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  1. Re:I had one once! on Best Tablet PC For Classroom Instruction? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ugghhh...by all means stay away from HP tablets in general. Their hinges are complete crap, and their mainboards go out continually. HP & Compaq (same company so that's a shocker!) some serious quality control issues. The Lenovo tablet PCs are vastly superior in comparison.

  2. Re:Not really... on Court To Scammer, "Give Up Your House Or Go To Jail" · · Score: 1

    And please take all your Californian's back! Vegas was better off without them!!!

  3. Re:Woah. That was me! on Windows Marketplace For Mobile Kill Switch Details · · Score: 1

    Orrrrrr if you pwn your iPhone you can kill the killswitch.

  4. Re:ROI on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    10 years? I've yet to have the spiral CCFLs last over 1.5 years.

  5. What privacy at the library? on Librarians Express Concern Over Google Books · · Score: 1

    You mean the kind of privacy that gets you on the FBI's watch-list if you checkout books like the Anarchist's cookbook?

  6. Re:Little off topic.. on Apple Dominates "Premium PC" Market · · Score: 1

    Seriously! Some Oliver Peoples I picked up 3 years ago, and subsequently left on a train in Japan have devalued about 1/6th, and actually gone up depending on the color! Gota love people who usually don't understand much more than Oakley. When you buy trash, of course it won't hold it's price.

  7. Re:That's the real meaning of "voting with your fe on Amazon Cuts Off North Carolina Affiliates · · Score: 1

    Letting it get anywhere near a decision process would have given it legitimacy and traction. Having the state say "oops, you caught us, we won't try it ever again" goes allot further to stamp the crap out of this garbage.

  8. Re:insert fallout 3 jokes here on North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    I loled...

  9. Re:Adeona on Adeona Warns of Instability; OpenDHT Mothballed · · Score: 1

    Actually you just have to short the bios chip on the motherboard for a moment, and password goes away. I only know this because I get asked to fix this issue once a week, and wondered about other ways one day. None the less, at our shop, we turn down bios password issues on laptops and refer to the manufacturer no matter who brings it in. Stupidity has a cost, and thievery should not be aided.

  10. Re:Insightful analysis... four years late. on Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't know anything about drivers do you? So what if Apple opened up their OS tomorrow to ALL shitty hardware on the market they would fail. OSX is a solid little thing because Apple tests the hell out of hardware in their machines. So much of MS's time is spent making sure every cheap POS PCI card you drop into your system works halfway. Apple would go from making something elegant, and functional to damage control overnight just like MS.

  11. Re:I have one of those... on A Look Back At the World's First Netbook · · Score: 1

    Mmmmm I think I had a similar experience with something that killed netbooks. Just allot later. Had a Fujitsu P7120. That thing is what netbooks today wish they could be. Such a shame Centrino was a bust. Today I just use my Fujitsu S3050D. Such a nice & light machine. Certainly a trade-off ditching a traditional keyboard though. Worth it too!

  12. Re:Don't forget the battery on A Look Back At the World's First Netbook · · Score: 1

    Annnnd this is funny why? The poster obviously has never used one of these. I was mucking about with one a few weeks ago and the damn thing lasted for over 4 hours! Hell I'm sure that battery in it was over 5 years old too. Damn slick machine.

  13. 120W UV??? on New Take on Self-Healing Polymer Could Mean Scratch-Free Screens · · Score: 1

    Can we say melanoma?

    1) Deal with my stupidity, keep the scratch, or buy another device.
    2) Use a number of cheap screen protectors I toss once destroyed.
    3) Pay gobs of cash for the tech then risk melanoma to repair a scratch.

    I don't know about you, but I'll take option 1 or 2 over number 3.

  14. Re:Digital broadcast on Why TV Lost · · Score: 1

    You mean like Netflix instant watch on the 360? Oops...too late...

  15. Re:Proven to kill... on Obama To Reverse Bush Limits On Stem Cell Work · · Score: 1

    Trust me...I'm completely on your side, but you do know that there's this place called Korea where once your born, you have your first birthday 3 months later right? Just dropping helpful facts so you don't use sources that will be used against you in the future.

  16. Re:That woman is insane... on Net Neutrality Still Lives · · Score: 1

    Hmmmmm...we haven't had a good Commie hunt in a long time. Could be a way to get rid of these crazy ass politicos.

  17. Re:This seems abrupt on Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate · · Score: 1

    Speed is a big thing to me. 7 is passable on my Tablet PC where Vista chokes on it. Main issue I have with it is ZERO support from Intel for the damn 915 chipset. A serious WTF???

  18. Re:Will recomend most to lose weight??? on Wii Check-Up Channel · · Score: 1

    Trust me...Japan's obesity problem is nothing next to the US. I've lived there while. Walking usually an hour a day just to get around REALLY makes it hard to be unhealthily overweight. I'm pretty much lean mass, and after my time there I dropped 20lbs. Where the hell I lost it is beyond me! I think I saw maybe two people I'd consider even slightly overweight in that country that weren't sloppy foreigners.

  19. Re:let's reboot this joke on Microsoft Surface To Coordinate SuperBowl Security · · Score: 1

    Yeah...for those of us who have used Surface...it's not even a joke. The damn thing crashes like clockwork. It's got a very robust way of handling it, but it blows ass if your trying to do something with it and you get an error stating the damn thing is restarting yet again! The damn things less reliable than Windows 98.

  20. Will recomend most to lose weight??? on Wii Check-Up Channel · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sorry but this is for Japan, not America.

  21. Re:But what is the replacement policy? on Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows · · Score: 1

    Check Seagate's warranty page. Their policy was updated shortly after their 5 year policy went into effect. A 5 year warranty is great, but it'll run you $19.99 to do the advanced replacement now. It's beyond stupid. With drive prices the way they are now, that 19.99 has me 1/3 of the way to a new 500GB drive instead of a refurbed 200GB!

  22. Re:SUVs on Can the Auto Industry Retool Itself To Build Rails? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Then how do countries like Japan get their materials around? I think in all my journeys with that country I can count on one hand how many trucks I saw like we see everywhere in the US. Instead they use the far less fashionable box-trucks to get things that last mile. They are used for work, and can carry a whole hell of allot more with allot less waste.

  23. Re:Cool on Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts · · Score: 1

    The Japanese have this weird hangup about 2nd hand stuff. Boggles my mind, but I love it when I'm in Japan. Few want the stuff, and the original owners were anal-retentive Japanese so are generally practically new after a few years use! End up with near mint condition stuff for less than what would show heavy use stateside.

  24. Re:without any humans ever having been involved on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    Or just buy one of these, and eliminate the whole license-plate from the camera. Some people will take the less safe way to do things, I personally will take the effective way. You have my face...so what? Don't have a plate to match it to?

    http://www.phantomplate.com/reflector.html

  25. Re:It's Evolving on Survival-Horror Genre Going Extinct? · · Score: 1

    Why wait? Books have just as linear a progression without a $60 pricetag.