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  1. Re:Laugh on Firefox 13 Released, Debuts Brand New Tab Page and Homepage · · Score: 3, Funny
  2. Re:Stop parading it around then on Space Shuttle Collides With Bridge In New York · · Score: 1

    Yes, the Earth's core is going to stop spinning. The secret spacecraft that was in orbit for a year was measuring the earth's magnetic field to confirm it.

    And this time, make sure to go around the air pockets in your way to the core and don't forget to bring bad some diamonds.

  3. Side Effect on Australian Company Promises Switching Hardware With Sub-130ns Latency · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, their hardware has the unfortunate side-effect of flipping all bits upside-down.

  4. Re:I just love journalists... on After a Year In Orbit, US Air Force's X37-B Will Conclude Its Secret Mission · · Score: 1

    Maybe they launched The Hulk into space. Or the Fantastic Four. Etc, etc.

  5. And still, no one knows what the space drone has been doing up there all this time.

    Spying on the Spanish. No inquisition for you!

    NEXT!

  6. Re:And this is news how? on Andromeda On Collision Course With the Milky Way · · Score: 1

    I hope we also get a new version of Astro Chicken!

  7. ISO? Where? on Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download · · Score: 1

    I went to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/release-preview and all I got was a 5MB .EXE file.

    Kind of pointless for those of us who want to try it via VMWare or similar.

  8. Old News on Sergey Brin Demos Google Glasses Prototype · · Score: 1
  9. Re:This is old technology. on Sergey Brin Demos Google Glasses Prototype · · Score: 1

    It was one of the two things I found at CES that made the show worth attending.

    And what was the other thing?

  10. Re:It might not sound like much but on Everything You Need To Know About the June 5/6 Venus Transit · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that the arrival of the British turned their world upside-down?

  11. Re:Cycles per degree on LG Aims To Beat Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 1

    There's not enough pixels on your computer display, so it's going to be graded on a stairway.

  12. Re:Cool tech, but on LG Aims To Beat Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 1

    I just wish the contrast on e-ink displays was better. And yes, I do have the new non-touch Kindle with the "Pearl" display.

  13. Re:What did the military expect? on Backdoor Found In China-Made US Military Chip? · · Score: 1

    Or something like this happens.

  14. Re:Unfortunate choice of name... on Internet Defense League: A Bat Signal For the Internet · · Score: 1

    Would you have preferred "Internet Command"?

  15. Re:This is what I like about Microsoft on Microsoft Research Introduces Record-Beating MinuteSort Tech · · Score: 1

    You immediately lose credibility by citing ClearType.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
    Originally invented and patented by IBM in1988.

  16. Re:This is what I like about Microsoft on Microsoft Research Introduces Record-Beating MinuteSort Tech · · Score: 3, Informative

    ClearType invented nothing apart from the name itself.

    Sub-pixel rendering was used two decades ago by Apple.

    "Back in 1976, my design of the Apple II's high resolution graphics system utilized a characteristic of the NTSC color video signal (called the 'color subcarrier') that creates a left to right horizontal distribution of available colors. By coincidence, this is exactly analogous to the R-G-B distribution of colored sub-pixels used by modern LCD display panels. So more than twenty years ago, Apple II graphics programmers were using this 'sub-pixel' technology to effectively increase the horizontal resolution of their Apple II displays." - Steve Wozniak

  17. MAME? on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 1

    Anyone knows if this thing will be powerful enough to run MAME? Or at least powerful enough for all the 2D games?

  18. Re:Warming up the three new superpowers on Google Finalizes Acquisition of Motorola Mobility · · Score: 2

    Yet another reason to stay with dumb computer monitors.

    Give me inputs and leave your all-in-one-box crap out of my displays, thanks.

  19. Re:Nearing Utopia on US ISPs Delay Rollout of "Six Strikes" Copyright Enforcement Framework · · Score: 1

    I don't want to live in Utopia, the resolution is way too low!

  20. Arcade cabinets on Plastic Logic Shows Off a Color ePaper Screen · · Score: 1

    If they can make them larger, with more color saturation and cut-it-and-it-still-works-fine properties, they'll be the perfect thing to make dynamic marquees for arcade cabinets.

  21. Re:Cute, but... on The FIBIAC — a 3D-Printed Electromechanical Computer · · Score: 1

    Not sure it will blend, but at least it will shred.

  22. Re:Rediculous markup on Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging · · Score: 1

    My boss just received a $8000 excess data usage bill for his home account...

    Well... at least it wasn't over 9000.

  23. Re:Next Step: Reproduction on MakerBot Industries Brings Manufacturing Back To Brooklyn · · Score: 1

    That's called a RepRap.

    "RepRap takes the form of a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects. Since many parts of RepRap are made from plastic and RepRap prints those parts, RepRap self-replicates by making a kit of itself - a kit that anyone can assemble given time and materials."

  24. Re:Self replicating on MakerBot Industries Brings Manufacturing Back To Brooklyn · · Score: 2

    Laser 3D sintering printing. Gotcha.

  25. Armageddon on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 2

    Lev Andropov: It's stuck, yes?
    Watts: Back off! You don't know the components!
    Lev Andropov: [annoyed] Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!