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  1. Re:Shocked. Simply SHOCKED. on Accidental Find May Lead To a Cure For Baldness · · Score: 3, Funny

    The lucky grad students are the ones that don't get stuck with the night job in the Rat Room. No amount of washing will diminish the smell to the point of your being able to get a date. Your only hope is if the poor soul curating the dead shark collection is of the opposite sex.

  2. Re:I've always had to upgrade my MB on AMD Bulldozer Will Bring Socket Shift To PCs · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I'm much more likely to reuse the case.

  3. IPod vs. Rio etc. on Apple's Secret Weapon To Win the Tablet Wars · · Score: 1

    Clearly making a good mp3 player wasn't enough to sell a good mp3 player. My first mp3 player was a Rio Nitrus, which I thought was a better player than the first gen iPod. It had less storage, but a better form factor in my mind. Unfortunately, it never got enough market share. Rio brought out the larger capacity Carbon, but the much-anticipated Chroma, never made it out the door, and my next player was an 80GB iPod.

    Apple had the manufacturing capacity and capital to keep bringing updated iPods to market on a regular schedule, the same as they are doing with the iPad. I'm waiting to see and handle the Playbook, because I'm a Blackberry user, but I'm afraid that RIM has missed the boat bringing a first gen product into competition with Apple's second gen iPad. Having owned enough orphan hardware in my life, I will probably wind up with an iPad3.

  4. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Wikipedia Wants More Contributions From Academics · · Score: 2

    about when Phoenix University and similar schools began to gain some sort of recognition in the community at large.

    The problem is that Phoenix University has a reputation.

    Yes, that 16% graduation rate is widely recognized.

  5. MS Hardware on MS Global Strategy Chief: Tablets Are a Fad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think MS knows how to be a hardware company. I'm typing on an MS ergo keyboard, which I like, and I guess we can call Xbox/Xbox 360 a success. However, they have way more failures than I can count. They also aren't very good at providing software support for the new directions hardware takes. They're always playing catchup.

  6. Re:News? on MySpace Loses Ten Million Users In One Month · · Score: 2

    Who knew there were that many 14 year old Emo chicks?

  7. Re:Just highlights to absurdity of these cases on Limewire Being Sued For 75 Trillion · · Score: 1

    I don't quite understand that. Can you award punitive damages in a civil case, which is what copyright infringement should be?

    Yes. Where else would they be awarded? In a criminal matter they are called fines.

  8. Re:PR Stunt on Limewire Being Sued For 75 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Since you obviously don't have cable there under your rock, this Huffington Post article may help your understanding. You could also try the risky gambit of hunting up a video clip on the interweb, but be warned: the goggles, they do nothing!

  9. Let Me Be The First To Say... on Happy 80th Birthday, William Shatner! · · Score: 1

    Denny Crane!

  10. God Help Us All on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    Please NO! T-Mobile has been great to me for years. They unlock my phones for free with no hassle at all. Their service people speak English and actually know what they are doing. AT&T is a subsidiary of SATAN, LLP. There are reasons people used to throw Molotov Cocktails at them. I need GSM, because I travel. This gives me no choice at all. ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. The Annual Flame War on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    I propose that we move the annual flame war over date formats to the first week of January each year. It makes more sense coming right after New Year's Day. In addition to date format, we can devote a day to vi vs. emacs, windows vs. linux vs. apple os, etc. As for Pi Day, we will be celebrating in our office with apple, cherry, blackberry, and lemon pies.

  12. Mobile Facebook on Facebook May Bust Up the SMS Profit Cartel · · Score: 1

    I can already do that by sending a message using the Facebook client on my smartphone. BB Messenger works great for folks with Blackberries. There are also 5 other IM clients on my phone. Although I used ICQ extensively years ago, its only function now seems to be receiving solicitations from Russian hookers.

  13. Are We Sure? on William Shatner Wakes Up Crew for Final Discovery Mission · · Score: 1

    Are we sure it was Shatner> Did he try to hit on Nicole Stott?

  14. My First Thought Was... on Hackers Target French Government Computers For G20 · · Score: 1

    Why the hell are they attacking a damn grocery store? Granted the whole supremarché idea is subversive to French culture, but still, why not pick on Franprix? Is G20 more evil in some way that escapes me? Granted their bread and cheese suck, but they have an excellent selection of € 2.00 wines.

  15. Re:Horse on Episode I 3D Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    The Horse is dead, you can stop beating upon its carcass.

    Agreed. However, Lucas keeps reanimating it into ZombieHorse. We have no choice but to pound it into a greasy pulp or let it devour our brains.

  16. Re:Wow, Jar Jar and that shitty kid actor in 3D! on Episode I 3D Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    oh and stop going around in circles.

    They do road course hereabouts at Infineon/Sears Point. I never go, but it's interesting that all of the big points leaders on the Left Turn Circuit get their asses wiped there.

  17. Re:That would be a scary thing to test on Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human · · Score: 1

    The hitting someone part may be part of the design.

  18. Re:I actually welcome mandatory ID cards on Terror Arrest Used As Fodder To Fund Real ID Act · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing this with the Cheech Marin film, Born in East L.A., .

  19. Re:Units on IPad 2 33% Thinner, 2x Faster, iOS 4.3 · · Score: 1

    Only once.

  20. From TFA on HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr Steps Down · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >Leavy said that the company's partners had been supportive following the hack. The proposals for Bank of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce were simply responses to requests for services that HBGary had received. "HBGary Federal is a services company and they were asked to develop proposals," she told Threatpost.

    I see. That fact that the "services" are illegal, immoral, and unethical really doesn't enter in, because they're a service company and this is a service. Sort of like a hit man is just an HR professional specializing in staff reduction services.

  21. Re:But... on Are Tablets Just Too Expensive? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who's this "we" that you speak of. Fiat currency is as rare as some asshole with ulterior motives decides it should be. I'm not trying to imply that gold is the solution, ...

    Having owned a few Fiats, I think a Fiat backed currency is a terrible idea. The damn things just don't last. And convertibility? Hah! It's all one way. You spend currency to buy one, lots more to keep it running, and then you can never get squat for it if you want to sell it. Gold is a much better choice.

    :-)

  22. Re:Is that enough money? on X Prize $30 Million Robot Race To the Moon Is On · · Score: 1

    In terms of energy cost, getting to Earth orbit is the hard part. Transition to Lunar orbit is relatively cheap. The next hard part is getting down to the surface without making a new crater.

  23. Re:Indiana on National Broadband Map Shows Digital Divide · · Score: 1

    West Virginia is still working on Rural Electrification.

  24. Re:Please take responsibility for your life. on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness · · Score: 1

    If you drive truck for a living, you know exactly what that means.

  25. Re:Please take responsibility for your life. on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness · · Score: 1

    A bigger problem over here in old blighty is articulated lorries getting stuck by driving down roads that are too narrow or otherwise unsuitable. One big problem in this case is it's virtually impossible to turn a lorry on a narrow road.

    Around here many roads have signs that say "Trucks Over 28 Feet From Kingpin To Axle Prohibited." The number varies with the radius of the sharpest curve. They don't seem to do much good as truckers regularly ignore them and get stuck, blocking the road for hours.