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  1. Re:I do the opposite of hoarding on True Tales of Tech Hoarding · · Score: 4, Funny

    I like to arrange them next to each other—only with one slightly higher, so you get a two-level effect with a little path running down the middle.

  2. Re:Never fails on True Tales of Tech Hoarding · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why I "partitioned" that storage medium. On the first partition My wife has installed Volkswagen 2.0, which a lot like Apple products only does about 3 things, but she seems happy. However lately, she keeps making me format and re size the partition map so that she has more room, eventually I may have to use public storage to save things "in the cloud".

  3. Re:Sources on Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And that really is the crux of the matter. Blogs and websites like to claim that they are as legitimate as broadcast and, dare I say it, print journalism. However, there are real journalists who have done jail time for refusing to reveal names of sources to the government. You have to keep names off the record unless you are given consent by the party concerned. This guy was stupid for letting that device out of his hand, even for a second, but this may have unintended consequences for Gizmodo and its affiliates.

  4. Re:People are fighting ACTA = Useless on US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    As a Californian, I say "hear hear!" The Direct initiative process has been a nightmare. The state is in so much debt because you can get 50.1% of the population to vote for lower taxes AND 50.1% of the population to vote for more public spending. This works out great as long as you don't mind deficit spending yourself into oblivion. To quote Alexander Fraser Tytler:

    A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

    As much as I hate to say it, we need politicians and bureaucrats going back on their word to the voters in order to remain solvent. You can't give infinite tax breaks and public works/social services. One of them has to go. Of course then you have the conservatives wanting to ax the social, and the liberals wanting to raise taxes, its partisan hackery, sure... but at least it isn't both at the same time.

  5. Re:People are fighting ACTA = Useless on US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    I agree that the electoral college should be scrapped. However without its equalizing power, the 5 most populous states would have over 1/3 of the voting power in a "popular" vote. The 10 most populous would have over 50% of the voting power. There needs to be some check against the ability of large states to steamroll the votes of the smaller states.

  6. Re:Special 2-D glasses needed on Do You Have a Secret Immunity To 3D Movies? · · Score: 2

    Of course not. The theater chain will have to assess you a "monoscopic vision modification fee" but luckily its only an extra $2 over the price of a 3D ticket.

  7. Re:Sure, it's official on The Apple Two · · Score: 1

    Max Power, he's the man who's name you'd love to touch!
    But you mustn't touch!
    His name sounds good in your ear,
    but when you say it, you mustn't fear!
    'Cause his name can be said by anyone!

  8. Re:Officially? on The Apple Two · · Score: 1

    My Macbook has motion sensors that can detect movement on 3 axises. The issue is that nobody has written (useful) software or an OS that uses it to preform tasks.

    Your other points are correct.

  9. Re:I'm sure Bing will take their place on Google Readying To Pull Out of China · · Score: 1

    Your metaphor is actually quite apt here. In your scenario, the patient(China) is going to you, a board certified M.D.(Google). You'll provide the best service under your own code of ethics that you can. However, the patient wants to have a dangerous, or unethical treatment performed on him. You refuse and he responds by telling you he will go to the unlicensed mob doctor(Bauidu) who will perform the procedure. It is still unethical for you (Google) to do a "little harm" even to prevent the patient from disregarding your advice and being badly harmed by the other guy.

    If you make your stand on being ethical, then bending your ethics even to do good is a slippery slope that leads to moral relativism and "ends justify the means" type thinking.

  10. Re:Lynx? on The Seven Hidden Browsers In the Windows Ballot · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's nothing! In my day we had to listen to the town crier describe web pages to us!

  11. Re:Ugh. on School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre · · Score: 1

    That's nothing! I once saw an AC who didn't understand hyperbole!

  12. Re:VAC is a joke on Valve's Battle Against Cheaters · · Score: 1

    Sure the time wasted is fairly inconsequential, but you must agree that the dedicated server model does make the whole clan based system easier.

  13. Re:VAC is a joke on Valve's Battle Against Cheaters · · Score: 2, Informative

    TF2 uses dedicated servers and allows server side mods. Therefore, votebans and votekicks are simple to use and many times don't even need an admin online to work properly.

    MF2 however doesn't use dedicated servers, any one player is actually hosting the "server" on their machine. The problem (well, A problem) with that is that there is no Server admin or other person in control of the back end of the game, so if the automated systems don't pick up the cheats, the players have no recourse to expel the cheater(s).

  14. Re:Weeeellllllllll. on Sony Joins the Offensive Against Pre-Owned Games · · Score: 1

    Its actually $30, but there are a great number of PS3 games that are in the Greatest Hits series.

    Also, PSP Greatest Hits do go for $19.99.

  15. Re:some facts about nuclear energy. on US To Build Nuclear Power Plants · · Score: 1

    It was actually the incident at Three Mile Island that began the movement against nuclear energy in the US.

    More accurately, it was Chernobyl, The film "the China Syndrome" and to a much much lesser extent, Three Mile Island. Reinforced strongly by the "Nuclear Power = Nuclear Weapons" sentiment.

  16. Re:some facts about nuclear energy. on US To Build Nuclear Power Plants · · Score: 1

    I reject your plan on the basis that there is no

    X) PROFIT!!!!!

    step.

    Please amend your plan accordingly.

  17. Re:22. PAGES. on Silicon Valley's Island of Misfit Tech · · Score: 1

    It's funny, I've been running adblock+ so long that just yesterday I was wondering to myself why modern web pages have so much unused whitespace nowdays, took me a minute to realize that thats where the ads would go.

  18. Re:Nice picture of a LaserJet... on Silicon Valley's Island of Misfit Tech · · Score: 1

    If you need that stuff, that's great. However my shop prints nothing but single sided database reports on single sided legal paper. Many other offices are similar. I have a fancy pants color laser that does 40PPM and double sided here, however the HP LJ4000 is what sits on my desk because its reliable, rock solid and if the toner gets streaky, I just pull the cartridge, give it a hearty shake, and *POW* like magic, the printer prints just fine for hundreds more pages.

  19. Re:Nice picture of a LaserJet... on Silicon Valley's Island of Misfit Tech · · Score: 1

    Mine aren't as old, but I have about 5 Laserjet 4000s that they can have when they pry them from my cold, dead hands.

    I've always found it odd that HP used to make printers that got thousands of pages per $80 cartridge, that you could literally drop on the floor and they'd keep on chugging happily away, but now the P2015dn set I've got now gets less than 3000 pages per $150, loses network connectivity randomly, and flat out refuses to run once the chip decides I'm "out" of toner.

    Many of my non IT co-workers wonder why I always paw through the e-waste trash heap before it goes to the recyclers, but I've managed to bring 2 old workhorse laser printers back from the dead that way.

  20. Re:Audi?! on Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver · · Score: 1

    Well I was 16 at the time and was just glad to be able to stop again, but you keep riding that high horse.

  21. Re:Audi?! on Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver · · Score: 1

    And not that either was worth a nickel. Stupid K cars!

    Carburetor stuck open on the freeway once, and I got my own taste of "sudden uncontrolled acceleration." Of course, I just popped it into neutral and let the engine blow, but still scary at the time.

  22. Re:KITT? on Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver · · Score: 1

    Dammit, now I have to get out my geek cred.

    KARR was not built by the Russians or Chinese. The Knight Automated Roving Robot was the prototype for KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand). When KARR was powered up for the first time, A programming error (or perhaps a faulty algorithm!!) made its AI unstable and dangerous. Namely KARR was programmed for self-preservation instead of preservation of human life, as KITT was.

      The more you know!

    -yes I know I'm a loser.

  23. Re:Explanation on Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver · · Score: 1, Funny

    Pfft. Call me when she's making sexually suggestive domain registrar commercials.

  24. Re:David or Goliath, Which One Today? on Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store · · Score: 1

    But the publisher of Boot Camp is Apple. So you're still using Apple Software to run windows.

    Welcome to detention.

  25. Re:We're all mind readers on Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Devils Advocate here, If you didn't want to get banned from the app store, you'd probably be saying "Apple is a wonderful company to work with." too.

    Just sayin'.