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  1. Saloon? on Chinese Automaker Launches Remote-Control Family Car · · Score: 2

    Does it come with a spittoon and those rickety, swinging wooden doors?

  2. Re:Simple solution on How the Moon Affects LHC Operations · · Score: 3, Funny
  3. Old News? on Researchers Show How Cellular Complexity Can Evolve · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The researchers used computational methods to work backwards and find the most likely sequences of these proteins hundreds of millions of years ago."

    So why are we just hearing about it now?

  4. Re:Only once have I splurged like that on AMD Radeon HD 7970 Launched, Fastest GPU Tested · · Score: 1

    The PC version of GTA IV.

    *shudders*

  5. Re:Just like Siri... on Siri Envy? Iris Brings Some Voice-Assistant Features to Android · · Score: 2

    Apple really does present a cohesive, usable platform with most of the rough edges filed off.

    Those rough edges aren't just filed off, they're rounded.

  6. Re:Hard to believe anyone... on 11-Year-Old Pilots 1,325 MPG Concept Car · · Score: 1

    An 11 year old with a license to drive? What's next, Great Britain? A 16 year old with a license to kill?

  7. Re:Orange Laser?? on Time Lapse Video of the VLT In Chile · · Score: 1

    That's the adaptive optics system which basically creates an artificial star for the telescope to focus on. This helps correct light distortion, as well as warding off any stray UFOs.

  8. Re:Free Vinyl? on Today Is Record Store Day 2011 · · Score: 1

    The stores participating are not really "mainstream" stores, at least as far as I can tell. I'd wager most of the people making trips to brick and mortar record shops for this event are the consumers who purchase vinyl. You're probably right about a significant portion of people not stopping by for free CDs even, but there are still consumers who would gladly make a trip to their local record shop to get 50% off vinyl or other items.

  9. Re:Whatever.... on Today Is Record Store Day 2011 · · Score: 1

    Generally, the stores participating are small shops that sell lots of vinyl 12" and 7" records, so there is still some merit in having these stores around. Well, at least for the people who still purchase and listen to vinyl records.

  10. Portal 2 on Portal 2 Bringing Steam To the PS3, Possible Early Release · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now you're thinking with cross-platform gaming portals!

  11. Re:So long as there is money to be made on Bringing Open Source To Biomedicine · · Score: 1

    You mean "no openness of any kind...besides the ones listed in TFA who are already sharing" right?

  12. Re:...liabilities on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 2

    ...and what about the "liabilities" that come with using lethal force (aka your sidearm) to incapacitate a criminal? Isn't this much better than say, firing off a round into someones leg?

    The only thing that worries me is what the target may do when all of a sudden he's disoriented. What if his gun is drawn at the officers (or civilians) when he's disabled? TFA says most victims "freeze", but I don't see how inverse-of-blinding light would make your entire body stop working. What if the victim starts blindly firing his weapon?

  13. Re:...hmm interesting... on Pirated Android App Shames Freeloaders · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who is this "they" that you speak of?

    The pirated app appears to be created and released by the same company who makes the legitimate app. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean it was a good thing to do.

  14. The Condor Supercomputer on Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's · · Score: 1

    has no games.

  15. Re:Will it leak? on Paramount Pictures To Release Film On Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Isn't the whole intellectual property debate about whether it's right or wrong to share an idea? Wouldn't "The_Tunnel_2011" be the same IP as "SUPER_L33T_THE_TUNNEL_2011", as long as the file wasn't altered?

    I was under the impression that the file itself wasn't the underlying issue. I don't think you can call one .torrent file "legitimate" while calling another that points to the SAME file "illegitimate".

  16. Hmm. on House Fails To Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, for one, welco...oh wait.

  17. Re:Writing on Study Sez Txt Msgs Make Kidz Gr8 Spellrz · · Score: 1

    It's a doggy dog world...

    I realized this from the gecko.

  18. Re:True in theory on Comics Code Dead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All three of the "Back to the Future" movies are rated PG, not PG-13 as you stated.

    If anyone wants to see the clandestine and ridiculous nature of the MPAA ratings board, check out the movie "This Film Is Not Yet Rated". It shows just how messed up the rating process is, and how forcibly they /try/ to control the creativity of film makers. They're often successful, which is very sad. Ratings are largely arbitrary and shouldn't be taken seriously by anyone. These scum bags need to be disposed of.

  19. Re:I miss Blizzard. on World of StarCraft Mod Gets C&D From Blizzard · · Score: 1

    Narbacular Drop and Portal were developed by the same team. They were just Valve employees when they made the former.

  20. Re:Not just people on Angry Birds and Parabolic Instinct In Humans · · Score: 2

    Seriously?

    The difference between C-sharp and D-flat? What difference? They're enharmonically equivalent to each other.

  21. Re:Why HD? on Verizon LTE Can Use the Monthly Data Allotment In 32 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, but save yourself some money and get a Dell S2309W if you can sacrifice the 1" difference.

  22. Re:Google Earth on 26 Gigapixel Photo Sets New World Record · · Score: 1
    Someone needs to release a product that is a DSLR, professional level camera...WITH A PHONE BUILT IN.

    Now, instead of having your shitty pictures interrupted by phone calls, you could have your high quality pictures interrupted by phone calls.

    Ingenius!

  23. Yay! on Microsoft Invents Price-Gouging the Least Influential · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only 5000 more rep and I'll be exalted with the Microsoft faction! Discounts abound!

  24. Re:i'm confused on Intergalactic Race Shows That Einstein Still Rules · · Score: 2, Funny

    His in-head rounding skills, however, were taught by Lorena Bobbitt.

  25. Re:This sums it up quite nicely on PhotoSketch Image Manipulation Tool Taking the World by Storm · · Score: 1

    You mean Mitchell Fox, right?