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  1. Re:X-Wing and Tie Fighter on A Case for Video Game Remakes · · Score: 1

    Lucky for you both X-Wing AND Tie-Fighter used a 3D engine!

    Also had you taken a second to use google you would have seen that Lucas Arts released X-Wing Trilogy, a compilation that contains all previous games with improved (still 3d!) graphics.

    http://www.amazon.com/Lucas-Arts-80718-Star-Wars/dp/B000050I88

  2. Re:It doesn't "remotely shut down vehicles" on Stalling Cars Via OnStar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "There were about 6 cops holding him down... because he wouldn't stay still".

    "tasers have taught cops that instead of holding down a suspect, they can now just yell at them a couple times and tase away."

    So you used an example in which the "victim" was so unresponsive that 6 officers couldn't hold him down... an example which is completely contrary to your point to the extent that it is the exact opposite.

    I really don't know what else to say.

  3. Re:Life During Wartime on Google Planning New Undersea Cable Across Pacific? · · Score: 0

    And here I thought you were going to go on a tin-foil hat wearing diatribe. Tough luck about getting arrested, but man, did it give credibility to your rant. Really drove the point home. Of course if you weren't arrested it might just prove that you aren't under surveillance and that you have an very unhealthy level of paranoia.

  4. Re:Apologize?? on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    This is so true. You'd think people here would have some semblance of understanding with regards to social mores. Maybe the isolated lifestyle nerdy people tend to live predisposes them a lack of critical thinking as it relates to society. It's impossible to argue against them. Every reasonable explanation has an awful alarmst fascist-government response.

    I'm always amazed that people will defend stuff like this. Are you people really that oblivious to the kinds of repercussions an event like this has to OTHER PEOPLE, even if its fake or a hoax or someone just being total idiot?

  5. Re:Going indie on Trent Reznor Says "Steal My Music" · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't happen to have a link to that released-for-remix recording would you?

  6. Re:At retail... on Apple Now Selling Better Than One Laptop In Six · · Score: 1

    Congrats on being happy with a shitty laptop that can run linux. You are an infintesimal part of the market and conceited to boot.

  7. Re:Geothermal Ocean vents ~400 C on Strange Alien World Made of "Hot Ice" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not only did you not read the article, you didn't even read the goddamn summary you karma-whore.

    No, last I checked geothermal vents are not entirely encased in several hundred degree pressurized ice. So no, life probably doesn't exist within SOLID MATTER.

  8. Makes absolutely no sense on Tech Billionaire Boot Camp · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    'Some critics scoff that Y Combinator's investment is peanuts for that amount of equity. But the opportunity is unparalleled -- total immersion into Silicon Valley start-up culture, advice from Graham and a fast track to the top angel investors and venture-capital funds. When Graham calls the winners, the founders have only five minutes to accept. "If people turn us down," he says, "as far as we're concerned they've failed an IQ test.'

    What the hell does that even mean? What utterly horrible editing.

  9. Re:That was us on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    hahahaha

    Take a piece of crinkled aluminum foil, spread it somewhat flat, and then begin looking at it from different angles. The pattern of colors reflected back to you will be different every time you change the angle--yet it's still the same piece of aluminum foil.

    nope!

  10. Re:That was us on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    So if they're all reflections, how do you explain the different observed spectra? You know, how each star has a unique elemental composition?

  11. Oops forgot to mention on Bubble Fusion Researcher Faces Fraud Trial · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Congress is in on it too! In the pockets of big (evil) theoretical science! I mean, why else would they want to have a hearing for this man?

  12. Re:Congressional Investigation over Paper Authorsh on Bubble Fusion Researcher Faces Fraud Trial · · Score: 1, Funny

    You're a crack-pot. I can prove it. See a crack-pot is someone who has no rationality and takes this on blind faith and impressive rhetoric. Your "The challenge of replication in unchartered scientific territory is not to be taken lightly and readily dismissed as "evidence" of non-science. Many people in the field of science, when pushed, will admit that one can never prove a negative, no matter how may attempts fail," comment proves that.

    Hey, if something can't be replicated its cause its NEW science, not any of that shitty OLD EVIL SCIENCE. Also, since it can't be repeated it means YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO IT, not that it isn't real.

    Right, just like psychics. They really work, except when you actually scientifically test them! Also homeopathy, yeah that stuff's real too, even though its completely un-reproducable. But hey, you can't prove a negative so ITS GOTTA BE TRUE!

    Damn science, trying to keep free-energy down. Conspiracies!

  13. Re:OR ... you could realize all emissions are bad on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 1

    All emissions are bad, but its better that we use oil now and drive up the cost than not use oil and enable non-environmentally concious nations (such as China and India) access to cheap oil for their sudden and massive automobile market. So while we turn 10 million cars from gas to electric, producing no emission, the chinese unlease 10 million new gas cars which 5 times the emissions of older american cars.

    Economists have found again and again that demand ALWAYS increases to supply with regards to energy. If there is excess energy, people find a way of using it up. Would you rather have a relatively environmental centric nation like the US using that supply or another nation whose skylines have gotten so polluted that people are moving out for health concerns (Hong Kong).

  14. Re:What in North America? on T-Mobile Bans Others' Apps On Their Phones · · Score: 1

    You can easily unlock your current T-mobile phone. I did this before traveling to Europe, and it allowed me to just buy 3rd party sim-chips and use my phone in any country I wanted. Since it was prepaid, I didn't get screwed at the end of the month when I came back to the states.

    From what I've seen T-mobile is the most accommodating of the phone companies. I've haven't heard of anyone else offering to unlock phones just by requesting them to.

  15. Re:Frets on Fire on The Future of Harmonix · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's exactly why it's fun because it's a great cover story. "This game rules, it makes such an amazing cover story!"

    What a completely inane comment, why even bother to post this shit?

  16. Re:quantum physics has a large hole for "free will on Neuroscience, Psychology Eroding Idea of Free Will · · Score: 1

    That pencil example is pretty interesting. How exactly does quantum uncertainty cause the pencil to fall? The whole pencil's wavelength/uncertainty is extremely small, how can it cause it to fall?

  17. Re:Quantum Entanglement on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 1

    Hahaha no you can't. The OP is correct. The moment you try to "measure" a property of particle that was entangled you un-entangle it. Sure you could flip the spins all you wanted, it wouldn't do anything to the other previously entangled particle - since they're not entangled anymore!

  18. What's up with the dildo mp3 player? on iPod Killers For the Holidays · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it vibrate to the beat?

  19. Re:That's all well and fine, but on 500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge? · · Score: 1

    I sure hope it never snows/rains in your relatively flat area. That might put a damper on your fat cat profiteers bashing.

  20. Re:Please no! on Microsoft Sides With Nintendo Against Sony · · Score: 1

    This was actually a chief contributor to the videogame crash of the early 80s; companies were releasing too many consoles. I don't see how multiple versions of a single console can be good for the industry.

  21. Re:Two things: on Kingdom Hearts II Review · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a card-battler to me.

  22. Re:Kirk and Spock, the steamy years.... on J.J. Abrams To Direct New 'Star Trek' Film · · Score: 1

    That idea is beyond terrible. You're joking right?

  23. Why this is great science. on Taiwan Breeds Transgenic, Fluorescent Green Pigs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What this proves is that it is possible to induce protein induction on all major organs in animals. This same technique could in theory be used to express self-surface proteins on an animal that can be grow in 1-2 years. These organs could then be harvested and used for human transplants. By having self-proteins the body won't rejected the transplant and there would be a relatively cheap and practical supply of usable organs.

  24. Evolution doesn't favor turbines? ERRR wrong on Living Without a Pulse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Planaria have a unique system for excreting nitrogenous wastes. They have a secondary circulation system called a protonephridium, which consists of a connected system of "flame-bulbs." They essentially look like bulbs, with slits on the sides. At the top is a cap cell, which has cilia that descend into the hollow bulb. The cilia constantly spin, drawing water continuously, like a turbine, from the interstitial fluid through the slits. The reason they're called flame-bulbs is that the constant spinning of the cilia resembles a flame.

  25. Re:Why assume they're going to doctor anything? on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    The key phrase being "scientific expedition." This is not a bunch of archaeologists, but some pseudo-religious company that's going on this expedition.

    I trust that scientists won't doctor the photos, who knows what this company's agenda is.