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  1. Wha... on Left 4 Dead 2 Banned In Australia · · Score: 3, Funny

    Aren't there people over the age of 15 in Australia? If not the level of drinking in that country is really worrying.

  2. Re:Don't need electronics for that on On-Body Circuits Create New Sense Organ · · Score: 1

    That's be the first link. It isn't somehting everyone has in meaningful amounts mind you. Certain groups of jungle people (south americans) have it in greater quantities since it was very useful to their forefathers. Think of it as a rare genetic trait like tetrachromats (people that see in rgbs rather than rgb).

  3. How about this on Canadian Court of Appeals Decides Website Linking Isn't Libelous · · Score: 5, Funny
  4. Re:biotech rocks on Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys · · Score: 1

    Well all I can say to that is lawyers suck and that needs to be changed.... badly.

  5. Re:Don't need electronics for that on On-Body Circuits Create New Sense Organ · · Score: 1
  6. Re:The bigger question is... on US Government Sets Up Online "App Store" · · Score: 1

    Uneducated.... You did talk about socialism. Nazi stands for 'National Sozialismus'.

  7. Re:"as we know it" clause on New "Drake Equation" Selects Between Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    No I think he means it moves so slowly that were it true it wouldnt have yet had time to form cohesive thoughts. And if it were possible a cohesive thought would take billions or trillions of years. And I mean 2+2=4. So it doesn't really matter. Also it's environment is nothingness which would make for a useless intelligence.

  8. Re:Seems silly on New "Drake Equation" Selects Between Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    Extreme environments in space are a tad different. If the actual chemical bonds in the critter and being destroyed it makes it harder to live. We have things that live at 100degrees but nothing that can survive 800. It'd have to have a body made of mostly diamond followed by some incredible insulation. DNA btw breaks down at 150C. Venus has a surface temp of 400C.

  9. Re:biotech rocks on Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys · · Score: 1

    I bet the risk of injecting a virus into your eye is higher than eating a gm tomato...

    And GM crops solve tons of problems though I think there should be room for two markets. The problem I have isn't people fighting for the choice of natural foods in their supermarket but fighting to stop GM crops. The threat of other people in your city eating GM crops is infinitesimally low.

  10. Re:Don't need electronics for that on On-Body Circuits Create New Sense Organ · · Score: 1

    Being a male you also have a compass in your nose. All guys have a small natural magnet in their nose which allows you to sense north. By being mindful of which direction north is for an extended period of time you were likely unwittingly training yourself to listen to this sensation.

    While I was traveling in Italy for a month my dad thought it was a fun game to ask what way north was even after being asleep in the car for an hour and i could get within 10degrees 80% of the time. I'm sure with training or modification (increasing the structure i dunno) you could use this much more effectively. Maybe even being able to identify metals with just your nose. (People that embedded magnets in their fingers were able to do this).

  11. Re:Sad trend on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 1

    As for Unis Student's used to get access to 5MB/s(yes bytes) up and down. Now in uni you will likely get a small fraction of that. And protocols other than 80 are likely broken or much slower...

  12. Re:Sad trend on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 1

    'I started with 8Mb/s down 1Mb/s up with no caps. Caps have shown up at around 20~40gigs now. And the speed you normally get (not cap speed) has gone down to maybe 5Mb/s. As well the chances it will go down has increased, partially due to me breaking caps but still.' On the same provider. Yay! Pretty sure all of southern ontario's average cable speed has dropped. Though i'm sure the number of users has increased, they aren't keeping up.

  13. Re:Sad trend on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 1

    I started with 8Mb/s down 1Mb/s up with no caps. Caps have shown up at around 20~40gigs now. And the speed you normally get (not cap speed) has gone down to maybe 5Mb/s. As well the chances it will go down has increased, partially due to me breaking caps but still.

  14. Re:Sad trend on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 1

    Sorry I was lumping my bitching together, the capitalism sentiment was the fact that my speed and capacity has dropped due to corruption and lack of competition.

  15. Re:Horse, close the barn door! on Feds Ask IT Execs To Throw Away Cellphones After Visiting China · · Score: 1

    Laptops are generally ordered by people, why not bug them then? I know my laptop from lenovo could have easily been bugged had they decided i was worthy.

  16. Re:By the time we get there on First Rocky Exoplanet Confirmed · · Score: 1

    We could of course contact them long before we go there...

  17. Re:Dimness on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    If you think hard I'm sure you have an LED thats 30yrs old somewhere in your house. Go tell me if it is dim.

  18. Re:ROI on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    Its still the future, give it 5years and they'll have dropped in initial price A LOT.

  19. Re:ROI on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    I switched to them as they came out Nowadays they seem to last about 5~6 years. I dunno what you are doing with yours... Even my incandescents seem to last over a year lately (Have them in the kitchen only since they are bare and on display, cfls look odd).

    I am certain, aside from the very 1st gen CFLs that I've not had a bulb die in less than 2years.

  20. Sad trend on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I LIKE leaving my wrouter unpassworded. I have a resource that costs me nothing it makes good sense to share. My neighbours do the same and are on a different ISP. The result? Near 0 downtime. But it seems this will be legislated away. It depresses me that since I got cable almost 10years ago my speed and capacity has dropped, reliability has dropped massively and is going to take another hit. Capitalism works very well on small individual items but clearly cannot deal with massive projects. Oh well at least its not as bad as cellphones...

  21. Re:Well on Heart Monitors In Middle School Gym Class? · · Score: 1

    In America health insurance is scarier than life threatening ailments.

  22. Re:Paranoid on Heart Monitors In Middle School Gym Class? · · Score: 1

    To be fair obesity kills 100,000x as many people per year as terrorism does. And it will likely get a small fraction of the money that was spent on terrorism. I know these are big numbers but take a second and try to comprehend the difference before you bitch about Obama's focus on health care and obesity.

  23. Re:Holy shit? on Heart Monitors In Middle School Gym Class? · · Score: 1

    I know you want it... :P Grats on the kid.

  24. Twitter on Developer Exposes Copyright Infringers On Twitter · · Score: 0, Troll

    How is this special? I mean really? It is just a shitty blog service that has been self gimped.

    Headlines:
    Man with missing toe kills wife!
    Bald woman overcomes her fear of deep water
    Building painted yellow falls down
    Mice like Cheese, President shot!
    Slashdotter has sex!

    ... Wait that last one makes sense. Point still stands. The story isn't special because of twitter. Just people that use twitter are 'special'.

  25. If the iphone costs 1/10th the cost they are already winning. Don't bitch for things you don't need.