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  1. Re:Existing non-electronic variant on Parcel Sensor Knows When Your Delivery Has Been Dropped · · Score: 1

    LR44, 2032, 2025... ...all available at my dollar store in multi-packs.

    100 LR44 batteries are $10 on Amazon. That's retail. I have to assume that they're 2-3 CENTS to make, tops.
    100 2032 battieres are $17 on Amazon. I assume much the same about them.

  2. Re:Always on = !on on Xbox 720 Could Require Always-On Connection, Lock Out Used Games · · Score: 1

    I buy old games on sale, therefore all games are $10.

    Why was it so hard to just admit you made a silly statement?

  3. Re:Thanks for the spoiler on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 0

    It certainly was... ...in the M. Night Shymalan version.

  4. Re:A Portal movie?!?!? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 1

    My appreciation of explosions has little to do with how funny the review was. [n.b. explosions are wicked awesome.]

  5. Re:A Portal movie?!?!? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 1

    I'm getting trolled by an AC, but...

    Joss Whedon's directing abilities aside, he's the best screenwriter currently alive.

    WUT?

    Cohen? Mammet? Sorkin?

  6. Re:Ouch on Intel Gigabit NIC Packet of Death · · Score: 1

    The summary is pretty much word-for-word copy-pasta from his blog.. ..minus any of the useful formatting.

  7. Re:A Portal movie?!?!? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 1

    From a TV perspective, there's a lot more "Undercover," "Anatomy of Hope" and "Shelter" out there than there's Lost.

    Fringe almost got caught at the wall :) and it looks like Revolution is going to get ruled a ground rule double.

  8. Re:A Portal movie?!?!? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 1

    Guess I'll have to avoid the entire rest of THE INTERNET so I don't see any more spoilers...

    ...yeah...

  9. Re:A Portal movie?!?!? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, the mortality rate of humans is only 93%.

    http://what-if.xkcd.com/27/

  10. Re:A Portal movie?!?!? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 5, Funny

    Best Battleship review I saw:

    MISS!

  11. Portal? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Dan Trachtenberg short film "Portal: No Escape" already proved (to a lot of people) that Portal would be a fun movie.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drucg1A6Xk

  12. Re:A Portal movie?!?!? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 2

    The answer is simple. He's a classic home-run hitter.

    Most of his hits are "Alcatraz" pop-ups caught just past the infield. But you only make hundreds of millions if you get your home run to syndication - and for all the Alcatraz pop-ups, he keeps hitting a fair amount of Person of Interest home runs.

    Swing for the fences!

  13. Re:A Portal movie?!?!? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    John Noble made Fringe great.

    Adapting to a completely new universe (and/or completely different era) in which some of the previous universe may or may not have existed every season grew tiresome. Ir provided for some interesting twists, but it became difficult to care for anything or anyone once you realized they might simply not exist next time someone powers up a mystery machine. Even deaths became meaningless. How could I feel anything for someone who'd probably just exist in another universe or timeline if they "died" on the show?

  14. Re:Why use Kaspersky or any independent AV softwar on Kaspersky Update Breaks Internet Access For Windows XP Users · · Score: 1

    ...in corner cases, not against real-world data.

    "According to Microsoft, although AV-Test’s results indicated that Microsoft’s antivirus products detected only 72 percent of all “zero-day malware,” Microsoft knows from its telemetry data—from hundreds of millions of systems around the world—that fully 99.997 percent of its customers hit with any zero-day attack did not in fact encounter the malware samples tested in this test (basically a 100 percent success rate in the real world). AV-Test’s sample size was just 100 pieces of malware."

  15. The NERVE! on Racism In Online Ad Targeting · · Score: 4, Informative

    What's next? Serving up maxi-pad ads to female names?

    I'm calling my congressperson.

  16. Coming Out on Interviews: Ask James Randi About Investigating the Truth · · Score: 1

    You came out as a gay man in 2010. Can you elaborate on how that impacted your life and work?

    Do you think the bias around homosexuals unfairly hurts your credibility? Now that you've had a few years living "out," do you still think you chose the right time to do so?

  17. Re:Your personal life on Interviews: Ask What You Will of Paleontologist Jack Horner · · Score: 1

    They're both from the post-archaic period. Geologically speaking, that's the same.

  18. Re:paleontology on Interviews: Ask What You Will of Paleontologist Jack Horner · · Score: 1

    At first I was going to moderate this insightful, and hopefully un-troll the existing comments, but I figured I'd just reply.

    While the question is whimsical, it's still on point.

    How do you fight the ignorance around your science, and the misinformation from young-earth idiots?

  19. Re:sigh on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 2

    They're not going to get into my phone, but they sure are going to trigger a wipe when they fail the password enough times...

    I guess they're going to succeed in destroying my videos. :( ....except the copies that automatically got uploaded to Google+ and Facebook. :)

  20. Re:Video and first thoughts. on Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled · · Score: 4, Funny

    What does it bring new to developers that isn't there in Android?

    Real openness?

    What have the Romans ever done for us?

    Sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health?

    All right, fair enough, but appart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health; what have the Romans ever done for us?

    Orgies?

  21. Re:The app does not spread... on New Android Malware Uses Google Play Icon To Trick Users · · Score: 1

    "The threat, detected as "Android.DDoS.1.origin" by Russian security firm Doctor Web, likely spreads via social engineering tricks"

    That, from the summary, says that the threat spreads by social engineering -- and clearly identifies the threat as the malware, not the social engineering bit. TFA says that the malware spreads. Passive or active is important. The author of the summary is a twit. That's my point.

  22. The app does not spread... on New Android Malware Uses Google Play Icon To Trick Users · · Score: 2, Informative

    Users SPREAD the app. The app itself does not spread. It's an important distinction.

  23. Re:I have a relative who works on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 2

    The primary competitor for the bodies applying for TSA jobs is WalMart.

    Draw your own conclusions.

  24. Re:TSA, terrorism, gun control, and mass shootings on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 2

    What does NASA use the other 58% of their budget on?

  25. Re:Crooked cop on Baltimore Issued Speed Camera Ticket To Motionless Car · · Score: 1

    No fraud. Not perjury. Incompetence. The cop is basically incompetent. ...or lazy.

    This just in: Lazy, incompetent people in all lines of work...