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  1. Re:Getting tired of Apple lawsuits on Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight · · Score: 1

    If you go through life navigating by looking in your review mirror, you are going to run into a lot of things.

    I have to navigate life via my rearview mirror since my life transmission only goes in reverse, you insensitive clod!

  2. Re:Sounds like win-win to me! on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    However, if he kept the gun and they found out he would have problems because guns, shipped via mail, need to be shipped to a FFL licensed dealer.

    Exception: C&R License. If a gun falls under the C&R classification, and a gun collector has a C&R license, then the gun can be shipped to the collector's house. And before you all go on about C&Rs being all bolt action and what not, please note that there a few semi auto hand guns that are C&R classfied including the CZ-82 Makarov.
       

  3. Overdose on Pills With Digestible Microchips Approved By US Drug Agency · · Score: 1

    When swallowed, it generates a slight voltage in response to digestive juices, which conveys a signal to the surface of a person's skin where a patch then relays the information to a mobile phone belonging to a healthcare-provider.

    So what kills you first when you OD? The voltage OD or the drug OD?

  4. Re:Awesome on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Already invented: Speech Jammer.

  5. I didn't rtfa but... on Fly Your Own Experiment In Space · · Score: 1

    Any chance it has a way to transmit power via microwave from and to the planet? I have some SimCity style "experiments" i need to run. ;-)

  6. Koss PortaPro on Ask Slashdot: Best Headphones, Earbuds, Earphones? · · Score: 2

    Koss PortaPro. Good since 1980's, and still good. Of course probably not what you need( not noise canceling). My favorite Koss product.

  7. Re:Not so perfect on MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, we got that as well. I think it's called Aluminium oxynitride. $15 a square inch. Fun stuff. ;-)

  8. Re:Stop 16:9 displays! on Windows 8 and Screen Resolution: WXGA Still Most Popular · · Score: 1

    Wait until 2.39:1 becomes standard. Eventually we'll be carrying around laptops that look like ironing boards. Won't that be convenient.

    Speaking of which, I actually want one those 2.39:1 HDTVs that came out in 2010.

    Philips

    Vizio

  9. Re:Earth != sphere on Garden Gnome Tests Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    The earth's shape is a geoid [wikipedia.org], which is flattened compared to a sphere [wikipedia.org].

    So what you're saying, if i read this like a standard slashdotter, is that the earth is flat? I think there is a society i need to join now.

  10. Re:The people will be the ones who suffer on Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers · · Score: 1

    Oh? They invaded Iraq.

    I don't think Iraq was a particulaly innocent party in this matter. The term counter-offensive comes to mind.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War#1980:_Iraqi_invasion

  11. Re:Blast from the past on Wine 1.4 Released · · Score: 2

    Question directed at Wine users - how does it stack up against VMware, Virtualbox or the other virtual machine servers?

    I can run Photoshop CS4 in wine with no major issues. I had been using Virtuabox before that, and I found the performance to be better with wine. (This was with an Athlon XP 1.4 GHz + 1256 megs of ram with Linux Mint)

  12. No big deal on Could a Dirty Rag Take Out a $2 Billion Satellite? · · Score: 1

    We'll just send the Space shuttle up, recover the satellite, bring it back to earth, fix the problem and relaunch it. oh wait... nm.

  13. Re:This is where western medicine has failed... on How Doctors Die · · Score: 1

    Mostly I fail. And when after all the explaining the family keeps telling me to do something, I cannot disregard them (I do plan on keeping my license, you know?).
    I don't think it's so much that western medicine failed, as it is that layman's expectations of medicine are unrealistic.

    And there is the problem. Where you have to listen to the wishes of the family instead of looking out for the best care of your patient. The patient should come first. IMHO of course. A doctor shouldn't have to worry about his or her license getting yanked in these sorts of situations.

  14. Re:Anybody monkeying (groan) with the software? on Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space · · Score: 1

    Ohhh.. I'm pretty sure the monkey is dead.

    Did you observe the monkey to know it's dead?

  15. Re:Nearly an impulse buy at this price on So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day · · Score: 1

    The one thing that is holding me back from purchasing it is the lack of 3g. I realize that with full internet, that there'd need to be a some kind of monthly plan. Make the plan $9.99 a month, and I bet anyone else like me would snap one up.

  16. Re:how to use best buy warranties on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I don't know if they still offer them, but the replacement plans were always nice. Broken xbox, just bring it in and get an instant replacement. Thats about the only kind of plan I pay into.

  17. Music on Space Elevator Conference Prompts Lofty Questions · · Score: 1

    Like what kind of music to play on the way up?

  18. little more radiation than a chest xray I believe on New Internal Cavity X-ray Technology for Airports · · Score: 1

    Internal Cavity Search? Sounds like a CT scan. I do not want that can kind of radiation dose unless it's prescribed by a doctor. Farther more, it better be free, and the scan better be put into my medical records for base line purposes.

  19. Re:So. on Employees Would Steal Data When Leaving a Job · · Score: 1

    That's pointless. Better to confiscate all their personal digital equipment.

    Taking their fingers off is a little drastic don't you think?

  20. Re:Polaroid To Bring Back Polaroids on Kodak Kills Kodachrome · · Score: 1

    Ilford has attached their name to a business venture(The Impossible Project) to create a new instant film. Film is not dead; It's just resting.

  21. Re:Bad for what tourism? on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    I honestly don't mean this as a troll, but seriously, how much non-Mormon tourism is there in Utah?

    SLC hosted a World Cup Qualifier(USA vs Costa Rica)that I attended in 2005. That counts,I believe, as tourism. I didn't make it to one of the private clubs. I did however drink some "lovely" stout at some family friendly sports bar type of place.

  22. Re:Calling and canceling today. on AT&T, Comcast To Join RIAA Team · · Score: 1

    That's it. I'm so sick of these companies I'm going to get ClearWire, I don't care if it's slower at least it's independent and not in bed with the Government/RIAA.

    Doesn't Sprint basically own Clearwire?

    Lets see (googling).

    "It's official. Sprint and ClearWire are combining their WiMAX business to form a new joint venture. Sprint will have 51 percent ownership, ClearWire 27 percent, and new investors Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House, Google, and Comcast will own 22 percent."

  23. Re:Cost of policing illegal traffic in recycled ca on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 1

    Also, there are many small old cars that get close to the 18 miles per gallon specified in the bill,

    Well heck, my 1986 Volvo 240 DL (that I paid $600 for in '05) gets about 27 mpg on average. So by the bill's definition(I have not read it), is my car NOT a clunker?

  24. Re:Hermit on Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid? · · Score: 1

    Since this is impossible, go and live in hiding with no human contact or chance thereof.

    Impossible? Really? This guy got pretty close to doing that imho. He just needed his own OS and he'd be good to go.

  25. what about... on Google Tests Custom Highlights, Comments In Search · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What about just randomly giving registered Google users 5 mod points. Then up to 5 results in a search can be moded up or down depending on what the user prefers. Might work. ;-)