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  1. Re:Why? on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Only because there aren't any windmills around...

  2. Re:and... on Steve Jobs Tries To Sneak Shurikens On a Plane · · Score: 1

    Could he bring the shurikens on board if he were flying from a private airport?

  3. Re:and... on Steve Jobs Tries To Sneak Shurikens On a Plane · · Score: 1

    I was there in '08 and '09, and Narita airport seemed much more lax than any of the 4 US airports I went through to get there and back (Cleveland, Newark, Minneapolis, and Salt Lake City). On the way back my last time visiting, I walked right through the metal detector with my belt on in Narita and was fine. When I walked through the metal detector in Minneapolis with the exact same stuff (everything out of my pockets, only my belt which I assumed was fine from before), the same belt set off the metal detector and I had to remove it.

    On the whole, however, I was rather pleased with the speed and courtesy afforded to the customers on both sides of the Pacific, and am glad that I haven't been witness to any of these airport horror stories that have come about lately. I just try to be courteous and patient with the people running the airport, and they seem to extend the same back to me.

  4. Re:It's down to the cost of one disk? on The Recovery Disc Rip-Off · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it doesn't. If I can buy a 100 pack of DVDRs and burn one for $0.50, they can buy 1 million DVDRs and burn one for $0.05. They've already paid for the license, so why won't they give you a frickin' disc?

  5. Re:Ummm what? on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Whoever possesses any insignia... or any colorable imitation thereof... shall be fined... or imprisoned... or both"

    Okay so I had to go and look this one up. Because there are so many ...'s that pretty much all of the information is missing. That sentence fracture they chose doesn't even mention any government insignia's, at first I thought ALL insignia's were outlawed.

    Anyways, so here's the full deal.

    Don't you know that the FBI has William Shatner as their lawyer? Those weren't omissions, they were just accurately quoting his speech!

  6. Re:centrifugal forces on The Physics of a Rolling Rubber Band · · Score: 1

    It's the centripetal forces that are pulling the band towards the center, there is no force pushing the band outwards (the band really just wants to keep going in a straight line, but can't due to the force pulling it inwards). It is easier to illustrate with the weight being swung in a circle attached to the end of a string, where the string is providing the inward force.

  7. Re:Here's your roundup on iPhone 4 News Roundup · · Score: 1

    I can tell you don't live west of the Mississippi River. There's a LOT of open country to cover out here. Most Interstate Highway speed limits are 80, which means you'll get passed a lot if you do 80. Does this somehow affect your manhood if you are getting passed on the highway? I usually enjoy laughing at the people spun off the side of the freeway during snowstorms that had passed me by a mile back.

  8. Re:A GUI for the motherboard? on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 1

    Yes! I have seen options in my BIOS where there was a lengthy description about a function in the little column to the right of the settings, and it was CUT OFF at the most important part, because there was no more room. At the least, it could allow for scrolling the description, or even allow the use of a smaller font than 80x24 DOS layout on my 1920x1200 monitor.

  9. Re:Bluff City is south of Bristol Motor Speedway on Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain · · Score: 1

    That is ridiculous. That's about the fastest over the speed limit I go (maybe 28 in a 25 from a % view), and I drive 45 in 45, 65 on 65mph freeway. Pretty much as slow as you can go without being below the limit.

    Being able to get a speeding ticket for that is not right. If you get a ticket for that, it had better be no point on your license and a total fine of ~$10.

  10. Re:A GUI for the motherboard? on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 1

    Good lord, that's like installing Win7 and putting a Win3.1 frontend on there just so it doesn't look any different!

  11. Re: A police officer's view on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    How will that prevent said head-smashing if you are far away and recording him without his knowledge?

  12. Re:Didn't see that one coming. on 3rd Grader Accused of Hacking Schools' Computer System · · Score: 1

    allowing the school district to handle the half-grown hacker.

    Oh, they still have plenty of time to overreact on him, just that the police won't be involved.

  13. Re:Why is the judge going after Trudeau on Spamming a Judge Is Contempt of Court · · Score: 1

    You are bidding on an xbox 360 box. This box does not contain an xbox 360. It will not play your xbox 360 games. It is a box that you may purchase if you wish to increase the resale value of your xbox 360 by including complete packaging...

  14. Re:Listen to a 3rd party on Chicago Debates Merits of ShotSpotter Technology · · Score: 1

    They fire continuously and they move, unlike this system.

    Drive by?

  15. Re:It's a TELEPHONE on Sprint Unveils HTC Evo 4G Super Phone · · Score: 1

    Because, usually, the camera is on the opposite side of the phone from the screen. This is one of the few devices we'll have gotten over here that has both regular camera and front facing camera. I remember one old phone that had a camera that you could rotate back and forth (maybe some old samsung?), and then there was the unlocked GSM Touch Pro that had a front facing camera, but it's definitely not a COMMON feature over here yet.

  16. Re:Solid Clock Display on LG's Windows Phone 7 Series Early Prototype · · Score: 1

    I would say if it is half as popular as the Zune, Microsoft has nothing to worry about. If it's TWICE as popular as the Zune, Microsoft still has nothing to worry about. :-)

    If it's TWICE as popular as the Zune, Google/Apple/Nokia/Palm/etc still have nothing to worry about. :-)

  17. Re:Well... on Xbox Live For Original Xbox Games Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    Deprecated is a commonly used term in computer science / programming.

  18. Re:This just in... on Murdoch Says E-Book Prices Will Kill Paper Books · · Score: 1

    Actually, the e readers will probably become more useful as we age, since they can adjust the type size dynamically. I figure every 10 years or so I can bump the font up one size on my kindle. At which point I will be 90 years old and reading 72 pt. font on there.

  19. Re:Dammit... on Offline Book "Lending" Costs US Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Except that libraries loan out CDs and DVDs too, so those ten people could have ripped them for their own use at home, thus creating 10 more copies.

  20. Re:They suck at math too on BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice · · Score: 1

    Sucking at math is not limited to the BBC. Why, just yesterday, I was eating my Stouffer's© Macaroni and Cheese, and on the back of the box it listed the serving size as 225g, with "about" 2 servings per box. The net weight was 340g, which comes out to approx. 1.5 servings even. My Daily Plate would have been about 160 cals higher if I had just been lazy and told it I ate 2 servings...

    1.5 != "About 2"

  21. Re:Cars??? on Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed · · Score: 1

    My $5 wal-mart charger will stop charging my AA batteries when they're full, surely they could do the same thing with a nuclear battery charging a LiIon...

  22. Re:Virtual box on Virtualbox 3.0 Announces OpenGL/Direct3D Support · · Score: 1

    From TFA: Another important feature is the new SMP (Symmetrical Multiprocessing) guest support with no more than 32 virtual processors. That's what I care about more than opengl/directx. I just want to be able to run sony vegas / windows encoding apps without being throttled to a single core.

  23. Re:I can see it now on Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? · · Score: 1

    I think they stopped shrinking the tab width quite a while ago. Now the tab bar just scrolls side to side. It makes everything readable (as much as it was with only a couple tabs open), but you can't see all of your tabs at one time. So, no, my tabs are not 20 pixels wide.

  24. Re:I Could Be Really Excited About This--Maybe on GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks · · Score: 1

    Were you talking about Millipede?

  25. Re:I Could Be Really Excited About This--Maybe on GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the jetpack you use while planted firmly on the ground?