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  1. Re:Unnamed vacuum maker? on Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy · · Score: 1

    The Intellimouse mouse didn't suck...

  2. Re:Not possible on Would You Use a Free Netbook From Google? · · Score: 1

    THIS is Google's real problem. Hardware is cheap enough that they may have trouble convincing people that the cost savings are worth whatever tradeoffs are involved.

    I'm sure you could convince the Walmart crowd.

  3. Re:In other news...BAN THE PARENT on English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder · · Score: 1

    in b4 not your personal army

  4. Re:Easier solution: on Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort · · Score: 1

    Instead we will waste another $huge_amount dollars on some lame education effort only to have the kids still want to be Buck Rogers, or John Wayne.

  5. Re:How can they tell... on New Research Forecasts Global 6C Increase By End of Century · · Score: 1

    Both graphics show that we are actually in a COOL period and have been for some time:

    Regardless of what type of period the earth is having you cannot deny the rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 since the beginning of the industrial revolution, that's fact. Now are you going argue it's going to have no impact on global systems?

  6. Re:Platform shift? on Try Out Chrome OS In a Virtual Machine · · Score: 1

    It's an interesting take, and one that's sure to really upset the Winopoly if it's got any success at all.

    Now you do realize MS has a 16mb OS already shipping that could easily be modified to behave like Google's offering.

  7. Re:Where is second life big? on Second Life To Remove Free Content From Web Search · · Score: 1

    So in other words it a way for people who are incapable of living in the real world to play out their escape fantasies?

    Yeah when I was younger we called them "chat rooms".

  8. Re:GPU Card Size on NVIDIA Ships Decent DX10 Graphics Card For Under $100 · · Score: 1

    I suppose it is in comparison to the old 4mb 2D video cards, but.. :)

    I don't know about that as at one time I had an ancient VESA card that extended nearly the length of the AT box I found it in.

  9. Re:Bribery on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    Actually the US has some of the strictest anti bribery laws in the world. One of the few countries were you can face charges for bribing foreign officials outside the US.

  10. Re:Even a stopped clock is right twice a day on Bing To Use Wolfram Alpha Results · · Score: 1

    Based upon this I'm going to have to say Cuil is the worst search engine ever.

  11. Re:Black Isle on Review: Dragon Age: Origins · · Score: 1

    You are aware there is a patch out there now [deadlystream.com] that restores a good bit of that content to working order?

    On that note, we are all aware of Unfinished Business for BG 1 & 2 correct?

  12. Re:Antarctica! on Firefox Passes IE6 In Browser Share · · Score: 1

    Saying that Firefox beat IE6 is like bragging Mac OS X surpassed Windows 98 in usage share. oooh.

    October, 2009

    3 Mac OS X 7.38%

    9 Windows 98 0.10%

  13. Re:Not News!! on In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses · · Score: 4, Informative

    And I would be willing to bet the same could be said for Security Essentials.

    Been running AVG for years, but ever since I installed SE it's caught shit in video files before they've even finished downloading. As well as a couple JavaScript attacks from websites I wouldn't think twice about visiting. I can't even remember the last threat AVG found aside from cookies.

  14. Re:Everything but the first two films? on Terminator Franchise To Be Auctioned Off · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I liked the last movie, it was no Citizen Kane to be sure, but it was a fun watch.

    And if the box office results from 'movies' like Transformers 1/2 and G.I. Joe are any indication they could do a lot worse with the franchise and still rake in plenty of cash.

  15. Re:Unsound extrapolation on Evolution's Path May Lead To Shorter, Heavier Women · · Score: 2, Informative

    The average Caucasian height was about the same 300 years ago.

    According to this, the average United States citizen has gained 5cm since the mid 19th century.

  16. Re:Way to over-analyze, Forbes on Zombies As American Zeitgeist Proxies · · Score: 1
    That's fine but then how do you account for Vampire myths in cultures that didn't repress sexuality?

    The vampire has existed in the folklore of "almost all cultures," according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Vampire characters exist in the records of Chinese, Indian, and Pre-Colombian cultures. Older references to vampires appear in "ancient Assyrian legends, Talmudic texts, and Greek and Roman stories.

  17. Re:Price on Nintendo Announces DSi XL · · Score: 1

    Now that's I've grown-up I just buy the top two systems (Nintendo 64/PS1, Gamecube/PS2, Wii/X360)

    Shouldn't that read XBOX/PS2?

  18. Re:2 Simple solutions on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 1

    No buttons AND mobile phone quality games?

    Who needs a computer or console now!

  19. Re:Lenovo on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So you are saying the GIMP is superior to Photoshop.

    I don't know what he's saying, but I'm saying PSP9 is superior to Photoshop.

  20. Re:Lenovo on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, I'd say iTunes/Quicktime and Acrobat are, in fact, crap.

  21. Re:It says: 256MB RAM... on Ubuntu 9.10 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    If your installing on a 486 something tells me you probably won't have USB. Heck your CD-ROM will have a good chance of being routed through an IDE connection on the soundcard.

    Ahh, those were the days...

  22. Re:Yea so? on Thermonuclear Reactor To Use Coconut Shells · · Score: 1

    We need fuels that can provide massive net energy gains that are many times greater than the energy invested in creating them.

    Either that or we should be more frugal in our use of energy.

  23. Re:Power of the sun? Artificial stars? on Thermonuclear Reactor To Use Coconut Shells · · Score: 1
    Wikipedia:

    A slightly more precise, but still much simplified, view of the process is that vacuum fluctuations cause a particle-antiparticle pair to appear close to the event horizon of a black hole. One of the pair falls into the black hole whilst the other escapes. In order to preserve total energy, the particle that fell into the black hole must have had a negative energy (with respect to an observer far away from the black hole). By this process, the black hole loses mass, and, to an outside observer, it would appear that the black hole has just emitted a particle. In reality, the process is a quantum tunneling effect, whereby particle-antiparticle pairs will form from the vacuum, and one will tunnel outside the event horizon.

    Though it's debatable whether black holes truly exist, SciAm just ran a great article on Black Stars

  24. Re:DOD propaganda on Leaked Modern Warfare 2 Footage Causes Outrage · · Score: 1

    You can call me a conspiracy theorist all you want but you can find plenty of proof with a few simple google searches.

    I lol'd

  25. Re:Useless on CRTC Issues Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1
    From Wikipedia...

    The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks.