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  1. Extra E on The Explosive Growth of 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    Anyone who adds an e to town, old, or fair deserves a kick to the nuts, especially if those words are used in combination or with the word ye.

  2. Re:Rosters on EA Makes Minor Tweaks To FIFA 12 For the Wii, Releases It As FIFA 13 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isn't WoW subscription based? You pay for a new game every month!

  3. Terrible lawyer on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 1

    Whenever I read about something this stupid all I can come up with is that the guy must have the worst lawyer on the planet.

  4. Blue Screen on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    The first time someone is killed by one of these cars the term "blue screen of death" will take on a new meaning.

  5. Re:Long Now: Rosetta Project on Hitachi Creates Quartz Glass Archival Medium · · Score: 1

    That's what you get with a $10,000 donation. I guess you also think that a $5,000 charity dinner is a crazy amount to charge for food on a plate.

  6. Re:Much more practical: 100-1000 years on Hitachi Creates Quartz Glass Archival Medium · · Score: 1

    Well, we've been able to read the human genetic code, see distant galaxies, and explore other planets with robots so I'm pretty certain that future humans will be able to read a Rosetta stone, which is built expressely for the purpose of being read by humans. Unless the future of humanity is a bunch of idiots they'll have little difficulty.

  7. Re:Where's the Rosetta Stone? on Hitachi Creates Quartz Glass Archival Medium · · Score: 1

    Check out the Long Now Foundation. They have already produced Rosetta stone-like discs for languages. Their clock is very cool too.

  8. Any technology on Cheap, Portable Ultrasound Could a Be Lifesaver . · · Score: 1

    Make ANY medical technology cheap and portable and it'll save lives.

  9. Re:That explains a lot on When the Hiring Boss Is an Algorithm · · Score: 2

    You understand exactly. We'd like to hire you for our call centre and we pay the highest industry rate of $3.43/hr. When can you start?

  10. Re:Ummm.. on How Does the Tiny Waterbear Survive In Outer Space? · · Score: 2

    He must be related to Egon Spengler, who collects spores, moulds, and fungus.

  11. Re:Oh boy! on Opus — the Codec To End All Codecs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Audiophiles? Really? The only format they care about is original wax drums rubbed with a diamond and amplified by analog equipment connected by gold cables soaked in unicorn tears. They want nothing to do with digital audio codecs.

  12. Re:Spying? Really? on Arma III Developers Arrested In Greece For 'Spying' · · Score: 2

    I think suspending Greece would make more sense.

  13. Re:Easy on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 1

    I got my parents hooked on Battlestar Gallactica after I got the box set. Try explaining that season 3 episode 4 comes before season 3.5 episode 3. Unless you had a list of seasons that had been split in two you would have trouble. And who names seasons this way anyways? Until that set I had never seen it before.

  14. Re:Trading's Too Fast When It Ceases to Mean Anyth on More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've never understood why they needed a response time faster than a day. Seriously, set it up so you can only trade shares once a day. It wouldn't change a thing for normal investors but it would obliterate this algorithmic crap.

  15. Re:Obvious propaganda is obvious. on China's Yangtze River Turns Red · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully Mother Earth has already had The Talk with the river.

  16. And in the future... on UK Paraplegic Woman First To Take Robotic Suit Home · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Won't be long before lazy fat people are using these just because they don't feel like using their own muscles to move their limbs. Happened with the mobility scooters, it'll happen with these suits.

  17. Re:Oh please no on FAA To Reevaluate Inflight Electronic Device Use · · Score: 1

    My point wasn't about stray RF emitted from a maltfunctioning device. There are just scores of people out there who think that their wimpy GPS receiver is transmitting signals to the GPS satellites.

  18. Re:Oh please no on FAA To Reevaluate Inflight Electronic Device Use · · Score: 0

    GPS is a receive only technology. You weren't transmitting anything.

  19. Re:Can someone explain... on Solid State Quantum Computer Finds 15=3x5 — 48% of the Time · · Score: 1

    There is no Nobel prize in math.

  20. Re:Have they been properly collimated? on Mirrors Finished For James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thanks for the funny moderation but I was serious. They added a docking ring in 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWST#Orbit

  21. Re:Have they been properly collimated? on Mirrors Finished For James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear they've installed a docking connector just in case.

  22. Tennis court on Mirrors Finished For James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can I get that in the standard unit of area - the football field?

  23. Re:MacBook Air confirmed most don't care. on Sealed-Box Macs: Should Computers Be Disposable? · · Score: 1

    Yes, people aren't interesting in upgrading their laptops. As for servicing them it isn't worth it for Apple anymore. It's cheaper to pay a worker bee in China $0.05 to make a new one than it is to pay someone in the US $20/hr to fix one that's broken.

  24. Re:Uh... Howzat? on Tree's Leaves Genetically Different From Its Roots · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sounds like that's what they're saying. Different tissues reproduce in different ways. For example a tree can make seeds or produce offshoots from the roots. One way could be more successful than another so areas with different genes within a single tree could produce a differing number of offspring.

  25. Re:Freaking incredible. on NASA Releases HiRISE Images of Curiosity's Descent · · Score: 1

    It's not a bullet. You don't aim it from Earth and then it lands on Mars. Course corrections are made many times along the way, and the entire entry itself is guided the whole way in. So it's like hitting your parking space after driving across the country.