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  1. Re:Few things on iPad Mini Costs $24 More To Make Than Kindle Fire HD · · Score: 1

    uh, what's the difference between then and now, exactly?

    Surely things have only improved since the early days when OS X consisted of kludged-together BSD and Mach kernels. I imagine its inner-workings are quite a bit more streamlined and efficient these days; one can only hope, anyhow...

  2. Re:Another win on Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm · · Score: 1

    "You're saying..."

    Did you fail to spot the question mark at the end of my sentence?

  3. Re:Good idea... on New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles · · Score: 1

    No doubt, on both counts.

  4. Re:Good idea... on New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles · · Score: 4, Funny

    I give dealextreme and aliexpress 3 weeks before they're selling the hardware needed to mod these SAM's (with free China Royal Mail shipping to Syria, obviously). :p

  5. Good idea... on New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We don't want these guys using this stuff against our own troops once our gov't betrays them (isn't that Uncle Sam's standard MO?).

  6. Re:Another win on Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm · · Score: 1

    the firm would fall under each companies privacy policies and would be allowed to access the data legally.

    Under Dutch law?

  7. Re:As a classic car enthusiast... on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 1

    This is why the best Mercedes (certainly not to drive, but to actually own) is an '85 or older. :)

  8. Re:Irony on PayPal, Symantec Hacked In Anonymous November 5 Hacking Spree · · Score: 1

    And this got modded down because... it doesn't fit with the particular message that's convenient for the purposes of TPTB? That's the only thing I can think of...

  9. Re:As a classic car enthusiast... on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 2

    restoring electronics is much harder

    More labor-intensive or more challenging for the not-so-technically-inclined shadetree mechanic-type?

  10. Re:We don't need any more of those. on Killer Asteroids Are Good For Life · · Score: 2

    Nuclear war, tailored viruses, nano-machines run amock, artificial intelligence that wants us gone.

    How about simple clearcutting and creating lots (and lots and lots) of smoke by burning stuff? I know, how mundane...

  11. Re:Irony on PayPal, Symantec Hacked In Anonymous November 5 Hacking Spree · · Score: 0

    Anonymous is free to rationalize anything however they like

    Even just using the word "they" to describe Anonymous implies that it's a specific group when, in fact, it should be treated literally as "anonymous." Perhaps we need to lose the capital "A" at the start of the word; it has incorrect implications that most people are too stupid to see past...

  12. Re:USA and car insurance on Will Microsoft Dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers? · · Score: 1

    I just wouldn't suggest getting into an accident with it, because the liability would remain.

    So basically, you're saying if you crash your own car on your own property, you might be liable in the event that you decide to sue yourself?

  13. Re:Outrage! on Amazon Charges Sales Tax On "Shipping and Handling" · · Score: 1

    Right, because it's the responsibility of the bottom 99% to prop-up our welfare system now that the wealth of the nation has literally been hauled-off by a select few. No, really; what else do you think happens next?

  14. Re:Cash is anonymous on Google Wallet May End Up Inside Your Actual Wallet · · Score: 1
    Aside from the fact that it's hard to take someone seriously who thinks "threat" is a verb, I'll bite:

    Perhaps if it weren't so hard to get change from a Krugerrand, maybe your "suggestion" isn't such a bad idea, after all (you know, considering history and all that. What's that? Oh; nevermind, then.). :p

  15. Re:cash on Google Wallet May End Up Inside Your Actual Wallet · · Score: 1

    How did this get modded "flamebait??" Sarcasm side, this is common sense.

  16. Re:Who gives a shit? on Will the Star Citizen Project Fund Linux and Mac Ports For CryENGINE 3? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It actually looks to me like it might be kind of fun to play... but the thought of watching other people play?! How the fuck that is supposed to be fun, I'll certainly never understand...

  17. Re:Lot of posts... on Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars · · Score: 1

    Something about your tone suggests... let me guess: ADM shill? Cargill? :) However, you're correct; I meant to say that I live in one of the only states where pure gasoline is still available.

  18. Lot of posts... on Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...yet no mention (that I read, anyhow) of the lower numbers caused by fuel contaminated with alcohol. Interestingly enough, I live in one of the only states (if not the only state) that requires gas stations to state whether their fuel contains ethanol or not. I've driven to each and every one of the surrounding states and people looked at me funny when I asked them if their fuel was 100% gasoline. For what it's worth, I can get gas w/10% ethanol (87 octane) for $3.03 a gallon and 100%-pure (87 octane) for $3.19 a gallon. The cost savings of running the contaminated stuff (~5%) don't even begin to make up for the greatly reduced mileage I get - on anything I've driven.

  19. Re:Oh No! Global warming is wrong! on Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...and whether or not you have the common sense [that God gave a grapefruit] to stay the fuck off the ass of the car in front of you so that you're not forever riding your brakes!

  20. Re:It ain't expensive to build a stealth plane... on China's Stealth Fighter Flight Test Successful · · Score: 1

    âoeThe rules of fair play do not apply in love and war." - John Lyly

  21. In theory, your statement sounds perfectly reasonable... but interestingly enough, in over two decades of living and working as an adult among the widest range of English-speaking subcultures imaginable, I've yet to meet a single one of these "aggressive atheists" of which you speak.

  22. What are the odds... on Canadian Island's Historic Hot Springs Dry Up After Earthquake · · Score: 2

    ...that heated water will find another path to the surface?

  23. Well, now we know... on Verizon Worker Arrested For Copying Customer's Nude Pictures · · Score: 1

    ...that Verizon doesn't screen their employees with an IQ test. :p

  24. Re:Um... on Building the Ultimate Safe House · · Score: 1

    $300,000 doesn't buy you jack shit in the Tri-State Area; that's low-income housing! Anyway, it's partly because it's so expensive to live in the area that funds are tight for so many. Did you really think the yacht-and-Porsche-owning demographic was a dominant force there? It's Staten-fucking-Island, dude, not Manhattan or Greenwich. :p

  25. Re:Global Warming on Canadian Island's Historic Hot Springs Dry Up After Earthquake · · Score: 1

    It would appear that your userID suits you quite well. :)