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  1. Re:Try the Surface Pro on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 1

    But the hinge can't hold the screen up. Laptops have been able to do that for decades.

  2. Re:Bad art.. on Horse_ebooks Is Human After All · · Score: 1

    'Installation' art is the worst.

  3. Bad art.. on Horse_ebooks Is Human After All · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bad art often occurs when 'artists' replace quality with novelty.

    See horse_ebooks and Pronunciation Book for perfect examples.

  4. Re:FUCK OFF on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    Back in the day they would include a thing called a manual.

    Check out the manual that came with the original 1984 Macintosh. It came with a manual that explained all the mouse movements and keyboard modifiers. It wasn't big either. People read it and they knew what to do.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWFmtJSctNc

  5. Re:FUCK OFF on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    >Other than that, I'll stick with FVWM.

    Here at my megacorp, we mostly run on FVWM.

    The FVWM writers kept adding features until they had enough. Then they stopped.

  6. It was flying close to ground. If it was higher up it would have missed the buildings.

  7. Yup. When the signal is bad, text. It's got the higher redundancy of the management channel.

  8. Re:Bread and circus "news" department ... on FAA May Let You Use Electronic Devices During Airplane Takeoff and Landing Soon · · Score: 1

    >What is so earthshakingly important that it cannot wait until the takeoff or landing phases are completed ?

    Your rights.

  9. No. This is an old wives tale. Up in the air, your cellphone can see no towers, because they are too far away and you're in a steel tube. Even if it could, it wouldn't be a problem, because the phone would choose only one of them.

    Hypothetically the problem might exist the other way, whereby too many cell towers can see your phone, but around an airport the interference coming from everything else at an airport swamps anything a phone on a plane might do. By the time the plane is out of the airport zone, it is too high for the phone to have any contact with cell towers - whose antenna don't point up in the sky.

  10. Re:Whistleblowers and kiddie porn .. on Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty To Leaking Secrets to the Associated Press · · Score: 2

    It does seem that way. Before you leak, destroy all your storage media lest you find unexpected photos appearing on them.

  11. Re:Consortium on BlackBerry Will Sell Itself For $4.7 Billion · · Score: 1

    RIM/Blackberry purchased Certicom. So they have all the Certicom patents on elliptic curve encryption.

    But now the NSA leaks have led people to believe that the NSA may have broken ECC. So the value of all those patents just went to $0 since if no one is going to trust ECC to be secure, no one is going to use it. Another own goal.

  12. Re: What is PCB? on PCBs Cause Birds To Sing a Different Tune · · Score: 1

    >In the early 90s the term referring to a circuit board was changed to Printed Wire Assembly, or PWA

    They tried, but it certainly didn't stick.

  13. Re:NSA and cable taps on Trans-Pacific Cable Plans Mired In US-China Geopolitical Rivalry · · Score: 1

    The USA has spent it's history thinking that the enemy was

    1) The British
    2) The native Americans
    3) The Mexicans
    4) The Russians
    5) The Chineese

    In time they may work out what the rest of the world has known all along. The French are the real enemy,

  14. Re:NSA on Trans-Pacific Cable Plans Mired In US-China Geopolitical Rivalry · · Score: 1

    IEEE 802 should set up a working group to write interoperability standards for communication backdoor systems.

  15. Re:1985 on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 2014, it's a little hard to come by.

    Just like sudafed.

  16. Re:Important part the summary neglected on South African Research Team Creates World's First Digital Laser · · Score: 1

    KitKat's can lase?

  17. Re:Important part the summary neglected on South African Research Team Creates World's First Digital Laser · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe it has fingers.

  18. Re:Hold up. on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Hold up. on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    Nah, just that ted talk by the entropy chappie.

  20. Re:Brazil is like the U.S. in the '50s on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    > "Leave It To Beaver"

    The didn't call them Brazilians for nothing.

  21. Re:ballsy move on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lots more international fibre might be a good thing rather that treating the US as a passive hub.

  22. Re:Hold up. on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    >We try to find answers to the Universe through those models, we don't make the Universe exist because we built a model.

    You make more universe exist all the time as you make choices that drive entropy ever upwards.

  23. Still Cold on Stronger Winds Explain Puzzling Growth of Sea Ice In Antarctica · · Score: 2

    So it's still code as buggery down there?

  24. Re:Off the pig! Time to get rid of OSs on VMs. on New Operating System Seeks To Replace Linux In the Cloud · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So it's like DOS running on a VM. Yay!

  25. Re:Why all the whining in the first place? on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1

    I guess you need to stop buying things with chips in it then.