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  1. Re:One word on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    Two words, EMT scissors.

  2. Re:It's not the packaging, it's the seal on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    Personal injury lawyers took knobs out of cars. Kid's head collides with knob, knob imbeds itself in kid's skull. My truck's radio has a small knob to change the stations with but it retracts into the dash if you depress it.

  3. Re:Given a choice on Audio Surveillance, Intended to Detect Gunshots, Can Pick Up Much More · · Score: 1

    Are not many drugs outlawed? How many minutes would it take the average 18 year old to score some dope? As they say,"when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". Without guns in citizens hands, big brother is free do whatever he wants.

  4. Re:What's With All The RIM Hate? on RIM May Need To Write Off $1 Billion In Inventory · · Score: 1

    My son works for a major German multinational corporation. He went from a Blackberry to a smart phone. One problem he has is pocket dialing and posting auto corrected gibberish on his Facebook page.

  5. Re:What's the point? on Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test · · Score: 1

    I've driven on I95 in Florida before daylight in dense fog. Everyone was still going 70 mph. They just assumed the road was clear. The only trouble I ever had was one time when I got off the interstate onto a side road. The tail lights I thought I saw 50 meters away turned out to be tiny brake lights on a boat trailer ten meters away. I almost had a grill full of outboard motor.

  6. Re:USA! Wait... Home of the...? on EU Commissioner: I Will End Net Neutrality Waiting Game · · Score: 1, Informative

    The major problem with the Northeast is too many da** Yankees. About ten percent of the population of Florida is from the North and that's more than I can stand. I don't see how you get anything done when everyone around you is a Yankee. Yankee= loud mouthed, opinionated person from up north, Jersey shore types are the worst. I'm sure they're many decent people in the Northeast and maybe the we ones we have down here are just the ones you decent people kicked out.

  7. Re:Much more significant applications on MIT Creates Superhydrophobic Condiment Bottles · · Score: 1

    I use car wax on my kid's metal slide once. Poor kid hit dirt at the bottom as fast as if he just jumped off the top.

  8. Re:Cry me a fucking river on New Music Boss, Worse Than Old Music Boss · · Score: 1

    Farmer here, yes it is hard work, and more fun than should be legal. You remember those farm workers we imported 200 years ago? They all got uppity and most of them moved to New York and got on welfare. Actually it's competition. Why pay 100 people 8 dollars an hour to pick up potatoes when one man in a two hundred thousand dollar tractor pulling a one hundred fifty thousand dollar harvester can do the same job cheaper with much less hassle. You know why Europe subsidizes it's farmers? The WWII generation remembers being HUNGRY! You do not want to see a food riot. Are you volunteering to pick up some potatoes? They're harvesting in Texas and New Mexico now. Bring lots of sun screen and Gator Aid. Every business and everyone is subsidized. Lord knows where all that money comes from. You could move to Cuba. I here it's a workers paradise and everyone has a job.

  9. Re:Because it's so hard to change on Sci-fi Writer Elizabeth Moon Believes Everyone Should Be Chipped · · Score: 1

    Change it to what? Every person is followed. You stay in restroom at the bus station and someone else instantly appears walking out? You might swap with someone already in there but then the facial recognition cameras would notice the change. Of course who ever is in charge of the data base can do what they want but that happens already, witness protection program? And for you "Mark of the Beast" people God's plan will be carried out. When He wants universal identification it will happen, whether you want it or not.

  10. Re:taking this further on Sci-fi Writer Elizabeth Moon Believes Everyone Should Be Chipped · · Score: 1

    Aw come on. Hitler had no problem ID-ing Jews. As a Jew would you trust someone who is secretly a Muslim? I would like to be able to identify zero generation illegal immigrants. How about being arrested and then having the data base show you ten miles away and being released immediately. How about having the guy who just hijacked your car stopped five minutes later because the system tracked him all the way. The Gestapo and KGB did fine without computers. Your government is only as repressive as you allow it to be. Might such a data base be used for bad? Maybe. Much like gun control. Remove all guns from a city. Less people shot, more knifed and beat to death.

  11. Re:I may be wrong ... on FCC Boss Backs Metering the Internet · · Score: 1

    These same people have metered electric service, water and sewer, gas. They buy gasoline by the gallon, hamburger by the pound. Use little, pay little. With most internet plans the light users subsidize heavy users. Most of the internet usage is by you guys. The average person uses a tenth as much as the average /. poster, excluding me because I have to use a capped satellite service, $80 for 17 GB. I see nothing with a per MB charge. That would make service more affordable for the poor. Why should metered rates raise total cost or profits? Providers collect less from low users, more from high users. If those users cut back providers would adjust prices to achieve max usage per person. I expect lots of howls of protest from the subsidized heavy users.

  12. Re:A giant cash sink, but... on Russia To Establish Bases On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Who profits from military spending? Who will profit from increased space spending? If it's the same people we can go back into space, other wise ,no.

  13. Re:This does not differ fundamentally... on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    There is a coal fired power plant about five miles from my house. About ten years ago they wanted to build a second generating unit on the site. This would have meant another million dollars in property taxes and over five million in payroll every year. I have lived here for forty years and the air quality was completely unaffected by this plant but in the interest in going "green" the county fathers vetoed the construction and stated that they will be glad when the plant is shut down at the end of its service life. Unemployment is 10.6 percent and almost half of those who do have a job drive 30 to 50 miles to other counties to work.

  14. Re:What's wrong with keyboards? on The Leap: Gesture Control Like Kinect, But Cheaper and Higher Resolution · · Score: 1

    Arthritis, carpal tunnel, poor eye sight. You're going to be old one of these days, then you will understand.

  15. Re:The 21st century formula for a successful compa on HP To Cut 30,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    Meh, so they know my name and where I live, you can get that out of the phone book. I still don't have to look at their ads.

  16. Re:How did the economy get so disfunctional? on Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over With Facebook IPO · · Score: 1

    The economy was better before cell phones. Are you willing to give up your iPhone? It's basically a toy. Don't you wish you had invested in Apple's IPO?

  17. Re:The 21st century formula for a successful compa on HP To Cut 30,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    Went to my Facebook page. Zero ads. Of course, some people like ads, or can't figure out how to block them.

  18. Re:Statistics, statistics... on NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death · · Score: 2

    Anecdotal, one of my grandmothers lived to be 99, she drank three pots of coffee a day. The other one smoked and drank alcohol, she died at 57. She was shot a killed by some guy she picked up at a bar so that might skew the results somewhat.

  19. Re:Lower Yield, But What Yield Per Energy? on Organics Can't Match Conventional Farm Yields · · Score: 1

    I take it none of you have ever farmed in the South. After a couple of hours of hoeing weeds in the Florida sun you would kill for some herbicide. Or try digging 300 acres of potatoes out of waist high weeds and crabgrass. If you have done that (I have), and enjoyed it, you are probably suffering from heat stroke and should lie down in the shade and drink some Gator aid.

  20. Math skills on Is Poor Numeracy Ruining Lives? · · Score: 2

    I have four children, the oldest has her PhD, first son has a law degree, the youngest is in his third year of collage with a 3.4 GPA. My other daughter graduated manga cum laude from high school but it took two years of summer school, night classes, plus some cheating to pass the math part of the Florida FCAT. She was unable to attend collage because she said she would rather stab her eyes out than take another math class. She is graduating from cosmetology school this month. Her teacher told her that she was the best student she ever taught. She just has to be very careful with any procedure that requires fractions.

  21. password strength on SCADA Hacker: Water District Used 3-Character Password · · Score: 1

    After three wrong tries me bank locks me out. How difficult is this system to implement? You could also time password tries. 1000 times in one second might be a clue that a computer is trying to hack the account. Either that or someone can really type fast but has a very poor memory.

  22. climate change on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    We have change the way our economy operates to prevent climate change that will change the way our economy operates. What am I missing here?

  23. Re:The Internet is where Religion comes to die. on Catholic Bishops Support Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The celebration of Christ birth was moved to Dec. 25 as an alternative to pagan celebrations. You know, give the kids some candy and an orange, have a pageant, sing some carols, tell a Bible story. Looks like it worked pretty good.

  24. military spending on 'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget · · Score: 1

    Wasn't ARPNET a military project? Most universitys do military funded research, much to the dismay of pacifist undergrads. Wouldn't it be better to have youfund-it. Everyone gits one vote per hundred dollars of income tax paid.

  25. Re:Nothing but a Murdoch hit piece. on Why the Web Mustn't Become the New TV · · Score: 1

    So thirty years ago when I decided that President Carter was a tool I was channeling propaganda beamed from the future to my brain from the then non-existent Fox news channel?