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  1. Is Google the New Microsoft? on Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat · · Score: 1

    Can't innovate anymore so they can only ride on the coattails of others.

  2. Re:What about accidents? on NuScale Power Awarded $226 Million To Deploy Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 2

    5 million gallons may sound like a lot, but it's not event that big. 5 million gallons, equates to...a pool the size of an american football field, at 4 meters deep.

    So how big does a pool have to be before you consider it to be big?

  3. Re:Apple has JUMPED THE SHARK on Cupertino Approves New Apple Spaceship HQ · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Pixar.

  4. Re:My Hero on Interview: Ask Limor Fried About Open-Source Hardware and Adafruit · · Score: 1

    Skipping the "Who talks to each other that way after they leave their 20s?" issue for the moment, that's not the way you talk to "guys", that's the way you talk to "friends". If you were meeting someone for the first time, I doubt you'd be so, um, familiar with each other.

  5. Re:Shame on them on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    I like this one.

  6. Re:Wrong, choice is between who will get noticed on NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    With the press as we have it being 90+% Democrats, who do you expect stories like the NSA issues to get anything but a passing mention? Just look at the outrage in the media if a Republican does ANYTHING wrong.

    Liar.

  7. Re:Digital? on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 2

    It's a digital disk, read by a LASER.

    No, LaserDisc was analog.

  8. Re:I donâ(TM)t suppose... on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    Was the "Uncle Tom" thing really necessary? No, it was not.

  9. Re:1000 new medals please on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1

    Funny, I feel the same way about products from California, due to their unreasonable hatred for the Constitutional right to self-protection.

    Yes because there is absolutely no private gun ownership in California. Handguns and AK-47s are nowhere to be seen here, yep! Hunters beware because you won't get to shoot your precious game in the Golden State, no siree.</sarcasm>

    Are you completely stupid?

  10. Re:Is that the lineup of a Death Metal concert? on Black Death Predated 'Small World' Effect, Say Network Theorists · · Score: 1

    Only because people didn't know about the existence these guys yet.

  11. Re:Next generation of the iWatch capability? on Shuttleworth: Apple Will Merge Mac and iPhone · · Score: 1

    ...MS is racing with Google in attempting to take a larger bite of tablet market share pie.

    Pointing your plane straight down and flying as fast as you can towards it is not considered "racing".

  12. Re:Java won't die. on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 1

    There's a reason my professor called Java a "Training Wheels Language"

    This.

  13. Re:Java's problem isn't verbosity on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nothing but him bitching about how PHP sucks...

    To be fair, it does.

  14. Re:In before it starts... on Police Demand Summary Domain Takedown, Traffic Redirection · · Score: 1

    We have one of those in Los Angeles.

  15. Looked At Another Way... on How Entrepreneurs Overturned California's Retroactive Tax On Startup Founders · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A few rich guys who don't want to pay their taxes get together to do something about them. They have the resources to lobby a bill almost full time for nine months. In the end, they get their bill passed but whine that democracy is broken because they had to work really, really hard at it.

    Must be nice. Some of us have day jobs.

  16. Yeah But... on Japan Promises an Ultra-High-Tech 2020 Olympics · · Score: 1

    I'll probably still need a cable subscription to watch live events on the web in the U.S. Sigh.

  17. Re:seriously? on What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    Oh, wait. That's for raising revenue. Which the CR doesn't do. Still the House's fault.

  18. Re:seriously? on What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    Article I Section 7 Clause 2 of the United States Constitution:

    "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills."

    The Senate takes the House's bill, rejects it as is, amends it to strip out the Obamacare nonsense, and sends it back. Ball back in Boehner's court but in this case he chooses to do nothing. Didn't you learn this stuff in 7th grade civics class?

  19. Re:How is it even still up? on What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov · · Score: 2

    Wrong. The Senate voted on the House's bill and rejected it. The House refuses to vote on the Senate's bill (because Boehner knows it will pass). It really is that simple.

  20. Re:main quote on What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    Intuit's online TurboTax is much more complicated than the sign-up process for healthcare, and it works under heavy load.

    To be fair, TurboTax didn't always work well under heavy load. It has evolved over the years so now it works just fine. Something to keep in mind.

  21. Re:How is it even still up? on What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov · · Score: 3, Informative

    Conservatives are outraged that their government shutdown caused some things to actually shut down. Film at 11.

  22. Re:Fucking idiots on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    I do NOT agree with the Republicans, but if they were legally elected, they now have as much right to repeal a law as the Democrats had to pass one.

    You have no idea what you're talking about. This shutdown is not about Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare (they've tried plenty of times but this isn't one of them). Do us all a favor and do some reading.

  23. Re:Fucking idiots on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    Only in their NRA-fueled wet dreams.

  24. Re:They might the most valuable, but they still su on Apple Now the World's Most Valuable Brand, Knocks Off Coca-Cola · · Score: 2

    Your security software vendor wasn't on the ball enough to port to iOS 7 in time, even though they had plenty of time to do it, and this is Apple's fault why?

  25. Re:they have an ipad trade in on Microsoft Takes Another Stab At Tablets, Unveils Surface 2, Surface 2 Pro · · Score: 1

    One is likely to have more use for socks and a toothbrush...