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  1. Re:What the Japanese don't understand on Toyota Going 100% Hybrid By 2020 · · Score: 1

    I want my fusion in a AA size power cell I can use anywhere.

  2. Re:No future for DVDs on Study Says No Future for Video iTunes · · Score: 1

    Lazy Town is great and it proves that those Icelanders can produce stuff better than most of the stuff that comes out of the states.

    Wonder Pets has catchier tunes that never leave you and a cute animation style.

    http://www.nickjr.com/parenting/parents_tv/index.j html?videoid=48388 (IE Only - not my fault)

  3. Re:No future for DVDs on Study Says No Future for Video iTunes · · Score: 1

    Wonder Pets FTW!!!

    Serwiously, once you hear a song about a dog going tinkle, wee wee, and pee pee, it never leaves you.

    Also helps to teach that a tornado goes round, round, round picking things off the ground and a desert is land made of sand.

  4. Re:How small do we need? on iPod/iPhone Nano With Touch Panel? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wait until the power requirements do not need a physical battery in the device but somewhere on your person like your wallet that powers your clothing grid that also powers personal devices that are connected by touch to you.

  5. Re:lasting effects? on Scientists Create Artificial Blood · · Score: 1

    I don't think that if you are one to receive this artifial blood that it would become an out-patient type of thing.
    They're not going to give you a shot of blood and say "See you back in 2 weeks!"

    You're going to be messed up and need blood yesterday to get this. You're going to be in a controlled environment and will probably have some IV type of thing in you to pull out the plastic cells once your body is able to produce it's own.

  6. Re:lasting effects? on Scientists Create Artificial Blood · · Score: 1

    I was going to mention that the cure is in some book protected by a voice that can electrocute people on a whim but fail to stop people from opening a door.
    Also, if you are on this artificial asteroid, you can get married to the priestess and NOT change your clothes once you've resigned to the fact that you'll spend the rest of your life on said asteroid.

  7. Re:Linux patches? on Microsoft Patches 19 Flaws, 6 in Vista · · Score: 1

    I really saw this as a non news/MS bash bit too but in reality, when MS releases a patch, it's a "Well about time" whereas the Linux camp will find a flaw and fix it immediately which is really a non-news item.

    I guess we can walk away with it's patch Tuesday and they're releasing patches. Good for them.

  8. Re:20 Million users contributed feedback on Users Being Migrated To New Version of Hotmail · · Score: 1

    The email address is mine. You register with a personal address. That is the address I can't sign up for anything with Google anymore since I tried Gmail. Even today I can't.

  9. Re:Obligatory Planet of the Apes on The Human Mutation · · Score: 1

    As soon as that happens, some super virus will evolve that will kill all our cats and dogs.

  10. Re:20 Million users contributed feedback on Users Being Migrated To New Version of Hotmail · · Score: 1

    Because Gmail required invitations for the first few years and is horrible on retreiving lost account info.

    I received in invitation years ago, signed up but realy didn't use it. Now I can't sign up using that old email I used to register and I'm not able to retreive the old account info from Google.

  11. Re:this does NOT suck on Two US States Restrict Used CD Sales · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really. Who the hell signed the deal on this???
    Anti consumer, anti business. Pro RIAA.
    I guess Craigslist will get a surge for CD sellers/buyers in those states for the time being.
    Once they criminialze your average Joe from selling used CDs person-to-person like it's a controlled substance, the pitchforks and torches will come out.

  12. Re:Solution on What Can You Do to Stop Junk Faxes? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And using black tape to use toner that covers more than 5% of the paper isn't???

    Sorry but most thermal faxes worth half their weight have a high temp cutoff.

    Yield for a toner based printing device is based upon 5% of coverage per page.

  13. Re:Is this guy a "real" journalist? on What's The Greatest Web Software Ever? · · Score: 1

    I think in todays vernacular, a journalist is a blogger that gets paid by a publication.

  14. Re:It's amazing people still use windows. on Windows PowerShell in Action · · Score: 1

    There was no competing OS when IBM chose to push it (DOS).

    Windows got it's push from 3rd party money (IBM and others) thus adding to it's war chest.

    Linux doesn't have the resources that Microsoft had to get it polished to the current level.

  15. Re:It's amazing people still use windows. on Windows PowerShell in Action · · Score: 1

    Doesn't work in XP.

    All my scripts that worked in Win2000 and 98 fail to work. Granted the image manipulation parts work but putting copies in different directories don't work.

  16. Re:Does it matter? on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cross platform for Microsoft means it will work on Windows, Xbox, and mobile devices that run Windows.

    It's just another word to ignore when Microsoft says it versus say Samsung when their printers are cross platform which means Linux/Mac/Windows.

  17. Re:So, you claim that... on Buildings Could Save Energy By Spying On Workers · · Score: 1

    Or they could use tritium radioactive gas like most movie theatres use and newer chain restaurants in the past 10 years and not have to worry about a power bill or expensive batteries to replace.

  18. Re:No, I buy nice ones. on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    How is that different from an entire municipality getting remodeled and tossing out their flourescents to the landfill?
    Granted that the consumer version will have a longer term effect but I'm sure that studies have had decades of studying this.

  19. Re:Not contractually forbidden... on Kaleidescape Triumphant in Court Case, DVD Ripping Ruled Legal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The other side of the coin in that is that if you work in retail or even better, food service, you come across plenty of people that shouldn't be part of human society.
    People ARE stupid.

    There are stories a plenty of food service or retail employees that come across gems of humans that lack common sense. Those stories are much more interesting than the 'holier than thou' patron that comes across a dweeb employee that is having a bad day.

  20. Re:Who is it going to be? on NBC Believes They Own Political Discourse · · Score: 1

    If it's broadcasted on free tv, it's public. Fair use applies.
    Otherwise, why would MSNBC even be involved?

  21. Re:Why Upgrade at all? on Is Windows Vista in Trouble? · · Score: 1

    And you have to have 4x the amount of memory in Vista over XP just to get the system to run half as fast.

  22. Re:I blame global warming on New Theory Links Biodiversity to the Stars · · Score: 1

    Bio-Dome.

    or you could pray if that comforts you.

  23. Re:Success of epic musicals on U2 Bringing Spider-man to Broadway · · Score: 1

    Public ritics are meaningless when it comes to art.
    Art is a personal taste and a critic has no place to tell me if I should like something or not. I really don't care if they like it or not.

    Critics in the time of Richard Wagner and Georges Bizet time hated their music. Where are those critics now and who were they?

  24. Re:Not surprising. on Return of the Vinyl Album · · Score: 1

    And it will still sound better than those records we got on the back of ceral boxes as kids.

  25. Re:SATA CDROM on New Motherboards Disallowing IDE Booting? · · Score: 1

    Any that work???? not noisy???