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  1. Re:Do You Think... on MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are stupid one here. Why assume dumbproofness when you can just think of it as the fulfillment of an incomplete design ? I can think of multiple situations where quickly swapping batteries without looking would be awesome.

  2. Re:passwords.. on Hack AT&T Voicemail With Android · · Score: 1

    Using CAMEL (Intelligent Networking for Mobile), route the untrusted call to the any point in your network which has a trusted route to the VM system. Set up a second leg from that point to VM, using trusted info like the IMSI.

    This solution has been up for the last 6 years on our PLMN.

  3. Re:How about using thermals? on Solar-Powered Ultralight To Try 24-Hour Flight · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well technically on a windless day, ridge lift has EVERYTHING to do with thermals

  4. Re:Vertical on Microsoft Unveils Smaller Xbox 360 Model, Kinect Details · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, I overlooked BD and HDDVD. My bad.

    Still, it's beyond me why one would like to hold one vertically. And the PS3 doesn't look very stackable.

  5. Vertical on Microsoft Unveils Smaller Xbox 360 Model, Kinect Details · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck are 7th generation consoles vertical ? What useful purpose does it serve? Is it the inherent instability, or the inability to stack them with other set top boxes? Or maybe the added difficulty to insert the media (that should be intangible, or at least solid state, not 1999 era disks by the way). Or the impossibility to fit them in a small cupboard under the TV?

  6. They took our jobs on Foxconn May Close Factories In China · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, how do they say "Durk er duh!" in Chinese?

  7. Re:mpg vs g for 100m on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 0

    you really should give up your silly gallons and miles. Or are you proud to be in the same little club as first class nations Burma and Liberia?

  8. Re:Flow of Information on Turkey Has Reportedly Banned Google · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Ever watched Turkish TV ? It's Mediterranean bimbos 24/7.

  9. Re:Not new, and furthermore, why? on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, why are we printing photos at home? If they're worth printing they're worth printing really well, which isn't cheap and should be done at a print shop, framed, and hung on the wall. Otherwise, gaze upon it on the screen, add it to your screen saver's image loop, and move on.

    Because you can't print kiddie porn at the print shop

  10. 98% of apps are bullshit on Gov't App Contests Are Cool, But Are They Useful? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    98% of "apps" in "app stores" are bullshit, that have the functionality of a web form, but that for some reasons were coded in a proprietary, non portable API instead of the ubiquitous xml-http-javascript-html-LAMP. The only reason I can think of is that "buying the app" is a kind of subscription service, for which subscription systems would work better. It doesn't explain the free apps.

    I mean WTF, a "New York Times" app? What can it do that a web browser cannot do ?

    The only 2% of apps that make sense actually use the terminal in a way for which web techs are not optimal: for its I/O capabilities (GPS, camera, phone...)

  11. Re:Nissan LEAF has Toyota running scared... on Toyota Partners With Tesla To Make Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    What!?! You mean hybrid vehicles actually do NOT break the first law of thermodynamics ? That's unthinkable! I'm calling CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera to change their headlines!

  12. I'm not impressed on Linux 2.6.34 Released · · Score: 1, Funny

    Windows reached version 3.0 some 20 years ago...

  13. it's nothing, kapitalist dogs! on Possible Breakthrough In Hydrogen Energy · · Score: 2, Funny
  14. VPN / Wireless office on Who Should Own Your Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    You can't have cheap intra-company calls and VPN Value Added Services if you're just paying the employee's bill.

  15. Re:Nope, not a commodore on Commodore 64 Primed For a Comeback In June · · Score: 2
    If it requires to

    load "*",8,1

    it's not a C64, it's a fancy schmancy C64 with 1541.
    Spoiled kid!

  16. Re:It claims OS X support? on Commodore 64 Primed For a Comeback In June · · Score: 1

    As long as they don't provide the OS, Apple can do shit about it. My eeepc 1000HE runs retail Snow Leopard just fine, and this required no modification at hardware level.

  17. Re:It is surprising to me on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nowhere in the US Constitution does it say "Congress shall NOT guarantee the citizens healthcare"

  18. Re:If you are worried about it... on Killer Apartment Vs. Persistent Microwave Exposure? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Welcome to Jesusland, where killing is OK, but kicking someone's very naughty part is not.

  19. Re:linearity on PageRank-Type Algorithm From the 1940s Discovered · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is just the elitist snob in me, but I don't feel that the latest American Idol singer is really a thousand times better than Billie Holliday

    It would be a problem if your search for "Billie Holiday" would return links to American Idol. Pagerank is not the WHERE clause, it's the ORDER BY clause.

  20. Re:Israeli Scientists on Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It · · Score: 1

    Call me back when you'll see "American scientist makes breakthrough in Stem Cell Research"

  21. Re:Books vs. E-books on Murdoch Says E-Book Prices Will Kill Paper Books · · Score: 1

    You know, the term "dead tree" may have been funny the first time it was coined (around 1200AD when vellum fell out of use), but it's not anymore. Ever heard of the word "paper"?

  22. Re:Marketshare gains misleading... on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 1

    google recently started suggesting non exact matches and giving them a high rank too. I really hate them for that.

  23. UMTS on Analyst Estimates AT&T Needs To Spend $5B To Catch Up · · Score: 1

    Well at least they're running a real GSMA network, not some chauvinistic USian version of it.

  24. Re:Do no evil. on Google Sets Censorship Precedent In India · · Score: 1

    in pseudo-code

    SELECT url, summary FROM links WHERE fulltext like '%__searchstring__%' AND url NOT IN (SELECT url FROM bannedlinks WHERE country='__reqcountry__')

    there, I open sourced it. You still know shit about what's going on

  25. Re:The decade isn't over yet! on Ten Gadgets That Defined the Decade · · Score: 1

    No, I am not saying that. I am saying decades are not numbered, so the concept of "first decade" is not relevant. If they were numbered, you would be right. Decades don't follow the rules of centuries or millennia, there is no canonical numbering. Technically, Jesus was (by convention) born in 753 Ab Urbe Condita, in "the fifties", but even that was not relevant at the time, as it was then known as the year of Consul X and Consul Y.

    The decade is over tonight, JFGOI.