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  1. Largely depends on your speakers on Do You Really Need a Discrete Sound Card? · · Score: 1

    If you buy a set of not-too-expensive surround speakers (I have the Edifier 501s - a bargain at $150 a few years ago) then you should go for a discrete soundcard imho. If you're just going to pipe the sound through a couple of $5 speakers, then don't bother.

  2. Re:Relaxen und watchen on Arduino-Based, High Powered LED Lighting Over Wi-Fi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, spelling Nazi here; "Die" Blinkenlichten!

  3. Re:Plugins.... on Adobe Launches Sandboxed Reader X · · Score: 1

    Without a specific agreement between your company and Adobe you can't really complain too much if they switch things around on you. Not really Adobe's fault that they break your plugin.

  4. Fortunately, the slow download of Adobe Reader on Adobe Launches Sandboxed Reader X · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Gives you ample time to uninstall the McAfee Security Scan Plus that gets installed without your permission.

  5. Re:Gawker Effect on Claims About China's April Internet Hijack Are Overblown · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It sells newspapers though - and let's face it, journalists are in the business of 'selling newspapers' of some kind or another. If they are blatantly wrong then they can print another sensationalist story later on about how they were hoodwinked in an effort to get mileage out of the same story and...sell more newspapers.

  6. Child Porn? on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    If it is an image of a child, isn't that child porn? If so, prosecute the bastards.

  7. Re:More useful... on Toy Robots Can Guard Your Home · · Score: 1

    ..yes! It make an ass out of u and some guy named ming.

  8. Another Leak??? on Another Leak Delays Final Discovery Launch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blasted WikiLeaks!!!

  9. Hence that well known song... on Flexible, Stretchable, Implantable LED Arrays Created · · Score: 1

    ...you light up my prostate.

  10. Re:Actually on Flexible, Stretchable, Implantable LED Arrays Created · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, especially with a screen on your palm...

  11. According to my Excel spreadsheet on Windows 8 To Be Released In October 2012 · · Score: 1

    I fed the dates into Excel an according to it, the next Windows version will be released on 1.23974537651289E+10

  12. Re:Tagging up on 3rd on Rounding the Bases Faster, With Math · · Score: 1

    Doesn't make sense...if they hit 3rd running at the instant the ball is caught or dropped, they still have a jump from a stationary start.

  13. Tagging up on 3rd on Rounding the Bases Faster, With Math · · Score: 1

    I often wondered why, if a runner is on say, 3rd and the batsman hits a long fly ball (but not a homer), why does the runner wait at 3rd to tag up, instead of backing up a few paces so that he can hit 3rd base at full tilt just as the fielder catches the ball. This would easily give him 2 or 3 if not more strides jump and he should be safe at home more frequently. In a game of fractions of a second, this would be a clear advantage.

  14. Re:Lessons learned from 2006 AOL data scandal: Bup on UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    I hope Britons go ballistic in opposition to this proposal

    Or at the very least demand that the same records be kept for police, politicians, judges etc...

  15. What Wifi? on Ontario School Bans Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I occasionally visit various schools to play badminton in the gym. The schools are on their own grounds and usually have one or two WiFi hotspots set up. Contrast that to downtown (Vancouver BC), where I walk around checking the iPod for WiFi hotspots and am usually in range of twenty or so. Compared to the downtown core (or even the suburbs where every house has it's own hotspot) schools are a relatively WiFi-free zone.

  16. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    Exactly. For someone who is meant to be a "supreme being" he/she/it's one shitty communicator.

  17. Ooh Lookout Gromit on eLEGS Exoskeleton Allows Paraplegics To Walk · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the WRONG TROUSERS!

  18. Re:Dont hate, educate on Could Anti-Texting Laws Make Roads More Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    I like Carlin's quote:

      "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

  19. Re:Osaka or Kyoto on A Video Guide To Akihabara · · Score: 1

    Bic Camera also have a big store just east of Namba JR station on Sennichimae.

  20. It's kinda funny for a "phone" on Mozilla Labs Presents Seabird Concept Phone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That nowhere in the concept video do we see someone actually talking on the thing.

  21. That's a nice little CPU you've got there... on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    ...shame if anything should "happen" to it...

  22. Re:Except for one point: it wasn't the US on Steve Jobs Tries To Sneak Shurikens On a Plane · · Score: 1

    Generally, ignorance of the law is no excuse. It's a defence that won't stand up in court.

    There is one notable exception though - if you happen to be president this rule doesn't really matter.

  23. Re:Doesn't the Bible say so? on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    I also take it as literal truth.

    Now, I do distinguish between the literal meanings and the figurative ones.

    Huh? You sound a little mixed up. Maybe you should call The Atheist Experience who can help with straightening you out.

  24. Re:Legal maneuvers on The Gaping Holes In the UAE's Net Firewall · · Score: 1

    Religion on its own is fine and dandy.

    The problem is that it is never on its own, is it? They're always telling the rest of us how they think we should bloody well behave, and claiming tax exempt status for doing it.

  25. With a name like "Ping" on Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor? · · Score: 1

    I can't believe they won't get sued by the manufacturer of golf equipment with the same name.