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  1. Re:Supply and Demand on Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    and as a result, it will become harder and harder to save to own: stocks, bonds, real estate, businesses, etc...

    All very frightening. There's only one problem with it: it's not true. A larger percentage of the US public owns stocks now than ever before, and the proportion continues to rise.

  2. Re:It's modern Cowboys and Indians on Gaming Without a Safety Blanket · · Score: 1

    A Warner Brothers cartoon smacked of adult influences I don't think out of malice or neglect, but from the fact that most households were of one television at the time.

    None of the classic Warner Brothers cartoons were made for TV. They were made to be shown as short subjects before the main feature at movie theatres, and were written that way because people of all ages went the movies.

  3. So to sum up... on Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it's not a problem, the problem is unavoidable, everybody else has this problem too, and we're going to fix it.

  4. Re:Euro on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    And the Dollar Sign is a slashed S to represent Spain's currency (where the symbol originated).

    While it's not 100% certain, probably not. Most likely, it comes from "Ps" for "peso", also known as the "Spanish Dollar".

  5. Re:Euro on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    AltGr+E if your keyboard layout is European

    Or if you're running Solaris, where this will work even with a US keyboard layout.

  6. Re:Unit conversions on NASA's Juno, Armored Tank Heading For Jupiter · · Score: 1

    And carrying through on the math: 10.8 feet square would be 116.64 square feet. A square of 10.8 square feet would be about 3.29 feet square.

  7. Re:and alone one dark night on OpenSolaris Governing Board Closing Shop? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does. The problem is that there's no supporting user community to maintain a fork; almost all of OpenSolaris's updates come from Oracle/Sun.

  8. Re:This assumes... on Toyota Sudden Acceleration Is Driver Error · · Score: 1

    There does definitely seem to be something wrong with at least some of the cars. This doesn't mean that all--or even most--of the unintended acceleration reports are the car's fault. There is a long history of unintended acceleration by driver error, which the driver then tries to blame on the car.

  9. Re:What's next? on Senators Want Big Rocket Instead of New Tech, Commercial Transportation · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Incompetent Senators telling us that we don't need any more operations at hospitals, but replace them with blood-letting?

    Patience, patience. They're getting government-run health care in place as fast as they can manage.

  10. Re:The Americans are tampering with our internet! on China Says US Uses Facebook To Spread Political Unrest · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just China and North Korea and Thailand and Pakistan and...

    Don't forget Burma, which is worse than any of them.

  11. Re:Cost of storage on Dell Says 90% of Recorded Business Data Is Never Read · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Someone has to type in all that data to start with

    Not true; a lot of data is harvested automatically these days. And if you're getting the data by having the customer fill something out, then you're not paying for the typing.

  12. The problem is-- on Dell Says 90% of Recorded Business Data Is Never Read · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you can't figure out which 10% you'll need later, you can't use this fact to cut down on your data storage.

  13. Re:md5? on Crack the Code In US Cyber Command's Logo · · Score: 1

    Confirmed. We have a winner.

  14. Re:Good News is... on Parasite Correlated With World Cup Success · · Score: 1

    That's why we have the world series of baseball with only 2 countries playing!

    "2 countries"? There hasn't been a Canadian team in the playoffs at all since the Blue Jays took the World Series in 1993!

  15. Re:I actually like this trend... on Blizzard To Require Real First and Last Names For Official Forums · · Score: 1, Funny

    It forces people to attack each other's arguments rather than resorting to ad hominems,

    You must be using a different internet than I am. Could you tell me how you get access to the one you're using? It sounds nice.

  16. Re:How does this work for those under 13? on Blizzard To Require Real First and Last Names For Official Forums · · Score: 4, Funny

    why you are trolling the warlock forum?

    You can't fool me. Trolls can't be warlocks!

  17. Re:Whatever you know, it won't be enough on How To Build an Open Source House? · · Score: 1

    I would argue that it is *because* prototyping and experimenting are so much less than in the physical world that so much software doesn't work. Nobody pays any attention to getting it right because it'll all be so easy to fix, right?

  18. Re:Had this problem myself on Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite 'Grandma Problem' · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is: If the tickets are all electronic, then why not allow people to cancel?

    Because then you'd have to give the money back. First Rule of Acquisition, you know.

  19. Re:Wow on The Unstoppable 'Tech Support' Scam · · Score: 1

    I think it's quite silly to demand everyone to be as tech savvy as yourself.

    "Never trust, and, in fact, never deal at all, with people who cold-call you" isn't "tech savvy", it's goddamn common sense.

  20. Serpentine, Shelly! on California To Drop State Rock Over Asbestos Concerns · · Score: 1

    Serpentine!

  21. Re:Why I prefer physical media on Most Console Gamers Still Prefer Physical Media · · Score: 1

    The court decisions on this would be very interesting. One should note that it was tried by book publishers back around the beginning of the twentieth century, and got tossed out hard when it was contested; the courts agreed that it looked exactly like a sale, so it *was* a sale. This is no guarantee that the courts would rule similarly for software,though --the fact that you constantly reconnect to Steam *and* that they provide updates to the software would be very significant.

  22. Re:Why cut prices? on Sony Finally Turning a Profit On PS3s · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think that it's a simple software feature that they removed once they saw that there was still demand for new PS2 consoles.

    It wasn't software emulation at all at first, and it was never all software emulation. The very first PS3s actually had what amounted to a PS2 built into them (hardware compatible PS3s were never sold at all in Europe). Then they eliminated the most of that hardware and covered it up with software emulation (which resulted in the PS2 emulation breaking with some PS2 games). Then they eliminated the rest of it and told folks, "Want a PS2? Buy a PS2." PS3 models that were built to emulate PS2s still do; it's just Sony hasn't manufactured PS3s that do that for years now.

  23. Re:Oh that's nice on Obama To Nearly Double the Available Broadband Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But yes, you will pay for this spectrum AGAIN, after TV stations vacated it (did they get any money back?)

    Since they didn't pay any money for it in the first place, it's difficult to see why they would ever get some back.

  24. Re:It is purpose that defines us on Believing You Are Very Good Or Evil Boosts Your Physical Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Smith was right!

    So, when do we start getting Lenses? Boskone isn't going to just wait around, you know!

  25. Re:Playing your alignment? on Believing You Are Very Good Or Evil Boosts Your Physical Capabilities · · Score: 1

    The Nazi war machine was a well organized, disciplined army running on precise rules.

    No, that describes the *German* war machine, that was built before the Nazis ever got there. The Nazis themselves weren't really any of those things.