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  1. Re:Interesting on The Pentagon May Retire "Yoda," Its 92-Year-Old Futurist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dyslectic I am, insensitive clods you are!

  2. Re:Wide FOV... Great... on 210 Degrees of Heads-Up Display: Hands-On With the InfinitEye · · Score: 1

    So, open up cellphones to get their LCD displays to build your own heads-up display? In this case I guess the earlier iPhones are also good candidates.

  3. Re:Wide FOV... Great... on 210 Degrees of Heads-Up Display: Hands-On With the InfinitEye · · Score: 1

    It would be easier to pick the iPhone since it's only one or two shapes that changes a lot less often than the hundreds of Android phones out there.

    On the other hand, is there any way to use an iPhone as a low-latency display?

  4. Re:Apple forums are a wholesome place on Apple Blocks Lawrence Lessig's Comment On iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch · · Score: 1

    Here is the history of Apple, inc. in colours: beige, fruit colours, white, silver/black/grey, neon colours.

  5. Re:In the footsteps of Arduino on Hardware Is Now Open (sourced) For Business · · Score: 1

    You can take an Arduino schematic and run it on a 28-pin DIP, 5$USD ATmega328P on a single-sided PCB you make yourself at home or even a protoboard. I don't see most hobbyists doing that with anything related to the Raspberry Pi.

  6. Great on Mozilla Location Service: Geolocation Lookups From Cell Towers and WiFi Data · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Megacities like Tokyo and New York will have great and precise services. Middle-of-nowhere-town with under 50 000 people will have jack squat.

  7. Re:Time to update California laws on Anti-Poaching Lawsuit Against Apple, Google and Others Given the Green Light · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you were just drunk last night and watched Soylent Green while eating almonds.

  8. Re:Check it for lost Doctor Who episodes on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 1

    The lost Doctor Who episodes have been found 14 years ago, in 2079.

  9. Re:Who gives a shit? on Stung By Scandal, South Korea Weighs Up Cost of Curbing Nuclear Power · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The same could be said about the USA, where money equals law and justice is make-believe for kids stories.

  10. Silicon photonics? on Oracle Eyes Optical Links As Final Frontier of Data-Center Scaling · · Score: 1

    I'm a doctor, not a USB cable. - EMH.

  11. Re:WTF on Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know who else still have honour? Klingons.

  12. Re:One infinity drive. on Mac OS 10.9's Mail App — Infinity Times Your Spam · · Score: 2

    Maybe he just needs to drink a cup of very hot tea.

  13. One thing is for sure on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can be sure that Texas is not one of those eight states.

  14. Re:you ins3nsitive 3lod! on File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot · · Score: 1

    That's either a badly encoded covert communication between parties or a very dyslexic troll.

  15. Re:Seized? on FBI Seized 144,000 Bitcoins ($28.5 Million) From Silk Road Bust · · Score: 1

    http://www.wtcr.ca/

    You can get an ASICMINER Block Erupter USB for only 0.05 BTC.

  16. Re:WTF is Azure? on Microsoft Makes It Harder To Avoid Azure · · Score: 1

    Well, you're a girl.

  17. Re:WTF is Azure? on Microsoft Makes It Harder To Avoid Azure · · Score: 1

    They could trademark "i686" because it's not a number.

  18. Re:You Sound Like One Of Those on PHP.net Compromised · · Score: 1

    How about saving bandwidth? Even the latest ones are still in GIF. You may think 4-5KB isn't much, but how many people read Dilbert every day?

  19. WTF is Azure? on Microsoft Makes It Harder To Avoid Azure · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously, I don't use any Microsoft products so I have no idea what Azure is supposed to be. A small description or at the very least a link to Wikipedia should have been at the beginning of your text, itwbennett.

  20. Re:You Sound Like One Of Those on PHP.net Compromised · · Score: 2

    I didn't even realize that they were still using GIF instead of PNG. This proves Dilbert.com is run by a PHB.

    Optimized GIF: 29019 bytes.
    Optimized PNG: 24356 bytes.

  21. Re:I can predict the future on PHP.net Compromised · · Score: 2

    Security. If you do it right, everyone thinks you have wasted your time. If you do it wrong, it is all your fault. - SmallFurryCreature

    Thanks for the new quote.

  22. Re:You Sound Like One Of Those on PHP.net Compromised · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here's a better URL without all the superfluous Web 2.0 crap around it.

  23. Re:Oh the irony on PHP.net Compromised · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's Microsoft's fault. The URL for PHP is php.net, which means it's .NET and hence the reason for being compromised.

    The malware was distributed via Javascript, which has Java in its name, which means it's also Oracle's fault.

  24. Re:Opt Out! on Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising · · Score: 1

    If your nowhere is near enough to a big center, of course you'll have 10 ISPs.

    I just called all eight so-called choices that are supposed to be available to me, turns out that none offers service to my whole town despite their own websites saying otherwise. Télébec really has a monopoly on internet service.

  25. Re:Opt Out! on Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising · · Score: 1

    35K people is still quite big, especially if you are near a huge city. Try a town of barely 10K people in the middle of nowhere (G9X).

    Last time I checked with TekSaavy, their website said the service was available to my apartment but their sales department said that was a mistake. We really have a monopoly here, the only choices are Télébec or nothing.