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  1. Re:Solution on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    Dog Medical diagnostician : will eat your toes to signal that you have diabeetus

  2. Re:Why do cheaper Imacs have more base ram? but on on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 1

    Apple has NEVER cared about games. This is according to Valve... Apple always talks the talk but never follows through to make gaming on Macs important.

  3. Re:"Flash is the number one reason Macs crash..." on Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash" · · Score: 1

    I agree with you but Apple is still being a hypocrite. I'm my experience number 1 is Flash and number 2 is Quicktime. I'm so glad Quicktime never caught on. If I want to view movies on Apple.com, guess what I need to install? Open standards my butt, Steve Jobs.

  4. Re:Not so fast.. on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    Point of fact, everyone forgets that when Germany was expanding in the first stages of the war, Russia was also expanding its territory at the expense of its neighbors. I wouldn't say Russia was at fault for starting WWII like Hitler was but Russia was not the victim at the start of the war.

  5. Re:It's good to be owed money! on UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall · · Score: 1

    You're actually helping their cause with that phrasing. Taiwan _never_ belonged to Communist China. If anything, Mainland China once belonged to Taiwan. Economically, I believe that China is shooting itself in the foot by devaluing its currency at the expense of everyone else. China cannot prosper alone while others struggle. Once everyone goes broke buying Chinese products, China will suffer the most.

  6. Mining on NASA's LCROSS Mission Proves Lunar Ice Suspicions · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally! Something we can mine the Moon for. This will spur space competition to get this valuable resource. I can't wait for my first sip of $10000 Evian Moon Mineral Water.

  7. Re:Evolution or just surving? on Observing Evolution Over 40,000 Generations · · Score: 1

    Gold star for you! I also sometimes forget this. Anyone who doesn't get this doesn't really understand evolution. Evolution is NOT a magical force that changes organisms.

  8. Why not? on Intel Caught Cheating In 3DMark Benchmark · · Score: 0

    The newest GPUs have 2 billion transistors. Why wouldn't you put them to use? That's the trend anyways, even nVidia is going to release a 3 billion transistor GPU that's able to run general programs. I'm a PC gamer, I could care less if Intel or ATI or nVidea cheat on their benchmarks. In fact they should be encouraged to release hand coded or special drivers to improve performance in specific games.

  9. Doesn't look good for Nvidia on NVIDIA To Exit Chipset Business · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They better have a compelling product with the upcoming fermi then, but from I what I hear they're trying to design their GPUs for more general purpose computing, specifically scientific computations. It's a really big gamble and I can't see that it will be a huge market. Their upcoming products are supposed to have 3 billion transistors which is way more than 4x the amount in an i7 CPU. It's probably going to cost a ton too.

  10. Really? Apple? on Google, Apple Joust Over Rejected Voice App · · Score: 1

    I really don't care how Apple shoots itself in the foot regarding their AppStore. The way I see it, they pioneered the market but someone else (maybe Microsoft or Google) will rule the smartphone/PMP and downloadable application market soon enough. I give Apple a lot of credit for their vision and creativeness but they must think people are really stupid if they think anyone will believe that they _didn't_ reject the app. I applaud Apple's misguided efforts for quality control and attempt to maintain their revenue stream, I completely understand the reasons for them. However they should rethink a lot of the restrictions they have. Maybe it won't be soon but there will be an avalanche of new options available that will sideline Apple's offerings in the future.

  11. Cool on Squeezing a Wikipedia Snapshot Onto an 8GB iPhone · · Score: 1

    It's cool but not $10 cool. I use 2 free apps that let me access wikipedia. Nothing really new or radical about this app unless wikipedia is really much larger and the author managed to cull 2gb from it.

  12. Re:They let anyone on these days... on Dungeons & Dragons Online Goes Free-To-Play · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? I've been playing Runes of Magic, which seems to me the same free-to-play but pay-for-extras model, for a month and none of the things you say happens, happens. All of my interactions with other players have been civil and mature. I've never played WoW so griefing may be common there but since it doesn't happen in Runes of Magic, a free game, your theory goes out the window.

  13. Re:Software development as a profession on Interview With an Adware Author · · Score: 1

    Sadly, software engineers aren't really engineers.

  14. Re:"Furious stream of mini-debates on Twitter"? on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    Reading their response hurts my head. I don't twitter but are all conversations in the the same vein in terms of spelling?

  15. Re:Hmmm..... on Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, everyone should understand that the POTUS has no real power to change the economy. But at the same time I can think of many things that Bush and all elected officials in power did that contributed to this downturn. The POTUS should have the confidence of the public, in this regard Bush is a total failure. President D Roosevelt is credited with ending the Great Depression but there is great debate whether he actually did. What he did do was be a leader in which Americans trust. Obama is probably going to follow this mold, he's already talking about an extended period of financial downturn. Anyone expecting that Obama is going to turn things around in his first term is probably unrealistic.

  16. Re:I vote for Rodney McKay on New Contest Will Seek the Best "I'm Linux" Video · · Score: 3, Insightful
    You mean you want an arrogant obnoxious know-it-all fictional character to play the part of Linux?

    Why can't we just pick a hot nekkid chick?

  17. Re:Bullshit on Scientists Hack Cellphone To Detect Diseases · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude stop it, you're gonna blow some conniving scientists's grant money.

  18. Where did $1.175 million figure come from? on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    $1.175 million sounds way too low to me. That probably wouldn't cover the light poles, LEDs, or installation, let alone replacing all the thousands of existing light poles.

  19. Why not just standardize the cables? on Wireless Power Consortium Pushes For Standard · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wireless power is only practical in short ranges anyway. With standardized cables I wouldn't have drawerfuls of power cables.

  20. World's most expensive joyrides. on Spaceport America Gets FAA License · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm I missing something or does this spaceport not actually connect to anything? Ironically you would be travelling the most distance in your life and end not going anywhere. Anyway, hope this will bring actual space travel to the moon, planets, I would even settle for a station on Earth orbit, closer to most people.

  21. Wrong premise. on Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest · · Score: 1
    "The big surprise that the data indicate those deaths aren't primarily from avalanches or falling ice, as had long been believed."

    Mountain climbing accidents like car accidents, usually happen because of human error. Anybody mountain climbing is just concentrating on not messing up on a second to second basis, they are NOT playing dodgeball with rocks. Climbers probably know all the gruesome statistics about each mountain and it's well known that most deaths occur on the descent.

  22. Re:Nuclear? on Wind and Sun Beat Other Energy Alternatives · · Score: 1

    If you got an hour I highly recommend watching this presentation by Steve Chu, http://fora.tv/2007/09/13/Steve_Chu_A_New_Energy_Program who is Obama's new Energy Secretary. He gives a good concise presentation on the state of energy systems today and how practical they are.

  23. Re:Road Runner on Broadband Access Without the Pork? · · Score: 1

    Or could go Earthlink which shares the same cable network as Time-Warner and since Earthlink only offers Internet over Cable they can't try to sell you Cable TV. This is my setup, I called Earthlink and they sent a Time-Warner tech to install.

  24. Practical limit on Graphene Transistors Clocked At 26GHz · · Score: 1

    This might be a practical limit to the GHz race. There's only so much cicuitry that an electron can go through in that short amount of time. Someone work out the math but in that short amount of time an electron can travel less than a feet(30cm) I'm guesstimating. Sorry got an exam in a couple of hours, don't want to break out the paper and pencil just now.

  25. Re:The Importance of the Minds of a General Popula on Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler · · Score: 1

    Not to burst your bubble, but to say that most Germans didn't know what was going on with the Jews is disingenous. They surely knew that Jews were being relocated and weren't asking too many questions on where they were going. Jews were being shipped at the rate of tens of thousands per day into concentration camps. Entire neighborhoods were culled and Jewish property were transferred to Germans. You cannot in good conscience tell me that most Germans didn't know what was going on, maybe it wasn't 100% of all Germans who knew but Hitler didn't just wave a magic wand and make Jews disappear. Hitler's racial policy were very clear since the beginning and millions of Germans signed up for it. It's my personal belief that the Holocaust was not a uniquely German event, it could happen anywhere else in the world. That's why we must alwas be vigilant and face the truth, no matter how horrible.