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  1. Re:Abandon all your cash on Estonian Economist Suggests Abandoning Cash · · Score: 1

    Those cards are not credit cards, and they certainly don't have any "magnetic strips".

  2. Re:What? on Why Tablets Haven't Taken Off In Business · · Score: 2

    and rejects apps that change it or threaten it in any way

    Yeah, no, that is complete and utter nonsense. You need to stop listening to the bullshit the Internet feeds you and start paying some attention to the real world.

  3. Re:Stupid Article on Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results? · · Score: 1

    I actually check thing myself, rather than believe every hysterical claim on the internet. The article is wrong, or outright lying.

  4. Re:Stupid Article on Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Indeed it is not the same. Because it is even less of an issue.

    Google is detecting a stock symbol and putting some extra information above the actual search results! The actual search results are the same!

  5. Re:thx for helping us, Love M$ on Exciting Kinect Stuff Already Coming Out · · Score: 1

    It's usually taking the next step after somebody else has done the hard work of creating a market.

    Remind me again, who created that market that the iPad was in?

  6. Re:Old News on NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole · · Score: 1

    You are not pendantic, no, you are just wrong. There is no such thing as simultaneity, and you can not make an absolute statement of the age of the black hole. It will be between 30 years and 100 million plus 30 years, depending on your reference frame. It is pointless to bicker about it.

  7. Re:thx for helping us, Love M$ on Exciting Kinect Stuff Already Coming Out · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or, you know, just write it yourself. You think a brightness control is so hard to write that you absolutely have to steal it?

  8. Re:All depends on Going Faster Than the Wind In a Wind-Powered Cart · · Score: 1

    It's clearly a hoax

    A hoax, repeated by many people? Whose videos you can go look at, all over Youtube?

    The only thing that is clear is that you are dismissing something out of hand because you have not actually put in the effort to understand what is going on.

  9. Re:All depends on Going Faster Than the Wind In a Wind-Powered Cart · · Score: 1

    No, it does not.

  10. Re:hmmm on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 1

    How, exactly, do you suggest an EULA would help anything, if the attacker is the one clicking past it?

  11. Re:iPhone version? on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 1

    This is going to be installed by someone else on your phone. They will just click OK on the dialog, and you will never hear about it again.

  12. Re:Look at it this way on Is the ISS Really Worth $100 Billion? · · Score: 1

    So, a month's rent, spent over more than ten years. Would that really have made a noticeable difference in your life?

  13. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    Lower mass is because of the energy of chemical bonds. Energy is mass. The difference is miniscule, but exists.

  14. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The point is that the definition needs to be practical. We need to have a way to actually measure a kilogram using the definition, so we can calibrate our scales. If we can not use the definition to calibrate a scale to some very high accuracy, it is useless.

  15. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    If that was the case, we would have switched to using that as a standard.

    The only reason we still have a kilogram prototype is that nobody has yet figured out a way to count atom accurately enough to match the accuracy of the prototype.

  16. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well how frickin' accurate do you want to be?

    Very, very frickin' accurate. That is the whole point.

  17. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the people creating the definition are, in fact, aware of this.

  18. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    When he said "lighter", he was referring to mass, not weight.

  19. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    Has less mass.

  20. Re:I'm sure that... on FTC Ends Probe of Google StreetView Privacy Breach · · Score: 1

    Spammers gather email addresses from the open internet. According to your argument it is ok to spam millions of email addresses.

    Well, that sure wins this week's prize for least well-constructed argument.

  21. Re:So? on Japan's Latest Rockstar Is a 3D Hologram · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, this article is horrible, and totally fails to describe what the whole Hatsune Miku phenomenon is actually about. It's not simply about a fictional singer, like Gorillaz.

    What it is is a piece of software, with a fictional character attached to it. Crypton made the software, and the character, but they don't do anything else. The rest is up to the users. People use the software and make the songs. People also carry the character forward. The whole thing is extremely decentralized. There's nobody who says what Hatsune Miku can or can not do, it's up to whoever is creative enough to put the software to use.

    This 3D-effect concert is just a gimmick. Sega bought up the rights for many popular Vocaloid songs, and produced a rhythm game out of them. They also used them to create these concerts.

    This is all fascinating for the way it completely turns the usual pop music production model on its head, not because of a 3D model.

  22. Re:7.0? Really? on Google Rolls Out Chrome 7 · · Score: 1

    "major.minor.bugfix" was never any kind of universal standard. As far as I know, only Unix programs used to use that back in the day. Others mostly used major.minor.

  23. Re:7.0? Really? on Google Rolls Out Chrome 7 · · Score: 1

    Chrome auto-updates, there's no need to try and trick people into downloading anything.

  24. Re:Moral authority on Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland · · Score: 1

    However, the church disagrees, and because they have a government-given monopoly on defining marriage, there's a bit of a crisis now.

    They do not, at all. There is no need to get the church involved to get married.

    The issue is that lots of people would like to get married through the church, even if they are gay, and some priests are fine with it, but others are not.

  25. Re:No the way to do it on Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's AGW Witch Hunt Continues · · Score: 1

    The problem is you're not emotionally equipped to recognize one when you see one.

    No, I am quite well equipped. I'd be happy to listen to an actual argument, backed by facts and research. If it was actually published and peer-reviewed, that'd be great!

    Nothing yet, though. All I get is lies. And whaddya know?

    but when confronted with the assertion that CO2 emissions by man, if kept up at their current rate, will eliminate the Himalayan glaciers in 5 years,

    There's one right now!