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  1. Re:from out of middle-field... on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    Here's an idea: let's make revisionist history a capitol offense. Right, 'cause the stories of the Trail of Tears, the Japanese Internment Camps, the history of Slavery, and the anti-Chinese immigrant laws passed in California during the gold rush all get taught in all school textbooks... no revisionist history here!

  2. Re:People weren't aware of this? on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    How can anyone have missed it? Sorry... I was too busy watching "Jersey Shore"!

  3. Opt out on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you don't like what being taught in the public schools, you can always send your kid to a private school... which around here is either a Catholic school or one run by Evangelical Christians... D'oh!

  4. Re:Impossible! on Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Except "Anonymous" is the bastard hybrid of a bunch of bored 14 year old script kiddies, an unholy horde of angry-at-the-world genuinely decent at coding 20 somethings, and a frightning legion of bored in-it-for-the-lulz near or middle aged men... all united by the fact that none of them have gotten laid recently.

  5. The end doesn't always justify the means on Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks · · Score: 1

    Blowing up the buildings housing the filters would also be more effective than a petition, but that's not legal either.

  6. Last resort on Australian Farmers Told To Dynamite Rabbits · · Score: 1

    They tried hiring Elmer Fudd to control the rabbit population, but that didn't prove particularly effective.

  7. Fixed that for you on Google Considered Too Big To Fail · · Score: 1

    Have we reched Peak Advertising? You misspelled retched.

  8. Re:Latter Canceled. Need New Avenues. on Star Wars TV Show Tainted By Memories of Jar Jar · · Score: 1

    there really is no story left to tell after the destruction of the second Death Star and the death of the Emperor. I always thought he was setting us up for Luke to follow in his father's footsteps, and Leia to be trained by Yoda to become the last Jedi and default Luke. Remember when Yoda said "there is another"? He could only be referring to Leia.

  9. Re:Well, in fairness on Feds Push For Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seeing as how the feds are not above blackmail, e.g. "Help us nail this guy or we'll tell your wife where you were last Saturday," I'd have to agree with you. The reason we require warrants is to attempt to prevent abuses of authority.

  10. Also proven disruptive to Beatles... on Bark Beetles Hate Rush Limbaugh and Heavy Metal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yoko Ono.

  11. Cool! on New iPhone App Will Put Your Dog On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Now my dog can be a twitter shitter too!

  12. The Streisand effect on Google Rejects Australian Censorship Proposal · · Score: 1

    Isn't any attempt to ban a clip just going to send the view count for that clip way up? Where is the list of clips that the Australian government doesn't think I should see, I want to watch them all... over and over again!

  13. Re:Police Detective brandishes firearm at snowball on Students Charged With Felony Snowball Throwing · · Score: 1

    RTFA. They weren't throwing snowballs at the plow and police car; they were throwing snow with a shovel. They continued to throw snow when the cops opened their doors and got snow inside the cop car... way to piss off the cops, morons!

  14. Re:So... on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    They're working on that on that private island they've purchased in the Pacific, but so far it's been pretty hush-hush. They are, however, currently hiring henchmen.

  15. Apparently they missed the memo on Students Charged With Felony Snowball Throwing · · Score: 1

    Step 1: Throw snowballs at cars.
    Step 2: Run like hell!

    If cops are responding to a "snowballs thrown" call, then they seriously must not have enough to do!

  16. I'm shocked on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 5, Funny

    23 comments about a 1 gigabit home connection, and not one of them has even mentioned the word "porn"?!? Man, you guys are slipping...

  17. Re:Only $5M? on Millionaire Gives Away Fortune Because It Made Him Miserable · · Score: 1

    My opinion is irrelevant. However, all the opinions expressed by UK citizens in The Guardian indicate that the US definition of a billion is now the accepted standard. But relax, the UK still sets the standard for the prime meridian.

  18. Re:Correlation != Causation? (no, not again) on Turns Out You Actually Can Be Bored To Death · · Score: 1

    The people that self reported being bored were more likely to die early; it's not the boredom that affected their lifespan, it's the bitching about it! I think they've actually found a correlation between complaining and health, not boredom and health. And I can understand why... every time you hear somebody complaining "I'm bored!", don't you just want to smack them?

  19. Re:Only $5M? on Millionaire Gives Away Fortune Because It Made Him Miserable · · Score: 1

    Sigh... "Billion" once meant a million million in the UK; they have now adopted the American definition of a thousand million to avoid confusion. A "million" has always been 1000000 in every language! Granted, 3000000 pounds doesn't go as far as it used to, but if you absolutely have to give it away, I would have used it to subsidize the college education of attractive young women found at the local strip club.

  20. Re:estimation on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly why software schedules cannot be accurately estimated... if you've done the same thing before, why are you doing it AGAIN instead of just reusing parts of the old code???

  21. Re:Once you have physical access to the machine... on Hardware TPM Hacked · · Score: 1

    Exactly. What's to keep you from just replacing the TPM chip with another chip that emulates it while logging all important information? Surely that would be a lot easier than "capping" the chip itself! If you've got physical access to the device, you can swap out parts at will, and all bets are off. You don't need to cap every chip you want to spy on, you just need to cap one to reverse engineer how it works. There are Israeli companies that have made a good living doing exactly that for many years now.

  22. Re:Abr on What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts? · · Score: 1

    Because calling it "VD" always reminds me of this commercial.

  23. Re:Duh on SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking · · Score: 1

    As usual, the unintended consequences of brain-dead US policy is to actively encourage progressive businesses to locate elsewhere... good work sending those jobs overseas, US Congress! Now if we could just find a way to offshore our politicians...

  24. This will never work on Virus-Detecting "Lab On a Chip" Developed At BYU · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My wife keeps telling me that size doesn't matter... how then can viruses be identified solely by their size? It's not how big the molecules are that are important, it's what the virus can do with them!

  25. Re:premature discharge on New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries · · Score: 1

    The problem I can't even fathom how to solve is the premature discharge problem. Thanks... I feel better now knowing that I'm not the only one that experiences "premature discharge" now and then... is there a support group for this?

    Yes, I too believe the first minor fender-bender would likely short the whole system out. Even if you managed to never hit anything, normal mechanical fatigue would eventually break down your insulation. I've seen capacitors literally explode when they short out (it vaporizes the dielectric); I'd hate to see what these panels do.