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  1. Re:Transparency on Obama Calls Today's Ubiquitous Gadgets and Information "a Distraction" · · Score: 1

    That's the trouble with mod points. When you have them you don't need them, and when you need them you don't have any

  2. Re:Is it safe? on Microsoft's Free, Online Version of Office To Premiere This Week · · Score: 1
    That's why:

    Open Office is the app for me

    Does what Word does and it's for FREE

    Converts to almost anything for me

    Now ain't that too damn bad!

  3. Re:The equation of truth on Do Children's E-Books Ruin Reading? · · Score: 1
    Go to any Borders or B&N, go I'll wait. Go to the children's book department and pick any book meant for the ankle biters. Open it up and there are pictures. Great Zombie Jesus. All the books are illustrated. You can't publish a kid's book without illustrations.

    So, what's the difference if it's a paper book with pictures, pull outs, pop ups, or as I just bought my grand daughter, moving pictures? Nada, zilch, zip. At least it gets them interested in reading

  4. Re:Non-issue on Do Children's E-Books Ruin Reading? · · Score: 1

    The Gray Lady ((a.k.a. The NY Times) : "Harumph, hey, you kids get off my lawn"

  5. Re:Holy crap this is old. on AMD Undercuts Intel With Six-Core Phenom IIs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've always used AMD CPUs for their bang for the buck. I don't need bleeding edge performance.

  6. Re:Whatever it taks! on iPad Is Destroying Netbook Sales · · Score: 1

    We're trying to make the point that Apple products are crap and Apple supremacy is wrong,

    citation needed

  7. Re:Lots of "ifs" on MIT Unveils First Solar Cells Printed On Paper · · Score: 1

    This same MIT team is the one who keeps publishing. I first read about it about 18 months ago

  8. Re:I'm sure... on GIMP Resynth vs. Photoshop Content Aware · · Score: 1
    Pretty much so.

    Who's going to use it and for what is going to determine if it's worth paying the price. Maybe not even then. I use GIMP, but I'm only a semi (and very semi at that) pro. Gimp is good enough, smart enough and darn it, people like it.

  9. Re:Wouldn't that be pointless? on Do Gamers Want Simpler Games? · · Score: 1
    As Maraelin says playing a game requires time to explore a lot of choices. Who has the time? I have about 2 hours a day to devote to gaming (at the expense of giving up something else, like reading) and at that rate it would take me maybe a year to complete a game.

    But, I like word games and play Bookworm on the way to work, or a round or 2 of Bejeweled (I guess that's one reason why the App store is so successful).

    I'd like to have the time but just don't

  10. Re:They know about the only way on US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie · · Score: 1
    I could be wrong, but:

    During the reign of Bush I wasn't the X-37B being touted as a vehicle to deploy a squad of Marines to any point on Earth in 2 hours?

  11. Re:Republican on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor · · Score: 1

    IMO, everyone watches computer porn, only thing separating Dems and Gop is that the GOP want to make it illegal for everyone but themselves

  12. Re:Yet another example of why... on BlackBerry Predicted a Century Ago By Nikola Tesla · · Score: 2, Informative
  13. Re:lots of crashes on Life's Building Blocks Found On Asteroid 24 Themis · · Score: 1

    What, no planet that exploded? this is /.

  14. Re:lots of crashes on Life's Building Blocks Found On Asteroid 24 Themis · · Score: 1

    Theoretically, the building blocks of life came from asteroids. What I want to know is where did the asteroids come from.

  15. Re:Uh... on FTC Could Gain Enforcement Power Over Internet · · Score: 1

    Don 't think you're a dolt, but we're all going to get buried under bureaucracy. FTC, FCC, it hardly matters, either is going to tell you what you can and can't do.

  16. Re:Good on Apple Just Says Yes To iPhone Smoking Game · · Score: 1
    Don't bogart that joint, my friend

    Pass it over to me

    Don't bogart that joint, my friend

    Pass it over to me

    Roll another one

    Just like the other one

    You've been hangin on to it

    And I sure would like a hit

  17. Re:Interesting.... on Rocket Racing League Showcases New X-Racers · · Score: 1
    Exactly how has NASCAR helped? The cars are all basically the same except for color and sponsor decals, they use the same motor (which was out of date 20 years ago). The only reason NASCAR fans watch the races are for the crashes, and I suspect that the same fan base will watch the RRL for much the samereason except the crashes will be an order of magnitude more spectacular.

    Bread and Circuses

  18. Re:American "Freedom" on Tweeting From the Front Line · · Score: 1
    World War II "loose Lips Sink Ships" and a bunch of other sayings about spies and saboteurs.

    The war was popular because we were fighting a man as much as a country.

    Vietnam was a war NOBODY liked (except the REMF who didn't have to slog through the jungles and rice paddies). The main reason the war was unpopular was information. The war was on the TV every night, even though the military tried to suppress it, there it was, even parts the military wanted to suppress went out. Everybody of my generation saw a little girl running down a road without any clothes on, an officer from the NVA blowing out the brains of a suspected VC spy, and let's not forget Lt. Calley. He was a scapegoat, but the massacre did happen.

    I've done my time, it was relatively easy compared to others, and I wish to hell all these guys come home in one piece and standing up. But, shit always happens and when people are denied the right to know about it, the shit turns out to be humongous.

  19. Here's where they can pick it up on Comcast Awarded the Golden Poo Award · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Ground-breaking robot? on Virginia Tech Students Build CHARLI, a Human-Sized Robot · · Score: 1
    No, it exists and does more and does it better, but Hoinda is a Japanese company with a huge R&D budget and these guys did this with the equivalent of a K'NEX kit

    Not to be snarky, but When I went to the VT page,I had to chuckle a bit. II was a photographer for the school paper and yearbook at university and you could tell that these pictures were so staged. "Students prepare CHARLI for walk".

    Etc. Not a bad thing, just ticked my funny bone

  21. Re:Ground-breaking robot? on Virginia Tech Students Build CHARLI, a Human-Sized Robot · · Score: 1
    But Asimo doesn't wobble around taking baby steps either.

    http://world.honda.com/news/2007/c071211Enabling-Multiple-ASIMO-to-Work/index.html

  22. Re:Who cares: it's SHIT on Spoiler-Free Iron Man 2 Review · · Score: 1
    1. I'm not anonymous like you

    2. I'm not a comic book nerd

    3. I saw the first movie, liked it and will see the second.

    4. I'm 63 fucking years old troll and if you want to step outside I'll kick your head right up your ass

  23. Re:Wrong wrong wrong... on Backdoor Malware Targets Apple iPad · · Score: 1
    FTFA

    "Malware scammers are trying to trick early iPad buyers into installing backdoor software on Windows machines, according to a security firm."

    Sometimes IT ACTUALLY PAYS TO RTFA

    you might learn something

  24. Re:Everything! on Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Please just make your minds and pick a theory and stick to it.

  25. Re:wait, what? on Paper Manufacturer Launches "Print More" Campaign · · Score: 1

    Buggy Whip Manufacturers Protest Automobiles, Promote Buggy Whips as "Fashion Accessories"