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  1. Re:Jesus on Amir Taaki Answers Your Questions About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Cash:Credit Cards:Bitcoins::VHS:DVD:Blu-ray

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

    I don't know if we're using different versions or what, because I have the exact opposite experience with "not crashing" and "fast search". I don't suppose you're using it on a Mac?

  3. Re:Which is why you sanitize your "collection"... on Might iCloud Be a Musical Honeypot? · · Score: 1

    Audio watermark. If copies leaked onto the into the internet had a non-audible portion embedded and when iCloud found that watermark while scanning your music it'd be able to tell you had a non-legit copy.

  4. Re:A question out of curiosity. on LulzSec Offers to Take Revenge On Sega Hackers · · Score: 1

    Because media attention has always encouraged corporations to change for the better.

  5. Re:Once again... on New Android Malware Attacks Custom ROMs · · Score: 1

    Yes, the platform that at one point (a year ago) let you root your phone by visiting a website is better.

    FTFY.

    http://veryrite.com/2011/06/19/ipad-2-jailbreak-4-3-3-jailbreakme-3-0-ios-5/

  6. Re:What a concept! on Chinese Legislature Conducts Large Online Vote · · Score: 1

    The most likeliest explanation has to do with one's upbringing concerning the welfare of others.

  7. Re:Once again... on New Android Malware Attacks Custom ROMs · · Score: 0

    Yes, the platform that at one point let you root your phone by visiting a website is better.

  8. Re:FALSE !! NOT GUILTY IS NOT INNOCENT !! on Thomas Drake Innocent of All Ten Original Charges · · Score: 2

    Sorry, but here in the States you are assumed innocent until proven guilty. At least, that's how it's supposed to work.

  9. Re:Longer Answer: on Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power? · · Score: 2

    According to the CIA World Factbook, Germany imported 41.67 billion kWh (last estimate available from 2008).
    https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2043.html?countryName=Germany&countryCode=gm&regionCode=eu&#gm

  10. Re:they don't want the sever to blow up taking the on Duke Nukem Forever Demo Released · · Score: 2

    Option C: Pre-order folks who love multiplayer can get their game on earlier.

  11. Re:Links on Duke Nukem Forever Demo Released · · Score: 1

    Early demo = early multiplayer. Valve effectively did the same for Left 4 Dead, allowing play on one map.

  12. Re:I'll answer that. on Is Bill Gates the Cure For What Ails Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    I like to frame the problems Microsoft faces as J Allard vs. Steve Ballmer.

  13. Re:Bill Gates on Is Bill Gates the Cure For What Ails Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    "Getting lucky" usually plays a big part in any success. Whether or not you make the best use of that luck determines whether or not that success turns into a continued success.

  14. Re:Umm, no... on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    GPS devices aren't accurate enough. We're talking +/- 20-40 feet.

  15. Re:China and US on China Censors Web To Curb Inner Mongolia Protests · · Score: 2

    Actually if you pay attention to the recent porn crackdowns in China instead of the simply leafing through the keywords being banned you'd know that they're pretty damn serious about the 'preventing the youths' morals from corruption' thing.

  16. Re:Not really a jetpack on Martin Jetpack Climbs 5000 Feet Above Sea Level · · Score: 1

    Actually, if there were improvements in metallurgy and structural design, it could theoretically lighten the whole assembly. Lighter craft means less fuel required/less power required to carry peopple/smaller engine.

  17. Re:Endurance on Martin Jetpack Climbs 5000 Feet Above Sea Level · · Score: 1

    I think that's what the limitations "are", but they'll look the other way if you figure out how to get more fuel into the thing.

  18. Re:Umm, no... on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    A GPS tells you latitude, longitude, and altitude. If you kept an eye on it to see if the numbers were increasing or decreasing, then yes, it would tell you which way is up. However, it would not sound the klaxons and tell YOUR NOSE IS POINTED STRAIGHT INTO THE OCEAN DUMBASS. There are other indicators in the cockpit that are designed to inform the pilot about that situation.

  19. Re:Side channel attack on Chapel Hill Computational Linguists Crack Skype Calls · · Score: 1

    I think the sticking point here is the word "broken". It can be used in an adjective sense (there is something wrong with it) and an adverb sense (someone broke it). I think the other guy keeps reading it as the latter, aka mechanics were broken.

  20. Re:Haven't we learned anything? on Large Scale 24/7 Solar Power Plant To Be Built in Nevada · · Score: 1

    That's okay, we didn't need Nevada anyway. Or Utah.

  21. Re:Next we will all be required to be chipped on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    Some people of certain religions wouldn't take coffee, beer, antibiotics, or aspirin. And it depends on how you define "drug"; you're getting awfully loose there - what about decaffeinated coffee, for example? Tea? Herbal (ex. mint, chamomile) tea? Wasabi has antimicrobial properties; is that a drug? Thyme? Basil? Parsley? If you're going to define "drug" as any edible substance whose main reason for consumption is not caloric intake... well, okay, but that's just silly.

  22. Re:Area 51 - the Harold Clamping parallel on Under Soviet Satellites, How Area 51 Hid (And Invented) Secret Craft · · Score: 1

    "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
    "...and/or can be attributable to Satanic Cults/the New World Order/neo-Nazi supermen/aliens." -Me

  23. Re:Kosher code? on Are Third-Party Android Vendors Violating the GPL? · · Score: 1

    The code isn't kosher; the behavior is. Kosher has come to be an acceptable synonym for "legit", "okay", and "cricket".

  24. Re:Desperation on Microsoft Promo: a PC and Xbox In Every Dorm Room · · Score: 1

    Apple gives away iPod Touches for people buying MacBooks before the start of the school year. It's a valid tactic.

  25. Re:It *is* Desperation on Microsoft Promo: a PC and Xbox In Every Dorm Room · · Score: 1

    Because Microsoft would probably rather you play games on the 360 instead of the PC? They're probably not losing anymore money on the console at this point, and they're also making money off of agreements and XBLA.