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  1. Re:This is kind of stupid/obvious on Mac Users More Liberal Than Windows Users · · Score: 1

    Software isn't everything. The hardware is fairly "walled garden", one can't just buy any 86x computer, and install MacOSX on it. One has to buy the computer from Apple. Windows can be installed on (or bought) a extremely high number of computers compared to MacOSX. It can even be installed on computers that one builds from parts from entirely different manufacturers. (Linux can do this all to and even more.)

  2. Re:PPoC is a joke on Pirate Party of Canada Promises VPN For Freedom · · Score: 1

    No, They would merely be represented by a candidate that 90% of the people didn't have as there first choice, instead they would be represented by a candidate that was their second or third choice, because more people agree with that candidate that with any other.

  3. Re:Supercars on Electromagnetic Automobile Suspension Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    That is because it is safer. Less things for the user to control, which means less skill to drive, which means less operator errors, which means less car crashes, which means less people dying.

  4. So now will the time line be... on Getting Closer To Using Graphene For Electronics · · Score: 1

    So now will the time line for computers be vacuum tube -> transistors -> integrated circuits -> graphene?

  5. Now we can have viruses... on Tesla CEO Says Model S Will Support Third-Party Apps · · Score: 1

    Now we can have viruses that not only steal your data but steal your car as well.

  6. Re:Just use real live brains! on New Hardware Needed For Future Computational Brain · · Score: 1

    This would work except for the fact that most people don't want to wait 25 years to get a computer that can just do basic math.

  7. Oh dear on Molybdenite As an Alternative To Silicon · · Score: 2

    Oh dear. This means they might have to rename Silicon Valley to Molybdenite Valley, but that doesn't sound nearly as nice.

  8. Re:Useful not not authoriative on Happy 10th Birthday To Wikipedia · · Score: 2

    Wikipedia has the nofollow attribute on all of its external links *, so the Google's pagerank would not be affected. **

  9. Re:Not a chance.... on OLPC Halves Power Consumption For XO 1.75 · · Score: 1

    Not quite. It is only triple the price if one adds 200% to the price. if ,instead, one multiplies the price by 200% (2), then it is only double.

  10. Re:Good idea on Bill Calls For Wi-Fi Base Stations In All Federal Buildings · · Score: 1

    But that is not fair because, why should a rich person that does not use roads, civil courts and other government services, have to pay extra just because other rich people use roads, civil courts and other government services? The point of government services is that one can use them as much as one needs with out having to pay extra. Else they might as well just privatize it.

  11. Every Year on Nokia Builds a Touchscreen Display Made of Ice · · Score: 3, Interesting
  12. Re:Bullshit. on Map Based Passwords · · Score: 1

    But the user will have to be about to click on this point more than one time. That means ether that the user will have to zoom in very far and click on a very small object (something people don't want to do) or you need to make the point have a radius thus making it so that there are less points that one as to check to hack a password.

  13. Re:Creationist Wolfram Alpha? on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 1

    because he gave his creation freedom!

  14. Re:Urine? on Is DIY Algae Farming the Future? · · Score: 1

    Anyone with a lagoon has a marsh of human waste in their backyard. It is a common way to dispose of human waste (after it comes out of the septic tank) where I live.

  15. Re:This is one place Apple has it right on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    But if that was true, then people putting stickers on windows computers is just like having a Canadian flag on the space shuttle's arm.

  16. Oh, great, another punctuation mark on Open Sarcasm Fighting Copyrighted Punctuation · · Score: 1

    Oh, great, another punctuation mark, now people won't keep mistake sentences for sarcasm when they aren't, like this one.

  17. Re:US abuse on WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Let me point out that in WW1 the Germans had repeatedly been sinking American ships prior to when the American's entered to war. The Germans sank at least seven U.S. merchant ships. That seams like more than one attack to me.

  18. Re:Back in the good ol days on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    It is for marking some number as money with out saying what type the number is. For example. (the generic currency sign) 10 could mean $10 or €10 or some entirely different currency. It is some times used in games marking money like "gold" is.