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  1. Re:Ridiculous patent system on ITC Judge Calls For US Xbox Import Ban · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, they get labeled as a shill when the account is made fresh just for the story. Their position on issues is secondary.

  2. Re:Seriously, please give these sane names on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 1

    Still sold well in spanish speaking countries.

  3. Re:Seriously, please give these sane names on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 1

    So as long as it has a cool name you'll use it, even if it just plain sucks ass?

  4. Re:No Windows? on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 1

    Naw, step four is laugh when it runs at 1 frame per minute.

  5. Re:No Windows? on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, a Windows OS that will most likely never be released and that this product does not meet the minimum requirements of.

  6. Re:How about one with a standard memory socket? on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 1

    Do you have any idea how much that would increase the cost of this device?

    This device is not getting talked about because it is a great computer substitute, but because it is cheap. Take away cheap and this has no market.

  7. Re:It doesn't say... on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know the other two people did mention that it is in the article and in the summary, but I would also like to point out that it was also in the very title at the top of your screen.

  8. Re:No 1080 support? on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 1

    They were aiming for in-expensive which means cutting corners.

    If you want a mini-computer where they didn't cut some corners for cost you can find tons of them, just not many are under $100

    So yea, adding a SATA port would have killed the project most likely.

  9. Re:No Windows? on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 1

    Step one: Locate a version of Windows that runs on ARM processors.

    Step two: Locate a version of Crysis that runs on an ARM processor.

    No need for a step three until you finish the first two steps.

  10. Re:Summary is somewhat misleading on Researchers Can Generate RSA SecurID Random Numbers Flawlessly · · Score: 2

    As opposed to the ones you get at the arcade?

  11. Re:Why is it so smooth? on Moon Methone Meets Cassini · · Score: 1

    Is the resolution high enough to tell if it is actually smooth?

  12. Re:Tiny airplane seats on Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Also gotta love the built-in head rests that are just around the shoulder level so I end up sitting in a leaning forward position. I'm only 5'10 and I have that issue, I can just imagine how much it sucks for you.

    Oh, and here is real picture of the seats Ryan air was proposing.

    http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSZkjqkDDaG1FAq3L-GlsrQD1sEKAfW3_9Blteu7kLUQhzod34t

  13. Re:needs room for on Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of making a full blown Lisa Nowak crack, but decided to try to be a bit subtle and leave that up to the people responding.

  14. Re:Americans need not apply on Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle · · Score: 2

    No, but it is a significant amount of the population.

    I haven't weighed less than 160 lbs since sophomore year of high school. I've never been described as fat, most people guess my weight around 20-35 lbs less than I actually weigh.

  15. Re:Unsustainable. on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    Was going off of the fossil water article that used the Ogallala aquifer as an example.

  16. Re:What? on Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle · · Score: 1

    I would figure it would be a water landing. So you get the pleasure of being a buoy bouncing around in the ocean until you get picked up.

  17. Re:needs room for on Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they'll purchase some of NASA's adult diaper technology.

  18. Re:Tiny airplane seats on Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Too late.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8779388.stm

    Perhaps though if you were laying down people wouldn't complain as much and then they could stack people in.

  19. Re:Americans need not apply on Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle · · Score: 2

    Also just about anyone who works out on a regular basis.

    Just because someone is heavy, that doesn't mean that they are fat.

  20. Re:My eyes! The goggles do nothing! on Nmap 6 Released Featuring Improved Scripting, Full IPv6 Support · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If this is the quality of their HTML and CSS code, that doesn't give me much optimism about the quality of their C code.

    Why? Just because they didn't spend time making it look pretty for you?

  21. Re:A Moment of Silence and Respect please... on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Successfully Reaches Orbit · · Score: 1

    I wonder if that might have been part of the reason for a very cautious launch. They didn't want a million geeks pissed at them for blowing up Scotty.

  22. Re:Warming up the three new superpowers on Google Finalizes Acquisition of Motorola Mobility · · Score: 1

    I use a blu-ray player for all the functionality you listed above, I just can't play games on it or HD-DVD.

  23. Re:Dams on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    There is an volume that is locked behind the damn.

    There used to be a volume of water locked away in deep aquifers which do not get replenished.

    If the damns let loose then that volume of water behind the damns would help increase the sea level, much in the same way that the water that used to be in deep aquifers is increasing the sea level.

  24. Re:Unsustainable. on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    The question should be "So how long can we use fossil water at this rate before we run out?"

    This is what they are talking about.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_water

    This is the one we should worry about in the US.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer

    About 27 percent of the irrigated land in the United States overlies this aquifer system, which yields about 30 percent of the nation's ground water used for irrigation. In addition, the aquifer system provides drinking water to 82 percent of the people who live within the aquifer boundary.

  25. Re:Really? on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    The volume behind the dam is going to remain fairly steady.