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  1. Re:Slippery Slope continues. on US Government Seizes Torrent Search Engine Domain · · Score: 1

    Maybe they don't pay taxes, but they do pay "taxes", i.e. financial contributions to political campaigns.

  2. Re:Anysort of breakout-board is always a welcome t on Stephen Fry and DVD Jon Back USB Sniffer Project · · Score: 1

    Nope. Not unless you come across a device that is USB-3 compatibleonly. As in, no backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 and 1.1. Then you would need a USB 3.0 analyzer.

    That is very unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future.

  3. Re:Fear mongering 101 on Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School · · Score: 1

    No, I think the pizza crust would be better suited for the tamper. After all, it is at least as dense as lead.

  4. Re:The "enhanced" procedures are useless on TSA Saw My Junk, Missed Razor Blades, Says Adam Savage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mod parent up.

    Very true. The lines at the entrance to security checkpoints must be a terrorist's dream. A suicide bomber could rake up hundreds of casualties there.

  5. TSA checkpoints on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Yes on Do You Really Need a Discrete Sound Card? · · Score: 1

    "Less Good"

    Otherwise known in English as "worse"

  7. "Setting the record straight" on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    It looks like LaHood is now denying on the blog ever having made that comment:

    http://fastlane.dot.gov/2010/11/setting-the-record-straight.html#more

  8. Lifecycle on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1

    I predict this comment signals that Nikolai Pryanishnikov is nearing the end of his lifecycle as a MS spokesman.

  9. Pagers on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    Will this "technology" also disable pagers worn by emergency workers, doctors etc, which also work on the cellular networks? If not, how exactly? If yes, then how will emergency responders, doctors etc be notified that their services are requested while they are driving?

  10. Re:When I Was a Kid on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    However, gold salts (which are very rarely used nowadays in rheumatoid arthritis) have a very high toxicity level, in particular they tend to destroy the kidneys and bone marrow.

    Which is precisely why they're barely used at all anymore.

  11. Re:remote iPhone volume control on Fun With an Induction Cooktop? · · Score: 1

    In all honesty, you are in fact cooking all the microorganisms in the water...

  12. Ironic on Adobe Warns of Critical Flash Bug, Already Being Exploited · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one who finds it ironic that a web site that warns of a critical bug in the Flash player tries to install the Flash plugin?

    (yes, I don't have Flash installed anywhere and so the linked web page demands to install it)

  13. News at 11 on MySpace Revamps Site To Recapture the Magic · · Score: 2

    As someone who has made a conscious decision from the very beginning to shun the whole MySpaceBook/Twittedin/social networking phenomenon, let me be the first to say:
    Pffrrghttblargh!

  14. Re:F' privacy, ITS DANGEROUS on Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van · · Score: 1

    "tumorous growths" says you don't work in medical imaging.

  15. Re:This is nice, but... on 3dfx Voodoo Graphic Card Emulation Coming To DOSBox · · Score: 1

    ... I'd rather see them integrate MIDI support. Particularly nice would be MT-32 emulation,
    There you go:
    http://www.si-gamer.net/gulikoza/

  16. Re:Finders Keepers? on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

    That is exactly what I would do if I found under my car some strange wires attached to a box that shouldn't be there. Call the bomb squad, and let the agencies sort it out among themselves.

  17. Re:Seems strange they approved it at all on Apple Accepts, Then Rejects BitTorrent iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Nicely done.

    Is there any app with a VNC-like function (I honestly don't know; no iPhone)? If so it should be removed immediately, as it can be used to remotely manage other computers. Which may be running copyright-infringing software like bittorrent clients.

    Also, any media players for the iPhone should be stricken since they can be used to view infringing files. :)

  18. Re:Where.. on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    It's cheaper for manufacturers to make widescreen panels of the same diagonal size and comparable horizontal resolution, than 4:3 panels. Why? Fewer total pixels.

    Manufacturers have been really pushing widescreen displays for a while now over "normal" ratio ones.

  19. Re:A veteran Civilization fan... on First Reviews of Civilization V · · Score: 1

    I dare you to find a laptop with a GF9800, heck not even that, with a GF 9600, that costs only $100 more than the equivalent system with integrated graphics. I double and triple dare you.

  20. Re:A veteran Civilization fan... on First Reviews of Civilization V · · Score: 1

    If you get suckered into buying a $800 piece of junk that has the same specs than my $400 piece of junk, then you're right it doesn't. :)

  21. Re:A veteran Civilization fan... on First Reviews of Civilization V · · Score: 1

    Considering that "a few bucks" is $600, yes it was.

  22. Re:A veteran Civilization fan... on First Reviews of Civilization V · · Score: 1

    In fact it plays decently well Oblivion (a 3-year-old game) on medium settings. Oblivion was renowned at the time to be very resource-intensive. I find it amusing that a turn-based game released 3 years later has minimum specs that exceed by an order of magnitude the recommended specs of a high-end, demanding adventure game from 2007.

    And I was responding to the post claiming that you can get a system within specs for $200. Not true if you are traveling a lot like me and can't lug a desktop with you. A laptop that barely touches the minimum specs for civ5 is $900+

  23. Re:A veteran Civilization fan... on First Reviews of Civilization V · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually it's the graphic card requirements that break it for me. They're above 99% of laptops, and certainly above mine which does have a separate graphic card with dedicated memory but it's an ATI 3200, way below their specs. Plays many games well, but I won't even try to get anywhere near civ5 knowing what their minimum specs are - or else it'd be wasted money. Also, my laptop is my only computer right now.

  24. Re:Ugh... on Opossums Overrun Brooklyn, Fail To Eliminate Rats · · Score: 1

    ...sometimes in our ovens or stewpot

    On purpose or not?

  25. Nixed instant pretty quickly on Did Google Go Instant Just To Show More Ads? · · Score: 1

    I find Instant not only cumbersome, but at least in the workplace downright disruptive. It will automatically display hits even if not remotely related to what you're searching for, because you goddamned haven't finished typing yet.

    Just try "is it wrong" in a Google search box and see what it loads.

    Now imagine you were at work and your boss was looking at your screen. You'd have some explaining to do on why you're searching for ways to commit incest.