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  1. Search on 'Dating' Site Imports 250k Facebook Profiles · · Score: 1

    Funny that. If you go their homepage, the statistics search has an error, which reads: Last keywords searched: Errore : 1146: Table 'facefacebknew.searched_keys' doesn't exist They're not even trying!

  2. Re:e.e. cummings approves on Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key · · Score: 2

    I'm a righty (sic?), but can mouse left-handed as well. Of course I don't switch the buttons every time I switch the mouse, so my left hand uses the middle finger for the LMB. If you really want to confuse me for some time, give me a proper left handed mouse.

  3. Re:We're all mind readers on Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store · · Score: 1

    Amarok syncs my iPod nano just fine. Even beter than iTunes, as far as I'm concerned.

  4. Universal? on Universal Phone Charger Approved By UN Body · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Surely they mean terrestrial, not universal. Or are we really hoping that the Xymoleians from Sirius B will adapt to this standard?

  5. Re:Kid won't know what to do when an adult on Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid · · Score: 1

    Do you live in outback Australia, where the nearest neighbor is 30 miles away? If so, the GPS probably isn't available anyway.

    Because GPS satellites are somehow programmed to skip outback Australia? When they dubbed it Global Positioning System they weren't exactly joking, you know.

  6. Re:Slashkos on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    Ah. So the 'stupid' should just be left to their own devices and die young. You, as an obvious intellectual, don't feel any compassion, empathy or solidarity with another member of the human race that might just not be so lucky as to have enough IQ points to survive? But no, of course you don't. Clean up the gene pool, you'd probably say. Some of us may not actually feel that way and find your post rather, well, if not offensive, then at least unthoughtful. But then again, I do live in a nanny state!

  7. Re:And my recent trip to the zoo... on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    Ook!

  8. Slow light is easy on 'Slow' Light To Speed Up the Net · · Score: 1

    Just install a powerful magical force field... That'l slow light down easily.

  9. Re:Security Through Obscurity! on LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they use your comma placement as a random seed, the system will be absolutely secure.

  10. Well on Strange Bacteria Sustains Itself Without Sunlight · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's life Jim, but not as we know it!

  11. Re:They can do this.... on Simulating Supernovae with Graphics Cards · · Score: 1

    Get married???

  12. Re:Hardly X-Rated. Maybe R-Rated... on Airport Screeners could see X-rated X-rays · · Score: 1

    No, people do not get sucked out of the plane. It's just that a bullet (even a qualified one) through the cabin itself would amount to instant cabin depressurisation and a sincere risk of structural damage. No guns on any airplane would be very sensible indeed.

  13. Good old adventure gaming on Designing Videogames For The Wage Slave · · Score: 1

    I do think that gaming for the wage slave is still possible, you just have to select other games. You could go for a drive with NFS or rebuild civilization with Civ3. Both games can be timeconsuming (esp. Civ3, I know), but you don't have to play that next round. And where is the ol' adventure? Those could be saved any time you pretty much wanted. Strangely, nowadays we don't hear a lot about them, but if someone had the creativity to program a good adventure, I'd be playing!

  14. Coincidence on FBI Raids Arizona School District Over Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is: same thing is happening in The Netherlands. According to the news-site nu.nl, the local tax enforcers are looking for 'perpetrators' in Utrecht, Enschede and some other cities. Arrests, allegedly, have been made. Now, is this really true, or are they pulling some big fat FUD-operation?

  15. Re:pessimism on U.S. Students Shun Computer Science, Engineering · · Score: 1

    I sincerely wonder how cramming up someone's brain with knowledge can educate people. Okay, so they know a lot of facts, big deal. Google knows a lot of facts, too! The goal of education is not to provide people with knowledge, but to provide people with skills. Like someone already told before, it should not matter what major you take, what matters is the skills you learn. Making your kids into a bunch of encyclopedias without a shred of imagination is not the smartest thing to do.