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  1. Re:Not only are they safe... on HP to Researchers, 'Our Printers Are Safe' · · Score: 1

    new slashdot meme?

  2. Re:Even someplace as "small" as WikiMapia on Wikipedia Infiltrated by Intelligence Agents? · · Score: 1

    While I don't doubt there is at least some freelance pro-CIA-interest editing going on, I'd like to point out that intelligence analysts are by definition people interested in information, the kind of people that will enjoy editing Wikipedia.

  3. Re:Costs on Top Ten Discoveries of the Mars Rovers · · Score: 1

    That may be the case for the small, harder to sort personal recyclables. We buy bigger, industrial plastic items directly, we don't serve community recycling programs.

  4. Re:Correlation != Causation on Study Proves Having Fat Friends Makes You Fat · · Score: 1

    maybe people that remain skinny when their friends get fat break the relationship because they don't like to be friends with fat people, and therefore the only friends the fat person has left are the ones that ended up putting on weight. You're right that correlation /=causation, but this objection is invalid: the list of friends existed 32 years ago.
  5. Re:Costs on Top Ten Discoveries of the Mars Rovers · · Score: 1

    I work for a plastic recycler that makes lots of money grinding, washing, boxing and then selling old plastic that is melted down. Granted, this is mostly large pieces of plastic such as pallets and bins, but we do breadbox-sized bins profitably, we are not subsidized, and you can make over 10 cents per pound selling scrap plastic to us, stuff like your old Little Tykes sandbox or a pile of plastic pipe.

  6. Re:Probably pretty safe. on Team Builds Viruses To Combat Harmful "Biofilms" · · Score: 1

    How would you make sure the virus didn't spread? That's why we _have_ viruses - because they spread. Now, depending on how we use them, it may be hard for them to spread, but if you can't trust a research facility to contain killer bees, you certainly can't trust an everyday user to contain a virus. Don't compare viruses with antibiotics, which do not replicate.

  7. Re:Frist Post... on NH Signs Bill That Rejects Federal Real ID · · Score: 1

    Since the vast majority of flights cross state borders, it pretty clearly gives the federal government to regulate it under the commerce clause of the constitution. In theory, the commerce clause should only allow congress to regulate commerce for commercial purposes. Papers for flying isn't a commerce issue, it's a policing issue. Unfortunately the modern interpretation considers anything and everything (rape, for example) to be commerce or "affect" commerce.
  8. Re:The Irony on First Royal Mummy Found Since Tut is Identified · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. My siblings (6, age 6-15) made $30-160 each in a week of picking strawberries from a local farm and selling them at the road.

  9. Re:My brother-in-law tells me this story of a FORD on Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development · · Score: 1

    He knew this guy, huh? Sounds quite trustworthy to me.

    BTW, they've perfected a way to turn lead into gold, but only the government knows how to do it.

  10. Re:Simple on Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? · · Score: 1

    The act of buying the goods from an in-state store is not interstate commerce. The interstate commerce was done when the goods were sold and delivered to the store, and should be regulated at that point and not afterward.

  11. Re:It's not a compromise on Creationism Museum Opening in Kentucky · · Score: 1

    Bravo! I find it inconceivable that a being as omniscient and all-knowing as a "god" would be so petty as to consider one set of dogmatic beliefs to be right or wrong. Why should God conform to your expectations?
  12. Re:Simple on Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? · · Score: 1

    Even a restaurant that serves only people within a state must be involved in trade that is done across states. The beef they cook and the ketchup they serve in AL or FL came from another state. Which is true, but irrelevant: Once Heinz has sold the restaurant their ketchup, the interstate commerce ends, and selling the ketchup to a customer is an intrAstate activity. Stupid judges.
  13. Re:Since "tastes like chicken" has been done... on T. Rex Protein Analysis Supports Dinosaur-Bird Link · · Score: 1

    dang, good job.

  14. Re:*choke* on Interview With Jailed Video Blogger Josh Wolf · · Score: 1

    I drove from NYC to Detroit and back a week ago. Gas prices ranged from $3.25 a gallon in Michigan to as high as $4.50/gallon in rural Ohio and Pennsylvania. I think the lowest I saw was about $2.75, and that was near Detroit.

    You're about a dollar off there. Living near Detroit, I have to think you meant $2.25 and $1.75.
  15. Re:Read the bill, not the article on Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register · · Score: 2, Interesting

    his means that you can be paid for grass roots lobbying and not have to register if you have less than 500 readers, which actually protects your rights.
     
    Um... protects whose rights?
     
    Currently, grassroots lobbyists such as Downsize DC, which keeps me informed of Congress's activities, have no such registration requirements. If this law is passed, they will have to comply and will probably be harassed. Which will harm a political information service I use, which I consider a blatant violation of their rights and my rights to free speech and free petition.

  16. Re:Serenity in high-def for FREE??? on The First HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I'll be in my bunk I'll be in my parents' basement... watching the hi-def goodness. I wonder if 720p will give me a better screen tan.

  17. Re:politics and science have always been intertwin on Scientists Decry Political Interference · · Score: 1

    One clarification to the above: the agencies, not the congress, usually decide who gets the grant money.

  18. Re:God on Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President · · Score: 1

    Actually, under Mosaic law, it took a minimum of two or three witnesses to convict someone. Not nearly as hard as getting a conviction in the US, but it is "innocent until proven guilty". In addition, someone who made a false accusation could be given the penalty for the crime he complained of. (Deuteronomy 19)

  19. Re:Cheap & Easy to Use ... but is it Classy? on MySpace Makes it to Top 10 Internet Sites · · Score: 1

    It is a standard in a lot of social circles (jr. high and high school, primarily), and in music marketed to young people, especially indie music. Otherwise, as parent said, it's definitely not any kind of a standard.

  20. Re:Google policies on Google Adds Chat To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Showing all the changes in the privacy policy - they really are "not being evil".

  21. Re:My thoughts on RFID chips on RFID Tags in Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    You object to having an RFID in your identity documents. I object to having to carry identity documents.

  22. Re:Hydrogen from water on Making Fire From Water · · Score: 1

    perhaps power from lightning strikes will finally be possible.

  23. Re:Linux confidence boosting measures on Linux For Losers According To De Raadt · · Score: 1

    If I had known, I would have removed that comment before I compiled!

  24. Re:Canada on Homebrew Air Conditioning for Under $25 · · Score: 1

    nah, he doesn't need to specify Celcius. Farenheit is a US-specific anachronism.

  25. Re:Soooo.... on NASA Notices New, Nasty Solar Storm Type · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to decide whether this is offtopic, a troll, or flamebait...