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  1. Re:What? on Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance · · Score: 2

    The great wall of china is 5,500 miles long. If they could build that a thousand years ago, surely we could do better now?

    Because the Great Wall was never intended to keep out people. The purpose was to keep out horses (and their riders).

  2. Re:Write-only languages on The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's a shame that the ideal use case for the 25120 didn't come along for several more years.

  3. Re:Joke? They're real! on The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax · · Score: 2

    ROMs are lithographically etched...

    A.k.a. written.

  4. Re:Let the voters decide! on Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography · · Score: 1

    Argh, I'm so confused. All these years I've been voting at the poll. Now you tell me I'm supposed to be voting at the pole? No wonder my votes haven't been doing anything.

  5. Re:Wasn't there a book about this? on How Birds Lost Their Teeth · · Score: 1

    The example I use is Butterflies, which change from a crawling creature to one that flies, mid life. Incredible "random" feat if you ask me.

    That's arguably less incredible than all of the animals that change from small, fragile, immobile white (or tan, brown, etc.) balls into fast, flying creatures.

  6. Re:Wasn't there a book about this? on How Birds Lost Their Teeth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apparently they were more successful than the ones with just teeth. That's all it takes.

    It doesn't even necessarily take that much. Sometimes the mutated offspring only has to be not so much worse that it can't manage to reproduce. It could potentially be slightly worse, as long as there's enough room for both to survive.

  7. Re:Don't worry guys... on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    Of course, this story also claims the Red Sea was parted somehow so they could walk across, so it's highly questionable just how accurate this story is....

    Nope, it doesn't make that claim. Somehow "Sea of Reeds" got turned into "Red Sea". If I remember correctly (I'd have to double-check the names on a map), the Israelites weren't even near the Red Sea at the time.

  8. Re:Wooping cough on the rise not related to vaccin on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the vaccinated people can carry the bacteria and spread it to others without even knowing.

    No shit, Sherlock.

    Protip: Vaccines don't protect you from bacteria.

  9. Re:There is no vaccine for the worst diseases on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ignorant people still have rights over... their children's bodies.

    Not complete control. That's why child abuse is illegal.

  10. Re:Or You Could Just Not Drink To The Point of Int on Facebook Offers Solution To End Drunken Posts · · Score: 1

    "With all due respect" is accurate but imprecise. It's technically true, it just leaves out the detail that all the respect that the person is due is none.

  11. Re:Riiiiight. on Ford Ditches Microsoft Partnership On Sync, Goes With QNX · · Score: 2

    I've heard from people who work with * that it has plenty of bugs.

    Generalized that for you.

  12. Re:Or You Could Just Not Drink To The Point of Int on Facebook Offers Solution To End Drunken Posts · · Score: 2

    When someone starts a sentence with "I don't mean to be...", there's at least a 99% chance that they mean to be.

  13. Re:No thanks on Facebook Offers Solution To End Drunken Posts · · Score: 1

    How exactly is this "Big Brother"? You were about to post the picture anyway, and if Facebook's computers can tell that you're drunk, so can any human being looking at the picture.

  14. Re:Have Both on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    My silver 360 degree Twisted Mode Monster Cables with palladium plugs provide for the highest digital fidelity across the visible spectrum, with deep livid red and piercing violets

    Stupid amateur. Real pros know that pure iridium is the only way to get a good picture.

  15. Re:Hit me with your pet shark on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    I don't know if I've ever figured out any of the lyrics to that song.

  16. Re:SMB jet airliner on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    And now when you hear it on the radio, you're left wondering what "funky kicks" are.

  17. Re:They will either change their mind on Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, damn. That is a pretty fucked up law.

  18. Re:They will either change their mind on Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th · · Score: 1

    Assuming the summary is correct (I know, I know), the legislation doesn't require payment by Google, it only allows the original publisher to collect payment from Google. If the small publishers want to have links to their sites show up in Google News without Google paying them, all they would have to do is send a letter to Google granting them permission. It would be up to each publisher to decide which way they want to go.

  19. Re:At that rate ... on Feds Plan For 35 Agencies To Collect, Share, Use Health Records of Americans · · Score: 1

    I've seen all my metal health professional's hand written notes and such in my files.

    How's that acute oxidation problem? Clearing up at all yet?

  20. Re:I'm sorry on Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' · · Score: 1

    You forgot Windows Clear and Windows Max

    Yes, we've been trying to for years. Thanks for reminding us.

  21. Re:Please no on Google Hopes To One Day Replace Gmail With Inbox · · Score: 1

    The editor's mission: To explore strange new worlds. To meet new life and new civilizations. To boldly split infinitives that no man has split before.

  22. Re: Girls, girls, girls... on Google, National Parks Partner To Let Girls Program White House Xmas Tree Lights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Aren't the women who become CEOs of large corporations just as big sociopaths as the men? That doesn't really change the system much at all.

  23. Re:Girls, girls, girls... on Google, National Parks Partner To Let Girls Program White House Xmas Tree Lights · · Score: 1

    And yes, being a man means that you definitively can do the dishes, after repairing the car, after writing some kernel code, after having fixed the pluming, after having done some web dev.

    Doing the dishes is one of only two things on that list that I can do, and of those two, I'd much rather do the dishes.

  24. Re:Here in Rhode Island on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 1

    But if you drive over 75 MPH through Rhode Island, you might completely miss it.

  25. Re:Hmmm ... on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 1

    Here's a peek:

    We do not put any hooks for future changes. "Perfect" means we always act as though it is final, for all time.

    Documents are not for printing. They're dynamic, intended for the screen.

    Documents are dynamic? But it's already perfect right from the start! Nothing can be changed! Heretic!