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  1. Missing Factor... on Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS?

    Will Google and Android and Verizon Kill Standalone GPS?

  2. Re:Old school on How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? · · Score: 1

    aren't math people supposed to use pencil?

    Not the good ones. It is akin to doing the Sunday Times crossword in ink...quiet statement of superiority.

  3. Re:Any alternatives? on Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The ability of the internet user to make his/her own inferences by cross referencing multiple sources basically makes the iconic journalist largely moot.

    Moreover, the internet has the Tron Guy...the newspapers/journalists don't stand much of a chance.

  4. Enough is enough! on Laptop Fires On Airplanes · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have had it with these motherfucking batteries on this motherfucking plane!

  5. Is this a joke? on Clean Smells Promote Ethical Behavior · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Morality...Product placement...

    The study titled "The Smell of Virtue" was unusually simple and conclusive. Participants engaged in several tasks, the only difference being that some worked in unscented rooms, while others worked in rooms freshly spritzed with Windex

    ...top-notch scientists...

    Katie Liljenquist, assistant professor of organizational leadership at BYU's Marriott School of Management, is the lead author on the piece in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science.

    ...looks to a win/win situation for both SC Johnson and the LDS.

  6. Re:More complete block on Ultrasurf Easily Blocked, But So What? · · Score: 1

    Apparently you didn't have anyone recruit you to wipe AV2009 off of their Windows machine...I thought that joke was fairly obvious.

  7. Re:More complete block on Ultrasurf Easily Blocked, But So What? · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you really want to block out all the bad web sites, just install Norton Antivirus.

    Antivirus 2009 is far superior. I didn't even know my girlfriend's system was at risk until she installed it.

  8. Is it water on the knee... on Surgeon Performs World's First 4X HD Surgery · · Score: 1

    This technology has the potential to allow doctors to perform hard operations (writer's cramp, wrenched ankle) with the ease of the anklebone's connected to the knee bone procedure.

  9. Re:Why Windows XP? on Amazon Expands Kindle To the PC · · Score: 2, Funny

    What??? You don't have one of those??? Don't you know that you are supposed to own at least one of every toy* that Steve Jobs sells. Just what kind of Mac user are you anyway???

    * Apple TV excluded.

  10. Re:Cannot compute analogy on How To Stretch Your Security Dollar · · Score: 1

    Taking an car a day will keep you headache-free but it can also reduce your risk of heart attack. You're definitely getting your money's worth out of that bitter little car.

  11. Re:Hmmm on The Science of Irrational Decisions · · Score: 1

    I'm not critiquing science, I'm critiquing social science.

    Calling a sociologist a scientist analogous to calling a chiropractor a doctor.

  12. Re:Hmmm on The Science of Irrational Decisions · · Score: 1

    Correlations ranged from 0.33 to 0.52. Those are extremely significant.

    Social scientists might find that significant...I sure don't. It is sort of cute how they think they are performing actual science, though.

  13. LoC? on NCSU's Fingernail-Size Chip Can Hold 1TB · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ten fingernails, each with 1/10 LoC capacity...the future is here, my friends.

  14. Questionable Spin on Astronaut Group Endorses Commercial Spaceflight · · Score: 3, Informative
    FTA

    In polls, a huge percent of the American people support the space program. It costs each of us around 7 cents a day. I think most people would be willing to pay that, to have a human space flight program.

    Way off...bear with me here U.S. population appx 300,000,000 x Percentage of population who pay taxes 55
    gives us 165,000,000 taxpayers
    the NASA budget is $17,600,000,000 / yr, divided between those taxpayers yeilds roughly %106/yr, or roughly 30 cents /day.

    Did I miss something?

  15. Re:Call for boycott on EU Paves the Way For Three-Strikes Cut-Off Policy · · Score: 1

    This is a public call for a worldwide boycott of all products coming out the entertainment industry, be it movies, music, tv programs, computer games of all sorts and whatever else. this boycott shall continue until they all close shop.

    Genius idea. Let us know how that turns out.

  16. Re:2nd Comment on TFA on Skiing Robot May Not Be Useful, But Fun To Watch · · Score: 3, Funny

    how do you get funding? Is your daddy influential? I want some (for something more useful, and along the same lines as your skiier) CONTACT ME, I dare you. gpscOSPAMruise@gmail.com

    My father would never fund anybody who does not have his/her own email server

  17. Re:Whoa on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and the Chicago Cubs · · Score: 1

    Don't get me started on interleague play...second biggest MLB pet-peeve behind the DH rule.

  18. Re:Whoa on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and the Chicago Cubs · · Score: 1

    BTW, GO CARDS! Damn, they didn't even make the playoffs this year =(

    The Cardinals won the NL Central and played in the NLDS. Baseball fans refer to this as the postseason. In non-MLB terms, it would be analogous to making the playoffs in the NFL.

    Perhaps the frowny face emoticon would be more appropriate when mentioning that the Cards got swept in the NLDS....

  19. Re:Scummy... on AT&T Suggests To 300K Employees To Lobby the FCC · · Score: 2, Informative
    That aspect was taken into consideration...
    FTA:

    Cicconi explained how employees could use a personal e-mail account to post comments on the FCC's net neutrality Web site to about the rules.

  20. Almost a Good idea on Google Street View Wants You to Direct New Tricycle Imager · · Score: 3, Funny

    According to the press release: 'The Street View trike began as a 20% project by Daniel Ratner, a Senior Mechanical Engineer on the Street View team.

    Maybe if they would have leveraged Dan more than 20% for this project, he could have put together a collection method that didn't involve a 250 pound trike.

  21. Re:Hilbert Curve on Scientists Discover How DNA Is Folded Within the Nucleus · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, life figured out a form of a Hilbert Curve for storing data? Cool!

    Now, if life could just figure out how to get the blinking numbers off of my VCR...

  22. Keep Reading... on Vegetarian Spider Described · · Score: 5, Funny
    FTA:

    Plesiometa Argyra is a fairly common fly and mosquito catching spider in Costa Rica. Every day of its life it weaves a flimsy circular web to catch its prey - unless it gets stung by a Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga wasp. That’s where this spider’s life gets, well, very interesting. The wasp sting briefly paralyzes the spider and eventually turns it into a zombie.

    Unfortunately, one must read about a boring vegetarian spider to find out that there exists something as mind-blowing as a zombie spider

  23. Re:Five jiggawatts?! on High-Temp Superconductors To Connect Power Grids · · Score: 0, Troll

    I believe the 2nd-gen machines run on mere garbage

  24. Re:I prefer Zones or areas on Should Computer Games Adapt To the Way You Play? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The proper reply would have been "Donkey Kong sucks!" which I would counter with "You know something? YOU SUCK!"

    Billy Madison. Come on, man.

  25. Re:I prefer Zones or areas on Should Computer Games Adapt To the Way You Play? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Basically WoW has it right.

    I disagree, it's a very good game, but I think Donkey Kong is the best game ever.