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  1. Re:wait, what? on One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy · · Score: 1

    I basically never go outside and my lungs are just fine, lol. I don't see the cause and effect there. When I do go outside (summer at least) boom, allergy meltdown. Now that's a lung condition.

    Do you live in my-God-it's-freaking-damp-here England?

  2. Re:at what point do we stop kidding ourselves. on One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy · · Score: 1

    Second and in any event, this is self evidently not a case relating to a trivial offence, but to serious sexual offences.

    Yeah, they reserve that sort of remote questioning for non-serious crimes such as murder.

  3. Re:seems like a waste of money on One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy · · Score: 2

    And, again, he has offered to speak to the prosecutor in England, which has been done numerous times under Swedish law.

  4. Re:Because that worked so well for Apple? on Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 · · Score: 1

    It was the abysmal quality control at Apple prior to Steve Jobs coming back that caused even die-hard Apple lovers to start buying PCs when their 3rd shipment of the same computer was DOA (my boss at the time found herself exactly here).

  5. Re:Huh? on Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The big thing Apple had going for it compared to Atari and Commodore was expansion. They had slots that you could put cards in that allowed it to do things:

    Serial cards (RS-232 serial interface)
    Parallel cards (Centronics/IEEE 1284 parallel interface)
    Multifunction I/O cards
    Internal modems
    80 column (or more) text cards (e.g., Videx)
    PAL Color graphics cards (required for color graphics in early European Apples)
    RGB cards
    Floppy disk controllers
    Hard disk controllers
    Network adapters
    Co-processor cards
    Memory expansion cards
    Accelerators
    Realtime clock cards
    Music and sound cards
    Miscellaneous cards

  6. Re:Huh? on Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 · · Score: 1

    Surface RT is not a dud, it is a great product and million have been sold.

    -Steve

    FTFY

  7. Re:big trucks on With an Eye Toward Disaster, NYC Debuts Solar Charging Stations · · Score: 1

    You can shut your laptop down and remove the battery you know. In fact, you should have. -- "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are." If you use a Mac, you should know that Mac batteries aren't removable.

  8. Re:What is boils down to: on 2013 U.S. Wireless Network Tests: AT&T Fastest, Verizon Most Reliable · · Score: 1

    Well, since they are still cheaper than everyone else and I get great service, I guess I can't blame them. If you know the right people to call (hint: don't activate in a store), you can get around many of those charges.

  9. Re:So the correct action is... on Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton · · Score: 1

    Carbohydrates messes up your ability to tell when you have had enough to eat.

    FTFY

  10. Re:Don't Do The Dig ... on Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton · · Score: 1

    It doesn't fix the problem. The problem is that people are required to bankrupt their company (and often themselves) in order to do the "right thing". If the government wants the land after something like that is found, then they should pay market rate and eminent domain it.

  11. Re:Why stop there? on DNA Fog Helps Identify Trespassers, Thieves, and Brigands · · Score: 1

    A guy was prosecuted and jailed for putting ipecac syrup in his own lunch.

  12. Re:Plots ARE Important on Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews · · Score: 1

    And I HATE those kind of movies.

  13. Re:Sure. on Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews · · Score: 1

    Which is ironic, because this is pretty character-driven. We get great insight into Jor-El, Clark, Ma & Pa Kent, Lois and Zod in this story. I was worried when I read that review, but it couldn't be further from the truth.

  14. Re:Unable to get hurt on Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews · · Score: 1

    That's way too high. I'd give it a 6 or 7, but it's worth seeing. It really wasn't as bad as the critics were saying. But they hated Star Wars when it came out, so what do they know?

  15. Re:Time for a Reboot on Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews · · Score: 1

    I know, right. What is it with superhero movies that they feel like we need to retell the origin story every 3 movies (5 in this case). James Bond has been going for 50 years but his origin is only told twice in all that time. We all know who Superman and Batman are. Make a movie about something else already.

  16. Re:my meta-review/review on Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews · · Score: 1

    Is it the best superhero movie ever? No. I would take any installment of the Avengers series over this (OK, not counting the Hulk movies). I would take Spider-Man 1 & 2 (not the new one, that sucked), Fantastic Four 1 and X-Men 1, 2 & First Class over this as well.

    But Marvel has raised the bar so much. I would take this over any DC live-action movie besides Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. It was that good. It's EASILY the best Superman movie of all time (as if that were hard). And it was WAY better than Green Lantern or any other DC movie beside those 2.

  17. Re:Tired of reboots on Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews · · Score: 1

    I saw it at a matinee for $5. Sounds like I made the right decision.

    Actually, my brother and I (long time comic fans) were expecting worse. I could have written a couple scenes better, but overall I liked the movie. It had a lot of character development for a Superman story. And for seemingly the first time, you got put in his shoes of trying not to be misunderstood and feared by everyone, which I thought was pretty cool.

  18. Re:I'm sure it's effective on Officials Say NSA Probed Fewer Than 300 Numbers - Broke Plots In 20 Nations · · Score: 1

    Because he's a Christophobe...

  19. Re:One Rich A** Called Larry Ellison on Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And yet you keep giving him money... Strange.

  20. Re:Benevolent dictator on Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) · · Score: 1

    "Ben"? "Benev"? "lent"? "volent"? Ohh, THAT word.

  21. Re:How is this newsworthy? on EA Takes Over Scrabble App, Wipes Player Histories and Switches Dictionary · · Score: 1

    The dictionary (SOWPODS) is a factual list and not subject to copyright. They don't even need to license it. You can easily download it free from tons of places.

  22. You mean your "za"?

  23. Re:Rant against the cloud on youtube? on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Have you learned that the next Republican will likely be no better? If not, then you haven't learned anything either.

  24. Re:The real reason for this change is fab yields on Intel Removes "Free" Overclocking From Standard Haswell CPUs · · Score: 1

    Actually, they almost never even change the chip at all. They just sell it at the lower price. That's why it's so easy to overclock things such as the "3-core" AMD (for time when one core doesn't test out) to a 4-core (because in reality they have the manufacturing wired and almost all the chips work as 4 core).

  25. Re:This shows what will happen in a world without on Intel Removes "Free" Overclocking From Standard Haswell CPUs · · Score: 1

    And started selling direct to the public during the 386 days (remember i386 vs 80386?).