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  1. Re:No carry ons... on Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster · · Score: 1

    Well you can fix this yourself of course, by compiling your own airliner from scratch.

  2. Re:Well... on White House Must Answer For Missing Emails · · Score: 1

    If something like freedom and democracy was at stake, then yeah, we could theoretically subject the persons involved to more aggressive interrogation tactics.

    They couldn't refute that without admitting that they were traitors to begin with.

    Still, that comment would backfire. They'd volunteer for the torture, suffer, and live through it. My guess is they've already been subjected to worse. I mean why else would anyone drink the koolaid?

  3. Re:Expected answer on White House Must Answer For Missing Emails · · Score: 1

    Karl Rove and Dick Cheney worked for Nixon.
    Provided that those two actually answer for their crimes, "Watergate" won't be an example of how to get away with it anymore.

  4. Re:Oh dear God... on First Amendment Ruling Protects Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    I think I appreciate the feedback more.

  5. Re:Oh dear God... on First Amendment Ruling Protects Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    "No, it just means that for only this article the posts will be modded +1 Troll."

    Technically, +1, Inciteful.

  6. Re:In other news... on Comcast's New Terms of Service Disclose Traffic Management · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Why, Just yesterday I built my own internet using a bunch of spare twisties in a kitchen drawer.

    Why pay some big corporation a fistful of chump change when you can make something yourself and it only costs you years of effort and puts your health at risk?

  7. Re:Interesting on Toddlers May Learn Language By Data Mining · · Score: 1

    It works.
    My grandfather was an English teacher, my mom never baby talked to me.
    I was correcting people's grammar, spelling, and punctuation when I was first able to talk.

  8. Re:heh on RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied · · Score: 1

    No, the Senators are really cheap.

  9. Re:What's the point? on Examining the Ethical Implications of Robots in War · · Score: 1

    Not really. if the biological agent you exposed to the country stays there, any attempt to replace the wires will fail because they'll just be eaten again. How long would it take to get rid of a biological threat like that? it depends on whether the "cure" is safe or not.

  10. Re:What's the point? on Examining the Ethical Implications of Robots in War · · Score: 1

    You don't want your robots attacking the enemy's robots.
    It'll take forever. One side yelling "IDENTIFY YOURSELVES!" and the other Yelling "You will identify first!"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuFuTah4UXw

  11. Re:What's the point? on Examining the Ethical Implications of Robots in War · · Score: 1

    Because they don't have to be robots.

    You can construct a bioengineered organism that eats away at specific wires and circuitry and set back an entire country about 300 years.

    Robots aren't going to be made because they're practical, they'll be made because they're scary.

    The day a robot army is announced, someone will be selling robot insurance.

  12. Re:Nuclear Power and Global Warming on Suppresed Video of Japanese Reactor Sodium Leak · · Score: 1

    Oh well, sorry for that.

    I was basing that information on what I was taught in science class back in high school. I suppose it's very likely out of date.
    Of course I was rather suspicious at the time of why they were teaching us about how a nuclear power plant worked...

  13. Re:Nuclear Power and Global Warming on Suppresed Video of Japanese Reactor Sodium Leak · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Technically "meltdown" is when the plant shuts down and the carbon rods retract.

    It's an explosion, specifically coolant pipes bursting, that's the real threat.

    You see the plant has to balance the generation of power with the cooling down of the pipes transferring water (or some other material) around everything, so that the pipes don't burst. if the pipes burst, radioactive water vapor is released. that's a worst case scenario. The carbon rods are the implement used to generate power. the more of them there are exposed, the more power generated, and the more you have to worry about coolant. The retraction of the carbon rods is called meltdown.

    Don't go thinking that it's the meltdown that's the bad thing. When the plant experiences a meltdown, the city or whatever loses power, but the real catastrophe is averted. Naturally you don't want a meltdown, but if anyone advertises a meltdown-free nuclear power plant, run screaming in the other direction. The alternative is far worse.

  14. Re:You know what to do... on MySpace Private Pictures Leak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why do you want to see their douchebags?

  15. Re:This Revolutionizes Woody Allen's Comedy on Robotic Fly to Descend on New York · · Score: 1

    "where you're making little old ladies swallow equines"

    Please, Jeez. Leave your sick little fantasies out of this.

  16. Re:Optical scan ballots on Maryland Scraps Diebold Voting System · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It's not exactly rocket science."

    No, but if you could do it with rockets, that would be awesome.

  17. Re:They just wanted... on Two AI Pioneers, Two Bizarre Suicides · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't talk to me about life.

  18. Someone go grab John Connor! on New Dell Laptops Give Users a Literal Shock · · Score: 5, Funny

    The machines have struck the first blow!

  19. This is what you get... on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    This is what you get for hiring the wrong engineers.

    They rebuild you too good, too strong, too fast.
    Seriously, if ONLY he had done some proper cost-cutting, he wouldn't have this problem.

    This is the problem with engineering today. You guys are so focused on doing things right that you don't realize the value of failure.

    That's my motto. Fail early, Fail often, and then eventually fix your Failures.

  20. Green light? on Green Light for Human/Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    You know, since human beings are all biologically classified as animals and the word hybrid has a fuzzy definition to say the least, I would think that everyone would already have the "green light go-ahead" to go and reproduce the old fashioned way. Of course, I could be wrong.

  21. Re:Luddite revolution on US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email · · Score: 1

    Careful!
    The redcoats are posting! The redcoats are posting!

  22. Re:US loves wasting money on OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not that America is wasteful. It's that skilled workers are VERY profitable for your country. There was a time when most of the most skilled workers in the world were American. People are finally starting to realize that it's a very bad thing to keep the trend going as is.

    Much like globalization/free trade, it's a sort of globalization of education. Finally these people in other countries are getting this opportunity. It would be wasteful to make it equal between America and the rest of the world.

  23. Re:I hope the Fraud is real on Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries · · Score: 1

    Far more likely that the republicans arranged it, because they have a ridiculous amount of campaigning material they can use on clinton, but they aren't prepared for Obama, and want him to lose the primary.

  24. Re:Can't find the images for the scripts on Alienware's Curved Monitor · · Score: 3, Funny

    And if you've seen the picture, the first thing that pops in your head SHOULD be "Shields up! Red Alert! Battle Stations!"

  25. Re:wha?! on WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright · · Score: 1

    Dude, are you high?