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  1. Re:Plus bonus.... on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    But that failed the first test in Australia....

  2. Re:No, no, no.... on Hospitals Begin Data-Mining Patients · · Score: 1

    No, it's just that a real journalist would have so much to put in a story that corporations that run all the major news outlets don't want the public to know, so they only allow the stories they want told, with the spin they want on it.

  3. Re:Something I'd like to see on Hospitals Begin Data-Mining Patients · · Score: 2

    Haha, I can't wait until the news stories about the 1/1000000 case where a botched surgery results in death and the family is sent a survey asking 'On a scale of Least Satisfied to Most Satisfied, how would you rate the care you received?'

    Depends on whether your relatives like or hate you...

  4. Re:Doesn't give warm fuzzies on Hospitals Begin Data-Mining Patients · · Score: 1

    THAT would be a wonderful application of the HIPAA laws that so far seem to only generate a ream of papers (not for me to fill out or sign, just informational) when I visit the doctor's office...

  5. Re:Want to code? on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 0

    Yeah, pretty disgusting.

  6. Re:Chicago Blackhawks too? on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 1

    Weren't the Washington Redskins originally all indian, and then got bought out for blankets and beads?

  7. Re: Chicago Blackhawks too? on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 1

    Or how about the "Washington "We lost to you and are now getting whiny about its"?

    More acccurate description....

  8. Re:Better question on Google To Take On Apple's CarPlay · · Score: 0

    Siri is specific to Apple.
    Locked in

  9. Re:Consumer = LOSE on Google To Take On Apple's CarPlay · · Score: 1

    "If Apple/Google came up with an open standard that they both used, EVERYONE would use it, we could home brew, and it would be a win for the consumer."

    Which neither Apple, or Google (or any company) wants. They don't want home brew and a "win for the consumer". They want you to be locked into their solution and getting your hardware/software from THEM.

  10. Better question on Google To Take On Apple's CarPlay · · Score: 1

    Why do we even want these giant, built-in distractions in a vehicle when there's so many whiny and complaints about Distracted driving from hand-held devices?

  11. Re:3DS on Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales · · Score: 1

    There is also a TON of downloadable older games as well, going all the way back to NES games

  12. Re:3DS on Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales · · Score: 1

    The few we've tried so far do. In fact the "Start Screen" changes to that of the Wii when you put in a Wii disc.

  13. Re:A competition that is dying on Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales · · Score: 1

    Smart phone and tablet games also tend to be much shallower...

  14. Re:Bad marketing on Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales · · Score: 1

    Nintendo know kids and families love them, so they only really worry about that market. The hardcore gamers who scoff at Nintendo's "kidified" experience are also a lot more vocal that housewives and 7 year olds and post a lot more about it online, so they get more "visibilty" that the folks who just play the games and don't spend most of their lives talking about about the games or praising what they like and scourging what they don't...

  15. Re:ZOMG PANIC! on Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales · · Score: 1

    No, I think the market is speaking to that and that's why Nintendo is stumbling over itself right now.

  16. Re:3DS on Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales · · Score: 1

    (I don't count LoZ:Windwaker as it's just an "HD" re-release of an older game)

  17. Re:Not just that on Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales · · Score: 2

    Mario Kart 8 is intolerable on a Wiimote.

    Works great on the Pad, and I may finally be able to convince my wife we need a Pro Controller for MK8 at least :)

  18. Re:3DS on Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales · · Score: 1

    And for gamers, the Wii U, while it does have several Mario title, still doesn't have a Legend of Zelda game, or a Metroid, or a Pokemon, etc.

    It's missing most of the Nintendo Franchises that people buy a Nintendo brand console for. And now I've been hearing that Nintendo is already working on the Wii U's replacement console, looking bleak for the Wii U.

  19. Re:Issues with the story on GM Names and Fires Engineers Involved In Faulty Ignition Switch · · Score: 1

    Not the top executives though

  20. Re:Issues with the story on GM Names and Fires Engineers Involved In Faulty Ignition Switch · · Score: 1

    Very true.

    This all just a smokescreen to protect the executives...

  21. Typical on GM Names and Fires Engineers Involved In Faulty Ignition Switch · · Score: 1

    Any dog-and-pony show to protect the executives...

  22. Re:So what's the problem here? on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 1

    I know, but that would be a GREAT punchline to end the story on :)

  23. Re:Think harder Rick on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 2

    No kidding.

    Grow some spine and some thicker skin America, you're turning into the wimps of the "free" world...

  24. Re:Harder Idea - Shutter the team on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 1

    No, he should have never been forced to sell the team at all.

  25. Re:So what's the problem here? on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hopefully the team's value will plummet after the sale is complete.