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  1. Re:Fool it with a picture? on Lenovo Trying Face Recognition For Logins On New Laptops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I'm stealing a total stranger's laptop, I honestly don't give a crap about the data. I'll sell it to someone else who'll reformat it and sell it as "refurbished" on amazon.

    The only people who would ever care about your data are the people who know you, and they would have the capability and foresight to bring a picture. This system is almost as idiotic as security through voice recognition.

  2. Re:Girls on Bionic-Eyed Man Wants To Stream Eye Video Online · · Score: 1

    Oh god, now I will see a new meaning
    Every time something reads "Live and Streaming!"

  3. Re:Point proven on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    While it's noble that you do what you can,
    I see a little problem with your plan.
    We can try to act nobly when naked,
    But every Catholic sperm is still sacred.

  4. Re:Point proven on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    And people aren't livestock.

    Although debate here is somewhat hairy,
    There's no argument to the contrary.
    I cannot tell you what man's future holds,
    But, for now, we are all still animals.

  5. Re:Point proven on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    Yes... hydroelectric power, very safe... just ask all the people who live downstream of the Three Gorges, they'll definitely agree!

  6. Re:Point proven on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    It's not waste! That is perfectly good fuel in most cases. Build the right reactors, people.

    Can you see how simple punctuation
    Provides us with some clarification?
    It will make all your writing much more clean,
    So that we, as readers, know what you mean.

  7. Re:Still kinda dumb on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    And we have the technology to safely drill exploratory deep-water wells in the Gulf of Mexico.

    How many actual engineers share that opinion?

  8. Re:Uranium will be gone too on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thorium is several orders of magnitude more abundant than Uranium, and many successful thorium plants exist throughout the world.

  9. Re:Fusion Reactor... Crisis?! on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    It's delicious and does a body good?

    ... or was that milk?

  10. Re:I'm sure all the on Google Researcher Issues How-To On Attacking XP · · Score: 1

    Occam's Razor is crap. Occam's electric shaver, OTOH, is more soft on the skin and battery charge lasts a full week!

    Hey! Get out of my bathroom!

    - Occam

  11. Re:Bad joke on AT&T Leaks Emails Addresses of 114,000 iPad Users · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you leave your doors open and your house gets robbed, the cops are going to laugh at you. Seriously.

  12. Re:Sorry for troll, but FF has better UI? Seriousl on Google Updates Chrome Frame, Makes IE Better · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you got modded troll instead of me. Maybe someone disagreed with you. =/

  13. Re:Duh on Violent Video Games Only Affect Some People · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone who thinks WWII was the same as Vietnam (even when focusing solely on the Pacific Theater) clearly hasn't actually studied the matter from a military perspective.

  14. Re:Sorry for troll, but FF has better UI? Seriousl on Google Updates Chrome Frame, Makes IE Better · · Score: 1

    Chrome has an extremely powerful searchable history, which defaults to the only view I've ever used: pages by most recently viewed.

    As for customization, I admit I got lucky. The Chrome UI is the kind of minimalism I could never even customize Firefox to use. I actually ended up ditching Firefox on my Eee because it just took up so much more screen space than Chromium. But if that's not what you're looking for in a UI, I do have to agree that it's frustratingly fixed in this layout.

  15. Re:3 people in 2 don't know math. on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    Thanks. No one had pointed that out yet.

  16. Re:So... on Google Updates Chrome Frame, Makes IE Better · · Score: 1

    That should so be the standard test for the virtualization capacity of different chips.

  17. Sorry for troll, but FF has better UI? Seriously? on Google Updates Chrome Frame, Makes IE Better · · Score: -1, Troll

    Chrome Frame for Firefox makes sense

    Sure, if you want it to do everything except render ten times slower than Chrome, that makes a lot of sense.

    I'm sorry that the Chrome UI isn't bloated and blocky enough for you, though. May you you can find a nice GTK implementation of Chromium to get that good ol' Netscape/1994 feel back.

  18. Re:Newsflash: people who play violent games like t on Violent Video Games Only Affect Some People · · Score: 2, Funny

    There just aren't enough "Harvest Moon" modding communities out there. That's the real problem.

  19. Re:Duh on Violent Video Games Only Affect Some People · · Score: 4, Informative

    Kurt Vonnegut once made an interesting comment regarding the Vietnam War. When he went to Europe in WWII, everyone just hoped that they wouldn't have to kill anyone. When kids went off to Vietnam, all the movies and media from the previous wars gave them very different expectations.

    It was either in this interview in The Paris Review, or this one from Playboy. I can't remember which. Seems applicable, though.

  20. Re:The BCS is an irrelevance on British Computer Society Is Officially At Civil War · · Score: 1

    For that, I get a monthly glossy magazine that I sometimes flick through, invitations to lectures, events, etc that I never attend...

    Okay, I get it now, it's just like IEEE!

  21. Re:Nerd war, huh? on British Computer Society Is Officially At Civil War · · Score: 1

    Is that anything like a bat'leth?

  22. Re:As a wise fictional character said... on Methane-Eating Bacteria May Presage ET Life · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From the title, I assumed you were quoting a book. So I googled it. Congratulations, you are your own top google hit.

  23. Re:3 people in 2 don't know math. on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 3, Funny

    My favorite has always been "There's 10 kinds of people in the world: those who know binary, those who don't and those who use zero-based indices."

  24. Re:OT: Re:Cult of Math on Six More Tech Cults · · Score: 1

    Ya, I know, it's just blatant scare-mongering.

  25. Re:Jump to conclusions? on Activists Worry About a New "Green Dam" In Vietnam · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, because perfectly innocuous software needs a legal mandate requiring universal adoption.

    People are drawing conclusions from what is known.