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  1. Re: Bombs in the US? on The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea · · Score: 1

    I thought it was funny too. I never listen to critics. I wasn't looking to see the movie 7 pounds, or The Notebook. I was hoping to see demeaning dumb jokes and laugh.

  2. Re: Cellular is the business model on Time Warner Deal Is How Comcast Will Fight Cord Cutters · · Score: 1

    Not true. A prime example is Google fiber is coming to Austin, TX this year. They will offer unlimited bandwidth and tv service with no compression. If what you said was true then TWC wouldn't be scrambling to offer a 1 gbps offering along with cheaper tv plans. Competition is what keeps your hypothesis from coming true

  3. Re:"better prepare them to save lives" on US Government Licenses Unreal Game Engine To Train FBI Agents and Army Medics · · Score: 1

    It's just the unreal engine, not the shooting game.

  4. only a supplement on US Government Licenses Unreal Game Engine To Train FBI Agents and Army Medics · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The government isn't saying this will be the only source of training for medics or law enforcement. This would be a supplement to existing training they give them. I don't see how this is any different than a flight simulator for pilots in training.

  5. Just like Redhat on Oracle/Sun Enforces Pay-For-Security-Updates Plan · · Score: 3, Informative

    This isn't any different from what Redhat does. They charge for security updates and no one has gone crying about it. Can't all jump on Oracle for wanting to be paid for the development time put in for security updates ppl

  6. Shadows on NASA's LRO Captures High-Res Pics of Apollo Landing Sites · · Score: 1

    Anyone else notice in the Apollo 11 image the shadow from the lander is going in the wrong direction? WTF. It just makes you wonder if their photoshop experts have a freakin brain inside their skulls

  7. out of ink? on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 1

    just looks like the printer is running out of ink

  8. Re:5 years? on Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction · · Score: 1

    I agree. Of course they could alternately come up with a touch pad that sits in place of the mouse. Where your finger floats above the touchpad and your movements are picked up on the computer screen as the movement of the cursor. Then touching down on the touchpad results in clicking.

  9. Re:lies, Lies, LIES!!! on 'Death Star' Aimed at Earth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Time dilation is a strange thing. To the photons the travel is instantaneous. Yet for all other objects we have to "catch" up with them which in this case would be 6,500 yrs in the future. Of course for us to visit that location 6,500 light yrs away at our barbaric speeds it'd be 5 x 10^18 yrs till we got there. If photons have no understanding of time, and if the photons have already reached every point in space as soon as they are discharged, then why does it still take time for us to see them far away? Some things will never make sense.

  10. 23mm cannon on The Shadow Space Race · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ummmm ok, so the satellite fires the cannon and the explosion blasts the satellite into outer space where we never again see the Russian probe. Did they consider in space firing off a cannon will accelerate the satellite in the opposite direction with the bullet not going very fast towards Earth? I guess if they had some counter thrust at the exact time they fired they wouldn't fly away

  11. Here's another link on Beer Brewing Bender Completed · · Score: 1

    Apparently that link has been ./ Here's a link to the same story CLICK HERE

  12. Misleading on Holmes Comet Coma Grows Bigger Than The Sun · · Score: 0, Troll

    The title of this story is very misleading. The comet is not larger than our sun. It is wider in diameter, not in radius. Sure that's an impressive thing but I'd rather not hear about it unless it's radius grows larger than the sun. In the meantime, marvel over a comet with a long tail of crap

  13. Re:3-tier? on Red Hat Vows To Stand Up To Patent Intimidation · · Score: 1

    It's more the 3-tier method of serving up pages. Request comes in to apache, request goes to tomcat, tomcat processes the app, sends back the page. Somehow we are free from litigation when we switched to windows on our web server. Not sure how that fixed it but it did. Too little too late, we're still getting sued.

  14. No lawsuit against Linux? Or Open src sftw? on Red Hat Vows To Stand Up To Patent Intimidation · · Score: 0, Troll

    So I read Red Hat's statement that they've never been heard of a lawsuit against Linux. Did that also include companies using open source software? The company I work for is being sued as we speak for using apache/tomcat for our company website. Apparently that 3-tier method of supplying a page is patented by some IP company. I forget their name. Either way, other major online companies like Amazon I think were hit with this same infringement and they've settled out of court. It's stuff like this that scares people away from using open source. No protection from IP violations.

  15. Sadly, its true on Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn · · Score: 2, Informative

    I worked for Geek Squad prior to it being called Geek Squad and after the name change. The story is absolutely true as fellow technicians did exactly what was expressed in this story. There was a central machine that all the vids,images went into but that was not the sole purpose of the machine. All tech benches have a central machine that we used to store our tools and to conduct virus scans. I worked in a college town so the pictures of sorority girls were pretty graphic. I was there to get a paycheck, others took the time to invade people's privacy. I don't believe I recall them specifically searching. But when customers would request spyware removal or data backups, you see filenames flash across the screen. Some techs choose to look further when they'd see filenames like "sorority party, drunken flashing" or something like that. BestBuy has a policy of retaining data backups for up to a month when someone requests one. We'd burn them to dvds or cds and keep a copy just in case the copy we burned for them was unreadable in their drive at home. For example if we used DVD+R and their drive only supported DVD-R if we didn't have a copy on hand then all of their data would be lost and we'd be in trouble. Well those backups were on our central machine so techs would look through them and find this porn. Get the picture?

  16. Re:They're not the first, are they? on Google Releases Customized IE 7 · · Score: 1

    Where exactly do you see a "blurred" Y! in the picture? All I see is the tab is selected for google and not yahoo anymore. Not a photoshopping of the Y! logo. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see how

  17. Re:Why should Harry Potter have all the fun? on Scientists Make Item Invisible to Microwaves · · Score: 3, Funny

    But when you walk to the aisle with all of the cloaks how will you find them

  18. Re:180 billion light-years wide on An Older, Larger Universe · · Score: 1

    I can't exactly recall what the exact shape of the universe is but its such that if you walk to the edge of the universe, you'd be staring at your back. It's self contained. The universe is in itself, the word that describes everything in space. There is nothing outside of the universe as the universe is everything. Well thats how my friends who graduated with a Bachelor's in Physics and Aeronautical Engineering explained it to me. I trust them