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  1. Re:thinner than a dime on 60-Year-Old Glass Technology Finds Its Market · · Score: 0, Troll

    About 3 inches wide,

    Most women don't like it that big...

    - Dan.

  2. Re:"Demonstrates..." on Dell and HP To Sell Oracle Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    Granted, I hadn't seen that. But also not trying to troll, what happens when that becomes a paywall and copyright DMCA's prevent dissemination afterwards?

    - Dan.

  3. Re:How long till 'clean'? on Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife · · Score: 1

    They are ukrainians, man, ukrainians.

    - Nuff Said.

    - Dan.

  4. Re:SETI? on Mars Site May Hold 'Buried Life' · · Score: 1

    Well it's an understatement that he's not being treated like a king...

    - Dan.

  5. Re:And yet- on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 1

    Defensive Argument Penalty, Free throw at the coin toss.

    - Dan.

  6. Re:Wheels on New Mars Rover Rolls For the First Time · · Score: 0, Troll

    Solid Rubber Wheels. They sell them for Bicycles too.

    - Dan.

  7. Re:"Demonstrates..." on Dell and HP To Sell Oracle Operating Systems · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oracle is a very real threat to the open source community or Commercial Linux vendors in general. They have been rebuilding the Unix cathedral with an old guard dominance of Unix knowledge and development. Try finding any information for free on their websites. Now couple that with vendor lock in...

    - Dan.

  8. Re:SETI? on Mars Site May Hold 'Buried Life' · · Score: 1

    Convince the American people that Mars has weapons of mass destruction and give the military the funding it asks for. Um... 2007 called. They want their joke back. It's 2010. Jokes have to be about bipartisanism.

    While you may be technically correct, Either way, Here's bipartisan;

    A black man in a suit, in front of a lot of cameras with national attention stating to the red and the blue "We can all get along".

    - Dan.

  9. Re:SETI? on Mars Site May Hold 'Buried Life' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Convince the American people that Mars has weapons of mass destruction and give the military the funding it asks for. There will be a colony in no time and local Martian girls will be handing out free beer when the sailors get off the ships.

    - Dan.

  10. Re:My only question is... on HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not a troll.

    Very true observation.

    I do without a TV in the house it's ever so much more peaceful without it. We wont ever get another one.
    - Dan.

  11. Re:More Info & Dashboard on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Global warming will exist, so long as theirs money to be made from it.

    - Dan.

  12. Re:Attitude Control on LCD 'Engine' For Spacecraft Attitude Control · · Score: 1

    changing the spacecraft's orientation."

    Apparently this spacecraft doesn't need women...

    - Dan.

  13. Re:Too late on Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? · · Score: 1

    Corrections. Was never utilized before 1997*

  14. Re:Too late on Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? · · Score: 1

    The frightening thing is there appears to be the concept that a website is any way comparable to the multi-user *dialup* system that AOL originated as. AOL had been compared to the bus load of Ebola victims tossing rotten cabbage a the other passers by on the information super highway. Facebook in no way compares to this.

    There were games available on AOL too. But these games were things like Air Warrior. ( MMOG Air Combat of Kesmai fame )

    In every except the gaming facebook is superiour to AOL. facebook games, to me are insulting compared to what I have done in the past "online". AOL was international, as was prodigy, compuserve etc. Remember, this was done over phone lines, no internet access. There was a network of forums called FIDO and a few others. the Internet existed well before the world wide web and to the best of my knowledge, was never utilized by AOL, Prodigy or Compuserve.

    So, lets just drop the comparison now ok?

    - Dan.

  15. Re:"Presumption of innocence"? on Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats · · Score: 1

    In this case the post, camera and strobe were about 30-ish feet behind the stop line, pointing towards the stop light.

    Thanks for the Epilepsy y'all...

    - Dan.

  16. Re:"Presumption of innocence"? on Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats · · Score: 1

    In the college town I live in the red light cameras trigger enough times for a car coming to a stop that the flash actually strobes.

    I have watched multiple false positives and Zero positives.

    That is to say I haven't seen the red light camera flash on a single car running the red light.

    - Dan.

  17. Re:Hardly on Too Much Multiplayer In Today's Games? · · Score: 1

    Competing against an AI is never entertaining, and always repetitive.

    If it's not multi-player cooperative or otherwise it's not worth my time.

    - Dan.

  18. Re:Verizon on Cell Phone Interception At Def Con · · Score: 1

    Those companies that have been struggling to push the technology that would prevent interception would have lots to gain by funding or sponsoring this demo.

    Interesting times we live in...

    - Dan.

  19. Re:Check their payroll on Southwest Adds 'Mechanical Difficulties' To Act Of God List · · Score: 1

    Considering the physical shape of most Americans it is most prudent to be prude.

    Furry man-boobs just aren't the rage like they used to be.

    - Dan.,

  20. Re:Link to the original on Why You Never Ask the Designers For a Favor · · Score: 1

    The same could be said for astro-turfers, get over it CNN.

    - Dan.

  21. Re:Or it could be because they would be bankrupt . on Microsoft Says No To Paying Bug Bounties · · Score: 1

    I am a Linux user since the time you had to compile your own kernel in order to perform an install.
    I have 7 going on 8 children. My wife uses Linux too. :)
    - Dan.

  22. Re:Angry? on Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    By the way, that Check engine light?

    Time for a Tune up dewd.

    Cap,
    Rotor,
    (Spark Plug) Wires,
    (Spark) Plugs,
    Coil ( Sometimes )
    Points ( On older cars )


    On newer cars always keep an EIM handy. They give no warning when they just *die*.

    Air and Fuel Filters ( When easily reachable )

    You can get all this for about $40 from any auto parts store. Or have a mechanic do it for you and spend $400.

    Your choice.

    - Dan.

  23. Re:Angry? on Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    ***We run the friggen planet with with software we write! Most of the Planet can't even change their oil or tune of their car! ***

    You haven't had to tune a car -- or indeed had anything to tune -- for about two decades. The last manual adjustment I can think of was the idle control. It vanished from cars sold in the US around 1990.

    Not true at all. Or Kragen, Auto Zone, Pep Boys, Napa would all be out of business. I need to give both my cars tune us this week. Your statement sir, proves my point.

    - Dan.

  24. Re:Angry? on Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    "They're angry because they're established. Expensive suits. Exquisitely designed suites to work in."

    Right, you don't know any freelance designers.

    "It hurts when your whole business model is built on puff and people start figuring it out."

    It hurts when people who have no design skills are using deviantart-ish images more suitable for sonic the hedgehog fanart.

    My dad was a commercial artist, and in the pre-internet days this would happen. He'd submit a bid, and he'd get MASSIVELY underbid on muralwork or design work by someone who paints houses for a living. It's not "fair", but some people don't know what's shit design-wise.

    But would his pay been worth the time it would have taken to 'educate' the client as to whats wrong with the other peoples work? Perhaps bidding on a project that a house painter could do?

    - Dan.

  25. Re:Angry? on Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    NOBODY CARES ABOUT THAT STUFF EXCEPT FOR DESIGNERS.

    /Signed.

    Also, Chances are, that if your target consumer is 12 year olds, something designed by 12 year olds will hit the mark much better than something designed by an adult could.

    - Dan.