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  1. Re:No kidding on Belgrade Hosts First Public Solar-Powered Cell Charging Station · · Score: 1

    Is there no organization that would provide panels, installation and support for a monthly fee that would be less than paying the local energy company?

    Local solar isn't the solution to everything, but it should be able to save you money on your electric bill if there's a bank or other organization out there that can front you the cost.

  2. Re:I don't get it. on Anonymous Releases 90,000 Military E-Mail Accounts · · Score: 1

    If we use exactly the same standard that they use to judge what should be public information, then the names, email addresses, and passwords of everyone who calls himself/herself Anonymous should be public as well.

    Keep in mind that if Anonymous hackers happened to be in the military, they would have to expose their own passwords in this dump in order to avoid suspicion. So it's quite possible one or more of the hackers gave out their own info.

  3. 30 years later... on 30th Anniversary of Donkey Kong · · Score: 1

    ...and it's still on like Donkey Kong.

  4. Okay, but... on Turn Your iPad Into a Star Trek PADD · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can I just yell out the word "computer!" and then tell it how to advance the plot of this week's storyline?

  5. Re:People need to get out more on When Software Offends · · Score: 0

    On the flip side, perhaps you ought to be offended, but have been too desensitized.

    In a puritanical society like the US, becoming "desensitized" is by all means a good and healthy thing. The world does not need ore puritans.

  6. Origin != Origin? on EA's Origin Service To Go Mobile · · Score: 1

    The summary confused the hell out of me. Apparently it's talking about some service called Origin, which has nothing to do with the game developer company named Origin that EA acquired.

  7. Maybe. on Spanish Surgeon Performs First Synthetic Organ Transplant · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong, being able to build new organs and implant them is great.

    But that doesn't mean the new organs will last, or work perfectly. We need to check back in a few years to see how the patient did.

  8. Re:Why foist applications onto people? on Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by "orphaned packages?"

  9. Re:That's really ironic on Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Nuclear In the US · · Score: 5, Funny
  10. Re:It's been said before on Italian Anonymous Hacker Cell Arrested · · Score: 1

    In death, a member of Project Mayhem has a name. His name is Robert Paulson.

  11. Re:Marketing names on Games for Windows Marketplace Merging With Xbox.com · · Score: 2

    Are you familiar with Ritalin? Ask your doctor about it ASAP, please.

  12. Marketing names on Games for Windows Marketplace Merging With Xbox.com · · Score: 3

    Microsoft: Games for Windows Marketplace
    Apple: Game Center

    Microsoft: Windows Live Hotmail
    Google: Gmail

    Microsoft: Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011
    Apple: iPhoto

    What's going on here? When did Microsoft stop using simple names like "Paint" and "Write" and come up with ridiculously long marketing names that have more syllables than I have fingers?

  13. Oh great. on Facebook To Launch In-Browser Video Chat With Skype · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now everyone I Skype is going to automatically know who my friends are, where I went to school, and how many Farmville credits I have.

  14. Retro on Zynga Seeks $1 Billion In IPO · · Score: 1

    Last time was like 12 years ago dude, it's retro now.

  15. E-mail? on RIM Responds To an Employee's Open Letter · · Score: 1

    If the best thing about a device is that it does e-mail, that's not saying much. E-mail is everywhere. It's like saying "well the power button works great!"

  16. That's weird! on First Thunderbolt Peripherals Arrive To Market · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is Apple selling cables for a Verizon HTC Thunderbolt?

  17. Re:Solving != best solution on Algorithm Solves Rubik's Cubes of Any Size · · Score: 1

    A Rubik's cube has a finite number of states and a finite number of moves. So I don't understand how performing infinite moves wouldn't eventually result in the solution.

  18. Solving != best solution on Algorithm Solves Rubik's Cubes of Any Size · · Score: 0

    The headline claims they can "solve" any Rubik's cube, but who cares? You can solve it just by performing random moves.

    The import part is NOT solving it, it's that they can do it in the minimum number of moves.

  19. Re:SAIC ever have any successful projects? on NYC Mayor Demands $600M Refund On Software Project · · Score: 3, Funny

    This year's America's Cup is sponsored by another company that makes shoddy, overpriced software -- Oracle.

    I guess there's a connection between shady businesses and rich assholes who race yachts. Who ever would have guessed?

  20. Re:Here's an idea on Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    It's not new at all; hypervisors have been around for decades.

  21. Followers on Pope Joins Twitter · · Score: 0

    Is Chris Hansen following him?

  22. Here's an idea on Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers · · Score: 2

    What if someone wrote malware that would run a VM from the boot sector, and then ran your existing OS from the VM? That way it wouldn't matter what OS you used, it could still access your system in the background.

  23. Re:Can it crash less often than Windows? on Can Ubuntu Linux Consume Less Power Than Windows? · · Score: 1

    Thanks!

    The proprietary ATI drivers are pure hell, but I'd be surprised if that alone could cause a kernel panic.

  24. Re:Version jump? on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 5 · · Score: 2

    Nope! Thunderbird pulled a Winamp and skipped version 4 altogether.

  25. Re:Can it crash less often than Windows? on Can Ubuntu Linux Consume Less Power Than Windows? · · Score: 1

    You sure it's *really* a kernel panic though? I read bug reports all day, and the first thing you learn is that most people use terms like that incorrectly.