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  1. Re:G+ id policy is problematic at multiple levels. on Google+ Account Suspensions Over ToS Drawing Fire · · Score: 1

    Thing is, both Lady Ada and Skud embedded their pseudonyms in their real names that they used for their profile listings. I wonder if that is triggering something.

    As for not being able to login from the same IP twice, that is incorrect, and easily proven by the fact that my phone and laptop are accessing Gmail through the same router, at the same time, without any problems. I can also log into two different accounts using two separate browsers. What it doesn't allow is two different sessions in the same browser. For the family computer, you need to logout of your email when you're done... which is what you should be doing anyway whenever you're not the only one with access to a computer.

  2. The thing about Lady Ada and Skud... on Google+ Account Suspensions Over ToS Drawing Fire · · Score: 1

    ...is that they both had their handles as part of their name, in quotes, on their profile. It would be interesting to see what proportion of locked accounts have handles embedded in their real name.

  3. Re:I work there on Terror Attack On Norwegian Government · · Score: 1

    It can if the straight-line path is blocked by a more massive object/building that took the brunt of the force.

  4. Well, you certainly can't accuse them... on Lodsys Now Suing EA, Atari, Rovio and More · · Score: 1

    ...of going after the low-hanging fruit.

  5. Re:maybe I misspoke on Lodsys Now Suing EA, Atari, Rovio and More · · Score: 1

    The issue then is, who gets the right to remove a judge, and how would you go about removing them without then allowing folks to remove judges for purely political reasons?

  6. Re:Google+ on NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again · · Score: 1

    Then "accidentally" drop it on the ground and "accidentally" step on it.

  7. Re:Still need another 80m users on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The first numbers were around 88% male, then down to 67% male (http://mashable.com/2011/07/16/google-plus-female/)(http://www.businessinsider.com/debunked-3-viral-google-myths-2011-7), and now around 57% male (http://mashable.com/2011/07/20/google-plus-stats/). So, no, it's not a sausage fest. I wouldn't expect the numbers to get much more balanced until the casual games start arriving.

  8. Re:Google+ on NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again · · Score: 1

    Pro-tip: smash the phone yourself as soon as it's done uploading. You might be out a few hundred bucks, but at least you'll have secured the evidence.

  9. Incidentally... on Tae Bo Workout Sent Skyscraper Shaking · · Score: 1

    Billy Blanks is no longer allowed in South Korea.

  10. Re:Does it need to be attached to the space statio on Robotic Refueling Experiment Set Up On Space Station · · Score: 1

    Because robotic refueling station sounds better -- by which I mean more likely to be funded -- than fueling station for the manned mission to Mars.

  11. Re:Thorium Reactors on Congressmen Pushing To Reopen Yucca Mountain · · Score: 1

    Reagan lifted the ban.

  12. Re:Thorium Reactors on Congressmen Pushing To Reopen Yucca Mountain · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fun fact: the ban on reprocessing was lifted by Reagan. The government just isn't subsiziding it.

  13. Re:Just typical on In Robot Soccer, US Team RoMeLa Dominates Robocup 2011 · · Score: 1

    Funny, I wasn't aware that the Sky News' programmes Soccer AM and Soccer Saturday were American.

  14. Re:I don't understand... on In Robot Soccer, US Team RoMeLa Dominates Robocup 2011 · · Score: 1

    One swallow does not make a spring.

  15. Re:Sony, I am disappoint on Sony Announces End For MiniDisc Walkman · · Score: 1

    1) Uh... okay, sure.
    2) Easily removed.
    3) Easily removed/skipped.

  16. Re:Screw Electric on Toyota Scion IQ Electric Car To Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    The problem with electric cars is energy storage (batteries), and hydrogen can be stored more easily than electricity.

    Funny thing: hydrogen tends to leak through plastic and/or become absorbed by it, and it makes metals brittle.

  17. Re:Screw Electric on Toyota Scion IQ Electric Car To Launch In 2012 · · Score: 2

    Hydrogen is not an energy source; it's an energy storage mechanism. You need to compare the merits of hydrogen against the merits of batteries, not electricity.

  18. Re:Screw Electric on Toyota Scion IQ Electric Car To Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    And how do you get steam, if not from electricity. And don't say from burning fossil fuels (back to square one) or use geothermal power (not widely available).

  19. Re:Screw Electric on Toyota Scion IQ Electric Car To Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    "All these electric cars are just slowing down the development of hydrogen."

    Err, no. What's slowing down the development of hydrogen is the fact that no company(s) is willing to pay for the infrastructure -- production, storage, and delivery -- until there's sufficient hydrogen cars out there to not lose massive amounts of money. And there won't sufficient hydrogen cars out there until you can drive a few hundred miles without worrying about running out of hydrogen and not having a fuel station.

  20. Re:Only banned during last hours before polls on Facebook/Twitter Banned In Thailand For Election · · Score: 1

    Passing laws against shouting fire in a crowded theater is also censorship. I guess by your rhetorical questions you're not okay with that.

  21. Re:Post-quake Japan? on How Japan's Data Centers Survived the Earthquake · · Score: 2

    Tsunamis, however, are a bugbear they are not really prepared for... did any data centers in the wet zone survive?

    There are no data centers in that region... precisely because they didn't want to have to deal with tsunamis.

  22. Re:Splitting hairs on Valve's Team Fortress 2 Goes Free-To-Play · · Score: 1

    Actually, there's a new minigun with much less noise on spinup.

  23. Re:Rather Stretching the Idea of a "Car" on 11-Year-Old Pilots 1,325 MPG Concept Car · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Peel P50 is widely recognized as a car (specifically, the smallest car ever commercially produced). It had room for one passenger, had three wheels... and a single door and a few windows. So I guess we're pretty close. Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't stick a light one-piece Lexan windscreen/canopy on it to cut down on the wind resistance.

  24. Re:Awesome on Fired IT Worker Replaces CEO's Presentation With Porn · · Score: 1

    Mandatory hiring if an applicant is proficient? You've never had to work with any real creeps, have you? Fine, person shows up, is proficient but has a employment history of sexual harassment towards both males and females. You're telling me you're going to hire them?

  25. Re:Best Buy + iTunes? on Best Buy Releases Their Own Music Cloud · · Score: 1

    Figured as much. Most people complaining about iTunes run it on Windows.