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  1. What are you looking at? on CSI Style Zoom Sees Faces Reflected In Subjects' Eyes · · Score: 4, Informative

    These guys at Columbia did something similar years ago, but used eyeball reflections and a cornea model to figure out what the person was looking at: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/world_eye/

  2. Re:Not economics; theft. on The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash · · Score: 2

    Correct, it caused a financial black hole.

  3. Re:I know what caused it on Virus Shuts Down Australian Ambulance Dispatch Service · · Score: 2

    But Microsoft themselves said they have the most secure OS in history! And less bugs and security holes than Linux!

    Yes! In fact, thanks to integer overflow they have a negative number of bugs and security holes!

  4. Re:Figured I'd get this out of the way... on Google Hiring Android Devs To Close the 'Apps Gap' · · Score: 1

    ... and so the No App Left Behind bill was introduced.

  5. Re:The question is.. on Russian Simulated Mars Mission Close To 'Landing' · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, mission walks away from you.

  6. Re:Australia truely is the unlucky country on Australia Mandates Microsoft's Office Open XML · · Score: 2

    Can't comment on the "smart people" bit, but if a kingdom is ruled by a king and a principality is ruled by a prince, then a country is ruled by...

  7. Re:Testing? on The Last Stop For Space Station-Bound Software · · Score: 1

    The ejected toast could be a good projectile in microgravity but having the toaster try to cook itself from the lack of convection probably isn't so good.

  8. Re:When it's done on For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 · · Score: 1

    512K ought to be enough for anybody!

  9. Re:Natty Narwhal? on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah. It'll suck.

  10. Re:Oh no. Not again. on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Will they be in 3D?

  11. Re:ugh! on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Ja.

  12. Re:Apple? on Dual-Core CPU Opens Door To 1080p On Smartphones · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's the benefit of processing using imaginary cores?

  13. first ping on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they hope Ubuntu becomes so popular that they DDOS themselves.

  14. Re:Arms race on Highly Directional Terahertz Laser Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Or peeing your pants.

  15. Re:CIVV or CIV or CiV or Civ V on 400 Turns of Civilization V · · Score: 1

    Why not go all the way and make the story title "CD Turns of Civilization V"?

  16. Re:I really liked it on Google Kills Wave Development · · Score: 1

    Please don't like Gmail or Google Calendar. I don't won't those to go away too! ;)

    Or Google Search!

  17. Re:Well, good on Tor Developer Detained At US Border, Pressed On Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    "A large number of Afghan informants had their names exposed "

    Did you even actually read the documents? Names were blacked out.

    Jesus christ.

    I hope he wasn't an informant whose name you just exposed!

  18. Re:What makes it a barrier? on Data Sorting World Record — 1 Terabyte, 1 Minute · · Score: 1

    People were obviously scared of a whole terror byte.

  19. Re:It only makes sense on Southwest Adds 'Mechanical Difficulties' To Act Of God List · · Score: 1

    Of course, they want notarized proof if your sick and need to change planes.

    Don't worry, getting sick will soon be an Act of God.

    Also, a xeroxed copy of His driver's license or passport proving His identity. And His signature, which must match the signature card from a local bank.

    I wonder if any deities have tried to open bank accounts after being denied trading accounts? http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100717/oddities/india_stocks_religion_hindu_offbeat

  20. Re:Don't sit with your back to the window on Does Anyone Really Prefer Glossy Screens? · · Score: 1

    You rotate your desk 180 degrees over the course of the day?

    About which axis of rotation? If it's horizontal about the north-south axis so that the desk is upside down at sunset, that's one way of enforcing a clean desk policy daily. Probably not so good for workplace injuries though.

  21. Re:Just got my first SSD, and I'll never turn back on SSDs vs. Hard Drives In Value Comparison · · Score: 1

    I'll never have any non solid state drive as a primary drive again.

    Did you use a plasma TV for your primary drive? Or liquid drives and gas drives? Where did you get them from?

  22. Re:What I want in it on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 1

    But... why would you want to "solve" it? Remember when the aerial equivalent of this happened on Pandora that time?

  23. Re:Nothing new here on Scientists Create Easier Way To Embed Objects Into Video · · Score: 1
    With football though, there's a nice (almost) homogeneous green background on which to paint the line - you just don't paint the yellow line on anything that's not green (like a player). It's just a more advanced form of chromakeying that you see when you watch the weather forecast.

    The video shows the Stanford guys inserting an image onto any textured background because they create a model of what the background (like a wall with a texture) looks like. Any pixels that look different to the stored background must be a foreground object, and so the inserted image isn't painted onto that pixel.

  24. Re:World="US and Europe" on Full Guitar Hero: World Tour Set List Released · · Score: 1

    The Living End - Prisoner of Society. Now's it's only an almost complete lack of anything :(

  25. Reviews on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out the Amazon reviews!