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  1. Re:Points at Microsoft on Microsoft Telling Users To Uninstall Bad Patch · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hideki!

    Chi!

  2. Re:Why light bulb form factor? on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    I'm not ripping out every light fixture in my apartment for some stupid panels.

  3. Re:like for like replacement wrong on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    An LED bulb can be tuned to give off any spectrum you want by using multiple chips, although some spectra can be quite expensive to produce, even by LED standards.

  4. Re:Hi, welcome to Toys 'R Us! May I help you? on US Gov't Blocks Sales To Russian Supercomputer Maker · · Score: 1

    PS4s aren't going to be like PS3s with their super-fancy specialized processors that intrigued some super-computer builders--those gave the developers fits. While it's not going to use a PC architecture, you're not going to see any technology in it that you can't get in a high-end PC with high-powered graphic cards. For non-gaming purposes, you might as well just buy PCs; they'll be easier to configure and use for non-gaming purposes.

  5. Re:My theory on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    You should read bylines. The guy who posted that he has a laptop is not the guy who posted that he has a striped RAID.

  6. Re:So, another one for the just pile? on Small Company Wants to Make Encryption Key Management Into a Commodity (Video) · · Score: 1

    Hey, it's this new Linux thing. They've heard that it's all the rage with these computer kids.

  7. Encryption Key Management IS a commodity. What in hell are these yahoos talking about?

  8. Make yourself comfortable, Hacker. on The Search Engine More Dangerous Than Google · · Score: 1

    Stay a while.

  9. Re:Starlost on Classic BBC Sci-fi Series Blake's 7 To Return On Syfy Channel · · Score: 1

    Want to see Harlan Ellison's original concept? Never made it to video, but you can get a graphic novel version. There was also a novel that is long out of physical print; however, Amazon is offering a Kindle edition.

  10. Re:Who are you? on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    What do you want?

  11. Re:And the whole cable watching world said on Fox, Univision May Go Subscription To Stop Aereo · · Score: 1

    And the whole youtube watching world said, "What's broadcast?"

  12. Blink doesn't support blink? on Gecko May Drop the Blink Tag · · Score: 4, Funny

    How ironic.

  13. Re:with frickin' lasers! on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lasers, and drones. It's official. We have become the Amarr.

  14. Re:Full Throttle on Why Are We Still Talking About LucasArts' Old Adventure Games? · · Score: 2

    Full Throttle had the greatest opening to a Videogame I have ever seen.

    Better than Freespace 1? (and Freespace 2's wasn't bad either, if a bit talky)

    "Send FIGHTERS!! I-I know they're following me, send everything you have NOW!!"

  15. Re:Disney says... on LucasArts Employees Hold Wake & Eulogy; Vader Still Roams · · Score: 2

    Annette certainly had an impressive pair of guns...

  16. Re:nuclear fusion? on Fusion Rocket Could Take Us To Mars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We've had nuclear fusion working for over sixty years now. The trick has been containing it in a reactor for power generation. A fusion rocket might be easier to pull off--that's essentially just a semi-contained and directed H-bomb.

  17. "Also..." on Mobile App Screens Calls With Brain Waves · · Score: 1

    "...I can screen your calls with my brain."

  18. Re:Epitaph on Film Critic Roger Ebert Dead at 70 Of Cancer · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, fourteen.

  19. Re:Epitaph on Film Critic Roger Ebert Dead at 70 Of Cancer · · Score: 1

    Er, Gene Siskel's been dead for some thirteen years now.

  20. Re:For Example... on Major UK Retailers Mislabel Windows RT As Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    There wasn't significant confusion between the Windows CE and 95/98 or Windows Mobile and XP/7.

    Well, that was primarily because nobody *used* Windows CE or Windows Mobile.

  21. Re:Fairplay on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 2

    The chair, and more importantly, your slice of the aircraft, weights far more than your lard.

    I sincerely doubt that just the chair weighs significantly more than the passenger. Your slice of the aircraft? Well, let's see here. Let's go with a Boeing 747-400, since that's an extremely common jumbo. Operating weight, empty, is 394,100 lb. We'll assume a two-class configuration with 524 passengers, which is pretty common. 394,000 divided by 524 is about 750 pounds. So, yeah, it's definitely more than the passenger + luggage. But passengers and luggage are *still* probably over one quarter the weight (not counting fuel). That's enough to be really significant. Your excess poundage does matter. "Dignity"? Dignity is paying your own way. More weight costs more. Pay for it.

  22. Re:Windows advantages on Falling Windows RT Tablet Prices Signify Slow Adoption · · Score: 1

    But there's nothing specifically that Windows RT cannot do that iPad can.

    Except, it would appear, sell.

  23. Re:So? on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 3, Funny

    It isn't the deaths we are most worried about.

    We're worried about the *important* stuff!

  24. Re:A PC offers more room to grow on Alan Kay Says iPad Betrays Xerox PARC Vision · · Score: 2

    Playing a game leads to "I'm gonna program my own game" about as often as driving a car leads to "vehicular homicide."

    I would submit that "as often as driving a car leads to 'I'm gonna build my own car'" would be more accurate as well as more pleasant.

  25. Re:The more a phone is Cracked on Does Apple Need To Get Serious About Security? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course it was. But the fact that "Paris Hilton uses it" meant immensely more to most people than "she got owned because it was absurdly easy to hack" demonstrates security is not something that matters at all to most of Apple's customers, and thus is not something that Apple feels a need to matter to them.