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  1. "Er" "um" and "uh" are good too on Research Suggests E-Readers Are "Too Easy" To Read · · Score: 1

    I remember being taught that speech disfluencies (er, um and uh) are supposed to make the speaker sound more authoritative.

    Maybe this guy is just applying that same logic to print; he doesn't seem to have a lot of proof though.

  2. Juan? Is that you? on Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him · · Score: 1

    So, I'm guessing Juan Williams took that big Fox signing bonus and finally got that "trailer" on South Beach that he always wanted.

  3. Re:What's next? on Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him · · Score: 1

    Are you telling me there's not one condo available in all of Del Boca Vista?

    Phase I or II?

  4. Re:Yawn Comics on Evolution of the Batmobile · · Score: 2

    I guess if you want creativity, you don't look at a medium that recycles the same characters for 70 years.

    While the characters and (origin) stories are recycled, the audience is always changing--as with grand opera and Shakespeare--and, in this particular instance, you can see how those changes are reflected in the styling of the car.

  5. Is this really AI? on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 1

    Just asking, but isn't the point of sudoku that it is solvable using only discrete logic?

    Is it reading the digits and grid what qualifies this system as "intelligent"?

  6. I can't believe I'm saying this, but . . . on Scientists Find Tears Are the Anti-Viagra · · Score: 2

    I'm sure a vial full of ear-wax shoved right under my nose would repulse me, too, and the last thing I'd be thinking about is sex.

    . . . I think that's a valid point for a different reason; I think it's pretty well-settled that a person likes-, and is not offended, by the smells of their lover(-s).

    If that's true then perhaps these guys were not turned on b/c they did not "recognize" the smell and they interpreted the tears as just stinky fluid.

  7. Re:Dead on. on Is Mark Zuckerberg the Next Steve Case? · · Score: 1

    It the infusion of new users that drives their survival.

    I think you're right; now that everyone is on who wanted to be on it, the pyramid will begin to collapse.

  8. Don't insult the dolphins on Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? · · Score: 1

    Forget about dolphins (and chimps):

    If humans are so advanced on the evolutionary scale, how come dogs can understand our yapping and we can't understand theirs?

  9. User=MBurns:SSN=000-00-0002:IntID=865833 on Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans · · Score: 1

    What problem(-s) could another id # solve that is not already covered by MAC/IP address, paypal id, credit card+pin, (anything)+pin, social sec #, driver's license #, university ID #, library card #, etc. etc.?

    It certainly won't stop people from lying or creating false identities.

  10. If you can type with one hand . . . on Will Touch Screens Kill the Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    . . . you're spending too much time on the internet. (That's a joke from about 1995.) But I agree that the answer is no; the touchscreen on tablets require you type with one hand and (usually) with head down. The laptop or desktop+(physical)keyboard mimics the old typewriter ergos; since the keyboard layout and system of ten-finger touch typing were developed with that in mind all of them kind of go together. Gotta replace the entire system, not just one element.

  11. And Daniel Rushkoff would be . . . on Rushkoff Proposes We Fork the Internet · · Score: 1

    . . . who, exactly?

  12. no such thing as a Sci-Fi movie on NASA Names Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time · · Score: 1

    Science fiction seems like it has to be in the form of a novel to really qualify as sci-fi; movies seem to always be movies regardless of the source material or subject matter. Like comic books which should never be made into movies. ("Danger: Diabolik" being the exception that proves the rule.) IMHO

  13. emoji? on Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet · · Score: 1

    I always assumed that emoji would become the dominant internet language, no?

  14. A pro for ACTA? on UK Law Body Targets RIAA-Style Settlement Letters · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I'm misinterpreting the law here, but this may actually be a plus for ACTA since it would require legitimate, gov'tal authority to investigate infringement.

  15. Size does matter on Samsung Galaxy Tablet Coming In September · · Score: 1

    I agree that 7" is too small for it to be a computer, so the Samsung tablet must really be designed to compete with the iPhone. On the other hand, the iPad's size is already kind of small; any smaller and it would seem to be of little use around the home, so ditto for any mini-iPad's. And if you're not using these things around the house then you're probably somewhere where you'd use your phone, no?

  16. Schweddy pocaris on The Vending Machines of the Future · · Score: 1

    I could never figure out the marketing angle on that one myself. Here's the obligatory wikipedia explanation.

  17. Dogs: . . . on Dog Eats Man's Toe and Saves His Life · · Score: 1

    . . . is there anything they can't do?

  18. I'm not sure I get it . . . on Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am an organ donor.

    My wife is an organ donor.

    My children (6 and 4) are organ donors.

    . . . are you trying to say that you believe in organ donation or what?

  19. Re:Vectrex on Our Video Game Heritage Is Rotting Away · · Score: 1

    I think that adding "naive" paintings to museum holdings, and/or creating museum spaces out of places like Lascaux, is more like what you are both referring to, rather than the development of one individual artist.

  20. Ever been to NYC? on The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design · · Score: 1

    Not go all "pc" (the other kind) on you, but it's probably not a good idea to generalize all of Japan on the basis of Tokyo.

    If the entirety of the USA were like Times Square, the character of Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, TX, Miami, Iowa City, IA, etc. would all be lost in a Marlboro billboard that puffs smoke.

  21. Re:Too much configuration will make you go blind on Firefox Tab Candy Alpha · · Score: 1

    That's my point.

    The video made it seem that having/configuring tab candy would move the user forward.

    But, as you've pointed out, since the browser already provides this function in another way--one that does not have to be configured--tab candy doesn't really "solve the problem" (of absent-mindedness) but only makes the user work harder for the (human) privilege of being forgetful.

    My apologies if that was not clear in the first instance.

  22. Too much configuration will make you go blind on Firefox Tab Candy Alpha · · Score: 1

    After watching the video, there may be some good things about "tab candy" (it is nice to imagine that you could bunch tabs into little piles that would then form themselves into windows), but a lot of the downside is still there or has merely changed form.

    If you pile several tabs into one lump and close that lump w/o thinking, you may realize that you just closed something that you needed--what was it? where is it? how do I get it back?

    The problem of absent-minded browsing is always there, no matter how the windows/tabs may be rearranged.

    Also--although Aza (at least as edited) was pretty smooth at his version of 3-card monte--amidst the blur of his presentation there seemed to be a lot of time spent doing what the (software) browser wants to do (i.e. configuration) and not what the (human) browser wants to do (like reading horoscopes, nattering away on /., viewing paparazzi produce, etc.).

    After configuring speed dial, morning coffee foxtab, and all of the toolbars, and after managing bookmarks, and choosing skins, persona and theme, a person just needs to get up and go to the bathroom now and again.

  23. Gotta be a condom joke here, somewhere . . . on Australian Enterprises Block Sex Party's Political Site · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Prophylactic filters foil fornicators' free forum . . . film at five!"

  24. Going brogue? on Engineers Create Tiny Wires WIth Old Technique · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the typist was a Scotsman.

  25. Lost at sea beats drowned in BP's gulf . . . on The Gulf's Great Turtle Relocation Project · · Score: 1

    . . . but not by much.

    It's a chance, though as one of the experts in TFA said, "Why not place them into an area that is thought to be part of their normal migratory route?"

    I thought that there are loggerheads on the Atlantic/eastern seaboard beaches? Are the gulf turtles so different that they could not survive the change?