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  1. Idiocy must be caused by something on NCAA Puts Severe Limits On Sport Event Blogging · · Score: 1

    in the initials.

  2. Moral implications on Pimp Your XP · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a fable by Aesop about putting lipstick on pigs.

  3. The damage is done . . . on Microsoft To Change Desktop Search After Google Complaint · · Score: 1

    All proceeding as planned, it's a tempo move.

  4. Obligatory on MIT Wirelessly Powers a Lightbulb · · Score: 1

    Uncle Fester did this back in the '60s. Must have been a student of Tesla!

  5. What extra cost. on Federal Panel [not NIST] Rejects Paper Trail For E-Voting · · Score: 1

    These machines likely need to be replaced every 4-8 years. They're standard PC tech. How many of you are running an eight year old computer? XP for sure will be 'end of lifed' by 2012 anyway.

  6. Re:Patent-exploiters are hackers... on The Patent Epidemic · · Score: 1

    Very insightful, however more and more, the ones with the interests and means to change the laws are bending the laws the suit themselves, i. e. rewriting the system.

  7. scratchless on Transparent Aluminum a Reality · · Score: 1

    They should use this on the iPod nano :-)

  8. Forking on Branched Nanotubes Offer Smaller Transistors · · Score: 1

    If you come to a fork in the tube - take it. And I've heard people say forking was a bad thing.

  9. ?publish or perish? on Publishing Exploit Code Ruled Illegal In France · · Score: 1

    The "virus definitions" files published by Symantic, McAfee, et. al. would seem to be in violation of this law.

  10. oh the cost of it all.... on Avi Rubin and More on Electronic Voting · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So far I haven't heard any mention the cost at all. I understand these machines are made with standard PC technology. Windows, access, etc... Who keeps them "windows updated, service packed, compatible with the latest Microsoft Access, and revalidates them every week or so". What happens when Microsoft Access moves on and doesn't do something it used to? How about the hardware, anyone out there still using a computer from four years ago - can you get parts? Is this just a gift to Diebold or what? I like the Canadian method, all you need is a few card tables. No need for such immense sophistication.

  11. any 'puter on More on Neuroscience and Marketing · · Score: 1, Funny

    can be hacked. The human mind is probably more full of holes than Windoze.