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  1. Re:it's not about *your* safety. on TSA Opens Blog — You Can Finally Complain · · Score: 1

    I was unaware that the whitehouse is what gives the president his power. I think it was a damn peice of paper. Or more specifically the words on said paper.

  2. Re:Liquid ban has nothing to do with security on TSA Opens Blog — You Can Finally Complain · · Score: 1

    Then why do they have vending machines behind the checkpoints, surly money from those don't cover the flush costs?

  3. Re:And the answer is so simple.. on E-Voting Undermines Public Confidence In Elections · · Score: 1

    How do the homeless vote?

  4. Re:Not good enough... on Recording Music Without the Recording Industry · · Score: 1

    You can walk without shoes. You can eat grass. And even if you do get lost you will find a bum.

  5. Re:Not good enough... on Recording Music Without the Recording Industry · · Score: 1

    Go to a major city and find a bum playing on the street. If you really like it you can donate money, but that isn't required so it is still free.

  6. Re:Bluetooth?! on Bluetooth Prosthetics Help US Marine To Walk Again · · Score: 1

    It would probably be hard to make them walk when they aren't connected to each other. When a person walks one leg supports the weight of the other leg while it is moved in front, each leg doesn't hope around on its own.

  7. Re:Bluetooth?! on Bluetooth Prosthetics Help US Marine To Walk Again · · Score: 1

    Your headset is level with the microwave, your ankles hopefully aren't level with the microwave. Couldn't they just run a wire up what is left of his legs and connect them at his waist instead relying on bluetooth?

  8. Re:High school terrorists (think of the children) on Cell Phone Radiation Detectors Proposed to Protect Against Nukes · · Score: 1

    Eaten from an unchiped non broken plate and not ever eating acidic food is safe. Problem is in the real world plates chip, food is acidic ... Would you grind a normal plate up and snuff it?

  9. Re:High school terrorists (think of the children) on Cell Phone Radiation Detectors Proposed to Protect Against Nukes · · Score: 1

    My school didn't have any of that (my teacher had to go behind the administration's back to get thermite and sodium.) But when I did a report on Hans Geiger I borrwed a geiger counter from my dad's work, a fieastaware plate (broken in half), and a radium painted clock (glow in the dark). You should of seen the face of the person I asked to hold them during my presentation when I said they are radioactive.

    Hopefully if these things ever come about (unlikely) then their threshold would be set high enough that harmless amounts wouldn't set them off.

  10. Re:Wikinuke? on Cell Phone Radiation Detectors Proposed to Protect Against Nukes · · Score: 1

    More people would end up payng for the lights because not everyone buys the fancy phones.

    What about places without streetlights, they often dont have enough cars/cellphone coverage to support this sort of thing.

  11. Re:Especially in Chicago, NYC and the East Coast. on Maryland Scraps Diebold Voting System · · Score: 1

    Not as much money involved. In society it seems money trumps rights.

  12. Re:I don't mean to troll but... on MacBook Air's Battery is Actually Easy to Replace · · Score: 1

    What airline do you fly? I have yet to see a plane with an outlet for each seat. I woul love to switch to a different airline that provides these.

  13. Re:I don't mean to troll but... on MacBook Air's Battery is Actually Easy to Replace · · Score: 1

    RAM != Battery. You add RAM maybe once in a year. Most people who travel or use a laptop for anything other than a desktop have to switch the battery at least once a week because they don't have access to power (many places seem to frown on you charging appliances off their outlets).

  14. Re:I don't mean to troll but... on MacBook Air's Battery is Actually Easy to Replace · · Score: 2, Funny
    Uses for a dead laptop:
    • Balancing a table
    • Distracting muggers from your wallet
    • Door stop (The air might not work here)
    • Booster seat (air won't work here)
    • Hitting people (the Air might make a good knife...)
    • Low caliber bullet shield
    • Defense from a single zombie.
    • Break a window to escape from zombies
    • Makeshift ninja throwing star
    • MacGyver snowboard/high yield explosive
    • Cutting board for preparing food
  15. Re:big server farms, thin clients at home on The World Wide Computer, Monopolies and Control · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be so sure about that disco comment. A new disco club opened in my town last month (the only club of any sort in my town).

  16. Re:And that logic is asinine on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    People would continue with the original olympics if only for the chance to see pure humanity at its best. Maybe I'm just optinistic about society. You could always air the two together on TV (TV stations would love to be able to sell more ad spots by making it longer.)

  17. Re:And that logic is asinine on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    How about the BIOlympics? A seperate set of contests that could allow people to use all the little cheating devices, steroids, spring loaded shoes, prosthetics, bust-enhancing bras for figure skating, ect.

  18. Re:mass cloning, loss of genetic diversity on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    Cows are 100% dependent on humans for survival (put a cow in the wild and see how long it takes the local predator to feast on it), if cloning catches on the price will fall very rapidly meaning every farmer will use cloned animals, effectivly riding the world of any differences in cows. There would be no natural stock left to survive

  19. Re:Cloning in nature on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    Considering that most bacteria change pretty rapidly (think drug resitant bacteria), probiotics aren't clones because inaccuracies in their reproductive process change their DNA to something close but not completely identical.

  20. Re:must not have been a hard job on Study Touting OOXML Over ODF Is Debunked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    4 years from now everyone working will still have used an earlier version of office (for school) so it would take very little to retach them (just bringing back old memories). Farther into the future you will start having the generation that grew up with computers, training costs for these people will probably be loads lower than today's current working class.

  21. Re:Could be a good thing on Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts · · Score: 1

    RFID? You pass something already in your cart, it advertises "You have previously placed a Trojan Condom in your cart. People who bought these also bought the metal wire clothes hangers you are passing, the family sized tub of butter on your right, and the plungers up on the left."

  22. Re:What is a grocery store? on Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So it is more evolved to be lazy? I prefer to get up walk around the store talk with my friends that work there. Guess in a smaller town you get to meet people outside of your sphere of laze.

    I'm sure one good wack into the side of an asile will disable these damn things. Or dropping a 50lb bag of chicken feed on it will do.

    "butcher or milk your own cow" I get eggs from my chickens, does that count?

  23. Re:They already have that... on Parents To Block Kids From Joining MySpace · · Score: 1

    I guess it's mandatory without your parent's say so.

    "Hey mom, can you enter your password and click accept." "Of course dear." "Sucker." "What was that?" "Nothing mom."

  24. Re:No more helium? on Helium Crisis Approaching · · Score: 1

    That is why I said that screaming was from urban ledgend. I quess you could start screaming before it is completely melted.

  25. Re:No more helium? on Helium Crisis Approaching · · Score: 2, Informative

    The uranium doesn't hurt you in Uranium hexafluoride. By the time you get heavy metal or radiation posioning the fluorine will have melted your lungs (couple seconds, a minute if you are unlucky.) My mom does various worst case scenarios for her job and has to calaculate the effects of exotic chemicals or radiation. She heard that this is one of the most painful ways to die, based off someone screaming according to Urban Ledgend.