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  1. Re:That's just great... on MIT Develops Inexpensive Transparent Display Using Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    Obviously it's impossible to not connect the billboard to the Internet.

  2. Re:Bitcoin is not going to last... on Marc Andreessen On Why Bitcoin Matters (And A Critique) · · Score: 1

    Customs and Excise is nothing to do with financial transactions.

  3. Re:Bitcoin is not going to last... on Marc Andreessen On Why Bitcoin Matters (And A Critique) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're conveniently forgetting all the untraceable cash transactions that happen daily, by the billion, worldwide. By your logic, that means every single currency in circulation needs to be shut down.

  4. Re:All I Have To Say Is on You Might Rent Features & Options On Cars In the Future · · Score: 1

    This'll work great right up to the point where the manufacturer has to face a wrongful death suit because a car refused to use traction control because it couldn't authenticate with the customer options server for whatever reason.

    Except I think traction control is now a mandatory feature in new cars. There may be an option to disable it, but by default the car has to have traction control and by default it's on.

    I thought it was stability control that was mandatory (in Europe anyway)?

  5. Re:And? on Microsoft Paying for Positive Xbox One Coverage on YouTube · · Score: 0

    Do you really think all those "fans" here really believe Win 8.1 is a great OS?

    It may shock you to know that some people have a mind of their own and can think for themselves. It may shock you even more to know that MS does not (and cannot) pay for every single positive review or comment.

  6. Re:It's Aliens! on More Details About Mars Mystery Rock · · Score: 1

    Maybe the battery fell out.

  7. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    The Gamecube failed because it was big, ugly and underpowered compared to its competitors and never really had any games other than the first party titles.

    Don't know what Gamecubes you were looking at, but the one my brother had was smaller than the original PS2. And remember, the original XBox was bigger than a small mansion.

  8. Re:Nintendo is the last company that understands c on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 3, Funny

    requiring an internet connection, thus ruling out putting it in the living room with the TV

    If only there was some way devices could communicate wirelessly. It could be given a cool-sounding name like Redfang or Wiffy.

  9. Re:In other news... on Study Doubts Quantum Computer Speed · · Score: 1

    Granted, but motorsport doesn't make that distinction ;)

  10. Re:In other news... on Study Doubts Quantum Computer Speed · · Score: 1

    "prototype" engines won f1 all the fucking time when f1 was still cool as fuck and the cars were pretty much all prototypes.

    They still are prototypes.

  11. Re:units on Comet-Chasing Probe Wakes Up On Monday · · Score: 1

    "Soccer" is not a word frequently encountered in Europe, except from the lips of the more impressionable of Britain's youth

    And Saturday morning Sky Sports coverage.

  12. Re:Hmmm on World-First Working Eukaryotic Cell Made From Plastic · · Score: 1

    At no point does that article actually state viruses have DNA. Not to mention it reads like an eight-year-old wrote it after reading some fairytale story.

    Nevertheless, you were correct when you stated some viruses have DNA.

  13. Re:Hmmm on World-First Working Eukaryotic Cell Made From Plastic · · Score: 1

    Viruses have RNA.

  14. Re:A Microsoft Killswitch on Microsoft Remotely Deleted Tor From Windows Machines To Stop Botnet · · Score: 1

    If the description is still accurate (and by my understanding it is), why bother updating it?

  15. Re:This is new? on Why Birds Fly In a V Formation · · Score: 1

    That would presumably include how to dissolve a corpse in acid and how to make a military-grade flamethrower, which I'm fairly sure would violate some sort of FCC regulation. Even if it didn't, it's a family show, and has to pitch its content accordingly.

  16. Re:This is new? on Why Birds Fly In a V Formation · · Score: 1

    Mythbusters also covered this.

    Mythbusters doesn't cover shit (aside from their corporate asses), what with their "secret sauce" concoctions, proprietary procedures, and other censored-"science" bullshit.

    And if they showed everything that goes into their experiments, the programmes would be five hours long, boring as hell, and then they'd be arrested for divulging information the law forbids them to.

  17. Re: Same trauma, more drama on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    It is when the vehicle is a 42 ton lorry.

    Plus you've obviously ignored that this is happening in the UK, where we still use mph for speed.

  18. Re: You mean on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 1

    i thought you said

    chosen by the party cactus

    guess it's time to go to bed.

    That might be a more logical way to choose :)

  19. Not yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happens.

  20. Re:Herpin' the Derp on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    You do know manufacturers make money off spare parts, yes?

  21. Re:Most updated version != best on Sony Announces Game Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    What is the DRM-free vs. DRMed ration for mainstream games on Steam?

    Absolutely no idea. I doubt even Valve knows for sure.

  22. Re:Most updated version != best on Sony Announces Game Streaming Service · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Most updated version != best on Sony Announces Game Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    But ya, this is steam, you don't own a game you only rent it and should be grateful instead of speaking heretical criticisms.

    That would include the numerous DRM-free games available through Steam? You know, the ones that work without Steam running.

  24. Re:Anonymous Coward's Law on End of Moore's Law Forcing Radical Innovation · · Score: 2

    Moore's Law can be applied to Moore's Law (if you generalise it): the rate at which Moore's Law is declared dead doubles roughly every two years.

  25. Re:XP is a vulnerability itself. on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 1

    KDE