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  1. Re:Fresnel Lens on Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors? · · Score: 1

    It worked in Brazil first.

  2. Re:*First post.. on Public School Teachers Selling Lesson Plans Online · · Score: 1

    Administration also includes the school board, superintendent, etc. etc.

  3. Missing something on Heart of the Milky Way Photos From NASA · · Score: 1

    Where's the Great Barrier?

  4. Re:I just hope... on "Road Trains" Ready To Roll · · Score: 1

    You can check a bus company's safety record, and you can report or check out a taxi driver's medallion or license.

  5. Re:Fuel economy ? on "Road Trains" Ready To Roll · · Score: 3, Informative

    The lead vehicle is a purpose-built vehicle driven by a professional driver, not a 'passenger' of the train.

  6. Re:Ummm on "Road Trains" Ready To Roll · · Score: 1

    Well, if you take a train then need a car at your destination, you need to rent one or spend money on cab fare. If you have too much stuff to take in the train (e.g. moving house a long distance), a train is not an option whatsoever. There are also places with existing roads where building new heavy rail would be impossible or impractical or incredibly expensive.

  7. I just hope... on "Road Trains" Ready To Roll · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That you can check the professional driver's safety record before joining the train.

  8. Re:Maybe they should look at HAMMER FS on Apple Discontinues ZFS Project · · Score: 1
  9. Re:gopher, wais on Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes · · Score: 2, Informative

    And mailto: and ftp:// and news: etc. etc.

  10. Re:Stephen Fry on In the UK, a Few Tweets Restore Freedom of Speech · · Score: 1

    No, it was actually obscene.

  11. Re:PS3s on SGI Rolls Out "Personal Supercomputers" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I noticed that the 'products' section on their website includes nothing resembling Graphics.

  12. Re:Duh. on Why Anonymized Data Isn't · · Score: 1

    Yes, well, any security system that relies on humans is prone to failure :)

  13. Re:Duh. on Why Anonymized Data Isn't · · Score: 1

    An out-of-state fake ID will not necessarily work. There are interstate standards for the content of mag stripes and 2-D barcodes, for example.

  14. Re:Duh. on Why Anonymized Data Isn't · · Score: 2, Informative

    (like the scanning of IDs at liquor stores or bars to check age--there is a birthdate listed on IDs for a fucking reason people--not that they can scan my rare earth magnet swiped ID anyway)

    That's not to check age; that's to check for counterfeits with mismatched mag data, or mismatched 2-D barcode data, or missing UV ink prints, or missing holograms, etc. etc.

  15. Re:Can you spell Face Plant? on New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the cheap ones are that heavy. The lightest Brompton is 18 lbs and still isn't as expensive as this contraption even after adding the lightest BionX for a total weight of around 30 lbs altogether.

  16. Re:Can you spell Face Plant? on New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative · · Score: 2, Informative

    Add a BionX to any folding bike. (Dahon, Montague, Brompton, what have you)

  17. Whet on Cameron's Avatar Trailer Posted · · Score: 5, Informative

    The correct word is "whet." To whet your appetite is to sharpen it, just as you would a knife with a whetstone. Wetting one's whistle refers to slaking or quenching thirst, but is entirely unrelated.

  18. Re:Well, that's the bad old bell... on Bell Starts Hijacking NX Domain Queries · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here are some. I don't know which ones hijack NX responses, but the 4.2.2.x entries seem reliable.

  19. Re:So who was it ?? on Most Expensive JavaScript Ever? · · Score: 1

    What is the NOK (norwegian krone)/NOK (Nokia shares) exchange ratio?

  20. Re:General rule on Suggestions For Learning FPGA Development At Home? · · Score: 1

    No, everyone else was using VHDL too. It was an internship.

  21. Re:General rule on Suggestions For Learning FPGA Development At Home? · · Score: 1

    Untrue, the only time I ever worked on an ASIC was a VHDL project.

  22. Re:What about editing on Squeezing a Wikipedia Snapshot Onto an 8GB iPhone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gah, or the nearly ubiquitous misuse of the word "irony."

  23. Re:Backend machines on Dave Perry Shows Off Cloud Gaming Service "Gaikai" · · Score: 1

    Why would it be a single machine? You probably reserve a box in the gaming farm. Whether they can make enough money renting out 10,000 high-end gaming boxes to stay afloat is the question.

  24. Re:Why not have both? on The Battle Between Google and Facebook · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The problem with Zuckerberg's vision is that it only works when you have a sufficient number of friends who share your interests. When people don't organize themselves into mailing lists, forums, newsgroups, etc., but only have social connections, you end up having to know someone already into a particular hobby to find out any more about it. Word of mouth is great when it works but it's unreliable.

  25. Re:Who didn't see this coming? on Pixar's Next Three Films Will Be Sequels · · Score: 1

    IMDb says it was a video release.