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  1. Re:So why to we bitch about global warming? on Carbon Emissions 'Will Defer Ice Age' · · Score: 1

    Florida has always been a swamp. Not that many people live there. It will make a great aquaculture farm one day. Also, the people are embarrassing.

  2. Re:Please no on Google Merges Google+ Into Search · · Score: 1

    I like being able to +1 search results. But I wouldn't want a personalized Google that over-emphasized that and turned it into my own little echo chamber.

  3. Re:Geek solution on Raspberry Pi Has Gone To Manufacturing · · Score: 2

    There's a good chance the motivation is financial. As in IT people threatened by their charges becoming disposable. Or software developers well aware their software is incompatible. Moderation on Rpi threads has gotten brutal, and so now most everybody posts AC.

  4. Android/Tegra 3? on Diablo 3 Coming To Consoles · · Score: 0

    Want to see this on the mobile console of the future.

  5. Re:Android on Google Giving Google TV Another Shot · · Score: 1

    Google TV is simpler and runs on cheaper hardware. Presumably updates will be more frequent and consistent. You can get the TV with full Android also - I think Lenovo offers it. Or you can do it with an HDMI dongle.

    My TVs are all minimally smart already (Netflix at least), so the dongle or STB is the way for me. Fortunately the dongles are very cheap - like $79. Personally I would prefer the Android version, as the marketplace is an amazing value add.

  6. Re:Too little too late? on Google Giving Google TV Another Shot · · Score: 1

    You can also get it on an HDMI dongle about the size of a pen drive.

  7. Re:Only a threat in multiple computer households on Michael Dell Dismisses Tablet Threat To the PC Market · · Score: 2

    No matter how wonderful it is, there's going to be somebody that doesn't care for it.

  8. Re:Human advancement on Carbon Emissions 'Will Defer Ice Age' · · Score: 1

    We also didn't have modern glacier farming technologies. Experimental crops grown on glaciers are up 1000% from initial studies!

  9. Re:So why to we bitch about global warming? on Carbon Emissions 'Will Defer Ice Age' · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid that 50,000 years would be a combo breaker, historically speaking.

  10. Re:Mr Dell's reality distortion field on Michael Dell Dismisses Tablet Threat To the PC Market · · Score: 1

    Hm.... Have you seen this? link.

  11. Re:By the same token on Michael Dell Dismisses Tablet Threat To the PC Market · · Score: 2

    Actually, nVidia just did that at their CES keynote. True, there was a PC involved but it didn't need to be in the room.

  12. What a coincidence on Michael Dell Dismisses Tablet Threat To the PC Market · · Score: 3, Informative

    Jerry Shen just Announced a Tegra 3 tablet with ICS for $250.

  13. Re:So, on Carbon Emissions 'Will Defer Ice Age' · · Score: 1

    Just about 99.95 percent of us. You don't expect Russia, China and the US to go quietly into the cold do you? If it became clear an ice age is dawning, we get uncivilized again.

  14. Re:Wondering about desktop sales ... on Vizio Plans To Undercut The Market For All-In-One PCs · · Score: 1

    There's a "performant enough" level. Tegra 3 looks to be almost there. Maybe within the year...

    What the mobile platforms are giving us is amazingly swift progress and remarkable flexibility. This is winning fans.

    We've been playing "Intel giveth and Microsoft taketh away" for a very long time. But in time, all things end.

  15. Acceptance on SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows · · Score: 1

    I believe it's time to accept that these stupid laws will be passed no matter how offensive they are, no matter how destructive to freedom of speech. Workarounds should be in progress now.

  16. Re:700,000 New Android Phones A Day on Microsoft Scraps 'Where's My Phone Update?' Site · · Score: 1

    It's called "owning the shelf" and it's quite the successful strategy.

  17. Re:What does it mean to have a price? on OLPC XO-3 To Debut At CES, Starting Under $100 (But Not For You) · · Score: 1

    Rockchip seems ready to put together a $100 tablet.

  18. Re:if it ain't broke on Japan Plans To Scrap Nuclear Plants After 40 Years · · Score: 0

    No, the parent gets it exactly right. They're explicitly stating that they'll shut down the plants after 40 years for safety reasons, unless they don't. Which is just like saying nothing at all. They were actually better off saying nothing since implicit here is that aging plants perpetually renewed have long since become a safety problem, and the power of regulators to shut the decrepit unsafe plants down is nil.

  19. Re:Alas Internets, I knew thee well... on Lawmakers Intent On Approving SOPA, PIPA · · Score: 1

    I imagine IETF is already working on a replacement for DNS.

  20. Re:For me, this begs the question on Canadian Gov't Considers Plan To Block Public Domain · · Score: 1

    You actually believe that?

  21. Re:Opt Out on Shopping Center Tracking System Condemned by Civil Rights Campaigners · · Score: 1

    You can opt out of this tracking service by ordering your stuff from Amazon.com and having it delivered. Problem solved.

  22. Re:Conflicted Issue on Shopping Center Tracking System Condemned by Civil Rights Campaigners · · Score: 2

    All the more reason to order your shit from Amazon and have it delivered by a guy that's not tracking your phone, nor taking your picture for visual recognition. If they want to play this game, screw 'em.

  23. Re:this is probably in violation of EU privacy law on Shopping Center Tracking System Condemned by Civil Rights Campaigners · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's cute. You think they care about laws. How quaint.

  24. Re:Australia too on Shopping Center Tracking System Condemned by Civil Rights Campaigners · · Score: 2

    That's not going to do it. Leave your phone home. And wear a mask.

  25. Re:Googlebashing every second article? on Google Testing Completely Revamped Look · · Score: 1

    Bonch, if you want a fight I would enjoy a good /. war right now. I could use it. Let's GO!