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  1. Re:So, no matter what we do, we are screwed on NASA: Huge Freshwater Loss In the Middle East · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also, lord knows that people will not want to drink recycled water.

    Call it Brawndo(TM) and they won't be able to drink enough of it.

  2. Re:goodbye channels on Comcast Buys Out GE's Remaining 49% Stake In NBC · · Score: 2

    It's what I like to call TV Entropy, and it's what turned the History Channel into Jesus'n Alienz, and SciFi into Wrasslin'.

    Jesus'n Alienz was five years ago. Now the H channel is nothing but truckers, loggers, pawn shops, and "pickers". It actually makes me long for their bygone days of Jesus/Aliens/Nazis.

  3. Re:Only over my dead body on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 2

    Holy crap, really? I almost don't even want to own a computer any more.

  4. Re:one less day of junk mail on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Plenty of them. And they all have the same 50 movies.

  5. Re:one less day of junk mail on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or people waiting for the next Netflix DVD...

  6. Re:"Alsmost all features" on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    Worse - Scientology policy.

  7. Re:More info on GlobalSecurity.org on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    Something that will never become a practical application, but to show that they still have some semblance of capability of making a high tech device.

    I'm sorry, I see no high tech device there. To what are you referring?

  8. Re:They're bankrupt on SCO Wants To Destroy Business Records · · Score: 1

    So, no one's concerned they'd funnel any such money straight to their lawyers to start more litigation..? This is a corpse that needs no reviving.

  9. Uhoh... on Virtual Superpowers Translate To Real Life Desire To Help · · Score: 1

    Someone accidentally their experiment.

  10. Re:RPI Alum here... on IBM's Watson Goes To College To Extend Abilities · · Score: 1

    Given that Wikipedia lists "David Ferrucci, lead researcher on IBM's Watson/Jeopardy! project" as a fellow alum, I'd imagine the string-pulling occurred from both ends. And it's not like the 'tute is any stranger to corporate partnerships...

  11. RPI Alum here... on IBM's Watson Goes To College To Extend Abilities · · Score: 1

    And my first reaction was "Watson for GM!"

  12. Re:Millions of Years In The Making on Solowheel is for People Who Think a Segway is Boring (Video) · · Score: 1

    No worries. I grew up in Broome County, and was thus immersed in B.C.-lore at an early age.

  13. Re:Millions of Years In The Making on Solowheel is for People Who Think a Segway is Boring (Video) · · Score: 4, Informative

    That would be Thor's wheel, not Peter's.

  14. Re:Renewable Energy vs Waste of Energy on Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? · · Score: 1

    Simply educating people should be enough.

    Hahaha, good one.

  15. Re:No sympathy for this one.... on Hacker Faces 105 Years In Prison After Blackmailing 350+ Women · · Score: 1

    I saw that and did entertain the possibility, but gave the benefit of the doubt that there might be more to it.

  16. Re:No sympathy for this one.... on Hacker Faces 105 Years In Prison After Blackmailing 350+ Women · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Second, your suggestion that possessing nude photos of one's self voids one's expectation of privacy is sexist and objectionable.

    How is it sexist? He could have just as easily been blackmailing men here...

  17. Re:Hmmmmmmmm on Hacker Faces 105 Years In Prison After Blackmailing 350+ Women · · Score: 1

    And I took it to mean things happened the other way around...

  18. Re:It was just $6.37 for the actual infringement on NZ Copyright Tribunal Fines First File-Sharer · · Score: 2

    Deterrent fines for listening to Rihanna? I.. think I could be ok with that.

  19. Re:We have no clue on Asteroid Resources Could Make Science Fiction Dreams and Nightmares a Reality · · Score: 2

    I'm suddenly reminded of the Terrible Secret of Space.

  20. Re:So many things wrong here... on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    Nope, not even close. They made their own Star Wars back in '82: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Star_Wars

  21. Was J. J. Abrams involved? on Mystery of the Shrunken Proton · · Score: 1

    Maybe the additional 4% was just lens flare.

  22. Re:if the apple //e is 30 years old on 30 Years of the Apple Lisa and the Apple IIe · · Score: 1

    Mine still boots fine too, and my disks aren't even Elephant. Still the only Apple product I've ever owned.

  23. Re:Dig??? Get someone competent for the task on No Spitfires In Burma After All · · Score: 1

    ...And here I thought maybe you'd recommend bringing in Sallah.

  24. Re:Atlantis, the Ark, spitfires... on No Spitfires In Burma After All · · Score: 1

    Well, I don't have anything in there except - HEY waitaminute! Nice try, Gollum...

  25. Re:alpha test? on TSA Terminates Its Contract With Maker of Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The few that have been found have all been foiled by traditional counter-terrorism techniques: the security theater in airports is just a way for certain groups to siphon off public money into their own pockets.

    Heh. Passengers dogpiling on anyone who starts acting fishy on a flight has now become, indeed, a traditional counter-terrorism technique.