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  1. ridiculous! on With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory

    You get 100% of the software from the Apple App store, it doesn't take MicroSD, and doesn't have a USB port. Keep fucking dreaming but that's not an ultrabook.

  2. Re:This is why on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 2

    I'd at least shoot blanks back at them. You know, up the realism a bit, lol.

  3. Re:This is why on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    They're at the casino all the time :-P

  4. Shell casings? on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    I'm no military or gun expert but I'm fairly certain that there would be thousands of shell casings falling down from the sky which are high caliber and thus quite heavy. I bet they could easily go through a car window or hurt someone's head. Sounds pretty stupid to me.

  5. mega lolz on Asteroid Resources Could Make Science Fiction Dreams and Nightmares a Reality · · Score: 3, Informative

    So guess who invested in one of the major companies. Microsoft and Google high ranking billionaire personnelle, James Cameron, and Ross Perot Jr. That's quite the mix, lol. All they need is a rapper and Bonno and they've basically got the justice league of weird billionaires investing in crazy stuff.

  6. what a load of crap on Asteroid Resources Could Make Science Fiction Dreams and Nightmares a Reality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NASA's Near Earth Object Program's website, quoting the 1990s-era book "Mining the Sky," suggests that there is in the asteroid belt alone enough wealth to provide everyone on Earth $100 billion.

    Except that, you know, if gold were as abundent as steel it would also be $0.06/pound scrap value so that's not actually true. So you go bring back a bunch of iridium, it's not worth thousands of dollars per pound anymore either. One asteroid alone could hold enough of a rare material to up the worlwide supply by 10x or 100x or who knows. That would single handedly crash the market before the company could even get a chance to sell it. So then they'd have to be a big, evil monopoly and artificially slow down the flow of supply like oil or Nintnedo Wiis so the price stays high and everyone hates that.

  7. Re:and apparently... on Iran Says It Sent Monkey Into Space and Back · · Score: 5, Funny

    That, sir, is offensive to monkeys.

  8. Why just one song? on Jonathan Coulton Offers Some Gleeful Turnabout · · Score: 1

    I would have released an entire Glee season cover album without authorization. Just one song is ignorable and everyone can sweep this under the rug. Pull off a whole album and they'd be forced to respond, which would make asses out of themselves.

  9. Quest #2 on How Newegg Saved Online Retail · · Score: 1

    Now if only they'd come off that victory and go all Walmart on OCZ's ass about their bullshit price fixing of SSDs. One mention that they'll pull their products permanently if they don't drop their prices to something more reasonable and OCZ's little agreement with all other SSD makers goes down the toilet.

  10. You know what else is bad on China Reviewing Game Consoles Ban · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know what else is bad for young minds? Bullshit propoganda, lies, arrests for virtually no reason, and ruining the environment. As for my amazing proficiency at programming and solving IT problems with critical thinking, you can blame 15 years of video games for that.

  11. another factor on Microsoft Blames PC Makers For Windows Failure · · Score: 1

    At my repair and custom builds shop, I refuse to build a Windows 8 PC. Too much training, followup questions, and angry users. I wonder if they factored in manufacturers like me outright refusing to sell it because it's so fucking awufl. Then I guess they're half right to "blame" PC makers, lol.

  12. Dinosaurs on Dung Beetles Navigate By the Milky Way; Pigeons Tune In To Magnetism · · Score: 1

    Dinosaurs navigated with Apple Maps and look where that got them.

  13. great idea on Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 · · Score: -1

    So they've already got the fact that they got like 12 miles then have to refill, they're loud, they aren't durable, they're dangerous, and nobody has heard of them AND now nobody can pronounce their name. Sounds like great marketing to me.

  14. just like we learned in school on Mystery of the Shrunken Proton · · Score: 1

    "The unlikely but tantalizing alternative is that this is a hint of new physics."
    It's just like we learned in math and science class in school. If your experiment or equation doesn't result in what you were predicting, claim it was accurate and make some shit up. Like dark matter for example. Some guys sitting here on Earth with computers and telescopes didn't measure the mass of the ENTIRE UNIVERSE quite right so...must be magical invisible matter we just made up on the spot! Protons shrunk? Must be new laws of physics.

  15. are they that stupid? on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    Hookah smoking and living in a giant palace that looks extremely muslim isn't Asian, it's Middle Eastern/Arabic. Why would they even say Asian? Are they that stupid that they don't even know their own stereotypes?

  16. oh really? on UK Anonymous Hacktivists Get Jail Time · · Score: 1

    They should have gotten another 6 months for being stupid and careless enough to get caught. Criminal negligence? Lol. It's reeeeeeally not hard these days to not get caught if you're a hacker. Just don't go around bragging, telling your little hacker friends your real name and where you live, or connecting to stuff through non-proxy or TOR means or letting anyone else use your computer. But of course Anonymous is like 100 copies of Kim Dotcom coming off a photocopier so ego comes before anonymity. Ironic, since their name is Anonymous.

  17. welcome to california on California's Surreal Retroactive Tax On Tech Startup Investors · · Score: 1

    Once you've taxed everything imaginable and had a government spending parade, it gets tricky to get more tax dollars out of people. What they really needed was the element of surprise. So...SURPRISE! You owe a shit ton of money, lol.

  18. The socket is the key on Can a New GPU Rejuvenate a 5 Year Old Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    I threw a GTS450 into my socket 939 board with an AMD Toledo Athlon X2 and 3GB of dual channel, low timing DDR1. It was faster than my Geforce 8600 but not by much. I brought my 450 over to my new i5-2400 system and it was like night and day. This thing tore my games a new ass framerate-wise. It would seem the x16 PCI-E slot was holding it back on my old board compared to the new x16 2.0 or 2.1 slot or whatever. Plus, the PCI-E controller is in the i5 itself if I'm not mistaken. So as long as your board has a PCI-E socket with a modern level of bandwidth and a nice controller, you should see very close to the same impact as in a modern system since the cards are basically standalone computers.

  19. Re:well, good. on Intel Gets Go-Ahead For $4 Billion Chip Plant In Ireland · · Score: 1

    Well it certainly wasn't because of the mythological creatures in the area. Leprochauns can cause havoc on a large scale in chip-making plants.

  20. Re:The key question becomes on Silicon Nanoparticles Could Lead To On-Demand Hydrogen Generation · · Score: 1

    I just bought a solar powered 1500maH battery pack with full sized USB port for powering or charging devices. I bet that's lighter, easier, safer, and results in less fire.

  21. Re:Honest, Officer on Silicon Nanoparticles Could Lead To On-Demand Hydrogen Generation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Having a fire on the beach and having the beach on fire are two completely different things

  22. I just saw this, sort of on Github Kills Search After Hundreds of Private Keys Exposed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was cruising ebay yesterday and saw that one of the laptops had their windows license keys exposed in pictures in a readable format. I poked around some more and found that isn't terribly uncommon. Some people just don't think no matter what website it is.

  23. WTF? on Multi-State AT&T U-Verse Outage Enters Third Day · · Score: 1

    ATT advertises bundles starting at $59 a month on its website, stating, “U-verse delivers television, phone and Internet services — all from a single fiber optic cable at the speed of light.

    On what planet? Because here on Earth they use phone lines and DSL for everything. I wouldn't be surprised if AT&T hasn't laid 1 foot of fiber anywhere in the US. That's what Time Warner does, not them.

  24. sample size? on Male Scientists More Prone To Misconduct · · Score: 2

    A remarkable 88% of faculty members who committed misconduct were men, or 63 out of 72 individuals, or not large enough of a sample size to mean anything.

  25. well... on Alan Cox: Fedora 18 "The Worst Red Hat Distro," Switches To Ubuntu · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least he didn't switch to Windows 8. Then he'd eventually give up and just go Amish.