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  1. Duhhh on Would You Use a Free Netbook From Google? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I'd take several dozen, probably hundreds... hardware can't be given away. I think.... I'd wallpaper my house with monitors. I'm sure I could make a nice server/web ap to run all the buggers even if I couldn't take the hardware apart.

    Basically, the idea is impossible and stupid.

  2. Re:Let's do the math on this one... how many HP? on Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut · · Score: 1
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_plane

    all the people that have done it in past must be cheating.

  3. Re:Zeppelin on Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut · · Score: 1

    Zeppelin is actually a type of airship... And the original designers are still in existence... making airships. Feel free to invest...

  4. Re:Better site? on Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut · · Score: 1

    They don't have blimps where you come from? (I almost feel bad after how well worked your idea is... sorry)

  5. Re:Data from first collision through CMS detector on LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting · · Score: 1

    That is informative, I thought for sure uber nerds used KDE.

  6. Re:Easier solution: on Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unless they are mad in which case they can afford a lair and deathrays in space. Also, they have no boss or people funding them to answer to.

  7. Re:And In Unrelated News... on Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort · · Score: 1

    How would you have any level of fairness without standardized testing? How would you be able to have any level of accountability without standardized testing?

  8. Re:Then you can work, thief! on Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance · · Score: 1

    "Canada, where you can't even just switch doctors if the one you've got keeps failing to do his job."

    Yes you can.... switch all you like... I mean I can't get the doctor I want atm cause he has too many clients and can't accept anymore but that's his decision. But what you said is completely false.

  9. Re:How did you dump the ROM? on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    Downloaded a rom. I get by your phrasing that you think this is wrong. But it has the exact same result it just saves me the technical difficulty of using and buying a copier. Also it is illegal either way. Having a rom even if you created it yourself by format-shifting your real game is illegal, sorry. So I pretty much don't care. Also the game is 15years old, the system 20 so again I don't care.

    Media that is out of print doesn't in anyway count as stealing since it is impossible to buy from the creators. I am using a product that while illegal also has no possible legal way to purchase. While it was possible I did buy the game back in the 90s though it is long lost.

    Ever thought the law might just be wrong? I think even the government might as I have not heard of and cannot find a single case of a person being charged for possessing roms on the planet.

  10. Re:We are here! Come and get us! on After 35 Years, Another Message Sent From Arecibo · · Score: 1

    What wifi router do you own and how much was it?

  11. Re:Kirby Canvas Curse on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    I have smrpg on my winmo phone right now interestingly enough...

  12. Re:A load of BS on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    I don't think you realize how much paper WOULD be needed today had we not created computers. Try to fathom that.

    The gaming one is BS ... we still have game systems even with computers that are pretty much the exact same thing.

    Laptops will likely kill netbooks as battery life improves.... there will be a variety of sizes that's all.

    Clearly obsolete is the wrong word but lots of these things will see reductions.

  13. Re:Same Old Song, A Jack of all Trades on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    You might be old... no one said it'd replace things in any current generation, just future ones.

    I think gaming systems becoming phones is more likely ... psp could have done it (not nintendo likely).

    Unless you are rich a good phone will match a pretty good camera in quality.... 4megapixel is more than enough for most things.... Unless you are a photographer, that's different though.

    Phones will probably kill mp3players soon. They haven't gotten it quite right but its not a huge leap.

    Guys have shoes and suits still.... and fashion changes.

    How about a big slider on the side of the device to select phone mode, computer mode, song mode, camera mode. That fixes any ui issues there may be...

  14. Re:Watches on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    "I have a co-worker who always asks me why I wear a (analog) watch. I respond that I can tell the time in a matter of seconds vs. looking for my blackbery and that my bb is often charging, while my watch just keeps on ticking."

    That doesn't answer the analog point at all... watch sure.

  15. ROFL on First Malicious iPhone Worm In the Wild · · Score: -1, Troll

    Open SSH port with default password ... as a default for the phone. That's not even a virus that's like a white guy wandering downtown with a big armful of money telling everyone that niggers suck. Virus implies it slipped through security....

  16. Re:Same concept between the modded xboxes and this on iPhone Owners Demand To See Apple Source Code · · Score: 1

    You could build an enclosure around the base of the laser mouse that could hold a ball. Just a bit of the ball would be outside of the enclosure, as you move the mouse the ball would roll and the laser mouse would move the opposite direction. So of course you'd need to build a bigger ball enclosure to hold mirrors reversing the movement. It'd stand about 10cm tall ad weigh 2kgs.

  17. Re:Lawsuits are really getting asinine on iPhone Owners Demand To See Apple Source Code · · Score: 1

    I didn't know that next to implied inside. let me reword...

    Where do you live? I can almost guarantee you live in 'a land of idiots'. Think of it from a more proactive point of view... If someone is in my house near a window I can't sneak up behind him and hack his feet off. Why then would a bear trap be ok?

  18. Re:Wow on iPhone Owners Demand To See Apple Source Code · · Score: 1

    Most of Dante's hell was fiery ... The 9th circle was icy to be hip and different. Seriously, Dante was a writer that's all... it was just a popular version that's all.

  19. Re:I have to say, I am depressed... on Zero-Day Vulnerabilities In Firefox Extensions · · Score: 1

    Windows comes with it's own minigames. Also I'm sure it exists its just horribly maintained and glitchy.

  20. Re:Yep that's why I avoid extensions on Zero-Day Vulnerabilities In Firefox Extensions · · Score: 1

    Hmm I'm up to 460MB ... but I have about 40tabs open over 3 windows... With like 15addons on or so....

  21. Re:Well that's a relief! on Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC · · Score: 1

    And yes in case any one asks I do think that the Higgs Boson is Jewish and much prefers G-d.

  22. Re:Well that's a relief! on Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC · · Score: 1
    I found him!

    Scientists around the world cheered triumphantly learning their efforts weren't in vain as they found the elusive 'G-d' particle. Or so they thought. Early this morning a lab technician noticed a flaw in the work, having double and triple checked it seems the ticker tape parades need be canceled. The particle they found was in fact a HiggsBison particle which is of no redeeming value. We have M. Bison here now.

    April O'Neil: How does it feel disappointing so many people around there world? And have you seen Mr. Boson?

  23. Re:why protons and not neutrons? on Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC · · Score: 3, Informative

    For a guy with planck in his name you really need to read up on particle physics A neutron is udd, a proton is uud. Nothing special there, one is magnetic though.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_physics

  24. Re:Same concept between the modded xboxes and this on iPhone Owners Demand To See Apple Source Code · · Score: 1

    Thats silly, how would a ball image the table surface? They have no sensing capabilities at all...

  25. Re:Lawsuits are really getting asinine on iPhone Owners Demand To See Apple Source Code · · Score: 1

    Where do you live? I can almost guarantee you live in 'a land of idiots'. Think of it from a more proactive point of view... If someone is looking in my window I can't sneak up behind him and hack his feet off. Why then would a bear trap be ok?