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  1. Re:And the worst offender ... on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know. But PBS and NPR are commercial free. At least, that's what they always say during their pledge drives.

  2. Re:And the worst offender ... on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    PBS might be except anyway because they are not technically commercials.

  3. Re:It's almost as if on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You mean the Republicans will filibuster it unless it includes tax breaks and gold plated blow jobs for their rich buddies.

  4. Re:This is impractical on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 4, Informative

    The point is that now it will be the same volume measured by *average level*. So one big explosion in CSI doesn't give the advertisers card blanche to blast their ads at you.

  5. A Boon for Image Processing SW makers on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    That'll be $200 to upgrade to the new version with WebP support.

  6. Re:Not as Sharp on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    I'd wait until some (independent) third party has the chance to do comparisons. Google are obviously going to cherry-pick their images that look good in WebP versus JPEG, so their gallery is pretty much worthless.

  7. Re:Video? on Levitating Graphene Is Fastest-Spinning Object · · Score: 2, Informative

    So after RTFA(bstract):

    At micro-torr pressures, torques from circularly polarized light cause the levitated particles to rotate at frequencies >1MHz, which can be inferred from modulation of light scattering off the rotating flake when an electric field resonant with the rotation rate is applied.

  8. Re:Video? on Levitating Graphene Is Fastest-Spinning Object · · Score: 1

    Obviously you don't observe it with a video camera! Without bother to RTFA, I'd guess something like a femtosecond laser used.

  9. Re:Great on House Passes NASA Authorization Bill · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh come on. Clearly the US has been going for a culture victory since it built the Hollywood wonder.

  10. Re:416.6 km/h isn't a new record. on Chinese High-Speed Train Sets New World Record · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well Amtrak manages...what....about 100 km/hr?....sigh.

  11. Re:NASA is dead on House Passes NASA Authorization Bill · · Score: 1

    It's "Stick a fork in it, it's done". Why would you stick a fork in something that's dead? That's just weird. At least use your metaphors correctly.

  12. Re:Great on House Passes NASA Authorization Bill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nope. Different things cost different amounts of money. I don't see throwing 57% of the budget at NASA being a good idea either.

  13. Re:Is it REALLY that bad? on Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry that you are unable to tell the difference between a joke and science. Epic fail indeed.

  14. QWERTY! on Could Anti-Texting Laws Make Roads More Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    QWERTY keyboard build into the steering wheel. Now you can text while keeping your hands on the wheel!

  15. Re:driving without due care and attention on Could Anti-Texting Laws Make Roads More Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    The idea is to pull somebody over before they crash into a cyclist.

  16. Re:FYI on Could Anti-Texting Laws Make Roads More Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    The fine should be $1,500 - no exceptions - and 150 hours of community service.

    I'd rather see traffic fines assessed the same way they do it in Switzerland. Fines are linked to your annual income, so if you're a rich prick you get slapped with fines that are high enough to make sure they hurt you as much as a much smaller fine would hurt somebody making minimum wages.

  17. Re:Dont hate, educate on Could Anti-Texting Laws Make Roads More Dangerous? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem with education is that I think 95% of people (a completely made up statistic) would agree that texting while driving is dangerous and a bad idea.....except when they do it. They are exceptional drivers and can effectively multitask three or four things at a time while operating a couple of tons of steel traveling at 65 mph. Other people though? They're the real danger on the road.

    People have an exaggerated confidence in their own abilities.

  18. Re:Don't take this wrong on Game Reviewers Face Odd Bribery From Publishers · · Score: 1

    You could always submit something yourself you know.

  19. Re:2098? on Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 · · Score: 1

    I have every confidence in the newly elected President Trig Palin III.

  20. Re:Kinda slow on Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 · · Score: 1

    it will accelerate both as it gets closer to the Sun's gravity well and as it gets closer to Earth's gravity well (the latter especially as it enters the atmosphere).

    I rather think it will decelerate when it hits the dense atmosphere, but your point still stands.

  21. Re:Is it REALLY that bad? on Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 · · Score: 3, Funny

    By 2098 it'll probably be more like 85% of the Earth covered in water. By the coastal city of Denver will be under a tsunami watch just in case.

  22. 2098? on Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 · · Score: 1

    Who wants to bet we won't do anything about it until late 2097? Probably be a big issue in the 2096 elections and then congress will be paralyzed by partisan divisions for the first half of 2097. Only the rapidly approaching 2098 mid-terms will force them to focus on the, also rapidly approaching, killer asteroid.

  23. Re:Deadline on Obama Highlights IPv6 Issue · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm sure Fox News will bill it as Obama trying to take over the internet. Your IP address will have to face a death panel!

  24. Re:I hate this shit on GOG.com Not Really Gone · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to disagree that it was a stupid stunt, but it doesn't change the fact that one day they will disappear, for real, and you should be ready for that. As long as you download the installers and put them somewhere safe, you won't lose anything.

  25. Re:DRM? on Review: Civilization V · · Score: 1

    Go to a movie: $6/hour. Eat at a restaurant: $20/hour. Play golf: $15/hour. Cable TV: $0.50-$1/hour. Rent a movie: $2/hour.

    But a game isn't going to the movies, it isn't eating at a restaurant, it isn't playing golf, it isn't cable TV and it isn't renting a movie. So I don't see how any of those comparisons are valid.