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  1. Re:And this is called "news"? on Microsoft CFO Quits · · Score: 1

    With a 5 digit UID, I'm surprised you're asking. /. has been recycling old news - often more than once - for the past 15 years. It's not even annoying, it's a feature: this place wouldn't be what it is with fresh news, or without people who complain about the news not being fresh. It's a sort of tradition here, I'd be sad to see it go personally.

  2. Re:Dream on. on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Paintball is expensive. Personally, if I want exercise, I go for a bike ride. But if I wanted exercise *AND* shooting (and also the feeling of killing people rather than spraying brightly-colored dyes on their clothes), I'd absolutely LOVE one of these treadmills.

  3. Re:Come now :) on Apple Bans Sale of Comic Book On All iOS Apps Over Gay Sex Images - Update · · Score: 1

    Sensitive gay issues are best solved by Preparation H, not censorship.

  4. Easy solution on $35 Indian Tablet Has Until March 31st To Ship or Be Cancelled · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should just outsource production to Ind... no wait...

  5. Re:Great, he's re-invented the X station of yore on Bezos Patenting 'Dumb' Tablets, Glasses, Windshields · · Score: 1

    It's about innovative as this, which has been around since the 60s in one form or another.

  6. Poor decisions lately Mr. Shuttleworth? on Canonical and China Announce Ubuntu Collaboration · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Canonical is such a train wreck of a company. Doing it all wrong technically and now politically.

  7. Re:A reminder. on Russian FSB Can Reportedly Tap Skype Calls · · Score: 2

    Oh yeah, because Russia today is so much more desirable and has completely stopped all its spying activities.

  8. How shocking! on Russian FSB Can Reportedly Tap Skype Calls · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Closed source software with obscure network protocol, now owned by a corporation whose main concern isn't the users' best interest, turns out to be not so nice after all. News at 10...

    The best way to do use Skype for anything more important than saying hello to your grandmother for free on the internet is not to use Skype. Everybody with half a brain has known that for many years.Duh...

  9. I wonder on NASA Restarts Plutonium Production · · Score: 5, Funny

    if Iran will impose sanctions on the United States...

  10. Re:100% accuracy? on Technology To Detect Alzheimer's Takes SXSW Prize · · Score: 1

    Within 6 years is a pretty easy prediction if you ask me.

    My prediction: "100% of those who scored below 100 percent on the test will be stone cold within 100 years at the most". I guarantee it's 100% accurate too.

  11. Re:Relevant: History of Germany and the USSR on Obama Administration To Allow All Spy Agencies To Scour Americans' Finances · · Score: 5, Informative

    What makes you think that Eisenhower was honest and sane?

    The military-industrial complex speech. That alone tells me the man worked for his country, not for money or power, that he had the insight to pinpoint the danger to the country, and the balls to denounce it publicly.

  12. Re:Relevant: History of Germany and the USSR on Obama Administration To Allow All Spy Agencies To Scour Americans' Finances · · Score: 4, Informative

    How you can you accuse them of being asleep at thw wheel when both the parties they can choose do the same sort of shenanigans?

    Newsflash: there are more than 2 parties in the US. Most Americans are too uneducated or too brainwashed by television to realize that though...

    So no, the voting public isn't asleep at the wheel, more like sitting dazed and dribbling in complete stupor in front of it.

  13. Re:Relevant: History of Germany and the USSR on Obama Administration To Allow All Spy Agencies To Scour Americans' Finances · · Score: 2

    Maybe the US voters are asleep at the wheel?

    You just noticed? How quaint.

    There hasn't been a totally honest or sane US president since Eisenhower...

  14. Buy a bag of nails, a bottle of propane, batteries on Obama Administration To Allow All Spy Agencies To Scour Americans' Finances · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and some duct-tape at your local Home Depot, and I guarantee you you'll be flagged as a terrorist. Thinking of paying for things in cash to avoid that? That looks suspicious too these days.

    Welcome to the Vater^H^H^H^H^HHomeland Americans. Enjoy your civil liberties while you can...

  15. Re:It's been 60 years on Mars One Contracts Paragon To Investigate Life Support Systems · · Score: 1

    Whoever puts money in this apparently...

  16. Re:2023 seems a bit unrealistic on Mars One Contracts Paragon To Investigate Life Support Systems · · Score: 1

    How about terraforming the place? It'd take between 2 and 5 centuries, and by then we'd have much better space vehicles to get there, and no need for spacesuits and airtight houses once there.

  17. It's a design study on Mars One Contracts Paragon To Investigate Life Support Systems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This most likely won't result in much more than spending a bunch of money on a design study. Just look at how many times NASA went through billions in studies to come up with zilch eventually. The main difference here, being the private sector, is that sane investors will pull the plug before it reaches mere millions, not billions.

    Wake me up when they start building something. Until then, it's PR.

  18. Re:Just pulling a Google on More From Canonical Employee On: "Why Mir?" · · Score: 1

    Not many people were bitching when Google went a lot farther than this with every aspect of Android

    There's a small difference: Google wasn't a two-bit Linux shop with a chronic lack of cash.

  19. Re:How is this different from a MODEM? on Mobile Sharing: "Bezos Beep" Vs. Smartphone Bump · · Score: 1

    Yes, and the last thing I want is find myself in a room with a bunch of cellphones chirping away, broadcasting audio data to one another. Cellphones are annoying enough when people use stupid ringtones (scratch that, they're annoying when they ring almost all the time in fact). I think I'd go peculiar if they starting screaming modem noises all the time.

    What's wrong with Bluetooth or IRDA? It's a lot faster and it's quiet ferchrissake...

  20. Scary... on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    One aggressive country with a huge military and a penchant for preemptive strikes is quite enough to make the world a scary place. And I'm not talking about NK...

  21. Re:Nope on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 2

    Well, color me reassured.

  22. Speelchecking on Sergey Brin Says Using a Smartphone Is 'Emasculating' · · Score: 1

    the fist we touch when awake, the last at night

    Hmm, so you're into fisting are you?

    By the way, most smartphones have a spellchecker. Maybe /. editors could use them to post articles...

  23. Re:What about Photocopies? on How Million-Dollar Frauds Turned Photo Conservation Into a Mature Science · · Score: 1

    You know, I've read your post three times and I still haven't got the faintest idea what you're on about. So many repetitions of the words "duplicate" and "copy" in so few meaningless sentences: you should be a *AA lawyer!

  24. Pr0n as always drives the industry on How Million-Dollar Frauds Turned Photo Conservation Into a Mature Science · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't help but noticing the illustration in TFA shows a researcher analyzing... a dirty daguerreotype. Surprise surprise...

  25. Re:How about... on Should Techies Trump All Others In Immigration Reform? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Consider this instead: STEM visa holders got an education that didn't cost a penny to the US, and brought that added value to the US.