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  1. Re:Wait, they have the internet in Missouri? on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    You are at a university with adults.
    My comments for teachers not professors, teaching minors and being "friends" is more awkward.

  2. Re:Wait, they have the internet in Missouri? on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 2

    It probably protects the teachers more than anything else.
    If you're a teacher and your student posts pictures of themselves getting drunk, what is you legal obligation?
    Are you an accessory? What if the student dies from drinking and parents sue you for not doing anything when you knew about it? etc
    Also there are privacy issues regarding teachers and studens (not as bad a doctors) that can be easily violated.

    I'm not saying it's not a stupid law, but to be honest you have to be a really stupid teacher to friend your students and expect your job to be safe.

  3. Re:Ok, the connector is pretty nice... on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    yeah but think if all the warnings about improperly disconnected hard drives that will show up

  4. Re:Why guns? on FTC Okays Social Media Background Check Company · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why would you need to 'hide' your gun photos?

    i know right? i spent a lot of hours in the gym on those guns.

  5. Re:Bad idea on Solar Powered Laptops · · Score: 1

    1. A laptop doesn't have to be used all the time, so when you leave it on the couch while you're doing something else it can partially recharge.
    2. Battery doesn't have to be next to panel.
    3. Panel on a calculator doesn't get hot. I'm guessing they aren't going for the most efficient panels.
    4. I don't think laptop display work that well in direct sun either, so it probably isn't designed to be in the sun.
    5. Solar panel probably is a bad term. Light panel? Photon panel? IDK.

  6. Re:Bad idea on Solar Powered Laptops · · Score: 1

    yeah because we all have to use our solar powered calculators outside...

  7. Re:not enough of a discount on Amazon To Offer Ad-Supported Kindle · · Score: 1

    isn't there a rumor flying around about free kindles for prime members?
    here is an example: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20040764-1.html

  8. Re:Why tell the world? on Wozniak: I Would Consider Returning To Apple · · Score: 3, Insightful

    just post the damn url, i'm not going to click on a tinyurl link and get goatse'd or something...

  9. Re:WTF? on Samsung Plants Keyloggers On Laptops · · Score: 1

    if you replace windows with linux then make sure you get your windows tax back otherwise microsft still makes money from you and they don't care if you don't use it.
    or get a linux machine to begin with.

  10. Re:Who is actively developing? on Broadcasters Accuse Telecom Companies of Hoarding Spectrum · · Score: 3, Informative

    who not whom

  11. grammar issue sorry on Gates' Future of Education Straight Out of '60s · · Score: 1

    Gates's not Gates' in title...

  12. Re:Fork it on Twitter Discards Client UI Community · · Score: 1

    I'll be honest, I'm not going to read your post because it's too long and I don't know who you are to warrant wasting time reading it.

    "Brevity is the soul of wit"

  13. Re:Fork it on Twitter Discards Client UI Community · · Score: 2

    I summarized your post in less than 140 characters but according to you there is nothing worth saying in it.

    I have it completely vice versa: I don't simply see anything worth saying that can be said in only 140 letters unless it's a link which i could go to directly.

  14. Re:Saying no on A Letter On Behalf of the World's PC Fixers · · Score: 1
  15. Re:It's not my fault! on Study Shows Technology May Inhibit Good Sleep · · Score: 1

    I can't find citation, but i remember a peer reviewed article about how even dim lights (e.g. street light through curtains) affect quality of sleep even though they don't wake you up...

  16. Re:They are going to have to pass a law on Students Suspended, Expelled Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    they should pass a law against starting a sentence in the subject and completing it in the message. It's getting ridiculous.

  17. Re:Time for another IAU meeting on Two Planets Found Sharing One Orbit · · Score: 1

    as long as you don't define "planets" as "girls" and "orbit" as "cup".

  18. Re:Stop cooling magma on Iceland Eyes Liquid Magma As Energy Source · · Score: 2

    i thought radioactive decay was the source of the heat in the earth core, so the pool analogy doesn't work unless you add a heater.

  19. Re:Dumb comparison. on Are Tablets Just Too Expensive? · · Score: 1

    except inkjet ink :)

  20. Re:Nokia's last gasp on Nokia and Microsoft Make Smartphone Alliance · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who's going to want a Nokia phone running Windows?

    Er...me?

    is it lonely?

  21. Re:Impossible on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    yeah he's not talking about a gas though

  22. Re:Wow on Volkswagen Unveils 313 MPG XL1, Slates Production For 2013 · · Score: 1

    I don't tailgate. I have pulled over on the ramp before waiting for cars in front to merge before I start my acceleration.

  23. Re:Wow on Volkswagen Unveils 313 MPG XL1, Slates Production For 2013 · · Score: 2

    Fast acceleration is very useful, particularly for overtaking on single-carriageway roads, but it's not a massive factor in highway safety.

    how about when the idiot in front of you goes too slow on the entrance ramp on the freeway instead of speeding up to freeway traffic speeds and you are stuck entering the freeway too slowly. i bet acceleration is important then.

  24. evolutionarily speaking on The Rise and Rise of the Cognitive Elite · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    but who is having more offspring? (insert idiocracy joke)

  25. Re:Not a new problem on Auto Incorrect · · Score: 1