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  1. You are gonna lose on Thought-Provoking Gifts For Young Kids? · · Score: 1

    Just buy them what they want. I always hated it when my older brother bought me things for my birthday that I explicitely did not want. I even told him what I wanted and told him not to buy me what he thought would be suited best for me. Now we are both grown ups and he still buys me stuff I hide in my closet.

    You don't want to end like this!

  2. ex-Apple software engineer Jens Alfke was granted on Did an Apple Engineer Invent FB Messages In 2003? · · Score: 1

    a patent...WHAT?!?

    Does Steve know about this?!

  3. ARM cores to take the place of the x86 dominion? on ARM Readies Cores For 64-Bit Computing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Would be the most exciting revolution to watch. Since it has a totally different design it changes the parameters of how hardware end products can be built.

    As ARM cores are so simple and ARM Holding does not have their own fabs, anyone could come up with their own optimized ARM-compatible CPUs. It's one of those moments when the right economics and the right technology could fuse together and change stuff.

  4. Did anyone notice on Most Detailed View of Dark Matter Mapped By Hubble · · Score: 1

    It looks like a giant cosmic brain! I think they are onto someone.

  5. Plastic surgery on Ears Might Be Better Than Fingerprints For ID · · Score: 1

    You can alter the form of the ear surgically, even so that it matches another person's ear. But you can't fake another person's fingerprint that way, even altering the fingerprint surgically so that it still looks natural afterwards is impossible today.

  6. Re:not placebo on The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs · · Score: 1

    I am going to press it because how the heck do I know whether its connected or not?

    By not pressing the button.

  7. Not this again... they are hexane junkies. on Workers Poisoned Making Touchscreen Hardware · · Score: 1

    Inhalation of high concentrations produces first a state of mild euphoria, followed by somnolence with headaches and nausea.

  8. Only in America NSA has its own chip plant on Hiding Backdoors In Hardware · · Score: 1

    to use this technique against Soviet Russia!

  9. Re:About time to replace the Bill Gates Borg on The Android Invasion Cometh; Is Resistance Futile? · · Score: 1

    ...at least it is called Android, not Cyborg.

  10. About time to replace the Bill Gates Borg on The Android Invasion Cometh; Is Resistance Futile? · · Score: 1

    And make a Larry Page and Sergey Brin Borg pictogram.

  11. ...an extension to the Jav on New Programming Language Weaves Security Into Code · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Weaves Security Into Code, that sounds dingely goodie!!! No, really!!!

  12. This is a declaration of war on Chertoff Advocates Cyber Cold War · · Score: 1

    against us.

  13. Swing them into earth's orbit with a 'small' probe on The Best Near-Term Future of Space Exploration? · · Score: 1

    Once they're in safe orbit, mine them here, I mean there in our orbit. I guess it's cheaper to tip them a little into our direction than to start the mining there. No, anything else than that would simply be impossible unless we want a net waste.

    Ion thrusters should do the trick. The asteroids may even have the propellant themselves and an energy source should be the least of the problems. After a decade or so, the asteroids arrive to be harvested. Da-woop!

  14. MT-32 owns them all on The Secret of Monkey Island Shows Evolution of PC Audio · · Score: 1

    The Roland LAPC-I sounds absolutely amazing even better than the CD version. The AdLib sounds great, too. It's just the right retro sound.

  15. Do not deny it: It works! on Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype? · · Score: 1

    if the source was using four color planes.... It's a iconic dilemma of our "multimedia" times: the least capable transition stage defines the quality of a media product. Be it the framerate, psychovisual quality or psychoacoustic quality. Or with 3D emerging, pseudo, badly filmed and correctly filmed 3D. Of course it's a hype as long as the source is not good enough. It's a hype just like SACD has been a hype, or HDCD or DVD-A been one, because you cannot fucking hear a difference. The sad thing though is, that we will never know if Quattron is a scam... because there's no RGBY material.

  16. Scary that the one who is saving us from The Man on Google Attorney Slams ACTA Copyright Treaty · · Score: 1

    also seems to be the most privacy intruding corporation of them all, Google.

    How low did the internet folks sink to let Google lawyers speak up for them?!?

  17. With the speeds of USB 3.0, why not? on Will Game Cartridges Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    It would also give the distributors the illusion that the new cartridges might be protectable... until crack groups proof them wrong again.

  18. It's simple really, contain the smaller aisle on Hot Aisle Or Cold Aisle For Containment? · · Score: 1

    It's always easier to keep the heat away from the cold the smaller the containment area is. So if the hot aisle is small then contain it, if the cold aisle is small then contain the cold aisle. The smaller the aisle, the smaller the walls of the containment, the lesser the surface area, the more effective the insulation.

  19. endless exBOREation options on Review: Mass Effect 2 · · Score: 1

    Mass Effect was inexplainably hyped for no reason. Whoever tried to do all the side-quests (and survived the boredom) knows how badly the game was able to look and be played.

  20. Of course, Apple invented the board game. on Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? · · Score: 1

    They did, didn't they?

  21. Finally, pressing the buttons harder make it work. on New Touchscreen Technology Like Writing On Paper · · Score: 1

    Although this might be very old news to secretaries and office workers.

    Accelerometers already sense when the device is being thrown, now with the pressure sensitive touchpad, the device is finally fully luser-ready.

  22. Re:Typical /. BS on Game Distribution Platforms Becoming Annoyingly Common · · Score: 1

    Lets see whose games will last longer.

    Ok, the bet is on!

  23. Re:One of the many reasons I only play pirated gam on Game Distribution Platforms Becoming Annoyingly Common · · Score: 1

    I don't know where your friends and family get their cracks from, but it seems to be the wrong place.

  24. I never bought a game via Steam and never will on Game Distribution Platforms Becoming Annoyingly Common · · Score: 1

    I had installed Steam back in the days of CS 1.6 when they made the transition to using Steam. I know there are currently a lot of interesting independent games sold and distributed by Steam, and not to mention some of the major games. But I just don't want to install and load software onto my system that way. The whole idea that I use a content access system where I log in with an ID (wtf?!?) in order to browse and install games as "modules" is just freaking me out. I'm not in control of what is happening, although I'm the admin of my machine. That's just plain weird and wrong.

  25. Goodbye NY Times on NY Times To Charge For Online Content · · Score: 1

    And that was that. What news' next, /.?