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  1. Re:already done by someone else better on Low-Cost Micromachine Writes Calligraphy With Atoms · · Score: 1

    I think the story is low cost/inexpensive. Though I suspect that may be in relative term.

  2. Cool. on Low-Cost Micromachine Writes Calligraphy With Atoms · · Score: 1

    It's only a matter of time and effort until we have a live-action nano-scale version of Minecraft.

  3. Re:Oh, look! Just what the economy needs! on Obamacare Employer Mandate Delayed Until After Congressional Elections · · Score: 1

    Yes. Everyone should have an equal opportunity to die from lack of medical care.

    (Except the rich will always be able to afford something better of course).

  4. Re:No one cares about cost. on Obamacare Employer Mandate Delayed Until After Congressional Elections · · Score: 1

    No dude, it's "for free". You know, doctors work for free, pharma companies provide drugs at no charge, ambulance drivers do it for the fun of driving. And everyone goes home with a pony.

  5. Re:Complete asshat move by the White House on Bolivian President's Plane 'Rerouted Over Snowden Suspicions' · · Score: 1

    This needs to be a bumper sticker or something. Maybe with a picture of a whistle next to it.

  6. Re:Sigh on USPS Logs All Snail Mail For Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    Let me know when UPS or Fedex can send armed guys around to your house and throw you in a box where the locks are on the outside...

  7. Re:Dates & Times on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Oh, AM/PM fun as well.

  8. Re:Forgetting the 'where' clause on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    And it's twin brother, having the where clause but the sql query tool for mssql runs the selected text, not the whole thing in the window.

  9. Dates & Times on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Working with that shit is enough to give anyone the willies. Thankfully there are starting to get some decent libraries out there (though many applications still lack terribly). Uneven months, leap years, leap seconds, business weeks, timezones, daylight savings, cardinals, ordinals, US format, EU format, ISO format, conversions, abbreviations, languages, epochs, calendar types, localtime, gmtime...

    It's a minefield and there's a lot of problems that simply don't have a "correct" answer.

  10. Re:God it feels good to be an American!!!!!!! on Bolivian President's Plane 'Rerouted Over Snowden Suspicions' · · Score: 1

    Many did. It's the ones who didn't then and the ones who aren't know who are all part of the problem. If all you can do is point at Bush and say "he did it too", you're part of the problem also.

  11. Re:God it feels good to be an American!!!!!!! on Bolivian President's Plane 'Rerouted Over Snowden Suspicions' · · Score: 1

    It actually starts "We the people". And I'm not even an American. (But I have watched Star Trek)

  12. "a principle discovered by Alexander Graham Bell" on Laser Blood Scan Could Help Identify Malaria and Other Diseases · · Score: 1

    Get to the patent office before the other guy?

  13. Re:I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    Exactly this.

    Your vote is your voice. If you're not willing to use it to express your conscience, you're throwing it away whether you vote for someone who wins or someone who loses.

  14. Re: I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    Isn't sphincter a little ambiguous though.

    Not that you're either for it not bothering you. It bothers me but it's not beyond my comprehension that there's people it doesn't

  15. Re:I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    There's a little more to it than that. I don't have to plug my watch in to charge every day (or, indeed, ever) and I can shuck my sleeve and check the time in an instant in virtually any situation, it's waterproof to 100m (tested to 30) and requires almost zero consideration when it comes to protection from the environment (though it does have the dings and scratches to show for it).

    On the other hand, I readily confess that it's something of, well, I hesitate to say fashion but certainly style statement. Then again, I got my first watch for my 5th birthday (Timex, simple hour, minute, second deal) and have always had something of a fascination for them. I actually have a Commodore watch somewhere. I imagine that might be worth something. But I'm digressing...

  16. Re:I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    Yes. God forbid you would vote for the guy who didn't win.

  17. Re:I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 3, Funny

    On the other hand, if she had done it during the first one, you wouldn't even have noticed it.

  18. Re:Ah the memories on Yahoo Puts AltaVista To Death · · Score: 1

    Heck, make it a subscription service.

  19. Re:Prior art on Apple Files Patent For New Proprietary Port · · Score: 1

    Is there some special technique or novel implementation that would be required to implement such a thing or is it simply a case of "move some wires here, make the slot wider here and call it done"?

  20. Re:Editors Dwindling on Interview: Ask Jimmy Wales What You Will · · Score: 1

    Many of the editors (not all) are a-holes. Unfortunately, the bad tends to drive out the good. Who wants to be associated with that?

    Ideally, some editor reeducation would occur but unfortunately, I think it's gone a bit systemic.

  21. Re:Deletion on Interview: Ask Jimmy Wales What You Will · · Score: 1

    I think citations are supposed to be independent sources.

  22. Please on Interview: Ask Jimmy Wales What You Will · · Score: 1

    Could you add the words "DON'T PANIC" in large, friendly letters to the homepage? It would be really helpful.

  23. Re:If it's still MS only, who gives a shit? on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    Netflix already ran on my Chromebook.

  24. Re:Hyperbole, anyone? on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 1

    War of the roses. Does plucking a rose threaten the state?

  25. Re:As I sit here pondering.... on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 1

    He just described millions of people in the US up until the beginning of this year...