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  1. Re:They have bad ideas on GM Criticized Over Chevy Volt's Hybrid Similarities · · Score: 1

    Or rent a car once a year using existing infrastructure.

  2. Re:Lots of spare drive bays? on Creative Uses For Extra Drive Bays? · · Score: 1

    Or put a clean install of your OS and _nothing_ else on one of these drives. You never know...

  3. It'll be a update to the Potrzebie System on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 2, Insightful

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie

  4. Buy a cheap (second hand?) notebook on Recourse For Draconian Encryption Requirements? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Use it for nothing else. They can't mess up your personal machine or lose your data if they don't get their paws on it.

  5. Keeping the pictures on FBI Bringing Biometric Photo Scanning To North Carolina, Via DMV · · Score: 2, Informative

    Keeping the pictures on hand does help to prove identity theft. Back in the 90's I sold a couple of cell phones to a guy who'd actually gotten some one else's nfo by rooting through his gym bag. The ID looked like a genuine ID from the DMV because it was. But being the criminal mastermind he was, he didn't realize the DMV would have a copy of the ID with his picture and the other fellows name. Awkward. By not keeping the photos, you'd make it much harder to prove it wasn't you.

  6. But then the Feds would have to pay for it. on FBI Bringing Biometric Photo Scanning To North Carolina, Via DMV · · Score: 1

    If they can fob the program off on the states, they can duck the expense, too.

  7. Re:Such a bad idea, let me count the ways... on Student Designs Cardboard Computer Case · · Score: 1

    Cats.
    Dogs.
    Mice.
    Rabbits.
    Parrots.
    Children.

  8. Re:Artistic License (or Homer's Poor Choices) on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    Menalaus was king of Sparta _because_ he married Helen.

  9. Re:10 reasons why aliens might not use radio on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    11. Detecting radio signals at interstellar ranges is _hard_, unless the source is as powerfull as a star.

  10. And worst of all on NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "If we could send a man to the moon, why can't we send a man to the moon?"

  11. Not like a phone on Analyst, 15, Creates Storm After Trashing Twitter · · Score: 1

    A game console is used in one particular room and is tethered by wires. They have no buttons or dials, but in would be possible to swing a Wii controller in a circular "cranking" motion to log on. Someone should patent this!

  12. Re:The Relevance of Revenue on RIAA Moves To Keep Revenue Info Secret · · Score: 1

    Oh, I never said i wouldn't enjoy seeing "genuine harm".

  13. Re:The Relevance of Revenue on RIAA Moves To Keep Revenue Info Secret · · Score: 1

    These may not be the exact same numbers provided to the artists. Hell, these may not be the exact same numbers provided to the IRS. Public disclosure could indeed cause genuine harm to the companis involved.

  14. The representation it deserves on RIAA Wants To Bar Jammie From Making Objections · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or, maybe, just maybe, if their lawyers are trying everything, absolutely everything that they can think up, it means this case isn't really about copyright at all. It's about billable hours.

  15. Yep, Vintage on Vintage Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I'll bet some of you were hoping to finish High School before you grew old...

  16. Drug tests and athletes on Reliable Male Contraceptive In the Works · · Score: 1

    Either the IOC et all will ban this or _everybody_ will use it.

  17. Re:Standardization on Can the New Digital Readers Save the Newspapers? · · Score: 1

    And of course, the NYT has always been the one paper that can survive without comics.

  18. Time to put on my tinfoil hat on What We Can Do About Massive Solar Flares · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh, wait...

  19. Re:Linux. on Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Well, first we must all agree on The One True Distro and purge the forking heretics who would dilute it. No doubt there will be pointless arguments between the Gbotnet and Kbotnet factions but the simple truth remains: any user who cannot handle a simple command like alt-shift-meta bot -net -install is only fitted for Windows infections anyway. We can easily have an alpha release out long before the heat death of the universe, so I am at a loss to understand why you said "NEVER WILL".

  20. I am Paddle-to-the-Sea on "Tweenbots" Test NYC Pedestrian-Robot Relations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Please put me back in the water.

  21. Re:Standardize on Fly Me To Which Moon? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mass production and standard designs only work if we have a _lot_ of missions, not once every decade or two, in which case the technology is wildly different. If price were no object we could launch to Jupiter every 13 odd months, but for Saturn and beyond there's always that pesky detail of waiting for a gravity assist.

  22. Re:Eliza? on Software To Provide Astronaut Counseling · · Score: 1

    Why do you want to open the pod bay door, Dave?

  23. Re:Just Remember... on Seattle Flushes $5M High-Tech Toilets · · Score: 1

    The homless shelter on Rosemary street has been there since the 1980's.

  24. Re:This is going to end badly on McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments · · Score: 1

    Allowing itelligent and informed supporters to make their own comments leads to deviationism.

  25. They could land at Gander. on NASA Will Man Destruct Switch Just In Case · · Score: 1

    The runway can handle any plane that ever flew, including the shuttle.