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  1. Re:The solution to all this ... on Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Theres a difference between voting for a bunch of crap and actually having a say in how our government is run.

  2. Re:3-D on Hobbit Film Finally Gets Green Light, To Be Shot in 3-D · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not all 3D content translates to 2D by just removing one image, just as a stereo signal does not become mono by removing one side. I don't know for live action, but in the CG world rendering in 3d means render one image for left, one for right, and one for 2d if that is different.

  3. Re:because it's a distraction and dangerous? on Could Anti-Texting Laws Make Roads More Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    What money? Repossession only gets you a vehicle, not money, if you can turn around and sell that vehicle then you have money. Not sure who's going to be buying if private vehicles are banned though.

  4. Re:Wonderful on Touchless Gesture User Interfaces · · Score: 1

    For a car radio this makes a lot of sense. Being able to just wave a hand in front of the unit instead of taking your eyes off the road to find a button (for those without steering wheel controls). I also imagine that if coupled with a audio interface this could work for certain applications in the blind community.

  5. Re:When's it going to be 1.0? on Open Source Solution Breaks World Sorting Records · · Score: 1

    I doubt anyone would want to use those versions either

  6. Re:Doesnt sound like much? on Illusion Cloak Makes One Object Look Like Another · · Score: 1

    Give pizza chance!

  7. Re:Photocopying on MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately your school district is ahead of the game on network management, our teachers have now way of accessing a blocked site as nobody at the school has the password to bypass it. The one guy who does is mostly unreachable, and judging by the way it is setup (blocking portions of government sites, the obama campaign site, etc) an idiot.

  8. Re:Photocopying on MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Yes it's extremely simple, but most of the school is more worried about their social life or SATs scores to really be looking for the information

  9. Re:Photocopying on MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use · · Score: 3, Informative

    Putting aside the fact that almost every teacher I have or have had in highschool with the exception of a few have been able to rip video clips off dvds, and the ones who couldn't would simply have student who was bright enough do it for them. Most schools/districts these days block youtube as well as facebook, myspace, etc, for reasons unknown as it seems to only serve the purpose of annoying teachers and students. Wonderful fun, our district also chooses to block many useful linux/programming sites as they could be used for hacking. SSH tunnels work for bypassing, but only if you're smart enough to get one set up.

  10. Re:Nokia n810 on Best Wi-Fi Portable Browsing Device? · · Score: 1

    Because of course librarian is a job title that just screamed "clothes off NOW" until you added the belt holster

  11. Re:And why the hell do I need a driver for this? on Handset Vendors Plug Micro-USB Charge Ports · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to bet that it has nothing to do with the amount of power provided by the USB port and everything to do with the phone refusing to charge. My grandfather was recently in town and had forgotten the charger for his new motorola phone, I looked at the phone saw the micro usb port and figured it could be charged with an ipod usb charger and a micro usb cable. Oh how silly, plug it all in and the phone says "Unapproved power adapter" or something like that and refuses to charge.

  12. Re:Short answer on Repairing / Establishing Online Reputation? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Almost every application for employment that I've filled out has required past legal names. I think it would probably end up looking worse if he tried to change his name and they googled the old one and found what he's worried they'll find.

  13. Re:Chaos on FIRST Robotics Competition Announced · · Score: 1

    nah most of our guys play newer games than counterstrike, and the autonomous period is only 15 seconds, dunno how anybody is gonna do much of anything other than slip during auto this year.


    MVRT 115!

  14. Re:Illuminating film on History of the LED — the Movie · · Score: 1

    I'm not gonna tip my server, I'm afraid the power cable might come loose and I'd lose my really high uptime.

    And if the disk crashed I'd be really screwed, all my backups are on it.

  15. Re:Ears.. on Quantum Cloaking Makes Molecules Invisible · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cats are probably pretty good at limbo being so small and flexible.

  16. Re:stupid fucking seal on the edge of CD's.... on Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't open the case the normal way open it with the plastic tape strip as a hinge, then it's easier to take off, or don't bother. Took me years to figure out how my dad had the CD he bought me for Christmas on his iPod before I had opened the package.


    GP: as someone who works in retail, I HATE the reusable plastic boxes. For 15 registers we have one key to the things, so we have to get the supervisor to open it. One time when the supervisor was out to lunch it took 3 people to figure the damn thing out.

  17. Re:hardly news... on New Type of Particle May Have Been Found · · Score: 1

    Or what, is he gonna come and kill me?

  18. Re:Yahoo still matters? on Yahoo Changes User Profiles, To Massive Outrage · · Score: 0

    Funny I didn't realize California was another country. Why didn't anybody tell me we had succeeded.

  19. Re:Yahoo still matters? on Yahoo Changes User Profiles, To Massive Outrage · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Welcome to the exciting world of time zones, many people still think it's saturday, these are of course american idiots who wouldn't know what a GMT was if you told them and can't read a 24 hour clock to save their lives. It's not their fault that the US doesn't uses a single international standard, their country is screwed up.

  20. Re:fp on Al-Qaeda Web Sites Go Offline · · Score: 1

    I never get that far into the first line

  21. Re:Could have told you that was coming on New York Times Says Thin Clients Are Making a Comeback · · Score: 2, Informative

    Our district already has it, each school has two T1's direct to the district office, VOIP, and web all go through there. Works fine, only problem is we can't get the morons at the district to remove things from the content filters.

  22. Re:All this sounds nice, but there's another side. on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    *BRAAP*

    Sorry but as the sound of the broken door lock in my car is signalling, you face a lot more consequences in an suv than a car.

    My first car was a Jeep Grand Cheroke with holes in the roof (filled with ham antennas, my father and I are licensed) that I got when my father bought a fine german engineered mini cooper (S that I don't get to touch). Screwing up is damn easy in that thing, and wonderful consequences, a friend of mine rolled his SUV on a freeway off ramp doing not more than 30, when my dad can take the curve at 40. The important thing is knowing the limits of the vehicle, and there is something to be said for a vehicle that you can really feel the limits in.

  23. Re:It's too bad that you need a $2300 mac to make on Adobe Adds GPU Acceleration To Creative Suite 4 · · Score: 1

    You can still plug an external display into a macbook, macbook pro, or imac. With all of photoshop's windows and tool panels you kinda need one anyway.

  24. Re:If you knew your Illuminatus Trilogy on Royal Society and Creationism In Science Classes · · Score: 1

    it's turtles all the way down

  25. Re:Good Marketing on ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista · · Score: 1

    yes, that could be a kernel driver, but what cd drivers have to do with connecting a iPod/iPhone I don't know.