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  1. No problem.. on Coping with Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    No problem here as I don't have time for friends, I spend too much time playing video games.

  2. A trick to attract masochists? on Senator Blacklisted by No-Fly List · · Score: 1
    ... occasionally causes problems because the airlines are responsible for flagging passengers who show up on the list.
    Did anyone else read this as "the airlines are responsible for flogging passengers who show up on the list"?
    Did anyone who misread it as such find it strange?
    Could public flogging be used to make more masochistic exhibishonists fly?
  3. Watch where they land.. on 'Satan' Missile Now Launches Satellites · · Score: 1

    There seem to be something funny about these rockets we bought from the Russians. I mean, 70-75% of Earth's surface is covered with water, yet everytime one of these things have delivered a satellite into orbit the remaining rocket have fallen down into a large american city. What are the chances of that??

  4. Security vs Obscurity on NYT Calls For Open-Source Election Machines · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "If you take a letter, lock it in a safe, hide the safe somewhere in the city and then tell someone to read the letter, that's not security. That's obscurity. On the other hand, if you take a letter and lock it in a safe, then give someone the safe along with the design specifications of the safe and a hundred identical safes with their combinations so that he and the world's best safe crackers can study the locking mechanism - and you still can't open the safe and read the letter - that's security."
    - Bruce Schneier in his book Applied Cryptography
  5. Hilarious on Eigenfaces Online Service · · Score: 1

    The best match for Saddam Hussein is what, 2 years old? =)
    The best matches for Osama Bin Laden and Josef Stalin are also quite young.. Maby someone should keep an eye on those kids just in case, but im sure the FBI already got it covered.

    Better keep an eye on that kid matching George W. Bush as well!

  6. Sounds fine except on Anti-HIV Virus Developed · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Sounds fine except the last 2 lines...
    It's also possible that HIV and the therapeutic virus could mutate around each other and recombine to make an altogether new virus.
    "I can't say now it won't make it worse," Arkin said.
  7. GloFish not as cool as Dopefish on Glowing Fish are First Genetically Engineered Pets · · Score: 2, Funny

    GloFish, eh? I think I'll wait for Dopefish to be available as pet.

  8. Re:Profit! (Oh the shame!) on MPAA School Propaganda Program Examined · · Score: 1

    Doh, what a fool I am, I thought this article was about the RIAA not the MPAA.. Ignore my redundant comments..

  9. Profit! on MPAA School Propaganda Program Examined · · Score: 1

    This might actually be a good investment..
    Ok, $100,000 is a lot of money, but you must also consider that when the RIAA sues someone its often for $150,000 per song. (the maximum the law allows)
    This means that they just have to stop 1 kid from sharing 1 song and.... Profit!

  10. Petition to sign on Penny Arcade vs. American Greetings · · Score: 4, Informative
    "An industrious reader already has a petition up and ready for you to sign. If you would like to voice your support you can find the petition here.

    I know it has some spelling mistakes but hey, I didn't write it. The kid who did is trying to get it fixed. I guess you can't just change the text of a petition after a couple thousand people have signed it."
    From Gabe of Penny Arcade, there were 3509 signatures when I posted this.
  11. I've always wondered... on Workstations 'Dirtier Than Toilets' · · Score: 1

    Ah, so they envolve into health threatening bacteria.
    I've always wondered what happens to everything that falls into my keyboard! =)

  12. Executing files with arguments? on Don't Hit That Back Button · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or is it impossible to pass arguments to the program you execute?
    Starting cmd.exe is a lot more fun if you can tell it to do stuff, not just open up a window..

  13. Don't forget Sweden! on Russia Declassifies "Stealth" Warship · · Score: 2, Informative

    Eh, don't forget we in Sweden also are working on a stealth ship..

    http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/visby/

    /Gathers