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  1. You neanderthal on The Dying DVR Box and Woz Wisdom · · Score: 1

    The earth is 6,000 years old

  2. Re:I'm sorry... on The Dying DVR Box and Woz Wisdom · · Score: 2

    So basically what you’re saying is you’re not in favor of taking chances and living life to its fullest. Woz is a brilliant, creative man who instead of focusing his life on earning as much money as he could, went off to teach 5-8 graders for 8 years after leaving Apple. I think his comments on education and especially on creating an innovative atmosphere in our schools have a great deal of validity.

  3. Re:Generations on Intel Replaces Consumer SSD Line, Nixes SLC-SSD · · Score: 2

    The Marvell controller is only being used in the higher-end 510 series SSD that was announced last month. That SSD is being aimed at gamers, workstations and such. This is being marketed to laptop and desktop users, even though it's winding up in data centers.

  4. Told you so on DHS Eyes Covert Body Scans · · Score: 1

    This was an obvious extension to the FUD factor being created by DHS.

  5. Previous attempts to measure the rotation on Earth's Inner Core Rotation Slower Than Estimated · · Score: 1, Funny

    Attempts by scientists to measure the earth's rotation at its core failed previously due to motion sickness. However, after desensitizing researchers on The Zipper carnival ride, they were able to reach instruments without puking.

  6. Yeah, but on Verizon Drops 10,000 911 Calls During Blizzard · · Score: 1

    AT&T does that on almost every clear day, in the Northeast, between 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. EST.

  7. Re:Soul of a new machine on Computer Industry Mourns DEC Founder Ken Olsen · · Score: 1

    Actually, the book is about a turf war between Data General and DEC, and it involves corporate espionage. So, it is about DEC too -- just saying.

  8. We're too late.... on Iran's New Space Program · · Score: 1

    These satellite launch photos just in from Iran's space agency: http://realitypod.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/14.jpg

  9. Bear Grylls don't need no stinkin' GPS on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness · · Score: 4, Funny

    He'd hold two sticks up to the sun, determine his location and time to destination ... then eat a few grubs and squeeze a shot of water from some animal dung.

  10. Can we establish one thing on Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    Facebook is going to track your activity. If you post your personal photos and information on a social networking site, it will more than likely be used for reasons other than you intended. There, now let's all move on.

  11. Body scanners for everything on Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems · · Score: 1

    Let's consider for a moment that more murders, assaults, robberies, drug deals and general lawlessness happens outside of train stations and airports. Doesn't it make sense then that we have random body scans, with the option of full-body pat downs, on our highways and bi-ways and perhaps even random checks of our homes. After all, that's where those bombs, guns and other assorted weapons would be in the first place. I say, let's stop playing around and just throw out the Fourth Amendment and admit we made a mistake accepting it in the first place.

  12. I certainly hope not on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    I use my phone books as fire-starting material for those cold winter nights. I'd miss having those pages around to get the logs going.

  13. Re:Disturbing to see TSA still behind the curve. on TSA Bans Toner and Ink Cartridges On Planes · · Score: 1

    There's nothing surprising here. The $8.1 billion TSA was behind banning all box cutters but allowing metal pointy scissors, as long as the blades are shorter than 4 inches and tools such as screw drivers up to 7-inches in length. Because, as we all know, you can't sharpen scissors and a seven-inch deep puncture wound can't hit vital organs -- right? They're responsible for banning all clear deoderants but not solids. Because, as we all know, the most common explosives, such as C4 and Comp B, are clear, right? ... oh, wait. These are the morons who are going to require all passengers to be virtually strip searched by x-ray machines, unless said passengers prefer to be felt up by some $12-per-hour pervert. So, actually, I think the banning of all toner cartridges is not surprising at all. In fact, it's right in line with this organization's motus operandi.

  14. Wow on Stopping Malaria By Immunizing Mosquitoes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just imagine the size of the needles...

  15. I hope they fix the issues it has with Mac on For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 · · Score: 0

    I use a Mac, and Firefox is the buggiest browser I've ever used on my machine. While it's vastly superior to IE on a PC, Google Chrome is overall the best browser going.

  16. Meanwhile in the U.S. on Switzerland's Mega Tunnel Sets Record · · Score: 5, Informative

    A third of the nation's highways are in poor or mediocre shape. Massively leaking water and sewage systems are creating health hazards and contaminating rivers and streams. More than 6,000 of our nation's 115,000 bridges that are part of the national highway system are structurally deficient, and we can't even get a new tunnel built to link traffic from New York and New Jersey to Manhattan.

  17. Of course... on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 1

    Don't you cut out gangrene flesh?

  18. Don't get excited on Toshiba To Launch No-Glasses 3D TV This Year · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was at a Toshiba media event earlier this year and they were very clear that this generation of glassless screens have horrible fields of view and are only good for advertising in public places like airports where, by walking by them, you'll get the 3D effect. It's almost analogous to the old 3D baseball cards where you'd move them and get the illusion of depth.

  19. Isn't it all relative? on Researchers Say Happiness Costs $75K · · Score: 1

    That's what Einstein would say, wouldn't he? Someone making $75,000 in NYC would be living in a closet, while someone making the same in East Swampmuck, Mississippi would be living in the lap of luxury.

  20. Re:What the summary doesn't say: on HP Snaps Up 3PAR For $2 Billion · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a lame story either way. The dig against PC Magazine is for writing something like it was news. There have been six bids for 3Par. What's different about this one? Nothing. It's simply the largest so far. So the headline, while not misleading, gives the reader the expectation that something different than past bids has occurred. It's the same as if when HP bid $1.6 billion last week, PC Magazine had written "Sans Dell bid, HP Snaps Up 3Par." Then when Dell submitted a counter offer writing, "Sans HP Bid, Dell Snaps Up 3Par."

  21. Re:What the summary doesn't say: on HP Snaps Up 3PAR For $2 Billion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly. Nothing's changed from the numerous previous leap-frog bidding between HP and Dell for 3Par. Perhaps they should have people familiar with acquisition writing about them at PC Magazine.

  22. A day late and a dollar short on Digg In the Future · · Score: 1

    Digg just completely revamped its site, basically killing Digg brigades and turning itself into a giant RSS feed.

  23. Forget the radar trap... on Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers? · · Score: 1

    Just toss a spike strip across the road. That ought to slow things down.

  24. Re:drug testing? on Feds To Help Train 50,000 Health IT Workers · · Score: 1

    And, we all know how much the healthcare industry is hurting from the lack of workers who use recreational drugs.We'd all feel much safer knowing the guy in charge of the EMR database just finished smoking a doobie.

  25. And it's such a bright little planet on First Direct Photo of Exoplanet Confirmed · · Score: 1

    It must be filled with sunflower people.