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  1. Re:Kill the Electoral College please... on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    You do know that California holds the vast majority of the US population, right? So no other states' votes would count by comparison. Since California's politics are a joke and it's run like an overpriced circus over there, if anything they shouldn't be allowed to vote at all let alone letting them solely pick the president.

  2. great idea! on Apple Considering Switch Away From Intel For Macs · · Score: 1

    There are practically lines outside the door to Apple stores with customers demanding that they make their Macs slower! WE WANT SLOWER! Who needs top of the line gear? Not them! They only care about how long it takes them to load apps and if it's not long enough, it's a waste of time.

  3. typical on Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars · · Score: 1

    Their explanation: Hyundai and Kia said procedural errors at the companies' joint testing operations in Korea led to the incorrect fuel economy ratings.
    My explanation: They're an Asian company so they lied about their products. That does seem to be a theme over there.

  4. Re:Oh No! Global warming is wrong! on Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars · · Score: 1

    Always check your own mileage. Keep the reciept from when you fill up and write the current mileage down on the back of it then do math next time you fill up

    Mine has an onboard MPG meter actually.

  5. Re:Masking tape on Will Microsoft Dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers? · · Score: 2

    Over the camera should solve the problem.

    That would likely result in it refusing to play at all. My roommate and I have device a pillow-based device called the "Kinect Bunker" where it masks your identifiable features while still allowing you to see the screen. We get inside it in a 1v1 turn based game when it start detecting the person on the couch instead of the actual player. So it's not exactly hard to fool without just blanking it out and obviously everyone will do that.

  6. Re:OK, stick a fork in them, they're done. on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd like to see instead them be required to laser etch the apology into the back of all their products for a year :-D

  7. I disagree on European Central Bank Casts Wary Eye Toward Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    They have it backwards. Bitcoin doesn't make banks look bad, it came about because they already look bad. Their (and Wall Street's) practices are crap, they're unfair on a global scale, and they're generally just to expensive with people at the top making a buttload of money. That's what makes bitcoins look better by comparison.

  8. Re:33.5% of nothing on Solar Panel Breaks "Third of a Sun" Efficiency Barrier · · Score: 2

    I believe they're referring to total energy of the sunlight itself. I think sunlight is an average of like 2000W per square meter or something.

  9. Re:yet another solar tech not available to the pub on Solar Panel Breaks "Third of a Sun" Efficiency Barrier · · Score: 1

    We'd also save billions of dollars if we stopped selling clothes dryers that are hideously inefficiency; elsewhere in the world condensing dryers are the norm and in some cases dry clothes faster.

    You're wrong. If everyone drove half, used 2x efficient appliances, etc it would work until the population doubles. Then we're right back where we started. If they start creating energy from "nothing" like sunlight, we can use all the energy we want at any rate at any population level.

  10. Re:There is a more immediate problem on IEEE Standards For Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    I understand how a hand count works. I have no idea how most voting machines work, because their designs are secret. We can talk about standards after we get access to source code and design documents.

    I can explain it to you. They only have to do vote +1 with some kind of log and event trail. Apparently that means they load an entire OS which is used in millions of other machines, add USB ports, basically turn it into a computer, load antivirus software on it, make it capable of running pac man (true story), and wonder why they don't work. My free calculator I got at my bank for opening a checking account is more secure and capable at adding sum +1 than a voting machine.

  11. Re:A very unusual toad on Artificial Misting System Allows Reintroduction of Extinct Toad · · Score: 1

    These toads are very unusual. The noise of the waterfall makes croking an impractical method of communication. They instead use hand signals to communicate.

    Then why didn't they signal to the authors that they're not actually extinct?

  12. I wonder why that didn't work on Apple Loses Trademark Claim Against iFone in Mexico · · Score: 1

    I guess that "cuz we're way bigger and awesomer" doesn't really fly in Mexican courts either. First one in gets it!

  13. what I do on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    For the record, in DDO, I'm always in undead Lich (prestige) form so I'm immune to most beholder effects and then I dragon flyby in mid air up to the beholder and spray it with my ice dragon breath attack, which always 1-hits it regardless of the reflex save. It also casts through antimagic fields. So I'm mostly focusing on my quickbar actually, lol.

  14. Re:Boobies on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    What's the female version of that then? Our clothes? lol

  15. mega lolz on "Badass" Bug Infects and Kills Borderlands 2 Characters · · Score: 1

    This is so similar to The Ring, it's not even funny (the movie, not the Xbox hardware failure)

  16. dual story requires dual comment on Sandy Sinks HMS Bounty, Knocks Off Gawker Websites · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did it affect you?

    Huffington post being down? No. Nonstop coverage of something that doesn't affect me? Yes, because I couldn't watch real news. Last time power was out in my area for 1.5 days, I got a spare battery, 200W inverter, and watched TV while also operating my gaming laptop. Oh and I ate everything in the fridge, lol. Such excitement! Such drama! I'm surprised CNN didn't cover me, lol. Here in Wisconsin, we'd be outside tailgating in a class 1 storm. New York needs to get the hell over themselves and stop pretending the rest of the country cares that much about their weather.

    As for the boat, I'm no sailing expert but don't you typically not take low tech replicas of old ships sailing in a hurricane?

  17. Re:This is horrible on Telling the Truth In Today's China · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know, right? Keeping everyone in that mindset so that the people on the top running everything and owning the biggest companies can continue to make gigantic profits while the rest of the workers remain non-disruptive and work for dirt cheap is textbook communism.
    As they say on the internet, Hey China, ur doin it wrong!

  18. Re:Can we see on AMD Licenses 64-bit Processor Design From ARM · · Score: 1

    When they control the heck out of any apps on any tablet or device, why bother to open it up to multiple types of apps?

  19. Re:Two-finger gestures on Valve: Linux Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming · · Score: 1

    YES! Use a Kinect. It takes forever and I can move across the entire screen with 1 inch of mouse movement and a tiny but of muscle usage. Waving my entire arm is tennis elbow waiting to happen, it's imprecise, inaccurate, and just completely idiotic.

  20. Re:only fair on Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet · · Score: 1

    I believe the major steps were Hawaii (US), then the US, US, US, US, US, US, US, Switzerland, US, US, US.

  21. Re:See what happens? on Hurricane Sandy Nears East Coast · · Score: 1

    wooow, I looked up the specs on a cat 1. It's pathetic and we just had a worse storm in every single way in Wisconsin a couple weeks ago. I drove to Taco Bell in it. We just do not give a shit here in Wisconsin, lol. I just looked at the official radar of Sandy right now. Oooooh, dark green! So scary! OMG is that a sliver of yellow? I think they can officially downgrade it from "hurricane" to "it's raining."

  22. only fair on Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet · · Score: 1

    The only fair option is to give control of the internet to the country that invented it. Yay.

  23. Re:Finally on Valve: Linux Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming · · Score: -1

    What do you have against Fischer Price colors? lol. At least they realized just in time that "metro" and purple = vague gay reference and stopped that one just in time. If only they had realized that everyone uses mice and they're faster than touchscreens. Oh well, there's always Windows 9.

  24. Re:See what happens? on Hurricane Sandy Nears East Coast · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Amen to that! Any news agency with a presence in New York (all of them) turn it into the end of the world. The last time New York had a snow storm, CNN covered it like it was the black death. Meanwhile, Wisconsin got slightly more snow than they did and nobody gave a shit. Seriously, we were out shopping and driving and tailgating Packer games like it was normal weather, seeing as how it was. This is a class 1 hurricane. Time to un-bundle their undees and report on something useful and just pack a goddam umbrella.

  25. Re:iSore? on Steve Jobs' Yacht Revealed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry, it will use Apple Maps and crash into something in Nebraska. Yeah, that far inland, lol.