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  1. Re:Whose enemies? on Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    Last I looked doesn't that include everyone in the Middle East?

  2. Re:Blacksmiths and coopers on Jesse Jackson, Jr. Pins US Job Losses On iPad · · Score: 1

    Yep, door close on nice paying manufacturing job and another one opens down the street at MC Donalds.... Real 'high' paying jobs (sarcasm).

  3. Re:Anysufficiently advanced technology on AMD Challenges NVIDIA To Graphics Throw-Down · · Score: 0

    You got 640x480? The best I could do was 320x240, that is when I used the nVidia driver for my 8800. Getting it back to the default driver was a pain.

  4. Re:Who cares about light pollution? on Help Map Global Light Pollution, By Starlight · · Score: 1

    All astronomy is done with ONE optical telescope? There are more than a few astronomers.

  5. Of course.... on Are We Too Reliant On GPS? · · Score: 0

    We relay on Technology to the thinking way to much these days. GPS is just another way to not take person responsibly.

  6. Re:Asteroids on Futureproofing Artifacts: Spacewar! 1962 In HTML5 · · Score: 2

    How about Galaxy Game http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/galaxy.html it was the first Arcade game. The source is even available at http://code.google.com/p/galaxygamepdp11/

    Price was only about $20,000 per unit in the early 70s. I guess that why it never really sold.

  7. Re:Why not port to C on Futureproofing Artifacts: Spacewar! 1962 In HTML5 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    MESS http://www.mess.org/ already has a PDP-1 emulator, it's currently in C.

  8. Re:Asteroids on Futureproofing Artifacts: Spacewar! 1962 In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    My computer was a C64 in October of 1984, and cost me $250, real money....

  9. Re:Do Not Want on How Cyborg Tech Could Link the Minds of the World · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the new age of knowledge, Luddite...
    Christianity will do what it has always done, it will adapt and change with the times, you think your religion is the same one as it was 2000 years ago?

  10. Re:Because consumers are stupid on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    I have 4 CFLs in my bathrooms, and mine come on faster than the fan and my thermostat is set to 68, at least in the winter and thats to full brightness. I saw no difference better CFLs and incandescents when I put them in the bathroom or any other room. The only 'CFL' I have that has a warm up time, is in the basement, and I am not even use you can call it a CFL, it is a ring fluorescent bulb which is decades old. The basement is like 50 degrees most of the time. I don't buy the cheap Chinese CFLs but I pay a little extra for better CFLs, though most are made in China anyway.

  11. Re:Special situations on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    If your pipes are freezing, then have a drip from faucets. I heard that plumber on the talk radio a few months back on a fix it show, on late night. Running water is harder to freeze, also I wondered why the self server car wash had water running all the time in the winter, it because it stops the water from freezing.

  12. Re:Cabinet art on Smithsonian To Feature Video Game History · · Score: 2

    Arcade games are not represented, only console and computer games.

  13. Re:Fast on the clicker on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 2

    I remember an interview with Ken, he said he would push the button even though he didn't know the answer, and he hoped he would figure it out in time. Most of the time it was a winning method, but sometimes it wasn't.

  14. Re:"Bio-engineered 'cultured' meat" on Scientists Work To Grow Meat In a Lab · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People in the world are starving not because of a lack of world food production, but political situations most of the time.

  15. Re:Fake 3D ftw on A Kinect Princess Leia Hologram In Realtime · · Score: 1

    The only way 3D porn to really take off if they could do solid holograms, like in Red Dwarf.

  16. Re:Fake 3D ftw on A Kinect Princess Leia Hologram In Realtime · · Score: 2

    What Custer's Revenge wasn't good enough for you?

  17. Re:From a maintainer's perspective . . . on Challenger 25 Years Later · · Score: 1

    If you didn't take chances sometimes, we would all be still freezing in Caves, since fire would be to dangerous because someone could get burned. Every time we step outside there is a chance to be hit by a car, truck or meteor. Astronauts understand the risk and still they go, but with your attitude no one would ever go...

  18. Re:Not just .gov on Compromised Government and Military Sites For Sale · · Score: 1

    Hire the dumbest....

  19. Re:Not just .gov on Compromised Government and Military Sites For Sale · · Score: 0

    You also forgot to say, they try to the dumbest people for those jobs too.

  20. Re:But what does TRON GUY think? on Tron: Legacy — Too Much Imagination Required? · · Score: 1

    The theater where he was going to watch the movie wouldn't let him in wearing his suit.

  21. Re:They were obsoleted by a more convenient tech . on Split Screen Co-op Is Dying · · Score: 1

    I was playing multiplayer games on my Intellivision (1979) and even before that on my Coleco Combat (1977) which both had two players. Coleco Combat only had a 2 player mode since the hardware was so primitive. Console games were never meant to cutting edge but cheap and fun. Even the modern consoles were either sold at a lose or not HD to save money. Consoles are cheap computer with a lot video hardware to make them look pretty.

  22. Death? on People With University Degree Fear Death Less · · Score: 1

    You can only die once, and I have been dead, so I will live forever now....
    I think the University was worse than death anyway, pain goes away when you die, at the University the pain never went away...

  23. Re:Simple option? on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    I would love if you could opt out, I get 3 different phone books each year, 2 big ones (one only yellow pages) and 1 smaller phone book. The only thing I use is the coupons in the back of the book, since if you have a cell phone you have to pay to have your number listed, unlike a land line which is a free listing. All my friends and most of my family have only cell phones, so I can't use it to look up there numbers. I think I have used it once in the past year and that was to help someone looking for a person with my last name.

  24. Re:Why? WHY??? on FCC Investigating Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Collection · · Score: 1

    All evil is fun.

  25. Re:ridiculous story on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History? · · Score: 1

    I have a 700M HD from my Gateway computer I got in May 1995, that still works, though my average life span of most HDs has been about 6 years.