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  1. In Soviet Russia ... on Arduino Assisted Mind-Controlled Television · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia television controls your mind.
    Have you had your soma pill today?

  2. Re:Figure 450 million per shuttle launch on Russia Doubles Price For Launching US Astronauts · · Score: 1

    Passangers wouldn't pay 50 million. It's called market segmentation.

  3. Re:Don't fall for the ham scam! on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: 1

    Have you realized that it's an actual review on Amazon? (Not written by me.)

  4. Re:FUHHHREEEEEDOOOM OFFFF SPEEEEEAAAACH!!!111 on Print-On-Demand Publisher VDM Infects Amazon · · Score: 1

    I am not either. (If you care to read my posts on this site, you'll see I am social-democrat.)

  5. Re:NOT THREE DAYS on After 27 Years, a New High Score For Asteroids · · Score: 1

    "The film was briefly out on VHS and DVD in the 1990s, but went out of print very quickly, but is now available on DVD. It is infrequently shown due to its lengthy running time. It is sometimes shown in two parts, or in its entirety with two intermissions. Tarr has said the film should be shown without any interruption, but this is usually difficult to do given the restrictions of both film and video projection."

    So the DVD is a big compromise, having to change discs. I hope there will be a blue-ray version, so that we can enjoy it the way it's meant.

  6. Re:NOT THREE DAYS on After 27 Years, a New High Score For Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Comes on 4 DVDs, but it's intended to be watched in one session. 435 minutes is roughly 7.5 hours, so the target audience is those, who watch movies for a living. It's one shift + lunch break.

  7. Re:NOT THREE DAYS on After 27 Years, a New High Score For Asteroids · · Score: 2

    That's for pussies. Eat this. Hungarian post-soviet socio-drama in 435 minutes!

  8. Don't fall for the ham scam! on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't fall for the ham scam!

    BEWARE .... radio is *not* made of Ham, but rather made of plastic.

    This review is from: Galaxy DX2517 10 Meter Base Ham Radio

    I had wanted to get a radio made of ham for an anniversary present, but unfortunately I didn't read the product description properly. This also isn't actually 10 meters big, I was hoping for an approx. 30 foot in circumference radio made of ham. It's much smaller than that and fits on a small desk.

  9. Re:FUHHHREEEEEDOOOM OFFFF SPEEEEEAAAACH!!!111 on Print-On-Demand Publisher VDM Infects Amazon · · Score: 1

    This is pretty much the nanny state approach. Please don't tell me what sane people should or shouldn't do.

  10. Re:How are we supposed to understand this? on Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings · · Score: 1

    It is not uncommon for the enemy to drive up in vans and jump out. In fact, in places like Palestine (and previously in Iraq, when they had more resources) it is not unusual for jihadis to use ambulances to transport fighters. They try to use our rules against us,

    If you'd had watched the video, you could see that's not the case here:
    the choppers wait for the people to exit the van, grab the wounded, and then fire.

  11. Re:Still not worth purchasing on iPad Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    "Explain how jail breaking remains locked to apple, else you are ejected from this conversation."
    It makes your warranty void, prevents you from installing the official security patch, and is generally a legal grey area ...

  12. And now the obligatory ... on iPad Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    Your ideas interest me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  13. Re:Disregarding core competencies always ends badl on Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google · · Score: 1

    Now Apple wants to enter a field in which they not only have no experience, but also lack experience in the entire underlying field of large-scale, massively parallel computing?

    Like Opencl?

    "OpenCL was initially developed by Apple Inc., which holds trademark rights, and refined into an initial proposal in collaboration with technical teams at AMD, IBM, Intel, and Nvidia. Apple submitted this initial proposal to the Khronos Group. On June 16, 2008 the Khronos Compute Working Group was formed[1] with representatives from CPU, GPU, embedded-processor, and software companies."

  14. Re:listen to scientists on Chicago Debates Merits of ShotSpotter Technology · · Score: 1

    Why can't you leave the cat on the tree?

  15. Re:The other side of the coin to Regulatory Captur on The Short Arm of the Law · · Score: 1

    They sell the patent in an auction, money goes to government, case solved. Why do you insist to eminent domain?

  16. Re:If I could do it, I would! on What the Top US Companies Pay In Taxes · · Score: 1

    Nations have constitutions, companies have bottom lines.

  17. Re:Transaction Tax would fix this on What the Top US Companies Pay In Taxes · · Score: 1

    I don't know how is it in the US but in Hungary "sales tax" can be reclaimed by companies. (And I believe it's so in other EU countries as well.)

  18. Re:Legacy What? on Multicore Requires OS Rework, Windows Expert Says · · Score: 1

    "Vista/Windows 7 are written from scratch, they aren't derivatives of NT.
    That's what their marketing department tells you and yet you can run applications that were written for XP as well as many legacy applications on them. You can load up Visual Basic as an example and it runs."

    I haven't used W7, but ppl say there's an XP mode, with a full bundled XP. The question is, how are "native" W7 apps run.

  19. Re:-1 Troll on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Oh, and customization is really an option for most proprietary software!

    If you buy the software that already does what you need you don't need customization. (There are areas, where there isn't good OSS alernatives.)

  20. Re:The other side of the coin to Regulatory Captur on The Short Arm of the Law · · Score: 1

    Why only one bidder? All pharma companies could bid.

  21. Re:This might actually be a pretty good developmen on Print-On-Demand Publisher VDM Infects Amazon · · Score: 1

    Wow, I imagine sending a handwritten HTTP request to the publisher, who sends me the book, containing the page!

  22. Re:FUHHHREEEEEDOOOM OFFFF SPEEEEEAAAACH!!!111 on Print-On-Demand Publisher VDM Infects Amazon · · Score: 1

    I have to repeat myself:
    "f you zoom in the cover image, it tells it's from Wikipedia, however, it isn't mentioned in the Amazon product description, so the angry reviewer might not have noticed it."

  23. Re:welcome to the world of UGC on Print-On-Demand Publisher VDM Infects Amazon · · Score: 1

    If you zoom in the cover image, it tells it's from Wikipedia, however, it isn't mentioned in the Amazon product description, so the angry reviewer might not have noticed it.

  24. Re:welcome to the world of UGC on Print-On-Demand Publisher VDM Infects Amazon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Please, which Shakespeare play is about a killing machine sent back from the future?

  25. Re:The other side of the coin to Regulatory Captur on The Short Arm of the Law · · Score: 1

    I totally agree. Too big to fail means it's above the law.