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  1. Re:Why are 3D printers so exciting? on $499 3-D Printer Drew Plenty of Attention at CES (Video) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The killer application of 3d printers will be to print a new back to the battery compartment in remote controls

  2. Re:Features != Capabilities on ChipSiP Smart Glass Specs Better Than Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    You are still not using it as a phone, but a phone and contact manager and a high tech answering machine. A phone is a thing you dial numbers on and make a call out or that rings when a call is incoming (what a majority of people have in their household). Somehow the world was able to make calls without having a contact list at the press of a button for a good hundred years, without an answering machine for most of that time.

    When you get stranded in some strange country and your pocket computer is gone, you get one phone call. Who's phone number are you going to type in?

  3. Re:Features != Capabilities on ChipSiP Smart Glass Specs Better Than Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    What? The primary purpose of a phone is to make phone calls. If you had trouble doing that with a "non-smart" phone, a mini-computer with phone call capabilities isn't going to be any easier for you.

  4. Re:Now the next step... on US Supreme Court: Patent Holders Must Prove Infringment · · Score: 2

    Presumed innocence doesn't apply in civil law

  5. Re:Perhaps... on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: 1

    only mtgox

  6. Re:Can we hope on SCOTUS To Weigh Smartphone Searches By Police · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just like most cops, they will just tell you "Give me your phone" and start looking through it. Since you didn't say "no", it is considered consent. I wish I was making this crap up

  7. I throw this out there often on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As someone who has worked with Diebold, they have never have more than 3 programmers and they only use and have ever used Visual Basic. This is why their ATMs (and voting machines) are required to run Windows.

  8. Re:CORBA ?!? Bloody hell. on Oracle Seeking Community Feedback on Java 8 EE Plans · · Score: 2

    REST is stateless. Also (as far as I know), works over HTTP. Java is plenty more than a web server platform. CORBA in java would allow one to consume an out of process object/server written in, say, Visual Basic or Lisp for all it matters, statefully, whether local or remote (think perhaps, a running service, or an instance of a document editor).

  9. Re:CORBA ?!? Bloody hell. on Oracle Seeking Community Feedback on Java 8 EE Plans · · Score: 2

    Why wouldn't there be? Sure, Windows has COM, but that doesn't help for other OS's. Is there some other language/OS agnostic object model that you think is better?

  10. Re:Only indicators? on Google Chrome 32 Is Out: Noisy Tabs Indicators, Supervised Users · · Score: 2

    Not really. Mute background tabs by default (with a mute icon already "clicked") on the tab, then you can click it if you want sound from that tab if it is in the background. If you don't like it on the actual tab, put it next to the bookmarks/download/home icons

  11. Re:How about competition on price? on AMD's Kaveri APU Debuts With GCN-based Radeon Graphics · · Score: 0

    By at least $200. That doesn't include the difference in price when comparing the AMD APU socket motherboard vs. Intel socket motherboard

  12. Re:second whine on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Look. Get off of your moral high horse and look at the fundamental fact that shitty food costs less. You can buy 4 two litre bottles of soda for the cost of a gallon of milk. You can buy 4 boxes of lil debbie snack cakes for the cost of a lb of chicken. You CAN NOT expect people to live on rice and lettuce because "they are poor, so they don't deserve any better food". At this point, who cares what they eat, so long as they can eat. Once everyone is fed, then we will worry about what they eat. Even then, the solution is education, not persecution

  13. Cause and effect may be backwards on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps these folks were smoking that much pot as a coping means ("self medicating") because of their troubles, rather than pot causing the troubles

  14. A promise only goes so far on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    Ideally, miners should be responsible and move to another pool to avoid the 51% attack possibility. Being part of a possible exploit when shit hits the fan will hurt their bottom line more than being part of the biggest pool will gain them

  15. Re:Safety on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    This is why I am more for roads exclusively for self driving cars

  16. Re:Bitcoin is vulernable to government manipulatio on A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They mine for transaction fees

  17. Re:But... why? on Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ · · Score: 1

    BASIC and Pascal of the DOS era wrote to the very standardized and well documented VGA buffer. We don't have that luxury anymore.

  18. Re:Sure, why not on Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yep. Seems they want C++ to be compiled javascript.

  19. Take this with a grain of salt on The Far Future of Our Solar System · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I made an edit a while back in reference to the "4 billion year mark", because it was inaccurate, even via the cite it provides:

    "Median point by which the Andromeda Galaxy will have collided with the Milky Way, which will thereafter merge to form a galaxy dubbed "Milkomeda".[46] The Solar System is expected to be relatively unaffected by this collision.[47] "

    If you actually look at the citation (originally, the previous one had something to do with collisions of clouds and particles) at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way-collide.html, it DOES NOT SAY that it will be "relatively unaffected". To Quote:

    "Although the galaxies will plow into each other, stars inside each galaxy are so far apart that they will not collide with other stars during the encounter. However, the stars will be thrown into different orbits around the new galactic center. Simulations show that our solar system will probably be tossed much farther from the galactic core than it is today. To make matters more complicated, M31's small companion, the Triangulum galaxy, M33, will join in the collision and perhaps later merge with the M31/Milky Way pair. There is a small chance that M33 will hit the Milky Way first."

    While the sum contents of mass *may* be the same within our solar system, everything will be jumbled pretty good to where it won't even kind of look the same.

    Take this timeline with a grain of salt. It is pretty apparent the moderators do little in terms of verification

  20. Re:GMOs feed over a billion people on Cheerios To Go GMO-Free · · Score: 4, Funny

    Right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

  21. Re:Two Flavors on Do Non-Technical Managers Add Value? · · Score: 1

    I've.. I've never met the latter :(

  22. Re:"Class Divide"? on A Year With Google Glass · · Score: 2

    Hey, no. That is cool. I'll just hide it in a button. Do you feel more comfortable now that you can't tell if I am recording you?

  23. Re:Bounds test? on Not All Bugs Are Random · · Score: 1

    Bah, bullshit. They teach templates! Templates EVERYWHERE!

  24. Re:yes and no on Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault · · Score: 1

    Or just maybe, parents of today know the horrible crap they pulled/trouble they got into, and have a better vector on how to prevent such things that their parents didn't

    Also, the law comes down like a hammer compared to when I was a kid. Stole something? You got a mean talking to by a police officer and told "I don't want to see you again". Now you will end up in court. Get into a fight and break someones nose? Possibly sued and/or court. Today ISN'T the same for our children as it was for our generation. It is reasonable to posit that the same upbringing isn't as appropriate

  25. Re:Subject on Linux x32 ABI Not Catching Wind · · Score: 1

    Sort of. It will be in the form or l4 or even a next layer, l5 cache. While this is still faster than grabbing system memory, we are approaching the point where it isn't