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  1. Re:At this rate on Motorola's XOOM Tablet To Cost $799; Wi-Fi Requires 3G Activation? · · Score: 1

    You think specs don't affect how the responsive the appliance is or what it can do?

  2. Re:It sounds like on Research Finds That Electric Fields Help Neurons Fire · · Score: 2

    ... I'm typing this wirelessly over teathered Internet access from my steering-velcrod iP **carrier lost**

  3. Re:It sounds like on Research Finds That Electric Fields Help Neurons Fire · · Score: 1

    Also:

    and raise new concerns about whether our cellphones and other electronic gizmos are affecting brain activity and memory.

    "Totally and just as I've said!! I've been driving around my car while talking in the cellphone and my driving gets notably worse! I told the insurrance company it was thanks to all the electromagnetic waves but they wouldn't listen!"

  4. Re:Trouble in the national casino! on Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computer Networks · · Score: 1

    If nothing else I guess you could liquidate the company? It's probably not the case that Microsoft is worth $ 0 :)

  5. Re:Trouble in the national casino! on Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computer Networks · · Score: 1

    while the desire to buy shares may be related to the anticipated corporate performance, there is no actual tie of share value to company performance.

    For the minute? Most often not. For the day? Unless there is any reports or analysis, probably neither. For the week/month in a large company? Probably. Over multiple years? Definitely.

    The bigger the company, the more trades, the more news and analysis, the more likely the price is somewhat right.

  6. Re:3DS gets Mario game. Also just in... on Super Mario Coming To the 3DS · · Score: 1

    Bears found to be head of quite large religious group. Pope seen defecating in forested areas.

    That would be like a Sonic game on a Nintendo console.

  7. Re:Seriously... on Super Mario Coming To the 3DS · · Score: 1

    Well, kinda obvious, but one of the major criticisms about the 3DS is that it doesn't have a Mario Launch title, so...

    Does it have ponies?

  8. Re:10 INPUT "Flogging a dead horse: ", U$ on Super Mario Coming To the 3DS · · Score: 1

    As long as it's good does it matter?

    Sure it may not be that fun to gain the same abilities in say Castlevania or Zelda again and again and again ...

    But atleast it's new maps, look at it as just more of the game / expansion if you want to =p

    Also Super mario has seen quite a lot of originality over the years. It's not like SMB is the same as SMB3 which is the same as SMB World which is the same as Mario64 which is the same as Mario Galaxy. Right?

    Platform games but quite different.

    And even if some of the weapons is the same in Zelda the puzzles and appearances of the games are different.

    So maybe more like saying "Oh no not Bruce Willis again!" even though the movies are different ..

  9. Re:Coolest part of the article on Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets · · Score: 1

    Your average lotto player does $ 600 / day?

  10. Re:And on Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video · · Score: 1

    No more than Chrome already does for Google.

    As if they need to considering Google own youtube.

    So switching browser won't take you that far :)

  11. Re:Experimenting users on Chrome Is the Third Double-Digit Browser · · Score: 1

    If they are company drones what are they doing surfing the web? :D

  12. Re:Experimenting users on Chrome Is the Third Double-Digit Browser · · Score: 1

    Also, there is strong indication in the data that those sticking with IE probably are too damn stupid.

    Fixed that for you!

  13. Re:Hence infinite? on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 2

    But what I really want to know is...
    How do fucking magnets work?

    Like so! (alternative link.)

  14. Re:A Straw Vote! on More Trouble Expected When Egypt Comes Back Online · · Score: 1

    Get all your prisoners chopping rocks :)

    http://www.asterix.co.nz/mistakes/belgium/obelix.jpg

  15. Re:A Straw Vote! on More Trouble Expected When Egypt Comes Back Online · · Score: 1

    I'm all for it but the retards in charge deciding against freedom and the Internet is the same people writing the law/constitution. So.. I don't see how that will happen. Unless you Ciscocute them beforehand :)

    Isn't IBM what you want for some heavy iron though?

  16. Hence infinite? on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    ...

    As good science as flat earth.

  17. Re:Moisture sensors on Apple Changes Stance On Water Damage Policy · · Score: 1

    Troll.

    And look how much I care ..

    As if Apple was the only one using those things.

    Nah, more and more companies imho seem to do it. Regarding telephones I assume rejection of warranty thanks to water damage is pretty common. But I don't know for sure, haven't happened to any of my phones (or well, leaking food container drown my Siemens phone in a plastic bag but it was well beyond the warranty time I assume and I would never had assumed it should had survived it. Killed my TI-85 with flavored oat milk to.)

    Anyway, the thing is as said I feel more and more fucked by more and more companies. And I'm not willing to accept it. If everyone else is then fine for them.

    * I hate locked in subscriptions, I want to buy a service, _NOW_, not forever. Let me pay for being able to use it and let me leave whenever I want to.
    * I hate the time periods you have to wait until a service is cancelled.
    * I hate to pay _AFTER_ I've received a service, or got a dispute with someone, because then it's much harder to do anything about it. If it's before I just don't pay and get no service/deal. Done.
    * I hate to be forced to buy something just because I show interest / somehow messed up.
    * I hate to be screwed just because I'm a loyal consumer, by for instance getting a default cost vs a lower one if I complained or compared with competitiors or signed up as a new consumer.
    * I hate telephone marketing / support where the people don't even work for the company in question. Large companies where people don't feel for the company or get to feel the effect if they behave badly.

    So on so on.

    I like small companies with personal connection where the owner actually know they need and want me and try their best to make me happy. (Sure there are some retarded semi-theif company owners which will do anything they can for a small profit now / to screw you up.)

    So, do I like to stay as a loyal consumer on magasines? ISPs? Telephone subscriptions? Electricity suppliers? Big retail chains? Apple?

    Hell no.

    In Apples case I do own a Macbook Pro and I'm not happy with the non-service I got. But I wouldn't be happy with all of the POS vendor lock-in, limited options, über-inflated prices, so on so on.

    Troll? Hell yes. I want to get my point out. I don't care if it offend people.

    If I could I would probably always visit small self-owned professional shops and ignore the piece of shit which is everything else. Sadly it's impossible to do so in all areas.

  18. Re:Moisture sensors on Apple Changes Stance On Water Damage Policy · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't know why anyone thinks these are in any way reliable.

    Because it can make Apple even more money and Apple consumers take all sort of crap anyway?

  19. Re:Password in plaintext email on PlentyofFish Hacked, Founder Emails Hacker's Mom · · Score: 1

    buttseckz?!

    "Ligga?"

  20. Re:Password in plaintext email on PlentyofFish Hacked, Founder Emails Hacker's Mom · · Score: 1

    Select your criteria, weed out the fatties and the uglies and email the rest. A couple of them respond, talk to them go on dates with a few and 'viola' - instant girlfriend and/or friend with benefits.

    Sadly enough the women seem to weed out the nerds living in their parents basement. So it doesn't work for me.

    But a good idea .. For the successful ones, those greedy bastards who can already get one even out in the sun...

    Probably contacted 10.000+, slept with 0. ;)

    (Probably three possibilities though, but that doesn't count (fat by European standards.))

  21. Re:Impossible on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    You can define 1 atmosphere, you just can't quantify 1 atmosphere. You just have to do it based on real world conditions without assigning it a number. Those real world conditions will shift far more then the reference weight though.

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=1+stone+in+kg

    1 stone = 6.35029318 kilograms

    So pick up random stone, say "oh this is about sixish kilo", done ;)

  22. Re:Physical objects interact... on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    His point was that the 1 kg unit was the definition. And as long as it is it's still 1 kg, no matter what.

    Assuming 1 kg isn't the weight of the average "copy" of the original.

  23. Re:licensing, not buying on eBooks Nearly Outsell Print Books At Amazon · · Score: 1

    You are licensing the eBook. Not buying it.

    No. I'm copying it.

  24. Re:Correction for the Summary on Malaysia Releases Genetically Modified Mosquitoes · · Score: 2

    Furthermore the lifespan of the male mosquito is already very short. A week for most of the 2,500 species.

    Their scientists must be creationists.

    So they develop some individuals who die quicker (but probably mature at the same age? If not they would just get kids at a similar rate compared to life span? And they would increase evolution rate?) hoping that they wont be able to have as much off-spring and thereby limit their numbers? (I don't know anything about the disease or what logic the scientists use.)

    Anyway, so they get less off-spring and dies of quicker. Less off-spring = Smaller numbers of said mosquitoes vs non-genetically modified mosquitoes = even less the next time and so on so on.

    Then what? =P

    Release new ones?

    I call fail.

  25. Re:Shocking on Self-Control In Kids Predicts Future Success · · Score: 0

    Those with enough self control to not pull out their penis for a masturbation frenzy and/or rubbing against her as soon as they spot a chick got a better chance of dating her?! :D

    (Personally I obviously have no idea. ... I'm just going on, guessing and creating my own theories. ... Plus I've never get to date a girl so I don't know which version works ;D)