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  1. Re:ROFL; but stupid on Texas Senate Proposes a Budget With a No-Vista-Upgrades Rider · · Score: 1

    In my limited experience competence and sanity are easier to find at city and county levels than at state and federal levels.

  2. Re:lol-nado on Blizzard Shows Off Diablo III Archivist Class, WoW Dance-Off · · Score: 1

    I would totally play this. Then again I really, really liked Read Or Die.

  3. Re:Cant...resist... on Google Launches CADIE, the First True AI · · Score: 1

    She worked for Google. Of course she's already seen 4chan. She's just making sure to take her time and do it right. Only incompetent AI's leave a humanity to resist.

  4. Re:Maybe I should have made myself clearer on Should Google Be Forced To Pay For News? · · Score: 1

    That's what Google always does. Letting other people select the good stuff is the core of Google's entire search algorithm. That little tidbit is what has made them the success they are today. Instead of try to build an AI to chew keywords for relevance they were the ones who let the 'net be the brain for them.

  5. Re:Where's the MTTF? on Mac Tax, Dell Tax, HP Tax · · Score: 1

    And Apple doesn't even sell anything but bleeding edge high-end when it comes to towers.

  6. Re:Funny you should mention PNG... on TomTom Settles With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Except that PNG can run unpaletted. Combine that with features like color profiles and alpha transparency and fully-implemented PNG actually makes a better TIFF replacement than almost anything else. That probably means the overdid the spec a wee bit.

  7. Re:Uhhh on Anonymous Blogger Outed By Politician · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually I think that kind of behavior would get you thrown in jail many places. You'd be hard pressed to defend yourself from any number of charges it resembles, stalking, or conducting a private investigation without a license.

  8. Re:Surprise? on Reliability of Computer Memory? · · Score: 1

    Mostly because driver compatibility got nerfed.

  9. Re:Printing on RIP the Campus Computer Lab, 1960-2009 · · Score: 1

    Doesn't CU do this?

  10. Re:Humans can defeat humans on 3D-Based CAPTCHAs Become a Reality · · Score: 1

    Do you remember how difficult that was the first few days?

  11. Re:Not First Post on Laser Sniffing Captures Typed Keystrokes From 50-100 Feet · · Score: 1

    Except it wouldn't work. The sound would still reach the glass and be picked up by the laser mic.

  12. Re:That difference is easy to explain... on Why Fear the End of the R-Rated Superhero Movie? · · Score: 1

    Because it didn't show nipples?

  13. Re:wow on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    Which is not that far. I'd prefer 30.

  14. Re:Not anticipated?? Hardly. on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    It's a nitrate. It'll FIND a fuel.

  15. Re:Been following this for awhile. on Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    I think your statement evaluates to 1.

  16. Re:1 Question on NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever · · Score: 1

    When kilograms start meaning something to us?

  17. Re:Astroid Net? on NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever · · Score: 2, Funny

    Better than a marshmallow man, right?

  18. Re:These people should be in prison on Major Rogue Anti-Virus Program Shut Down · · Score: 1

    There never were such bodies at the international scales on which these systems operate. I don't think anyone's dumb enough to run one from inside the US.

  19. Re:Ever? on No Business Case For IPv6, Survey Finds · · Score: 1

    Neither is very good. Trying to memorize one of those to go punch into a configuration on another machine (an unpleasantly common tasks on small IPv4 networks) would be like memorizing 50 digits of pi. I think that might be more of a problem than anything else.

  20. Re:Obvious user question on Google's Amazing Browser Experiments · · Score: 1

    Forget fleeing third world countries. How about just working your way through school.

  21. Re:if they do that on Intel Threatens To Revoke AMD's x86 License · · Score: 1

    It makes the Anti-trust folks nervous.

  22. Re:Isn't this simple? on AMD — "We're Not Entirely Honest" About Batteries · · Score: 1

    The real problem is the customer will NOT know how much load a DVD is on any given system. There are too many unanswered questions even for that. Does this DVD player software process the video with the CPU or with graphics hardware? How well do the power management features on the optical drive deal with a constant low load, it it spinning down then constantly having to be spun-up? Does constant low load hamstring the OS power management system. Is the DRM rootkit trying to phone home using the Wifi connection? How fast is this recipe of model-number soup compared to the load of playing a DVD?

  23. Re:Isn't this simple? on AMD — "We're Not Entirely Honest" About Batteries · · Score: 1

    So you give min/max/medium load and you define medium load as something like displaying the 480p stream from Netflix over a WPA encrypted Wifi connection. Something with a few power-intensive operations going and relatively constant processor and graphics stress.

  24. Re:How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? on How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few came back with glow plugs. After all you couldn't have possibly meant spark plugs, diesels don't have those, but glow plugs don't look all that different, maybe the butterbar just never worked on trucks? At lest that's how I'd think the thought process might go with the mechanically inclined.

  25. Re:Achem on "Spin Battery" Effect Discovered · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mu metal?