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  1. Re:It's the risk you take on SFPD Arrests Suspect In Airbnb Rental Trashing · · Score: 4, Funny

    My ex-mother-in-law rented out her house to complete strangers for six months while she was on the other side of the planet.... Although everything went fine

    Reminds me of a story... Once I had the most vivid and shocking dream that my grandmother had been in a car accident. The phone woke me from that dream in the middle of the night. It was a wrong number.

  2. Not necessarily a problem on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    until a cop like this get access to the database

  3. The most alarming thing... on Developer Panel Asks Whether AAA Games Are Too Long · · Score: 1

    ... is that this guy considers 10 hours long for a game.

  4. Can't print way out of this debt. on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    The federal government is playing the same games since they are out of money (which is funny when you think that they are the ones with a printing press),

    Long ago, foreign gov'ts said "we are not sure we want to keep buying your treasuries... we see you have printing presses behind your back." So the U.S. invented Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (or TIPS), so they could continue digging a deeper hole.

  5. mod parent all the way up. on Android Phones More Prone To Hardware Problems · · Score: 1

    right on.

  6. Simple solution for Obama (O-bomb-a?) on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    Watch him cease hostilities tomorrow, the 90th day, and then restart the 90 day clock a day later with new airstrikes.

  7. I'd prefer a disk check on Steam Now Offering Free-To-Play Games · · Score: 1

    Steam becomes extremely disruptive the moment you finish a game and want to sell it used. You can't.

  8. For a fee, customers will expect support. on Activision Reveals Call of Duty Subscription Plans · · Score: 1

    Support they didn't get with modern warfare 2, which was abandoned after release, except for the occasional money grabbing map pack. Activision will be expected to police hacking and cheating.

  9. Not tested yet, not proven moonrock on NASA Sting Busts Woman Selling Purported Moon Rock · · Score: 1

    Possibly just a con.

  10. Won't this just change Righthaven's contracts? on Judge Puts Righthaven Cases In Colorado On Hold · · Score: 2

    ... from "sign over to us the rights to sue" to "make us your contracted lawfirm to sue on your behalf."

  11. her account has been restored on Who Owns Your Social Identity? · · Score: 3, Informative
  12. printing more money can't pay off THIS debt on Need a Receipt On Taxes? The Federal Tax Receipt · · Score: 1

    It's held in treasury inflation-protected securities called TIPS.

  13. New gas Saves 1000 pounds, but "no transmission*" on New Gasoline Engine Prototype Claims 3X Current Engine Efficiency · · Score: 1

    *Needs an electric transmission. Still, the saving of 1000 pounds will add to the fuel savings. Sounds a lot like a gas turbine, although they claim better fuel economy.

  14. More likely... on Do Violent Games Hinder Development of Empathy? · · Score: 1

    Kids who are regularly parked in front of violent video games have crappy, un-empathetic parents to begin with.

  15. summaries should summarize, not tease. on Why Russian Space Images Look Different From NASA's · · Score: 5, Informative

    The russian photos in question combine infra-red with visible wavelengths. They are not better, just different.

  16. strawman on Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050 · · Score: 1

    And for the Yanks who will complain they live in the suburbs, maybe lobby your local government for better public transport? And stop complaining, this is an article from Europe.

    Way to beat up a strawman!

  17. the ISP should know what the traffic is... on Virgin Media UK Begins Throttling P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    if the user wants them to. And the users of multiplayer games want them to.

  18. Re:First? on Two Planets Found Sharing One Orbit · · Score: 1

    http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~charlie/3body/ not sure about "scottish reel," but there are some amazing orbits on that page. Check out "8 on a daisy."

  19. Re:Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and the Oz Wicked Witc on LotR Rewritten From a Mordor Perspective · · Score: 1

    http://www.cracked.com/article_18881_5-reasons-greatest-movie-villain-ever-good-witch.html "Right off the bat, the Western Witch wants to know who killed her sister. Fair enough. Glinda smiles blandly while the witch accuses Dorothy, no doubt enjoying the double whammy of a grieving witch's rage and Dorothy's terror."

  20. Re:Add Bill Maher to your list on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 1

    An interesting position, since some flus are best at killing the healthy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

  21. could explain synesthesia on Research Finds That Electric Fields Help Neurons Fire · · Score: 1

    Note that the sensations in synesthesia are from parts of the brain located next to each other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

  22. If there are that many unvaccinated kids... on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 3, Insightful

    it should be simple to see if those kids ALSO have the 1% autism rate of the larger population. If they do, vaccines don't cause autism.

  23. rtfa on Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets · · Score: 1

    "Lots of people buy lottery tickets in bulk to give away as prizes for contests," he says. He asked several Toronto retailers if they would object to him buying tickets and then exchanging the unused, unscratched tickets. "Everybody said that would be totally fine. Nobody was even a tiny bit suspicious," he says. "Why not? Because they all assumed the games are unbreakable.

  24. Valve Apologises for Wrongful Modern Warfare 2 Ban on Xbox Live Labels Autistic Boy "Cheater" · · Score: 1
  25. BBB? on Google vs. Bing — a Quasi-Empirical Study · · Score: 1

    They gave Hamas an A. They'll give anyone an A if you send them a few hundred bucks. Maybe not a good "hard data source." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w6Oick8x48