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  1. Re:Holography museum on Holography Pioneer Passes Away · · Score: 1

    But if you do so, expect to find your bank account overdrawn before you can buy any cool gear from the museum.

  2. Re:How long do they have weightlessness? on Zero-Gravity Sports League In Development · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I meant to say they would have only 25 seconds of weightlessness per parabolic, not per flight. Too much reading and typing, not enough sleep or editing.

  3. How long do they have weightlessness? on Zero-Gravity Sports League In Development · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because the vomit comet only has like twenty five seconds in a minute long flight. A twenty second long game may be about right for the average American kid nowadays but I don't see the entertainment value at all.

  4. Re:not like back in the day on Throwable WiFi Camera · · Score: 1

    IF they were to add some counterweights to the bottom connected to internal track mechanism with a self-rightening camera, you wouldn't have to throw it. it could be moved in via a key-fob sized remote.

  5. Re:Finally! on Breakthrough in Biodiesel Production · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sure, then comes our dependence on an expensive formula from Japan. A country we dropped two nuclear weapons on that has a political movement that wants to become a superpower again and try to drop a nuke on us.

  6. Track costs on Cellphone Songs Overpriced? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    would be a lot more feasible if they charged a percentage of what a cd costs. If it's 16.99 for a CD by a specific artist and you want a track off of it, that track should cost a dollar oh seven. Making prices the same as what the disc would cost at the store is logical. Which means, obviously, the RIAA won't go for it.

  7. Re:Jane, stop this crazy thing! on Smart Hotel Rooms in New York City · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Oh, the irony... on King Kong Lived? · · Score: 2, Informative
  9. Re:Old news... already happened in africa... on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    I read recently that some people who have parents who both had--or had relatives on both sides who had--polio are showing immunities towards HIV or aids due to their parents passed on immunity factors. Unfortunately, I can't remember where exactly. A google search showed that there have been tests that had remissions and heightened T-cell counts after polio vaccination injections over a week long period.

  10. Re:Yay! on Inmarsat Brings 3G Broadband to North America · · Score: 1

    That's a stupid comment. Sony is Japanese. The PS2 is obviously going to be released there first, just like the Nintendo systems unlike the XBox which would obviously be released in America first because, holy hell, Microsoft is a US company. And of course we would sell more. We have a larger bloody citizen base than they do. Their whole country would fit in california and half our population.

  11. Re:Hey -- who's the experts anyways?!?! on Raised Flooring Obsolete or Not? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, McCloud, get offa my ewe!

  12. Wouldn't it be easier on Cell Phones Learn to Recognize Their Owners' Faces · · Score: 1

    to just put a biometrics pad and make it only boot and/or be able to call if one of your fingerprints match? Give it enough memory you can do all ten fingers in case you end up breaking a hand and also add your SO's/children's/parent's fingerprints as backups. Making a camera do it means more manipulation. A fingerprint reading pad in a spot that most fingers touch is a lot simpler than having it run Video IQ on your face. Fingerprint scanners that small would be fault prone but not as much as something that runs a scanner that expects you to have no beard, no bandages, always have glasses on/off, and so on.

  13. I look forward to this on Tim O'Reilly on the Google Library Project · · Score: 1

    For the longest time, I've searched for a book I read about a decade ago that was originally written in the late 60s or early 70s. With Google's setup, their engine will most likely be the best to actually find it. Searching by keywords on Amazon is the hardest thing to do since it finds books that aren't in the genre I'm looking for.