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  1. Re:Right on! on Usage Based Billing In Canada To Be Rescinded · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd rather have pot holes and falling bridges than a road system owned by shipping companies who set-up tolls and send their own cops after those who might carry anything too big in their trunk.

  2. Re:Small typo on Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets · · Score: 2

    The MIT entry exam consists of giving away all you possessions before being admitted. Hence, the statistically low number of affluent MIT educated statisticians. (Un)fortunally, I failed that exam.

  3. Re:This will be great! on Canadian Firm Plans 78-Satellite Net Service · · Score: 1

    Haven't they used the missiles already vs Bill Gates/Paul Allen's sats?

  4. Re:Simple... on Encrypt Your Smartphone — Or Else · · Score: 1

    Some of us a more cognitively challenged than others. It was said the amount of human knowledge doubles almost each day. Without a smartphone, you go to sleep and wake-up half as smart as when you went to bed.

  5. Re:how about no on Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans · · Score: 0

    This digital ID initiative is equivalent to using your PGP-like digital signature to prove who you are. If that's scares you, you're free to leave the internet. Seems all my posts are going to be trolls anyway. Might as well splurge in negative karma.

  6. Re:how about no on Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You mean all Americans are going to end up in concentration camps because of this digital ID? Look-up paranoia.

  7. Re:how about no on Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans · · Score: 1

    I guess the same way you can't withdraw $1,000,000 from Oprah's bank account. I didn't try but if some of you want to, let me know how successful you are. There has to be a serious penalty involved if an institution screws up. DNA signatures may not be that far away.

  8. Re:I'm Michael Jordan! on Online Impersonations Now Illegal In California · · Score: 1

    No I am Michael Jordan and this isn't a first post.

  9. Re:Murtazin is not a "trusted insider" on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    But that means you can't play the radio through the built-in speakers. At least that what happens on the older Samsung Corby. Apple's dock is on hundreds of peripheral devices such as alarm clocks, external speakers, car radios, boomboxes, etc. Not sure a single usb port would provide the same functionality without adding a lot more circuitry in the peripheral devices.

  10. Re:No surprise on Microsoft Ready To Talk Windows On ARM · · Score: 1

    It would be love if MS didn't decide to jump on the mobile phone bandwagon. If the company making the OS was split from the one creating the office automation tools, things might have been different. To think it almost happened... Sigh.

  11. Re:I want to see the money laundering code on Swiss Bank Has 43-Page Dress Code · · Score: 1

    Avoiding garlic, strong chewing gums, and smoking before meeting clients seems sensible to me. That's all the document refers to. The dress-code is really for representatives of the bank who need to meet with clients. I think I might use it as inspiration for our own new dress-code to-be. (not)

  12. Re:Yeah, it was too good to be true... on Free Radicals May Not Be Cause of Aging · · Score: 1

    Black coffee, espresso in particular, is also very high in anti-oxidants. Too bad all that coffee wont help...

  13. Re:Really? on Carrier Trick To Save IPv4 Could Help Spammers · · Score: 1

    All that's required is a more creative solution to prevent spamming. Only one of many system may become problematic with ipv6. That's all. I'm looking forward to having my fridge order groceries automatically when we're about to run out.

  14. Re:Definitely !! Surely !! on Air Force Blocks NY Times, WaPo, Other Media · · Score: 1

    How many pilots is that? I just thought the military in general are just told what to think. Hence they can't be expected to develop a sense of criticism we, non military people, need to survive. Otherwise we'd be sucked-in by the next big scam.

  15. Re:A little problem... on Chrome OS Doesn't Trust Apps Or Users · · Score: 1

    Just buy Google shares and join your corporate overlords. At the end, what's more profitable is going to end-up being offered on store shelves.

  16. New material for armored vehicles? on Stable Roentgenium Claimed Found In Gold · · Score: 1

    I believe this is denser than uranium. Is Israel planning to eventually build specially equipped armored vehicles?

  17. Re:Wouldn't eliminate patent trolls on Apple Patents Glasses-Free 3D Projector · · Score: 2

    If patents were that easy to make, why don't you also join the bandwagon? Seriously. Yes, there is abuse and questionable use of patents - granted. However if an method is patented, it gives others an opportunity to invent an even better method of doing something. That, to me is what innovation is all about.

  18. Re:Does seem to be the case on Apple Patents Glasses-Free 3D Projector · · Score: 1

    My deep fryer has a mag safe connector. Also, Apple isn't stopping anyone from coming up with a better connector.

  19. Re:innovative? on Apple Patents Glasses-Free 3D Projector · · Score: 1

    Patent applications defines "how" a 3D image is displayed. Apple has patented their way and so have many many others. If Apple's way happens to be the best way then the patent becomes very valuable.

  20. Re:First Impression on Apple's Game Center Shares Your Real Name · · Score: 1

    Those terms and conditions are meaningless if they attempt to override any of your legal rights. At least that's how it works in our country. Sure they can cancel but they can't force you to pay for a service you no longer have.

  21. Re:Do not want on Aging Reversed In Mice · · Score: 1

    death is the only thing that prevents humans from creating greater damage than they already do.

    Regardless, we'd breed more of the same (look at North Korea, Iran or even the US). Death or no death, humans do what humans do. I for one see ageing as unnatural. Growing, yes, but ageing is something we should be able to cure.

  22. Re:First to Invent on Tandberg Attempts To Patent Open Source Code · · Score: 1

    I'm glad to live in a country where the ridiculousness of software patents has been long ago realized.

  23. Re:Quantity != Quality on Woz Misquoted About Android Dominating iOS · · Score: 1

    aka Steve^2

  24. Re:Too Cool on Exciting Kinect Stuff Already Coming Out · · Score: 1

    Looks like Kinect is basically a Wii but "backwards." On the Wii, the Wiimote is an IR receiver and the wiibar is the IR LEDs emitter. Like some have pointed out, what's interesting is the body recognition algorithm.

  25. Re:No. on Pluto Might Be Bigger Than Eris · · Score: 1

    What about plutonium? The element was named after a planet. If Pluto is no longer a planet what then, rockonium?

    (Jim doesn't know about Pluto and plutonium. The element is now called rockonium. Travelling back in time, they are looking for fuel.)

    "Sir, we'll need rockonium to power these old engines."
    "Scotty, we cannot use rockonium, this thing called plutonium is all we have."
    "But sir... it will take weeks to adapt these engines. Even if I'm able to do it, we might all blow-up."
    "Scotty, you have 4 hours."
    "...but..."
    "Here's the plutonium."
    2 Hours later
    "Jim, the engines are ready."