@TVGenius: It's unfortunate that so many devices were so poorly engineered.

@thinkinghuman: For the love of god (or the invisible pink unicorn, whatever your preference) someone ban this troll.

@DingoJunior: My point was that if they can afford to sell them at the identical chip at a lower price point, then giving customers the extra power costs intel nothing, but they still charge an arm and a leg for it.

@whoisit6044: The real question is why would intel charge more for the quad core if they are the same physical product?

@junior ghoul: "where did I say it was definitely unsafe?" In your reply to versatillas you said " long term it'll permanently degrade your vision." That was actually one of the comments that started this whole conversation...

@junior ghoul: Yes, we're calling bullshit. If light didn't shine directly into your eye you wouldn't be able to see anything. Why do you assume, in the absence of any evidence, that the light is so powerful as to be damaging? Let me use an analogy to simplify this for you: Fire and explosions are dangerous, and…

@junior ghoul: See, this is what I'm talking about. If you're going to use a science/tech argument to belittle someone, do your research.

@junior ghoul: My point was that you were speaking pretty strongly about something you know little or nothing about and refusing to listen to anyone else when they point out that you might be wrong. For example, you keep focusing on how lasers blind people, despite the fact that no one other than you seems to even…

@junior ghoul: "shooting a beam of high powered light directly into your eyeball." How much power are we talking here? Is it "I have no idea how powerful the light is and am actually just talking to hear myself talk?" Because that can be safe at low levels.

Dear Greenpeace:

@ian.nai: Disliking Greenpeace does not make you a conservative. In fact, Greenpeace often seems to do more damage to environmental causes by playing the part of straw man than they do to aid those causes; Liberals might actually have more reason to speak poorly of them.

@kjf: Plagiarism-the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work. (from Dictionary.com). Now, go back and read the first paragraph of the article, and see if you can figure out what you did wrong.

@Aipaloovik: "Only morons think that black people are people when the law clearly states that they are not. To anyone saying something contrary: It's clear none of you have every bothered to read the Constitution. This has been the norm for the last 30 years"

@DingoJunior: Well, it's new in that it essentially creates a legally different form of copyrighted work that didn't previously exist. The problem is that because something is "new" (e.g. software, purchased music downloads) the courts are deciding that the laws already on the books don't apply, and that copyright…

@WestwoodDenizen: Right, you missed the point entirely. If every seller of food everywhere did something undesirable like this, not eating would not be an option for most people. The same principal applies to software.

@siwex80: except that no actual copying is required here. If I buy a copy of windows 7, never install it, and then try to sell it, that's illegal. No copying required. Funnily enough, the first sale model worked just fine for music for the last hundred years...

@Cab00se502: "A teen in Helena, Montana..." Helena is a town of 25,000 people. What else should the police be doing?

@Tom_Servo: Well, the perforation itself neither helps nor hinders the ability of the metal to block the signal, so around the rest of the microwave I think they just use sheet metal because it's easier/cheaper and no one cares if they can see through it.

@Kandy477: Adding a seemingly benign and work appropriate site to the ban list seems more likely to increase the desire to violate IT policies. In particular, any attempt to circumvent the sorts of policies we're talking about here is going to be prepared at home on a computer with few or no restrictions, not a…

@JackMBUR: See, that was my first thought, but then I realized that he would never give himself away so easily were that the case. Although we do have to consider the possibility that OreoExplosion is a red herring controlled by Dr. Evil, and that he deliberately gave himself away to throw us off the trail.