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  1. Re:who really won the trial? on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    Scientology is a godless religion. It's evil.

    I would make a comment about it being a pyramid scheme religion, but that does apply to too many religions for it have any punch.

  2. Re:Sound on VASIMR Ion Engine Could Cut Mars Trip To 39 Days · · Score: 1

    Oddly the ricers of the future may just modulate their engines so that one hears a John Williams score as they pass by.

  3. Re:Sound on VASIMR Ion Engine Could Cut Mars Trip To 39 Days · · Score: 1

    My thoughts on why one hears other spaceships around in sci-fi movies is that their propulsion pushes directly off of space time which creates waves which one can hear when they hit the side of the spaceship.

  4. Re:Ban them. on Massive Phishing Campaign Hits Multiple Email Services · · Score: 1

    Which then forces you to make a password specific for that login, which of course will not be remembered.

  5. Re:Don't they... on Cyber-criminal Left In Charge of Prison Computer Network · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The book was soooo much better.

    The only things that the book shares with the movie is the title and the name of the characters. Just about every single thing is different.

  6. Re:6yrs.. turned into LIFE.. what a moron on Cyber-criminal Left In Charge of Prison Computer Network · · Score: 1

    Agreed.

    He could have done the RIGHT thing which would have not only shortened his sentence, it would have looked great on his resume.

    Well, at least it would have looked better than what he did.

  7. Re:Where are the details? on Massive Phishing Campaign Hits Multiple Email Services · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was an email saying that ones inbox was too full and to reply with username and password to have the limit increased.

  8. Re:50% chance of rocking out! on Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles · · Score: 1

    Dethklok needs to record their next record there.

  9. Re:Duh on First Look At Wild New "Level 10" Concept PC Case · · Score: 1

    But wait, I haven't invented the piston driven fusion engine yet. The centrifuge was going to be for pulling out useful isotopes that could be exchanged for more fuel.

    Solution for the first wall, move the wall.

  10. Re:Creepy thought... on Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive · · Score: 1

    I almost want to agree with you.

    Mainly I want to be snarky and mention that a poorly made fertilizer bomb won't trigger Perimeter.

  11. Re:From a former Perotista on Dell Buying Perot Systems For $3.9 Billion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Back when I worked at Dell, the department head of logistics or something emailed out copies of this article.

        http://www.forbes.com/1999/04/21/feat2.html/

    I think back to it now and then. Dell took all that was good in the company and sold it out to MBA's and exported the rest out of the country.

    It was better when Dell didn't give a fuck who it employed as long as they did the damn job.

  12. Re:Blind Sound Test. on Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin · · Score: 1

    Yes, it was in TFA, you would know if you had RTFA

  13. Re:More media attention for Academic Decathlon on How To Make Science Popular Again? · · Score: 1

    Looks like the town might be doing better nowadays than when I moved away.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainfield,_Connecticut

    The median income for a household in the town was $42,851, and the median income for a family was $47,447. Males had a median income of $36,785 versus $24,026 for females. The per capita income for the town was $18,706. About 5.4% of families and 7.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.2% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over.

    As it is, I still think it would be hard to find sponsorship in that area.

  14. Re:More media attention for Academic Decathlon on How To Make Science Popular Again? · · Score: 1

    I don't know much about the First Robotics competition, but it sounds abit more expensive than the Decathlon.

    For small poor rural schools like the one I went to cost is a very important consideration.

  15. Re:More media attention for Academic Decathlon on How To Make Science Popular Again? · · Score: 1

    Congratulations sir.

    The rural poor school I went to would actually be happy to be in the running with a top tier magnet school.

    To think, one school that has to take everyone doing as good as a place where they can select the cream of the crop.

  16. More media attention for Academic Decathlon on How To Make Science Popular Again? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If each schools Academic Decathlon team got the same amount of exposure as the high school football team did then you would see a lot more interest in academics from the general population.

    My senior year our Academic Decathlon team made it to the national conference in Chicago. I heard that we placed in the top 10 in each category, but I never did see a single thing about it in our local paper. And this was a small rural school.

  17. Previous art on The Coming Problems For Rolling Out 3D TV · · Score: 1

    There already is 3d entertainment, its not doing too hot. It's called plays.

  18. Re:With Yucca Mountain closed? on US Nuclear Power Industry Poised For a Comeback · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why not just drill a large hole into a subduction zone and drop it off in there.

    Let the earth recycle it.

    Then again I also never understood why if nuclear waste is still putting off energy, why not just use the waste as an energy source? Storing the waste in pools that have to be constantly chilled just seems so backasswards.

  19. Re:Hooray! on US Nuclear Power Industry Poised For a Comeback · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just visit antique stores, perhaps you'll find one with an extra vial of radium paint in the back of the clock.

    http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

  20. Re:Yeah, sure on US Nuclear Power Industry Poised For a Comeback · · Score: 1

    Is Wyoming far away enough to evade the NIMBY's?

    Just put it near Big Piney, its a high planes desert that could use some more jobs in the area.

  21. Re:Simple Solution on British Company Takes Lead To Stop Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Burning it with a solid state laser to cause out gassing would be simpler and lighter, plus it could also be used on smaller items like space junk.

  22. Re:What about their business plan? on British Company Takes Lead To Stop Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it could also be used for catching asteroids and parking them in orbit for automated mining.

  23. Re:What's the Big Deal on US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My question is what are they being accused of stealing?

    The music?
    Or the bandwidth?

    I assume they are talking about downloading music at work.

  24. Re:free cooling is, well, cool on Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC · · Score: 1

    My plan that I got talked out of was to take a 6 foot hollow plastic gnome, put about 8 foot of copper pipe in it, then fill it with concrete and take off the plastic when it dries. I thought it would have been a pretty cool heatsink.

  25. he the the? on South Korea's First Rocket Fails To Reach Set Orbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not a grammar nazi, but please. Misspelling the very first word in the summary? I could see if it was some complex word, but its THE, what next, is someone going to misspell A ?

    the the New York Times? It shouldn't be too hard for the mods to do a basic proofread of the summary before posting. Not that correcting the mistakes changes the content, but because correcting the mistakes doesn't change the content.