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  1. Re:Oh jeez on Hints of Life Found On Saturn's Moon Titan · · Score: 1

    Maybe against humans (but certainly not always...) but only then because they recognize that we are bigger. It's well documented that are violent as fuck against their own kind or other animals though.

  2. Re:GPS on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    Every mail client I've seen recognizes PGP/GPG blocks and doesn't display the text of them to the user unless they request it...

  3. Re:Offtopic on 12th Internet Problem Solving Contest, This Sunday · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hola... barrett? I think that's right.

  4. Re:GPS on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    Legal disclaimer sure, but what in the world is wrong with PGP/GPG signatures? They allow other people to verify that you are who you say you are...

  5. Re:WTF? on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    I imagine it is something to the effect of "match the speed of your bumper to the speed of their bumper". In other words, "drive as fast as they are to see how fast they are going".

  6. Re:WTF? on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    I don't know about Ohio, but by law in PA only state troopers are allowed to use radar guns. Local cops have to use more complex/low-tech speed traps.

  7. Re:Let them Die on FTC Staff Discuss a Tax on Electronics To Support the News Business · · Score: 1

    You haven't watched any of the major news television networks, or picked up practically any of the common newspapers recently have you?

    Sure there are examples to the contrary, but I believe the key word in his statement was "most".

  8. Re:transplants? on OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    (h) A nonhuman life form engineered such that it contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly from human neural tissues.

    Great. So we've just outlawed cyborgs huh?

  9. Re:i'm sick of the fallacy of the slippery slope on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 1

    That's nice in theory.

    In reality, religious groups use polygamy as a mechanism for controlling and abusing women. All of the bad aspects of the legal recognition of marriage (women getting stuck in abusive relationships) are amplified.

  10. Re:i'm sick of the fallacy of the slippery slope on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 1

    You know what I'm sick of? The fucking Argument from Fallacy fallacy.

    Do you remember all of those fun new anti-terrism laws we got? Good thing they never get abused because drug trafficing and other domestic crimes clearly are not terrorism. [/sarcasm]

  11. Re:Yeah OK on EU To Monitor All Internet Searches · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Look up the history of the poem. It was created to be used in situations exactly like this one.

  12. Re:well GREAT on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 3, Funny

    I actually attended a lecture by Dr. Carl Hart at The Secret Science Club.

    Hey! You know the rules: The first rule of Secret Science Club is you do not talk about Secret Science Club...

  13. Re:Well yeah, now... on New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M · · Score: 1

    Well it's not like I get to eat pandas right now anyways, stupid hippies >:(

  14. Re:What commercial really means on SpaceX Eyeing June 4 Window For Falcon 9 Launch · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are in fact an idiot of epic proportions. You couldn't be any more wrong, from their website:

    To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, SpaceX hires only U.S. citizens and U.S. Permanent Residents.

  15. Re:OT: something I've always wondered about... on SpaceX Eyeing June 4 Window For Falcon 9 Launch · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe that is a US vs British situation.

  16. Re:After a hard days work on The Race To Beer With 50% Alcohol By Volume · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fairly sure it'd be pretty hard to smoke beer. What are you smoking?

  17. Re:The Government? on Washington Wants 10,000 Web Surfers · · Score: 1

    If you can't afford the legal fees of engaging them in court, then you shouldn't be attempting to catch them in a sting operation in the first place.

  18. Re:The Government? on Washington Wants 10,000 Web Surfers · · Score: 1

    You'd have the advantage of knowing it was a sting before they could get a search warrant. Obviously if you are going to attempt something like this you'd do it with squeeky clean computers prepared beforehand for exactly this task.

  19. Re:Fine Line Indeed on Apple Blindsides More AppStore Developers · · Score: 0, Troll

    Attention mods: as mentioned by another poster, TrisexualPuppy is a GNAA troll. Don't give him karma.

  20. Re:Next up on Thumbprints Used To Check Books Out of School Library · · Score: 1

    There's both a specific and a general moral to take away from this result. Matsumoto is not a professional fake-finger scientist; he's a mathematician. He didn't use expensive equipment or a specialized laboratory. He used $10 of ingredients you could buy, and whipped up his gummy fingers in the equivalent of a home kitchen. And he defeated eleven different commercial fingerprint readers, with both optical and capacitive sensors, and some with "live finger detection" features. (Moistening the gummy finger helps defeat sensors that measure moisture or electrical resistance; it takes some practice to get it right.) If he could do this, then any semi-professional can almost certainly do much much more.

  21. Re:Next up on Thumbprints Used To Check Books Out of School Library · · Score: 1

    The school is still going to be distributing ID cards for obvious reasons so deploying an additional system will absolutely cost you more in the long run.

  22. Re:Induced Pain on Acupuncture May Trigger a Natural Painkiller · · Score: 1

    When what time comes? You are a waste of resources right now.

  23. Re:Oncoming Traffic Re:For serious? on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 1

    What, so where you are it is impossible to step off the road? Unless you are in a tunnel or on a highway with barriers on either side you can always get over more. I'm going to guess you've never actually tried walking somewhere.

  24. Re:So instead of a monster gas tank on UK Students Build Electric Car With 248-Mile Range · · Score: 1

    A good deal of Amtrak is overhead electric (the rest is diesel), as does the Philadelphia area's Regional/Commuter Rail. I think heavier rails tend to use overhead wires more often than not.

  25. Re:Induced Pain on Acupuncture May Trigger a Natural Painkiller · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We should have let nature go it's way, since the beginning. Maybe we would be extinct by now.

    If that is really your goal, feel free to lead by example.