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  1. Re:Obvious When? on Location-Based Search Was Patented In 1999 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Have you heard of the Yellow Pages(tm) ?

  2. Re:Big deal. on More States Rebel Against Real ID Act · · Score: 1

    So you really are espousing the idea that honest people have nothing to fear from their government. Me, I'm a big fan of the 2nd Amendment, you know, the one where the founders of a country created through revolution against a legal government basically stated that the governors had to rule at the consent of an armed populace.

  3. Re:Big deal. on More States Rebel Against Real ID Act · · Score: 1

    "So wait, who protects the people from their government?"
    "Terrorists."
    "...oh."
    Interesting sig. Good point.
  4. Re:Big deal. on More States Rebel Against Real ID Act · · Score: 1

    Fight the man!
    That's the first intelligent thing you've said this whole thread. Rather than (further) facilitating a national "show us your papers" environment, we should all be manning the barricades to prevent any further loss of our civil liberties. Big Brother is already running this country (and a few others) - you just haven't noticed yet.
  5. Re:Big deal. on More States Rebel Against Real ID Act · · Score: 1

    Next up: the National Barcode Tattoo Act. Should have been done a long time ago. You have no objections, do you, citizen?

  6. There too? on Behind the Scenes of Canada's Movie Piracy Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...private meetings, foreign pressures and lobbyist drafted bills is how law gets made in Canada
    Sounds a lot like the country just south of Canada, too.
  7. Re:Earth 2.0, more like on Transit Method Reveals Many Extrasolar Planets · · Score: 1
    I always liked New Chicago.

    NEW CHICAGO: Inhabited world, Trans-Coalsack Sector, approximately 20 parsecs from Sector Capital. The primary is an F9 yellow star commonly referred to as Beta Hortensis.

    The atmosphere is very nearly Earth-normal and breathable without aids or filters. Gravity is 1.08 standard. The planetary radius is 1.05, and mass is 1.21 Earth-standard, indicating a planet of greater than normal density. New Chicago is inclined at 41 degrees with a semi-major axis of 1.06 AU, moderately eccentric. The resulting variations in seasonal temperatures have confined the inhabited areas to a relatively narrow band in the south temperate zone.

    There is one moon at normal distance, commonly called Evanston. The origin of the name is obscure.
    From The Mote in God's Eye.
  8. Re:Whaaa???? on 1 Billion PCs by End of 2008 · · Score: 1

    Please accept my sincere wedding cake. I can assure you it will never lizzard again.

  9. Re:Whaaa???? on 1 Billion PCs by End of 2008 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Octopus banana. You're too fire hydrant.

  10. Whaaa???? on 1 Billion PCs by End of 2008 · · Score: 5, Funny

    which will be responsible of 775 new PCs and laptop computers. Part of them, of course, coming from projects like the OLPC's one."
    "Asparagus. Fireplace. Ladder. Mosquito." makes as much sense.
  11. Which wireless security threats are scariest? on 6 Burning Questions About Wireless Networks · · Score: 4, Funny

    I voted for Tesla coils.

  12. Re:Great, and I'd like to hear more... on A Geek On Everest · · Score: 1

    My data center is COLDER than the summit of Everest.

  13. Re:How big? on Moore's Law for Motherboards · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's 7.62 cm x 4.57 cm, for everyone reading this who isn't American.
    Wow! that's only 3.48234 × 10^-7 hectares!
  14. Re:I resign on Jeremy Allison On Why DRM Will Never Work · · Score: 1

    No kidding. I seem to have missed the "hilarious" part. And the "ranting" part, too.

  15. ...extreme negativity is disappointing on 'Dangers of the Internet' Resolution Passed By Senate · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Mark Foley wanted us all to know the dangers of teh interwebs...

  16. Troll??? on Using AI To Train Firefighters · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mods need to get a grip. Sarcasm != Troll.

  17. Re:Questionable Results on Using AI To Train Firefighters · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The thing that I'm wondering after reading TFA is whether or not the system gives the trainees too much information. The real skill in these kind of situations is making good decisions on incomplete data. I hope this training approach doesn't teach people to rely on information they won't have in the real world.

  18. Re:Old School on Inkjet Photo Print Longevity Lacking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you're keeping your photos and negs in acid free paper in a nitrogen environment?

    This story kind of reminds my of reading about how the platinum & silver emulsion-on-glass negatives of photographers like Mathew Brady ended up as panes in greenhouses. <GACK!!>

  19. Re:The whole list on The 10 "Inconvienient Truths" of File Sharing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    11. Bands don't make real money from record sales, record companies make real money from record sales. Bands make real money from touring.

  20. Re:drastic oversight in this article... on FCC Indecency Ruling Struck Down · · Score: 1

    This ruling applies to live event coverage where the broadcaster does not control the content.
    So if, for example, Dick Cheney blurts out "fuck" on CSPAN, that's OK?
  21. Matter? Yeah, right. on Breakthrough Brings Star Trek Transporter Closer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Have these guys who wrote the summary heard of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle? It was in all the papers.

  22. Re:Does not this break GMAIL's business model? on Encrypt and Sign Gmail messages with FireGPG · · Score: 5, Funny

    If all/most of my messages are encrypted, how will they know, what to peddle to me?
    Aluminum foil. Survival equipment. Wellbutrin.
  23. Re:Page 115 on Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested · · Score: 1

    Well, there is a drop-down, and "thermal results" pretty much is "cut to the chase" on this sort of article.

  24. Page 115 on Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The graph for CPU temp under load - my question is, if you're an aftermarket cooler maker, and you can't even beat the Intel stock cooler, why exactly did you go to market?

  25. Re:Venezuela's Counter-Revolution on YouTube on Venezuela's Contrarian TV Station Survives on YouTube · · Score: 1

    I meant Gil Scott Heron. It was pretty goddam brilliant in it's day, and still is.