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  1. Re:Hot damn, it's about time on First Run of Raspberry Pi Boards To Be Completed Feb 20th · · Score: 1

    You can already get a $40 ARM computer, the Duinomite-Mega
    http://www.dontronics-shop.com/olimex-duinomite-mega.html

  2. Re:Dying from lack of surprise... on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    try to take his guns you will get his attention.

    I think they are working on taking away the guns, Give them a few more years . . .

  3. Re:Always always always ask permission. on Google Consolidates Privacy Policies Across Services · · Score: 1

    What I need is a Terms Of Service for myself that, Google needs to agree to before accepting me as a User

  4. Re:Hmm on Google Consolidates Privacy Policies Across Services · · Score: 3, Informative

    the question again is does the tracking end when you log out.

    Yes, Google tracks you all over the place
    But you can Opt-Out
    http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/intl/en/plugin/

  5. Re:evil is as evil does on Google Consolidates Privacy Policies Across Services · · Score: 1

    What I don't want is them changing anything I enter or changing what I see based on anything about me. But they are bound and determined to do exactly that.

    That's my biggest problem with Google search, The words that I type to search are not the words that are used to produce the results. There used to be a link on Google Search that would provide results to your literal input, but I can't find that link anymore. What is the point of doing a search for me if you don't use the input that I provide?

  6. Re:evil is as evil does on Google Consolidates Privacy Policies Across Services · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You could always Opt-Out
    http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/intl/en/plugin/

  7. Re:There is no denying the Earth is getting hotter on 2011 Was the 9th Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    Wat

  8. Re:There is no denying the Earth is getting hotter on 2011 Was the 9th Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    Global Warming is just Earth's way of getting rid of the Infestation of Parasites on it's surface

  9. My Phone Drinks Too Much on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget · · Score: 1

    I think It's cool because you could take your phone to the bar and not worry about anybody spilling a Bud Light on it.

  10. Re:Actually there is something else I would like t on ViaSat Delivers 12 Mbps+ Via Satellite · · Score: 1

    This latency shouldn't bother the porn industry at all.

  11. Re:Not a bad idea but... on Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar · · Score: 1

    no, just use the metric system.

    Yeah and a Metric Calendar

  12. Re:Our own backyard? on SETI To Scour the Moon For Alien Footprints? · · Score: 1

    Skip the Rock and Head for the Water

    Oh Crap, captured by the intense gravity and burned up in the dense atmosphere

  13. Re:Gravity on Satellite Piece Crashes Through Man's Roof · · Score: 1

    How does that work?

    The Earth Sucks

  14. Re:I so Looove Louis Vuittonnn! on Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark · · Score: 1

    What about the Guns and other weapons that aren't real
    do production companies need to pay money for those product placements

  15. Re:Meanwhile... on Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This was not a Handbag, it was a Prop.
    Just in case anybody doesn't know . . . everything you see in the movies and on TV is fake.

  16. Re:Ha! on Bluetooth Keyboards With a 10-Year Charge Promised · · Score: 1

    The magnetic field produced would be extremely small, and with most (if not all) storage moving toward flash, you need not worry about your floppy disk or spinning media and said magnetic field.

    What about my Credit Cards ?

  17. Re:Summary is out by an order of magnitude on Stanford Researchers Invent Everlasting Battery Material · · Score: 2

    And it would also help if there was an actual battery in the first place
    From TFA . . .
    >> "The only problem is, a high-voltage cathode (-) requires a very low-voltage anode (+) — and the
    >> Stanford researchers haven’t found the right one yet; and so they haven’t actually made a battery
    >> with this new discovery."

  18. Re:I object to this on Stanford Researchers Invent Everlasting Battery Material · · Score: 2

    It's not the Heat
    It's the Stupidity . . .

  19. Re:light transistor on MIT Researchers Make Advance Toward Photonic Circuits · · Score: 1

    I am wondering if there is any material that acts as a mirror and can be switched from reflective to transparent electronically? I assume there is not or you wouldn't have devices like MEMS displays

    Maybe a DLP mirror system ?

  20. Re:It already is... on Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right · · Score: 1

    How can the government want the Internet to be a Right
    and at the same time, they want an Internet Kill Switch ?

  21. Re:I dub thee... on Hiding Messages In VoIP Packets · · Score: 1

    I would just use a modem

  22. Re:I have to say... on Asteroid Passes Closer To Earth Than the Moon on Nov 8 · · Score: 1

    The summery is Wrong ! !
    According to TFA . . .
    >> The trajectory of asteroid 2005 YU55 is well understood. At the point of closest approach,
    >> it will be no closer than 201,700 miles (324,600 kilometers)
    >> or 0.85 the distance from the moon to Earth.

    so the asteroid will be just inside the orbit of the moon . . .

  23. Re:Why not... on Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    And you need some special Wooden Volume Control knobs to add more warmth to the sound . . .

  24. Re:it's great to be alive in 1960 on Mercury Turns Out To Be a Weird Little World · · Score: 1

    >>> I predict that, within our lifetimes, the United States will routinely send astro-men into orbit and, perhaps, one day to the moon.

    I believe that the government will fake it and then say they did . . .

  25. Re:The electric universe guys must be thrilled. on Mercury Turns Out To Be a Weird Little World · · Score: 1

    Mercury is the gateway electrode that allows the Sun to direct Plasma Arcs out into the solar system when the occupants of the planets stop taking care of the property.