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  1. Re:Just Dell? on Dell Settles With the SEC For $100M · · Score: 1

    ...or they were more profitable than any other computer manufacturer.

  2. Re:cellphone laws on Cell Phone Group Sues San Francisco Over Radiation Law · · Score: 1

    There's good reason to suspect that per capita, rural areas still get approximately the same number of deaths from cell phone usage while driving. It's only the most congested states that have banned using a phone while driving in an attempt to gain revenue.

  3. Re:What science is behind this? on Cell Phone Group Sues San Francisco Over Radiation Law · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. A person will make a decision whether they're informed or not on specifics required to make the decision intelligently.

  4. Re:smog on Feds Bust Chinese Firm's Hybrid Car Data Heist · · Score: 5, Informative

    They have 6x the number of research papers because they give grants to the people who write the most papers without regard for quality. The result is for every legitimate paper, there's 100 that are outright wrong, plagarized (we know their ideas about sharing information), or don't have any original research.

  5. Re:Angry? on Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please, excuse him. He's used to sticking potatoes with variously-shaped holes cut in them into abnormally large openings.

  6. Re:On the other hand... on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 1

    From PETA's perspective, that's not any better.

  7. Re:What did you expect? on Dell Ships Infected Motherboards · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just because they don't know how to put the words together coherently into sentences following proper grammatical structures doesn't mean they can't write. It means they're not going to be writing research papers.

    Also, if you think the criteria for India and China's literacy rates is different or inherently superior to the US, you'd be sorely mistaken.

  8. Re:We're number one on WSJ's Mossberg Calls For a Tougher Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    You can both make more money and waste more; the conditions aren't exclusive.

  9. Re:We pay a lot more on WSJ's Mossberg Calls For a Tougher Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    The obvious question is why France or Germany has better value. Do they simply not value broadband as much as we do?

    Wasn't there some sort of bandwidth metering issue when talking about European internet connections?

  10. Re:Anything faster than Dialup is an improvement on WSJ's Mossberg Calls For a Tougher Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    >>>768k up. That makes my local FTP server a little sluggish

    Bah. When I ran my own BBS the upload speed was only 9 kbit/s (premium subscription; non-subscribers only got the standard 2k speed). I would have thought I had died and angels were sucking my ____ if I had a 768k uploading capability for my bulletin board

    Too bad he's not running technology that's older than half the computer-using population.

  11. Re:Lies. on StarCraft II Cost $100 Million To Develop · · Score: 1

    The last times they made a second game in a series, they had friggin Warcraft 2 and Diablo 2. They're expecting this to be massive, just like the former second releases in their other series.

  12. Re:2 megabits per second? on UK Delays National Broadband For Three Years · · Score: 1

    Even in my remote town in the middle of nowhere,

    So, you live in one of the territories, then?

    You need to ask with the proper "eh?" at the end.

  13. Re:The fact is, US is just as bad as China on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 1

    Name any that are American. Oh, right, you can't.

  14. Re:See and Avoid on Can Drones Really Get National Airspace Access? · · Score: 1

    A camera on the front of the drone, instead of on the bottom.

  15. Re:Caveat on Can Drones Really Get National Airspace Access? · · Score: 1

    Just because there's a person in the cockpit doesn't mean their intent is good.

  16. Re:The fact is, US is just as bad as China on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 1

    We respect the civil rights of our citizens. Faisel Shazad got a trial like any citizen. He got mirandized. He wasn't thrown in Gitmo and left to rot.

    Principles, upheld. Unlike China, where their targets are all their own citizens.

  17. Re:The fact is, US is just as bad as China on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 1

    The point is we are doing the very things we say we are against when other nations do them. If terrorists can drive the US government to abandon its principles and find clever ways to justify it, then that's a victory for those terrorists. It's a real shame, for they do not deserve any victory of any sort.

    The last time we had a citizen who would've gone to Gitmo had he been a foreign citizen, he ended up getting a trail, and mirandized, just like any citizen. Remember Faizel Shazad?

    Sorry, but none of our values have been sacrificed. Citizens of the US are still citizens, and get treated as such.

  18. Re:The fact is, US is just as bad as China on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 1

    A grammatist?

  19. Re:What happened to the rumours... on New Oddworld Games In Development · · Score: 1

    The Abe games are already on Steam.

  20. Re:side effect on First 'Malaria-Proof' Mosquito Created · · Score: 1

    I was implying that you suddenly get a spike in a random mammal in the food chain, which leads to the decimation of another animal, and we hit another side effect of messing with the world.

  21. side effect on First 'Malaria-Proof' Mosquito Created · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just wait for the population explosion in (random mammal) once these mosquitoes start taking over.

  22. Re:Not Facebook! on Man Claims 84% of Facebook, Gets Order Blocking Assets · · Score: 1

    damnit, bad mod (being undone)

  23. Re:If Obama wants to do something easy.... on Electric Cars Won't Strain the Power Grid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He's giving LED more time to catch up to CF in initial investment price because of the HAZMAT issues with CF bulbs....

  24. Re:If Obama wants to do something easy.... on Electric Cars Won't Strain the Power Grid · · Score: 1

    The special that would air on CNN in 30 years in the alternate universe where you are the sole decision maker of the US: "Energy: At Any Cost".

  25. Re:What if... on Electric Cars Won't Strain the Power Grid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People won't pick a car with the same performance if a more powerful option is available, marketers know that and will will bolt high kW motors in given the option. Saying but you can achieve the same performance with a lower power engine appeals to greenies only. End result, high load on the grid.

    Ah, so nobody buys the V4 Accord, V4 Mustang, or any other car with a more powerful engine available?