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  1. Re:Is that really so surprising? on Cell Phone Tracking Reveals Users' Habits · · Score: 5, Funny

    My typical day is: wake up, shower, go to work, be at work 8h (I don't go out for lunch), go back home, cook, eat, relax, sleep. That adds up to 2 places where I'll be, and anywhere on the highway to work. Add in grocery shopping in one of the two nearby supermarkets and you pretty much know where I'll be on any given day Monday to Friday.

    This is why I walk my dog a different route each day. I don't even know what route we will take until we are back. It adds a little bit of surprise and a little bit of uncertainty into an otherwise very uniform and repetitive existence.
  2. Re:Reliability on Face Recognition Goes Mainstream For Notebooks · · Score: 1

    Considering windows is already loading by the time this system kicks in I'd say it's value is zero. Windows may be loaded, but the user account (ha!) is not.

    At least it is better than the fingerprint detectors, where your fingerprints are already all over the machine for the taking.
  3. Re:Cut off fingers? on Face Recognition Goes Mainstream For Notebooks · · Score: 3, Funny

    One finger gives you the real files, another gives you the dummy. That technique is very popular on the interstate.
  4. Re:Wait until you've played it on A Veteran GM's First Impressions of D&D 4th Edition · · Score: 1

    Looks like Englishv6. That's actually the eleventh edition, which will not contain a single word that will be obsolete before 2050.
  5. Re:It's only fun for me when on A Veteran GM's First Impressions of D&D 4th Edition · · Score: 5, Funny

    I put on my robe and my wizard hat. I steal your soul and cast Lightning Level 1,000,000. Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a AC impostor.

    Now *I* put on my robe and wizard hat.
  6. Re:is it me, or is it materializing? on Dancing Micro-Robots Waltz on a Pin's Head · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We live in exciting times. So did the residents of Nagasaki.
  7. Re:Problem with Poll/Question on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No I understand that, but if its already been listed, how do you vote? by commenting on it?

    "I vote for this"?

    seems most of the duplicate votes (ie: WikiLeaks) is being modded redundant, does that get included?

    Is someone (many?) going to read through all the comments to tally "I vote for this"? I suspect that cmdrtaco browses at -1. He like seems to like goatse.
  8. Re:Microsoft on RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI · · Score: 1

    However, one sign is that none of them appears to be running Linux. I'm not so sure about that. The one painted black had that "is my printer really on fire?!?" look on her face.
  9. Re:Problem with Poll/Question on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 1

    Shouldnt anyone eligable (ie: those with +1, or +2) have been given at least 1 Mod Point so they could be included in the vote?

    Which, is probably not possible with the current point system, but maybe in the future you could alot eligable people a mod point on a specific topic/poll/etc. You vote by posting your project here. What project (with link and explanation) do you think will be shut down?
  10. Re:Hurray? on OCZ's Brain Mouse Hits the Store · · Score: 1

    Well, it looked like it was behaving, but no sooner had I left my seat that it had leaped in /bin and it started trying to strangle cat(1). That's funny.

    $ pkill rampantRodent

  11. Re:Hurray? on OCZ's Brain Mouse Hits the Store · · Score: 1

    Anybody remember the prefix to dial with the Commodore modem? +AT-something or other, wow, it's been a long time...

  12. Re:Excellent! on Scientists Build Mind-Reading Computer · · Score: 0

    Now that a computer can read my mind I'm waiting for the mind-reading 'puter that knows to change the mouse focus when I look at a new window. I hate looking at one window while typing in another, especially when posting to /. while I have a window open with an email to my boss. It turns out he's not interested in the goatse link. The usual indication that your input is going into another window is the fact that the textarea's contents is not changing. Unless you VNC into your webbrowser.
  13. Re:Mind reading on Scientists Build Mind-Reading Computer · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yeah, but it couldn't read what would be first post. You're supposed to post that AC. Now we're both going to get modded redundant.
  14. Re:Words chosen on Scientists Build Mind-Reading Computer · · Score: 2, Funny

    The list of words chosen were: funding, grant, tenure, award, patent, contract, ... It doesn't matter what words they choose. OCZ beat them to market.
  15. Re:Hurray? on OCZ's Brain Mouse Hits the Store · · Score: 2, Funny

    All the mice work fine in Linux. My unfortunate experience is that mice like to turn corded peripherals into the cordless variety. I've had it happen twice, but I suppose that is the price to pay for having a pet rodent.
  16. Re:But can it play WoW? on OCZ's Brain Mouse Hits the Store · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just imagine waking up to goatse on your screen. Thanks, I won't be able to sleep for a week now.
  17. Re:Hurray? on OCZ's Brain Mouse Hits the Store · · Score: 3, Informative

    I wondered this myself, but the screenshots on the 3rd page make me think that it doesn't...

    They had a "calibration" option, and the application "profile" option (that has the word "joystick" on it).

    So out of the box Linux support doesn't look promising... Exactly what I was thinking. It includes a driver CD, so even if it is HID it will not be fully functional out of the box with Linux. Here's the page where you contact OCZ and let them know that we want Linux support for this thing:
    http://www.ocztechnology.com/contact/
  18. Re:But can it play WoW? on OCZ's Brain Mouse Hits the Store · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am all for freedom from keyboard hunch Why? You certainly don't need both hands for pr0n.
  19. Re:Microsoft on RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI · · Score: 1

    Who supplied you with all your news about what was going on in those Communist states? Was it Stalin, or was it your own national news? What nation do you suspect I come from? Ya dumayu shto ti mnye ne znaysh.
  20. Re:Microsoft on RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI · · Score: 2, Insightful

    (the culture certainly doesn't have any interest in the concept of "intellectual property") What culture does?
  21. Re:Really, what's the use? on Toshiba Going After Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    6mm on each side? Really? No, 0.6mm. Sorry.
  22. Re:Microsoft on RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For what it is worth, Yugoslavia under Marshall Tito worked out fairly well. As do numerous small communes throughout the world, most notably the Israeli kibbutzim.
  23. Re:Microsoft on RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, communism works great, if there is abundance. And in case of software, there is abundance. Thank you, that describes exactly the situation in as few words as I've yet seen.
  24. Re:Microsoft on RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI · · Score: 1

    Here, let me correct that for you:

    "Although some Russian, Chinese, Cambodian, Cuban, Yugoslavian, Romanian, and Polish leaders have demonstrated the ultimate outcome of communism for many people..." All on the Russian model, and mostly with Russian assistance. Don't make me start linking to wikipedia now.
  25. Re:Is this the same thing..? on Toshiba Going After Blu-ray? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The interpolation (or however it is called) in the Enhanced Zoom plugin for Compiz almost seems like that 'enhance' technology of the movies. Try it and see how clear 480x640 pictures can be when they fill up a 1680x1050 monitor. I'd really like to know how that works, and being open source, anybody who understands that stuff can.