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  1. Fake Flammable Batteries?! on IBM Sues Company Selling Fake, Flammable Batteries · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damnit, I want the genuine sony flammable batteries!

  2. Re:Small change on The 110 Million Dollar Button · · Score: 1

    I've used it a couple of times - however, this was only to search for "french military victories".

  3. Erm... on Gaming's 10 Biggest Scandals · · Score: 1

    Phantom?

  4. I call BS on this one. on 60GB PS3 Price Cut Not Just a 'Fire Sale' · · Score: 1

    Sony "The price cut is going to end when the stock runs out!"

    Customers "OMG LETS BUY THEM QUICK!"

    Later...

    Sony "The stock has been all sold. We are now dropping the price of the 80Gb model."

  5. Re:Logo required? Blech. on SIXAXIS Rumble Version Strongly Suggested · · Score: 1

    It would probably be on the back or somewhere else where you wouldn't even take notice it anyway. When was the last time you read the back of a PS2 controller? Looks shouldnt even matter, it's not as though you look at your controller when playing.

  6. Still, they break. on Microsoft Acknowledges 360 Issues, Extends Warranty to 3 Years · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wouldn't want the hassle of having to send my console away for it to be repaired. I'd rather buy a quality console first time around.

  7. Universal? on Universal Refuses To Renew On iTunes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Aren't they also the only company exclusively backing the doomed HD-DVD format? Stupid businesses make stupid decisions.

  8. ...Oblig on Pentagon Developed 'Laughing Bullets' · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can't have manslaughter without laughter!

  9. Re:You'll be dead anyway. Here's why on Far Future Will See No Evidence of Universe's Origin · · Score: 1

    Energy can not be destroyed. How you wrote your post makes it appear tha enegry is somehow lost by fusing them together into heavier elements. Ultimtately, if the universe cannot survive repeating its natural process then something will interviene, be it humans or aliens, on a massive scale. Look at how far our technology has come in the past 100 years. Now imagine just 10,000 years. The universe will be in the palm of our hands, well, that is if we don't blow ourselves up first.

  10. Global Warming. on Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have no doubt that these penguins no longer roam there thanks to man made Global Warming. We must immediately lower our CO2 emissions and cripple our economic growth.

  11. Re:Both right? on The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    or the last hydrogen fuel source is exhausted Energy can not be destroyed or created. It will not be difficult in the future to overcome "fuels" and instead have a perfect system which is it equilibrium.

    In all honesty I can't really see man as we know it being about in even 3,000 years. I wouldn't be surprised if robots had taken over and destroyed man - it sounds silly, but AI will be incredibly powerful thanks to its omnipresence throughout all machines and their networking. Even if we are still around, we will be modified beyond recognition with nanomachines in every part of our body.
  12. Re:There may be unanswered questions on The Fallacy of Hard Tests · · Score: 1

    In a maths test I took at my school they used this. In the first 15 questions, if you got the answer wrong you lost a mark. If you got it right you gained 5 marks. There were 5 possible options to tick. in the final 10 questions, the harder questions, you lost 2 marks for getting it wrong and gained 6 for getting it right. It seemed to work, because I scored the highest in my school on it and I believe I'm quite good at maths.

  13. Re:Absolutely on Is Scientific Consensus a Threat to Democracy? · · Score: 1

    Hurricanes are cause by temperature differences. Global warming will reduce the temperature difference trhoughout the world, thus, less hurricanes. However I'll let you believe whatever you're told to believe. Alarmist ftw!

  14. Oblig. on "Spam King" Pleads Guilty in U.S. Federal Court · · Score: 0
  15. Thank god... on Halo 3 Beta Closes Up Shop · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That beta was awful... incredibly disappointing graphics wise.

  16. Re:775? on 1 Billion PCs by End of 2008 · · Score: 1

    I feel that calling it an "arbitrary mile-stone" would be the most appropriate.

  17. Re:Soprano's and tech? on The Sopranos Ends With a ... · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I agree. This has nothing to do with tech. It sucks. Soprano's isn't even a sci-fi.

  18. Cat and dog images... on Evolution of the 'Captcha' · · Score: 1

    Where on earth will they generate all these images of cats and dogs? If they use the same images over and over in a test, it will be very easy for a program to do. The only way would be to have many, many pictures of cats and dogs, ideally with each image being unique. Exactly how will they generate these images?

  19. Budget? on Pimping Out a New House · · Score: 1

    What is your budget?

  20. Re:Overreaction? on Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Without using an analogy or example, these are the differences between the two things.

    Glimpse through window:
    Number of people who see it: 1.
    Length of time they see it for: a second.
    What can be done with that image: you can tell people about it, and remember it.

    Photograph taken through window:
    Number of people who see it: unlimited.
    Length of time they see it for: unlimited.
    What can be done with that image: the information in it can be reproduced and minutely examined at leisure. You are very confused. First of all, the number of people who can look through a window certainly isn't limited, just as the people who see the image on their PCs isn't limited. Secondly, if a person is looking at a photograph they are not looking through the window; there are no people who see the window and hence there is no length of time when they are looking through the window. They are looking at an image of the window. I could argue back and say "The amount of times they can use their brains to recall that image: unlimited". Somebody with a photographic memory could do this flawlessly. But memories are irrelevant. How can a privacy be violated simply beacuse the medium it is stored in is efficient?
  21. Re:Overreaction? on Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If it doesn't matter if I'm walking past your house and see it then why on Earth does it matter if I can see it using my PC?
    They're different things. Taking a photograph through someone's window isn't the same as glimpsing what can be seen through it as you walk past; it is more akin to standing outside the house and staring in, and inviting hundreds of other people to come and stare through the window, and the person inside only finding out they have been under observation afterwards. It will make many people, especially women, feel violated. Without using an analogy or example, can you explain how or why it is different? It really isn't. The image is being stored on a digital medium instead of a organic one (the brain). Are you therefore saying that how well an image can be recalled affects how large the privacy 'violation' is? In that case, having a photographic memory would be a crime - and so would having a good eye sight (as it gives a more detailed insight of what is inside the window). It either is or it isn't a privacy violation - how well the information is stored and recalled is irrelevant.
  22. Overreaction? on Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who cares if I can see your cat or not? If it doesn't matter if I'm walking past your house and see it then why on Earth does it matter if I can see it using my PC? I think the reaction is OTT and irrational. And in regards to the "books on shelves" part - I wouldn't care if they knew what books I was reading. If I did have a book I shouldn't have (whatever that book might be) I would take teh effort to prevent the Government from finding out.

  23. Re:Oblig. on Spammer Robert Soloway Arrested · · Score: 1
  24. Oblig. on Spammer Robert Soloway Arrested · · Score: 1

    In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penisses, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

  25. Strange... on 28 New Planets Found Outside Solar System · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What confuses me, is why scientist believe that having conditions the same (or very close to) those on Earth is necessary for life. For all we know, life could be able to live at thousands of degrees hot. You just don't know.