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  1. well, that's better on Social News Sites Pay Top Submitters · · Score: 1

    Social News Sites Pay Top Submitters

    As opposed to the Socialist News Sites that eschew the capitalist system.

  2. I'm concerned... on Man Gets 3 Years for Botnet Attack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Prosecutors successfully prosecuted a 21 year old who had conspired to create botnets that attacked the Department of Defense

    But was the botnet able to find Sarah Connor, in order to pre-emptively destroy the human resistance?

  3. great! on Ad-supported Textbooks Are Here · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The company will soon use improved software that can automatically adjust the text so it is more legible, said Tom Duran, a founder of Freeload Press and its chief executive.'

    Does it also automatically adjust the text to reflect new information received from the Ministry of Truth?

  4. "animal" rights? on Neuroscientist Halts Research to Stop Extremists · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Although he and his family had endured harassment and vandalization by animal-rights activists for years, Ringach reconsidered after extremists tried to firebomb a colleague's home and accidentally left their Molotov cocktail on an elderly neighbor's doorstep.

    I don't get it. Aren't humans "animals", too?

  5. Johnny 5 on NASA Delays Shuttle Launch Until Monday · · Score: 4, Funny

    The delay will 'give engineers more time to determine whether one of the most powerful lightning strikes ever at a Kennedy Space Center launch pad caused any problems.

    That depends. Do they consider sentient robot life to be a "problem"?

  6. now that we've solved that problem on Stem Cells Generated From Adult Cells · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now, instead of killing embryos for research, all those fertility clinics storing embryos can keep them alive until they throw them out! Hooray!

  7. Cells have rights too on Stem Cells Generated From Adult Cells · · Score: 3, Funny

    What about the rights of the innocent human cells killed in this process? Have these scientists no moral fiber whatsoever?

  8. Well, the old saying applies... on China and Russia to Launch Joint Mars Mission · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, China launches rocket!

    /sorry

  9. pr0n on Cloned Beef Coming Soon? · · Score: 3, Funny

    According to this article at Popular Science cloned beef may be coming soon

    That sounds like the plot of a b-horror-porn movie starring a resurrected John Holmes.

  10. misleading headline on Personal Firewalls Mostly Useless, Says Mail & Guardian · · Score: 5, Informative

    More and more security researchs come to the conclusion that personal firewalls are ineffective in controlling outbound traffic.

    The article's about personal software firewalls, not personal hardware firewalls. Furthermore, the fact that personal software firewalls are useless and buggy is not really a new discovery.

  11. got some free time? on Robotic Wellington Boot Thrower · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Scientists at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth have built a More details and a video at robotic arm to perform this task, using an engine from a concrete mixer, and a gearbox from a Citroen along with several computers.

    How's that cure for cancer coming, guys? Cause it sounds to me like you've already found it, if you're focusing on this kind of stuff.

  12. been there on PS3 Client for Folding@Home Debuts, ATI GPU Version Soon · · Score: 1

    Stanford's Folding@Home project is reporting that Sony debuted a Folding@Home client for the PlayStation 3 today in Germany. Researchers hope to use the power of the PS3's Cell processor to greatly expand the number of FLOPS of which their network is capable.

    Gee, that's much better (and completely different) than when Saddam was supposedly using playstation 2's to test nuclear weapons. This isn't a planted story by Sony *at all*.

  13. news? on Download Torrents With Your PC Turned Off · · Score: 5, Funny

    This isn't anything new. According to the RIAA, you can download music without even owning a computer.

  14. pay-per-view on Polymer 'Muscle' Changes How we Look at Color · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cutting the current causes the muscle to return to its original state.

    Depending on what you're watching, that's a lot like regular TV.

  15. nuremberg on Wiretap Ruling Threatens Telecoms · · Score: 1

    Businesses accused of aiding the Bush administration in wiretapping could also be in for a legal bruising, say civil liberties groups that have sued telecom providers AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth for allegedly helping the NSA.

    Yeah, but when has the "I was just following orders" defense ever worked, really?

  16. the same thing on The Expert Mind · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Teachers in sports, music, and other fields tend to believe that talent matters and that they know it when they see it. In fact, they appear to be confusing ability with precocity.

    Except that at a young age, are not tremendous ability and precocity the same thing?

  17. maybe another term is appropriate? on What it Means to be a Mashup · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, but this buzzword's taken.
    mash up. v. To take elements of two or more pre-existing pieces of music and combine them to make a new song. n. A song comprised of elements of two or more pre-existing pieces of music.

    2. I'm in the middle of mashing-up songs by Tom Jones and Michael Jackson. (verb usage)

  18. web 2.0... check on Warren Ellis Curates new Webcomic Site · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Rocket Pirates." The submission process is completely open via Warren's gmail account and invites anything as long as it isn't too terribly formal. While Rocket Pirates doesn't pay authors for submissions

    hmmm.... I think I've seen this business model somewhere before...

  19. SCO CEO McBride sold 7000 shares. on SCO Stock Continues Downward Spiral · · Score: 5, Informative

    * Opinder Bawa has one filing for having sold 15,000 shares, and another for 8,000 shares. He would appear to have sold all the shares he possesses (but he still has a lot of options).

    * Robert Bench has three filings: 7000 shares, 5000 shares, and 4100 shares.

    * Jeff Hunsaker sold 5000 shares at the beginning of June.

    * Darl McBride sold 7000 shares just after the suit was filed.


    That's millions of dollars in stock sales. Given that the stock price skyrocketed when they announced the lawsuit, and the executive stock dumping began shortly thereafter, what do you make of this situation?

  20. so where's the SEC investigation? on SCO Stock Continues Downward Spiral · · Score: 4, Interesting

    TechNewsWorld reports that three and a half years after SCO saw its stock price increase tenfold to US$20.50 following the filing of its lawsuit against IBM, it closed Tuesday at US$2.28 per share, or two cents less than where it was before the lawsuit.

    Where's the SEC investigation of the SCO executives? At this point, there's plenty of evidence that this entire IBM lawsuit was a pump-and-dump scheme. What's the deal?

  21. what's so bad about that? on Children Arrested, DNA Tested for Playing in a Tree? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, if a police officer can't haul three twelve-year-olds to jail on spurious charges, take mugshots, and record DNA samples, how are we ever going to win the war on terror?

  22. think of the uses! on U.S. Military Developing Ultrasonic Tourniquet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Once applied to a wounded limb, the cuff would automatically detect and then seal damaged blood vessels or arteries, by focusing beams of ultrasonic waves at the wound to clot it, in a process known as high-intensity focused ultrasound, or HIFU.

    in other news, the CIA has a large number of "enemy combatants" that have died unexpectedly from stroke...

  23. with great power. .. on Cancer Therapy with Radioactive Scorpion Venom · · Score: 4, Funny

    Researchers from TransMolecular, Inc. have used chlorotoxin -- a component of giant yellow scorpion venom -- to target radioactive treatments for the deadly brain cancer glioma.

    Just so long as they remember, "With great power comes great responsibility."

  24. you're not a lawyer, are you? on Options for 'Fixing' A Pirated Copy of Windows · · Score: 1

    As far as what they actually are doing, well, it's theft, plain and simple.

    No, because infringement of intellectual property is a civil offence, while theft is a criminal offence. If you don't understand the distinction, you're obviously not qualified to be making any commentary on this subject.

  25. do I have something to hide? on Photograph the Police, Get Arrested · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The attitude should surely be, "if you ain't got nothing to hide..." ; it's what they are increasingly coming to expect from the rest of us.

    If I don't have anything to hide, why do they need to watch me?