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  1. Re:No on Will Touch Screens Kill the Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    That's the one I'm using; it's beautiful. I took it from my home and use it at work (who wouldn't buy me an ergo keyboard), since it'w where I type 40hrs per week, whereas home is mostly mousing.

  2. oats on Learning From Gawker's Failure · · Score: 1
  3. Could have gotten that password sooner on IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail · · Score: 1
  4. Re:The most successful trolls on Angles On Anonymous · · Score: 2

    Did you say "yoots"?

  5. Re:You got all that from THAT video? on Video Shows Why Recharging Kills Batteries · · Score: 1

    Close up of a drop of pond water.

  6. making up for some bad karma on Hands-On With Acer's New 10-Inch Android Tablet · · Score: 2, Informative

    With an Informative! These details were on a photo in TFA of a presentation:
    General Information:
    Launch time: APR 2011
    Positioning: Provide a complete Android tabel with full HD media and web anywhere

    Features:
    Dual coe 1.0 Ghz processor with Flash 10.1 support for the fasted HD web experience and multimedia playback anywhere
    The latest and the highly intuitive good android tablet os and acer UI 4.5 to reach a whole new level of interactivity
    SMP rear-facing camera + HD front-facing camera for vide, video chat, quickly snapping a picture and uploading it to Facebook, YoTube, Picasa, and also for barcode scanning.
    HDMI output to playback HD content on DFTV or Hi_Def montor for HD extensibility.

    Industrial Design:
    36[?] design ensure optimal on-screen experience for every angle.
    Aluminum...provide a ... tactile sensation..anodized....decorated with engraved textures...sophis

  7. Re:Possible uses... on GNU/Linux and Enlightenment Running On a Fridge · · Score: 0

    It has an OJ-45 connector.

  8. Re:Cool..... on GNU/Linux and Enlightenment Running On a Fridge · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Problem with the inventory mode is that containers remain in the fridge until they are empty. E.g., even though I have about half a glass of milk left in the bottle, by my fridge's estimation I still have "one bottle of milk". And what about produce! I think it's a novelty for people with disposable income. Even having a browser or a cookbook on there... Do you want to stand in front of the fridge and read? No. Bust out Joy of Cooking and leave it open on the counter. Maybe the most useful thing would be web radio.... my fridge would need integrated speakers, though.

  9. Re:Could be a problem on One Giant Cargo Ship Pollutes As Much As 50M Cars · · Score: 1, Informative

    The U.S.S. Constitution still takes an annual ride around Boston harbor.

  10. Re:crappy site on US Launches Largest Spy Satellite Ever · · Score: -1, Troll

    With fondest personal regards, Bill

  11. Re:crappy site on US Launches Largest Spy Satellite Ever · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your mom doesn't seem to think so.

  12. crappy site on US Launches Largest Spy Satellite Ever · · Score: 2, Informative

    Crappy TFA site sports pernicious popups.

  13. Branagh on Long Takes In the Movies, Antidote To CGI? · · Score: 1

    Excellent long take: Hamlet, Branagh 1996. Act IV Scene VII. Claudius and Laertes conspire to kill Hamlet in the duel. The camera is all over the place; rugs and furniture have to be unnoticably moved and replaced by crew as the camera points to the middle of a circle that it travels. Very impressive scene.

  14. What is "indecent exposure" on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    How much clothing can I remove in the security line and not get arrested? Jacket... shoes... belt... How about my pants, and shirt? If I strip to my boxers and walk through that would make a nice scene. But would I get thrown in the clink?

  15. Re:Can you help me out?? on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent down.

  16. bias on The World's Smallest Legible Font · · Score: 1

    I "read" a lot of that text from memory; my brain knows what the words are supposed to be because it's the danged preamble to the danged consitution. If they post a test with unfamiliar prose, I bet I'd have much more difficulty reading it.

  17. Somebody check da emails on Real-Life Gadgets For Real-Life Superheroes · · Score: 1
  18. sad on Real-Life Gadgets For Real-Life Superheroes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To me, these all look like indications of sad, empty, delusional lives.

  19. hate the name, but that aside on British Pizza Chain To Install Cones of Silence · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with take-out?

  20. Re:Fermi's paradox. on The Galaxy May Have Billions of Habitable Planets · · Score: 1

    Right, but where did that simplest possible structure get its material? Was it always "just there"? Fine, maybe Benevolent Creator was always "just there".

  21. Re:Fermi's paradox. on The Galaxy May Have Billions of Habitable Planets · · Score: 1

    ugh... neither

  22. Re:Fermi's paradox. on The Galaxy May Have Billions of Habitable Planets · · Score: 1

    Right. Who or what created God? Who or what created the initial condensation of matter or energy? Even if we could answer either of these, we'd just be going back into a recursive "who created that?". My point was just to show that none of those two possibilities can be ruled out based on logic or reasoning.

  23. Re:Fermi's paradox. on The Galaxy May Have Billions of Habitable Planets · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could be God. Consider: what is more unlikely? That before time there was an infinitely dense concentration of something that burst, creating everything we observe? Or that before time, there was something else that said, "I'll make something today" and created everything we observe? I don't consider either one more or less plausible than the other.

  24. Re:Heartbreak on The Galaxy May Have Billions of Habitable Planets · · Score: 1

    Also, why don't we use these "OMG we could live on this planet if we could travel 30 gojillion megadistances" research dollars to work on something that is feasible within 1.5 generations. Moon and Mars are ready and willing.

  25. Re:uhh... Cosmos anyone? on The Galaxy May Have Billions of Habitable Planets · · Score: 1

    He also mentioned how advanced civilizations would quickly destroy themselves (e.g., here on earth in central america, italy, and globally today). Even with round-trip times of a couple hundred years, we'll probably be looking at artifacts from a dead civilisation.