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  1. Re:Its laugh track is a crime against humanity on What Non-Geeks Hate About the Big Bang Theory · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I find Seinfeld and That 70s Show, both filmed in front of a live studio audience to be funny and the audience laughter doesn't bother me in the slightest. There's something different about TBB. Maybe it's the writing, maybe the audience is prompted to laugh at every joke no matter how mediocre - either way, it's missing something or this thread wouldn't exist.

    I've watched Seinfeld - it wasn't funny. People just really, REALLY wants it to be.

  2. Re:Dead on Arrival on Oculus Founder Explains Why the Rift VR Headset Will Cost "More Than $350" · · Score: 1

    Dunno - Oculus' people said 90 frames per sec, while the Anonymous Coward said 120, so clearly Oculus' engineers are talking out of their asses.

  3. Re:wut on Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity · · Score: 2

    The prosecutors work for a corporation?!? Might I ask which one?

  4. Re:Carly Fiona on Michigan Sues HP Over Decade Long, $49 Million Incomplete Project · · Score: 1

    She made a shitload of money.

    The skill set required to accumulate profits is not the same as the skill set for running a country.

    In business you can write off bad investments. In government you can't write off states and cities that are a financial drag.

    The skillset required to get elected president is not the same as the skillset for running a country.

  5. Re:Analog DRM, no way on The Forgotten Tale of Cartrivision's 1972 VCR · · Score: 1

    using an analog form of DRM

    So, that'd be "RM", then.

    In case you're wondering, it was simply that only the rental store could rewind rental tapes (cartridges).

    Not so much rights management as blanket functionality removal.

    Soo, Mechanical Rights Management ?

  6. Re:So: nine hours from Brussels to Sydney on Proposed Lapcat II Hypersonic Airliner: Brussels to Sydney in Less Than 3 Hours · · Score: 1

    Don't know about Sydney, but at Brussels Airport you can get through Security in under 2 hours most days, and customs in under 30 minutes.

    Yes, you were trying to be funny and all....

  7. Re:Open world city on Thanks To Valve, More Than 1,500 Games Are Now On Linux · · Score: 1

    I've seen reports in the past that games have run faster (which doesn't equate to better) under Linux+Wine compared to Windows. No idea if this is still the case.

  8. Re:Uh, okay on Ex-Ashley Madison CTO Threatens Libel Suit Against Journalist · · Score: 1

    Could they get a Canadian court to block the source?
    I.e. if a foreign newspaper is found guilty in Libel and Defamation, could the judge order the nation's ISPs to block access to that newspaper's website, and halt import of printed copies?

  9. Re:Streisand Effect is in effect on Ex-Ashley Madison CTO Threatens Libel Suit Against Journalist · · Score: 1

    You'll notice that there's a lot of groups actively working on making prostitution generally legal (it is legal in a lot of places), in order to reduce the hold brothels and pimps have on prostitutes - basically, they are trying to make brothels into honest businesses.

  10. Re:"Infringing"? on Why Patent Law Shouldn't Block the Sale of Used Tech Products · · Score: 1

    People use checks? Seriously?

    Can't really recall last time I even saw a check ... perhaps when I move from Aalborg and sold my apartment, where a lawyer sent me one ... so a decade ago.

    For printing, outside of work, I use it only to print recipes for taking to the kitchen, or printing stuff for kids to colour in. Wife'll use it for printing badges for kids (laminated badges required by school); beyond that, no idea really.

  11. Re:Digitial Economy on Software Is Hiring, But Manufacturing Is Bleeding · · Score: 1

    What the fuck does that have to do with being a socialist?!?

  12. Re:Giving it the old "college try" eh? on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 1

    This takes manpower & organization. Leasing and staffing hundreds of offices. Buying TV/radio airtime and media production staff. That all costs money. A national/worldwide campaign for president of the US, astronomically so.

    Why'd you make a worldwide campaign? I was under the impression that 'muricans don't care much about how the other 94.5% of the world look at them.

  13. Re:Rent seeking behavior on JetBrains Moving Its Dev Tools To Subscription Model · · Score: 2

    I got used to the ribbon in a matter of days, but having quite literally NO other software using it, it still means that switching to MS Office applications requires a larger mental "context switch" than switching between pretty much any other 2 applications.

  14. Re:Not many morals in the federation really on The Politics of Star Trek · · Score: 1

    DS9 was made by the Kardashians, and was generally poorly made, designed for looks and readily breaking down.
    When the new owners moved in, it was thoroughly trashed, and left in a awful state.

  15. Re:It's cars on Dirty Farm Air May Ward Off Asthma In Children · · Score: 0

    For a start ban fast food drive throughs.

    Better ban intersections. There's a lot more cars idling there than at the drive thru,

    Is why modern countries have been putting up round-abouts everywhere for the last 20+ years

  16. Re:Or for slightly less per month on Copenhagen's New All-Electric Public Carsharing Programming · · Score: 2

    Leasing a BMW i3, cheapest option, in CPH will cost you 211870 DKR for 36 months, or 31636.55 USD. This comes to about 0.136 DKR/minute, vs 3.50 DKR/minute for the rental.
    The difference is 25.7 times, or, for every 25.7 minute you have the lease car, you can drive the above solution for 1 minute, or, 6.5 hours of driving per week.

    If you only need it for odd trips once or twice a week, which, since you're living in a modern city (CPH) is more than likely, the 3.50 DKR/minute is miles cheaper than a lease-option, and still significantly cheaper than buying, insuring, fueling, and maintaining a BMW i3, even if we only look at direct costs, and ignore financing and time spent cleaning and maintaining a leased or bought car.

    Note: I didn't see a new-price for a BMW i3 on the BMW website, but a used-car dealer's cheapest option is a 2014 model for 299.885 DKR ...

  17. Re:Not quite ready on Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind · · Score: 1

    It is not supposed to 'replace', but to supplement.

    Creating really bad straw-man arguments and congratulating yourself on beating reflects poorly on you, not your opponent.

    Judging from discussions in the US media, it is all-or-nothing - either you replace everything with Wind Power, or you replace everything with Solar Power, or you keep running 40+ year old nuclear plants and build more coal plants

  18. Re:Backtrack is not a tool on Hacking Medical Mannequins · · Score: 1

    That's like asking a 300# professional football lineman

    I have no idea what that means ....
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/h...

  19. If these parties all decided to use whatever codec came out of this, and Apple choose to stay out, it'll be Apple's loss when Netflix, YouTube and the rest start showing messages about "your Apple computer/phone is not able to use this site, please upgrade"...

    (The actual winners of that move would, naturally, be lawyers)

  20. Re:Distance? on World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light · · Score: 1

    Since it hasn't been built yet, seeing the light that triggers its own construction means that the camera is indeed far away - a few lightyears from Earth, at least.

  21. Re:Holy Fuck on 3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time · · Score: 1

    There have been predictions, from scientists, for quite a while now, that we'd have fewer, stronger tropical storms and cyclones ...

    Seems to watch what we're seeing, so I'm not sure what you're bitching and crying about.

  22. Re:Spacious on In Hawaii, a 6-Person Crew Begins a Year-Long Mars Isolation Experiment · · Score: 1

    sorry, let me clarify:
    94.5% of the world doesn't measure areas in sq-ft ... why don't you catch up to the rest of us, "boyo"?

  23. Re:Their work is being wasted. on Linux Kernel 4.2 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're getting to the point where the Linux kernel itself is superb, but everything built on top of it is becoming utter shit.

    Don't worry - in one of the upcoming Systemd releases, the Linux kernel will finally be 100% replaced.

  24. Re:Spacious on In Hawaii, a 6-Person Crew Begins a Year-Long Mars Isolation Experiment · · Score: 1

    That sq-meterage of habitat is spacious at about 1,000 sq-ft for reference to a typical home.

    Typical homes aren't measured in "square-feet"; where do you live, the 1700s?
    The place is 95sqm, a small-medium apartment in western countries

  25. Re:Wind energy is such shit on Next Texas Energy Boom: Solar · · Score: 2

    Yeah, my observation is that land-usage by windfarms is going away, as countries are now placing them at sea - meanwhile, I've not heard of any "oceanic solarfarms", and I'm thinking spray and saline might work against that concept.