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  1. Re:Well, on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought it was: H1B's, H1B's, H1B's, H1B's, H1B's, H1B's, H1B's, H1B's, H1B's, H1B's ...

  2. Re:As much as we love to hate Microsoft... on Microsoft Pushing Bing For Search In Schools, With Ad-Removal Hook · · Score: 1

    Or kids use xyz in school, associate it with unpleasantness, and never use it again.

    Nah, just feed those students a nice cocktail of Ritalin, Strattera and Bupropion ... they will then mindlessly do whatever you tell them to. The search engine is just a start.

  3. Re: As much as we love to hate Microsoft... on Microsoft Pushing Bing For Search In Schools, With Ad-Removal Hook · · Score: 1

    But *now* is Google "unbelievably better than all the alternatives"? I think not. Bing is as good as Google for most search (if not better in some instances). Functionally there is nearly no difference. Bing/Yahoo have grown to around 7% of search traffic as of 2010 and that may be an even larger market share by now (I didn't Google it). Maybe Google can stay on top with Cloud Search but Google is by no means invulnerable. Currently I'm using ixquick because they delete private details of their search users. For some reason that I can't quite put my finger on, privacy seems more important than brand loyalty lately.

  4. Two protons walk into a black hole on 26 New Black Hole Candidates Found In Andromeda · · Score: 1

    Cool! maybe we can finally measure the speed of dark!

  5. Re:to be expected on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 1

    3D Print-head reference? That's how I interpreted the comment. Very erudite in fact.

  6. Re:Fear and Ignorance on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 2

    In good company as well... ”The philosophy of gun control: Teenagers are roaring through town at 90MPH, where the speed limit is 25. Your solution is to lower the speed limit to 20.” ~Sam Cohen (inventor of the neutron bomb)

  7. Re:It's incredible to me on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 2

    Total non sequitur. They are talking about passing a local LAW ... not an AMENDMENT to the constitution. The controversy here is that the proposed LAW that the POLITICIAN is attempting to pass may VIOLATE said constitution, (sans your fantasy AMENDMENT that no one is actually proposing because it is generally considered political SUICIDE to do so). You have a lot of nerve calling anyone here "ignorant".

  8. Re:It's incredible to me on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 2

    Historically, the "Liberator" hand gun that was distributed during WWII was deployed with exactly the strategy above in mind, a weapon valued for its psychological warfare effects as well as for its actual usage ... as a way to arm one's self with a better weapon, and more ammunition ... obtained from a defeated target of the resistance. I see much the same psychological effect on the totalitarians of today with the 3D printed gun. It's no accident that it too is named the "Liberator".

  9. Re:It's incredible to me on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 1

    http://bit.ly/11i3Gvq It's seems pretty clearly on the side of defending one's self as well as defending the innocent. 1/10

  10. Re:to be expected on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The biggest danger is that the 3D printed gun can anger the totalitarian regime in which you live, causing the regime to imprison or kill you.

  11. Re:This just in on Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise · · Score: 3, Funny

    Woman payed to do the surrogate mom thing, then payed for the live Internet streamed birth, then more gals going for their Neanderthal payday. Eventually leading to Neanderthal Pron! Now with that kind of planning you could finance the entire Neanderthal cloning project with money left over. Then we'll know more than we ever wanted to know about Neanderthals.

  12. Re:This just in on Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise · · Score: 3, Interesting
  13. Re:Great, but what does it *DO*? on Apple's iWatch Could Come With IOS, Earn $6 Billion a Year · · Score: 4, Funny
    The AppleCo iPIP (Personal Information Processor) is an electronic device manufactured by AppleCo, using ultra-modern super-deluxe resolution graphics, which coupled with its capability to store large amounts of information and transfer data to and from holodisks and from data tubes make it the obvious choice for the wandering explorer, the out-on-his-own newbie or the all-around survivalist expert.

    It displays information in bright green on its black 5" x 3" screen. It can record sound and video footage for later playback. It uses a simple but elegant form of sonar and satellite tracking (where service is available) to map out areas where its user travels. Though input is slow, a user can also hand-enter and edit text messages on their iPip

    The AppleCo iPIP also has a built-in radio and Geiger Counter, a built-in health monitor, motion sensor, and a unique program creating and editing tool, a light that illuminates the area around the user, (allowing them to see better in the dark), and also features a biometric lock that can only be opened by either the user or a skilled technician.

    Coming soon! The AppleCo iPIP-Pad is an experimental tablet-sized version of the AppleCo iPIP series.

  14. Re:It will not change anything on 8th Circuit Upholds $220,000 Verdict In Jammie Thomas Case · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Napster, limewire, bittorrent, ... the next method will once again catch the lawyers and copyright police by surprise and completely off their guard. Then when the new method (whatever it may be) becomes mainstream enough that the lawyers and copyright trolls finally figure it out, the media moguls will pursue trial and conviction of another sacrificial lamb to attempt to staunch the bleeding, and once again it will be much too little and much too late.

    Too bad for the sacrificial lamb, but as has been said before, if we want the laws changed, we need to work to change them. If we want the media companies to change we need to buy enough stock in the media corporations to exert some influence with regards to marketing, and IP.

    Most downloaders however won't bother to expend any time or energy to change the law, or vote on stocks. They'll simply move on to the next media sharing methodology and happily continue on, (as they always have) while the "Mainstream" eventually catches up.

    So the story continues ... Until the media moguls finally figure out that they are stepping over dollars to pick up dimes, there will be one after another file sharing methods, and one after another sacrificial lambs.

  15. Re:limits and fraud on BitCoin Card To Launch In 2 Months, Says BitInstant · · Score: 1
    Excellent post! I just got out from under all my debt last year and man is it liberating. I had to help with the payment on a wedding reception a few months ago and used my dredit card to pay the entire $12,000 ... easy peasy (no calls, no delays). Paid it all off at the end of the month, costing me zero interest and got 5% cash back to boot.

    Lesson learned. Credit card debt ... never again.

  16. Re:My last virus clenaup involved BitCoin processi on BitCoin Card To Launch In 2 Months, Says BitInstant · · Score: 1, Informative

    My US Dollar trust ended August 15, 1971. These days the dollar runs on Hope and that seems to be running out too.

  17. Re:My last virus clenaup involved BitCoin processi on BitCoin Card To Launch In 2 Months, Says BitInstant · · Score: 1
    Financial transactions via email? I'm sure that the president of Nigeria wants to share his U.S. bank account with me, really. Phishing, Vishing SMiShing.

    Financial transactions via HTTP? Totally secure! Man in the Browser ... you got me there.

    An unregulated virtual cash system is certainly a great idea, but BitCoin? Bitcoinica announced that they are upgrading their exchange "to a professional level of security" just this year. Trustworthy, what was I thinking?

  18. My last virus clenaup involved BitCoin processing on BitCoin Card To Launch In 2 Months, Says BitInstant · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So pardon me if I don't trust BitCoin cash, credit or debit cards.

  19. Re:Windows Phone 7 on Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did you actually mean to say that you think Steve Wozniak is a paid Microsoft Shill? (Not to mention a clueless moron?) Or did you just fail to proofread your trolling?

  20. Re:The next generation... on Backscatter X-Ray Machines Easily Fooled · · Score: 1

    The public will react the same way that they reacted to fifty years of nuclear fallout. Don't accurately measure the radiation dosage to start with and you can never attribute the mass death and suffering to the radiation exposure! Easy peasy. As long as you feel safe on the airplane, all other worries go roght out the window.

  21. Re:I can't wait. on General Motors' NASA Robot On Tour · · Score: 1

    Actually it was an aluminum crankcase, and a cast iron head ... the head gaskets would wear out because of the different heat expansion properties between the two metals. The heavy head also made the engine top heavy and so it would rattle around in the engine compartment like Michael J. Fox on cocaine. ~ Also owned one and did not hate it.

  22. Re:most advanced? on General Motors' NASA Robot On Tour · · Score: 1

    "strongest, fastest, most dexterous and most technologically advanced humanoid robot"!!! It almost sounds like it's an article from North Korea, or a 1970's Soviet claim about their great new Russian cars. The robot itself? A bit pathetic really.

  23. Re:fp on Why the Uncanny Valley Doesn't Really Matter · · Score: 1

    With all the Botox politicians are using these days, reality is catching up to the uncanny CGI look. But what kind of sick mind would deliberately design a CG San Fran Nan? (full disclosure: did not RTFA)

  24. I love stories like this that make me feel young. on New Study Shows Youth Plugged In Most of the Day · · Score: 1

    It's good to know that the youth of today are taking advantage of the advances in technology as I always have. It also good to know that I've been keeping up!

  25. Re:Cameras at every toll booth on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    Err, sorry to inform you but the entire north part of the state of Illinois is not "Chicago".

    You say that you lived in Illinois for 24 years, yet you have never been anywhere north of I-80? That strains credulity.

    If one were to just drive through the Florida panhandle and then maintain that one never has to pay a toll in Florida, how much credibility would that have?