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  1. Re:uhhhhh....... on XCore's EduBook, a Netbook That Runs on AA Batteries · · Score: 1

    You don't swap them in and out all the time. TFA says the batteries can be charged in-place, so there's no need to remove them unless some kind of situation arises.

  2. Re:Chop features. on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's the Project/Program Manager's job to manage scope expectations in such a way that features do indeed get cut by plan rather than chance. Having said that, very, very few PMs I've worked with are actually good at this aspect of their jobs. Most of them prefer to avoid conflict and maintain a sort of comfortable fiction with the client until things reach a point where that fiction is simply unmaintainable.

  3. Re:Did we just break heisenberg's principle? on Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy · · Score: 1

    No such luck ... it doesn't work for cat particles.

  4. The Matrix and Highlander on What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because the original set of sequels did so much damage to the original (awesome) films, that a series reboot could go nowhere but up.

  5. Re:This on University to Evict Man 13 Years After Graduation · · Score: 1

    Depends whether you have a thing for middle aged men.

  6. Re:MJ is a SCAM folks on MagicJack Femtocell Gates Cell Traffic to VoIP · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have one.

    The software/drivers are in no way reliable enough to make it a serious replacement for a "real" phone, but as a backup when you want to make free calls around North America, it's not a bad solution. The call quality is perfectly fine. It's worth the $20/year they charge, but not a whole lot more. If they could get their software (and their abominable, laughable, seizure-inducing support) to work a little more smoothly, I'd be more willing to consider additional products from the company.

  7. Re:Get real on You Won't Recognize the Internet in 2020 · · Score: 1

    So long as I, in turn, get to see secured data on the porn they (government employees, health insurance clerks, HR reps from potential employers) consume ... then I'm fine with that.

  8. Re:Great timing on World's Tallest Building To Open Monday · · Score: 1

    Canberra is one of the best cycling cities I've ever visited.

  9. Re:This is a joke, right? on Is Early Childhood Education Technology Moving Backwards? · · Score: 1

    diverting a good discussion into your filth

    At what point was this thread - started by a troll and riddled with mindless replies - a "good discussion?"

  10. Re:This is a joke, right? on Is Early Childhood Education Technology Moving Backwards? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure OP meant Near Earth Asteroid.

  11. Re:I still say... on TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive · · Score: 1

    It won't be long before we're all wearing TSA-issued paper hospital gowns and subject to full rectal probe and drugged interrogation before we can board a plane ... but we'll finally be "safe."

  12. Re:Because obscurity... on TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought the next phase was going to involve banning whatever colour pants it was that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was wearing on that flight. I mean, clearly people wearing the same colour pants as Abdulmutallab represent a similar danger right?

  13. Re:One problem ... on Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ · · Score: 1

    Not according to Andy Schlafly.

  14. Re:more evolved means better on Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would you say that?

    Because he's seeking validation through the attention he gets by saying it?

  15. One problem ... on Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Evolution may favour the most clever and the most adaptable, but this homonid suffered from one utterly fatal genetic flaw: it was delicious.

  16. Re:Hmmm on Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites · · Score: 1

    Any of the news items I referenced (because some of us "hacks" are still stuck on the notion of providing references in support of the assertions we make in argument - I see you are far above such plebeian tasks) can easily be found on alternate channels. Those URLs were just the ones that came up first in google.

    And are you seriously calling CBC, the Globe&Mail, and CTV left-wing-anti-conservative outlets? I'll grant you the fact some Toronto Star columnists have a left-of-centre bias, but you do realize that the whole "bash the messenger" routine doesn't exactly enhance your credibility don't you?

    Anyhow, I'll close with yet another brilliant piece of anti-democratic behaviour by the governing conservatives - hiding behind the Governor General in order to avoid transparency and accountability. And this time I'll reference the National Post and the Wall Street Journal ... unless you also consider those outlets to be left-wing rags?

  17. Re:Risk on Funeral Home Offers Drunk Drivers a Free Burial · · Score: 1

    1) Sign contract for free burial
    2) Drive drunk and kill self
    3) ???
    4) Profit!!!!

  18. Re:Liberal arts majors too stupid to be terrorists on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or maybe it's that the liberal arts majors are already getting plenty of action, while for the average engineering student, the prospect of 72 virgins is pretty compelling?

  19. Re:heating element on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Better still, why not include a heating element that turns on when it's 2C or below?

  20. Re:Cover the fronts? on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but I've seen snow (and especially ice) stick to glass pretty good. If you lived in the north you'd know from cold, cold experience what it's like to spend half an hour scraping and clearing your car windows.

  21. Re:North Pole on North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux · · Score: 1

    Clod is pants

  22. Re:Works for me on Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do either of you know of any good restaurants and guesthouses in Yanale Heh? I'm backpacking in that direction and plan to arrive there sometime early next week so long as the buses can make it through the roads during monsoon season.

  23. Re:Hmmm on Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites · · Score: 1

    None of the other parties have any possible hope of getting even a minority government in the near future.

    The federal Conservatives better hope and pray nothing like the Wildrose Alliance ever appears on the federal scene ... because then the vote on the right will be fragmented (once again) just as the vote on the left is today.

  24. Re:Hmmm on Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites · · Score: 1

    far more than 25% of voting Canadians voted for the Conservative party.

    Well, to be pedantic it depends how you want to define "voting Canadians." If we take that to mean "Canadians who are eligible to vote" then the 25% figure is probably pretty close since voter apathy keeps many people away from the polls.

  25. Re:Hmmm on Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm pretty sure Harper has done more to dismantle transparency in the last 3 years than Chretien/Martin did during their tenure.

    Just a sampling of things I can recall off the top of my head since 2006: This, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this.

    And I'll repeat again what I said above: all this (and more that I suspect I've mercifully forgotten over the last 3 years) has taken place under the watch of an autocrat who explicitly ran on the promise of transparency and accountability in the 2006 election.

    ... and people wonder why the general public thinks politicians are a bunch of assholes ...