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  1. No warrant == stolen on Court Says Parents Can Block PA "Sexting" Prosecutions · · Score: 1

    So the school staff stole the phones from the students and then found pictures on them... I think there are multiple grounds to get these cases thrown out of court.

  2. Ogg Vorbis on MP3 Player Tax Proposed In Canada · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fortunately I only play Oggs.

  3. Does it work with GDB? on MIT Developing Self-Assembling Computer Chips · · Score: 3, Funny

    How do you debug self assembly?

    Is it supported by GCC yet?

  4. Re:Binocular Impaired on The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but the studios don't care about you and your 3 million friends - they care about the other 300 million.

  5. Re:Now I can finally start my restaurant... on Scientists Demonstrate Mammalian Tissue Regeneration · · Score: 1

    Well, doesn't PETA mean People Eating Tasty Animals?

  6. Re:Interesting stopgap on Deposit Checks To Your Bank By Taking a Photo · · Score: 1

    Uhmm, you don't have something like Interac Email funds transfer in the USA? You probaby do have it, but just don't know about it.

  7. Re:Why not all electronic? No really, why not? on Deposit Checks To Your Bank By Taking a Photo · · Score: 1

    In Canada one can do Interac email transfers for amounts up to $999.99. Actually there is no limit, but hit $1000 and the bank 'loss prevention department' may freeze your account. This service has been available for many years. I also pay all my bills online, except for rent - that is the only service that wants cheques. Then of course, there is also Paypal... In the USA, similar services should be available, but they are always technologically behind the curve. Somehow Amerikins always think that they lead the world, but the rest of world knows better...

  8. Re:WTF ?? on China To Connect Its High-Speed Rail To Europe · · Score: 1

    They really only need to go through ONE country - Russia - and they already have two Russian trans-Siberian lines in operation. Also, they won't start in Bejing and continue to London - they will start in a multitude of points in between to link and upgrade the existing infrastructure in order to provide some alternative routes to the Russian backbone system. So it is a kind of upgrade project that can be declared 'done' whenever they feel like it, since the whole thing actually already exists.

  9. Re:What about the remaining 94%? on Golden Nanocages To Put the Heat On Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    Well, considering that your body is hopefully a few orders of magnitude larger than the tumour...

  10. Gold and Arthritis - still used on Golden Nanocages To Put the Heat On Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    Gold is still used to treat arthritis. Since arthritis is a hodge podge of ailments it doesn't always work though.

    However a doctor in Vancouver Canada said:

    "Nothing works as well as gold, when gold works".

  11. Re:15-stories? on SpaceX Conducts First On-Pad Test-Fire of Falcon 9 · · Score: 1

    Simple really - 15 stories is about 5 Libraries of Congress tall.

  12. What is the Catholic Church? on Scientology Tries To Block German Documentary · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it a business, a scam, a religion, or a paedophile network?

    I'd say all of the above...

  13. Re:Halp! I are teh stupidness! on A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash · · Score: 3, Informative

    MPEG2 compresses by a factor of about 5 to 10, while H.264 AVC compresses by a factor of about 20 to 30 and the subjective quality is better too, being not blocky.

  14. Buy it online! on Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    You can buy reading glasses and hearing aids online for a fraction of the over the counter cost:
    http://perfecthearingaids.com/

    If you did not think to use Google for this, then you need to have your Geek license revoked...

  15. Re:Are the brakes totally drive-by-wire as well? on Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs · · Score: 1

    Yup, and the parking brake is a cable system to the rear wheels.

  16. Cousteau on Permanent Undersea Homes Soon; Temporary Ones Now · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was tried in the 1960s in the Red Sea

  17. 1975 here we come... on Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Geez, I played with LED data links when I was in high school and LEDS came in all colours provided that it was red. Years later I used the power LED of a device (woohoo, we had green too by then) for a debug data link. Now you *really* got to get off my lawn...

  18. Re:If I suspected my boss issued such a phone on New Phone Allows Bosses To Snoop On Staff · · Score: 1

    Just leave it at your desk plugged into a charger 24/7 and use another phone.

  19. Re:Remove all electroncis from the accelerator on Toyota's Engineering Process and the General Public · · Score: 1

    Uhmm and remove the ECu and fuel injector too I guess.

    Dude, it is not the 1970s anymore...

  20. It just rolls off my back like a duck... on New "Hairy" Material Is Almost Perfectly Hydrophobic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yogi Berra must have been hydrophobic too.

  21. Nothing to worry about on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1

    One million login hack attempts over a year is pretty normal on the standard port 22.

  22. Plain text data on Toyota Black Box Data Is More Closed Than Others' · · Score: 1

    Actually, the Toyota data is not encrypted at all. It is simply saved in plain text Hiragana...

  23. Crappy Nvidia driver has multiple issues on NVIDIA Driver Update Causing Video Cards To Overheat In Games · · Score: 1

    Apart from the fan problem, is this version more stable? The last version causes my laptop to crash every few minutes, making it unusable, so I have to run the VESA driver.

  24. Alternative iPhone app stores on Apple Removes Wi-Fi Finders From App Store · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Ancient traditions on Earliest "Writing" On 60,000-Year-Old Eggshells · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm sure the Gnu that came along and Bashed the Eggshells must have been considered not user friendly.