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  1. Re:Great on Visually Impaired Gamer Sues Sony · · Score: 1

    What would Sony do to accommodate visually impaired people!? Visually impaired people can see contrasts just fine in games, and that is a commonly adjusted feature, so I don't know what you expect them to do to the games. Can these people not just adjust their tv's with special junk to help them out if they really want it? This is a purely gold digging scheme and shameful of disabled people.

  2. Re:Wow, look at that: on Appeal For Commuter GPS Logs To Aid Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    1)You act like the average flow of traffic is different than what I said. In fact it is the same thing as what I said. 2) You are once again agreeing with me, but your also wrong in some cases. Speed safety does in fact have to do with how fast the vehicle is moving, especially when they take into account the banked roadways and speeds involved with that.

  3. Re:Wow, look at that: on Appeal For Commuter GPS Logs To Aid Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Actually it wouldn't ruin the sales of hybrids. You missed the entire point of hybrids in that they are HYBRID. In other words, they excel at low stop and go speeds, and can also go fast in the same manner that a normal car would. That's because they use the same type of engines! Switching gear ratios will NOT have the same impact as hybrids at all!

  4. Re:Wow, look at that: on Appeal For Commuter GPS Logs To Aid Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    You are totally missing the point of speed limits first of all. They aren't there for any reason having to do with fuel economy or "best cruise speed" for your car. It's all about the upper limit of safe speed in average cars during marginal weather. Slower speeds are ALWAYS better for all cars in terms of safety! I also highly doubt your claim of 95mph being the most efficient in mpg. The wind drag is exponentially increasing as your speed increases, so you should be getting worse and worse mpg as you go faster and faster. In other words, if the speed is constant and your not braking and accelerating over and over again like in a city, you'll get the best mpg the slower you go. Your idea of different speed limits on different types of cars is also a bit far fetched. Everyone going the same speed is much easier to manage.

  5. Re:Anonymized Travel Data on Appeal For Commuter GPS Logs To Aid Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    You are being paranoid for no reason! Cops aren't going to look at your phone GPS to convict you, especially when they can just plant weed in your buttcrack and throw you in jail.

  6. Proposed question is stupid on Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Will stand alone GPS be killed? Of course not! The military and civil navigation systems use it in stand alone settings and they will continue to do so. GPS can't disappear and the only valid question here is "Would Garmin or TomTom go out of business because of google or android?". The answer is still no because they won't die, and if they do it's not because of google or android alone.

  7. How is that sustainable? on Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas · · Score: 1

    I'm not seeing an obvious benefit to China in doing this. Is there one, or is China just being really generous?

  8. Re:Didn't they read Prey!? on Swiss Experimenter Breeds Swarm Intelligence · · Score: 1

    It doesn't follow a cautionary-tale formula, that is merely one of the many points that the book is following. I found it very refreshing and thought provoking rather than "tired". Also, these are big robots that researchers are using when compared to the nano sized particles that "Prey" used.

  9. Re:six micrometer is pretty high resolution for th on A High-Res 3D Video of the Embryonic Heartbeat · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but how does "3d has nothing to do with it" mean anything. The title of the story is that it is in 3d, so I'd say it's pretty relevant no matter how you cut it.

  10. High Res? on A High-Res 3D Video of the Embryonic Heartbeat · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is a grainy 2D film, not a high res 3D film!

  11. Re:A very interesting thought, on Observing Evolution Over 40,000 Generations · · Score: 1

    You're very far off on this assessment. What Lenski has done was very significant to the scientific community and to creationists alike.

  12. The Greatest Show on Earth on Observing Evolution Over 40,000 Generations · · Score: 1

    Quite coincidentally, I was just reading Dawkins' new book in which this very experiment was explained in some detail. This is pretty amazing for proving evolution by natural selection as a process involved in life all around us. Creationist history-deniers are pretty foolish if they actually deny the process of evolution as a fact of life, for it is scientific fact at this point. What could be debated is the origin of life, or maybe different processes by which evolution occurs, but no argument can be made that evolution doesn't actually happen.

  13. Car analogy incoming! on Washington Post Says Use Linux To Avoid Bank Fraud · · Score: 1

    You could also avoid getting in a deadly crash by using the city's free buses to get to the bank, instead of driving your Jeep. My hole-filled analogy to online banking is that you don't necessarily need to drop the entire operating system in order to be safe while banking online. There must be a ton of idioms that support me on this.

  14. Future applications on Computer-Aided ESP Transmits Binary Numbers, Slowly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I give this 5 years before we start turning appliances on with our minds. MMM I want some coffee = BAM coffee starts being made!

  15. Re:This is unbelievable on PhotoSketch Image Manipulation Tool Taking the World by Storm · · Score: 1

    This is NOT unbelievable... This program is novel, but has pretty unimpressive results honestly. Most of these photo's there coming up with are decent, but they don't look real.

  16. Re:They never update their browsers to have featur on Decoding Adobe's Big Device Push · · Score: 1

    I am not following you. Mobile browsers like opera should be following the same standards as all of the other browsers right? Don't the common web standards require html5 compatibility?

  17. Re:If you've got a big screen, sell it and get a P on What To Do With a Free Xbox 360 Pro? · · Score: 1

    Yea the OP doesn't know what he's talking about. Xbox360 is a great media center in combination with a computer. Also, he looked at the gaming scene for xbox and decided he didn't want to do it? I hope he means he doesn't want any games at all, because microsoft has the best selection out there.

  18. Re:What's the point of Flash today on Decoding Adobe's Big Device Push · · Score: 1

    Why can't mobile browsers do html5?

  19. May I just say: on Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s · · Score: 0

    This particular story is inspiring some of the most hilarious comments I've ever read!

  20. Re:So glad... on Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s · · Score: 1

    Likewise, EVERYONE knows that the ps3 is LAME and xbox360 is millions of times way cooler. There is no doubt sony will force everyone else to pay for it, because sony doesn't have money to fix this screwup!

  21. Re:Hmmm. on Cyber-criminal Left In Charge of Prison Computer Network · · Score: 1

    Most "normal" ciizens do have a job.

  22. So glad... on Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s · · Score: 5, Funny

    I went with microsoft instead of sony...

  23. How do you determine edges? on NASA Discovers Giant Ring Around Saturn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If these rings are so see through and spread out how can you measure where the boundaries of it are?

  24. Re:De Icaza Responds on London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source · · Score: 1

    Your missing the point! These shiny shitballs are actually valuable jewels once they've been polished this much, so the fact that they were once pieces of shit is irrelevant once they become so shiny.

  25. I want gel cubes on Microsoft Research Shows Off Multi-Touch Mouse Prototypes · · Score: 1

    Until my entire body is immersed in comfortable gel pods like EVE's universe pilots, I'm sticking with my mouse/keyboard combo!