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  1. Re:Oh the Drivel You Will Spew on Anatomy of a Privacy Nightmare · · Score: 1

    home no.. but cars yes.. and the reasoning is.. if they want to break into it they will.. they will either slash the top (convertible) or break the window.. (hard top).. and get the item anyways..

    then i'm out the item AND have a damaged car.

    if they are going to steal the car then it doesn't matter if it's damaged or not it will be gone.

    now for the House? well i'm in it.. and if they have to break in vs walking in it might give me a little more time to dial 911 while arming my self with the doors/windows locked.

  2. Re:Looking from Europe ... on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    NC USA

  3. Re:What's the cost? on Using Flywheels to Meet Peak Power Grid Demands · · Score: 1

    and what does this have to do with your argument that they produce more CO2 to produce than other equivalent tech?

    also note that it is possible to do maglev on a rotating object using permanent magnets which would elevate the need for computer controlled bearing's

  4. Re:Looking from Europe ... on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    you know.. around here they state is looking at requiring community service hours for people collecting unemployment.. (something like 12 hours a month not much really)

    some of the people who responded to it where quoted along the lines of "its not really unemployment if you have to work for it"

  5. Re:Happened to My Wife on Google Uncovers China-Based Password Collection Campaign · · Score: 0

    if only it would happen - i hate the hurry up and wait game.

  6. Re:Less Successful than Other Reboots on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    they don't call them "comics" but rather "graphic novels" and yes kids are reading them a lot.. just not nearly as many read the DC stuff as they used to .. now they are reading different verities. (think ones where they can relate to the person who is the "hero" or protagonist)

  7. Re:What's the cost? on Using Flywheels to Meet Peak Power Grid Demands · · Score: 1

    hum this is an object spinning.. granted it might be massive and slow or lite and fast - this particular one seems to be carbon fiber so i'm going with lite and exceptionally fast.

    but if you went the other way and just did massive and slow (say 100 tons and 2000 rpm) you would still have an amazing amount of force.. and your co2 emissions would be nothing more than the cost to produce 100 tons.. they would have to produce the metal for a new coal plant.. why not do this?

    also note that why a coal plant is producing power from coal .. these fly wheels are just storing it - they don't where out like batteries and should have a much much longer usable life span..

  8. Re:novel? on Using Flywheels to Meet Peak Power Grid Demands · · Score: 1

    while it might be alot simpler - it is no where near as reliable - and will also degrade over a very short time.

  9. Re:I will never buy ati again on AMD Betting Future On the GPGPU · · Score: 1

    Anyway, nowadays I mostly just pine for that alternate universe where Intel bought ATi instead

    i don't think anyone expected AMD to buy ATI.. when i first read about it i checked the date to make sure it wasn't an April fools joke.

  10. Re:Sigh on ECS Shows Universal PadFone-Like Tablet · · Score: 1

    took me a bit to find a good picture but all i can think of is this

    http://www.gameoz.com.au/images/detailed/3/SUPER_ZOOM_LIGHT_MAGNIFIER_FOR_GAMEBOY_ORIGINAL_SYSTEM.jpg

  11. Re:Streisand Effect on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 2

    To to live in the woods somewhere and never interact with another human being.

    If only i could do that - they don't let you do it in the national forests (public land) and if you have private land they come around looking for taxs

  12. Re:Off and on on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    you call that a wing?? really that s a spoiler

    http://www.jerseyrice.com/images/rice/2f2f/big_wing1.jpg

    thats a wing.. thats the crap i'm talking about.

  13. Re:Off and on on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    well i wasn't even thinking of a "spoiler" especially a stock one from the likes of GM as a "wing" instead i was just thinking of a ricer wing

  14. Re:America : Number Four! on Skylon Spaceplane Design Passes Key Review · · Score: 2

    and on top of this being marketing - they pre-cooler is supposed to cool from 1000+c to -130c in a few feet and be able to do it for sustained flight? call me exceptionally suspect

  15. Re:I agree on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    i like that in Brazil if you get passed on the right - you get a ticket if you get rear ended on the highway and you are NOT in the slowest lane you get a ticket.

    also to all the people that block traffic by driving in the fast/passing lane doing the speed limit and snubbing your nose.. just remember there is a difference between being right and being dead right.. one of these days your going to cause an accident and get someone hurt if not killed.

    and while we are talking about cars and drivers - HANG THE FUCK UP.

  16. Re:I'm sorry Dave on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    i know what you mean - i drive a MG Midget daily - and i wish they made cars like that now.. plain & dead simple to work on (compared to modern cars)

  17. Re:Say one thing and do another on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    which is why i always call and confirm that it is matte before buying any laptop (Lenovo/dell/any can't trust any of them.)

  18. Re:Off and on on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    See: Wings/tail fins/fender holes on cars

    hey now... we drive huge cars/trucks, jack up trucks and hell even smarts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDU5BU_qSJU

    but the wings that is mostly immigrants. (except on the track)

  19. Re:Cheaper? on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    the x220 is now a 1366x768 instead of the 1280x800 the other x's where.. the only up side is you now have an option for IPS over TN which is worth it for me.. yea screens are getting wider and shorter and everyone is starting use more vertical space for navigation (w7's huge task bar and office's "ribbons") its like everyone is conspiring to make it impossible to actually use the content.

  20. Re:Maybe, but.. on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    i understand this - i just wish it was an option when ordering laptop s- tooooooo many times i sit on tech support to ask this question about a laptop before i buy it.. and if i ever end up with a glossy screen they are getting that shit back.

  21. Re:Glossy screens and sunlight on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 2

    I use my glossy-screened iPhone outside all the time. By contrast, my TomTom's matte screen from about the same year is almost completely unreadable at certain times of day.

    your iPhone being usable in the sunlight has nothing to do with it being glossy or matte bur rather that it is also a transflective screen (at least the 3GS is, your mileage may very as the iphone 4 isn't and is crap in direct sunlight)

  22. Re:Couple other things too on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    the way he phrased it in the sentence - he was referring to "high end monitors" who are all matte with the "exception of Apple"

    he got the , after Apple but missed the one after the closing )

  23. Re:Curiousity. on Nano-Viewing Record Broken · · Score: 1

    diffrence between methods of viewing - this is looking at the visible light spectrum.. we can get greater or at 1 atom resolution with electron scanning microscopes.

  24. Re:Used Book Prices Are Plummeting on Ebooks Now Outselling Print Books At Amazon · · Score: 2

    "Quantum mating habits of hedge fund computers in C++"

    you must work on wall street

  25. Re:The accent should be put... on US Preserves Smallpox For Defense · · Score: 1

    arbitrary-contangious-disease

    no.. the common cold is an "arbitrary-contangious-disease" so is the flu

    smallpox had a death rate of nearly 10% - that is not anywhere near normal for your "arbitrary-contangious-disease"