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  1. Re:EMP? Impending poverty? on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your signature will be your public key attached to your common access card issued by the state. Just scan and go!

  2. Re:Font on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the slide rule!

  3. If you don't give the Godfather his cut... on Microsoft Files Suits Against "Malvertisers" · · Score: 2, Funny

    He gets cranky.

  4. Re:Well, kind of obvious... on How GNOME and KDE Spend Their Money · · Score: 1

    great-now I feel old :( have to say I didn't fact check and was running off memory. Assumptions make an ASS out of U and ME.

  5. Well, kind of obvious... on How GNOME and KDE Spend Their Money · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Considering most large enterprise distros (RHEL, SUSE, etc) ship with KDE as the main DE, it shouldn't come as a shock that they are growing. That, and the infamous statements made by Linus concerning KDE vs. Gnome, perhaps?

  6. Re:Good on Sony To Encase Half the Star Wars: Galaxies Servers In Carbonite · · Score: 1

    seriously? flamebait? come now- I loved every sony product I tried, still have my minidiscs. There is always something about sony that causes them to eat themselves. It just is what it is.

  7. Re:Good on Sony To Encase Half the Star Wars: Galaxies Servers In Carbonite · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I hope anything and everything that Sony touches fails miserably.

    Hmm...there was Betamax...and Minidisc...PS3...soon to be blu-ray... Sadly, I think your curse worked.

  8. Oh Man on New York's Video-Game-Based Public School · · Score: 1

    Sure beats sitting around and programming in Apple Basic on an Apple 2...

  9. Re:Obligatory? on Mafia Sinks Ships Containing Toxic Waste · · Score: 1

    exactly...now-hand me that choppah!

  10. Re:Will ARM compete? on ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold · · Score: 1

    I do now :).

    Although now I am curious-if Nvidia is integrating with the Arm, will this spur better driver integration into the Linux kernel?

  11. Re:Will ARM compete? on ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold · · Score: 1

    ooh, that's sexy....

  12. Tricky... on iPhone As a PC Game Controller · · Score: 1

    With a lack of form-factor to be a proper game controller (no side buttons, poor ergonomics) this just appears to be yet another useless app. Although, it might be decent enough for older games or 2d side scrollers...

  13. Will ARM compete? on ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does ARM plan on integrated video along the lines of Nvidia and ION? http://www.nvidia.com/object/sff_ion.html

  14. Obligatory? on Mafia Sinks Ships Containing Toxic Waste · · Score: 1

    Those ships? Fuggedaboutit!

  15. Re:Yes! on "Right To Repair" Bill Advances In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Ah, incongruous sentence? I shall clarify:

    "YES! About durn time that we are allowed to actually work on our new cars without having to haul it to a dealer."
    Not too sure how you extrapolated that I was pro-defeat...

  16. Yes! on "Right To Repair" Bill Advances In Massachusetts · · Score: 2

    About durn time

  17. Re:I don't get it. on A Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    Umm...actually finding gravitational waves would help 100% of the population. That, and the weight of gravitrons. I'd like the theory holding me to the ground to become a law sometime-not too keen on drifting out of the atmosphere on a whim of disbelief...

  18. Re:Ummmm on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    Seriously? You have to be speaking in jest.

  19. Re:RFID? KISS! on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    By rights, you can already purchase fuel at a rate with the road tax removed for use on "farms" or "off-road use".

  20. Re:Ummmm on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    FTFW!!! I wish I had mod points...:(

  21. Re:Ummmm on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, this should read "Only OREGON would be this stupid".

    \I'm from Oregon

  22. Now ... on No App Store For Microsoft's Zune HD · · Score: 1

    If they could only create a decent music storage device with multiple inputs/outputs that allowed you to record off a digital or analog signal or upload from your computer, put it on very stable media, and had great battery life...

    Oh yeah, they did-the minidisc. Of course, Sony screwed that pooch. Let's do that again with an SD capable player and quit fiddling with video and all that other gimmicky crap. If MS could bring that to the table I'd buy one in a heartbeat. Until then I'll stick with my outdated antiquated MD player.

  23. Ironic on OpenSolaris vs. Linux, For Linux Users · · Score: 2, Insightful

    considering Photoshops runs just fine under wine...

  24. Hmm... on Parallel Processing For Cardiac Simulations Using an Xbox 360 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will you have to be an XboxLive Gold member to get this service?

  25. Interesting... on Australian Researchers Demo Random Access Quantum Optical Memory · · Score: 1

    that this article follows the one about Turing...