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  1. well fuck on Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail · · Score: 0

    that sucks.

  2. Space chiropractic on Japanese Astronaut Gets Designer "Space Suit" · · Score: 1

    I bet in zero-g you could really get the best spinal alignment of your life.

  3. Re:The solution is obvious on Can a Video Game Solve Hunger, Disease and Poverty? · · Score: 1

    It's called a Hospital. That's also where they keep the health kits.

    Doesn't seem very secure. What happens if you have a camper sniping people at the hospital?

  4. Those legs seem a bit long on Japanese Astronaut Gets Designer "Space Suit" · · Score: 1

    Japanese people aren't especially known for their legginess. Or height, for that matter.

    Ashida is probably going to need to have that thing fitted.

  5. Oh for chrissakes on US Most Vulnerable To Cyberattack? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They have super duper ultra evil weapons that only those in the upper echelons (hehe) of the government know about! Give up more of your freedoms, citizen!

  6. Who is selling and why? on Apollo 13 Mission Manual Pages To Be Auctioned · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Whoever it is selling this deserves a lot of pity. Whether it be NASA who needs the money or an old NASA employee (maybe astronaut?) who needs the money or an old collector who needs the money or the estate of an old collector or NASA employee that needs to liquidate it, there really must be a sad story behind the selling of an item that belongs in a museum.

  7. Re:Video games can fix poverty on Can a Video Game Solve Hunger, Disease and Poverty? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What is the incentive to grow and sell food if the UN is going to give food away for free to your customers?

  8. The solution is obvious on Can a Video Game Solve Hunger, Disease and Poverty? · · Score: 1

    I can't believe we didn't think of it before. The solution is so obvious!

    We just need to leave energy packs at strategic places and have checkpoints where we can save our status.

    Oh man. The world is going to be revolutionized by this!

    Wait wait! I just thought of another thing that would help. Spawn points. Holleee shit, Batman. We're through the looking glass now!

  9. Why the tortoise loses in real life on Discovery To Bring "Plug and Play" Micro-Lab To ISS · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You know what's hard to imagine? That the ISS has been orbiting the Earth longer than we've been stewing about how frightfully bad The Phantom Menace is. In fact, George Lucas was able to shit out three terrible movies and that hairy guy was able to make three CGI-rich movies about wizards. Surely we don't need to study again how frogs fuck in zero-g.

    In the time since we first started sending astronauts to their fiery dooms on return from the ISS, private enterprise has developed a prototype space vehicle. The allegory goes that the hare loses the race because he sleeps while the slow and steady tortoise never stops. The real moral of the story is not that slow and steady wins the race, it's "don't sleep". And private enterprise has shown that it can develop this technology faster than NASA.

    NASA needs to shit or get off the pot. They've spent too long funding experiments to literally watch grass grow and paint dry when we could have been sending more probes across the solar system. The ISS isn't a supply depot, it's a nice shady patch which lulls any passerby into taking a long nap.

  10. Obama policies lead to higher unemployment! on Astronaut Careers May Stall Without the Shuttle · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm hard pressed to believe that the Space Shuttle is the best idea we've come up with in this industry. When I see people shedding tears over the canceled program, I see the same old heavy client programmers who couldn't adapt to web programming.

  11. I trust Woz on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Woz has already described the repro case.

    Now, the iPad may not be the be all and end all of consumer devices, but I trust Woz when he talks.

  12. Community involvement on Songbird Drops Linux Support · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's a housing development not far from where I live that has draconian rules about "community involvement". In order to own property there, it is necessary to spend time on the board or doing board-approved activities. They have immaculate lawns.

    I own my own property here, and I have no connection to any third party except the bank and the government. My lawn is a mess, but I welcome anyone who would like to mow it.

    Isn't the spirit of Free Software about everyone pitching in and helping each other freely? Or did I misunderstand freedom to mean freedom for others to do work for me for free?

    I see nothing in Songbird's announcement that is negative in any way.

  13. Here in America... on Landmark Canadian Hyperlink Case Goes To Supreme Court · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here in the U.S. we routinely send important cases up to the Supreme Court for decision.

  14. Forgot who said this on Cold War Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you believe in Democracy, then you implicitly endorse secret police.
    If you believe in anything else, then you explicitly endorse those same powers out in the open.

    The only difference is how much we are willing to delude ourselves. We call ourselves Free, but we haven't been so since September 24, 1862.

  15. Bad things to say about chiropractors? on In the UK, a Victory For Free Speech · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm not a scientist. But I do know that going to the chiropractor leads to feeling great.

    What could he have been saying about them? It seems that if you're going to bad mouth an entire profession, there should be some kind of evidence to back it up. It sounds like he's just got it in for chiropractors. And I'm not so sure we can consider it anything but hate speech.

  16. Finally. Proper audio support on Apple iPad Reviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    The built-in speaker gets fairly loud and provides decent sound. There's no bass response, but the small grille houses both a left and right speaker.

    Since the disco era, there has been this constant push for more bass, to the point where the drive to get lower has become a caricature of itself in places like Miami and Los Angeles. True audio lovers know bass is only one aspect of a rich audio experience.

    So when I hear that Apple is turning bass way back, I know they are answering the prayers of audiophiles. Finally a company with the balls to do the right thing.

    Thank you Apple!

  17. Re:You mess with the bull, you get the horns on IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's called a parabola. It's just a morality tale.

    And yes, if you could glean some sort of moral from a kid's book, it too would be a parabola.

  18. You mess with the bull, you get the horns on IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the Song Of Solomon, the author tells the story of how he met his lover. He was walking one day along a rough road when ahead in the distance he saw a shimmering light. Strangely, his head grew heavy and he felt that he had to stop and rest for a while. When he entered the courtyard, his lover was laying in the middle and there were men all around stabbing her with knives. He took her up in his arms and brought her to safety, and she, as is written in Leviticus, became betrothed to him.

    If there weren't laws describing the precise course of action for the author and his lover, there is no guarantee that his good deed would be repaid in full. When people start infringing copyrights, they are attacking centuries of legal thought. These laws exist for a reason. For those that follow them, especially on the content creation side, the laws provide a great benefit. For those that break the law, well, things aren't quite so rosy.

  19. Jesse Jackson was wrong on Stand and Deliver Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies · · Score: 2, Funny

    East Los Angeles, not New York, was the real Jaime-town.

  20. Re:Truly on Stand and Deliver Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies · · Score: 4, Funny

    Juana tell us more about her and her experiences in Escalante's class?

  21. Using a computer on company time? on Councilman Booted For His Farmville Obsession · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd fire anyone who uses a company computer on company time for personal reasons.

    Exempting this comment posting, of course.

  22. Re:That is very interesting on MIT Finds 'Grand Unified Theory of AI' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do you think you'd be interested if this approach to AI allows for any new approaches to strategy.

  23. That is very interesting on MIT Finds 'Grand Unified Theory of AI' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tell me about you to build a cognitive model in a fantastically much more straightforward and transparent way than you could do before.

  24. I doubt it on Haptic Gaming Vest Simulates Punches, Shots, Stabbing · · Score: 2, Funny

    Having been shot several times, I can assure that solenoids aren't going to deliver anywhere near the amount of pain that a bullet would. In fact, it is a damn insult to veterans and other gunshot victims to trivialize the suffering caused by gunshot wounds.

  25. Re:What the hell? on EU Demands Canada Gut Its Copyright and Patent Laws · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of Yaka-Yaka.