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    US News Microsoft Banned from Selling Word in US

    US Copyright law is such a mess and the Patent law isnt much better. You can accidently create a similar method of doing something and never be able to verify that there is a patent for it, but if there is one then you are at great risk of being hurt severely. And all the burden of proof is on...
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    Gaming ATI to launch DirectX 11 GPUs in seven weeks

    Anyone else find the names they picked funny? Some of those are poisonous plants, and hemlock is even lethal in small amounts.
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    Technology Forget gas, pee powered car!

    I think the fuel is generated as needed. I dont see them creating a ton of the hydrogen and then pressurizing it into the tank. More so siphoning off the gas as it is needed at low pressures. BTW, most hydrogen fueled cars are generally safer than gasoline which is actually much more volatile...
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    Environment Environmentalists unfurl banner on Mount Rushmore

    Only problem with the idea of its just a banner is the noses are starting to fall off. The US park service has done several fixes to it but what if they foolishly knocked off a nose? Dont think it would be just a banner anymore. Sad thing, they did it and then plead not guilty, bunch of...
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    US News Palin stepping down this month

    Haha, bunch of haters :P I go with the who cares sentiment, shes not my governor, my former crappy ass govenor is now the Sec of Homeland Defense, now thats a really cruel joke on America. The same governor that put National Guard troops on the border to scout for drug runners without any...
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    Sci/Tech World's First USB Monitor!!

    Well there are ethernet washers, dryers, fridges and other household appliances. The firdge is the neatest thing, it has a barcode/LCD system that you can annotate things that are consumed from the fridge and when it gets a set amount of stuff it orders it from the store to be delivered to you...
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    Sci/Tech World's First USB Monitor!!

    Powered USB hubs are okay, the unpowered ones cause latency issues. Which is fine for printers, scanners and things that arent immediate, but I have in the past tried to use them with USB controllers and mice, didnt work out so well. Like everything, you get what you pay for, and the more...
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    Sci/Tech World's First USB Monitor!!

    Really neat is if you noticed, its supporting dual monitors/extended desktop through the USB. That means its actually a video card/monitor in one. I dont think it will give you a massive amount of FPSec but it still looks like something nice for people who like the laptop and dont want to deal...
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    World California girl gets dying wish to see movie 'Up'

    Disney is too big to have a heart. Sad thing is being a giant makes them paranoid at doing anything.
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    Sci/Tech AT&T Screws Up iPhone Launch, Apple Cleans Up Mess with $30 iTunes Credit

    Every iPhone launch makes me love my Blackberry ever so much more.
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    Crime Jury rules against woman in download case: $80,000 Fine Per Song

    While pirating kinda sucks for producers of media it also sucks that the new way for the poorly performing music industry to get money is via lawsuits. Granted they will never see this money since there is no way she can pay for it so they lose this time. I use filesharing to sample albums...
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    Sci/Tech EU responds to Microsoft's browser move

    Vista = Garbage. Decent OSes made by MS usually dont have another OS follow them for a few years. Win 98 lasted till about 2001 when Win XP came out. While Win ME came out just before Win XP and it was quickly scrapped. The same thing happened to Win XP to Vista. Vista is so awful that...
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    World Protests Greet Ahmadinejad Win in Iran: 'It's Not Possible!'

    Well we could hope that Iran stands on the edge of a cliff and just needs a slight push to make it fall. But then again just what we need is more chaos in the middle east. Personally I hate Iran for some of the things it has done against the US in Iraq but I dont like the idea of a civil war...
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    World Protests Greet Ahmadinejad Win in Iran: 'It's Not Possible!'

    This shouldnt be a huge surprise. Elections are generally easy to rig. Even moreso when you have the backing of the officials running the election and the military/law enforcement.
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    World U.S. and South Korea raise military alert on North

    Too many wars is actually bad for Taiwan though. Until China looks at Taiwan as a real state your country will need all the friends it can get.
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    World U.S. and South Korea raise military alert on North

    I personally am just waiting till China collects on a 40 year old debt that North Korea has never repaid. Would suck if South Korea becomes a casualty of that, it would take the world turning a blind eye to China coming down on them.
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    World U.S. and South Korea raise military alert on North

    Yes, Australia is only in danger of anti-kangaroo nations. So far thats Taco Bell, they have no nukes. Right now I think we are hitting a point where we cant engage in another fight. Afghanistan is about to be a bad place to be, with a very well armed and quickly fragmenting Pakistan on its...
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    Health Stem cell breakthrough gets closer to the clinic

    These skin cells arent from embryos. They are from Adult donors. You could in theory donate your own cells to be formed into the stem cells for use in your own body. In cases except cancer this would be fine. As far as the embryonic stem cell research there are some serious issues. One of...
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    World North Korea conducts nuclear test

    Just let them have the nukes. They are only the 5th or 6th largest seller of weapons in the world, but no one wants to buy nukes so its all good. Seriously though, the US cant deal with this alone. So what does it matter. The current world condition is ripe for something really nasty, and...
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    US News Obama picks Sotomayor for Supreme Court

    She is intellectually qualified and with a long and varied list of experiences. But she is racially motivated and some of her past rulings have seemed heavily slanted against caucasians. Shes not much different than other leftist judges though, and from reading some of her papers I think she...
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