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  1. Re:Now we HAVE to go. on NASA's Gypsum Find Clear Evidence There Was Water On Mars · · Score: 1

    "Lathe and plaster?" That sounds messy, what with the spinning machine flinging plaster everywhere...

  2. Re:As thing go... on NASA's Gypsum Find Clear Evidence There Was Water On Mars · · Score: 1

    But the O.P. did the reverse: even if "Europa" can refer to both the continent and the moon, using "Europe" to refer to the moon is still wrong.

  3. Re:HP isn't exiting WebOS on HP Reviving the $99 Touch Pad On December 11th · · Score: 1

    Hey, it worked(?) for the PS3!

  4. Re:Great a new boom. on The Rise of Developeronomics · · Score: 1

    a savings account that you never look at

    Better yet, an investment account, and look at it (to rebalance the portfolio) occasionally.

  5. Re:ok so... on How To Avoid Infringing On Apple's Patents · · Score: 2

    Think of a tablet as a replacement for a clipboard: similar in size to a sheet of paper (which is why 10" ones are more popular than 7" ones, except for ebook readers which are sized similar to paperback novels), and designed to be used while being carried in one hand.

    This is also why minimizing weight is indeed super-critical: try holding something like a hardcover textbook in one hand (as if it were a clipboard) for a while and then you'll see why all those 2-4 lb Tablet PCs from a few years back failed.

  6. Re:Capacitive screen on Sub-$100 Android 4.0 Tablet Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Resistive screens can't use multitouch and can't be covered in a protective coating (like Gorilla Glass).

    Also, if you want to use a stylus (and I would too), then the proper solution is a Wacom-style digitizer, not a resistive screen.

  7. Re:ok so... on How To Avoid Infringing On Apple's Patents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The goal in making any tablet is to make the screen as large as possible, and the rest of it as small as possible. Something that looks like an iPad is the natural consequence of those goals. It shouldn't be patentable.

  8. Re:Tegra on First Quad-Core Android Tablet Reviewed · · Score: 1

    and now everyone wants me gone.

    Oh come on, there's no sense crying over every mistake.

  9. Re:Why would you want one-world government? on Kyoto Protocol Renewal Efforts Struggling · · Score: 1

    I WILL disagree with them, on principal.

    But not with interest?

  10. Re:Priorities on Kyoto Protocol Renewal Efforts Struggling · · Score: 1

    So basically, you're complaining about too much Spanish being spoken in the US in general, and using as examples all the parts that used to be Mexico.

    Please forgive me for not conceding your argument.

  11. Re:Priorities on Kyoto Protocol Renewal Efforts Struggling · · Score: 1

    You know, the United States has a bunch of French people too, and other than the facts that they call their counties "parishes" for some reason and we neglect them when they get hit by hurricanes, we get along just fine!

  12. Re:Really? on Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal · · Score: 1

    No, no, it's "I dun just stole all yer comments!"

  13. Re:Who buys discrete graphics anymore? on NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448-Core GPU · · Score: 1

    That's starting to change with things like the AMD Fusion chips, but the key phrase is "starting to."

  14. Re:Do you know what Breitling is? on Jetman Yves Rossy Flies In Formation With Jets · · Score: 2

    it'd still be the single coolest fucking thing in the air.

    I was going to take issue with this, citing the SpaceShipTwo or an SR-71 or something, but then I realized you're right.

  15. Re:Can't someone sue the carriers? on Android Dev Demonstrates CarrierIQ Phone Logging Software On Video · · Score: 1

    Does the implosion of the Euro necessarily also mean the destruction of the EU itself?

  16. Re:All of 'em on Amazon Releases Kindle Source Code · · Score: 1

    By definition!

  17. Re:Pu-238 is not fissile... on Will NASA Ever Recover Apollo 13's Plutonium From the Ocean · · Score: 1

    Ah, so that's where they got the idea for the banana bomb in Worms.

  18. Re:Quote Investigator to the rescue! on Does Open Source Software Cost Jobs? · · Score: 1

    I think that was his point: the (more naturally efficient) railroads have to fend for themselves, while their competitor, trucking, gets subsidized by the Feds.

  19. Re:Quote Investigator to the rescue! on Does Open Source Software Cost Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Georgia is the same way, but even worse: metro Atlanta politicians had to fight tooth and nail in the state legislature just to win the right for us to tax ourselves. And even then the process is structured in such a way as to give as much power as possible to the outlying (most rural) suburbs, and to put the state in charge of implementing the projects.

  20. Re:Psych on China To Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay · · Score: 1

    Replace "write a proposal for a grant" with "write a bid for a job." How does it work out now?

  21. Re:Hello on Palantir, the War On Terror's Secret Weapon · · Score: 2

    It is the duty of every patriot to distrust his leaders!

  22. Re:AI Class on Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses · · Score: 1

    You mean the ML class exercises are ridiculously trivial; the AI class has no exercises at all.

  23. Re:something to think about.. on Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So what you're saying is, all somebody would have to do to break AES-256 is steal one of those "best key tapes" and then they'd only have to brute-force 10,000 possibilities?

  24. Re:100,000? on Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Also the more ambiguous the video, the higher is its view count!

    LOL! That's a great observation; I hope they use that to help evaluate their lecture quality.

    Now, here's a question: is the view count heuristic admissible? ; )

  25. Re:AI Class on Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses · · Score: 2

    Hey, thanks!

    Of course, having to stream those videos to answer homework or exam questions is still a pain in the ass the first time around.