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  1. Re:None of this matters, it has no headphone jack. on Apple iPhone 7 Plus Packs 3GB RAM, Early A10 Fusion Benchmarks Look Very Strong (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    They can plug their headphones in via the adapter, or use the lightning headphones included in the box, or use bluetooth. And if they really need to charge while using headphones, I'm sure that they will have a 3rd party cable in short order. I really don't understand the constant whining about this - there are probably more users who never use headphones with their iPhone than people who charge while using headphones.

  2. Because Android owners are poor, they are honest on Android Users More Honest and Humble Than iPhone Users, Study Says (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    iPhone users are much richer than android users on average, and poor people are more honest and trustworthy than rich people. In fact, you can make people more honest and trustworthy by making them feel poor in comparison to others, and you can make people less honest and trustworthy by making them feel rich in comparison. http://theweek.com/articles/47...

  3. Crowds of teens will jump into the road as a joke on The Moral Dilemma of Driverless Cars: Save The Driver or Save The Crowd? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... and laugh and run off as the driver's car kills the driver.

  4. Well, clone it without the frontal lobe and there is no moral issue I'd say. Harvesting organs sounds pretty fantastic to me - would using a cloned organ make it so you didn't have to take immune suppressant drugs to prevent organ rejection?

  5. Re:Diablo 3 Forever? on Blizzard Aiming For Q3 Diablo 3 Beta, 2011 Release · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They will get higher sales numbers if they are late, IMHO - since Elder Scrolls V comes out in November, and it will probably be another 500+ hour game.

  6. Re:Noooooooo! on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    Netflix has problems with streaming, at least on an AppleTV. If I rent an iTunes movie and watch it right away, it never stops to rebuffer, but netflix shows often do. I think that they need to improve their data rates and buffering before they try to compete with anybody.

  7. Canon A2E/EOS 5 on What Will Apple Do With Swedish Eye-Tracking Technology? · · Score: 1

    Canon had eye tracking in their A2E Film SLR camera 18 years ago - how is this different? Would the A2E count as prior art?

  8. Re:Interesting but inherently flawed! on Gold Sold From Vending Machines In Germany · · Score: 2, Informative
  9. Prednisone on Asperger Syndrome Tied To Low Cortisol Levels · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is Cortisol related to Prednisone? 40 mg of Prednisone made me *feel* Autistic - I couldn't look at people when they were talking, it was too overstimulating to see their lips move while I listened to their voice.

  10. Re:Send in Al Gore on Alaska's Mt. Redoubt Has Erupted · · Score: 3, Informative

    We are still in an ice age, we have been in one for 10 million years so far. We are just in an interglacial period for the last 10,000 years. And the current warm period is caused by Milankovitch cycles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles

  11. Re:And Apple is near thier peak of marketshare on Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How exactly do you get +4 interesting for something that is so obviously false? Apple contracts out their computer manufacture to 3rd parties - the same 3rd parties that Dell and HP use. Licensing OSX to Dell and HP would just add a middleman, it would not add any manufacturing capacity. And Apple can scale mac production as high as they like, they just have to make a phone call to Taiwan and there you go, more production.

  12. buy a rowing machine on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    Get a concept II rowing machine - it hits most of your muscle groups while giving you an aerobic workout at the same time, and it folds up against the wall while not in use. http://www.concept2.com/us/default.asp [I'm not affiliated with the company]

  13. Ottawa is great, you are crazy on Moving Between Countries? · · Score: 1

    What! Ottawa is awesome, particularly for young people. Lots of restaurants and nightclubs. The strip bars and dance bars are the best I have been to in the world. China town has great food, and so does little Italy. You can skate on the canal in the winter. The NAC has some of the best modern dance and concerts I have seen, and there is the hockey team and rock bands in the stadium. The Art Museum is awesome, as is the public transit. You can blast along Colnel By avenue on a motorcycle in the summer, and it is a great time all round. Le Jardan in the market is the best French restaurant I have ever eaten at, particularly at the price. Have you ever been to Ottawa? Now RTP, NC where I live now sucks, but Ottawa is great, far better than Toronto - probably the equal of Vancouver or Montreal on the sucks/does not suck scale.

  14. Re:Maps of human travel on earth on Ancestry Surprises From New Genetics Analysis Method · · Score: 1

    The world looked the same as it does now, minus the air and water pollution, etc. Continental drift is less than a mile in 10,000 years, and the ice caps have been fairly stable during that time as well.

  15. We would be better off with a Google monopoly on Microsoft Complains About Google's Monopoly Abuse · · Score: 1

    Where is the danger? If we (the consumers) were paying Google money, then this would be a dangerous thing, but it isn't us - it is the advertisers. If Google gets a 100% monopoly over online advertising, then the worst thing that they can do is raise advertising rates through the roof - which would mean fewer ads for us to see, since online advertising would then be less cost-effective. I hope they get a monopoly and raise prices through the roof, personally.

  16. Re:$4500? on Dell's World of Warcraft Laptop · · Score: 1

    Siphon life is way better, as it is an affliction dot that will combine with the Soul Siphon talent to increase drain life damage. At least at level 48, where I am, shadow bolt sucks unless you trigger nightfall to reduce your casting time to 0 - the damage/mana ratio is just crap for shadow bolt. Somebody will undoubtedly tell me to do things differently, but I have an affliction build, and usually run through immolate/siphon life/curse of agony/corruption/fear/drain life/drain soul

  17. Re:Well, he's over 40. on Gene Simmons Blames College Kids For Music Industry Woes · · Score: 1

    Exactly how are US liberatarians "social conservatives"? They want to end the war on drugs, legalize gay marriage, etc. Either you don't know what a social conservative is, or you don't know what a libertarian is. www.lp.org

  18. Re:Wow! on EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday · · Score: 1

    I am level 43, too low to get there you insensitive clod!

  19. Re:WOW - It's So Cute! on World of Warcraft Patch 2.3 Coming Next Week · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You won't make it to the very top - the very top is already occupied by the guy who inherited the business from his dad after playing WoW non-stop for 20 years. And I for one welcome our new rich kid, WoW playing overlords. Seriously, if you work so hard that you have no time at all for a little computer game here and there, then you probably will never live long enough to enjoy your hard won earnings. Your WoW playing kids will spend it right up after you die, though.

  20. Re:Wow! on EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just accidentally enchanted my boots with "+7 Agility" when I meant to use "+7 Stamina", wasting 90 gold in WoW. This would take me a week or so to earn back - so you just aren't trying hard enough to lose money in WoW.

  21. Re:Apple must be doing something right on NBC Chief Slamming Apple · · Score: 1

    Not "style over substance" - Apple users value productivity and lack of problems. Using Windows probably reduces my life expectancy, because of all the crappy problems and frustrations, and my experiences with Redhat 5 were even worse (which was my one experiment with home desktop Linux - although Linux seems fine at work when somebody else installs and supports it).

    People say "things have gotten better" all the time in the Windows and Linux camps, just like people say those things about American cars - but then you buy the car and things start falling off, and your transmission dies every 25 miles.

  22. Re:It's Still Lossless on iTunes DRM-Free Tracks Now Same Price As DRM Tracks · · Score: 1

    Lossy compression => you lose information when you compress, so you don't have the same thing
    back again after a compression/decompression cycle.

    Lossless compression => you don't lose any information, this is ideal

    non-lossless => double negative

  23. Manipulating Forbes list on Forbes 400 Targeted by ID Thieves · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I imagine that the publicity from being on the Forbes list would be a huge disadvantage (people would try to kidnap your kids, hit you up for money, recognize you in the market, etc), which makes me think that there are a lot of billionaires that are actively trying to avoid being on the list. Who knows if that Mexican guy is really the richest person - Maybe Bill Gates wasn't even in the top 10? Also, I wonder if there are a lot of attempts at bribery of the Forbes reporters from people who want to stay off the list...

  24. Won't work on BusinessWeek Advocates Microsoft Piracy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Things that are cheap or free are soon seen as worthless - Like the Motorola RAZR for example. The RAZR used to be a high end status symbol, but now that the price has dropped to near zero (with a 2 year plan) there is no way they could start charging $600 for anything else even remotely like the RAZR. Once a couple generations has gotten used to Windows being free, there is now way that they would start paying money for it.

  25. Corporation gives immunity on British Record Companies Win £41m In Damages · · Score: 1

    What is preventing CD-wow from creating a new corporation, selling its assets to the new corporation, and then withdrawing the original corporation from the UK market? Wouldn't that be a way of getting around the payment since the new corp would not be a signatory to the original agreement, and CD-wow could not be forced to pay if they are no longer doing business in the country?