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  1. Re:Flawed assumptions. on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying you are wrong, but how would we look for large collectors? How would we be able to tell the difference between a collector and a moon or planet passing in front of a star?

  2. Re:So you better.. on Researchers Find 'Mind-Control' Gaming Headsets Can Leak Users' Secrets · · Score: 1

    You should read the last sentence he wrote. That answers your question.

  3. Re:Ancient societies had diff values. News at 11! on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 1

    You will need to submit some evidence of the "against their best interests" part because everything I've seen shows that to be false.

  4. Re:Several states on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    Interesting theory. You are saying supid can't have the suffixes er and est applied to it as they can be to other works. I would like to know where this rule that some words can't use suffixes comes form.

  5. Re:Just because something is a theory... on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    Theories make all these electronics work, theories make radio/cellphones/broadcasting work. I took a weather class in college and found out there's three theories on why it rains.

    I think you have that a little backwards. Theories don't make all of those things work, the fact that they work is evidence that the Theories are accurate.

  6. Re:Customer-centric on Valve Will Let Gamers Pick Games To Appear On Steam · · Score: 1

    I thought I had the same game going on two different computers once, but maybe I was just logged into the same steam account on two different computers. Hmmm....

  7. Re:year of the? on Microsoft To PC and Tablet Makers: You're Not Our Future · · Score: 1

    Yes. Long gone are the days of the toaster repair man. I know whenever a TV breaks I always call in a repairman to fix it. Same thing is true with printers and portable music players, both the CD kind from back in the day and the solid state ones we use now. I know if my iron started to short out I would certainly take it apart and rewire it rather then spend $20.00 on a new one.

    Asking people to be able to repair a PC on their own is more like asking people to be able to re bore a piston than change an air filter. Changing an air filter would be like getting a new mouse or keyboard.

  8. Re:The big difference here is on History Will Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs, Says Author · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points I'd give them to you. The 90's is where Microsoft really began being oppressive, and no one really noticed at first. It wasn't until stories started coming out about hardware companies wanting to sell computers with Linux along with Windows that I really started hearing about the backroom deals Microsoft used to keep that from happening. By that time Mac was the only other choice at the consumer level.

  9. Re:The significance of LinkedIn on LinkedIn Password Leak: Salt Their Hide · · Score: 1

    And of course the downside to not changing your password is now that the hashes have been stolen it's only a matter of time until they can log in as you. Since you are never going to change your password 3 years from now your LinkedIn account will still have the same one that was leaked.

  10. Re:WTF? on Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic · · Score: 1

    Changing the wheels is actually a bigger deal than you might think. It can require altering the suspension, it does require alteration to the odometer (or a warning that the odometer is incorrect making the vehicle difficult to resell), and altering the speedometer.

    I guess that's only if you change the wheel size, if you keep the same wheel size and just go for a different look then there shouldn't be an issue. Except maybe coverage of wheel related failures.

  11. Re:What really worked for tobacco? on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    $200k for a surgery isn't even that bad of an issue. If you get cancer your talking over $10k a month for however long you need treatment.

  12. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    I don't see an issue with consuming small amounts of Methanol, except of course the taste. It's not uncommon to get some into your system from medical procedures or just tending your own wounds.

  13. Re:Only the rich should have health care? on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Parent obviously doesn't know what he is talking about. The only reason we didn't have cancer in earlier times was because it had different names, not because it didn't exist. Also, it's not like humans are the only ones who get cancer. I didn't read any further then that to see what other BS he had to say for himself.

  14. Re:People should pay for their choices on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should have read his post. If you did then you should not have skipped the comprehension step.

  15. Re:All part of their retro-COBOL strategy on Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    I really wish there was a way to macro /leave general into my post login process. One time I didn't type it fast enough and got a gold spammer message!

  16. Re:Waste? on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 1

    I think everyone ignores Parks too much. Too much of the "If I let my kid go outside they'll be nabbed by a peado" crap. My parents must have had a much less stressful life being able to let me go off on my own without having to watch me every moment, but that is a different rant.

  17. Re:Sporting goods and going out and doing things.. on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 1

    You off a bit.

    Used XBox 360 + Used accessories + a few Used games and/or some games checked out from the library for free = $100.

    Your numbers on the Bike could be accurate though.

  18. Re:Waste? on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 1

    You obviously have never been poor and have never had to live off minimum wage. Most of what they are talking about in this article are the cheapest forms of entertainment that are available. Your own misconceptions of how much is spent on this stuff is blinding you.
    Poor people don't buy fancy new HD TVs from Best Buy, they generally buy the coolest thing they can find at a Pawn shop or a Garage Sale, or some other second had place that may or may not be legitimate. It is quite possible to get nice stuff this way without spending even moderate sums of money on it. I know you probably think you are too good for it, but try walking into a Salvation Army some time and look around and see what the prices are, or maybe a Goodwill somewhere.
    Once you've done that try comparing those prices to the cost of other forms of entertainment and see what you get. I'm sure you think that poor people should be limited to staring at the walls in the dark for a while while waiting for time to pass to go to bed for work the next day, since being able to pay the electric bill is probably "blowing your money on shit you don't need." Especially since poor people generally live in crappy apartments where the power bills are much higher due to inefficiency.

  19. Re:Not Really a Fact on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 1

    I think this explains it. "(Kaiser double counts time spent multitasking. If a child spends an hour simultaneously watching TV and surfing the Internet, the researchers counted two hours.)"

    I commonly watch TV and play a video game at the same time, so if I do that for 3 hours, that would count as 6 hours here. If I wanted to spend a Saturday being lazy and say spent 10 hours doing that it would count as 20. That can have a big effect on averages. Not to mention when I was in school I would listen to the radio while studying so that would still count as time spent on media for this study, which seems a bit absurd considering I wouldn't call that "wasting time."

  20. Re:Sudden outbreak of common sense, I guess on NY Ruling Distinguishes Downloading, Viewing Child Pornography · · Score: 1

    Pure luck is certainly part of it. Especially when you consider that not all countries set the age of consent at 18. It is quite possible to be out searching for proper porn and come across a foreign site containing a nude 17 year old; suddenly you are a pedo.

  21. Re:Boggles mind to think about how they squandered on RIM Firing (Nearly) Everybody · · Score: 1

    Blockbuster would be an excellent example. Completely ignoring the competition from Netflix until they were almost dead.

  22. Re:#fuckthosekneejerkoffs on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 1

    There was a kid a few years back that got suspended ore expelled for writing a story about zombies taking over the school. Therefore I can only conclude that you are a threat to national security.

  23. Re:Why is don't we have AR already? on DIY Augmented Reality Heads-Up Display · · Score: 1

    I think there are a couple of things holding AR back right now. One is that I don't think object recognition is quite up to the task yet. I don't think we have good software yet that can see a picture of an everyday object and recognize what it is well enough to pull up information about it, and facial recognition still has a high amount of false positives.

    Another issue will be privacy. If you think Google can track you now, wait until people start buying Google AR camera/display contacts and they can monitor everything you look at.

  24. Re:Obligatory xkcd on Multiword Passwords Secure Or Not? · · Score: 1

    Brain hacking is a frightening thing.

  25. Re:Obviously they were just waiting to start on Chrome Hacked In 5 Minutes At Pwn2Own · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think that's how most of the successful hacks have been going in this contest. Someone finds a few vulnerabilities, hordes them until the contest, and then goes public with them.

    I'm not sure that I like that, but I guess it gets some vulnerabilities fixed.