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  1. Re:Asians on South Korean Cartoonists Cry Foul Over Edgy Simpsons Intro · · Score: 1

    In that case, wouldn't it have to be comedic?

  2. Re:I bought it; it's mine. on Xbox 360 Jailbreaker May Need Real Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    You bought it knowing it was protected, and you probably agreed to a terms/conditions saying you wouldn't break the protection. If you want to do as you please, you're free to buy a less protected console.

  3. Re:Why not boycott PS3s on PS3 Hacked Using Official Controller · · Score: 1, Redundant

    you knew it was locked when you paid for it, so you already have got what you paid for.

  4. Re:Big Brother? Not Quite. on Big Brother In the School Cafeteria? · · Score: 1

    If you let the parents know what little Johnny is eating, then parents can at least attempt to create a balanced diet for their child. If the kid's drinking 5 cans of soda a day, then the parents can stop the kid from drinking a pot of coffee in the morning.

  5. that's where good science journalism comes in on Do Scientists Understand the Public? · · Score: 1

    If science journalism is no good, then we will have trouble communicating with the public.it's a pity that many major publications have fired their dedicated science journalists.

  6. You focus on different objects? on 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children · · Score: 1

    Aren't your eyes focusing on the same object (ie what ever you're looking at) when using a 3D display?

  7. Re:What else should I do? on Fingerprint Requirement For a Work-Study Job? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They should tell them what it is and how it works. Clearly. In a little brochure. Does no one care about employee relations anymore?

  8. They want me to sign up on Freeciv As Benchmark of HTML5 Canvas Javascript Performance · · Score: 1

    This seems like a con to get me to sign up to their service.

  9. Re:Creative destruction on Google Attack On the Mobile Market Rumored · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But it annoys me that so many people take on so much debt and then complain that they have to pay it off.

    The windfall of easy credit has been propping the economy up for the last 10 years. You shouldn't let them annoy you so much.

    Well, they WERE, until they stopped.

  10. six sigma on We Really Don't Know Jack About Maintenance · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could a six sigma program help here? A systematic and structured approach to problem solving is needed. Whenever someone fixes a bug that creates a new bug, then it's a waste of everyone time and effort.

  11. Re:Mines a vodka and red bull... on Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks May Be Illegal · · Score: 0

    The chinese lost the Opium wars, and it destroyed their government. History tells us that we probably wont win, but we must fight the fight.

  12. Re:Overpopulation on Plowing Carbon Into the Fields · · Score: 1
    Lets have a look at this from another angle.

    See, we have no actual idea of how many is enough. If technology progressed to such an extent, who's to say that 12 million people couldn't live on Earth sustainably? A few breakthroughs in sustainable power generation, and likewise water production.

    What you're really suggesting is a lack of resources. Then, in that case, the solution isn't to have less people, but to produce less waste during production. Instead of halving the population, we should be doubling the efficency that goods and services are produced.

    The world economy is based on growth as a mechanism to increase the standard of living, but this is unsustainable. How is it possible for every country in the world tries to maximise exports relative to imports?

    All we need to do it alter the market with a bias towards efficent production instead of overproduction. I'll give an example. If I buy a digital camera, they're so cheap to buy new, I'm not going to buy second hand. I should, though, because it's one camera that society doesn't need to produce, and I still get a camera to use. It costs society nothing for me to buy second hand, but if I buy new, then society has to produce that camera for me. That's wasteful production. Let's not forget why I'm buying a camera (because the internal battery became unchargable). If we adjust the economy so business makes camera that will last 10 years, then that's 10 cameras that society doesn't have to make over the next 10 years. There's no incentive for companies to make products that last, but as a society, that's what we really need.

  13. Re:WTF on Placebos Are Getting More Effective · · Score: 1

    People probabaly perceive them as enjoying them more because they're in a good mood at the ball park. It's nicer having one at the game, than having 6 at home in your moms basement.

  14. It's better because it doesn't have a ribbon on An Early Look At New Features In OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Office 2007 made me feel stupid! I couldn't find the button to bold something. It's openoffice at home and 2003 at work from here on until the end of time!

  15. Re:Hahaha on LHC Forces Bookmaker To Lower Odds On the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    Which ever one that isn't betting on themselves, obviously.

  16. I assume the other byproduct is snake oil on Hydrogen-Producing Bacteria Could Provide Clean Energy · · Score: 3, Insightful
    From tfa

    T. maritima ferments sugars to hydrogen and M. jannaschii converts hydrogen to methane

    I don't understand. What's going on at NCSU that they would provide so little detail for this release. How the hell do you covert hydrogen to methane?

  17. This has happened before on NASA's Mars News Is Not Life, But Perchlorate · · Score: 1

    I read a national geographic from many years ago, and the previous landers (from the 1970's?) basically did this, quickly came to the conclusion of life, and then realised that there was an oxidant in the soil making a mess of things. Does anyone remember this?

  18. the PSP on Making Mobile Presentations Without a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    can run pictures as a slideshow, and has TV out. It's cheap too.

  19. Re:PS3 and Linux on Penny Arcade Adventures To Appear On PS3 · · Score: 1

    Once the linux version was done, it wouldn't have been that difficult, as it would have just been a matter of changing the opengl code to the cut down opengl version the ps3 uses. I wonder if this is more Sony giving them the green light (ie they've signed a contract with pennyarcade), or the pennyarcade guys finially getting some capital together to buy a ps3 dev kit + programmers.

  20. Australia wouldn't even sign Kyoto!... on The World's Nine Largest Science Projects · · Score: 1

    until recently and here they are showing off a spectacular solar power energy plant. I'm very impressed. I thought I would have heard about this on the ABC's Science Show. I haven't been this impressed since the development of the hotrocks project in Australia.

  21. A similar system using automobiles... on Montreal's Public Bikes To Use Web, RFID, Solar · · Score: 1

    ...is being developed by Prof Bill Mitchell at MIT. This link is to a radio interview with him in March.

  22. What if you fall over? on Raytheon Exoskeleton Brings "Iron Man" to Life · · Score: 1
    You'd have to travel in pairs so the other guy can pick you up.

    Anyway, I'd much rather someone work on a chickenleg mech. They just look cooler, and they're equally as impractical.

  23. Have you tried approaching Sony about the PSP? on Mozilla Hitting 'Brick Walls' Getting Firefox on Phones · · Score: 1

    The in built psp web browser by NetFront isn't fantastic. There are OTHER mobile devices other than phones. Just an idea.

  24. This isn't really news. on GNOME 2.20.3 for Slackware · · Score: 1

    Has this new item got something to do with kde4 being released recently?

  25. Only two options now avaliable on 12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Brace self for usual massive troll reaction to this, 2. Go outside, and do something else.