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  1. Hmmm on Duke University Creates Perfect, Centimeter-scale Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll believe it when I see it.

  2. Re:Worked well for Radiohead. on Publisher of Free Textbooks Says It Will Now Charge For Them, Instead · · Score: 1

    / To be read in the stlye of Lewis Black /
    Radiohead are not a start up band. Radiohead, got to the top of their game with millions of sales. Plus millions and millions and millions and millions of marketing cash already invested. My band* tried the same business model, we've sold nothing!!! Also, you're not helping my aneurysm by comparing music and books for a course. Books that you are only buying cos the guy that teaches the class wrote it!.
    *Not really in a band - the sales are the same.

  3. Re:Having an aneurysm - send help. on Publisher of Free Textbooks Says It Will Now Charge For Them, Instead · · Score: 1

    It would be except Dice Holdings, Inc.do make money from other things like job listsing and they also have SourceForge, Freecode and Geeknet. Just being a news site may not be enough these days to cut it.

  4. Having an aneurysm - send help. on Publisher of Free Textbooks Says It Will Now Charge For Them, Instead · · Score: 4, Funny

    How or when did they expect FREE (with "optional" charges) to start bringing in enough money to work long-term?

  5. Re:Humor on Researchers Crown Buddhist Monk the World's Happiest Man · · Score: 1

    Can't bring myself to combo break! When reading this, my brain produces a level of gamma waves — those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory — never before reported in neuroscience!

  6. Re:Your priorities are all messed up!! on NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Starbucks is to test the Sewers with.

  7. Re:1000 pflops is 1 exaflop right? on China Building a 100-petaflop Supercomputer Using Domestic Processors · · Score: 2

    The point was technology (my phone) hasn't been in development for over a billion years. Tommy Flowers only put Colossus together in the 1930s. All you've said is true given less than 100 years of effort. I impressed that a tiny tiny phone does "edge detection". I stopped reading after, I can't help if you're not happy.

  8. Re:1000 pflops is 1 exaflop right? on China Building a 100-petaflop Supercomputer Using Domestic Processors · · Score: 2

    It took a long time for evolution to put a person together. A machine will get to our level a bit faster. My phone does face recognition and tracking in an instant. That still amazes and worries me.

  9. Re:Wall St. Closed on Hurricane Sandy Nears East Coast · · Score: 1, Funny

    " "WORK" - "FROM" - "HOME" " Or as I call it "Toss yourself into a froth as soon as the missus leaves the house".

  10. Re:Apology Streisand Explosion on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 1

    The story is being reported as an "apology". The truth went out the window with the headline and I'm sure this is how a lot of news sources will run with the story too. I'm sure the judges didn't want that mockery of the judgment made.

  11. Apology Streisand Explosion on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 2

    It reads like a child saying sorry :) this has got to reach the news along with the follow case.
    I think Microsoft would have written a 10,000 word apology which read like a EULA. Every bit unread after the first title.

  12. Re:Not criminal? on Mother Found Guilty After Protesting TSA Pat-down of Daughter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    America, you had it right before everyone else did. Take it back.
    “Those who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Benjamin Franklin

  13. Re:Great in demos, but... on LG's 84-inch 3840 x 2160 Television Doesn't Come Cheap: $17,000 · · Score: 1

    I agree with that and it makes me sad. On a PC people would go for the extra. In the future, consoles are still holding back future PCs. :(

  14. Re:Great in demos, but... on LG's 84-inch 3840 x 2160 Television Doesn't Come Cheap: $17,000 · · Score: 1

    You tube has some stuff and there are some PC games that out put that high. . I guess he 17k price tag means you can afford all the movie making stuff too. So you can also buy a home 4k camera and make your own.

  15. Re:Not criminal? on Mother Found Guilty After Protesting TSA Pat-down of Daughter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The terrorists won years ago. They even elect them.

  16. Re:Sadly on UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks · · Score: 2

    No you can't - people will send messages to facebook not your phone, even if you tell them not too! People post last minute booking changes of their event to their facebook page, even asking for extra acts which I'd miss out on an extra booking. Facebook is where a lot of business goes on. I don't like it; but that is where other people are sorting things out. To not be a part of that meas I'd miss out on a lot of things. I still think its crap for sorting out gigs.

  17. Re:Dawkin's is a piss poor social scientist on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Education, 'Innocence of Muslims,' and Rep. Paul Broun · · Score: 3, Funny

    You'VE MissEd the poinT.

  18. Re:Steam Users on UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks · · Score: 1

    OCD isn't about lazy. :)

  19. Re:Steam Users on UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks · · Score: 1

    Hmm - Must use Feb 2nd from now on.

  20. Re:major points here on UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks · · Score: 1

    of Planets?

  21. Re:major points here on UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks · · Score: 1

    This bit of news is nothing to do with your country. "UK Gov't Official ....." was the clue.

  22. Re:Sadly on UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks · · Score: 5, Informative

    That right. FB didn't have my really birthday until others entered it into their calendar. I still get emails from friends asking me if I've moved? Well maybe I want to be a 48 year old women from Kenya! No website get real info. All websites get misspelt something in the name or address to track how that data is moved about. Sadly I "need" to use FB to organise and keep up with other people. I'd rather in not be on FB; but I can't stop the 300 people I network with from using it.

  23. Re:Xbox 720?!?!? on Ballmer Tells the BBC There's More MS Hardware On the Way · · Score: 1

    I think they are in it for a 10 cycle. AAA+ Games cost 100+million to make so you need a few more years to flog it to death.

  24. Re:Good riddance to geo-blocking on Australians Urged To Spoof IP Addresses For Better Prices · · Score: 2

    yes, but you shouldn't have to bother with it really.

  25. Re:Splash screen are evil on AMD Tightens Bonds With Game Developers · · Score: 1

    To the .ini file :)