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  1. Re:slow news day... on The Science of Santa · · Score: 1

    Lighten up, Francis

  2. Re:Capitalism, ho! on Television White Space Spectrum Approved For Use By FCC · · Score: 2

    You do realize that wireless does alot more then get pictures to grandma's computer, right? Its nice to have a wireless LAN technology that can at least keep up with 10/100 Ethernet.

  3. Re:They're gaming companies not banks... on Trion Worlds' Rift Account Database Compromised · · Score: 0

    Fuck you and your use of the absolute 'no breach'. A large part of security is loss mitigation, and as such even if there are breaches they are anticipated and contained. There is no such thing as an impenetrable skin, its how you handle the pricks that really count.

  4. Re:They're gaming companies not banks... on Trion Worlds' Rift Account Database Compromised · · Score: 1

    If they cant afford a robust and secure customer information database then they have no business taking people's credit cards.

  5. Re:Other motives on Volkswagen Turns Off E-mail After Work-Hours · · Score: 1

    Speculation, hyperbole and FUD. There is NOTHING inherently suspicious about a rapid email destruction scheme.

  6. Re:Banning internal e-mail on Volkswagen Turns Off E-mail After Work-Hours · · Score: 2

    Any employee using company property and resources to goof off online should be fired. See it goes both ways :)

  7. Re:It won't last on Volkswagen Turns Off E-mail After Work-Hours · · Score: -1, Troll

    WAHHHH I choose to have more kids then I should so I have to work more then 40 hours.

  8. Re:EULAs on Sony Sued Over PSN 'No Suing' Provision · · Score: 1

    'I want everything'

    'would that include a bullet from this gun?'

  9. Re:i would *like* to be an astronaut... on Do You Have the Right Stuff To Be an Astronaut? · · Score: 2

    "While being fit is important for space vocations, I suspect most of the fitness requirements center around looking sexy for TV."

    For a supposedly smart person you are extremely ignorant of the physical rigors of high velocity travel.

  10. Re:EULAs on Sony Sued Over PSN 'No Suing' Provision · · Score: 2

    When the PS3 launched it was as close to the perfect media player as you could get AT THE TIME including ease of use, substantial feature list and robustness of hardware. Lets keep some perspective here. Sure it didnt do everything, but it did more then anything that came before it in a consumerized package.

  11. Re:Weight? on Is Jupiter Dissolving Its Rocky Core? · · Score: 1

    You do realize that liquid rock has the exact same mass as solid, right? They aren't saying that this bodies never had cores but rather that the solid core was eroded.

  12. Re:Drugs == Accellerated Darwinism on The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives · · Score: 1

    Eating food induces feelings, not sleeping induces feelings, absorbing the suns rays induces feelings. There are many ways to alter state, this is not a wrong or bad thing. Trying to ESCAPE from bad feelings using a substance is the unhealthy part of the activity, be it food, chemicals, drink etc. You might want to be careful up on that high horse of yours....

  13. Re:Not to be too pedantic on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    As a car driver i would say, dont be in my blind spot, period. You may be the one that is right, but ill be the one that lives. How is it that we force people who drive in steel cages and engineered crumple zones to wear seatbelts but we allow people to operate motorcycles?

  14. Re:Remember on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    I am well aware of what it means in theory, in practice it means squat.

  15. Re:Remember on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    From wikipedia: "Savage received an HONORARY doctorate from the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) for his role in the popularization of science and technology;"

  16. Re:Not to be too pedantic on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The person was responding to the absolute statement that "people dont get arrested for accidents" when in fact they can and do all the time.

  17. Re:What's broken with TV. . . on TV Isn't Broken, So Why Fix It? · · Score: 1

    Cable CARD may be unloved, but its not dead. We'll be seeing Cable CARDs for at least the next decade, or we'll be forced to watch TiVo squealing in its death throes. Tivo has bet the farm on Cable CARD, i doubt the FCC is going to leave them hanging.

  18. Re:This is why I will never trust cloud services on IT Pros Can't Resist Peeking At Privileged Info · · Score: 2

    Since when did Free Market equal Full Disclosure.

  19. Re:Dunno... on Filmmakers Reviving Sci-fi By Going Old School · · Score: 2

    I dont want to get in a big Trek Debate, but no other elevator in Star Trek has EVER moved that fast. Generally in the past the length of time in the elevator and the sounds involved were keyed to origin and destination points in the ship. I am fully aware of inertial dampers and Heisenberg compensators on the show.

  20. Re:Unless you leverage desktop virtualization on Using a Tablet As Your Primary Computer · · Score: 1

    Which is great if you want to throw some text commands at it, but other then that remoting into a desktop via a touch interface sucks balls.

  21. Re:Let me be the first to say on Using a Tablet As Your Primary Computer · · Score: 1

    If by built in you mean added-on then yeah. The keyboard the author mentions is as integrated into his tablet as yours is.

  22. Re:Dunno... on Filmmakers Reviving Sci-fi By Going Old School · · Score: 2

    About the Spock elevator thing, that was ridiculous. No turbolift has ever been depicted operating that fast. It was a completely stupid shot.

  23. Re:Relevant: Apple gives Samsung advice on non-pat on Apple Can't Block US Sales of Samsung Devices · · Score: 1

    I see Bentleys almost every day in Newport Beach. While not exactly alike they are VERY similar and could easily be confused by non-car people.

  24. Re:There wouldn't be any of this on Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network · · Score: 1

    ALL the stoners i know are professionals. Doctors, lawyers, engineers, PHARMACISTS, executives, salesmen. A loser is gonna be a loser, whether they smoke pot or not.

  25. Re:Ageism on Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years · · Score: 1

    Becasue hes a human being and you are too. If we cant make a little room for kids in people's careers, who the hell wants to be in business. Business cannot totally ignore the human aspects of existence for a few pennies more on the bottom line. Is that the world you want to live in?