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  1. Re:That's *it* for me and Blizzard, man!! on Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Functionally it is not so much 'solo' as 'friends only' because friends can hop into your game at will unless the game is full.

    'Solo' is only guaranteed if you have no friends listed so it is more of an emergent feature than anything.

    In order to make sure you can have room for 'friends' you have to be able to start a game with no non-friends in it thus the 'solo' game vs the 'public' games.

    Requirement 1: Must be able to group with friends
    Requirement 2: Must be able to create a game where friends are able to join (requiring public games only would interfere with this).

    Emergent Feature: We can call the the online private game instance (that friends can join) 'Solo' if said player has no friends!

  2. Toothpaste on MIT Creates Superhydrophobic Condiment Bottles · · Score: 1

    Will something like this help to get that last bit of toothpaste out of the toothpaste tube?

  3. Re:Results? on SETI Pioneer Jill Tarter Retires · · Score: 1

    I think you mean prize, not price.

  4. Re:Time for the Lego Bay... on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 1

    The blocks from my youth are about good as new with the exception of those exposed to too much sunlight (they grew very brittle and developed cracks) or exposed to too much water (these disentegreated when dried out and just fell apart into a mush otherwise).

  5. Re:Common Sense on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 1

    Target has not.

  6. Re:At one time, US used to be the lead on Russia To Establish Bases On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Doesn't seem likely. Nations seem to have a set of glory years and then settle in for the long haul of letting someone else play top dog.

  7. Re:internet taking a beating this week! on FCC Boss Backs Metering the Internet · · Score: 1

    Someone thought that they caught the scent of money unexploited.

  8. Re:Their wet dream on FCC Boss Backs Metering the Internet · · Score: 1

    The corporate suits are doing what they think they are supposed to be doing. I see the current design of the government as the big fail here.

  9. Re:users? I say bs-- on FCC Boss Backs Metering the Internet · · Score: 1

    Acts as in acting in this case. Pantomime one thing and do another while the audience is distracted with trivialities or in some case other legitimate problems with the calculation that the audience cannot follow and hope to have solved two problems at the same time.

  10. Re:I may be wrong ... on FCC Boss Backs Metering the Internet · · Score: 2

    To think anything else is to fail to comprehend the world at large OR you are beholden to corporate powers.

  11. Re:I may be wrong ... on FCC Boss Backs Metering the Internet · · Score: 3

    Some have learned and chose to ignore it.

  12. Re:Adjusting radio averages 3 seconds. on Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers · · Score: 1

    Then you probably don't type very fast.

  13. Re:drunk drivers don't sober up while drving on Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers · · Score: 1

    And during those few seconds paying zero attention to the road. And then when 'attempting' to scan the road preplanning the next text or mentally prepared to check for the next message. It is much, much worse than drunk driving where the main problem is slow reflexes followed by poor decision making. In this case there is nothing to 'reflex' (react) or decide upon to because the input isn't there, the eyes and mind are entirely elsewhere getting little to no input from the road.

  14. Re:Inexperienced drivers are inexperienced on Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers · · Score: 1

    Working in rural america is not the same thing as living in rural america.

    The number living in rural america (families of people working in rural america and some retirees) > the number working in rural america.

  15. Re:Inexperienced drivers are inexperienced on Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers · · Score: 1

    Which is technically how criminal minds work.

  16. Re:Inexperienced drivers are inexperienced on Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers · · Score: 1

    I would say it is a compulsive disorder for a great many.

  17. Re:Inexperienced drivers are inexperienced on Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers · · Score: 1

    Humans can task swap, not multitask. And task swapping is provably dangerous.

  18. Re:Geeks are as bad as anyone else on Geeks In the Public Forum? · · Score: 1

    Political peer reviews. Nothing to knock the hubris out of a geek like another geek.

  19. Re:It's not working! on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    I don't know of any that pay attention to ads on facebook however -- younger generations are just as good at screening out visual noise as I am and I am pretty good at it.

  20. Re:"science" can say anything by selecting the dat on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 1

    That is not science. That is manipulation of statistics.

  21. Re:Good. on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 1

    Maximum entropy! Yeah!

  22. Re:Keep it coming! on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 1

    Hope you like spiders!

  23. Re:God sucks at design on Astronomers See the Glow of a Boiling Planet · · Score: 1

    We have no idea if they are really inhospitable to life. They are merely inhospitable to life as we know it. But, the bare fact is we don't know much, we have only a single working model to compare against which is hardly a scientific sample to draw any conclusions with.

  24. Re:No problems then on Methane Producing Dinosaurs May Have Changed Climate · · Score: 1

    Yep, chicken. Tasty.

  25. Re:Funny on Methane Producing Dinosaurs May Have Changed Climate · · Score: 1

    No, the planet finds a way. With or without life.