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  1. OMFG on Acer To Launch 3D Notebook In October? · · Score: 1

    Jenna Jameson in full 3D glory! Prepare your Biff's sidekick 3D glasses. We are about to live interesting times.

  2. Re:translation on Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings · · Score: 1
    I totally would. Quoting Wikipedia:

    Science is a social enterprise, and scientific work tends to be accepted by the community when it has been confirmed. Crucially, experimental and theoretical results must be reproduced by others within the science community. Researchers have given their lives for this vision; Georg Wilhelm Richmann was killed by ball lightning (1753) when attempting to replicate the 1752 kite-flying experiment of Benjamin Franklin.[40]

    To protect against bad science and fraudulent data, government research granting agencies like NSF and science journals like Nature and Science have a policy that researchers must archive their data and methods so other researchers can access it, test the data and methods and build on the research that has gone before. Scientific data archiving can be done at a number of national archives in the U.S. or in the World Data Center.

  3. Re:translation on Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings · · Score: 1

    Exactly my though. Shouldn't people have access to an independent confirmation? That would totally obliterate the theories that claim there were no such landing... or not. But it would definitely end that debate.

  4. Units? on Google Labs Offers Table-Based Search Results · · Score: 1

    Go to: http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=nissan

    Can we have the width in the unit system please? I have inches and millimeters all mixed up. It would be awesome if I can choose the unit. Measuring a car width in millimeters is not very practical from a user perspective.

  5. Re:Developers should charge more for IE6 support on Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If a single small business site doesn't support IE6, nobody cares. What we need is to make a coalition of porn sites and make them stop supporting IE6. That should do it.

    BTW, I charged extra for IE6 support in one of my latest projects. As a result, I ended up doing just the back-end of the site, and some other guy did the front end. Which in this particular case, was a good thing. But YMMV depending on the project. It's a double edged sword so use this strategy carefully.

  6. It's called Bing on Microsoft Debuts Full-Body Controller-less Gaming At E3 · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Debuts Full-Body Controller-less Gaming At E3

    Yes it's called Bing and you can play with your own meat joystick:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/5423736/Microsofts-Bing-under-fire-for-porn-video-access.html

  7. 1997 called back... on Microsoft Bing Search Launches Early Preview · · Score: 1

    And all this fuss is for a search engine?? Well, Google is doing a Web browser so I guess this completes the ying yang of the industry...

  8. Re:Who remembers it? on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: 1

    Sure, I remember them, the hacker news network and the hairy palm for Palm Pilot!
    Good to see them back. I hated the shutdown of HNN, it was one of my favorite sites.

  9. No, not like this... on SOE Pulls the Plug On The Matrix Online · · Score: 1

    Relax, this is just the Cipher-pulling-the-plug part. You'll be back online as soon as the latino guy in the spaceship recovers from the plasma ray hit.

  10. Unleash the content MFers! on Palm Pre To Sync Seamlessly With iTunes · · Score: 1

    I'm all in favor of content unlocking. Companies should compete on better ways to handle the content. But the content itself, should be: unlocked, unDRMed and free as in speech, and as in beer.

  11. Re:Editor's Note on Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US · · Score: 1

    Doesn't really matter. Like in chess, you have to visuallize the next move. This is just how it begins.
    They'll have 2 lines, one for US citizens and another for the rest. One day, the guy in the US booth will take a lunch brake and never come back. And everything is already in place for they to scan everyone...

  12. Re:What Science? on Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    Exactly! They are to the talking what the sky is to a potatoe.

    (?!)

  13. Re:It's for the ipad... on Apple Plans $1 Billion iDataCenter · · Score: 1

    You forget the ATT fee and the MobileMe account. And they get to chose which applications you can run, which videos you can watch and which texts you can read. But everybody will want one and feel special because they have such pleasure while using it for their pasteiurized needs.

  14. Re:I use IE you insensitive clod! on Mozilla Jetpack, an API For Standards-Based Add-Ons · · Score: 1

    IE IS standards-compliant, just a different set of standards...

  15. Re:js rendering is not the bottleneck on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    For tree tabs in FF, you have "Tree Style Tab" one of my favourites FF extensions: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890

  16. Had one of those on Investigators Replicate Nokia 1100 Banking Hack · · Score: 1

    That's the best phone I ever had. Sure, it only did calling + SMS (it also had a flashlight). Then I stupidly wanted to listen to mp3 and wanted the phone to look nice, so I've change it for a *newer*, *more advanced* one... And that's when my problems started...

  17. Re:Mounting evidence on Apple Tablet Rumors Again (Still?) · · Score: 1

    Zen speaking: If you rumor it, they will build it.
    As rummors pile up, odds of it becoming a reality increase.

  18. I don't worry.. on Wolfram|Alpha's Surprising Terms of Service · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where I'm going, the law doesn't really apply...
    http://www44.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=ecstasy+synthesis

  19. This is dumb on Ball And Chain To Force Children To Study · · Score: 1

    I can guarantee that if you strap your kid with that, all his energies during that time will be entirely focused on how to get rid of it. And it's going to be fun for him!

  20. 12 million?? on 3D Realms Sued Over Failed Duke Nukem Forever Plans · · Score: 1

    -So where's all that money now?

  21. Accesibility on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 1

    Use it to test applications for blind people

  22. Block the Ubuntu downloads to african people?! on Developing World Is a Profit Sink For Web Companies · · Score: 1

    YouTube is already blocking content for other countries. So, regardless you are an american citizen, if you are in certain countries, you can't view many videos. Blocking content is NOT the solution! This will only lead to more isolation. I can't express well enough how dissapointed I am.

    I really expected better from Google, can't believe that with Vinton Cerf as one of it's VPs and all many other enlightened ones over there they took this lame approach.

    What has happened to the "Information should be free" motto I, as many of you, grew up with? Where are the "hacker ethics" now?
    Suddenly it as all about bussines.

    So what's next? Block the Ubuntu downloads to african people?! What a load of bullshit!!! They should be sorry and ashamed.

  23. I don't mind saying it on What Did You Do First With Linux? · · Score: 1

    What Did You Do First With Linux?

    dir[enter]

  24. Wrong category on Sending Messages With Your Brain Via EEG · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't this be under the Borg icon instead of the old phone? After all this is the very basics of Borg communication... Ahh but we used that icon for Bill, right?

  25. We are going to need a PigVault(tm)! on Biotech Company To Patent Pigs · · Score: 1

    Just like the seed vault in Norway, we are going to need a pig vault in case Monsanto decides some day to stop selling pig sperm to our farmers.

    BTW, please someone tell me if this is not the perfect plot for a James Bond movie. They even have a lair-looking building