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  1. Re:Oh So That's Why NASA Has Little Funding on Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points.

  2. Re:Build it into the back of a tablet on Engelbart's Keyboard Available For Touchscreens · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Shoot me on Engelbart's Keyboard Available For Touchscreens · · Score: 1

    "Oh no — there's no "@" symbol! If you haven't realized it yet, the keyboard is focused only on the alphabet. Punctuation, navigation, and modifiers are nowhere to be found. But since we have two hands, those are exactly the kind of things that should be integrated in the left hand keyboard.

    We haven't built out the left hand yet, but you can imagine that holding a chord on the left hand can modify the keys available on the right hand. For example, holding down the left thumb could be similar to shift (allowing capital letters), or holding down the left thumb and first finger could allow for number entry."

  4. Re:Battery on US Air Force Buys iPads To Replace Flight Bags · · Score: 1

    They did as recently as 2003, http://treatanysoldier.com/Brian/Iraq/

    And that is just conventional forces, SOF probably more so.

  5. Re:Experiment Methodology on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 2

    CERN is in the suburbs of Geneva Switzerland and the experiment was at Gran Sasso in Italy... probably a 800+KM distance

  6. Re:I want... on Scientists Invent World's First Anti-Laser · · Score: 1

    We always prefered green lasers because the red lasers often washed out on Plasma/LCDs

  7. Status Symbol on Jerry Brown Confiscates 48,000 Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    If it is anything like some federal agencies, the blackberry is seen as a status symbol. Look, I'm important enough to be needed at anytime... most really aren't that important. I declined one when I switched offices but there are people (non-IT or managers) with blackberries. Waste of money.

  8. Re:Passwords are stupid on The Case For Lousy Passwords · · Score: 1

    It is sort of the same system employed by the military with their Common Access Card... authentication requires two things.. something you possess (the card) and something you know (your PIN). You need both. One without the other is useless. And the card will lock you out after three wrong attempts.

  9. Re:It's not open source on G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS · · Score: 1

    IMHO, the main reason the carriers try to stop hacking is tethering... a lot of the Android hacking community seems to be how to get tethering for free.

  10. Re: How does on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    I do not think it is correct that the US military lacks the will. It is what they train for. Most of it can be done without looking upon a single enemy combatant; it is just a matter of how much explosives to apply.

    It is the public/American society that is not willing to accept the collateral damage.

  11. Re:hmm... the internet doesn't work like MS exchan on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Did you even bother to read the complete summary? No. Well, let me qoute the relevant part for you: "According to the BBC, Morrell also 'acknowledged the already-leaked documents' viral spread across the internet made it unlikely they could ever be quashed,' but hopes to prevent the dissemination of a further 15,000 documents WikiLeaks is reportedly in the process of redacting."

    Idiot indeed but it isn't the Pentagon

  12. Re:Yeah and how about rooting Android? on Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal · · Score: 1

    I can only get an EVO by signing up with Sprint... what was your point again?

  13. Re:'Bout time on Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see an ATT powered EVO... the EVO is currently CDMA, ATT is GSM... just FYI

  14. Re:280 megahertz? on Obama To Nearly Double the Available Broadband Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 1

    The summary sucks... confused me at first... it is 500MHZ = 280 (120 from broadcasters) + 220 from the feds

  15. Re:Can't wait to see on iOS 4 Releases Today · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MS has really stepped up their embrace and extend if they are putting windows drivers on Android phones now

  16. Re:Thanks to politicians like this... on Supreme Court Says Gov't Employee Texts Not Private · · Score: 1

    I work in an open office, it is easier for me to send a text than call someone since you never know who in the office could be eavesdropping. Before that I worked in an area that didnt allow my cellphone in the office, google voice offered online texting. Not all of my friends set around a computer all day monitoring their email. And most work place email is definitely monitored.

  17. I see a new bumper sticker in the near future on New Declassification Process To Open 400 Million Pages of Records · · Score: 1

    "Classify everything, let NDC sort it out"

  18. It's the anti-soju! on North Korea Develops Anti-Aging "Super Drink" · · Score: 2, Funny

    So they've basically developed the anti-soju! sweet

  19. Re:Applications on What Microsoft Must Do To Save Its Mobile Business · · Score: 1

    My point was I can get an official USAA application for the iPhone, probably for Android shortly, but there has never been that type of business support for Windows Mobile. How many business have an iPhone app but not a Windows Mobile app?

  20. Applications on What Microsoft Must Do To Save Its Mobile Business · · Score: 1

    I think the problem is applications. Every bussines pushed out an iPhone app. Every business is pushing out an Android app. But where are the comparable Windows Mobile apps? If you want the platform to be successful, get bussines to push their services to it.

  21. Re:Perfect temperature on Food Bloggers Giving Restaurant Owners Heartburn · · Score: 1

    That explains why all those gourmet meals have such small portions! You have to eat it quickly.

  22. Re:an asteroid 100 km in size. on Vast Asteroid Crater Found In Timor Sea · · Score: 1

    "Another impact structure in Siberia was created by an asteroid 100 km in size."

    Does it help you to know that you misread the summary?

  23. Re:hello? 70% fuel reduction! on MIT Designs Aircraft That Uses 70% Less Fuel Than Conventional Planes · · Score: 1

    A 737-700 has a fuel capacity of 6,875 gals and jet fuel weighs 6.84 lbs/gal so a 737-700 carries 47,025 lbs of jet fuel. If the D-Series uses 50-70% less fuel then you have a weight savings of 23,512-32,917 lbs. That seems pretty significant. Of course, this all assumes the D-Series is the same size as a 737... so who knows.

  24. Re:Actual cost on Sprint's $199 HTC EVO 4G Gets Release Date of June 4 · · Score: 1

    You can try the Sprint Everything Plus Plans (http://delivery.sprint.com/m/p/sprint/epc/epclanding.asp)... The lowest priced is the 500 minutes for $59.99 and gives you: "Everything Data plans give you unlimited data, messages and calls to any mobile, anytime while on the Sprint Network." (More features here: http://shop.sprint.com/en/stores/popups/everything_popup.shtml)

    I don't plan on using the wireless hub... so add on the 4G and its $69.00+tax/month (+7.99/month if you had the total protection insurance).

    I'm on the SERO and it runs me about $45/month but its time for a phone upgrade so its either this or the TP2 and stay on the SERO

  25. Re:Other uses for this technology on Lidar Finds Overgrown Maya Pyramids · · Score: 3, Informative

    The summary alluded to this but mostly what you get is reflection off the canopy... when you start talking dense jungle.. triple canopy type areas then this is not going to be effective...