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  1. Re:Not middle fingers on New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny" · · Score: 1

    Ok... with my palms facing me and my thumbs in... using 4 on my left hand and 2 on my right hand, I'm sticking up my two ring fingers.

    Thumbs out would have worked, or thumbs in/palms out... but then you'd be flipping yourself off.

  2. Wrong on TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App · · Score: 1

    Wrong... It uses cell tower-assisted GPS. This is most definitely GPS, and uses the GPS chip in the iPhone. It's not compatible with the original iPhone, because there is no GPS.

  3. Re:What's the point? on TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1.) No turn-by-turn
    2.) No voice routing
    3.) Most important - No offline storage of maps.

    If you dare go somewhere without cellphone service, you'll quickly find that the streets disappear in Google Maps... That's because it loads the map as needed over your cellphone data connection.

  4. Re:Here's another fact. on Dell Says High Linux Netbook Returns a "Non-Issue" · · Score: 1

    And if I send you $1 million Monopoly dollars, I've essentially given you $1 million dollars. I still prefer my dollars (and truth) to be real, not "essentially" real.

  5. Re:Great on AT&T Makes Its Terms of Service Even Worse, To Discourage Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    It's like the dump trucks that say "Stay back 100ft. Not responsible for debris."

    Yeah right... I should put a bumper sticker on my car that says: "Stay back 100ft. Not responsible for accidents."

    I wonder how well that would hold up in court...

  6. Re:Nintendo's AI on Mario AI Competition · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, New Super Mario Bros. Wii is using a fixed level... So it's not so much AI as it is preprogrammed response. It likely wouldn't know how to deal with a randomly generated level.

  7. Re:but... on MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models · · Score: 0, Troll

    If they told you, it would just be in Euros... so you'd have to get a converter to figure it out... just like listing a US car developed at a US University with metric system stats...

  8. Re:Idea on Court Appoints Pro Bono Counsel For RIAA Defendant · · Score: 1

    You seriously think 1000 people could match the funding of the RIAA dollar for dollar?

  9. Re:Is this Legit, or Contempt? on RIAA Loses Bid To Keep Revenues Secret · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing. They intentionally missed a court ordered deadline. That should be contempt.

  10. Re:If the Apollo Program would have continued . . on What If the Apollo Program Had Continued? · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're assuming what O is turning our country into resembles anything like Capitalism. Just like Soviet Russia, we're moving towards Socialism.

  11. You're Right on Lawyer Offers $1M For Proof His Client Could Have Done It; Oops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're absolutely right... You know, he WAS convicted of "gunning down" four people, and we all know how long it takes to pull a freaking trigger...

  12. Re:Slightly Wrong Summary on Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe · · Score: 1

    So, how would one go about getting a browser on a machine with no browser? Are they expecting the end user to learn and use FTP?

  13. Executive Branch on Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe · · Score: 1

    You know the executive branch is the President, right?

  14. Re:Interest? on NASA's Skylab $400 Littering Fine Paid By DJ · · Score: 1

    But the violation was committed in space... not in Australia's jurisdiction. Perhaps Australia should have sued SPACE for letting the debris fall in their country.

  15. Re:Even better! on Atari 1200XL Stacked Up Against a Dell Inspiron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, we DO measure the power of an engine in "horsepower". Dogbox, not so much...

  16. Cut Rate Option... on NASA Hedges Their Bets On Return To Moon · · Score: 1

    Does the "cut rate option" involve scale models and CGI, perhaps?

  17. Boosting the odds on Cassini Spots Geysers On Saturn's Moon Enceladus · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's boosting the odds from 1 in 800 kazillion to 1 in 799.999999999 kazillion.

  18. Re:One sixth the gravity on NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice · · Score: 1, Funny

    If a 1 mile high explosion on Earth is your idea of a firecracker, I'd advise you to keep your firecrackers away from my house, sir.

  19. Re:Shock and Awe... on NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice · · Score: 1

    Obama is president now, so there's still a whole lot of sucking...

  20. Re:Let's not put the cart before the horse on Introducing the Warpship · · Score: 4, Funny

    Steal their invention, then travel back in space-time and patent it.

  21. Re:The 15 problems on Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes · · Score: 1

    The first thing I thought when I saw the "bulky expansions" were the "bulky" external hard drives that we plug into our machines via USB/Firewire/eSATA. Is that still considered a design flaw?

  22. Re:But is it better than a marker? on GPS Shoes For Alzheimer's Patients · · Score: 1

    I have a hard time believing that the marker idea isn't better than a shoe that will likely cost hundreds to thousands of dollars ( old people often need custom orthopedics)and a cellular/GPRS/SMS/whatever subscritpion to report the information.

    If they already need orthopedic shoes, then adding a GPS to them won't increase the cost much.

    Why? Is there some kind of GPS coupon program for orthopedic shoe wearers that I'm unaware of?

  23. No, not really... on Penguin Poop Seen From Space · · Score: 1

    The average satellite probably doesn't have a camera on it. In fact, even the average *spy* satellite can't read the words on a stop sign... They're looking from the top down. It would have to be at the very edge of the horizon, and they would have to be pointed that way.

  24. Re:Seriously? on Palm Pre "iTunes Hack" Detailed By DVD Jon · · Score: 0

    Seriously? Their product is pretending to be an iPod so that it can force a connection with Apple's Intellectual Property (iTunes). I'm pretty sure there's something in the iTunes EULA that prevents non-Apple devices from connecting.

  25. How is that an issue? on IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation · · Score: 1

    How is it an "issue" that SSNs can be entered with or without dashes? Just strip the dashes in post-processing, then add them back if you absolutely have to have them...