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  1. Re:Let us ask Data on Hacker Skips SimCity Full-Time Network Requirement · · Score: 1

    People should be trying to break the game while it is in beta. Then you go back and fix those problems. In this case they used the extremely limited beta only as a form of advertizing.

  2. Re:Sponsorship on MIT Crypto Experts Win 2012 Turing Award · · Score: 1

    Lots of crappy ideas go back that far.

  3. Really? on Ask Slashdot: Building a Cheap Computing Cluster? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdotters only imagine building Beowulf clusters. This is the first time anyone's been serious about it.

  4. Re:Actually 3D printed? on Man Has 75% of Skull Replaced By 3D-Printed Materials · · Score: 1

    With a 3D printer you skip many steps in making something. In the past molds were made directly off of someone's limb. Now, they scan the limb into the computer and design the new part off of it. Computer design allows much more sophistication. Once the design is done you print directly from that and test the component on the individual getting treatment. If there's an issue you can make a minor fix to the design and print again. It's probably cheaper to take five stabs at printing something on a 3D printer than doing one version of the old process where you take a mold, do casts, modify them by hand, etc.

  5. Re:OS that doesn't do anything isn't cracked.. on Chrome OS Remains Undefeated At Pwnium 3 · · Score: 1

    People who know little about cars are regularly taken advantage of. "Sir, it looks like the valve head displacement timing is off by a parsec. It'll cost around $500 to fix but do you want it breaking down when you're on the highway?"

  6. Re:"Always on" is "Mostly Unusable For Several Wee on In Wake of Poor Reviews, Amazon Yanks SimCity Download · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I call BS on that one. The servers may be handling the inter-city calculations but that's it. There's just no way that these mini-cities have so many calculations that a decent desktop stumbles with them.

  7. Re:Why would intel want to? on Why Can't Intel Kill x86? · · Score: 1

    To quote XKCD "maybe it's a virus"

  8. Re:Remote thermo microwave oven on Cooking Up the Connected Kitchen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Used magnetic stirrers in labs all the time. I don't know why they aren't standard on every stove.

  9. Re:Very nice.. on RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope · · Score: -1

    At least with the iPhone you have apps that are worth using. The apps for BB are going to be so far behind Apple and Android.

  10. Re:$3600 ship on How EVE Online Dealt With a 3,000-Player Battle · · Score: 2

    I'm a bit new to this kind of thing so humor me please. You're saying a guy had $25,000 locked up in virtual stuff and lost it in this battle?

  11. Re:Oxygen is usually the culprit in most fires on Dreamliner: Boeing 787 Aircraft Battery "Not Faulty" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or we could at least let people roll down the windows when there is a fire.

  12. Re:target market on CES: Another Chording Keyboard Hits the Market (Video) · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of people in my office.

  13. target market on CES: Another Chording Keyboard Hits the Market (Video) · · Score: 2

    Why go into business to make a product that targets like 0.0001% of the market? In my office there are only like three people who can type without looking at their keyboard.

  14. Re:Already Done on Google Declares War On the Password · · Score: 1

    I'm Canadian and my credit card has been chip & pin for a couple years now.

  15. Re:Pretty radical view of intent on Thailand Jails Dissident For What People Thought He Would Have Said · · Score: 1

    Excuse me. There's someone at the door.

  16. Re:Also tuna fish on Thailand Jails Dissident For What People Thought He Would Have Said · · Score: 1, Funny

    Please, it's tuna. Just tuna. We already know it's a fish.

  17. Breaking news on No, Life Has Not Been Found In a Meteorite · · Score: 2

    No life has not been found in a meteorite!!! What's that? There's a comma? Shit.

  18. Re:Magazine, Not Clip on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 5, Funny

    We do it intentionally because it makes you guys so mad. It's hilarious. "It's not a CLIP!!! AAAAAAA"

  19. Nice acronym on New Threadlike Carbon Nanotube Fiber Unveiled · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are these going to be called CNT Hairs?

  20. Re:Nice, but that raises a new question. on Amazon AutoRip — 14 Years Late · · Score: 1

    I think you mean "bite me Apple". It's Apple's insane markups (around 30% right?) that cause the price discrepancy.

  21. Re:So... on Asteroid Apophis Just Got Bigger · · Score: 1

    This from the guy who turned down becoming a Q.

  22. Re:I have no problem.... on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: -1, Troll

    Another nice thing about physical media is that you can lend it to your friends, pass it on to your children, etc... without running into digital rights management restrictions.

    I don't think you understand. Come back with thirty more IQ points and we'll try and explain it to you.

  23. Button position on Razer Unveils High-End Gaming Tablet · · Score: 1

    When I hold my tablet I prefer to hold it near the bottom. The button position on this thing forces your hands to be near the top of the screen. This means you either have to hold your arms up quite high or strain your neck.

  24. Waste of time on Hiding Secret Messages In Skype Silences · · Score: 0

    There are a million ways to communicate in secret, and this ranks among the stupidest.

  25. Re:Excellent; on Canada To Stop Producing Pennies In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Retailers will happily accept pennies and must anyways. What they're not required to do is make change to the penny, or require that you pay to the penny.