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  1. Re:Blocking results from certain sites... on Google Unveils Search Options and Google Squared · · Score: 1

    -"price comparison" ?

  2. Re:Regexp and exact word matching options on Google Unveils Search Options and Google Squared · · Score: 1

    . is an exception?

  3. Re:The Charges on Intel Receives Record Fine By the EU · · Score: 1

    See now that is informative. You should have written the summary. I believe Pepsi does this for Coke products in various place where I live. Always bewildered me that it was legal. Good to see someone getting charge for it then.

  4. Re:Short version (was:REI's response) on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: 1

    They don't own the police ... I agree with their rebuttal completely...

  5. The Charges on Intel Receives Record Fine By the EU · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "encouraging manufacturers and retailers to purchase fewer (or even not stock) AMD processors."

    How could that possibly be illegal? Sounds like a necessary part of business?... Anyways the whole case sounds like the Micheal Jackson scandal. 'Who needs proof? He's creepy and rich just give the mother who sent her children there repeatedly a few million dollars'.

    Sounds like a money grab from someone who thinks Intel just has too much money (Disclaimer I did not RTFA as per tradition)

  6. Re:Obligatory XKCD on Ten Features To Love About Android 1.5 · · Score: 1

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1939

    This should be a standard feature in FF. I don't know what loss there is and who wouldn't benefit from it.

  7. Re:Obligatory on Phony Wikipedia Entry Used By Worldwide Press · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well there are a few wire sources. But not many that see the whole picture. Business and financial news isn't too hard to do without having a person 'where it happens'. Investigating assassination attempts in Africa is a completely different ball game. Are they investigative journalists? Or are they just journalists (glorified editors). And Reuters doesn't do "missing white girl" stories :S I mean they do have some stupid stories but most of it is important news.

  8. Re:Lazy on Phony Wikipedia Entry Used By Worldwide Press · · Score: 1

    By AP you mean Reuters and by habit you mean once. The guy was fired. They changed their practice on getting photos. They apologized profusely and ran a story saying they messed up. Please don't compare AP or Reuters to the press FTFA. Our wire services (google it) are very VERY important. And cannot be allowed to die. Their job is information gathering. The people in the article are PUBLICATIONS. They do not do research they are fools. And they can be completely 100% be replaced by bloggers. There is a VERY BIG difference. Please remember this.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL18678707 (For those who hadn't heard)

  9. Re:Obligatory on Phony Wikipedia Entry Used By Worldwide Press · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This was NOT an AP or Reuters screw up. They are the ONLY people that are really "putting reporters on the ground in various news breaking places around the world.". Please learn the difference.
    "the Guardian, the London Independent, on the BBC Music Magazine website and in Indian and Australian newspapers." -- These are completely different. What they do is have a bunch of people that sit at desks and write stories that are profitable. These fools can be replaced and they are being replaced.

    AFP, AP, Reuters are not the same. They cannot be replaced by blogging armies. If they fail we will be entering a new Dark Ages. We will have no real journalists.

  10. Re:Obligatory on Phony Wikipedia Entry Used By Worldwide Press · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sure.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia

    From the wikipedia article:
    A study in 2005 suggested that for scientific articles Wikipedia came close to the level of accuracy of Encyclopædia Britannica and had a similar rate of "serious errors."[1] However, the accuracy and validity of Gile's work has been disputed by both Britannica Encyclopedia[2] and Nicholas Carr.[3]

    Honestly the whole Wikipedia article is very informative. It has many citations to backup what they say. Wikipedia can be wrong, so can encyclopedia Britannica. But Wikipedia either cites better and more often than Britannica or it is just as useless. Trusting one source is silly... If you CHECK the citations then Wikipedia is an amazing tool.

  11. Re:I'm ready... on Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Singularity, In Movie Form · · Score: 1

    I'd keep it as a backup? We could hang out....

  12. Re:As Jon Stewart would put it.. on Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Singularity, In Movie Form · · Score: 1

    I bet we could if we tried. 3% of the GDP in research as GOAL is kind of sad. Maybe we'll get within ten years of building immortality and all the rich old people will invest. But with lame funding and so many fields. Politics getting in the way. We probably won't. Look at space tech. Do you think we COULD have improved in the last 30years? And when the will was there 'put a man on the moon' then the science gets done.

  13. Re:...Not originally designed... on External Airbag Designed to Protect Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    Also in case you were being serious. FTFA: "The bonnet airbag is U-shaped so that the driver can still see"

  14. Re:Pull your head out of your A$$ on External Airbag Designed to Protect Pedestrians · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is this informative? Putting the onus on pedestrians. Law stipulates that pedestrians pretty much always get right of way. Parent also assumes there are no bad or drunk drivers. I've personally been hit by 5cars, 3 of those times I was on a sidewalk.

    And he pulls #s out of his ass. From the article a hit at 40km/h gives an 18% chance of death (rated at 1000pts). And that with this hood that drops to ~450/1000 (8% chance of death assuming the numbers correlate well).

    Oblig... A car is deadlier than a gun. What gives you the right to drive one without minor precautions? A car has airbags inside to protect YOU when you run into things. If you were a good driver why would you need them? Total waste of money right? Just ... pathetic.

  15. Re:Zombies? on External Airbag Designed to Protect Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    Don't worry you only need to break their legs anyways. Legless zombies aren't really that dangerous.

  16. Re:You're gonna need this airbag... on External Airbag Designed to Protect Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    Like they do with regular airbags? Or car alarms... That's like saying why bother putting in windshields? It is just an invitation for punk kids to smash. You sir sound afraid of change.

  17. Re:Would you pay extra for this? on External Airbag Designed to Protect Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    When you get sued into oblivion? The cost of the feature I'm sure is minimal in comparison.

  18. Re:...Not originally designed... on External Airbag Designed to Protect Pedestrians · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Also, if I'm protecting the pedestrian, do I lose my entire field of view, and end up running down other pedestrians?"

    I think after you hit the first one you are supposed to stop. Hell you could even try slowing down before you hit him.

  19. Re:Possibly because it worked? on Reliable Male Contraceptive In the Works · · Score: 1

    Fuck that. This is /. I'm looking forward to flying cars and eternal youth as I reach old age. This isn't a cosmetic bitch fix. If it changes you so that you can enjoy life better I don't see the harm. Too many people like 'natural'. You can all go die in your 30s from some disease we unnaturally fixed years ago. I will be forced to suffer my unnatural life into the year 2100 and drink my chemical concoctions as I float around in my artificial spacecraft talking to friends thousands of kilometers away.

    You aren't accepting death you are embracing it.

  20. Re:Ban Element 8! on Proposed Peer-To-Peer Law Sparks Animosity · · Score: 1

    Meh, DHMO still kills more people per year and they put it in your food.

  21. Re:It's True on Proposed Peer-To-Peer Law Sparks Animosity · · Score: 1

    That AND they are stupid.

  22. Uhhh... on Apple Racks Up the Gaming Patents · · Score: 1

    Sounds like patents for games on the iphone and ipod. Am I missing something? Or maybe something like a media center. Hell my DVD player came with 2 games. That does NOT make it a console.

  23. Sounds like on SpringSource Acquires Hyperic, Possibly Set to Target Microsoft and IBM · · Score: 1

    Shill~~~~ S H I L L

    Companies nobody has heard of aren't competition for IBM/MS. This isn't revolutionary. Sounds like a company head or a shill.

  24. Re:Show the small waste to mask the Trillions on Pentagon Lost Billions, Pennies At a Time · · Score: 1

    Anyone who liked the Reagan or bush Sr. admin must just hate the people of America and the world.
    http://www.thefreespeechzone.net/images/charts/bush_deficit_graphic.gif
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Dh_elMeIWA4/SNlX_nBMCWI/AAAAAAAAAJY/QcjlCQ_j_80/s400/gini.gif
    Trickle down... Reaganomics... Do you cut yourself too?

  25. Re:Nuclear submarines on Small Nuclear Power Plants To Dot the Arctic Circle · · Score: 4, Informative

    MOD UP. 70MW is mush LESS than submarines than the Russians have been using for years. For example, the Russian Typhoon class submarine has DUAL 90MW reactors in it. This is nothing new for Russia at all.