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  1. Re:quick, someone start complaining! on Full Review of the iPhone 2 On Launch Day · · Score: 5, Funny

    Things cost more than they used to! Young people swear!

  2. Re:Manifold Space on Moon May Have Once Had Water · · Score: 1

    As did Robert Heinlein with The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. The penal colony on the moon was only able to exist because of ice-mining operations below the surface.

  3. Re:2016: Mercedes sales tumble on Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015 · · Score: 1

    And don't biofuels lead to worldwide food shortages?

    Sustainable biofuel in action, making one of the largest nations on the planet energy-independant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil#Electricity_from_Sugarcane_Bagasse

  4. Thank god! on Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe this precedent (if true) will prompt the other automakers to follow?

  5. Re:What the.... on User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace · · Score: 1

    What the hell did you expect? It's New Jersey

  6. Actually... on Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World · · Score: 1

    ...my wife is friends with one. And she's roomates with two others that are just as hot. Spent the 4th of July over at their place last weekend. Good times.

  7. Let me guess... on Digitizing Old Magazines? · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...this is probably the result of a "compromise" between you and your wife, because those old mags are taking up too much shelf space?

  8. Re:How is this regime possible? on In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, it's a Dodge, with a McCain bumper sticker. And he hates Obama for whatever reasons Fox News tells him to.

  9. Irony? on In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd like to point out the irony of this post being submitted by Anonymous reader

  10. Re:How is this regime possible? on In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem you may be having is with your sampling group. Unless you happen to be traveling to Iran itself, the people you are meeting are travelers themselves, and possibly of a different overall mindset than hardliners, who would be less likely to travel. (I base this on my father, an American, who stoutly refuses to travel anywhere requiring a passport, simply because it's "not America")

  11. Re:No Problem on VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG · · Score: 1

    And what about the semi-trucks we need to transport goods across the country? Even if you somehow make the truck itself light, they still need to cary 10's of tons of goods.

  12. Re:This is probably good news on Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant · · Score: 1

    You can practically get rid of the virus over many successive generations.

    but never entirely right?

    Doesn't matter. This keeps the virus from reaching a critical load necessary for "infection".

  13. the answer is... on First Images of Solar System's Invisible Frontier · · Score: 1

    ...the ability to throw awesome parties, duh.

  14. Re:Woooooosh on First Images of Solar System's Invisible Frontier · · Score: 1

    Was your "Preview" button broken?

  15. Re:Some people just get set in their ways on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 1
    An old dog will only learn new tricks if he wants to.

    My mother-in-law recently knocked her old cell phone into the dog's water bowl. When I went with her to get a new phone, she decided she wanted to catch up with the times, and get a "cool" phone that could do everything. It's a pretty steep learning curve for her though, so I've been giving her weekly lessons, working from the simple (entering new contacts), eventually up to the advanced (web browsing, etc). Right now we're on picture messages.

    She is, however, having big issues with the idea of touch-sensitive keys. Every key press makes me cringe for worry she's going to snap the phone in half, and I can not convince her that she just needs to brush the key.

  16. Re:If they are being sold on speed... on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 1

    From my understaing of the GP, he's saying that the phone jack was on the other side of the room from where the computer is. Thus, having the internet connected meant a phone line laying across the middle of the room. I actually had to do something like this when I was in a dorm my first year of college (except it was with an ethernet cable, to connect the xbox to the LAN and play Halo (the first (and best)one))

    Did I close my parenthese properly?

  17. Re:Terminate accounts not instances? on Amazon's EC2 Having Problems With Spam and Malware · · Score: 1

    Easy enough. Just require that Mailing Address == Billing Address. Sure, it won't stop 100%, but it'll certainly make it a lot harder (and more expensive) on them.

  18. Re:Is that true for doctors? on PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License · · Score: 1
    Depends on the particular state:

    In the United States, the extent of the privilege varies depending on the law of the applicable state. For example, in Texas there is only a limited physician-patient privilege in criminal proceedings, and the privilege is limited in civil cases as well. See generally Texas Occupations Code section 159.003 and Texas Rules of Evidence, Rule 509(b).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor-patient_confidentiality

  19. Re:Terminate accounts not instances? on Amazon's EC2 Having Problems With Spam and Malware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree with parent. This should be a non-issue. Just shut the account off, (possibly with a fine, as suggested elsewhere), and disallow the account holder from creating another account.

  20. What other areas does this apply to? on Privacy Policies Only as Good as the People Enforcing Them · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I, for one, would seriously like to see a survey conducted across a wide ranges of job types and industries, polling employees about how compotent they feel they are at their job. I get the feeling a rather large number of people are just desk-fillers, who happened to be able get through the interview process, only to realize they have no idea what they're doing. And the same people have bosses who are just as incompotent, so everybody keeps their job.

  21. Math = $$ on Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis wikipedia article, this means $1,000,000 if the proof turns out to be valid. Unfortunately, I didn't understand anything else in that article.

  22. Re:What about the scream we hear from other planet on The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth · · Score: 1

    Or solar flares. (What do you call solar flares made by stars other than sol?)

  23. Re:Wow, really shows who spam is coined at on What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you saying you want to put your "spam" in her "inbox"?

  24. Re:Then the Algorithm is Retarded on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    I think it's more of admittance that for a lot of Obama's detractors, skin color definately makes a difference.

  25. Re:mmmkay on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    So he's the best turd in the sewer?