So if you're laid off, and you get 50% of your normal pay, you probably in most cases had a job where you could put something aside, and with that 50% pay you will have a much longer time to find a different job, AND you can choose something at a low pay that isn't competing. You could manage the network of that non-profit organization you've been helping out at anyway, for one.

    Having your entire pay removed, AND being told not to work with anything that Amazon might at some point in the future decide to dabble in? Yeah, welcome to unemployment.

  14. Re:Surprisingly badly written article on Excess Time Indoors May Explain Rising Myopia Rates · · Score: 1

    Please, to a man it looks a lot longer than it actually is, therefore he's not short-sighted but long-sighted.

  15. Re:At last... on Paul Allen Helps Find Sunken Japanese WWII Battleship Musashi Off Philippines · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, he discovered something the Japanese invented/built over 70 years ago!

  16. From the OP:

    we're moving soon, and this is the major reason

    I dunno, do you think moving is something you wake up Saturday morning and decide to do, and then you're all settled in your new home in time for dinner?

  17. Re:From Mall of America visitor rules: on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 1

    It's almost like America is a country where violence is PG-13, but nudity is NC-17.

    Oh wait.

    Seriously though, the main problem in America seems to be a culture of glorifying violent actions in one way or another. From the classic examples of how geeks and nerds get treated in school by the 'cool' jocks to the frothing "MY GUN OR MY LIFE!" mentality some people exhibit I can only sit here and quietly shake my head at the world-leading super-power who wants to tell everyone else how to do things.

    To be quite honest, I'm not sure who's more scary. The extremists east of me ... or the ones west of me.

  18. Re:As Good As ... on Study: Smartphones Just As Good As Fitness Trackers For Counting Steps · · Score: 1

    They see me rollin'
    They hatin' ...

    That's just how I roll.

  19. Re:Longer sentences on Swatting 19-Year-Old Arrested in Las Vegas · · Score: 1

    He sends armed police officers to attack the homes of (likely) innocent people, in the hopes that SOMEONE is going to get shot in the confusion.

    That's not exactly non-violent.

  20. Effectively sterile, until it turns out that some wild females have a different rare genetic mutation which when coupled with this one creates something entirely unexpected.

    Being able to reproduce is being able to reproduce. You don't say that a couple who have a stillborn baby are sterile, do you?

  21. Re:It's all about me. on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    If visual clues are so important, why aren't cars mandated to all be in the most visible colors possible, rather than lots of silver or black cars that vanish against the background?

    If engine noise gets mandated, so help me I will lobby to have it mandated that ALL cars be neon orange with large green dots.

  22. Re:More proof on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 2

    Font size.

  23. Re:Not sure how this is necessary on Illinois Students Suspected of Cyberbullying Must Provide Social Media Passwords · · Score: 2

    Suspicion of mass bullying:

    1) Ask bullied kid to log into Facebook and show THEIR logs.
    2) Ask other bullied kids if you know of any.
    3) If bullying actually took place, and it is illegal, file a subpoena for the full logs.

    No need to reveal passwords on suspicion.

  24. Re:betteridge's law of headlines on Windows 10: Can Microsoft Get It Right This Time? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The trick to the Betteridge law is that when a journalist writes a headline as a question, the question is suggesting what most people find improbable; and the improbable rarely happens.

  25. Re:Proofreading on FCC May Permit Robocalls To Cell Phones -- If They Are Calling a Wrong Number · · Score: 1

    'anymore'?