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  1. Re:Just remember on Google Acquires Zagat · · Score: 1

    it's people!

  2. double whammy on Starz To Pull Content From Netflix · · Score: 1

    first the price increase and now less content? frustrating...
    makes pirate bay and/or cable seem more appealing.

  3. Re:Can't believe it's not been said, but... on Man Becomes Artist When He Sleeps · · Score: 1

    His dream job and he doesn't even enjoy it. Isn't that how if often goes?

  4. Re:Sabotage/Discrediting campaign on Anonymous Claims Responsibility For WikiLeaks Attack · · Score: 1

    Yea, sounds like the DoD testing out a new tool and covering their tracks.

  5. Re:Douglas Adams Correct on Crowdsourcing Makes an API For Human Intelligence · · Score: 1

    but they're slower, less accurate, can't work 24/7/, might sue, and take time to train. And they're only cheaper...for now.

  6. Re:chemicals on Gut Bacteria Exert Mind Control · · Score: 1
  7. hello Dave... on Humanoid Robot Wakes In Space, Tweets · · Score: 1

    should have said "hello dave"

  8. may help with peace... on Google Street View Gets Israeli Government's Nod · · Score: 1

    This is kinda cool. It could help with peace efforts. Israeli's have been so vilified by arab governments that they don't' even imagine them as human beings. Seeing them in their daily lives walking about chatting, with kids and friends...should help to convey that we're all just people and we should get along. Also Arabs will see how well Israeli's who are Arab live within the country and may see that coexistence is possible.

  9. Re:Political hot potato for Google? on Google Street View Gets Israeli Government's Nod · · Score: 1

    can't they just have multiple names in google?
    nearly all of the road signs in Israel are in both Hebrew and Arabic.

  10. Re:US restricts US companies' sat.photos of Israel on Google Street View Gets Israeli Government's Nod · · Score: 1

    makes sense to me...it's a matter of national security. Keep in mind that the Arabs/Palestinians have been targeting Israeli civilians constantly for over 100 yrs...and of course in the past 15 yrs especially so. We don't want to be handing intelligence info over to our enemies (i.e. our enemies b/c we are allied with Israel in defense of their nation).

  11. Re:Result of Truancy Laws on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 1

    Maybe it should take less time and be more interesting. I missed a bunch of school back in the day.

    It was mostly because it wasn't interesting and because I had undiagnosed health problems that people (including my parents) mistook as me being lazy.

  12. bio vs culture... on American Grant Writing: Race Matters · · Score: 1

    it's possible, but don't forget to consider culture...it has a huge huge influence here...

  13. Re:Affirmative Action on American Grant Writing: Race Matters · · Score: 1

    That's not what Affirmative Action does.
    It gives them additional opportunities.
    Besides, it's not based on being born into shitty conditions, it's based on race.
    Plenty of whites are raised in shitty conditions.
    Plenty of blacks are upper middle class.

  14. this is not going to last long... on AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan · · Score: 1

    The market will squeeze this out. People will start using alternatives to txt msgs or they will migrate to other carriers.

    I'm locked in with the $5/200msg plan; but if they force the $20/unlimited plan on me; I'm turning off txt msgs on my iPhone.

  15. Re:iMessage, or whatever it's called on AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan · · Score: 1

    AT&T should offer an option for pay per use tethering.
    That would do well as an impulse buy.
    Say $5/day with a 1GB max data limit. Standard $10/GB overage charges.
    I bet that would sell better than their monthly plan.

  16. Re:Sudden crash? on New Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beats the Stock Market · · Score: 1

    i wonder what will happen if people start tweeting about the twitter fund. Does it consider self reference? :)

  17. Re:Best advice not to get caught on Collar-Bomber Tracked By Gmail Accesses · · Score: 1

    sometimes completely reasonable things to do are considered illegal by one's government.

  18. 3..2...1.."we just don't have enough sun!"..BOOM on Navy Bomb Squads Get a Solar Power Upgrade · · Score: 1

    This terrible loss of life could have been prevented...if only the sun had come out soon.

  19. train my cold blooded pet snake on How To Steal ATM PINs With a Thermal Camera · · Score: 1

    this is why i need to train my cold blooded pet snack to enter my pin for me!

  20. digital downloads and price cuts on How Apple Is Beating Nintendo At Its Own Game · · Score: 1

    If Nintendo would use their Nintendo 3DS to sell full games as digital downloads at $5 to $10 both the 3DS and their games would sell like crazy.

    Hell, they could even offer a free firmware update for their DS to allow it to accept a of the shelf 8GB SD card and allow for full games to be downloaded for $10 and they would make a shit ton on additional money on the DS.

  21. the need to self actualize on The Post-Idea World · · Score: 1

    We all need to apply our intellect towards something to self actualize.

    In the old days when little could be done, you philosophized.

    Now that so much can be done, we mostly do stuff.

  22. Re:Anon on Building a Better 'Anonymous?' · · Score: 1

    to your #1 point, it's called software development.

  23. Re:As a former Nokia/Symbian engineer... on Former Nokia Engineers Fueling Finnish Startups · · Score: 1

    isn't this the usual case?

  24. Re:PC? on Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement · · Score: 1

    what do this prove? There are always significant differences within races

    I'm sure a Nigerian will and a Somalian will think of themselves as different from each other...yet they're both considered black.
    I'm sure a Russian and an Italian will think of themselves as different from each other...yet they're both white.

  25. great on Use Your Car To Power Your House · · Score: 1

    seems like the obvious thing to do...leverage this gigantic battery sitting in your garage.