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  1. Re:Neither advertise Android as a selling point on Kindle Fire and Nook Upgrades Kill Root Access · · Score: 1

    Just wait until January for some ice cream sandwiches.

  2. Re:Good move on Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship · · Score: 1
    We're all Doomed!

    From Mozilla add=on page: "We're sorry, but we can't find what you're looking for. The page or file you requested wasn't found on our site. It's possible that you clicked a link that's out of date, or typed in the address incorrectly. "

    Maybe he dropp'a the SOPA

  3. Re:Just because of speed? on Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved · · Score: 1

    I'm on the Beta too, and I have 1 problem with FF that I can't seem to solve. I use Instructables.com site a lot and it doesn't render correctly. The page is squeezed in to the middle and appears about half size. The only reason I'm using Chrome is because I don't have that problem with that site. Hints to solve problem would be appreciated

  4. Re:Also... on Fermilab's New Commercial Research Center · · Score: 1

    Keerist! Jesus wept.

  5. Re:I'll be watching this one on BT Sues Google Over Android · · Score: 1

    I don't think they are patent trolls, somehow.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Group

    Don't know about that. the NYSE and LSE charts havethem not selling so well. If you can't produce a profit, produce a law suit.

    Any publicity is good publicity.

  6. Re:next we'll hear that Dell is in trouble... on Dell Ditches Netbooks · · Score: 1

    3 seconds of clicking gives:

    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+-+Satellite+Laptop+/+Intel%26%23174%3B+Celeron%26%23174%3B+Processor+/+15.6%22+Display+/+2GB+Memory+/+250GB+Hard+Drive+-+Black/9988402.p?id=1218205766215

    for $240. There are dozens of others of course.

    1 second of clicking gives:

    ERROR 404 Page Not Found

  7. Re:Good Riddance on North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 · · Score: 2

    "Meet the new boss Same as the old boss"

  8. Re:LOL on SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket · · Score: 1

    +1 Underated Where's my mod npoints when I need them

  9. Re:Why PCMCIA? on PCMCIA Computer Project Aims Even Higher (and Cheaper) Than Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1
    +1 Insightful

    PCMIA ? Didn't that die out with the passenger pigeon?

  10. Re:First post from firefox on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 1

    Or download Youtube videos anymore, whereas FF still allows it.

  11. Re:Why are you surprised? on Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children · · Score: 1

    At least the magnets are safer than the Happy Fun Ball (tm)

  12. Re:And if you don't know offhand what SOPA is... on Meet the Strange Bedfellows Who Could Stop SOPA · · Score: 1

    +1 , but then again, you're just an AC

  13. Re:Why don't U.S. carriers also use ski-jump? on Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    The US uses steam catapults, which are even better but are more expensive and are fairly involved to design.

    Beulah the buzzer says "Sorry, wrong answer", should have been "Used to use steam catapults", Now they're using EMALS

  14. Re:start with Australia and Brazil on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 1

    Time for Luddites to move to Zimbabwe?

    If you don't like IE, you're a "Luddite"? How very droll.

  15. Re:Might as well ban drivers if people are stupid on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1
    The problem lies in the fact that the American Public always tries to blame a thing, not themselves, when a problem arises. Some kids have a gun spree and shoot up their school? The problem must be those violent video games they play. Couldn't possibly be because of a lack of parental guidance, or because teachers, guidance counselors, peers, didn't give a rats arse about them or their problems. Too many traffic accidents? Lets not bother to teach driving the right way, too much trouble. Lets just lower the speed limit to 55 MPH, because, speed kills, doesn't it? How about the SOPA Bill? Censor the internet to protect our (fill in the blanks) because we have to protect our citizens, if China can do it, why can't we? The hell with the fact that they're a Communist country, under a totalitarian regime. Etc.,etc., ad infinitum ad nauseam.

    "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". Benjamin Franklin

    "Jesus Wept"

  16. Re:Patent Troll... on Paul Allen Launches Commercial Spaceship Project · · Score: 1

    So I guess his patent troll profits are being used for something...

    You sound a bit jealous

  17. Re:Before You Commericalize Space Flight... on Paul Allen Launches Commercial Spaceship Project · · Score: 1

    The moon? Well China will most likely be there by the time everyone else is ready.

    Well, at least we'll have someplace decent to eat, won't we?

  18. Re:I have a new hobby... on Paul Allen Launches Commercial Spaceship Project · · Score: 1

    I suppose it's better than yachting.

    But then again, what isn't?

  19. Re:Why not use a balloon? on Paul Allen Launches Commercial Spaceship Project · · Score: 1

    Should be 5 Informative (as in understanding things others don't) not "interesting".

  20. Re:Why not use a balloon? on Paul Allen Launches Commercial Spaceship Project · · Score: 1

    For a long time I have wondered why we don't just use massive helium balloons to carry rockets much closer to space. Even if the balloon only gets a quarter of the way to orbit, it gets through the thickest air before the rocket fires.

    Unless helium is more expensive than rocket fuel, but helium can be collected from alpha decay right, so it seems like it would be cheaper.

    Even if it isn't feasible for big payloads, there are several high class hobbyist rockets out there that can reach 100k feet. Why not ride a balloon up to 70-80k, and then launch the rocket?

    We don't use helium balloons for a couple of reasons, it's getting expensive, and also because there's a shortage of it .

  21. Re:Where do you want to go, toady? on Paul Allen Launches Commercial Spaceship Project · · Score: 1

    +1 FTW

  22. Re:Big deal, a couple of routers. on Verizon Tech Charged In $4.5M Equipment Scam · · Score: 1

    The real crime here might be the tanking of his retirement funds and IRA which is probably why he went into business for himself

  23. Re:What a surprise on Many Early Adopters of the Amazon Fire Are Unhappy · · Score: 2

    There's very little wrong with the Kindle fire that can't be fixed with software.

    Providing, of course, that they want to fix it. Both I and my wife have a Kindle 3 , and it's fine at what it does, but except for its form factor, the Fire isn't really a tablet. They're just calling it that because of the buzzword factor

  24. Re:What a surprise on Many Early Adopters of the Amazon Fire Are Unhappy · · Score: 1

    Another "iPad killer" in the dustbin. You are not going to compete with Apple with some cobbled together piece of junk

    Fire = $199 is a "cobbled together" piece of junk only because the goodness of the OS has been hobbled by Amazon so that you're tied to Amazon for all your shopping needs, much like the much more expensive iPad ties you to Apple. The day is coming, very soon I might add, that a $100 Ice Cream Sandwich may show them all who's boss.

  25. Re:Microsoft and open source on Windows 8 Store Will Allow Open Source Apps · · Score: 1

    It isn't about "softening the blow" or anything to those lines. Microsoft has just seen that open source really cannot compete with quality products.

    Puhleeeze, you had me until that last sentence there. -1 Troll, Mr. M$ Phanboy