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  1. Re:PS3 now costs as much as a midrange BF3video ca on PS3 Enjoys Retail-Wide Sales Spike After Price Cut · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Actually its pretty easy to set up a media server for a PS3/Xbox. I have an application that can share to both Xbox and PS3 I've never had a problem with it.

  2. Re:It's a feature on Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users · · Score: 1

    G+ may be better now but once it gets out of (invite only) beta phase it'll be the same wasteland of human stupidity as Facebook. I wish Facebook had stayed a college student only site.

  3. Re:0 for 275? on Righthaven Loses Again · · Score: 1

    Another solution to occurs to me. If a Lawsuit is thrown out as frivolous you're fined your legal fees.

  4. Re:0 for 275? on Righthaven Loses Again · · Score: 1

    Yeah Government paying for all lawyers would be a possible solution. You could also potentially throw out many of those "trip an fall" lawsuits before a lawyer ever gets involved.

  5. Re:0 for 275? on Righthaven Loses Again · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's that and there's that fact that we need to make it so winning in a courtroom isn't just about how much money you can spend on lawyers.

  6. Re:App idea on 1 in 8 Take Fake Phone Calls to Avoid Talking to Others · · Score: 1

    There's already an app for that that.

  7. Re:artificial on Jupiter-Sized Alien Planet Is Darkest Ever (Barely) Seen · · Score: 2

    There is a flaw in the Dyson Sphere concept too it's that to create a (solar) Dyson Sphere it would require more matter than in a given solar system. Which means (amusing you can't create matter from energy extremely efficiently) would need to transport matter from another solar system to complete it likely needing to destroy at least one other star in the process. So unless a Society has settled and depleted every solar system in the galaxy it's more efficient to move part of your society to another solar system (think Firefly). Having said all that a planet sized Dyson spear is a much more likely concept.

  8. Re:Still using gasoline? on US Pumps $175M Into Advanced Auto Fuel Research · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly confident that they're all indefinitely 3-5 years away from the market.

    There fixed that for you.

  9. Re:A No Brainer on Dutch Government To Tax Drivers Based On Car Use · · Score: 1

    We get all that and all we have to do is tell our government exactly where, when, and, how we drive our cars. Where do we sign up?

  10. Re:Account verification on Google's 'ID Validation' Is a Joke, But Not Funny · · Score: 1

    Because of your freedoms, obviously ;-)

    So that's the reason our last two presidents have been taking away our rights it's not to protect us it's to make us look better in international affairs.

  11. Wrong Fight on Terrorist Target Mexican Nanotechnology Professors · · Score: 1

    We'll be fine so long as we stick with IPv4.

  12. Re:Hmm.... let's see... on Copycat "hiPhone 5" Surfaces In China · · Score: 2

    They're not doing as good as everyone in the US thinks.

  13. Re:No, it's because the U.S. has the most to lose on Why The US Will Lose a Cyber War · · Score: 1

    No just North Korea, if they couldn't control the botnet they couldn't do anything with it.

  14. Re:No, it's because the U.S. has the most to lose on Why The US Will Lose a Cyber War · · Score: 1

    It'd be easy to beat North Korea in a cyber attack just unplug them from the network. It's not like anyone would care or could leave the country in order to reconnect it. Then again Kim Jong Il is an internet expert so we might have some trouble with him.

  15. Re:Two things... on United States Loses S&P AAA Credit Rating · · Score: 2

    I'm sure retards are going to blame Obama, while ignoring the Republican asshattery that got everyone in this mess in the first place

    Two, who the fuck cares about ratings agencys? Werent they the ones putting AAA on CDO's? Shouldnt we burn those fuckers to the ground as the turds they are?

    Our countries problems are just as much Obama's fault now as they were Bush's fault a few years ago. Get off your high horse they're both the problem. By taking sides your just empowering both of them to continue the same asshattery.

  16. Re:This can be fixed. on Saving Gas Via Underpowered Death Traps · · Score: 1

    People constantly make out SUV owners as evil but has anyone ever considered that they may actually need more space than average 2,000 lbs small car owners. The people you'll end up taxing are mainly people who 1. have several kids 2. people who's job actually requires more haul space (e.g. construction workers). Don't get me wrong if you think that this tax is necessary go ahead but at least consider this factor before you support legislation.

  17. Re:Use HTTPS on Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic In the US · · Score: 1

    If you use HTTPS everywhere in conjunction with HTTPS finder you can add your favorite sites to your HTTPS ruleset automatically.

  18. Re:Use HTTPS on Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic In the US · · Score: 1

    If you use HTTPS everywhere in conjunction with HTTPS finder you can add your favorite sites to your HTTPS ruleset automatically.

  19. Re:Here We Go Again ... on Do Macs Have an Edge Against APTs? · · Score: 1

    Your argument presumes that people usually buy things for logical reasons and that when people make logical arguments they usually do it logically and for logical reasons. None of which is true.

  20. Re:They're all apeing OSX on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    Actually OSX conflates an applications running with 1. The icon being in the Dock and 2. There being a dot under said icon* (whether or not there's a window is irrelevant). I think this is better for end users because it gives them a uniformed way to think about it. In Windows the user has to think I need to go find icon X to launch app X but when its running its a bar at the bottom of my screen. Instead of just thinking app X is icon X at the bottom of my screen and if it has a dot under it it's running. Furthermore Windows (or developers for Windows) are spectacularly bad at handling background tasks. I've met countless non-techie people that have about 10 Daemons running in their task bar just slowing down their computer and when asked they say I don't know how to disable them or even I didn't know they were running.
    *Lion supposedly changes the way OSX handles tasks so it may be a bit different.

  21. Re:Why are there no grass or trees in the future? on Preview of id Software's Rage · · Score: 1

    If you understood ecosystems you'd understand that if there were a good amount of green (unless it was almost exclusively evergreen) it very likely wouldn't be post-apocalyptic. But you're right they could make a fictional post-apocalyptic universe/world where there was a lot of green.

  22. 42%? on Girls Go Geek Again · · Score: 1

    Since when is 42% dominating?

  23. Re:Only Halfway Through This Gen on PS3 "Strong Contender" To Overtake Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    Sony has a massive 21 first party studio lineup that is cranking out a flood of PS3 exclusives that dwarf the combined exclusive output of Nintendo and Microsoft combined. There are still major first party franchises that have yet to be released on the PS3.

    Ah so they were saving all the good games for the PS3's sixth year.

  24. Obligatory XKCD on Is Twitter Rendered Obsolete By Google+? · · Score: 1

    Obviously twitter is dead.

  25. Game Changer Here on Former Google CIO Suggests 'Do Dumb Things' · · Score: 2

    I'm trying to change the game by making this dumb post. Now mod me +5 Insightful.