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  1. Why is this news? on iPhone 4's "Retina Display" Claims Challenged · · Score: 1

    Claiming a "retina display" without specifying a viewing distant is blatant bullshit. Every display is a "retina display" at some distance... for an iPhone, the distance just a few inches closer than its current competitors.

  2. Re:Real Ratina Display on iPhone 4's "Retina Display" Claims Challenged · · Score: 2

    If you get sent to a maximum security prison, you'll probably get laid too... be careful what you pray for, or at least be a little more specific.

  3. Re:I have seen the future on AI Astronomer Aids Effort To Analyze Galaxies · · Score: 1

    They're so cute when they're young and naive! Your first task is classifying the classic goatse, tubgirl, and lemon party pics, as well as the classic "2 girls 1 cup" video. The eye bleach is on the counter. Good luck!

  4. Wow on Timberwolf (a.k.a. Firefox) Alpha 1 For AmigaOS · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm sure both the people out there that still have functioning Amigas are thrilled -- but only because they were both involved with the porting process!

  5. Re:You can use katakana on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 1

    Ok, my off-the-top-of-my-head examples suck. How about using "Spain" for Espana, and "Germany" for Deutschland?

  6. Re:Darn on Stem Cell Tourists Take Costa Rica Off the Agenda · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I kid about ol' Rush... in reality, its nice to see a man that is so obsessed with the sanctity of marriage that he has successfully completed 3 of them, and is now starting on his 4th one!

  7. Re:You can use katakana on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 1

    Or you could just, you know, use English to utterly butcher the representation of any foreign word, e.g. "Peking" and "Bombay", now called Beijing and Mumbai.

  8. That's nothing on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is an official list of 1,945 characters that one is expected to understand to graduate from a Japanese high school or be considered fluent. That's nothing... there's a lot more than 1,945 characters that kids are now expected to be able to recognize in order to be considered fluent in Pokeman!

  9. Re:better than humans? on AI Astronomer Aids Effort To Analyze Galaxies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sense the "training" consists of being shown hundreds of thousands of galaxies along with their classifications, I doubt that many humans would live long enough to be given the same "training"...

  10. Re:Source Please on AI Astronomer Aids Effort To Analyze Galaxies · · Score: 1

    I suspect that the same cases that make the software throw up its hands and say "I don't know" about also makes human "experts" throw up their own hands and say, "Gee, I don't know... what do you think?"

  11. I have seen the future on AI Astronomer Aids Effort To Analyze Galaxies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If this technologies works for classifying galaxies, perhaps next we could put it to work classifying porn on the web!

  12. Darn on Stem Cell Tourists Take Costa Rica Off the Agenda · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wonder if this will have any effect on Rush Limbaugh's decision to move to Costa Rica.

  13. Re:Plot and script-writers on Why Are Video Game Movies So Awful? · · Score: 1

    The worst part is they never explained what the acronym "BFG" actually stood for.

  14. Re:affects everyone no doubt on Violent Video Games Only Affect Some People · · Score: 1

    Damn... the only skills I ever acquired from video games was the ability to eat dots while avoiding being eaten by ghosts... a skill I use almost every day in my real life!

  15. Re:It's not violence on Violent Video Games Only Affect Some People · · Score: 2, Funny

    Personally, I believe most violence is caused by overexposure to Justin Beiber! I know every time I see him, I want to destroy something.

  16. Re:Other Smells on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 1

    Mmmmmm... sushi!

  17. Re:Well Obviously. on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1

    Funny, I thought he was only in it for the hookers and blow. Money won't buy you love, but it'll sure get you a lot of smokin' hot chicks!

  18. Think before you switch on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    If you're going to spend all that money on retraining and migration fees, why not switch to an OS that doesn't radically change every couple years as part of a planned obsolescence strategy, as well as saving you on license fees? Hmm... what other OS could you switch to that would save you money in the long run?

  19. Re:This on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    If it's reachable by SMTP, it's probably reachable by IPP -- you know, a protocol actually designed to support internet printing.

  20. Re:They meet girls through their hobby on What Gamers Have In Common With Top Athletes · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that "I thought it was an 18 year old woman, not a 10 year old boy" excuse always holds up really well in court... and those news articles about how you were sexting with minors won't embarrass you at all.

  21. Re:They meet girls through their hobby on What Gamers Have In Common With Top Athletes · · Score: 1

    Go ahead and try asking a 9 year old girl online for her address, then explain when law enforcement comes to pay you a visit that you were just "role playing"! Point is, don't make any assumptions about who it is that you are communicating with online. Myself, I always just assume the typist at the other end is an FBI agent trolling for evidence of criminal activity.

  22. Re:Too late probably, but... on Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water · · Score: 1

    There have already been hundreds of other oil spills in Nigeria; it's not 'till it happens at home that Americans actually give a fuck about environmental disasters. Who do you think buys the majority of Nigeria's oil?

  23. Re:Back in the 70s we used cotton for oil spills on Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water · · Score: 1

    Wait... why do transformers need lubrication? They don't have any moving parts. (Those transformers also usually contained large amounts of carcinogenic PCBs. The oil was actually mineral oil used as an insulator, not a lubricant. I'm still not clear on how the oil got "dirty", although it may have circulated through a cooler.)

  24. Re:Great for filtering, but - on Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water · · Score: 1

    Other than the fact that between the time they are caught in the net and the time they are extracted from it they are dragged underwater and drowned, that's a great idea.

  25. Re:They meet girls through their hobby on What Gamers Have In Common With Top Athletes · · Score: 1

    How is this flamebait? The point is, when you try to pickup Avatars online, you may be engaging in homosexuality or pedophilia and not even realize it.