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  1. Re:web-powered? on Google Launches New Assault On Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    What do you mean? This plugin allows live synchronisation over the internet, how is that not "web-powered"?

  2. Re:Did Slashdot go retarded today? on Pirated App Sold On Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    Dammit, as a programmer this makes me a little tense. You're saying the effort of a programmer is worthless and should be given away for free, while the effort of the artist is infinitely more valuable? (divide by zero error)

  3. Curvature prior on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    Why such a strange prior? I understand that they believe that the curvature is 0, but how do they know they should drop it down so quickly? What about the rest of the prior, why does it look so strange? What would happen if they changed the prior. I'm guessing that tweaking the prior would yield greatly different universe sizes.

  4. Re:People are still the expensive part on The Fall of Traditional Entertainment Conglomerates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The shit that gets spewed out of big production hollywood these days is far from the likes of Beethoven.

  5. Re:Dump your Motorola stocks on Motorola Sticks To Guns On Locking Down Android · · Score: 1

    I was mainly referring to Jobs' attempts on Android (here's an audio clip). Also, you've probably heard of the iPhone 4 antenna problems. I don't bookmark these stories, so try google.

  6. Re:Dump your Motorola stocks on Motorola Sticks To Guns On Locking Down Android · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Apple has the opposite attitude. They don't say "buy elsewhere" they say "by our stuff instead because ..." and then continue with 20% truth.
    Motorola's mistake is that they're telling people to "buy elsewhere" instead of just lying to everyone like Apple does.

  7. Re:IBM on 30% More Patents Issued in 2010 · · Score: 1

    One conclusion is that the people who work at the patent office are below average intelligence, as they consider something obvious as something non-obvious.

  8. Just choose whatever, on Stars Remain In Their Usual Places; People Panic · · Score: 1

    if you read the astrology section, and it will pertain to you anyway.

  9. Google googles... on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 1

    was written so that millions of chicks would send in pics of their breasts to search for comparisons. In terms of pics sent in to compare the sizes of body parts, most google engineers didn't not get what they were after.

  10. "virtually no human testing" on Scientist Says NASA Must Study Space Sex · · Score: 1

    I demand references on the testing that practically/literally did occur, that would justify your use of "virtually".

  11. definite article? on Google Nexus S Processor Overclocked To 1.2GHz · · Score: 1

    An XDA Forums user morific has

    How many morifics are there on the XDA Forums?

  12. Re:Year of the Linux Tablet on Ubuntu Powered Tablet Spotted! · · Score: 1

    Any tablet running Android.

  13. Re:It's a Fantasy movie not Scifi on Tron: Legacy — Too Much Imagination Required? · · Score: 4, Informative

    This stuff is scifi, your definition of scifi is actually what most people call hard scifi.

  14. Earth space junk on Study Suggests Saturn's Rings Made By Ancient Moon Death Spiral · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Earth's space junk will, in time, move to form rings around earth.

  15. Dynamic bumps on a flexible display on Early Look At Acer's Iconia Dual Touchscreen Device · · Score: 1

    is there a flexible display technology capable of providing a small bump per key dynamically when a virtual keyboard is loaded onto the screen. Perhaps a small physical keyboard hidden beneath the screen that gets raised mechanically when the keyboard is displayed, and for bonus points allows depression when the key is pressed.

  16. Re:WAVE still exists! on Google Wave Looking To Join Apache Software Foundation · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't be so pompous, including a link to the Google search page. I was clearly referring to the new project that was apparently announced "just days ago" and not on the fact that Rasmussen moved from Google to Facebook. It was Zuckerberg who made the announcement, not Rasmussen as you so incorrectly alluded to in your previous post.

  17. Re:WAVE still exists! on Google Wave Looking To Join Apache Software Foundation · · Score: 0, Troll

    who just days ago announced an effort on a project "to replace email" with something more collaborative and real time.

    What? Reference, please.

  18. Re:Harold Scruby on Australia To Fight iPod Use By Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    Never heard of Gun Victim's Council of Australia, but I'm sure as hell glad it's difficult to get guns here. Sure hard criminals might get their hands on a gun to kill other hard criminals, but you don't have every kid who just hit 18 running to the shop to pick up a 45. IMHO that group is not wacky and I would vote their way if I was old enough when all that happened.

  19. I've always wondered on Aging Star System Leaves Strange Death Spiral · · Score: 1

    the close star you can see on the right, how big is it actually in the image? Is it smaller than a pixel, and the bright light just bleeds into the surrounding pixels, or is it actually about the same size as the white circle that can be seen?

  20. Re:As the author of RFC 2100... on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would find it more interesting if it contained approximate statistics for each type point. I will not spend time designing a system which caters for the 2 individuals having some weird exception to the detriment of millions of others which adhere to a much more useful schema. IE, sure you can just have Name and accept a 2048-length UTF-16 string to accommodate everyone, or skip a few outliers and have given and last names with certain restrictions to catch user error in the input.

  21. Re:Bullshit on Quant AI Picks Stocks Better Than Humans · · Score: 1

    Not sure how you were voted insightful. There is a huge difference between killing and having a pen and paper game where anything is allowed within the borders of that game. You've taken your argument beyond the ridiculous.

    You wish you had more money than that other trader? No problem, shoot him and take his money

    Just listen to yourself. Here you're not talking about a free market, you're talking about a completely free society.

  22. Re:Bullshit on Quant AI Picks Stocks Better Than Humans · · Score: 1

    Ability to trade quickly adds liquidity to the market, which allows an instrument to quickly approach its true value.

  23. Re:Gained respect for NYT on New York Times Bans Use of Word "Tweet" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Phil Corbett groks journalism.

  24. Almost certainly not true on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    is a weaker assumption than almost surely not true... so it might.

  25. Re:Flamebait on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 2, Funny

    I read your comment as the only serious thing an iPad is good for is serious constipation , and thought to myself "you're right, I could get one to replace the magazines in my bathroom".