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  1. Re:Well deserved on Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid I don't understand. Chrome has the "Inspect element" right-click menu option that lets you manipulate a webpage and futz with the css. There's a version of Firebug for Chrome. In what way is Firefox a browsing toolkit that Chrome is not?

  2. What if...he's not? on Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO · · Score: 1

    jeez-jimini-crikey! I know I'm late to this game, but damn, there's a lot of people who think he's doing this just to avoid the IPO tax bill. He's been there for years, married a citizen (according to the citizenship reqs for someone over 22), is working there, and is really just trying to go live there. And keep in mind, he executed this decision months before the announcement of the IPO. He's going to pay all the taxes he owes. You people seriously need to quit letting articles written be people supposing they've cynically guessed someone else's motives stoke your rage. Facts, people, facts. Come on!

  3. Re:Fishy... on The Leap: Gesture Control Like Kinect, But Cheaper and Higher Resolution · · Score: 1

    i think the 8 cf thing becomes limiting. plus, i don't see any reason it would be good at generating a 3-d model. all the motion detection can be done based on 2-d processing. so in that respect, there's no reason to assume that it would be any better at 3-d modeling that a digital camera with some cool software behind it. Now this might give your "tasting" probe people something to consider.

  4. Re:You CAN turn off your phone. on Cops' Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Now Better Than GPS · · Score: 1

    It's already non-trivial to remove the battery from an iPhone and I can pretty easily imagine a regulation that required phone manufacturers to mount the battery in such a way that removal would require destruction of the phone. That way, They'll spin it, if someone steals your phone, the provider/law enforcement will be able to track it. It will be done for only benevolent reasons. Like all these civil liberty eroding laws are. Sorry, citizen protection laws, I get so confused in my old age.

  5. Re:From a buffoon on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Actually, diesel was pretty popular here until about 25 years ago. Now it's just big rigs and pickups really. I know some imports run on it, but yeah we only have about 1/4 of our fuel pumps dispensing diesel.

    FTFM, i'm older than i remember sometimes.

  6. Re:From a buffoon on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Actually, diesel was pretty popular here until about 15 years ago. Now it's just big rigs and pickups really. I know some imports run on it, but yeah we only have about 1/4 of our fuel pumps dispensing diesel.

  7. Re:Turtles all the way down on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 1

    First, why are you refusing to sign up because other people at a conference you went to don't have an application for this tech?
    Second, I write software for a package where we really don't need more precision than somewhere around the 10e-6 range. Different applications have different requirements and very few require an exact answer out to 10e-23 or even 10e-14.

  8. Re:Anyone can be a part of Anonymous on Member Claims Anonymous "Might Well Be the Most Powerful Organization On Earth" · · Score: 1

    *pew pew*

    LOL!

  9. Hacking vs. Zerging on Member Claims Anonymous "Might Well Be the Most Powerful Organization On Earth" · · Score: 1

    DDoS = Zerging = not interesting/powerful/intimidating to anyone but a web admin.

  10. I think Congress got it backwards on Congress: The TSA Is Wasting Hundreds of Millions In Taxpayer Dollars · · Score: 2

    Speak softly and carry a big stick.

    --Theodore Roosevelt (supposedly, a W. African proverb)

    Congress loves to shout about how crappy the TSA is, but then they keep giving them huge sums of money to continue being crappy.

    And they actually expect the public to believe they give a rat's ass about anything besides money

  11. Re:super-Earth? on Astronomers See the Glow of a Boiling Planet · · Score: 1

    What exactly justified it to be called super-Earth?

    It's bigger, stronger, faster, shoots infra-red beams, and, the dead give-away, has a red cape. Yeah. I went there.

  12. Re:This cannot and will not work on FDA May Let Patients Buy More Drugs Without Prescriptions · · Score: 1

    That's what lawsuits are for! Our litigious society is one step ahead of you rs1n!

  13. Hypochondriacs UNITE! on FDA May Let Patients Buy More Drugs Without Prescriptions · · Score: 2

    So I can self diagnose high cholesterol on the honor system at a kiosk, and yet, cough syrup and Pseudoephedrine have to be regulated...

  14. Headline fail on Did a Genome Copying Mistake Lead To Human Intelligence? · · Score: 2

    FTFA: We may have been looking at the wrong types of mutations to explain human and great ape differences

    The article isn't about whether it was a mutation, it's about identifying the specific mutation that put us down this path.

  15. Re:They prefer that customers buy on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, no. Quite the opposite. You lent further proof to it. :)

  16. Re:Chip on Shoulder on Sigrok: An Open Source Logic Analyzer · · Score: 1

    "Windows sucks and all software on it sucks!"

    I'm not sure they were saying that at all, actually. I think they were simply saying the logic analyzer software for Windows was crappy. I don't think they even really said Windows was crappy.

    Also FTA: I grew tired of almost all devices having a proprietary and Windows-only software, often with limited features, limited input/output file formats, limited usability, limited protocol decoder support, and so on.

  17. Population displacement on NASA's Interactive Flood Maps · · Score: 1

    What would have made this really interesting is to see population densities with an estimate of how many people would actually be displaced at the different levels. Because really, who cares if land that no one lived on anyway is now under 2 feet of water? I vaguely remember that project floating around out there too, but my curiosity isn't sufficient to chase it down.

  18. Raging hypocrasy on Congress Asks Patent Office To Consider Secret Patents · · Score: 1

    LET THE FREE MARKET DICTATE! NO REGULATIONS!

    unless of course we're losing, then we clearly need to change the rules to work in our favor again.
    Stop illegal immigration because their cheap labor is taking away American jobs...
    Raise tariffs on imports that are cheaper than the stuff we make here...
    Change our patent system to further reduce competition with our ideas...

    OTHER THAN THAT: LET THE FREE MARKET DICTATE!

  19. Re:goodbye hulu on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    What did Netflix do to you?

  20. Re:Of course on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 2

    I'd even be okay with buying episodes of shows as they air

    Amazon prime allows exactly that.

  21. Re:Little brat on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    Couldn't agree more. Setting aside the 4th Amendment and the idea that a pat-down is a worthless means of security, the idea is that the random selection criteria need not apply to low-risk groups while allowing specific suspicions to be investigated on anyone. That flexibility and reason were clearly ignored in this situation. She's 4. This is likely her first plane ride and definitely one the first she actually remembers. She's excited.

  22. Re:Little brat on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    The fact that the girl was four years old is irrelevant.

    It's actually extremely relevant that the girl was 4 years old. There is now policy around children under 12 that allows a great deal more flexibility which intelligent people can leverage to avoid this scenario.

  23. Re:Fairly stupid response on Was Earth a Migratory Planet? · · Score: 1

    This is why CO is sometimes used on meat. It keeps the meat bright red and healthy-looking so it will look nice on display in the grocery store. Without it, I think meat would tend more toward purple.

    While that may be true, my understanding is there's also some dye added. AFAIK, that red stuff ain't blood; all the blood was thoroughly drained at the slaughter house. I further understand that the meat would tend more toward grey (like when it's "well-done") than purple.

    Fair disclosure, I'm not a butcher and all that is 2nd hand information; so take it for what it is

  24. Glenn Beck effect on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was right there with him until I sensed the twist in the logic right at the end of paragraph 5. Then paragraph 6 took the left turn at Albuquerque and it all when horribly wrong culminating in paragraph 15 identifying "desirable" black people as trophies for powerful/rich white people. At that point I was left open mouthed, not so much at what he said as at the fact he seemed to genuinely believe this was not a racist viewpoint because it was backed up by "facts" of some sort and qualified by "personal experience." Glenn Beck, you've met your match!

  25. Re:Sad world... on Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers · · Score: 1

    Sorry. I said "would" and should have said "could."