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  1. Re:Here's a suggestion: on On iPhone, Searching For Kama Sutra = Porn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Multi-touch is a gimmick, you have a good point there. But a responsive touchscreen is an important feature.

    Wait, why is touch screen an important feature and yet multi-touch is only a gimmick? That doesn't make sense to me.

    I don't own an iPhone and I don't ever plan on getting one, but the multi-touch interface is very nice in my limited experience with it.

  2. Re:Why should we care? on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1

    No, I mean outside of the singularity there was no space. I'm wondering how they could survive outside of the universe!

  3. Re:I still prefer Chrome. on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    The topbar is pretty good, although customization is a nice option. It really doesn't matter to me though since the button setup in Chrome is the same as how I have firefox setup.

    What I don't like though is the color and window close/minimize buttons. Maybe it matches the default Windows setup, but the Chrome windows look totally out of place on my desktop. That's just a minor annoyance though.

  4. Re:Still waiting... on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    Sure it makes sense to prioritize IE, but I'm still surprised that the code wasn't portable. It doesn't take that much longer to write portable code, and it saves you a lot of time in the long run when you get around to other platforms.

  5. Re:Why should we care? on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1

    Where exactly was the Enterprise so that it could be observing the pre-universe singularity?

  6. Re:Why should we care? on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1

    actually, before the big bang, "here" (space) didn't exist yet. "before the big bang" (time) also didn't exist.

    Your evidence, Watson?

    Here's a Clickable Link

    I'm still new to this internet thing.

    From the second link in that google search:

    Carroll, as well as many other physicists and cosmologists have begun to consider the possibility of time before the Big Bang...

    What was that you were trying to prove again :)

  7. Re:Why should we care? on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the replicator patterns, but I hope there is an open source replicator. I would never eat again if my MS replicator got a worm and started spitting out goatse shaped cheetos.

  8. Re:Porn? on Freshman Representative Opposes "TSA Porn" · · Score: 1

    Ceramic pistols. They exist

    In movies. And only in movies, unless you know something that the rest of us don't.

  9. Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat on Freshman Representative Opposes "TSA Porn" · · Score: 1

    A metal detector is a reasonable precaution, and I would of course choose the airline with the metal detector.

    It would be different if the choice was between an airline with a metal detector and one where you have to take off your hat, shoes and sweater before going through the metal detector and also you aren't allowed to bring a bottle of water with you. In that case I would also choose the airline with only the metal detector.

  10. Re:The problem with politicians on Craigslist Fires Back Over Adult Services Accusations · · Score: 1

    Conservatives by definition oppose change, so that would be a conservative meme, not American in general.

  11. Re:Collusion on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 1

    So... CO2 isn't emitted from car engines? What sort of idiot modded this insightful?

  12. Re:You want to know where this stuff is? on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    You worked in the Shire? That's pretty awesome.

  13. Re:Warning! This is a False Sense of Security! on Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma · · Score: 1

    The product is eyeballs looking at advertisements. "What is going on?" is a byproduct, or at best, a marketing gimmick used to lure in the eyeballs. You cannot successfully analyze the situation without understanding this most important initial condition.

    For network news it wasn't always like that. Until the 24 hour news networks the network news shows were never expected to be profitable.

  14. Re:Market solution may be the "National Enquirer". on Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Who knows, maybe this will lead to people actually getting off their asses to find information, and having a bigger part in what's going on than voting every couple of years.

    Sounds like wishful thinking to me. If the future is anything like the present people will just continue wallowing in their ignorance while being force fed tabloid garbage on the TV.

  15. Re:News is now entertainment. on Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma · · Score: 2, Informative

    Furthermore, Fox is for entertainment, BBC is for fear.

    Yeah, no fear-mongering on Fox News of course. Nope, never.

    Hey, why's everybody laughing?

  16. Re:Driving Blind on Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected · · Score: 1

    Every scientific theory has its critics, no matter how well established. This is usually a good thing since science needs to be challenged in order to advance. But just because you found a critic of the established theory doesn't mean that he has any more credibility than the majority of climate scientists who disagree with him.

    I am not a climate scientist, so I don't know if it's true that others have not considered the points he makes. If he has something to add it will only make our understanding of climate stronger, which is a great. However it's not likely that he will single-handedly invalidate the countless contributions from other scientists.

  17. Re:No surprise on The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is · · Score: 1

    I use "Chinese Pera-Kun", it's extremely useful. Rikaichan doesn't say anything about Chinese on their website, only Japanese, German, French, and Russian. Is there Chinese support for it as well?

  18. Re:Question on Court Sets Rules For RIAA Hard Drive Inspection · · Score: 1

    Plausible deniability doesn't apply to the case in that link since border guards already saw the contents of the disk.

  19. Re:Well, not quite... on Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows · · Score: 1

    Could it be what you call bloatware is what most people actually want? As you point out there are plenty of slimmed down Linux options out there, but they are not all that common.

  20. Re:Born on date? on Nuclear Testing Helps Identify Fake Vintage Whiskey · · Score: 1

    Philistine.

  21. Re:Microwave background radiation on Super-Sensors To Sense Big Bang Output · · Score: 2, Funny

    False dichotomy. I wear cardigans over my t-shirts all the time.

  22. Re:New NIN single: Steve f*ckers, Inc. on Apple Rejects Nine Inch Nails iPhone App · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He didn't already write a song about Apple? I wonder what "Happiness in Slavery" is really about then.

  23. Re:What the hell?! on Apple Rejects Nine Inch Nails iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Just label it as "adult language". That's unambiguous and doesn't imply anything else adult.

  24. Re:These guys are no heroes on MN Supreme Court Backs Reasoned Requests For Breathalyzer Source Code · · Score: 1

    Well since he said they were wreckless, not reckless, I think he was inadvertently not vilifying anyone.

  25. Re:Yes, it's important that deadly viruses. . . on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 1

    One other thing. Judaism is observed by only about 0.2% of the worlds population, so whether or not it even qualifies as a major religion is somewhat debatable.