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  1. Re:Hating cats... on Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine · · Score: 1

    Ammonia is just one part of the cat urine smell. If it's just ammonia, this isn't nearly as bad as implied. It's other substances that create the ongoing odor in a house with a problem cat.

  2. Re:stfu. on F-Secure's Hypponen: The Internet Is a 'US Colony' · · Score: 2

    Damn Hommos, getting homm all over the place and wrecking it for the rest of us.

  3. Re:Street Light Replacement on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Not only do they emit downward, a street light runs much hotter than a traffic light. I wouldn't be surprised if they need active cooling like LED plant lights do.

  4. Re:4K is for losers on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    >How do you fit an 8K display in your car?

    In a 3ft by 3ft by 2ft box, same as we do for 1080p projectors. You'll need a slightly bigger box for the screen, but that's assembled on-site.

  5. Re:Whay doesn't /. save some time on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    Many of us don't live in New York City or Tokyo, so can devote a reasonable amount of space to a home theater, rather than sitting in a closet like you seem to be doing.

  6. Re:Whay doesn't /. save some time on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    That call may come sooner than you expect. We already have amazing 1080p projectors for around $2K, 5 years from now 4K projector may be about the same price. I've been very happy with the way projector prices have dropped as resolution, color gamut, and contrast have improved over the years.

  7. Re:Higher Frame rates. on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    Agreed. 1080p/120 will likely look much better than 4K/60, because the motion will be much closer to reality.

  8. Re:Fix HD First on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    The opening credits of Smallville made it obvious that compression is a problem even OTA. Of course no one should have been watching Smallville anyway.

  9. Re:Great on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    1080p should be adequate for a Rift-like device. The virtual screen that you're navigating by moving your head can be much bigger than 4K

  10. Re:CAN THE VHS/BETA MYTH FUCKING DIE NOW on USB Implementers Forum Won't Play Nice With Open Hardware · · Score: 1

    You're just not telling the truth. I was there, and owned VHS, Super-VHS, Beta, and Super-Beta Machines. The Beta machines always had an image much closer to the original broadcast. The VHS machines lost all fine detail. The only time I saw them look the same was on a 13" Goldstar TV that made broadcast TV look as bad as VHS. VHS was only superior in recording time.

  11. Re:Bullshit we won't notice on Redesigned Seats Let Airlines Squeeze In More Passengers · · Score: 1

    Always spend the money to upgrade to a seat with extra leg-room. It makes flights so much better for a tall person.

  12. Re:The govenment should just double spending. on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    It seems off to me as well. They claim losses, but what does that actually mean? No money was destroyed or sent overseas because of this, the economic loss would seem to have been mainly in the idled government workers, and people doing extra work because of the shutdown.

  13. Re:Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 0

    The people who take that view are known as "teabaggers," and only represent America in their own minds.

    They are not taken seriously outside their deficient subculture, which is defined more in reaction to things they've been programmed to despise than anything they're actually for. An insular subculture like that can't help but be toxic, but will eventually consume itself in fits of paranoia involving imagined enemies among them, and religious ideas of "purity"

  14. Re:Different Source Code for Different Versions? on Security Researchers Want To Fully Audit Truecrypt · · Score: 1

    Depends on what value you assign to X.

  15. Re:Don't forget Ananias on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 1

    All you can talk about is what man imagines a god to be, more specifically what you imagine a god to be, but religious people can't present an actual god, because gods are just a primitive concept to provide imagined explanations for things we didn't understand yet.

    This is why gods were once believed to be behind everything, but as we learn, our gods get pushed into smaller imagined spaces, and eventually we realize there's no evidence for gods at all. This really upsets people who still cling to religion for emotional reasons when all the evidence says they're delusional.

  16. Re:What interested me on Most Cave Paintings Were Painted By Women, Says Penn State Researcher · · Score: 2

    10% seems way too high, like it's including college "lesbians."

    I live in a civilized part of the country where even the Republicans are pretty rational, so gay people don't have to hide, and it seems closer to 1 in 25 than 1 in 10.

  17. Re:October 17th Conspiracy Theorists Welcome! on 90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This isn't a negotiation. You don't suspend laws by refusing the fund the government. Allowing the Republivans to get their way by throwing a tantrum and bypassing the legislative process would set a terrible precedent, allowing any insane minority group to control what we can do as a people.

    You'd have to have your head pretty far up conservative fake news to believe that Obama was somehow responsible for the insane teabaggers holding our country hostage.

  18. Re:who thinks about their smoke detector? on Nest Protect: Trojan Horse For 'The Internet of Things'? · · Score: 1

    Assuming it's not going off for no reason at night, I wouldn't that crying wolf, so much as a ventilation problem.

  19. Re:Proof that Obama is corrupt on Obama Administration Refuses To Overturn Import Ban On Samsung Products · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Try not to fall for Republican stunts. Republican extremists shut down the government, then pulled a stunt with veterans as a show for the goobers. Apparently this works on you.

    Keep in mind that Fox News, hate-radio, and wingnut blogs only exists to make money off of rubes by painting an alternate reality that's attractive to bigots, morons, and Christian supremacists.

  20. Re:good? on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 1

    I think it's more that many people now want to be constantly monitored. They wouldn't announce their every move on Facebook and Twitter if they were interested in privacy.

  21. Re:I'm glad we got competition! on AMD Intentionally Added Artificial Limitations To Their HDMI Adapters · · Score: 1

    The only useful function of this I can see is that it helps identify people with an ax to grind as they spin their fantasies regarding this free adapter.

  22. Re:if it was a operating plant, there would be ala on Fukushima Nuclear Worker Accidentally Toggles Off Cooling Pumps · · Score: 2

    Blaming nature for the foreseeable consequences of building a nuclear reactor with inadequate safety precautions in a tsunami zone is nonsense. TEPCO is 100% responsible for the ongoing disaster, not nature.

  23. Re:Shoot first on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Good point. What's next, an economist claiming that evolution is a lie from the pits of hell?

    Educated professionals often function very poorly outside their knowledge-domain, and due to a lifetime of considering themselves to be smart people, assume they're competent where they are not.

  24. Re:Great on The Human Brain Project Kicks Off · · Score: 2

    The beauty of an artificial brain is that you don't have to put up with it behaving like an average lazy human. You can torture it until it does your bidding, with no legal repercussions.

    But seriously, if you have thinking minds working for you, and you do not allow them self-determination and pay them for their work, you're a slavemaster.

    This is not what you want to automate your factory, or run your car. The idea of a slave in my garage is disgusting.

  25. Re:Hope it makes him feel better on 'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself' · · Score: 1

    Not just because he didn't understand consequences as you say. The reason the idea that Swartz was a victim gets traction is that our out of control lawmakers routinely create punishments that are greatly disproportionate to the crime. Aaron wasn't mentally stable enough to face this disproportionate punishment.

    He really was dangerously naive, he probably lived in a bubble and hadn't encountered our horrible legal system before, but that doesn't mean we should continue to allow out of proportion punishments created by politicians that want to pander to the cowardly, unthinking "law and order" crowd.

    This poor kid holds most of the responsibility for his death, having taken his own life, but that doesn't mean that this shouldn't be a call to expose and remove malicious prosecutors, and change destructive laws.