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  1. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    I live in the rural US mid-west and guns are very popular in my little area as part of hunting and they are very big on safety. If you broke into the gun safe of a hunter here all you would find are shotguns {probably half a dozen} and duck-loads. These are not the urban gang's gun of choice and very difficult to conceal, I picked this place to live because there are no gangs here; among other considerations.

  2. Well on MS Handed NSA Access To Encrypted Chat & Email · · Score: 2

    Since my MS live account is generally only used to catch spam... I wonder how much this is costing me in tax dollars.

  3. Re:Follow up on How Do You Get Better Bug Reports From Users? · · Score: 1

    If you can't answer at least the first four of the five Ws I send them back. Funny, I used to do a 45 minute power point presentation for new employees about how to report an issue using the five Ws. I'm not sure anyone every does it anymore were I work.

  4. Re:India Has More People Than USA! News @ 11! on India To Overtake US On Number of Developers By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Yes as for percentage by population the US would be more than double. Also it can't all be outsource they have to be developing something for their own 1.2 billion possible consumers.

  5. Re: Or maybe on Why Automakers Should Stop the Infotainment Arms Race · · Score: 2

    I had a couple parked cars totaled by texters. This is not counting the hit that didn't total the car or the two mirrors that where nipped off. If this thing does face book I'll need to put up a fence with barricades to keep them from hitting my house.

  6. Re:Sadly, no ... on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    Opera has noscript, adblock, adblock+, ghostery extensions {plus other competing similar extensions} and it is mainstream enough that it was in this benchmark. So I'm not sure what you are getting at. Also I converted to Opera more than a decade ago for those features and tabbed browsing.

  7. Re:Depends on the energy source duh! on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    Electric cars are also the past. There is no doubt that an electric car can be used, the question is will it? There are a lot of factors that go into why someone may not want an electric car and the most common would probably be range. For those people who have a short commute to work and tend to drive under 50 miles a day no problem it even allows for that extra unplanned trip to the local store.

    There is more to electric vs combustion than environmental concerns as well. Example: I use an electric lawn mower because it is far easier to maintain. I have to sharpen/replace the blade yearly and change the battery about every 5 years {recycled} but on my gas mower I have to change the oil, gap/replace the plug, adjust/replace carb, clean/replace filters, sharpen/replace the blade yearly.

  8. Re: Why? on D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer · · Score: 1

    The US mid-west has a much lower cost of living than areas like say California or New York, more expensive than say India or Manila. There are companies that instead of outsourcing move operations into this are of the US and do great when working with other American companies.

    I have worked with companies that work with Accenture and when I hear the name I cringe.

  9. Re:I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    I have seen more than my share of texters in the theater {or maybe they were surfing the net who knows} but that doesn't bother me as much so long as they are quiet. What really annoys me is when I go to a store and the clerk is texting between customers and not paying attention to what they are doing. When you are talking to someone and they stop mid sentence to respond to a text and then just continue on like nothing happened. I saw someone make a left turn on a red light while texting the other day, they can be glad there was no other traffic at the time sure they will probably be having an accident soon.

    I feel sorry for my son because his girlfriend comes over just sits on her phone every second texting and posting to facebook eventually he gets bored and goes to play the xbox. She doesn't even notice and will still just sit there texting and posting on facebook until she leaves. If I was him I would break up with her on facebook while she was sitting right next to me and ignoring me.

     

  10. Re:Surpassing Vista on Windows 8 Passes Vista, Hits 5.1% Market Share · · Score: 2

    The laptop provided to me by work is an IBM runing xp sp3 and it is nearly indestructible {so long as you treat it well} I have been using it for 9 years. When we upgrade it will not be to win 8 because about 70% of the software we use is still not compatible with it. Right now we are migrating any remaining XP to win 7.

    We tried to adopt vista early {pre-service packs} and found that it was a huge hassle, scraping the migration; had we waited for SP 1 or 2 to be released then we may have been successful. All it managed to do was root us deeper into XP.

  11. Re:WHAT?!?!?! on Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Includes More H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    My father did plumbing/heating and air conditioning and made good money but I went into computers because he told me every day "Don't be like me, work smarter not harder".

  12. Re:In your opinion. on Google Developing Android Game Console · · Score: 1

    I've not used any of them yet.. I'm really excited the spec are getting higher and higher and they are so cheap eventually I'm going to buy a couple... I can replace the main household computer that basically is used for facebook, netflix and occasionally looking up something on the internet with multiple internet connected tvs... keep my pc for real pc usage.

  13. Re:WHAT?!?!?! on Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Includes More H-1B Visas · · Score: 2

    I used to tell people computers, tech, programing were the way to go when they told me they were starting college now if they ask I tell them to find something that can't be outsourced.

  14. Re:So much for... on Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke · · Score: 1

    I got my learner's permit at twelve, had a restricted license at fourteen [only drive during the day or to and from school functions], and a full license at sixteen. I honestly don't even know what the laws in my state are for driver's license age anymore but I think it's fourteen or fifteen for a permit if you take drivers education course and sixteen for a license.

  15. Re:So much for... on Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke · · Score: 2

    He was arrested two months ago and has not been released. The alternatives are they found something else or they intend to prosecute and make an example of him based only on that conversation.

    The biggest problem I see here is that if they didn't find anything and end up releasing him then they have detained someone for two or more months while they attempted to find a reason to detain them.

    If they are going to prosecute him on just the conversation provided in the article and win it sets an awful precedence. The next thing you know people will have what they say taken out of context and be sent to prison for shooting another player's character in call of duty and exclaiming "You're Dead!"

     

  16. Re:In your opinion. on Google Developing Android Game Console · · Score: 1

    Many of them are labeled as "Android 4.1 Mini PC Google TV Player" not that I could tell if that really means it's the same as a google branded google tv device. I have however notice these are becoming more popular and I have been thinking about picking up a couple myself. I live in a small US mid-west town and these are not uncommon. {not as common as a wii or xbox used for netflix but still common enough that they are for sale locally}

  17. Re:Not really sexist, just good psychology on Are Booth Babes Going Away? (Video) · · Score: 1

    1. I'm not obese {5ft 11in, 170lb}
    2. I haven't worn ripped jeans since the 80s
    3. I shower daily.

    However a booth babe would probably still attract more attention than a scrawny nerd.

  18. Re:Could we achieve 1G of thust. on NASA's NEXT Ion Thruster Runs Five and a Half Years Nonstop To Set New Record · · Score: 1

    Is that the miss conception that scifi is real, quantum entanglement can be used for instantaneous communication, or both.

    I actually had to explain to someone that electrolysis is not cold fusion and all they were going to do was cause a small explosion if they didn't use the right kind of valves.

    I'm not a chemist or physicist but come on hydrogen force into a carburetor without any kind valve is an accident waiting to happen. {yeah they got that idea off of youtube}

  19. Re:If it's still MS only, who gives a shit? on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    It runs on a lot of the android based phones, tablets, and tv box sets too. {the tv box sets are starting to get a lot nicer and cheaper}

  20. Re:Could we achieve 1G of thust. on NASA's NEXT Ion Thruster Runs Five and a Half Years Nonstop To Set New Record · · Score: 1

    The idea has been used so much in science fiction Ansible. I think the idea of using quantum entanglement sounds like it came straight out of Ender's Game or possibly an episode of Eureka.

    This isn't my field of study so no helpful tips on how to make it actually work, just thought I would point out why people think it might.

  21. Re:Eastern Europe, Russia and China are double US. on Google Adds Data About Malware To Transparency Report · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure that is accurate the number of sites scanned in the US is around 14 Billion but none of the other countries had more than 1 million scanned. I'm not sure how that skews the results since I have no idea how many sites are in each country. India had 25k sites scanned but has a population of around 1.2 Billion compared to the US 313 million.

  22. Re:Nope on New World Record For Electric Car Speed: 204.2 MPH · · Score: 2

    I normally drive about 30 miles a day {all in town} in a gas car which sits in the garage at home for 12 hours a night an electric cars range and recharge time would not be a major problem for me. Sure there are rare occasions where I actually drive more than 80 miles in a day once maybe twice a year. Since mine is a two car family there is no reason I couldn't have a hybrid and an all electric car, or just rent a car for those long trip days.

  23. Re:This is the Future on New World Record For Electric Car Speed: 204.2 MPH · · Score: 1

    I live in a small Mid-Western US town and there are close to a dozen electric cars running around town not to mention a flood of hybrids. I am thinking about getting an all electric car for my self and a hybrid for the wife {that way we have a car that we can drive on that vacation we take once a decade}. I'm not saying there are no over sized SUVs here there are plenty of those also.

  24. Re:Where are the screenshots? on FTC Demands Search Engines Separate Paid Advertisements From Search Results · · Score: 1

    I really didn't have a problem with either on determining which were ads, I did however have a problem with "popular now" bar on bing that pops up. It wasn't overly obtrusive but I would rather not use it.

  25. Re:Sounds like BS to me on FTC Demands Search Engines Separate Paid Advertisements From Search Results · · Score: 1

    Google's ads have real light pink/red background that I didn't have to much trouble noticing the bing ad background was super light gray/blue background with a gray boarder only on the right side. I thought the google ads were easier to differentiate but was able to do so on bing also.