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  1. Re:Neil deGrasse Tyson on Neil deGrasse Tyson On How To Stop a Meteor Hitting the Earth · · Score: 1

    What if it's spinning on 3 axes?

  2. Re:Cars can have similar issues on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 1

    Now that you mentioned it, I can honestly say I have had this same situation and never actually thought of the issue. I just realized as soon as I saw the flashing red it had changed to 4 way stop mode I guess.

  3. Re:Br Ba on Physicists Discover a Way Around Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    Makes sense since everything is probabilities.

  4. Re:Overrated "Apple TV" on Gabe Newell: Steam Box's Biggest Threat Isn't Consoles, It's Apple · · Score: 1

    +1
    They were able to pull off iTunes by getting the content. They have the advantage when dealing with the content makers. You can't dump cable for Netflix and Hulu because you'll miss out on X, Y, and Z. Maybe they can be the ones that tackle that. That is probably a big part of what drives that fear.

  5. Re:The EU passed a law, so it's not just Germany. on Valve Sued In Germany Over Game Ownership · · Score: 1

    It goes by the country's current primary residence.

  6. Re:iTunes--no problem on Valve Sued In Germany Over Game Ownership · · Score: 1

    "At the 2009 Macworld Conference & Expo, it was announced that the iTunes Music Store would be DRM-free, with all songs DRM-free by April 2009."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itunes

  7. Re:There is a bigger problem with Steam on Valve Sued In Germany Over Game Ownership · · Score: 1

    Isilduuuuuuuuur!!!!!!

  8. Re:Being able to transfer games would be awesome on Valve Sued In Germany Over Game Ownership · · Score: 1

    How do you know what kind of gameplay this person wants? I play Call of Duty and it is definitely fun. I played a lot of Quake 3 Arena 10+ years ago and that was definitely fun (go a few rounds in between classes, hehe). Deeper gameplay? Yeah I will certainly play a different game if that's what I'm looking for, lol. A few buddies and I like Age of Empires for RTS and I love playing with them and against other people online.

    I'd be interested to hear of some good games available where you can play against a bunch of people online that have no DRM. Maybe I'd give them a try. Do those exist?

  9. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Am I missing something? Do you have some sort of launcher that fires the ammo box at high velocity? The voting box and soapbox just don't seem viable.

  10. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Shovels don't kill tanks, people kill tanks.

  11. Re:Your show! on Interviews: Ask James Randi About Investigating the Truth · · Score: 1

    I don't know much about dowsing but I have dowsed before (with grandpa when I was a kid) and the dowsing rods (copper) were consistent. I make no claims about what caused it. It was pretty darn cool anyway.

  12. Re:time to transcode again on ITU Approves H.264 Video Standard Successor H.265 · · Score: 1

    After depositing entries into the Inbox, please press the lever to send them on.

  13. Re:The key question becomes on Silicon Nanoparticles Could Lead To On-Demand Hydrogen Generation · · Score: 1

    Such as wind energy? So you don't have to run transmission lines everywhere? Make balls and truck them to the nearest railroad every so often. It could be a boon for expanding wind energy.

  14. Re:Actually, it DOES matter on MS Won't Release Study Disputing Munich's Linux-Switch Savings · · Score: 1

    Didn't several large companies agree to the licensing based on what patents MS supposedly held over Android? Are those gone now?

  15. Please stop mining Hometree! on Tour of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab · · Score: 1

    I want to see an Avatar 2.

  16. Re:HID's on Fireflies Bring Us Brighter LEDs · · Score: 1

    Like those mermaids. I saw it on Animal Planet.

  17. Re:Broken by design on Nokia Admits Decrypting User Data Claiming It Isn't Looking · · Score: 1

    I would like to know this as well. Someone with a relevant Nokia phone please visit a site with a bad cert and tell us what happens. Is there a warning and does it not go to the site immediately?

  18. Re:If it was so good then why didn't you tell us? on Nokia Admits Decrypting User Data Claiming It Isn't Looking · · Score: 1

    And that a Nokia employee might be able to see their bank data from any time they log in to their bank's site? Are there any other companies involved that see that bank data down the chain?

  19. Re:How do they even do that? on Nokia Admits Decrypting User Data Claiming It Isn't Looking · · Score: 1

    That just made me think, how will this affect the share of the government's business that Nokia receives? :)

  20. Re:Any browser publisher is the same way on Nokia Admits Decrypting User Data Claiming It Isn't Looking · · Score: 1

    Nope, they can read your brain now, sorta. Getting there though.

  21. Agriculture on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 1

    That town has a ton of agriculture (irrigated it looks) around it and it is very remote. It pretty far away for it to be feeding other points in China. Just thought I'd point that out

    Well nevermind. I looked at a map of the Midwest at the same scale and it's almost all agriculture albeit with a lot more cities.

  22. Re:Sick of this on Apple's Pinch+Zoom Patent Invalidated By Preliminary USPTO Ruling · · Score: 1

    I remember two phones ago I could text with just one hand and not even looking at the phone because I could actually feel the keys I was pressing. Actual keys. Even though I had to hit them 1 to 3 times to get the letter I needed, but I had that part memorized after a while and it actually wasn't much slower than a touchscreen.

  23. Re:You're not thinking of the children. on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 1

    A lot of children could get eaten if they let the lions through security.

  24. 16:10 on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    Make more 16:10 non-TN monitors dangit

  25. Uh digital photos? on Vector Vengeance: British Claim They Can Kill the Pixel Within Five Years · · Score: 1

    I wonder how they will be converting digital photos which have a finite number of pixels into vector images... and how will those look scaled up?
    Maybe they can invent a vector CCD to go along with it. Or go back to film :)