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  1. Methods of torture on Panasonic ToughBook Testing Facility Tour · · Score: 1, Funny

    Soaking, electric shock, heating and electromagnetic radiation are among the many methods of torture used. They should bring Jack Bauer in for this "testing" department
  2. Re:Federal Reserve HEY MODERATORS! on Is 'Web 2.0' Another Bubble? · · Score: 1

    A good number of historians would disagree you on that. Most say WWII ended the Great Depression.

    And your comments about inflating / deflating are very simplistic. One of the main problems we have today is China / Japan are buying too much US debt. They are doing this to keep the US dollar up so that we buy more crap from them so their economy keeps running. They can't stop, otherwise they go into recession too.

    One of these days something is going to give and we're all going to go down together, but I think the US will be in the worst trouble. (China maybe experiencing a Japan-style 10-year deflation?)

  3. Re:I'm a bad, bad pirate on Piracy Outstripping Legal Video Sales? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can go to www.nbc.com and download Heroes episodes from thier website. Not sure if includes commercials or not, but IMO, nbc is doing the right thing here by allowing access to episodes over the web (even if it was with commercials).

  4. Re:misleading summary on Six Laptops That Don't Burn · · Score: 1

    Of course the heat of the laptop affects the chances of internal short.

    You see, heat ~ energy

    According to Einstein, energy = mc^2, there fore energy ~ mass

    And mass causes gravity. By your own words, gravity was the cause of the short, ergo heat caused the short.

  5. Re:To be quite honest on Nuclear Tech Race Is On In Middle East · · Score: 1

    > The idea of a suicide bomber was created in the Middle East.

    Have you heard of Japanese kamikaze pilots?

    I'm sure there are even more prior examples of "suicide bombers" if you go back far enough.

  6. Re:Fantasy done to death on Ask the Warhammer Online Team · · Score: 1
    There are already more fantasy MMORPGs than I can shake a *snip*... For novelty, why not a Warhammer 40K MMORPG?


    That question has already been answered by none other than the CEO of Mythic and has already been posted ... drums roll ... on Slashdot!

    http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/28/ 1414230

    Fantasy is easier than sci-fi. Want to know why? It's simple. A gun.
  7. Quake Camping on Get Buff While Geeking Out · · Score: 1
    think treadmill meets Quake 4. Again, you have to keep moving to stay in the game.


    Isn't the "camping" problem in most FPS games bad enough already?
  8. Re:No because it has flaws on Three Years in Prison for Posting Hatespeak · · Score: 1
    ... I like Windows so I ...


    Mod parent down! :)
  9. Re:Plenty of Room on US Population to Top 300 Million · · Score: 2, Funny

    uh, the problem with colder climates is not just the temperature and that that you have to cover yourself from head to toe.

    The problem is that all the young members of the opposite sex also are covering thier bodies from head to toe.

  10. Re:Bias on Natural Language Processing for State Security · · Score: 1
    If they're wrong. You cannot be sentenced without an independant review of the evidence. So what's the problem ?


    Well, they can throw you in Gitmo for a few years or fly you to a Syrian prison to be tortured.
  11. Re:Sigh. on Natural Language Processing for State Security · · Score: 1

    The scary thing, when I think about it, I'd rather have a computer flagging me than a human who may judge me by the color of my skin or whether or not I looked at them crosseyed or not.

    Not that I'm thrilled by these developments...

  12. Re:What I do care about... on Panasonic May Relaunch In-flight Broadband · · Score: 1

    Now that almost all airlines did away with smoking sections vs. non-smoking sections, I can see them coming up with cellphone sections vs. non-cellphone sections.

    Which doesn't help because you have the same problems we had before with smoking sections. On a full flight, you may be forced to take a seat in the cellphone section, or you may be seated close enough to the cellphone section that you still get disturbed.

  13. they make ATM machines for christsakes! on Hotel Minibar Key Opens Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    I don't understand this.

    Diebold's primary business is to make ATM machines. They obviously understand security and correctness of results. Why can't they build voting machines properly?

    Imagine you hear that an ATM machine was secured by a hotel minibar key. Or that the ATM makes a mistake but the bank won't give you your money back since there is no record of a transaction? Voting machines should be built to the same level of security and accountability.

  14. Re:US mothballed half its space missions on China and Russia to Launch Joint Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    I don't know what's more funny. The joke itself, or the fact that you felt that you needed to add a link to a map to Haiti so people knew what you were talking about.

  15. Re:Pyramid Scheme on EVE Online Rocked by 700 Billon ISK Scam · · Score: 1

    i was trying to be sarcastic. In effect, thats what the government is doing. Selling T-bonds to pay interest off the previously sold T-bonds.

    Yes its not exactly the same, since the government can simply print more cash or raise money through other means (both with thier own problems).

  16. Re:Pyramid Scheme on EVE Online Rocked by 700 Billon ISK Scam · · Score: 1

    You mean its like US Government treasury bonds?

  17. Re:workstation vs. server on VMware Releases Server 1.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Primary visible difference:

    You can run VMware Server VMs headless and can connect to the console remotely.

    Workstation, you cannot.

  18. Re:Intel wall starting to crumble on Dell to Use AMD Chips in its Servers · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are initiating outsourcing of some production to Chartred.

    I assume they planned in advance for this, since if the Dell deal didn't go through, they could cancel the Cartred deal without having tons of spare capacity on thier hands.

    With 20/20 hindsight, looking at AMD's Chartred plans, it should have been pretty obvious that AMD had a big customer lined up. Too bad I didn't have that foresight, otherwise I could have made some good cash on AMD stock.

  19. Why put anti-SPAM measures in the email address?? on CmdrTaco becomes An Old(er) Man · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You want his email inbox to be flooded don't you?

  20. Re:Nahhh on Will OSX Build In Torrenting? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up please and grandparent down.

    Its one thing to be a grammar nazi, but it is MUCH MUCH worse if you are a grammar nazi and don't know grammar yourself.

    One more semi-interesting thing about the apostrophe rules. They are the only english grammar rule I know of that has only one exception. (its / it's)

  21. Re:I've done it on Unmanned Aerial Drones Coming Soon Above U.S. · · Score: 5, Funny

    > As a little kid I actually tried put this myth to the test it worked flawlessly.

    Where's that -1 Evil moderation when you need it?

  22. Re:Encryption on Google Slips Talk of Online Storage Service · · Score: 1

    In this case, the index will indirectly contain the contents of your file (perhaps out of order, but enough data nonetheless)

    So you aren't really hiding that much by encrypting it if you index it first.

  23. Re:Specs... on Lenovo's New PCs and Laptops · · Score: 1

    duh, because they are the "value" models, they aren't going to have the latest stuff.

  24. Re:Total Bullshit on VisiCalc Creator Developing WikiCalc · · Score: 1

    I think you need to chill.

  25. Re:1.2 Petabyte equals on A 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    But how many Libraries of Congresses is it?