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  1. Re:No history is worse than bad history on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 1

    If they are smart enough to not have a facebook page, I say that's a point in their favor. I never bothered to create a Facebook account myself, since I consider it a fad that will quickly fade away when the next big thing in "social networking" comes along.

  2. Re:employers don't really care on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 1

    Talented presidential candidate, but did drugs in college? Hired, hired, and hired! (Bill, W., and Obama.)

  3. Just ask Michael Phelps on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 1

    Always make sure there are no cameras in the room before you take a bong hit

  4. Re:Either that on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be much more effective to simply revive the practice of selling indulgences?

  5. Re:So lets get some things straight... on Feds Won't File Charges In School Laptop-Spy Case · · Score: 1

    And yet that doesn't stop the police in PA from throwing your ass in jail for videotaping them, because if you are the police, ignorance of the law IS an excuse!. It is this curious double standard that bothers me. I, as a private citizen, am expected to be aware of the thousands of laws I may potentially violate, while the people charged with enforcing those laws have no such requirement, i.e. there are no penalties to them for mistakenly stopping, searching, or arresting me based on their erroneous interpretation of the law.

  6. WTF? on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why the hell are teachers making an ADHD diagnosis in the first place? That is something that requires a medical degree. In Oregon, it is against the law for the school staff to tell you your child has ADHD -- which didn't keep my daughter's principle from insisting she as not normal and needed to be medicated. Needless to say, we did not comply -- we transferred her to another school where they treated her like all the other kids and her "behavior problems" instantly disappeared.

    Inattentiveness is not necessarily a sign of ADHD -- it can also be a symptom of depression, trauma, or abuse, as mentioned in this article.

  7. But, but... on Most US Students Think Beethoven Is a Dog · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Beethoven is a dog, Michelangelo is a virus, email is too slow, and why the hell do you need to be able to write in cursive when you can type much faster and typing is much more legible? So why are you criticizing these young whipper-snappers... it's not as if they are standing on your lawn!

  8. What most of them are really are used for on Linux Wall Warts Small On Size, Big On Possibilities · · Score: 2, Funny

    Plug in the USB cable that came with your phone and use it to charge up your phone.

  9. Let's take this one step further on Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Couldn't each pylon be designed to look like a pole dancer?

  10. Re:I like them on Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons · · Score: 1

    They also look a lot more expensive to build and transport. They are molded as one big piece. Completely impractical.

  11. Re:In 3000 years.. on Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons · · Score: 1

    the "man-shaped pylon" has room for one more cable connection point... If the man-shaped pylon is built anything like me, that additional point is way too close to the ground!

  12. For those of you who didn't catch the reference on Six Reasons Why Flash Isn't Going Away · · Score: 1

    Flash a-ah
    Savior of the Universe
    Flash
    He save everyone of us
    Flash
    He's a miracle
    Flash
    King of the impossible

    He's for everyone of us
    Stand for everyone of us
    He save with a mighty hand
    Every man every woman
    Every chill-he's a mighty
    Flash

    Just a man
    With a man's courage
    Nothing but a man
    But he can never fail
    No-one but the pure at heart
    May find the Golden Grail


    (Music by Queen for the movie Flash Gordon)

  13. Stop joking around! on Rocket Thrusters Used To Treat Sewage · · Score: 1

    Nitrous Oxide is no laughing matter!

  14. Re:Aww, shit on Rocket Thrusters Used To Treat Sewage · · Score: 1

    Environmentalists will shit when they see the carbon produced in the process
    Where exactly do you see the carbon in the chemical N2O? It decomposes into nitrogen and oxygen, or as we Earthlings refer to it, "air"!

  15. Re:Consumer Focus or Consumer Manipulation? on NAB, RIAA May Seek Mandate For FM Radios In Mobile Devices · · Score: 1
  16. Why 7 inches? on 7-Inch iPad Rumored · · Score: 1

    My wife keeps telling me "size doesn't matter!"

  17. Re:Yeah, they look cool but.... on Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pylons typically have four large legs widely spaced apart for good reasons.
    If you look at the pictures, they have lots of guy wires keeping them stable, a system which would work with even a single foot.
    They also typically have 6 arms so as to keep the cost per cable down
    The pictures show 4 attachment points at hands and elbows. Top of head would be an obvious fifth point, and there is no reason the wires can be just as widely spaced as on a traditional pylon.

    The only real drawbacks are these require additional material ti build and additional setup costs, but the net result looks more like art than a boring series of towers.

  18. Oldie but a goodie on Stupid Data Center Tricks · · Score: 1

    Many years ago Northrop University had 2 PDP 11/34 boxes sitting next to each other. One day the sysadmin decided to network them together by connecting an RS-232 cable between them -- boom, both systems crashed. Reboot, try connecting again, same thing. Suddenly it dawns on him -- he neglected to turn off the echo on the ports used for the interconnection, meaning the first character sent got echoed back and forth in an infinite loop, generating interrupts on both machines faster than the CPU could handle them.

  19. Two questions on Audi A8 Gets Factory Integrated Mobile Hotspot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1) Is the hotspot password encrypted?
    2) How closely do I have to follow the Audi to tap into it?

  20. Re:HA! You think you are embarrassed now? on The Vending Machines of the Future · · Score: 1

    You don't understand! Sure, my most frequent google search is for "HD porn", but that's not really what I'm looking for when I'm rushing to catch a train!

  21. Re:You've got to be shitting me. on Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I find your naive, unrealistic view of the American legal system quite refreshing!

  22. Re:How liberated! on The Vending Machines of the Future · · Score: 1

    Yes. Michelle Obama proudly exercises that right!

  23. Re:It's a selling feature on Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex · · Score: 1

    Damn it, I hate it when my jokes turn out to be too true to be funny! Like the other day, in keeping with my policy of misinforming my daughter as much as possible, I told her "Lady Gaga is named after the Queen song "Radio Gaga"! A few days later, I come to find out she really IS named after that song!

  24. How liberated! on The Vending Machines of the Future · · Score: 1

    Here in the states, we only have the right to bear arms, not to entire bears!

    (Yes, according to phonics, "bear" should be pronounced like "dear" or "ear". Which is why I never put much credence in phonic. I think you mean "beer", which IS pronounced like "deer")

  25. Re:Profit? on The Vending Machines of the Future · · Score: 2, Funny

    Volume!