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  1. self winding pacemaker on The Challenges of Tapping Blood Flow For Power · · Score: 0

    ok, seriously, what's wrong with the idea of using motion to generate small amounts of power like they do with watches? just put that mechanism in the pacemaker and you dont have to worry about this other garbage.

  2. "clans" on Valve's Newell: One-Price-For-Everyone Business Model 'Broken' · · Score: 0

    so now you can get a group of kids that want to monopolize part of the server that all say each other are fun and anyone else is terrible. they do this already but now the difference is going to be that there will be consequences for everyone they screw oever

    there go the profits!

  3. slashvertised on Dropbox Accused of Lying About Security · · Score: 0

    dont you hate it when you Slashvertize something and then it comes to bite you in the ass... twice now.

  4. beaten to the punch on L.A. Noire 'Blurs the Line' Between Story and Game · · Score: 1

    Heavy Rain was a bit more restrictive but it had a real and emotional story. If you check out the ratings on gamefly you will see a pattern, adults who loved the game, giving it a 10/10 rating and children who said it was boring and giving it a 1/10 rating. It really could be made into a movie and the critics would love it.

  5. dear google... on Google Engineers Deny Hack Exploited Chrome · · Score: 0

    please write your own implementation of flash! adobe is dragging it's feet and will always be a problem!

    xoxo,
    Dr Tiny Cat

  6. why negotiations broke down. on Google Launching Music Service Without Labels · · Score: 0

    RIAA> ok, here's the deal, you gotta help us sue everyone that uses bittorrent. we are sure some of them are stealing music.
    Google> that's kinda against our mantra of dont be evil.
    RIAA> yeah, that's the other thing, that's the first thing to go.
    Google> umm... no.
    RIAA> clearly you are harboring pirates! see you in court!

  7. take a bite out of crime! on Prison Guard Dog Gets Titanium Teeth · · Score: 0

    but seriously, if this dog was biting a board it means they werent giving him something to chew like a rawhide bone. dogs a going to chew on something no matter what, so you might as well make sure it's not going to break their teeth off.

  8. i'll buy it if... on The World's Smallest Video Camera · · Score: 0

    ...it comes with a DIY endoscopy handbook though a man page will suffice.

  9. always underpowered to save money. on What Developers Want From the Wii's Successor · · Score: 0

    if you follow Nintendo's choice in hardware, you will see that even from the very beginning they have always used cheap-o hardware.

    the NES's 6502 chip was out of date.
    the Gameboy's z80 CPU was cut down to being a weakling.
    The SNES was vastly underpowered.
    the N64 is where they took a RISC (get it?) and went with a decent CPU but it failed due to carts costing too much.
    the GBA had a cheap-o ARM chip that couldnt calculate it's way out of a one wall maze and the DS is the same way.
    the GameCube was out-of-date when it was release and the Wii a mere update and still underpowered.

    the reason for this nonsense is what Nintendo loves, money. if you can make a console for cheap and sell it for a bundle, you get a lot of money off sales.
    Nintendo is the ultimate marketing machine. they took a crappy handheld (Gameboy) and made a TON of sales just by selling it in different colors.

    my point is, the next console will likely be Gamecube 2.0 (Wii was Gamecube 1.5) but they will market the hell out of it as always and get a ton of cash in doing so.

  10. one step closer... on Robotic "Tongue" Lets You French Kiss Over The Internet · · Score: 0

    to punching people over the internet.

  11. techweb.com: keep your hands out of my cookie jar on Black Hat, DEFCON Founder Named CSO of ICANN · · Score: 0

    The page isn't redirecting properly

    Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

    This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.

    i dont care why they need cookies but i refuse to let everyone store shit on my computer. prove yourself first and th-oh wait nevermind.

  12. in other words... on EV Fast-Charging Standards In Flux · · Score: 0

    it's exactly the same problem as we have with current power plugs. the US will (eventually) have a standard and nobody in Europe will agree on one.

  13. addressing the wrong problem on A Closer Look At Immersion Cooling For the Data Center · · Score: 0

    the problem is that there is too much heat which mostly from the processors. the processors generate heat be cause of the amount of power they consume and retain. a better designed CPU could solve this problem and in fact it's already been made. ARM processors put of very little heat and the next generation off them is going to be faster than 2GHz with four cores.

    fix the problem dont just treat the symptoms.

  14. Who do you trust? on Microsoft Blasts Google For False Claims In Court Documents · · Score: 0

    would you really take the word of Microsoft over Google? come on, microsoft is even copying google's search results and saying it's fair. i would wager my life savings on google being honest on this matter.

  15. all in the name of peace on US Navy Close To On-Ship Laser Cannons · · Score: 0

    peace through superior firepower

  16. stardate 64771.9 on Holograms That Don't Change Color As You Move · · Score: 1

    holodeck 50% complete. break out the synthohol because we're going to party like it's stardate 9999!

  17. it's true!... on Elderly Georgian Woman Cuts Armenian Internet · · Score: 0

    internet. serious business.

  18. brilliant scientist on Sex After a Field Trip Yields Scientific Discovery · · Score: 0

    "[Foy] and [his wife] reported having vaginal sexual intercourse in the days after [Foy] returned home but before the onset of his clinical illness."

    "My wife wasn't happy with what happened afterwards," Foy adds.

    YA THINK?!

  19. was it actually libel on Google Loses Autocomplete Defamation Case · · Score: 0

    what is really important is what the search results returned. did the name in question (the client's name is redacted from everything) combined with fraud or con man return results about this man? if not, is it really libel? what if there is a person with the same name that IS a fraud and a con man? assuming you are the ONLY person with your name is arrogant.

  20. System security is only as strong as... on RSA Says SecurID Hack Based On Phishing With Flash 0-Day · · Score: 0

    ... the Microsoft products used in it.

  21. Ethically unsound list on Microsoft On List of Most Ethical Companies · · Score: 1

    If you didnt notice, Forbes didnt even make their own list. Was the way they chose the list of people even ethical?

    Yes, it is a list of ethical companies and the ones we invest our money in. What's wrong with that?

  22. Re:It still exposes fatal X bugs on First Look At Chrome 10 · · Score: 0

    i have never seen chrome crash X. in fact, i havent seen nvidia drivers crash in forever. are you sure you are using the latest version? then again, it may be your specific model of video card that has this issue. X is never supposed to crash and if it does, it's not Chrome that has the problem, it's the nvidia drivers.

  23. not really on New Hardware Needed For Future Computational Brain · · Score: 0

    no, it's a feature.

  24. Re:The truth is on In-Depth Look At HTML5 · · Score: 0

    Google and OSS people have to stop being like a little kid and accept that H.264 is already everywhere

    NAH AH!

  25. Re:Microsoft Virus Installer on Microsoft Adds Selective ActiveX Filtering to IE9 · · Score: 0

    The problem is that ActiveX is more or less a GLOBAL, system wide plugin system versus a web browser specific api like nsplugin.

    almost all browsers, except IE uses the "nsplugin" aka NPAPI. this means that the MAJORITY of browsers use NPAPI. so what's the problem? check it out...

    NPAPI is solely for Internet plugins, while ActiveX is used for a wide variety of purposes, including application composition in windows applications. A typical Windows user has a vast array of ActiveX controls installed, a number of which are probably marked "safe for scripting", but are not actually secure.