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  1. I would hope so on South Korea's Home of the Future · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'd hope so, because North Korea's vision of the South Korean home of the future is a smouldering, radioactive hole in the ground.

  2. ironic on The Incredible Shrinking Cosmonaut Corps · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the 1960s one would dream of becoming a cosmonaut, now the young men are dreaming of becoming bankers,' says Sergei Shamsutdinov, an editor at the Novosti Kosmonavtiki magazine.

    And here in America, we have bankers that dream of going up with Russian Cosmonauts.

  3. One brain in your head, one in your pants on Steve Chen Making China's Supercomputer Grid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and he is working on a bio-supercomputer extension to human brains called THIRD-BRAIN. The THIRD-BRAIN project has significant 3 year and 5 year targets.

    Why call it Third Brain? I'm not terribly familiar with Anatomy, but I thought humans only had one brain. (Well, unless you're a guy. Then you've got an extra one in your pants that does most of the thinking)

  4. pr0n on Malicious Injection — It's Not Just For SQL Anymore · · Score: 4, Funny

    When most people think of malicious injection, they think of SQL injection.

    Come on now, considering your audience, you might want to re-think that statement.

  5. Re:this doesnt hurt those of use using a fake lice on Drivers License Swipes Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe there's no law against showing it to clubs (specifically), but there sure are laws against making it in the first place.

    Then just bombard your real license with some high-power magnetic fields and you're all set. There's no law that says you can't erase the fucker.

  6. this doesnt hurt those of use using a fake license on Drivers License Swipes Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They rarely if ever disclose that the personal data stored on the license -- the customer's name, address, license number, perhaps even height, weight, and eye color -- go into a database and are retained, perhaps indefinitely.

    Seriously, there's no law against providing a replica license with garbage on the magnetic strip to clubs and bars if you're legal age, is there? After all, you're not misrepresenting your credentials, you're preventing identity theft.

  7. Re:Learning is going the way of the Dodo on What's the Problem With US High Schools? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because standardized testing NEVER existed before the Bush administration. Seriously, though I don't disagree with you, I remember taking standardized tests years and years before Bush's reign of stupid began.

    Nice strawman. Standardized testing certainly existed, but No Child Left Behind takes the idea to an absurd level, and goes to the extent of financially punishing schools that don't meet its requirements. Now, combine that with the fact that the act is only funded ~50% (which parent poster mentioned, btw) and you have an educational disaster.

    It forces test score goals on schools, then doesn't give them the money to meet those goals. What the hell do you think is going to happen? Why do you think the state of Connecticut is suing the Federal government over it? Do some critical thinking, man.

  8. fox is spinning so hard i'm dizzy on Stem Cells At The Core of Cancer? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Globe and Mail reports that cancers have at their core a small number of stem cells, without which they cannot spread or reoccur.

    So how long until we have some partisan halfwit wielding this nugget of information in his crusade against stem-cell research?

  9. Re:national hysteria on Michigan Teen Creates Fusion Device · · Score: 1

    I would, but it's hard to type with electrodes attached to my testicles. Please try again later!

  10. national hysteria on Michigan Teen Creates Fusion Device · · Score: 1, Funny

    He's on the cross country and track teams at Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Hills. He's a good-looking, clean-cut 17-year-old with a 3.75 grade point average, and he has his eyes fixed on the next big step: college.

    Little does he know, his next big step will actually be gitmo, and from there, the CIA torture camp in Syria.

    Good luck, little buddy!

  11. either that on Michigan Teen Creates Fusion Device · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hopefully this points to a future where large scale fusion reactors are both economical and widely used.

    Either that, or it points to a future where large scale fusion reactors are widely used in parents' basements.

  12. Congress nailed that one, and rightly so on Craigslist Fair Housing Act Suit Dismissed · · Score: 1, Interesting

    However, the court held that the site was nonetheless protected by the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA), which shields Web forums from liability for ads and opinions posted by their users.

    Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one. And Congress is certainly full of both, so it makes sense that they'd put two and two together on this one.

  13. it's actually not. on Draconian Anti-Piracy Law Looms Over Australia · · Score: 1

    i mean, isn't "happy birthday" already part of public domain?

    It's not part pf the public domain, surprisingly, which is why the Draconians are so pissed off. How else did you think a race of spacefaring reptilians paid for all their starships?

  14. unleash the history majors on Draconian Anti-Piracy Law Looms Over Australia · · Score: 1

    did I say 6th? I meant 7th.

  15. I'm not worried on Draconian Anti-Piracy Law Looms Over Australia · · Score: 4, Funny

    Draconian Anti-Piracy Law Looms Over Australia

    Well, given that that Draco died in the 6th century BC, I doubt he'll have much luck enforcing his law.

  16. call me when it can find sarah connor on New Robot Can Sense Damage, Compensate · · Score: 3, Funny

    Researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., built a four-legged robot that can sense damage to its body and figure out how to adjust and keep going.

    Yeah, but was the robot made of intelligent, liquid metal?

  17. Re:news flash on Celebrate the XML Decade · · Score: 1

    No, it's a spec for text markup.

    Oh, so text isn't "data"?

    idiot.

  18. take North Korea's lead on US Gambling Law May Cause Flouting of IP Laws · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    With the sort of logic and understanding that comes out of Washington, I would not be surprised if some idiot recommended that the US should take North Korea's lead and cut our entire country off from the internet. No firewall, no filtering, no laws, nothing. Problem "solved."

  19. Re:screw that! on Singing Dolphins Do Batman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Screw that! you know the next step is to hook these dolphins up to sentry robots armed with machine guns. Yeah, who's laughing now, sharks with frickin laser beams strapped to their heads?

  20. martian RPG on NASA Struggles To Contact Lost Mars Probe · · Score: 4, Funny

    The MGS team is not sure yet what the problem is, but a micrometeorite could have jolted the spacecraft's main antenna out of alignment with Earth

    That wasn't a "meteorite", and I can tell you that the martians probably don't like being spied on any more than we do.

  21. estimate in real dollars on An Indian On the Moon By 2020 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The article doesn't estimate the cost of such a program. The US Apollo program cost about $135 billion (in 2006 dollars), according to Wikipedia.

    Yes, but considering that, much like the elephant population, these estimates have TRIPLED IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS, I'm guessing that cost is closer to $405 billion.

  22. in other news on Piracy Stats Don't Add Up · · Score: 5, Funny

    Figures for 2005 from the global Business Software Association showing $361 million a year of lost sales in Australia are 'unverified and epistemologically unreliable,' the report says.

    In other news, the sky outside appears to be a "blue" color, and when dropped, most objects behave in a "falling" manner.

  23. don't cross the streams on AIDS Can Fight AIDS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have announced that they have engineered a strain of the AIDS virus that fights AIDS.

    Well, whatever you do, don't cross the streams. You're sure to get human sacrifice, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!

  24. walking in LA on Tracking Traffic Jams With Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Its software is designed to weed out the difference between pedestrians and drivers, then crunch it into detailed color-coded maps that show average speeds along roadways.

    I doubt they even have to employ this software in LA. From what I hear, nobody walks in LA. (I won't be fooled by a cheap cinematic trick, It must have been just a cardboard cut out of a man, Top-forty cast off from a record stand.)

  25. just like elephants on Wikipedia Used To Spread Virus · · Score: 4, Funny

    The page has, of course, been fixed but this is nevertheless a valuable lesson for Wikipedia users.

    According to wikipedia, the number of valuable lessons for Wikipedia users has TRIPLED in the last six months!