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  1. TFA Says nothing about laptop batteries on FAA Reports Heat In Cargo Holds Can Ignite Laptop Batteries · · Score: 4, Informative

    Metal Lithium batteries!=Lithium-Ion batteries used in laptops. Metal Lithium batteries are too dangerous to be used in laptops.

  2. Re:Evil stuff on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 2, Informative

    (You know, fructose, the principal form of sugar found in those well-known health-wreckers, apples.)

    Apples are actually pretty nutritionally devoid. It's almost as if they're pure sugar. In many, many fruit drinks, you'll see Apple juice as the number one ingredient as it is used as filler. Even if you are drinking something like Strawberry+Blueberry Juice, the chief ingredient is Apple juice. The same is true of the watermelon juice I like to buy. It's mostly Apple juice.

    SUGAR!

  3. Re:What is it then? on Windows Phone 7 Lacks Copy-and-Paste · · Score: 1

    Somewhere deep in Utah a Unix textbook is flipped open and commands typed into OS X and Linux.

    Well, Mac OS X is the largest Unix distribution in the world.

  4. Re:You have to wonder? on Apple Quietly Goes After Mac Trojan With Update · · Score: 0

    They had a commercial that blatantly said that Macs don't get viruses.

    Citation needed.

    Apple has never "blatantly" said Macs don't get viruses. They've never said that at all. They've said that Macs aren't affected by viruses designed for Windows. Which is very true.

    (and this applies even when people conflate trojans and viruses)

  5. Re:Poor Planning on Foxconn May Close Factories In China · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sacrificing yourself so your family can get financial help seems to be the motive. In which case, stopping payments for suicide would remove the motive.

    Probably why life insurance companies don't pay out on suicide.

  6. My reaction on Motorola Planning 2GHz Android Phone For Later This Year · · Score: 1

    "Why is Moto using a shotgun?"

  7. Re:Bunk test on H.264 and VP8 Compared · · Score: 1

    only records at 720 x 480.

    pWhich is larger than 480 x 360, is it not?

  8. Preprocessor on Should I Take Toyota's Software Update? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they are counting the lines of code after the preprocessor is done with it? With all the inlines being duplicated as lines of code. Macros. Built-in functions. using C++...

  9. Re:You're looking at it wrong. on Should I Take Toyota's Software Update? · · Score: 1

    Turn your car off if it accelerates out of control.

    Turn it off how? Moderner cars don't need an ignition key to remain on. Hell, it's just a pretty keylock in many cases. From some stories, it seems even the emergency brake will fail to halt one of these failures.

  10. Re:Good luck on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    Likely because the foods we eat the most (such as corn and bananas) have been genetically modified for thousands of years. Same thing with cows, pigs, and chicken but those might not be thousands.

  11. Re:Surpisingly many respectible physists talking on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and the Chicago Cubs · · Score: 1

    Surprisingly many respectable physicists talking, about this dumb nature abores the Higgs theory.

    Sometimes science is about taking the utterly absurd and finding a way to rationalize it. Such as I'm about to do.

    This time traveling Higgs Boson would support the principal of self-consistency. In a non-multiverse universe (redundant), no event could ever occur that would create a paradox. Viewing the Higgs Boson would create a logical (perhaps ontological) paradox. Thus, it can never happen.

  12. Carbon Dioxide on Cosmic Radiation Makes Trees Grow Faster · · Score: 1

    I don't think they need to look any further for answers than the Fantastic Four.

    I don't think they need to look any further for answers than increasing carbon dioxide amounts somehow makes trees grow faster.

    (Really, it seems like this is to rebuff the notion that CO2 is Green)

  13. Re:Still dangerous on US Nuclear Power Industry Poised For a Comeback · · Score: 1

    My friend, radioactive waste will always be dangerous.

    If it's dangerous, it still has energy. If it still has energy, it can be re-used.

    IMO, the only thing stopping Nuclear power from being accepted everywhere is that we cannot yet use ~100% of the waste.

  14. Re:One thing that's incorrect on A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support · · Score: 1

    The Exchange support for Snow Leopard was built using Exchange Web Services, just like the next version of Microsoft's client, Entourage.

    Entourage is the current Mac analogue of Outlook. It will be phased out next year when Office for Mac come with an actual version of Outlook.

    Incorrect. The "Outlook for Mac" is just a rebranded Entourage, so you're still getting the same thing.

  15. Re:Why are sex offenders treated worse than murder on Illinois Bans Social Network Use By Sex Offenders · · Score: 1

    "dispose of the body" was meant to imply that even if the body was found, there'd be no evidence of sexual assault. Chop it up, grind it, whatever. And murdering someone does not automatically mean the body will ever be found.

    These sex offender laws just make some crimes much worse.

  16. Re:Are there levels of Sexual Offence??? on Illinois Bans Social Network Use By Sex Offenders · · Score: 2, Informative

    What happens when a 18 year-old is convicted for statutory rape of his 17 year-old girlfriend when they have consensual sex? He's now most likely a registered sex offender. Is he banned from Facebook?

    Yes. He's labeled a sex offender for life, can't get a job, can't find a place to live and is banned from social networks like facebook.

  17. Why are sex offenders treated worse than murderers on Illinois Bans Social Network Use By Sex Offenders · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People labeled "sex offenders" (could be from mooning someone, urinating in an alley, having manga, and other little things) are treated worse than murderers in the US. Murderers don't have to tell the community after serving time that they killed someone. They can rent apartments almost anywhere. There's no online database anyone can browse to find murderers living in your area...

    It saddens me as, basically, it's better for the perp's punishment to rape a child, kill them, and dispose of the body than just raping them.

  18. Re:I wouldn't worry about Apple on New Mac Clone Maker 'Quo' To Open Retail Store · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Do you think Mac users are as fanatic as protestors from Westboro Baptist Church?

    (Perhaps they are...)

  19. Finally an archival format we can use. on Nanotech Memory Could Hold Data For 1 Billion Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    The problem with CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, tapes, and so on is that they have extremely short lifetimes (6 to 3 years for most optical media, 10-20 years for most magnetic media).

    This is a solution that would finally allow our civilization's information to last beyond the apocalypse occurring in 2012.

    Or think think how long Atlantis was lost to intelligent life...

  20. Re:beta software on Safari 4's Messy Trail · · Score: 1

    Betas should not be given a pass solely because they are betas.

  21. Re:I hope I'm not the only one on Robot Body Suit To Be Marketed In Japan · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, I had the same thought too. Then I saw "Cyberdyne" and "HAL". Sigh, it's either a joke or the beginning of armageddon.

    Not sure which I'd prefer.

  22. Re:Four years? on Microsoft Warns of Copycat Conficker Worm · · Score: 1

    Except they really do not. The *next* generation is *supposed* to do behaviour monitoring instead of definition files, but the current generation does not.

    Also, conficker disables most AV Scanners, making the point moot.

  23. Re:Four years? on Microsoft Warns of Copycat Conficker Worm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is untrue. Conficker uses a variety of ways to spread itself. Such as installing itself as autorun on various volumes. It also includes a password attack to get admin access to a machine and infect SMB shares.

    It may use additional methods as well. This is part of the reason conficker is getting so much press.

  24. Hello Kitty Online on Non-Violent, Cooperative Games? · · Score: 1, Informative

    If you want non-violent games, then try Hello Kitty Online. It's truly innovative.

  25. Suggest reading Adobe's blogosplat on Why Is Adobe Flash On Linux Still Broken? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I suggest the read of penguin.swf blogosplat which is Adobe's blog for posting new version of flash for linux (such as the recent Flash 10 beta or the new alpha)