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  1. Not first used by Darwin on The Tree of Life Consolidates · · Score: 1
  2. One way to prevent this mess...is by vote proof on Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries · · Score: 1

    Is to give each voter a receipt with every vote. It should include the name of the polling location, the time, and the candidate.

  3. Programming as if People Mattered on GUI Design Book Recommendations? · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.amazon.com/Programming-as-if-People-Mattered/dp/0691037639

    Careful not to go down the road of the artsy fartsy web UI designers, as a lot of the other suggestions are.

  4. WTF? on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 1

    How about 'disturbing the peace'? Those helicopters shouldn't be flying around and making noise at 500 feet after 9pm anyhow.
    IMHO, the pilot didn't get enough of what he deserved.

  5. Kind of funny, and kind of obnoxious on Intel Launches Power-Efficient Penryn Processors · · Score: 1

    I've followed the stories about these machines since the hype about their "V8" setups, and even now they miss the important info: Who is going to ship systems with these in them, how much and how soon? Oh, and Intel should be bitchslapped for not making a multiprocessor motherboard that takes the Socket T (LGA775).

  6. Hell No. on US Wants Courts to OK Warrantless Email Snooping · · Score: 1

    Stop pissing on the very few liberties we have left!

  7. Not so obscure reference....Moley moley moley... on Dateline NBC Mole Outed At DefCon · · Score: 1

    Number Three: "By the way I realise that I have a large mole on my face."
    Austin: "Where? What? Where's that mole? I didn't see one."
    Number Three: "I also realise the irony that I am myself, a Mole."
    Austin: "No one would make that connection."
    Basil: "Any way, well done old chap. Jolly good work."
    Austin: "Yes, nice to mole you. Meet you. Nice to meet your mole. Don't say mole."
    Foxy: "Stop."
    Austin: "I said mole."
    Foxy: "Stop."
    Number Three: "Bye."
    Austin: "Mole. Mole. MOLE!"
    Basil: "Oh SHUT UP!"
    Austin: "MOLEY MOLEY MOLEY MOLEY MOLEY MOLEY!"

  8. Oddly titled thread on Under User Pressure, SugarCRM Adopts GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    What kind of secrets will they reveal "under pressure" in a dark room with a bright
    light swinging back and forth? Yes, they seem to sound like they couldn't handle
    interrogation.

  9. Re:from the "no shit" dept. on Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can demonize carbohydrates all you want -- but you're wrong. The real problem here is that it takes 1500 calories at McDs to temporarily feel like you're eating 400 calories of real food.

    Many societies (Asian, Italian) have fewer obese people than America does, however they eat carb-rich diets, so what you're claiming is really bunk.

    The real problem is that HFCS is deadly, and cane sugar is not. Artificial sweeteners as well as unnatural HFCS is the real culprit to tricking the body into a starved state, which consequently causes obesity. Unprocessed, or lightly processed foods are closer to what nature intended, and that is what our bodies process best.

  10. Re:It's a joke - LAUGH on Autism Reversed in Mice at MIT Lab · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but its not a funny one, and most of you assholes posting do think it is acceptable to make fun of people with disabilities, or conditions beyond their control.

    You sir, are an asshole. Now grow up.

  11. Re:Can there be a balance? on Internal Microsoft Email about Life at Google · · Score: 1

    In your 20s, especially in the IT world, you don't have a whole lot of outside commitments. You can go to work, then go home to an empty apartment. This doesn't fly once you get married and you're expected to put time in outside of the office.

    Right, this just gets your youthful coworkers resentful of you for making every excuse under the sun for you to get out of work while they pick up your slack. (ex: My kid is sick. My kid has a parent teacher conference. My kid needs to get picked up from school, etc.)

  12. Re:Okay... on ESA Initiates Police Raid Against Console Modder · · Score: 1

    Even so. This should be a civil suit, with civil damages, not a crime.

    Really, people. Aren't there rapists, murderers and thieves to worry about than some punk trying to cash in on illegal game sales?

  13. Yum yum on Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) Nuclear transfer DNA of giant penguins with existing penguins, and in several generations have %88 genetic compatibility.
    2) Breed and let frolic 'free range'.
    3) Stir fry.
    4) ?????
    5) Profit!!!

  14. OMFG! on Scientists Move Closer to Human Therapeutic Cloning · · Score: 1

    Think of the (monkey) children!!!!!

  15. Law of Conservation of emails. on White House E-mail Scandal Widens · · Score: 1
    E-mails cannot be created nor destroyed, although they may change form.

    They are *deleted*, not destroyed.

  16. Just a nit or two... on YouTube to Host Presidential Debate · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It absolutely annoys me in the mainstream (Democratic and Republican) debates that all of the candidates don't get to answer the same question.

    During the Rep. debate that just occurred, but was also annoying was that the candidates were not self-policing their own timers, as well as talking over the moderator who wanted to interrupt them. This makes both the moderator and the candidates look like amateurs. Perhaps the idea is to shut off their microphones when they run out of time.

    Please people, get your point across, and do it in a timely manner.

  17. This is a good thing! on Bones Could Become Conduits For Data Swaps · · Score: 1

    Sure beats swapping spit and taking a blood oath.

  18. Re:One more analogy... on Boston University Student Challenges RIAA · · Score: 1

    No no no. It was a bunny named Toby.

  19. A little Army of Darkness Wisdom... on Linspire Signs Patent Pact With MS · · Score: 1
    "First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me. Blow." -Ash

    MS wanted to sue him out of existence not too long ago.

  20. Re:is no one here sane? on Far-Fetched Time Travel Concept Receives Private Funds · · Score: 1

    and no one really wants to fund high risk physics any more

    Specifically business people don't want to deal with any form of risk
    whatsoever. This has permeated industry for some reason over the past 10 years (maybe the dot com bust, maybe everyone just turned into a bunch of lilly-livered cowards).

  21. Re:He's dead on The Sopranos Ends With a ... · · Score: 1

    Ok then, so what do onion rings mean?

  22. This is extortion on ISPs Starting To Charge for 'Guaranteed' Email Delivery · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its kind of like if the mob owned the USPS and said "You might get your mail in one piece...and you might not if you don't pay up."

  23. Re:giving up rights on Man Sues Gateway Because He Can't Read EULA · · Score: 1

    You could have asked him to print it out before you signed it, and at least that way you could cross out the lines you didn't agree to and put your initials over your modifications. The really problem here is that people accept / enter into boilerplate contracts not in their own interests and don't even attempt to try to line-item veto them.

  24. Re:When you buy a new PC... on Man Sues Gateway Because He Can't Read EULA · · Score: 1

    It might violate the DMCA, if some company were opportunistic enough to litigate you up on it.

  25. Re:If your worried on FTC Investigating Google-DoubleClick Deal · · Score: 1

    You can't fool me. I saw that in WarGames too. Not playing a game and hiding are two different strategies. You can't hide from Google!