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  1. Re:Silly on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    Bock in a bottle only. The can is sacrilege.

  2. Re:Pffftttt...no surprise here on AT&T Facing Net Neutrality Complaint Over FaceTime Restrictions · · Score: 2

    From AT&T iPhone

    FaceTime over Cellular
    To enable FaceTime over cellular on this account, contact AT&T at 611 or visit http://www.att.com/mywireless

    I you re-watch 2001 Space Odyssey, I think that pops up just shortly before he talks on the phone to his daughter on her birthday. No?

  3. Re:Pffftttt...no surprise here on AT&T Facing Net Neutrality Complaint Over FaceTime Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Which makes me wonder if this in fact makes Apple look bad. My guess is that there will be some serious shouting going on behind the doors of meetings between AT&T and Apple over this. How can Apple promise a technology if another company goes and takes it away. That ain't right!

  4. Re:Who cares on UK Government Owns 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sometimes DNS fails or you need to validate routing tables and troubleshoot based on pure IP alone. Yes, IPv6 is going to suck badly in this regard. Feeble human mind. Oh well, I'll just have to get used to depending on an IPv6 calculator app on my smartphone. That and a TXT list that I can cut-n-paste in a terminal screen. Bah!

  5. Re:And how will this on Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia · · Score: 1

    Seriously, please site where I can find someone with this technology. Someone that actually sells real synthetic diamonds (crystal lattice and all). It would be the first I've heard of it.

  6. Re:I'll believe it when I see... on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Please correct if this is wrong. Someone once explained the speed of light to me as the following...

    The speed of light is measured at 299,792,458 meters per second. But this is nothing more than an illusion because light is actually instantaneous in the universe. It just so happens everything else is moving *slower* which happens to give you the delta difference of...299,792,458 meters per second. Therefore, the perception of time is nothing but an illusion based on the delta difference between mass and light.

    If true, this makes a helluva lot more sense to me. Thus, nothing can move faster than light.

  7. Re:And how will this on Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia · · Score: 1

    Cubic zirconia is *not* diamond. I'm not downplaying CZ as a material to be used in jewelry. It's nice stuff. Just don't confuse the two.

  8. Re:Nope on Hardware Is Dead — At Least Most Expensive Hardware Is · · Score: 2

    You are correct. I can't speak ill of all WM and Droid phones. Only the ones I've had personal experience with. It's just that everyone I know that has had an iPhone has had a rather pleasant experience with them. Well, I want a good experience with a smart phone too. I'm done playing around and experimenting with new devices. I'm basing my decisions on word-of-mouth and reviews. I'm guinea pig fatigued.

  9. Re:Getting fed up on New IE Zero-Day Being Exploited In the Wild · · Score: 0

    You and me both! Just how many times has IE been patched to plug a "full remote code execution" bug? How many more damn times must we see a zero-day IE exploit that can render total ownage of an OS?

    Defective by design indeed!

  10. Re:Nope on Hardware Is Dead — At Least Most Expensive Hardware Is · · Score: 1

    Don't know. Don't care. I need a new phone ASAP as my Droid 2 has a power button that no longer works. To wake up the screen, I have to slide the keyboard open and closed. It's in my interest to get a new iPhone on launch day if I'm going to get an iPhone at all. And yes, I'd rather have the new 5 version being that I rarely upgrade my phone anyways.

  11. Re:Soon to be at a Walmart near you on China Unveils Yet Another Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    Oh don't worry, I've been saving my Pepsi Points just for this occasion! You wait and see.

  12. Re:And how will this on Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The four C's. Cut, Color, Clarity, and Carat Weight. Cut is an artificial item, so let's focus on Color, Clarity and Carat. Of all the diamonds found in nature, what percentage of them are valuable to the consumer market? Low grade yellows and industrial diamonds are in fact dirt cheap by comparison.

    BTW, I'm married. I don't discount the fact there is pricing fixing going on, I just questions the natural ratio of quality diamonds that we all know and love (or she does anyways)

  13. Re:Nope on Hardware Is Dead — At Least Most Expensive Hardware Is · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yes, and the lemmings are the more vocal but rare among the crowd of iPhone users. I was actually lucky enough to pre-order a new iPhone 5. I knew they were going to be a hot item which is why I waited till 3am to plug my order. This BTW would be my first iPhone in a long string of Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Droid phones. I just want a smart phone that fucking works. It would seem that Apple got it right based on playing around with other iPhones out in the field.

    This week, my Droid 2 is going away. I really hate that phone! Wish I kept my Black Berry Curve instead while I had the chance.

  14. Re:And the electronic garbage pile expands on Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    And that's why I'm in favor of volcano recycling. Return back to the Earth mother and pray to the Tiki God.

  15. Re:oh wow on Why America's School "Lag" Has Never Mattered · · Score: 1

    You're not only arrogant, but also misinformed. There are plenty jobs to do that benefits humanity as a whole. Some involve open source projects, others involve spending time with people in 3rd world nations that could use some help with infrastructure. What you want is recognition. It has and always will be about "you" until you learn to put the ego away.

    You will only get dirty if you roll around in the mud with the other pigs. It's up to you.

  16. Re:First Intel, now AMD? on AMD's Hondo Chip 'A Windows 8 Product' · · Score: 1

    In fact, many of the Dell PowerEdge servers have custom ports of ESXi. Now you can run a VMs of Windows for Exchange and a LAMP server or two. How you like them apples? :)

  17. Re:antitrust issues? on Intel Says Clover Trail Atom CPU Won't Work With Linux · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Microsoft subsidized the development of this chip.

  18. Re:antitrust issues? on Intel Says Clover Trail Atom CPU Won't Work With Linux · · Score: 1

    Didn't RTFA. So what's the short version? Does "Can't run Linux" mean that it current'y can't the OS because the kernel needs to be adapted to it? Or, does it mean that this will only execute code signed by Microsoft and that in no way in hell will it run anything else?

  19. Re:Dream big on Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nice! That should be on a demotivation poster.

  20. Re:Sure they weigh less on WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well shit! My data is already in the cloud. What difference would it make anyways?

  21. Re:Why not a vacuum on WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Schrodinger's troll?

  22. Re:Imagine if this was self-driving car on BMW Cars Vulnerable To Blank Key Attack · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Take the first law for example

    A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

    So a robot walks in a warehouse and finds 100 people all tied up. One of them in the middle has explosives. In this scenario, the robot concludes that the only way to save the other 99 is to kill the one with the explosives. He only has 5 seconds to make a decision.

    What does he do? By the first law, he's screwed no matter what decision he makes. Does he opt for the greater good option and kill the one man to save the 99? Or let all 100 die?

  23. Re:Imagine if this was self-driving car on BMW Cars Vulnerable To Blank Key Attack · · Score: 1

    As just about anything in life, there are almost always an exception to the rule. While the 3 laws make for a good platform (in theory), they can be circumvented under the right conditions.

  24. Re:Post-PC world? on Apple Announces iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't try at anything. It only does with Apple allows its users to do. Welcome to the walled garden where many apps get whacked with the banhammer.

  25. Re:They're thieves and war criminals on EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks · · Score: 1

    So what your saying is that the next time someone insults Christianity such as putting a crucifix in jar of urine (Piss Christ) or anything else of that nature, they should bring about the Crusaders again and kill in the name of God!? Because you just accepted the premise that "might makes right". Which BTW is one of many truths in life. I don't like the idea of it being true, but there you go.

    If you're going to cower in the face of Freedom of Speech, you deserve to be someone's bitch at the tip of a sword. At worst, stoned to death!