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  1. Re:Manufacturer on The Cult of Kindle · · Score: 0

    Yeah, I predict that no one will do well in the ebook genre until Apple makes one. For some reason lately it takes all the Apple-Fanboys to make a change in the electronics market now-a-days. Wait aren't there rumors of a new Newton in the works as well? I bet it will be spin'd as an ebook reader.

  2. Re:Say goodbye to... on Maryland To Tax Custom Programming and Computer Services · · Score: 0

    And say goodbye my proper english, apparently as well!

    I meant to say "Say goodbye to many of your businesses Maryland."

  3. Say goodbye to... on Maryland To Tax Custom Programming and Computer Services · · Score: 0

    Say goodbye to your many of your businesses Maryland.

  4. Microsoft Memory Backup. on Major Breakthrough in Direct Neural Interface · · Score: 0

    I'm surprised that everyone has missed the link this would have with yesterdays article on Microsoft working on backing up your memories...

    "Microsoft is now working on a system that will back up the contents of your brain. The pilot project lacks a direct brain interface..."

    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/15/1613246

  5. Use it to correct stupidity. on New Project To End Stupidity Online · · Score: 0

    So if the Stupid Filter can recognize badly formed written documents, could it not thereby be used to correct those mistakes? Would it not then make stupid people at least *read* like they are smart.

    But then would that not just equate to the grammer/spell checker in (choose your own Document Editor). So would it then not only be redundant technology, but probably a violation of somebody's patent?

  6. my girlfriend... on Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon · · Score: 0

    My girlfriend has a Japanese Probe, and she is really happy with it.

  7. MTV? on Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon · · Score: 0

    Where is the flag with the MTV logo??!

  8. Re:It's a Japanese probe on Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon · · Score: 0

    I think you mean "fuzzy Rogic"?!

  9. Re:OMFG...Where is the lunar lander? on Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon · · Score: 0

    You make some excellent points. If we could see any of the landers/rovers, that would be a testament to how good the video was. It would show scale as well. It would also show how the equipment has held up over the years. Excellent points!

    Now with this just being a "teaser" video, I'm betting that they do have or will have video of the lander sites, eventually... hopefully. I haven't checked the orbital path to see if the probe would pass over them. I would be surprised if at that distance you could clearly make them out. But it is the closest thing to the sites, has the best resolution (supposedly), and thereby the best chance of getting anything. I'm betting the shadows created by the structures would be more visible then the structures themselves. But then I also didn't check the solar angle to the lunar landing sites.

  10. It's just missing one thing... on Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon · · Score: 0

    A big honking "All your (lunar) BASE are belong to us!" sign.

  11. Re:OMFG...Where is the lunar lander? on Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wait... is that... is that a face?

  12. OMFG...Where is the lunar lander? on Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon · · Score: 0

    There is no Lunar Lander visible, even by close up HD video! So the lunar landing conspiracy people were right!

  13. and the number one reason is... on Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott Gets Axed · · Score: 0

    Jack Thompson sent a letter.

  14. Warm Fuzzies! on Gates Successor Says Microsoft Laid Foundation for Google · · Score: 0

    It gives me warm fuzzies to see yet another company so disconnected from reality (like the RIAA) and equally disconnected from the customer.

  15. Or an Arizona Summer! on NASA Building Massively Heat-Resistant Chips · · Score: 0

    "provide benefits to anything requiring long-lasting electronic circuits in very hot environments such as jets, spacecraft, and industrial machinery." ...or the typical Arizona Summer. Like a phone that you could leave in your car accidentally and not worry about it.

  16. Duh! on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 0

    "The typical cloner either uses off-the-shelf code, writes something entirely new, or modifies a publicly available Linux-based system.)"

    What other options are there?? That's almost the stupidest thing I've ever read!

  17. Breaking news..... on "Crowd Farm" to Collect Energy? · · Score: 0

    Cut to your favorite stereotypical news program, with an attractive yet rather plastic woman is reading the news...

    "To the delight of the early morning travelers the transport authority started its complimentary energy drink program this morning. Passengers unanimously received the new program positively. Unfortunately that didn't stop them from complaining that the morning 6:45am train was 20 minutes late"

    "In other news, what is being described as a "moderate" power surge hit the terminal building this morning during the daily commuter rush."

  18. I doubt the Dem's even know about it. on Will Linux Win the Next Presidential Election? · · Score: 0

    I doubt the Dem's even realize that they are hosting on Linux. From my experience the Linux hosting is usually just a little cheaper than Windows Hosting. Therefor I doubt that Hillary even knows that she is hosting on Linux and I doubt that her campaign workers even know it as well.

  19. can handle 52 simultaneous touches on A Look Beneath the 'Surface' · · Score: 0

    So how exactly does one simulate 52 simultaneous touches? 5 people with 10 fingers plus 2 toes from one person?

  20. Nothing new here. on Star Trek Shields Now a Possibility? · · Score: 0

    Looks to me this is the same thing that Robert M. Winglee was doing back in 2001 with Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion (M2P2)

    http://www.ess.washington.edu/Space/M2P2/

  21. Now there will be two spaceports in NM! on One Step Closer To Spaceport America · · Score: 0

    Spaceport America will be just 200 miles away from the Alien Spaceport (Roswell). Good time to start thinking of moving to NM, what with all that tourist income comming in!

  22. Oh please... on IBM the Next Great Software Company? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    IBMs failures in Software creation and marketing that software read like a list of accomplishments of an alcoholic and a bartenders flair competition.

    PC Dos - Dead
    OS2 - Dead
    Pink - Dead before it was born.
    Tivoli - you hardly ever even see this anymore.

    I'm sure I'm missing quite a few others.

    Not to mention making and marketing PC's themselves. IBM was the first big player, now they don't make them anymore (sold it all to Lenovo).

  23. Never had a problem with getting naked Dells on Why You Can't Buy a Naked PC · · Score: 1

    I've never had a problem with purchasing naked Dells, both workstations and servers. I've always just explained to the phone sales person that the system is replacing an existing (but crashed or in the process of crashing) system. They've always sent naked systems this way.

  24. Re:An inconvenient truth.... on Gore Pushes for Private Investment in Space · · Score: 1

    EXACTLY! Are these private space business automatically exempt from his ecological carbon footprint evangelism?

    How about Gore's own constant flying all over the world in a large jumbo jet, evangelizing about reducing his carbon footprint? Is that exempt as well?

  25. Re:Costa Rica on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    Please, show me a country in history which has had no army (or even had a weak army) and was not eventually taken over by a stronger power.

    The world is not a safe place. Not everyone believes in free love and peace. There will always be an agreesor. By not preparing yourself for the eventual said aggressor you only set yourself up for your own eventual demise. It's basic societal evolution.