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  1. The Intercept? on Microsoft May Add Eavesdropping To Skype · · Score: 1

    I thought Morgan was the Intercept.

  2. Bluetooth on Apple Updating iOS To Address Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    great...how about fixing bluetooth connectivity now?

  3. These 2 groups need to talk on Journey To the Mantle of the Earth By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Researchers in the OP article need to get together with these guys http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/1086/deep-ocean-chasm-baffles-researchers

  4. Re:Oh please you old windbag on Al Franken Makes a Case For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    the internet contains way more crap than TV ever did.

  5. Re:Oh please you old windbag on Al Franken Makes a Case For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    True, So where is this Freedom of Speech infringement? Much like I would gladly pay for the inner 2 lanes of I-40 between Raleigh and Winston Salem NC to be the express lane,I also would pay extra to have my packets have priority. " Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. " oh like they do during the Superbowl? Why should the internet be any different than TV?

  6. Neve ending cycle. on Factory To Make Biodiesel From Chicken Fat · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Eat the crap; Makes you fat. Need a bigger car to lug your fat ass around. Burn it in your car; Exhaust smells like it, making you hungry. Repeat. Also 75 milllion gallons sounds like a lot, but when compared to the annual gasoline consumption of the US (~140 billion gallons), you'll need to eat a lot of chickens to make a dent. Sound like some gov't make work program.

  7. Re:I'm lovin it! on School Children Are Now Too Fat to Fit In Class Chairs · · Score: 2, Funny

    More like Double Stuff.

  8. 32" Tire on Jeep Wrangler Call of Duty Black Ops Edition · · Score: 1

    BFD, Same diameter as my '08 GMC Acadia. Now if it were 32" wheels, that would be something to market.

  9. Good For Them on How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes · · Score: 1

    It's thier money. People always love complaining about others that have more than them. Simple jelousy. Like those in upstate NY who don't want Google to build a datatcenter because of the PILOT (payment in leu of taxes) agreement. Well you know what? Its not like that 40 acres is bringing in much tax revenue as it sits now. Yes collection rates are going to be lower but its better than the current yield. Not to mention the jobs both Google and Yahoo are bringing to the area,.

  10. Better software on How Much Smaller Can Chips Go? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about writing better software. Stuff that doesn't require 24 cores and 64GB of RAM?

  11. Re:Um... on Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain · · Score: 1

    ...I wouldn't say this is a problem with Facebook so much as a problem with fucking stupidly,. It's not my place to question someone's sexual activity, but come on...who has sex with a stranger without using a condom?

    FYP.

  12. Re:Draconian Laws on Facebook Violates Canadian Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    You have to provide some personal information especially your birth date, which is illegal for a prospect employer to ask.

    Really? How do you prove you are of legal age to work?

  13. Another PILOT scam. on Yahoo's "Chicken Coop" Data Center Design · · Score: 1

    Ah another project brought to you by PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes). Screwing the homeowners and tax payers of Niagara County once again. Niagara county is one of the most taxed counties in NY, PILOT was supposed to help start-ups get their feet off the ground, but has since been abused by large companies by promising high paying jobs in return for sales tax exemptions and property tax waiving. Case in point AES Sumerset. As with Google (in Lenoir county NC), its likely only a small fraction of the 175 announced jobs will be filled. Many of them being building maintenance jobs with most of the admins and engineers working remotely and not really contributing to the local economy (after all who wants to live in Lockport?, where yes the houses are cheap...but you have to pay 5000/year property tax on your 100k house).

  14. Re:Fascinating stuff on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1

    a "golden record", which is technology long since obsolete here on earth during only the short 30 year span of the mission. Food for thought.

    For 189.99 you can get "The Doors Vinyl Box" at Best Buy. Hardly obsolete. High Def Vinyl? Funny thing is they have these crappy turntables on display near the Vinyl display. Who would spend 200 on 7 records then play them on a $150 jackhammer.

  15. Obviously Apple on What OS and Software For a Mobile Documentary Crew? · · Score: 1

    All those arsty fartsy types like using Apples cause its cool. Wouldn't be caught dead using Windows.

  16. First teach them to.... on South Carolina To Give 1 Laptop Per School Child · · Score: 1

    ...spell their names, brush their teeth, and learn how to use the toilet. Things that even some 5th graders in my wife's school can't do yet. This is SE N.Carolina (yes not SC but close enough). How do people expect them to use a computer when its covered in shit?

  17. Re:turbo-Pascal on Borland Being Purchased By Micro Focus · · Score: 1

    Its still around...I have Turbo RoadRunner service.

  18. Re:In related news... on White House Joins Facebook, MySpace, Twitter · · Score: 3, Funny

    at the end of each episode PresBo will hand out stimulus money "Will you accept this gift from the taxpayers of the US?"

  19. The Matrix? on Yeast-Powered Fuel Cell Feeds On Human Blood · · Score: 1

    nfm

  20. Learn from the past: GJXDM, NIEM, N-DEX on Social Security Administration Launches E-Health Info Exchange · · Score: 2, Interesting

    lets hope this doesn't turn into the cluster-f that we have with justice data. A schema the length of the bible, 4 different versions that no one is sure which to use, and a competing system running down the same path. And this is all dealing with intra-governmental agencies! No private sector here.

  21. Re:Things to remember... on From an Unrelated Career To IT/Programming? · · Score: 1

    Very true, my friends always assumed I'd love to win the lottery, then I'd have time to design and code apps that I wanted to.... No... don't get me wrong, I want to win the lottery BUT after doing this day in and day out for years...I don't think I'd open another IDE again.

  22. Single Use Number on Breach Exposes 19,000 Active US, UK Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    I always use single use card numbers, or generated numbers for different vendors. Although one problem I can think of is returns, I don't know how those are treated.

  23. Re:Megapixels of 1080p HDTV and 8x10 prints on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 1

    I think its just a difference in terminology. Its also in important difference as marketing departments have put digital zooming on the same plain as optical zooming. Which it isn't. Digital zoom - as far as P/S cameras is zooming in farther than the optical zoom allows, a crop Crop - post process digital manipulation. Ease up on the coffee...you might pop a vessel or something....geez.

  24. Re:Usable Navigation on What Features Should Be Included With iPhone 3.0? · · Score: 1

    G-Map does turn by turn.

  25. Re:Mega-* No! Its the lens... on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 1

    i disagree, its the light.