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  1. Re:...compared to the power of ACTING!! on Unesco Probing Star Wars Filming In Ireland · · Score: 1

    If I had seen this comment 2 months ago I would agree completely. However, I have recently seen this clip www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_VnHAy1Vdc which highlights that if you are just good at your job, you can act without any help from being in the correct setting.

  2. Re:Very original on Grad Student Rigs Cheap Alternative To $1,000 Air Purifiers In Smoggy China · · Score: 1

    You jest, but me being very cynical, suspect that the $1,000 filter probably cost $10 to make. Marketing ("How much would you pay for clean air?" "You can't put a price on your health, but $1,000 sounds about right") does the rest.

    The original price might have been set by an American in the first place.

  3. The power to destroy a habitat is nothing... on Unesco Probing Star Wars Filming In Ireland · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The power to destroy a habitat is nothing next to the power of Money.

    One must really wonder what is so special about this location, that they A) feel the need to risk damage to the habitats to film, and B) could not be reproduced in a green screen environment like they do everything else.

  4. Re:As Flammable as Steel Wool? on Quiet Cooling With a Copper Foam Heatsink · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just dial: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

  5. Re:What the hell kind of dialup did you have? on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    I only got his point just now! Damn throttling!

  6. What an idiot. on Day One With the Brand New Oculus Rift DK2: the Good, the Ugly and the Games · · Score: 1

    He decries the lack of games. Does he not understand the purpose of Developer Kits? The whole point, as I understand it, is that Games Developers should get a DK2 and Make Their Game Compatible With It.

    You shouldn't be a gamer buying a DK2 and then pouting that there are currently no games supporting it. You wouldn't do the same if you had your hands on a Developer version of a next gen console.

  7. Re:What?!? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 3, Funny

    No wait, this is a GOOD thing. Given how hard it can be to cancel your account with some places, the ability to have it cancelled in 145 characters or less is a major step forward

  8. Re:Wait for it... on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    He does not have it, because it has been misplaced. If I misplaced my keys, then I would not have them.

  9. Re:Wow. Terrble Turn. on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    One man's claiming credit, is another man's owning up.

  10. Re:nothing new on Giant Crater Appears In Northern Siberia · · Score: 1

    Damn Fracking!

  11. Re:Easy solution ... provide a better excuse on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    Firstly, remember they WILL resort to lying, begging or pleading to get you to keep the service.

    Secondly, unless you keep a record of you telling them you are cancelling, either in a recording or registered mail, they will send your unpaid bills to debt collectors, and your credit rating will take a nosedive.

    So either lie to them, or record the phone call, make it last 5 minutes. "Hi I'm calling to cancel my account, here are my customer details... I am keeping a recording of this call for my records. Have a nice day"

  12. False Positives on Seat Detects When You're Drowsy, Can Control Your Car · · Score: 1

    I had the chance to test drive this. However I had had lunch earlier at Taco Bell, and the car seemed to think I was having heart attacks.

  13. Re:we've known this for a while on Economist: File Sharing's Impact On Movies Is Modest At Most · · Score: 1

    You see, that's exactly it.

    If you released the movie for free (even low quality) before the theatrical release, then two things happen.

    1) All that money they spend on marketing is worthless
    2) If the Movie is bad then nobody goes to watch it

    At the moment, they can spend lots of money on marketing to fool people into going to see it in the cinema. The money they give to the marketeers can be written off against the 'profits'. If you got access to the whole movie prior to release, then they couldn't hide the lemons they produce under millions spent on bribing critics. If they couldn't bribe critics, then they would be forced to make good movies. Their ability to churn out shit movies is vital to their money laundering organisation.

  14. Re:It's like, how much more black could this be? on Scientists Have Developed a Material So Dark That You Can't See It · · Score: 1

    It's not really black. If you look closely you'll see it's just really really really dark blue. Only Priest's cloths are actually black.

  15. Re:Google Glass only? on Researchers Develop New Way To Steal Passwords Using Google Glass · · Score: 1

    You could easily set up a telescope and camera on a balcony on an elevated point overlooking target area.

  16. This is something I like about the latest Captain America movie, versus other avenger-related movies. Captain America is described as "The peak of human capability" which I take to mean he's not actually super-human. This means that the villains he fights don't have to be super-human. The Winter Soldier was a freak, but didn't have a super power.

    It helps to ground the movie/story when the characters are not super-human. On the opposite side we have man of steel, which descended into a bit of a super-farce for the last hour between Clarke and Zod.

  17. Re:Seems excessive... on Netflix Is Looking To Pay Someone To Watch Netflix All Day · · Score: 1

    It depends on whether you embrace it or not. There are some people for whom game tester is an amazing job. It also depends on the games being tested. There is a small clip of a demo at a con done by one of the game testers.

    http://imgur.com/gallery/5XLUt...

    When you are this good, even game testing can be fun, I guess.

  18. Re:Not Australian, but I support this! on New Zealand ISP's Anti-Geoblocking Service Makes Waves · · Score: 1

    Not entirely true.

    Terrestrial TV companies (RTE in Ireland and BBC in UK) have agreements with the regulators to give them first shot at airing TV shows in the country. It can often be on their behest that these shows are not available to stream from Netflix and Hulu. It took years to even be able to get Netflix in Ireland in the first place!

  19. Re:Please do not use this facility on New Zealand ISP's Anti-Geoblocking Service Makes Waves · · Score: 1

    I'd be VERY careful of any old person in NZ or Aus. Anyone able to survive the natural elements there for that long has to be particularly badass.

  20. Re:Holiday in the USA? on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 1

    My wife is from Poland (I am Irish), and in order to go to the US for a holiday, we have to ring a premium phone line to arrange an interview, where we must demonstrate that we have return flights booked, hotel booked and enough spare cash to keep us going while we're there. She must also provide details of employment etc. to prove she won't try to stay there illegally.

    This is before all the TSA bullshit which I, who can easily get a visa, won't stand for in the first place.

  21. Re:And Your Vibrator on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 1

    As a guy, I'm very tempted to start bringing a vibrator in my carry on just for the laughs.

  22. Re:This is scary on Consciousness On-Off Switch Discovered Deep In Brain · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this is the mechanism involved in hypnotism.

  23. Re:Long Distance Flying on Consciousness On-Off Switch Discovered Deep In Brain · · Score: 1

    And Micheal Bay movies!

  24. Re:Pilots View in WWII over Germany on The View From Inside A Fireworks Show · · Score: 1

    Well of course it wasn't as colourful in WWII, they only had black and white back then, you insensitive clod!

  25. Re:kind of like a small town fireworks show? on The View From Inside A Fireworks Show · · Score: 1

    Iceland is an island in the North Atlantic. I suspect you to be from somewhere landlocked, where the use of fish as a unit of measurement is as rare as a good tasting perch.