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  1. Re:Wow Dumb... on Starbucks Gets Mobile Payment System · · Score: 1

    See you need a processor upgrade. if I leave my wallet at home, I run a subroutine called. Go home to get wallet. Because I will need that wallet for more than coffee.

    Also typically if I forgot my wallet, then I forgot my phone because I don't have my phone surgically implanted to my arm. So I can not say that I will have my phone 100% of the time...

    By your logic, you need to get your Starbucks prepaid card bar-code tattooed to your wrist.

    That would be a seg-fault to me.

  2. Re:then? on Wikipedia and the History of Gaming · · Score: 2

    Do you really think wikipedia will be around in 100 years?

    I'm betting it fades into obscurity in 25 years.

  3. Re:then? on Wikipedia and the History of Gaming · · Score: 2

    So in order to increase the value of games we should destroy most of the game makers..

    Can we start with EA?

  4. Re:I dream of a day on Road Train Completes First Trials In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Invalid test if they did not have another car T-bone or sideswipe a car in the "train" to see what happens.

  5. Re:Causes vs circumstances on Road Train Completes First Trials In Sweden · · Score: 1

    So by your logic it's safer for me to install push-bars and shove the slower drivers off the road into a tailspin.

  6. Wow Dumb... on Starbucks Gets Mobile Payment System · · Score: 1

    So I get to waste time putting money on that special card so that the app can act as the card at the register.

    Anyone else think this is incredibly dumb? I can whip out my debit/credit card faster than you can load your starbucks app.

  7. Re:Yahoo mail on Yahoo IPv6 Upgrade Could Shut Out 1M Users · · Score: 2

    No problem for me. I weeded out my 10 years of emails down to 200 of actually real emails that need to be kept. then I set my yahoo email address to auto foreward to my Gmail.

    Also by not giving out the old email address PLUS having my sig on my emails showing that my email address has changed to his new one... I have not had 20 legitimate emails hit my yahoo account in a year.

    It's not hard, you just cant be lazy about moving to a new email address.

  8. Re:Not surprising on Sharks Seen Swimming Down Australian Streets · · Score: 1

    Because sharks are Salt Water creatures and swimming in Fresh water typically burns them pretty good.

    That means the water flooding is highly salty. Very interesting.

  9. Re:Wow on UK To Offer PCs For £98, Subsidized Internet Connections · · Score: 1, Troll

    Here in the states we cant order groceries online. It's a requirement that we fire up the 4mpg Canyonero SUV and drive 25 miles to a Supermarket and walk around for 2 hours buying saturated fat and High fructose corn syrup.

    I'd LOVE to be able to pay $5.00US to have my groceries delivered and order them online. But government laws requiring we consume fuel and the land prevent it.

  10. Re:Wow on UK To Offer PCs For £98, Subsidized Internet Connections · · Score: 1

    Wow you're a young welp.

    http://oldcomputers.net/trs80i.html was my first Home PC.

    http://oldcomputers.net/kim1.html was my first computer.

    Nothing like keying in HEX to learn how to program.

  11. Re:Programmers != Engineers on How Facebook Ships Code · · Score: 1

    And the industry likes it that way.

    Why? it keeps programmers as a dime-a-dozen level. If we were actually real Software Engineers, than we would be getting engineer pay, the managers cant force us to ship it if it compiles as engineering allows you to tell management to STFU if it's unsafe.

    Corporations worked hard to make sure that programming and IT would be a factory level job.

  12. So how then...... on How Facebook Ships Code · · Score: 2

    Does idiotic ideas like sharing my private info with any random app that is easily setup to be malicious get through?

    Why dont they have a checks and balances with the executives that should be smacked hared in the head for their bad ideas?

  13. Re:Any need for this? on Cosmological Constant Not Fine Tuned For Life · · Score: 1

    One mans' asshole is another mans Funny guy.

    I prefer to think that God simply has a very sick sense of humor.

    Honestly, Platypus... How is that animal NOT a joke?

  14. Re:Bad decision. I hope they reverse it. on Facebook Suspends Personal Data-Sharing Feature · · Score: 1

    Moooo....

  15. Re:Bad decision. I hope they reverse it. on Facebook Suspends Personal Data-Sharing Feature · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's OK, I started a thread with friends on FB to change all that personal information to fake info to screw with scumbag app developers.

    There is now another 350 people on facebook that has their home address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC and 202-456-1414 as their phone number

    Basically you are a FOOL if you give a website your real info if it's not being used to send items you bought to your home.

  16. Re:Mark my words on Milky Way May Have Dark Matter Satellite Galaxies · · Score: 1

    They are claiming that dark matter makes it's own galaxies which is what I am refuting.

    Good info though, I'll use those for further discussion with astronomy friends.

  17. Re:A Few Logical Problems on The Fall of Wintel and the Rise of Armdroid · · Score: 2

    Which makes it easy for me to switch people to linux.

    I get friends and relatives that ask about a new PC. I suggest I back up their PC and install Ubuntu for them to try it before they drop a few hundred on a new windows PC.

    over 70% end up happy with the Linux PC and stick with it for at least another 24 months. Most people do not need windows at home on their pc.

  18. Re:No kidding on The Fall of Wintel and the Rise of Armdroid · · Score: 1

    Mostly because tech journalists are uneducated at both Journalism and Tech. they just run their mouths and hope someone listens to their drivel. and they make wild statements in hope that they get some site to repeat what they say.... Like slashdot.

    We feed those trolls.

  19. Re:A Few Logical Problems on The Fall of Wintel and the Rise of Armdroid · · Score: 1

    "Wrist Watch (no watch is just a passing fad until "smart watches" are introduced), "

    The only smart watches run a windows OS.

    Fossil had the microsoft based smart watches and you can still buy them. They are the only smart watch platform that was not horribly half assed like the palm ones from the late 90's or utter crap like the china junk that is available.

  20. Re:A Few Logical Problems on The Fall of Wintel and the Rise of Armdroid · · Score: 1

    It's also following a flawed thought pattern.

    Why are people thinking that their phone is going to be their only PC. that is a really stupid idea. I want far more storage than my phone will EVER deliver. I want to go home and use my home PC that is faster and has a huge amount of storage. What NEEDS to happen is wireless sync. when my iphone sees I am home, sync with the main PC. Things I want access to while away are easy to get to with services like dropbox and I can always VPN back home and use VNC to move a file that is not in my dropbox to dropbox so I have it on my phone.

    Making my phone my PC is dumb. It will always be a dim shadow of even the smallest desktop PC. and that desktop PC can be my media center and still deliver a better experience than any phone can.

    IT is people are dirt poor and can only afford a single item? I.E. I bought this cool phone, I wish I could afford a computer at home. I cant understand the logic behind wanting a single device that can be easily lost to hold everything you own in the digital world.

  21. Re:And what's more stupid on How Long Before Apps Overtake Physical Video Game Content Sales? · · Score: 1

    Call me when the profit from ipad game sales even TOUCH the profits from the call of duty series.

    And how you cant play call of duty on the ipad without sucking hard. the Ipad and iphone interface is utter crap for FPS games.

  22. Re:Mark my words on Milky Way May Have Dark Matter Satellite Galaxies · · Score: 1

    This is the case IF.....

    you assume time works on a small scale exactly as it does on the large scale.

    Physics falls apart when you go to small scale, thus the "fudge factor" quantum physics was created.

    We are smaller than a quark compared to a single galaxy, thus the possibility that time operates differently on a macro scale are certainly plausible.

  23. Re:Mark my words on Milky Way May Have Dark Matter Satellite Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Then why does dark matter, that is supposed to be in bigger amounts than bright matter (stars and junk) do not form gravitational lenses like normal galaxies do?

    I should be able to spot a gravitational lens that has no visible source if this dark matter coalesces into "galaxies".

    This should be the easy proof to get. If this stuff is so prevalent in the universe then we should have a scientific "metric buttload" of evidence in photographs of gravitational lenses without a central galaxy.

  24. Re:I was hoping someone pointed this out already. on Man Tunnels Into GameStop, Steals Games · · Score: 1

    Wii emulator - http://www.dolphin-emulator.com/
    DS emulator - http://desmume.org/

    The PS3 and Xbox360 emulators are not functional yet and I can only find loose framework of groups talking about how to approach it. Give it a year and they will exist.

  25. Re:It will be purchased with life energy on Apple iPhone 5 To Flaunt New A8 Processor · · Score: 2

    Wait, with the iphone 5 I only have to give up 1 hour?

    Will I get the 4 hour refund of the 5 hours I gave up for being a iphone user from V1.0?