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  1. GoogleFS on Using YouTube For File Storage · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of Google file system, basically turns you gmail account into a remote share.

  2. Re:Reliability needs on Why Your New Car's Technology Is Four Years Old · · Score: 1

    Because it would have been replaced if it wasn't at least reliable.

  3. Re:WhiteKnightTwo, SpaceShipTwo on SpaceShipTwo Tests Its Rocket Engine and Goes Supersonic · · Score: 1

    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?

  4. Re:Oh Really? on Self-Proclaimed LulzSec Leader Arrested In Australia · · Score: 1

    Is that not the definition of immature?

  5. Re:So what on IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Or maybe Han was just being an asshole

  6. Re:"Tap" phones? on In Iceland, Tap Cellphones To Avoid Incest · · Score: 1

    Not really

    Be safe tap phones not cousins.

  7. Re:The third on Iain Banks: Extremely Ill With Cancer · · Score: 1

    Yes, I parsed it it as the title of a new book

    Extremely 3: With Cancer

  8. I can hear a slight difference on Can You Really Hear the Difference Between Lossless, Lossy Audio? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't tell which one is better though.

  9. Re:No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles export on Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate · · Score: 1

    Yeah there is already Use Tax where your home state charges you for stuff you buy outside of the state.

  10. Wikipedia paints a slightly different picture. on Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason · · Score: 1

    Bryce Harlow, former Eisenhower White House staff member, claimed to have "a double agent working in the White House....I kept Nixon informed." Harlow and Henry Kissinger (who was friendly with both campaigns and guaranteed a job in either a Humphrey or Nixon administration) separately predicted Johnson's "bombing halt": "The word is out that we are making an effort to throw the election to Humphrey. Nixon has been told of it," Democratic senator George Smathers informed Johnson. According to Robert Dallek, Kissinger's advice "rested not on special knowledge of decision making at the White House but on an astute analyst's insight into what was happening." William Bundy stated that Kissinger obtained "no useful inside information" from his trip to Paris, and "almost any experienced Hanoi watcher might have come to the same conclusion". While Kissinger may have "hinted that his advice was based on contacts with the Paris delegation," this sort of "self-promotion....is at worst a minor and not uncommon practice, quite different from getting and reporting real secrets."[2] Nixon asked Anna Chennault to be his "channel to Mr. Thieu"; Chennault agreed and periodically reported to John Mitchell that Thieu had no intention of attending a peace conference. On November 2, Chennault informed the South Vietnamese ambassador: "I have just heard from my boss in Albuquerque who says his boss [Nixon] is going to win. And you tell your boss [Thieu] to hold on a while longer."[3] In response, Johnson ordered wire-tapping members of the Nixon campaign.[4] Dallek wrote that Nixon's efforts "probably made no difference" because Thieu was unwilling to attend the talks and there was little chance of an agreement being reached before the election; however, his use of information provided by Harlow and Kissinger was morally questionable, and Humphrey's decision not to make Nixon's actions public was "an uncommon act of political decency."[5] Conrad Black agreed that there is "no evidence" connecting Kissinger, who was "playing a fairly innocuous double game of self-promotion", with attempts to undermine the peace talks. Black further commented that "the Democrats were outraged at Nixon, but what Johnson was doing was equally questionable", and there is "no evidence" that Thieu "needed much prompting to discern which side he favored in the U.S. election."[6] [edit]

  11. Re:Dehabitation on NASA Restarts Plutonium Production · · Score: 1
  12. Re:First Post on The Hypocrisy In Silicon Valley's Big Talk On Innovation · · Score: 1

    Free speech doesn't guarantee you a platform to speak.

  13. Re:big deal on Gamer Rewrites Valve's Steam Installer For Debian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ubuntu is an African word that means "I can't configure Debian"

  14. Re:WRONG! on Spinning Black Hole's Edge Rotates At Nearly the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    The speed of light is influenced by gravity?

  15. Re:Space Jump on Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured · · Score: 2, Funny
  16. Re:A Portal movie?!?!? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 1

    Haven't seen it yet, in my Netflix queue, but this was my first thought on how it could be done.

  17. Re:Blimps to Help Protect DC? on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 2

    Too much hot air, he's stuck in the lower mesosphere

  18. Re:Why not use hydrogen? on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 2, Funny

    You aren't talking about Dihydrogen Monoxide are you? That's some scary stuff.

  19. Re:OUYA: Free To Play PITA. on OUYA Android Game Console Available In June · · Score: 1

    But PS3/360 are locked down and the OUYA is open.

  20. Re:How many upgrades this week? on Untethered iOS 6.1 evasi0n Jailbreak Arrives For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    I tried to do that last night, but the download was taking too long, I jailbreaked instead. Looking at the change log I'm a bit indifferent; the lock screen media controls sound like they could be nice ...

  21. Re:I gave up jailbreaking on Untethered iOS 6.1 evasi0n Jailbreak Arrives For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    I agree but there are still a good number of tweaks that are must haves for me. SBSettings I use airplane mode constantly, and keep WiFi off when not in use; 5 Icon Dock it's just very nice to have; NoSpot I don't use spotlight ever and all my apps on on 1 page so no swiping; Categories apple folders have too limited number of apps allowed; Hide Icon 2/3 of the stuff that can't be uninstalled I hide.

  22. Re:PVR on XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More · · Score: 1

    So do cable cards actually work now? Last time I looked into doing something like this it was 10+ years ago.

  23. Re:PVR on XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More · · Score: 1

    In this instance I took a page from my parents, I go to a sports bar to watch sporting events. I'm good on everything else, free cable addon has just about everything. If there was a netflix plugin I'd be golden, minus the sports thing.

  24. Re:Why do I care about Hi10p? on XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More · · Score: 1

    So Hi10p is better with dark scenes even if the 8bit (wasn't it) is an equivalent larger file size? If that's true looks like it is good to have then, because the reduced file sizes really isn't a good argument.

  25. Re:Somebody didn't get the memo! on US Gives $120M For Lab To Tackle Rare Earth Shortages · · Score: 1

    Hopefully that will help their stock price out.

    I went full retard on that stock a while back.