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  1. Re:So whose fault is it then? on Scientists Cleared of Misusing Global Warming Data · · Score: 1

    You mean it's getting cooler every year, right?

  2. So let me understand on Scientists Cleared of Misusing Global Warming Data · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The Commerce Department, which is part of the Obama Administration, which is admittedly all-in for Global Warming, has found no fault in the scientists' manipulation of data to fit the hypothesis.

    File this under "Duh."

  3. Windows Media Center? on Watch Out Netflix, Amazon Streaming Video to Prime Users · · Score: 1

    I haven't been able to find one, but does anyone know if there is a widget or plugin for Windows Media Center? I'm not talking about an extender, but the actual PC that is running WMC.

    Netflix has an application where you can browse titles using the WMC interface. I like the idea of free streaming from Amazon, but if I can't do it with the remote in WMC, it's useless to me.

    It seems their site is geared toward streaming to Media Center Extenders and other embedded devices.

    BTW, I tried to watch a movie on the PC yesterday using the web interface they want you to use, and the quality was amazing....ly horrible... Unwatchable in full screen mode.

  4. No more baggy pants! on Sonar Keyboard Logs You Out To Protect Your Data · · Score: 1

    I guess this will put a stop to that!

  5. Doesn't give you more daylight on UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours · · Score: 1

    You can do whatever you want with your clock, it will not make your day any longer. The length of the day is not affected at all by the setting of your clock.

  6. Re:Utah Poison Control Centers on Taxes On Cell Phones Hit All-Time High · · Score: 1

    If two people get one DSL line and share it, it is theft.

    If two people get one phone line and share it, it is theft.

    If you want to have access to 911, you should pay for it like everyone else, and not steal it by using someone else's access to it.

  7. Re:Sounds lame... on Teenager Tries To Hire Hitman Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    Was his name Milton?

  8. Re:Utah Poison Control Centers on Taxes On Cell Phones Hit All-Time High · · Score: 1

    Why should 911 taxes be limited to those who have phones? If you fall down and have a heart attack somewhere, a telephone is still going to be used to call 911. You will be using a system you did not pay for, effectively stealing from those who did.

    It is unfair to those who have phones for those who don't to get off the hook for the taxes. In that sense, it is not a legitimate user-based tax, because some users do not have to pay it.

  9. Low Bandwidth on Proposed Standard Would Address Video Buffering · · Score: 2

    Never underestimate the bandwidth of a US Postal Service delivery truck full of Bluray Discs.

    My wife and I occasionally watch Netflix streaming, but the quality is terrible, so we usually just plan ahead and get the Blurays delivered.

    We get 3 at a time, and it takes a day for the movies to get to us. So, if a BRD is 50GB, that's 150GB/24 hours, which is well beyond the point where our ISP would say we've exceeded our "unlimited" usage plan and turn us off anyway.

  10. Re:Not to be a nit pick on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    That'd be the "correct" way, but this is often omitted for expediency's sake, especially in a busy Bravo...

  11. Re:B.S. Pilots don't even say 'over'. on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    I'm a pilot, too, and I've never said "over." I've never heard it said on the radio, either.

  12. It'll be obsolete by then... on As HTML5 Gets 2014 Final Date, Flash Floods Mobile · · Score: 4, Insightful

    3 years is an eternity in web time. By 2014, the web will have evolved once again into something nobody can foresee today.

    It's a BAD thing when standards bodies cannot keep up with the technology they're attempting to regulate. Fortunately, the only outcome is that the standards body becomes irrelevant, which is what should happen to most of them.

  13. Re:BICYCLES on Obama Calling For $53B For High Speed Rail · · Score: 1

    Of course they won't. The train stations will be in the exurbs of the cities they service, because that's where the influential politicians live. Further, there will be two lane highways without shoulders leading to huge parking decks for cars, and there will be no accommodations made for bicycles at all.

    The layout will be a star pattern with DC in the middle, and the rail lines will run to the cities with the most powerful politicians (bringin' home the pork).

    Congress has repeatedly shown they do not want bicycles to become part of American commuter culture.

  14. Hahaha! on MPAA Threatens To Disconnect Google From Internet · · Score: 1

    MPAA: Dear Google, if you don't stop violating our copyrights, we'll disconnect you from the Internet.

    Google: Dear MPAA, I DARE YOU TO TRY.

    MPAA: Dear Google, nevermind. We were just kidding. We know you could start handling record distribution and put us out of business in a week. We're sorry to have bothered you. Please don't hurt us.

  15. Re:But where will it run? on Obama Calling For $53B For High Speed Rail · · Score: 1

    It'll run between the cities represented by the most influential pork-grabbing congress-critters.

  16. Re:Just what we need on Obama Calling For $53B For High Speed Rail · · Score: 1

    You forgot to mention it will be twice as expensive in addition to being half the speed.

  17. Re:This is acceptable if and only if... on Intel Resumes Shipping of Faulty Sandy Bridge Chip · · Score: 1

    >> To keep some moron with a soldering iron from using the port?

    Yes, and to keep said moron from successfully suing the company for failing to take adequate measures to prevent the moron from jeopardizing his data or ability to access it, when the manufacturer knew there was a problem with the product and sold it anyway.

  18. Still waiting for games that actually use my CPU on Putting Up With Consolitis · · Score: 2

    Most of the games I play STILL only use 1 core. It's soooo nice to see the game flogging along at 12% CPU usage with 8% GPU utilization on my GTS-250.

  19. And consumers pay for it on LG Wants PlayStation 3 Banned From US Market · · Score: 1

    All of the billions of dollars spent on patent litigation every year come out of our pockets...

  20. Re:Fine for people with hardware RAID cards. on Intel Resumes Shipping of Faulty Sandy Bridge Chip · · Score: 2

    High end systems are not based on SB technology, because SB technology is aimed at the consumer market.

    The enterprise versions of SB are not due for release until much later.

  21. This is acceptable if and only if... on Intel Resumes Shipping of Faulty Sandy Bridge Chip · · Score: 1, Informative

    1) They physically remove the SATA connectors for the affected ports from the board, AND;
    2) They spin a version of the BIOS that permanently disables these ports in the logic and track it separately from the main line, AND;
    3) They make it impossible to load the main line BIOS into the board, allowing the ports to be enabled, AND;
    4) They seriously discount the price of the boards for the loss of functionality. Even if they include a PCI-e SATA card, it will not come close to the performance of the native controller, and it will consume one of the PCI-e slots.

  22. This isn't surprising... on AOL To Buy Huffington Post · · Score: 1

    The Huffing-and-Puffington Post caters to lefties just like AOL. It seems like a match made in heaven.

  23. Not a violation of free speech on Anniston, Alabama To Censor Employees' Facebook Pages · · Score: 1

    Employers are free to impose any conditions they want upon your employment. They can require that you allow your bags to be searched on entry. They can forbid you making personal phone calls. They can ban personal Internet usage. They can even forbid you possessing firearms on their property, and forbid you disclosing any details about your employment relationship with them.

    You are there to work for them, not to enjoy your personal life on their dime.

  24. Re:Obligatory pedantic comment on 19-Year-Old Makes Homemade Solar Death Ray · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but the mirror array is doing nothing to generate energy. The SUN generates the energy, and the mirror array simply takes a cross section of standard solar flux density and makes it smaller. Since energy is conserved, when the cross sectional area for a given energy flux gets smaller, the energy flux density gets larger, so that the same amount of energy is flowing through the cross sectional area.

    That's the only thing happening here. It's a slightly lossy conversion of the solar flux cross section.

  25. This was news on Saturday night on Mark Zuckerberg Makes Surprise SNL Cameo · · Score: 1

    This is Monday morning. The MSM already spent the weekend hyping this up.