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  1. Re:What is this, click bait? on How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Perfect. Thank You.

  2. Re: Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    AC has clearly never tried to coif a bear.

  3. Re:S word on GameStop Swoops In To Buy ThinkGeek For $140 Million · · Score: 1

    We shall call it... ThinkStop

  4. Re:One small problem on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Life? Or Intelligent Life? on NASA Teams Scientific Experts To Find Life On Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    Not cures, treatments. Ongoing treatments(???) for chronic problems. Proceed directly to step three.

  6. Surveillance, no. on The Upsides of a Surveillance Society · · Score: 1

    Sousveillance, sure.

  7. Re:No need to be a genius on Can High Intelligence Be a Burden Rather Than a Boon? · · Score: 1
  8. Re:My kingdom for an easy software reinstall tool. on Linux 4.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    gentoo shill here. eix does a decent job of searching packages from the command line, and your other problem is non-existant; the "worldfile" contains a list of all user-installed packages, and emerge handles dependancies from there.

  9. Re:Issue will be resolved... on FCC Posts Its 400-Page Net Neutrality Order · · Score: 1

    Small counterexample: 11-meter radio. It is trivial and common to turn a 4 watt radio (legal, as sold) into a 25 watt radio. It is not unusual to hear someone bragging about having hundreds or thousands of watts available, and there are, for lack of a better word, notorious base stations just about everywhere. It would actually be really nice, for what's left of the community, if the fcc would actually participate in the band, just a little.

  10. Re:How is this insightful? on Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent · · Score: 1

    Not quite, no. The genetic modification is random, and the mods which are improvements (adaptions) tend to lead to reproductive success. The 'selection' is statistical.

  11. Re:Not going anywhere... on Flying a Cessna On Other Worlds: xkcd Gets Noticed By a Physics Professor · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that sentence was for Venus.

  12. Re:Skipping on Walk or Run: Are We Built To Be Lazy? · · Score: 1

    This is the thread that I was looking for. Skipping may well be the ultimate bipedal locomotion. It is a shame that it's embarrasingly silly, but I guess that's really everyone else's problem. Let's just call them jealous.

  13. Re:Oxidizer, not fuel on Tracking Down the First Oxygen Users · · Score: 1
  14. HEMP on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: 1

    Hemp is the perfect plant for the job.
    Thanks for the segue.

  15. RTFA on EPA Crowdsources Massive Photo Project · · Score: 4, Informative

    Submission fails to note that they want pictures of the same locations as the original project. That does take a lot of fun out of the comments already posted, though, so, please, carry on.

  16. Re:All power to China on China Cuts 'Excessive Entertainment' From TV · · Score: 1

    Well said, though I would also agree with AC saying "if sheep watch dumb stuff, they get dumber, if sheep watch educational stuff they get smarter," without bringing legislation in to it. Most of our entertainment is not brain food, but there is, I gather, a peer pressure effect, wherein the water-cooler conversation tends to be about stupid crap, and some people end up watching the stupid crap just to fit in. Looking at it from another angle, stupid crap dominates the social networks. Everyone loves to gossip about celebrity bullshit, but anything relevant to the real world is treated as toxic, like people are afraid to engage their brain on anything of substance.

    TL:DR - Parents, educators, and peers ought to step up and demand more.

  17. Re:I wonder on Germans Increase Office Efficiency With "Cloud Ceiling" · · Score: 1

    Much cheaper, much simpler, more flexible... Brilliant!

  18. Re:I prefer the old model... on Microsoft To Offer Flight For Free This Spring · · Score: 2

    Flightgear has the Cub. The sim is free. The plane is free. The terrain is free, and based on the real world. I don't know which of those other planes are included, but I will say that the Wright Flyer is a bit of a challenge.

  19. Re:All power to China on China Cuts 'Excessive Entertainment' From TV · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, at least two companies publish man pages for about every make and model that you can think of. You may not know how right now, but you are capable of following the directions and getting it done in one afternoon. Dumb is saying "I can't", instead of "show me how."

  20. Re:Sounds Like a Hoax Right Up Until You Read the on Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund · · Score: 1

    Don't know where it's from, but the song "You can't con an honest John" by The Streets suggests a dog and a pub.
    "As I have come to realize, running the beats is just getting people's confidence.
    This scam only works 'cos that man thinks he's working this scam"

  21. Re:'tis sad... on Google Acquires 222 More IBM Patents · · Score: 1

    Half of the article focuses on this, so the summary is fair.

  22. Re:On to the next idea on Nokia: the Sun Can't Charge Your Phone · · Score: 1

    And people say hydrogen will never provide useful power.

  23. Re:Lectures are an old technology on When Getting Rid of College Lectures Makes Sense · · Score: 1

    I think that the point of that sentence was that people suck at multitasking. If my attention is focused on making my notes match what I see, then I'm not really listening, and if I have poor eyesight or am trying too hard to keep my copy legible, then I'm SOL.

  24. Re:P&T on handicapped parking on In New Zealand, a System To Watch for Disabled Parking Violators · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that we try and treat each other like human beings?
    That's so crazy, it just might work!
    Sorry, I'm just struggling for a way to say: "THIS!"
    Now is ours, now.
    Let's take good care of it.

  25. Re:Makes you wonder.... on EA, Nintendo, Sony Quietly Withdraw SOPA Support · · Score: 2

    Not to mention that the people visiting these "no clue" sites also have connections to the clueless. I can use social network A to inform my friends about a thing, and they can use network B to inform their friends, and some of us might even gripe about these things over morning coffee in the real world. The speed of information has made the planet a whole lot smaller, and being pessimistic about any one facet in particular is missing the forest for the trees.