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    Whatever Happened To Blu-ray?

    Blu ray is ok by me. Makes for good BR-rips.
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    The Science Behind Historic Uses of Urine

    Urine has been used as a reducing agent in the synthesis of colloidal gold nanoparticles for medical purposes in ancient India.
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    Integrated vs dedicated graphics

    Thanks.. Tablet isn't for me. I need a keyboard because I'll be writing a lot of stuff and I need to run certain software as well (latex and mathematica at least).
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    Integrated vs dedicated graphics

    Is there a reason to want a dedicanted gpu in a laptop if I won't be playing any games on it or watching HD movies for that matter. Does integrated GPU use less power compared to a dedicated one during regular tasts?
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    IBM to Invest $1 Billion in Flash Technology Research

    Flash seems like a dead end technology. I don't get why they're betting on it unless they have a way of fixing the scaling/reliability problem.
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    Sentencing of LulzSec Snitch Postponed

    If they weren't inherently stupid they wouldn't have been doing criminal activity in the first place.
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    Sentencing of LulzSec Snitch Postponed

    Let them eat each other.
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    “Rock Star” Status Given to Eric Schmidt in North Korea

    I'm thinking of good old days when Google wasn't in the business of helping totalitarian regimes track down dissidents. The days when Google actually paid taxes in the countries it operated in and whose infrastructure it depended on for its existence.
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    Google, Yahoo Accused Of Funding Piracy

    Protected industry. Sorry buddy. It's your civic duty to be entertained and keep your mouth shut.
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    Social Engineering Scam Of The Day

    Just world fallacy, we meet again.
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    US Slips Down the Ranks of Global Competitiveness

    How come the so-called "socialist" Sweden is more competitive than the "capitalist" paradise? Isn't God on your side?
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    Comments: The Radioactive Waste of the Web

    Is it honesty or is it talking before thinking? "Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know"
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    High-Frequency Self-Aligned Graphene Transistors

    That's nice but still nowhere near a practical application. GaAs can reach hundreds of GHz too.
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    Firm Applies for .sucks Domain

    Looks like icann found a way to stuff their pockets by offering a useless service. Most applicants (rich an famous companies) are buying those TLDs only to defend themselves from potential abusers.
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    Ghost Recon Alpha Short Film

    It's alright. They could add a Linkin Park tune and cast Megan Fox as one of the soldiers' ex-girlfriend and it'll be perfect.
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    Higher Frames Per Second = Bad

    Guys. This isn't quake.
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    Man Uses Physics to Fight $400 Traffic Ticket

    With sufficient velocity one could (thanks to Doppler shift) make red light appear green and thus be able to run through a red light without breaking the law (in his own reference frame). Of course the catch is in what is sufficient velocity.
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    Apple Is #1...In Massive Coal Use

    I'd like to know how they cooked those numbers up. Actually I don't care.
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    Freaky Microsoft Piracy Video

    Ok from now on I'll always check whether there is a person in the xerox. Thank you microsoft.
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    Google Must Pay $660k For Offering Google Maps For Free

    Too expensive? Market failure. Too cheap? Market failure. Shouldn't the auto companies be sued for running the blacksmiths out of business too?
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    A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors

    Cool but where does the "nano" come from?
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    LG Begins Production of OLED TV’s in July

    White LED doesn't exist. LEDs can only produce primary colors. You can obtain white light by putting together a blue, red and green LED or by fluorescence. The blue LEDs in OLED are still a bottleneck but not nearly as much as they used to be. This is to be expected because blue light has...
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    Microsoft Working on Star Wars-Like Holographic Tech

    Isn't everything an optical illusion? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8aWBcPVPMo
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    Scientists Figure Out How to "Cloak" Time

    It's more like making it appear that time has been stopped (from the observer's pov). Because light carries information, if you can stop light you can stop the flow of information, therefore you can't see events happening, therefore you can't measure the distance between various events which is...
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    Internet Access IS A Human Right

    I don't think so. Do you think you also have the right to have your opinions posted in a newspaper, broadcasted on tv etc...?
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    Google, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook Consider 'Nuclear' Blackout

    Is there anything you don't hate?
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    Top 10 New Year's Resolutions

    My resolution is 1440x900. I know, pretty weak. I'll try to better myself.
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    HP Says Cats Void Your Warranty

    Me too. I'm allergic to cats.
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    Is Firefox Doomed?

    Chrome itself is fine but it still doesn't have the addons I need. If it did I would've switched to chrome a long time ago.
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    China to Cancel College Majors That Don’t Pay

    Culture and art did just fine before they became university programs for kids who didn't make it in legitimate courses. It will do fine after.
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    Navy's Largest Biofuel Test is a Success

    Very good but, when will we finally get environmentally-friendly nuclear weapons?
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    This Microwave Can Tweet and Play YouTube Videos

    Well you've got to give it to them. I'd never have thought of that....
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    Lasers Can Turn Brown Eyes Blue

    Well buy your own equipment and expertise and you can have the procedure itself for "free".
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    Jobs Bashed Intel In His Biography

    A famous person has a vice? HOW DARE HE!
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    A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute

    What good are "computer skills" when the kid can't do elementary school math, physics, English etc? What you have is a button-pusher.
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    Pentagon Opposes UN Regulation of the Internet

    Since both China and Russia are totalitarian countries who don't allow freedom of speech and press I would guess that it's in their interest to regulate the best medium for spreading information. They already do it in their own countries but it's hard when crafty people can get information from...
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    Intel Expected to Unveil 22nm Ivy Bridge March 2012

    http://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/208801780/intels-gelsinger-sees-clear-path-to-10nm-chips.htm I don't think you can get much smaller than that. With smaller size you get more quantum effects, like tunneling. A solution could be stacking layers of circuits on top (actual 3D...
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    Photographers Find Nikon's Facebook Status Insulting

    I too would be offended if I were a button-pusher who thought themselves to be an artist.
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    Fire at Foxconn Plant Extinguished

    How do you know that it wasn't the workers that caught on fire spontaneously from overworking?
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    Facebook More Important Than A Toilet

    What's more idiotic than people thinking that facebook is more impotant than a toilet is people taking these surveys seriously.
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