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  1. Re:Two-Dimensional My Ass... on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    The issue I have with that, is you can just claim any material of any thickness is therefore built up of X amount of 2D materials. It renders the term meaningless.

  2. Re:Two-Dimensional My Ass... on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    They are made from an infinite number of 2D layers!

  3. Re:Stealing from Elder Scrolls? on Oculus: ZeniMax Claims Over Rift Tech Are "False" · · Score: 2

    He stole their proprietary broken quest technology!

  4. Police often wont take care of it... on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    because as he said, it's just a phone. Not that confronting the perpetrator is a great idea, but don't expect the full CSI treatment when you report the theft.

  5. Re:Right to a Bank Account on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Go read the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and get back to us with why you feel it doesn't apply to a bank account.

  6. Micro transactions. on How 'Fast Lanes' Will Change the Internet · · Score: 5, Informative

    Provider pays to provide information, customer pays ISP for access to internet and then has to pay a per view fee to view content at reasonable speeds. So long as there's money to be extracted, the consumer will be squeezed.

  7. We already have one... on Figuring Out the iPad's Place · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sales are down because we already have one and don't need two. The things are not nearly as disposable as people seem to think.

  8. Re:EDID spoofers are common... on DreamWorks Animation CEO: Movie Downloads Will Move To Pay-By-Screen-Size · · Score: 1

    1080p is 1080p, screen size be damed. Frankly, it's not even very high resolution. Some people like to count pixels however so they get the big screens. To answer your question, there are a fair number of 20 inch or smaller 1080p screens out there and I fully expect cell phones to have it as a common resolution soonish with mini-hdmi output ports being more common.

  9. EDID spoofers are common... on DreamWorks Animation CEO: Movie Downloads Will Move To Pay-By-Screen-Size · · Score: 4, Informative

    Any video switching equipment for HDMI/DVI will often use a small device such as Gefen's HDMI Detective to store the EDID of the screen and convince the video source that it is always connected. It would be trivial to store a "fake" EDID in such a device that reports a smaller screen.

  10. Re:Republicans screw engineers again on Supreme Court Makes It Easier To Get Lawyers Fees In Patent Cases · · Score: 1

    You are assuming the small guys defense VS the big guys lawsuit has anything to do with the legitimacy of the bug guys claim. This is almost never the case.

  11. Re:Net Neutrality on SEC Chair On HFT: 'The Markets Are Not Rigged' · · Score: 1

    Wait... you think that net neutrality would regulate everyone to run at the same speed? That's not it at all. The computer closer to the trade will get there first. Period. We're talking about transactions where the speed of light is the limiter.

  12. Try rubik's snake. on The People Who Are Still Addicted To the Rubik's Cube · · Score: 2

    It's like the methadone of cube addiction.

  13. Re:Does it make me a bad person... on Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It also shows a total lack of empathy and curiosity. Typical of white people.

    Around 154,889 die every day. How much time do you spend on each of them? Or do you lack empathy and curiosity?

  14. Does it make me a bad person... on Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that I simply don't care anymore? After weeks of CNN jumping at every bit of trash in the ocean, I simply do not care about this plane anymore. Toss a couple wreaths into the water and call it done.

  15. Don't the subscribers get to choose? on Comcast Offers To Shed 3.9 Million Subscribers To Ease Cable Deal · · Score: 1

    Not sure I understand how they can offer to "sell" customers. Wouldn't the customers be able to choose who they pay for their service/ Or is Comcast admitting that they totally control the market?

  16. He couldn't have been Bill Gates... on Gary Kildall, Father of the PC OS, Finally Gets His Due · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It wasn't about the creation, but the leveraging.

  17. Re:You are the product on Google's Business Plan For Nest: Selling Your Data To Utility Companies · · Score: 1

    So how do you think they pay for the "free" OneDrive cloud storage and Microsoft Office for Chrome?

  18. Re:You are the product on Google's Business Plan For Nest: Selling Your Data To Utility Companies · · Score: 2

    And with Microsoft, Facebook, and any other company that provides a "free" product. It's shocking how many people don't figure that out and seem to think these companies are just acting magnanimously to provide services.

  19. Re:I Pay on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    No, you pay Comcast for internet access at UP TO X speed. It's all in your contract, they promise nothing.

  20. Sulfuric Acid. on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 1

    While it's not a solution most people want to consider, pumping sulfuric acid into the atmosphere would counter act the green house effect. But it's sort of the "old lady who swallowed the fly" issue since we then would need to figure out what to do about all the acid rain.

  21. Re:Changing IMEI is illegal on Inside the Stolen Smartphone Black Market In London · · Score: 2

    But that would mean the people stealing phones where doing things that were illegal, and that would be BREAKING THE LAW!

  22. It's just a badge... on Bachelor's Degree: An Unnecessary Path To a Tech Job · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Look at it this way. The HR person will have two stacks of resumes. One for people with a degree and one for people without. Odds are the only time they'll delve into the non-degree pile is if they find no one in main stack to fill the position. This isn't to say you MUST have a degree to get a job. I lack one and have been employed for a long time. But I'm realizing that as my age gets up there, it will be desirable to get one for my next job.

  23. I've worked with many Russians... on Evidence Aside, FBI Says Russians Out To Steal Ideas From US Tech Firms · · Score: 2

    what they'll do is take the design, and implement a very cheap poorly implemented knock off. No real threat in my opinion...

  24. Read your lease... on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do people really not read these things. No subletting is a common clause.

    http://www.sfrb.org/index.aspx?page=1040

  25. Re:How, exactly, do we know? on New US Atomic Clock Goes Live · · Score: 1

    It is the reference. Time is relative, we use these atomic clocks to set standards for comparison.