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  1. Re:Applications? on ARM Hopes To Lure Microsoft Away From Intel · · Score: 1

    The trick with emulation is easy to do when you have control over a small set of hardware drivers.

  2. Re:The only good part of the store... maybe on First MS Retail Stores Will be In Scottsdale, AZ and Mission Viejo, CA · · Score: 1

    The chair-throwing range is also supposed to be a blast.

  3. Re:Strange conclusions? on Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook · · Score: 1

    You would have a hard time convincing me that security can be implemented at no CPU cost and running IE in a sandbox has huge advantages.
    So what's not to like?

  4. Re:Article wrong, we already had transparent alumi on Transparent Aluminum Is "New State of Matter" · · Score: 1

    Aluminum is a metal, alumina is a ceramic. What you are suggesting is like calling water 'oxygen'.

  5. Re:Robustness, too! on Finally, a True Green Laser · · Score: 1

    Lasers are terrible gun sights- it gives me an exact idea where to point my shotgun.

  6. Not fake on Finally, a True Green Laser · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am sure the guys building this laser would be more than a little pissed that you consider their laser 'fake' because it uses frequency doubling....

  7. Re:Why consider this for academics but not music? on Should Copyright of Academic Works Be Abolished? · · Score: 1

    NSF
    DOE

  8. Re:It's a shame... on Microsoft Uses Human Computing Game To Tune Bing · · Score: 1

    It doesn't make much sense either- can't they just aggregate the data from the bing website to get practically the same thing?

  9. Re:Why consider this for academics but not music? on Should Copyright of Academic Works Be Abolished? · · Score: 1

    For one thing I bet 80% of the research has been funded by taxpayer dollars.

  10. Re:320 *km*?! on MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models · · Score: 1

    I would want it to have the same range as the gasoline car to consider it equal.

  11. Re:Other companies on Undercover Cameras Catch PC Repair Scams, Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    Can anyone condone sending unencrypted personal data in the mail?

  12. Re:A box on Visualizing False Positives In Broad Screening · · Score: 1

    If there is a positive with a drug test they will do additional rounds of analysis that will bring the accuracy out to several more decimal points.

  13. Re:He's just a stubborn liar on Lawyer Jailed For Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years · · Score: 1

    Is it a crime to be an ass?
    Divorce awards are the problem, not tightwads.

  14. Re:It's so very odd..... on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    You are confusing a 'sentient being' with a particular god.

    Big difference

  15. More restsraint and brains on Study Finds Delinquent Behavior Among Boys Is "Contagious" · · Score: 1

    So you are telling me that boys from a bad background that manage to stay out of juvie are also more likely to stay out of jail? Amazing!

  16. Re:555 Timer on Low-Budget Electronics Projects For High School? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Getting shocked as a teenager builds character. I should know!

  17. 555 Timer on Low-Budget Electronics Projects For High School? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would do something with a 555 timer, there are a ton of applications and although you may consider it a 'microcontroller' all of the support electronics (pots, leds, resistors) will be instructive. Throw in an SCR to drive a high watt light bulb.

  18. Re:of course they didn't reverse interest charges. on Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seriously though the Visa transaction charge of 2% = 462,977,106,163,690
    How could this transaction go through?

  19. Zimbabwe on Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges · · Score: 1

    Maybe they ran it through the Zimbabwe exchange conversion by mistake.

  20. Re:Chrome OS is Linux with a New UI on Bill Gates Puts Classic Feynman Lectures Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    //It's the Linux kernel with a new UI.//

    You seem to be suggesting that a new interface for linux is passe- but look at what Apple did with BSD.

  21. Re:Memo to Microsoft: Leave it alone on Hands-On Preview of Microsoft Office 2010 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Documentation and training are a huge part of M$ business.

  22. Re:Well... yeh. on Swine Flu Kills Obese People Disproportionately · · Score: 1

    One thing exercise does do though is make you more aware of your body as a 'machine' and make you generally more interested in eating quality foods. Do something that is mildly (or more) competitive also helps.

  23. Re:The story title is wrong ... on Swine Flu Kills Obese People Disproportionately · · Score: 1

    The problem is that we don't really know how your body uses calories. By definition a calorie is the amount of heat created by burning a sample in an oxygen bomb.
    In real life though it is not as simple as that- your food is really digested by billions of bacteria in your gut and label calories do not necessarily correlate to metabolized calories.

  24. Re:Another stupid analysis on Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars? · · Score: 1

    It is being proposed as a storage mechanism; where hydrogen would be 'stored' in the urea and then electrolyzed in the car as needed.

  25. Re:Just 0.037 Volts... on Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars? · · Score: 1

    Not with hydrogen.