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  1. Re:Incremental and/or parallel computing? on Google Now Searches JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Research is scant? It's ridiculously easy for anyone with a webserver to verify if Google respects robots.txt.

  2. Re:I miss WebOS on HP's Core WebOS Enyo Team Going To Google · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by wear out? I find it hard to believe your phone would be unusable after only 1.5 years. I go over 2 years with all my phones and only replace them if I want something new, they still work fine after that time.

  3. Re:Hopefully with UI improvements to come on HP's Core WebOS Enyo Team Going To Google · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uh... Matias Duarte, the guy behind the Web OS UI, already switched over to Android about 2 years ago. Gingerbread was the first release his changes started to make it into, and the major UI overhaul in Honeycomb and ICS were largely influence by him.

  4. Re:Microsoft of social networking? on Facebook Releases Instagram Clone, Two Months After Acquisition · · Score: 1

    ...The issue is that doing so presents a dichotomous life where his social interaction doing things others like is not intellectually fulfilling.

    So his social interactions aren't intellectually fulfilling. His intellectual endeavors clearly aren't socially fulfilling either. What's wrong with doing both?

  5. Re:Troubling signal, why? on Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price · · Score: 1

    Counting IP addresses seems utterly useless. How many users share an IP address at schools or business? How many different IPs does each user access facebook from? I probably have 5 or 6 I use regularly.

  6. Re:Holy Shit Batman! on The Nearest Supernova Candidate To Earth: IK Pegasi · · Score: 1

    He was right the first time, when we observe it is when it happened as far as we're concerned. Relativity and all.

  7. Re:Incorrect on Cops' Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Now Better Than GPS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some of the justices in the GPS case mostly objected to the fact that a physical device was attached to the suspects vehicle. If the tracking was entirely unintrusive as with tracking a cell phone it may have had a different outcome.

  8. Re:Not always more accurate on Cops' Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Now Better Than GPS · · Score: 1

    Usually there's a pretty substantial delay before anyone is actually reported missing. How much of a difference would getting a warrant really make? I doubt very much.

  9. Re:Redundant on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 2

    Hydrogen is the exact same story, actually. Somebody has to produce the hydrogen for your fuel cells, that takes energy.

  10. Re:"just think if you could" on Google's Grand Android Plan · · Score: 1

    They come from the discounted monthly fee. Save $20-$30 a month, over 2 years amounts to a savings of $480-$720. If I pay $500 for a phone off contract instead of $50 for a phone on contract, clearly I'm saving money in the long run. He's exaggerating the extent of the savings, but they are savings regardless.

  11. Re:Worse? on Forbes Names Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Worst CEO · · Score: 1

    Maybe, or maybe they're just a clueless person who wants to own their own home. Either way the banks have the final say in who gets a loan and who doesn't and it is ultimately their failure if they give out loans to unqualified people.

  12. Re:Worse? on Forbes Names Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Worst CEO · · Score: 1

    I don't see why 100% of the blame shouldn't be leveled on the banks giving out the loans. They are the financial professionals who should know better then to give home loans to people without jobs, but they weren't even asking applicants about their income. Applicants didn't have to lie, because the banks didn't care. They just repackaged the risk and sold it off to someone else.

  13. Re:Additive manufacturing? on An 8,000 Ton Giant Made the Jet Age Possible · · Score: 1

    A comment from the article mentioned this link about a new Chinese forge that is even bigger.

  14. Re:Why would I want to sit in my car and work? on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    What kind of sad boring person would rather stare at other cars while ignoring all the interesting things around them? And the point of being able to do work in the car is that you would spend less time doing work in the office, or doing bills and paperwork at home.

  15. Re:It just doesn't work on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    Wow, did Google Maps also not tell you when you had to stop for lights and other cars? I guess automated cars that use only map data and have no awareness of their surroundings will never work, what a shame.

  16. Re:just another reason to hate jesus freaks on Archaeologists Find Oldest Known Mayan Calendar · · Score: 2

    So they weren't getting enough aid given to them, so that makes the one thing that could potentially bring them money oppressive? That doesn't make any sense at all, in fact it's a stunningly foolish thing to do. They did have active power, and that power could have helped them build a tourism industry while simultaneously helping bring attention to the countries problems.

  17. Re:Finally...the future on Disney Research Can Turn Nearly Any Surface Into a Touch Screen · · Score: 1

    How does this have anything to do with TNG communicators? They didn't have different do different things based on how you touched them as far as I can recall.

  18. Re:any demand creates a supply on NY Ruling Distinguishes Downloading, Viewing Child Pornography · · Score: 2

    There's a big difference between women legally being able to consent, and women choosing to consent. There are plenty of guys with absolutely no luck with women who are not rapists.

  19. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1

    And also because we want to keep them alive during the trip there and on the surface of the planet. But what's your point? You say "only" as if the desire to not kill astronauts is some trivial matter which can be overlooked or easily worked around.

  20. Re:any demand creates a supply on NY Ruling Distinguishes Downloading, Viewing Child Pornography · · Score: 2

    I'll be honest, I'm attracted to women and yet I've never sexually abused one. Does that restore your faith in humanity, or do you think I'm just an outlier?

  21. Re:Not so popular in the US? on 20 Years of GSM and SMS · · Score: 1

    Slower then making a voice call? By the time the person you're calling picks up the phone I could have typed a quick message and hit send. Then you have the standard conversation start and end filler that probably makes your call 3 times longer then the short message you wanted to convey.

  22. Re:arguement should cut both ways on Tidal Heating Shrinks Goldilocks Zone Around Red Dwarfs · · Score: 2

    It does work both ways, where did you get the idea it doesn't? The fact that planets closer to their star may be warmer then expected is more relevant though, since that's where astronomers tend to look for planets.

  23. Re:The beauty of Open Source. on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 1

    What better product is available for Linux?

  24. Re:Here comes the complaning... on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Every time there is anything posted about GIMP the entire comments consist of nothing but people complaining that it is not photoshop...

    Seems complaints about it not being Photoshop take a very distant second to complaints about the name. So far about 75% of the comments are about the name.

  25. Re:The Name on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Gimp = heavy thread used for decorating fabrics
    Gimp = plastic cord used for children's arts & crafts

    If they chose a word that had only offensive meanings then I could see people being offended by it, but the word Gimp is only offensive in some contexts.