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  1. Re:For those concerned about privacy... on Iris Recognition To Take Off · · Score: 1

    i don't know many people who own a designer contact lense making device or a way to scan your iris without you knowing in order to have something to copy onto the lense

  2. Re:just more evidence on 38,000-year-old Human Footprints in Mexico · · Score: 1

    since english has no neutered words it is implied in some contexts that he, him, man, mankind, etc are used as genderless pronouns encompassing both sexes. geez, english really is the Microsoft of languages

  3. what? on Happy Fifth Birthday GAC and Mindpixel! · · Score: 1

    1.00 is earth a planet?
    1.00 is the Earth a planet?

    first of all why are such two similar questions so close to each other; and second, why is 'earth' lower case when it should be capitalized but capitalized when it should be lower case? you would say 'is Mars a planet?' but not 'is the Mars a planet?' geesh

  4. Re:Chickenless Nuggets?! on Large Scale Production of Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    you shouldn't need antibiotics in lab-grown food and i'm not sure if you can feed modified grain to a thin layer of cells

  5. Re:femtosecond on Secure Data Storage... On Your Fingernails · · Score: 1

    that doesn't sound very powerful. are they at all worried about sunlight corrupting the data?

  6. Re:Open doors on Man Arrested for Using Open Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    no, because physically touching a connection is illegal and that's why police can't go around tapping everyone's phones. the fact that it is a wireless transmission is so very very important

  7. Re:free oss? on OSS in One-Fifth of Japanese Businesses · · Score: 1

    i wasn't aware that anyone was claiming microsoft products were free

  8. PWND!!11 on Cometary Fireworks Go Off Without Hitch · · Score: 5, Funny

    NASA headshots Tempel 1 >(x.x)-

  9. Re:July Fools??? on Owner of the Word Stealth 'Protecting' Rights · · Score: 1

    if you tried to apply it to the fruit it would

  10. Re:Borg character - WTF? on Gates Says No to Implants · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's an obscure reference to a little known franchise. i'll give you a hint though: starts with a 'star' ends with a 'trek'

  11. Re:Fr**d*m *nd d*m*cr*cy? on 100 Million Online in China · · Score: 1

    so you're saying that if you are doing something wrong, as long as the U.S. does it differently, then it's ok? burning kittens and puppies is ok because Americans think it's wrong?

    WOW...

  12. Re:Correct me if I am wrong... on The Business of Anime · · Score: 1

    well maybe if they would release series uncut and with subtitles rather than redubbing them, and then put it on cable for 'free', everything would work out

  13. Re:Dup Fusion on France to Be Site of World's First Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's ok they can just dump the sea water on it to put it out

  14. Re:well... on Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Why do you think we capitalize the first letter of a sentence at all?
    because that's the way you were taught to use the written english language. but why? certainly not because the first word is somehow more important just because it's the first word. 'unclearly' and 'not using rules of grammar' are two totally different things. the l337 sp34k was hoping to give you an aneurysm since you're so perturbed by the misuse of the english langauge

  15. Re:Wait, what? on Carter Copter Breaks Mu-1 Barrier · · Score: 1

    gosh couldn't they have just said something like the back of the rotor was being pushed through the air backwards while it was retreating. or am i still confused

  16. Re:Solar Power! on Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    would mining enough silicon(or whatever materials are used) and then putting it in space cause any kind of imbalance in the earth's weight distribution and mess up its spin? someone do some calculations to see how much mass needs to be taken from the earth and put up in space before something goes Horribly Wrong.
    and while you're at it, see how much mass has to be added to the earth or put in its orbit from outside sources(such as from mining other planets or asteroids) for something to go Horribly Wrong

  17. Re:well... on Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    yeh seriously. i don't trust them to not interfere with satellite orbits or cause the temperature to dip too low, and would this mess up the ionosphere's ability to transmit radio waves?

  18. Re:Paris from above... on Google Adds Satellite Imagery for the World · · Score: 1

    lmao wtf is that, and also what is this

  19. Re:back to the drawing baord on FDA Rejects Artificial Heart · · Score: 1

    if the procedure just causes more problems (which cost money) and you only get a couple weeks added life, is it worth it? if you know you're gonna die, don't you want to be as little trouble as possible for your family and society (just short of euthanasia or suicide based on your individual beliefs)

  20. Re:Religion stifles advancement in our species on What Ancient Tech Do You Do? · · Score: 1

    his ancient texts bleached and written over with religious mumbo jumbo

    i assumed he was talking about christians writing over archimedes' stuff but i could be wrong since i'm such an idiot
    /tear

  21. Re:Religion stifles advancement in our species on What Ancient Tech Do You Do? · · Score: 1

    BS. ancient geeks were free to test and invent only so long as the results agreed with the beliefs of people in power. during those times some 'religious' people happened to be in power. and your blatant anti-christian post should be modded flamebait as you didn't provide any examples from the other religions

  22. Re:This is the free market at work. on Mauritius Aims To Be First Wireless Nation · · Score: 2, Informative

    from TFA:

    The main problem, he and others say, is that the government holds a substantial share in Mauritius Telecom, the island's only fixed-line telephone operator, as well as one of its Internet providers and the company that controls the submarine fiber-optic cable that provides all of the country's phone and Internet bandwidth.

    Because the government makes so much money from the company and its cable, it has been reluctant to open the market to competitors that might reduce Telecom's profits, even though the country's National Telecommunications Policy, passed in 2004, calls for "positive discrimination" by regulators in favor of start-up companies facing off against established firms like Telecom.

  23. Re:AMD Reaping the benefits of HyperTransport on AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 Review · · Score: 1

    actually intel has already said they don't care about ghz anymore because over the next few years they can only go up 3x performance. however, with dual core(and dual core+hyper thread) they can go up 10x the performance in the upcoming years. so i guess you can expect intel to crank up the dual-core game

  24. Re:Dupe by association on Digital Clock as Thin as Paper · · Score: 1

    i'm pretty sure electronic paper stuff and foLEDs are two different technologies

  25. Re:wtf.... on Star Wars 3D And TV · · Score: 1

    they haven't worried about any of the other continuity issues.

    well it did work for Smallville