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• Jan 04, 2012 @ 08:25am
  on Mommy's Best Games Says ESA SOPA Support Should End

  keep up: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/14682147961

• Jan 18, 2011 @ 01:09am

  linear motor != rail gun

  on DailyDirt: Moving Forward… With Cool Propulsion

  sorry guys, they're not firing their planes off the deck at Mach 5 quite yet

• Dec 30, 2010 @ 04:06pm

  Re: An hour's worth of background radiation in 15 seconds

  on TSA Claims Naked Scanners Are Safe, But Exaggerated How They Make Sure That's True

  I challenge you to apply the same logic to your mobile phone. or your microwave. or the roll of sticky tape in your desk draw: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/10/gallery_xray_tape?slide=1&slideView=7
  
  you do realise that you can make one of these by tweaking standard satellite dish LMBs:
  http://hackaday.com/2010/12/03/make-your-own-tsa-naked-scanner/
  
  bring out the tinfoil hats!!!

• Dec 30, 2010 @ 03:47pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  on TSA Claims Naked Scanners Are Safe, But Exaggerated How They Make Sure That's True

  YOUR government. not mine.

• Dec 30, 2010 @ 02:45pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  on TSA Claims Naked Scanners Are Safe, But Exaggerated How They Make Sure That's True

  i come from Britain. its pretty much BA vs TSA when it comes to security.
  
  the way i see it you don't _need_ to fly so why should you complain about having to jump through a few hoops when you want to?
  
  the same applies for driving over here. hell the tests cost about ?100!

• Dec 30, 2010 @ 12:56pm

  Re:

  on TSA Claims Naked Scanners Are Safe, But Exaggerated How They Make Sure That's True

  to be honest, no one's really interested in looking at your genitals.
  
  if you want to fly, you have to do what they say, get over it.
  
  hell if they dropped the tax brakes on aviation fuel you'd have to be a porn star to afford flying anyway!

• Dec 20, 2010 @ 09:26am

  Re: Re: Re: Good

  on Bank Of America — Thought To Be Wikileaks Next Target — Suddenly Tries To Block Payments To Wikileaks

  meh, i've lost my job a couple of times to China and Poland, and i'm only 21. Still, i've got some qualifications in electronics that may do me some good in the long run.
  i think i'll be a joiner or a machinist next...

• Jul 03, 2008 @ 02:29am

  Re: Camera Cost

  on If You Must Make A Hidden Camera, Don't Make It Look Like Garbage

  tax dollors eh?
  last time i checked we used pounds :P

• Apr 29, 2008 @ 01:12am

  Re: AMAZING

  on RIAA Now Decides That Not Enough People Have Heard Of Project Playlist

  seconded.
  it amazes me that the RIAA hasent been banned from the courts
  is there anything the wont sue?!
  maybe they should try the car manufactuers for helping transport illegal copys.
  or maybe the bands themselves for makeing music that is potentially copyable!
  blanket ban on microphones?
  when will the stupidity end?!?!

• Apr 12, 2007 @ 02:42pm

  Re: Re: give me a break.

  on Apple Paid To Fly Michigan's 'Give Our Kids Free iPods' Lawmakers To California?

  ZING!!

• Jan 24, 2007 @ 02:20pm

  Re: never have to activate XP again after activati

  on Microsoft Mistakenly Accuses 2.6 Million Half A Million Of Having Pirated Versions Of Windows

  i've done that, i did a full re-format, (useing ubuntu live and a second harddrive to keep all my files) re-installed windows after messing around with the hdd partitions and it never even asked