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  1. Re:Impossible predictions on The City of the Future · · Score: 1

    Even now, in their very very early days, there are noticable quality improvements
    I beg to differ. For my usage pattern there has been significant quality regressions.
  2. Re:We are Borg. Resistance is futile ! on The City of the Future · · Score: 1, Funny

    I would hope that the nanobots would be under one's direct control. So if you decide that you want a new appendage, you can set them to it.
    More likely enlarge an existing appendage
  3. Re:How do I block it? on Adobe Quietly Monitoring Software Use? · · Score: 1

    This site is targeted at windows users, but it is applicable to almost any OS. Download their hosts file and append it to your /etc/hosts file. (unless OS X puts that file in some other location)

  4. Re:HD format war on CES Scorecard 2007 - What Came True; What Didn't · · Score: 4, Funny

    Frank has a 2000" TV.

  5. Re:cmdrtaco copyrights castration on Egypt to Copyright Pyramids and Sphynx · · Score: 1

    Speaking of ancient: where did you dig this up? I haven't seen that one in years.

  6. Re:Wow! on The LCD Panel vs. The Crossbow · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it came from this CD. I'll have to dig that one out of my collection.

  7. Re:OMG censorship!!! on Airlines Plan To Filter, Censor In-Flight Internet Access · · Score: 1

    There's nothing unintelligent about religion. Atheists are ipso facto stupid. Like anti-gay fundamentalists, atheists have the ludicrous belief that they can make pronouncements about an emotional phenomenon which they do not experience.
    You're forgetting to account for the atheist who started out believing and experiencing those "emotional phenomenon" before they grew up. If some people never want to grow up, then that is their right.
  8. Re:Legal WAR! on U.Maine Law Clinic Is First To Fight RIAA · · Score: 1

    Nazi Germany started war on the entire world, thinking they were big, mighty, and unstoppable. And what happened? In the end, there was devastating destruction throughout Europe, tens of millions of lives destroyed, and the country in the worst shape of all was Germany.
    And after the was there was the Marshall Plan, the rise and fall of communism and today Germany is the third largest economy in the world.

    Sometimes patterns of cause and effect are clear, but other times they aren't.
  9. Re:I'll tell you what else... on Black Hole Blasts Neighbor Galaxy with Deadly Jet · · Score: 1

    We've come a long way from dialing into BBSes; I can't wait to see what the next 10 years brings for research.
    Porn
  10. Re:Message Beamed across the Universe on Black Hole Blasts Neighbor Galaxy with Deadly Jet · · Score: 1

    Or as they say around here: "Sorry 'bout your bad luck"

  11. Re:MATH on Light-based Quantum Circuit Does Basic Maths · · Score: 1

    Statistics is actually the plural form of statistic.

    You could conceivably your character's statistic.

    So it's not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.

  12. Re:Or... on Helium Leads to Geothermal Energy Resources · · Score: 1

    GE?

  13. Re:Re; Hold still while I inject you with SQL on Helium Leads to Geothermal Energy Resources · · Score: 1

    Try this one.

  14. Re:Or... on Helium Leads to Geothermal Energy Resources · · Score: 1

    You forgot the obligatory xkcd link

  15. Re:Actually Canada is the number one supplier of O on Helium Leads to Geothermal Energy Resources · · Score: 1

    The government of Canada has apologized for Brian Adams on several occasions

  16. Re:Diploma mills on How Best Buy Tried To Whip The Geek Squad Into Shape · · Score: 1

    And for two, do you have an understanding of over complicated? It wouldn't work. Windows patches would shut the whole network down, not to mention the fact that any time a machine is imaged/worked on/replaced all the routing info would need to be carried over and the network interfaces kept separate. Thats a recipe for disaster.
    I said it would function, not that it was practical. Certainly a recipe for disaster in a windows environment.
  17. Re:Diploma mills on How Best Buy Tried To Whip The Geek Squad Into Shape · · Score: 1

    he was trying to string together an ethernet LAN without using a hub or switch (because that's wrong, or something) but instead by installing two network cards in each of the fifteen computers
    That setup could be made to function with the right routing tables (assuming he was smart enough to use crossover cables). As long as no more than one machine (or one set of adjacent machines) is shut down at a time...
  18. Re:pin sized hole hard to reach on Minor Leak Being Investigated Aboard the ISS · · Score: 1

    A pound can be a measure of force, or of mass. I would imagine they mean three pounds (mass) of air.

    If this is the case, you could convert this to a more normal measure of air volume.

  19. Re:expect more articles on the benefits of nuclear on Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed · · Score: 1

    Half a century of cold war propaganda didn't help people develop a balanced view of the risks.

    MAD doesn't work as well when people aren't terrified of radiation.

  20. Re:What happens when... on Facebook Users Complain of New Ad-Based Tracking · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then those minors will be PERMANENTLY DAMAGED FOR LIFE. Permitting minors to know of the existence of adult novelty items is a crime against humanity and should be punished by death.

  21. Web design on What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    The comments page for that article links to a much more interesting article.

  22. Do not want on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson · · Score: 1

    Damn you! I do remember all the words, but I'd forgotten about them until you brought it up.

  23. Re:Let's black this bitch out! on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 1

    I agree that it takes thousands of wind generators to equal one nuclear power plant. It's a great time to be in the wind tower business.

  24. Re:Let's black this bitch out! on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 1

    I completely support this plan. Full disclosure: the company I work for makes the towers for large wind generators :)

  25. Re:Interesting issues it raises on Google Crowdsources Map Editing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm still up in the air as to whether this ends up being a good thing or a bad thing...
    Good or bad, security based on hiding location information of fixed, publicly known structures is obsolete.