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  1. Re:Constitution on The NSA: Never Not Watching · · Score: 1

    You should read the Patriot Act and weep.

  2. East Germany on The NSA: Never Not Watching · · Score: 1

    The apparatus of East Germany never went away. It just changed country.

  3. This is very good news for the rest of the world. The best thing the USA has done to stimulate the foreign high tech industry was the ITAR law and now this. This is a great opportunity for us.

  4. Europeans on With Sales Down, Whale Meat Flogged As Source of Strength · · Score: 1

    Well, duh - Europeans also used to eat whale and now rarely if ever.

  5. Re:I like it! on Stanford's Flying Fish Glider · · Score: 1

    Be excuse him and be a little more compassionate. The poor sod is using a Nokia Microsoft Phone.

  6. Indicator soap on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 0

    They need soap that will make their hands turn purple after 1 hour, unless they wash their hands again. Using people in a 3th world country that has absolutely no idea about higiene, to watch the higiene of people in a 1st world country that are supposed to be educated about it, is rather ironic.

  7. Little Ice Age on Researchers Regenerate 400-Year-Old Frozen Plants · · Score: 1

    So despite all the global warming hullabaloo, the earth still has not recovered fully from the pre-industrial little ice age.

  8. People Eating Tasty Animals on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 1

    So were they relabelling dog as horse meat and selling it?

  9. Re:Inflation on Apple-1 Sells For $671,400, Breaks Previous Auction Record · · Score: 1

    After the Fed printed all those trillions that calculator overflowed.

  10. Inflation on Apple-1 Sells For $671,400, Breaks Previous Auction Record · · Score: 1

    The $666 of those days is worth about $666,666 today, so the value of the Apple 1 actually reduced a little...

  11. Ship designs are always over weight on Spain's New S-80 Class Submarines Sink, But Won't Float · · Score: 1

    The ship designers always design in the ability to lengthen the vessel right from the start, since they always end up over weight. That is why they already know exactly how much it will cost to lengthen them. Also, lengthening it is not completely a bad thing, since it usually makes the ship faster.

  12. Re: What and what? on Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication · · Score: 1

    The storage is Flash memory, so a single overwrite is enough. They don't even do that.

  13. Things that go bump in the night... on Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist At the Same Time · · Score: -1, Troll

    Things that don't exist are a very important part of Israeli culture, but it is not science.

  14. Re:Opera with text-only on Google Chrome 27 Is Out: 5% Faster Page Loads · · Score: 1

    Why don't you browse in bash with links then?

  15. Re:5% on Google Chrome 27 Is Out: 5% Faster Page Loads · · Score: 1

    Why? Because you forgot to install Adblock and Ghostery.

  16. Re:2 obligatory questions on German Researchers Hit 40 Gbps On Wireless Link · · Score: 1

    ...and how many repeaters would you need to cross the Aussie Outback if the range is all of 1km?

  17. Re:Nothing to do with Google+ on Google Drops XMPP Support · · Score: 1

    Aha, you mean, the same way that most people got Facebook accounts? Because they had to check the wedding/baby/new puppy pictures of someone and then never used the account again?

  18. Re:Getting an education today is hard on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yup - same here. As a student, very few of my books were store bought. Most were blatant copies. Since then, as a professional, I have spent enormous amounts on books and software licences. To top it off - my father wrote geography text books and I also wrote a book or two. Over reacting on copyright infringement is crazy and does everybody, the writers included, a disservice.

  19. Re:what is the point of forking a distro ? on Mageia 3 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Each Linux distribution is a different business entity, with different customers. Do you really believe that there should be only one Sirius Cybernetics Corporation that makes everything (badly)?

  20. Re:What? on IBM Takes System/z To the Cloud With COBOL Update · · Score: 1

    COBOL is heading to the Cloud and will get 72 virgins...

  21. Re:Why NetBSD? on NetBSD 6.1 Has Shipped · · Score: 1

    Yup, the little bit I used NetBSD, I liked it, but I like Fedora more.

  22. Re:Made for specific availability + project priori on RPiCluster: Another Raspberry Pi Cluster, With Neat Tricks · · Score: 1

    So how about making a 32 node simulator?

  23. It is the LEDs stupid on RPiCluster: Another Raspberry Pi Cluster, With Neat Tricks · · Score: 1

    It is all about the RGB LEDs. Nothing else matters.

  24. Re:Rasberry Ant Pi[e] on Electronics-Loving 'Crazy Ants' Invading Southern US · · Score: 1

    You got to eat it with gloves or your hands will turn green.

  25. Electric bug zapper on Electronics-Loving 'Crazy Ants' Invading Southern US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It sounds like all one needs is a large electric bug zapper since they are already attracted to it.