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  1. How to resolve Troll comments on Google SideWiki Brings Comments To Everyone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Add a rating system, not unlike Amazon has for it's products. Basically, viewers can rate the comments up or down; significantly negative comments will eventually be eaten by the system. Significantly good comments will be presented in order of appearance. Additionally, it would be good to have a section presenting the 3 comments with the fewest votes, so the viewer would be likely to add his own vote to those.

  2. We're all mutants? Does that mean . . . on All Humans Are Mutants, Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    . . . we're all owned by Disney?

  3. Mod parent up informative on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 1

    At least for the Howard the Duck info. If there are any late mods reading this. Much appreciated.

  4. Finally! A justification for Howard the Duck! on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not the movie, the Marvel character. Now Howard the Duck will finally be able to admit he's from the same universe as Donald. My inner geek is sated!

  5. Re:This Legislation Needs More Youtube Justificati on Utah Law Punishes Texters As Much As Drunks In Driving Fatalities · · Score: 1

    "Great video. But at least one of the cars was driving on the wrong side of the road. "

    Had she not been texting, the girl might have caught this and either corrected herself or avoided the other driver.

    Also, European road perspective. Additionally, someone might have reversed that portion of the video for a better angle, not realizing it screws up logical viewers.

  6. This Legislation Needs More Youtube Justification on Utah Law Punishes Texters As Much As Drunks In Driving Fatalities · · Score: 4, Informative

    All the way from Europe! (warning, graphic scenes!)

    This was all over the news this week. I love that video. Every driver's ed class should show it. In full.

  7. PayPal + eBay == Ripoff on "Hidden" PayPal Fees Inciting Community Unrest · · Score: 0

    These fees on top of it, I am no longer participating with selling via eBay. eBay has a relation with PayPal; from what I've been informed, eBay owns PayPal. Given that is true, they heavily promote PayPal as a purchase method of choice, going so far in the past as to discourage other instant payment methods including one from Western Union that was eventually dismissed by said provider, and I believe Google Checkout, but I've not kept up with it so I could be wrong. Instead of creating such animosity by adding additional fees, it should have been in eBay/PayPal's best interest to provide a fee discount to the seller if his buyer was purchasing something via eBay through PayPal. That is where eBay/PayPal fails.

  8. Do you have to turn your monitor upside-down on New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers · · Score: 1

    when you Google for 58008 ?

  9. Curing HIV is so easy on Prehistoric Gene Reawakened To Battle HIV · · Score: 5, Funny

    a caveman could do it.

  10. Did I win the first post bet? on BringIt.com Allows Players to Bet On Console Game Matches · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I want my money if I did.

  11. Deletion Theory aside, 1984 isn't hard to reread. on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1984 is not such a voluminous tome.

    The guy has his notes in a file. Very likely (and I don't have a Kindle or his notes on hand to verify this), they're placed in there in the order in which they were applied to the text.

    So, theoretically, all he has to do is look at each note and re-read through 1984 and re-apply the labels he's missing. It's probable some of his notes are quite location-specific, creating markers with which he could then locate his current whereabouts and continue on.

    Granted, if the notes in the text file are in "order of addition", he's screwed. Equally so if his notes consisted of simply underlining or tagging (without a label) areas of text (can you do this?) and now those are disassociated. That sort of thing defeats my data recovery proposal..

  12. Re:Since we're taking requests on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    "BZZZZZ. Illegal."

    Not in my state. It's completely legal here.

  13. Since we're taking requests on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    I'd like anyone who is making a left turn at a green traffic light, which is not a deliberate red light for left turns, to PULL THE HELL UP INTO THE INTERSECTION.

  14. Bard's Tale and Ultima on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    I loved that game; you could actually complete it, transfer your characters to the next game (albiet with some alterations). I loved the world. Of course, like it and Ultima, you could just slap their concepts as a skin on any old World of Warcraft / Everquest engine.

  15. Re:Sewers? on RC Submarine Lays Fiber Through Sewers In Italy · · Score: 1

    And here is a blog article explaining that horrible thing, though I don't believe it's a worm cluster.

  16. Re:I touched a NASA space suit covered in moon dus on How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks · · Score: 1

    Well, there was a suit, and it wasn't there a few years later and the story went that it apparently got taken back by NASA for cleaning because they left stuff on it.

  17. I touched a NASA space suit covered in moon dust on How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My father used to work for ILC-DDC, a chip manufacturer out on Long Island. Some of their chips went to use with NASA. As I recall it, years ago, we children were given a tour on a "factory open to families" day, and they had a NASA space suit on display in the hallway. Well, it turns out that (1) this suit had been on the moon, (2) this suit hadn't been cleaned properly, and (3) NASA eventually recalled the suit to have any errant moon dust sucked out of it, and never let them have the suit again. At least, that's the story I was told.

  18. Oblig. That's no Exoplanet... on Scientists Discover Exoplanet Less Than Twice the Mass of Earth · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... it's a Beowulf Cluster.

    What, you were maybe expecting something else?

  19. C for Ceridwen? on Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will · · Score: 1

    Always thought that was for Cthulhu. Guess someone decided if the name was propagated enough, the stars might come ri..{nocarrier}

  20. Re:sure it is on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?" I hear with campus security it's not fear of, but just generally having a tough time locating it in the first place.


    mods encouraged to re-read a few times before modding down... :D

  21. Oblig. Achievement Thread on Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability · · Score: 1

    Achieved? Did I get mine? Woo?

  22. Wasn't me! on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I take showers.

  23. Well, which Flash are we talking about here? on Nanotube Memory Finally Beats Flash For Speed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jay Garrick isn't as fast as Wally West or Barry Allen...

  24. What the hell... on The Science and Physics of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    ... is a gigawatt? :)

  25. They took a lot of dumps! on Study Finds Hundreds of Stolen Data Dumps · · Score: 1

    Don't take one of mine!